putin will not attend G-8

- KICKING OVER THE CHESSBOARD -

Russian President Vladimir Putin kicked over the strategic chessboard on Wednesday during his telephone conversation with Barack Obama, informing him that he was cancelling their scheduled one-on-one meeting at Camp David May 18-19, and would not be attending the G-8 meeting there.

As in the unexpected announcement in September 2011 that Putin would run for President with Medvedev as his Prime Minister, yesterday's call caught the White House and their British controllers by surprise. 


Putin's cancellation delivered an unmistakeable shot across the bow to those in Washington and London who have either ignored Russia's repeated warnings that they consider the U.S. and NATO Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) policy a {casus belli}, or who have dismissed those warnings as just bluster and bluff.


Back on November 23, 2011, then-President Medvedev delivered a dramatic, televised, nationwide address announcing immediate Russian measures to counter NATO's BMD deployment -- an address which the Kremlin then made available with English subtitles, lest his message be lost on the West. 


Medvedev repeated that warning in a March 20, 2012 address to a meeting at the Russian Defense Ministry. On May 3, Russian Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Nikolai Makarov bluntly warned at a Moscow conference that Russia reserved the right to launch a pre-emptive attack on the NATO BMD system, if it is installed as announced -- and the Defense Ministry again made English-language versions available of the slide shows that he and others presented. (I watch the news everyday and I missed those reports)


Yesterday, Putin put a fine point on this Russian message, that will be hard to ignore. There are growing institutional voices in the U.S. of those opposed to the U.S. nuclear brinkmanship, and who are trying to rein it in before it is too late. 


In addition to Rep. Walter Jones's efforts around HRC 107, Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) has announced that he will shortly be presenting legislation against "humanitarian interventions" all around the world (Obama's R2P policy) undertaken without express permission from the Congress.



Webb slammed this as a violation of the U.S. Constitution, recalling that "One of our strongest adjustments from the British system was to ensure that no one person would have the power to commit the nation to military schemes that could not be justified by the interests and security of the average citizen."


Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is again in the United States, and every significant change in recent U.S. policy has come from him. Blair is more important in policy-making inside the U.S. than Obama. 


From his history, it is clear that he is the dirty tricks specialist of the British. Look at his history in launching the second Iraq war with lies -- that was his creation -- then there was the wave of assassinations that accompanied it, such as the Kelly case. 


Then, as today, the battle is between the policies of nuclear war escalation by the British, Blair, and their puppet Obama, on the one side; and the policies of nationalists in the U.S. military and intelligence community, and the clearly-stated policy of the Russian government, on the other.