Paul Goble
Staunton,
August 29 – Moscow’s announcement that it will soon conduct its largest
military exercise since 1981 “means only one thing,” Pavel Felgengauer says. “The
Kremlin is actively preparing for a world war” (apostrophe.ua/article/world/ex-ussr/2018-08-28/rossiya-nachala-podgotovku-k-mirovoy-voyne-ukraina-v-chisle-glavnyih-vragov/20264).
In fact,
the independent Russian military commentator says, Russia has been preparing
for such a war for “at least the last five years.” In announcing the exercise,
he points out, the Russian General Staff said that it was a response to the
growing threat of war, “either a global nuclear one or a series of major
regional wars like an all-European one.”
The
Russian military is planning for attacks “from all sides” and is “building a defense
perimeter in all directions,” Felgengauer says. “But the main enemy, of course,
is America and also its allies and satellites like Ukraine.” The size of the exercise
– it is to involve 300,000 personnel – makes it clear that “this is preparation
for a global war,” not any local conflict.
Moscow has been organizing larger
and larger military exercises with each passing year, the military analyst says
because “the main thing in these large strategic exercises is the working out
of mobilization and logistics” so that Moscow can dispatch them “in any
direction” the political leadership decides is necessary.
Of course, Moscow will stress that
all this is a defensive measure. After all, “Russia has always acted ‘only
defensively’ for 500 years [and] as a result of these ‘just and defensive’
wars, the territory of Russia has increased 50 times compared to that of the
small Muscovite principality.”
“The
best defense for the Kremlin is the attack,” Felgengauer concludes. “And Russia
as always is planning a war with the entire globe, although of course, the
Kremlin does have allies, for example, Kyrgyzstan …”
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