The Prophetic Messenger
A Newsletter From Mysteries From The Word Of God Ministries
September/October 2023 - Volume 25, Issue 5
Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part I
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape." I Thessalonians 5:3
This article shows that Russia is not our friend but an enemy to the United States of America and is planning a future attack on this nation.
This article shows that Russia is not our friend but an enemy to the United States of America and is planning a future attack on this nation.
1. Do We Ever Learn From History?
Many have forgotten the history of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union was friends with the Afghan people and used this deception of friendship to invade their country. The United States is repeating the mistakes that Afghanistan made. This will lead to Russia invading our country. A newspaper article titled "U.S. Doubts Russia Will Be a Future Threat" (Note 1) states
"Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday the world was safer now that Moscow and the West had joined hands ending decades of enmity. The experience of the last 10 years is that, slowly but surely, Russia has come to the realization that its future lies to the West and the West is coming to the realization that its future lies with Russia, Powell said....... Powell said Moscow had found it essential to join its former adversaries, ending an era of potential Russian threat to the West. I don't think we're going to see a rerun of this movie, Powell said."
In another article titled "Button Gaffe Embarrasses Clinton"(Note 2), it states
"Russian media have been poking fun at the US secretary of state over a translation error on a gift she presented to her Russian counterpart. Hillary Clinton gave Sergei Lavrov a mock "reset" button, symbolising US hopes to mend frayed ties with Moscow. But he said the word the Americans chose, "peregruzka", meant "overloaded" or "overcharged", rather than "reset". Daily newspaper Kommersant declared on its front page: "Sergei Lavrov and Hillary Clinton push the wrong button." Relations between Washington and Moscow have cooled in recent years over Russia's role in the war in Georgia, US support for the entry of Georgia and Ukraine to Nato, and the planned US missile shield based in central Europe."
"Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday the world was safer now that Moscow and the West had joined hands ending decades of enmity. The experience of the last 10 years is that, slowly but surely, Russia has come to the realization that its future lies to the West and the West is coming to the realization that its future lies with Russia, Powell said....... Powell said Moscow had found it essential to join its former adversaries, ending an era of potential Russian threat to the West. I don't think we're going to see a rerun of this movie, Powell said."
In another article titled "Button Gaffe Embarrasses Clinton"(Note 2), it states
"Russian media have been poking fun at the US secretary of state over a translation error on a gift she presented to her Russian counterpart. Hillary Clinton gave Sergei Lavrov a mock "reset" button, symbolising US hopes to mend frayed ties with Moscow. But he said the word the Americans chose, "peregruzka", meant "overloaded" or "overcharged", rather than "reset". Daily newspaper Kommersant declared on its front page: "Sergei Lavrov and Hillary Clinton push the wrong button." Relations between Washington and Moscow have cooled in recent years over Russia's role in the war in Georgia, US support for the entry of Georgia and Ukraine to Nato, and the planned US missile shield based in central Europe."
2. Treaty Signer, Treaty Breaker
Since 1968, the former Soviet Union or Russia has been trying to reduce our nation's nuclear arsenals through treaties which they sign with no intention to keep. An article titled "A New Nuclear Treaty", subtitled "Allowing Weapons To Be Stored Could Leave Russian Arms Vulnerable"(Note 3) contains interesting information. In this article it shows the long history of nuclear arms treaties signed from 1968 to the most recent treaty signed on May 24, 2002. Let's look at three examples of how the Soviet Union or Russia signs agreements with the United States and how the United States follows through with the agreements but Russia never keeps them.
1)The Start 2 treaty was signed by the first President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in January 1993. The treaty said "to reduce nuclear warheads to 3,000 to 3,500 each, was ratified by the Senate in January 1996. The Russian Parliament ratified it in 2000. It has yet to go into effect."
An another article titled "Moscow Extends Life Of 144 Cold War Ballistic Missiles"(Note 4) shows the results of this treaty. In the article it states
"Russia has announced a radical plan to overhaul more than 100 of its most powerful intercontinental nuclear missiles, which had been destined for the scrap heap under the arms reduction treaties with the United States. A total of 144 of the missiles, which weigh 200 tonnes and can each carry 10 warheads to the US from silos behind the Ural mountains, were due to be dismantled by 2007 under the Start 2 weapons treaty signed by George Bush Sr. and Boris Yeltsin nine years ago. But the commander in chief of Russia's strategic nuclear forces, Colonel- General Nikolai Solovtsov, has declared that the missiles - nicknamed Satan by the west during the cold war - are to be refurbished and upgraded to keep them fully operational until 2014.....The missiles are considered particularly effective, since they send 50 warheads over their target area, 40 of which are decoys designed to outwit sophisticated missile defense systems of the kind planned by the Bush administration...... President Vladimir Putin replied that the decision was a "mistake", but not a threat to Russia. Six months later Russia pulled out of the Start 2 treaty, which compelled it to destroy its Satan missiles."
Another article titled "Trident Sub Ohio To Trade Nukes For Conventional Weaponry" (Note 5) shows that the US is still keeping it's end of the bargain. In the article it states
"The USS Ohio, the oldest among the nation's fleet of hulking, black Trident submarines, is trading in its nuclear arsenal....The 560-foot Ohio, commissioned during the Cold War in 1981, is one of the four Tridents the Navy is outfitting with conventional weapons under the START II pact. The treaty requires the Russian and American navies each to cut back to 14 ballistic missile subs by the end of the year."
1)The Start 2 treaty was signed by the first President Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin in January 1993. The treaty said "to reduce nuclear warheads to 3,000 to 3,500 each, was ratified by the Senate in January 1996. The Russian Parliament ratified it in 2000. It has yet to go into effect."
An another article titled "Moscow Extends Life Of 144 Cold War Ballistic Missiles"(Note 4) shows the results of this treaty. In the article it states
"Russia has announced a radical plan to overhaul more than 100 of its most powerful intercontinental nuclear missiles, which had been destined for the scrap heap under the arms reduction treaties with the United States. A total of 144 of the missiles, which weigh 200 tonnes and can each carry 10 warheads to the US from silos behind the Ural mountains, were due to be dismantled by 2007 under the Start 2 weapons treaty signed by George Bush Sr. and Boris Yeltsin nine years ago. But the commander in chief of Russia's strategic nuclear forces, Colonel- General Nikolai Solovtsov, has declared that the missiles - nicknamed Satan by the west during the cold war - are to be refurbished and upgraded to keep them fully operational until 2014.....The missiles are considered particularly effective, since they send 50 warheads over their target area, 40 of which are decoys designed to outwit sophisticated missile defense systems of the kind planned by the Bush administration...... President Vladimir Putin replied that the decision was a "mistake", but not a threat to Russia. Six months later Russia pulled out of the Start 2 treaty, which compelled it to destroy its Satan missiles."
Another article titled "Trident Sub Ohio To Trade Nukes For Conventional Weaponry" (Note 5) shows that the US is still keeping it's end of the bargain. In the article it states
"The USS Ohio, the oldest among the nation's fleet of hulking, black Trident submarines, is trading in its nuclear arsenal....The 560-foot Ohio, commissioned during the Cold War in 1981, is one of the four Tridents the Navy is outfitting with conventional weapons under the START II pact. The treaty requires the Russian and American navies each to cut back to 14 ballistic missile subs by the end of the year."
Notes:
Note 1: Reuters News, Published May 28, 2002 by Steve Holland
Note 2: https://tinyurl.com/m7584ph
Note 3: The Oregonian Newspaper, Tuesday, May 14, 2002 page A6
Note 4: https:tinyurl.com/y5v3v45y
Note 5 : The Columbian Newspaper, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002
Note 1: Reuters News, Published May 28, 2002 by Steve Holland
Note 2: https://tinyurl.com/m7584ph
Note 3: The Oregonian Newspaper, Tuesday, May 14, 2002 page A6
Note 4: https:tinyurl.com/y5v3v45y
Note 5 : The Columbian Newspaper, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002
Coming Up In The Next Issue
Russia Friend or Foe? - Revisited - Part II. Read this article in the next issue of The Prophetic Messenger.
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