CONCLUSION - 1So, what is the deal with Iraq and weapons of mass destruction??? Theanswer is (*KEY*) to relations with Russia for the present and the future. Russia is doing a few wonderful but mostly very damaging things to our worldat the same time. World governments always try to stress the positive so thatRussia will keep on a path of constructive engagement while realizing that itwill keep doing bad primitive hunter/gatherer-fortress things. So worldgovernments strive not to overly criticize the wolves: as with Iraq and WMD’s.Russia had defense sales/credits of 12 billion+ dollars with Iraq through 2003. Being Iraq’s primary weapons supplier as well as being one of the fewcountries in the world with WMD-manufacturing capability, it’s easy to deducethat if Iraq had WMD’s, they would most likely be of Russian manufacture. Prior to the American intervention, all foreign governments were given amplenotice and were given ample time to vacate their facilities as desired. This ofcourse, included Russia. Now, with all the discussion going on regardingWMD’s, the one thing that Russia and its numerous military advisors therewould absolutely not want would be for any to be found in Iraq. So, as aresult, these weapons most likely became a part of maybe the largest singleconvoy in history, which was assembled by Russia for the purpose of exitingwith its contents un-inspected under diplomatic immunity. Where did theconvoy go??? To Syria, which already had a well-known stock of WMD’s inplace and which would be able disseminate all of the convoy’s contents withease and without publicized western scrutiny. So Russia’s role is negated under diplomatic pretense and, as with everythingelse, everyone will strive to keep positive thoughts. The Russian peopleweren’t fooled, though…..CONCLUSION - 2 CURRENT NEWS REGARDING VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH PUTINIt is expected that Mr. Putin will reign well into the 3rd decade of this century. He is the personification of a highly-evolved, end of the bell curve, Russianhunter-gatherer. He is not a great bear---he is THE great wolf. His eyesread: 1) Target2) Threaten3) ControlAlready, his “pack”, ONE RUSSIA Party (or informally, the WE ARECONSUMING RUSSIA Party), has re-captured and re-consolidated theformer USSR government-based bureaucratic crack-the-whip middle classsupport structure (10-12 million or so) that used to be the same as the actualCommunist Party membership numbers-wise. The difference now is that thismeans that there are many more crack-the-whip ONE RUSSIA members asan overall percentage of the population, since the population is 33% less thanthat of the Soviet Union. And this core membership has had its numbersswell integrally into the newly-refined criminal system, meaning that theeffective FUNCTIONING crack-the-whip membership has grown to about 30%of the entire VOTING POPULATION, or say 25 million. This means allelections at any level can be easily rigged by the extended threat of a crackedwhip or by ballot manipulation, done even more easily than in Stalin’s time. Always remember that 90% of the entire population is poor and very fewbelieve that voting is meaningful. The recent elections could not have yieldeda total of more than 30-35% for One Russia without massive illegalintervention; this was necessary because Putin feels that only his wolves’votes should count. In reality, senior citizens like the Communists while thePan-Slavists and Intellectuals/Idealists each have a double-digit niche as well. These factions represent a more realistic balance combined of 30-25-25-20%. Putin’s complete and total leadership means that EVERYTHING extantas defined in this site will continue EXACTLY as before---meaning somepositive but mostly negative for its population overall. Putin absolutely cannotunderstand agri.-/animal husbandry-types, and recently has self-assessedhimself as the hardest-working Russian leader in ages; certainly, no singlewolf has ever had such a grip on such a giant pack, regardless of size. Anycitizen outside of his pack is meaningless, a figurative consumable. All thatmatters internationally is WTO membership, so a continued jumble of softwindow dressing (pretenses of democracy) and hard-line rumbling willcontinue unabated.
The main benefactors, from a positive standpoint (external to Russia)internationally, will be China and India, which will continue literally suckingout Russia’s natural resources and technological research products andstrengthen while Russia’s general population weakens relatively. Putinwill never stop believing that China is his true ally and that China reallywants to work in consort with Russia to minimize Western power---here,Putin is in denial of his own “eastern side,” in which the reality is: Asiansare very independent of each other and NEVER work togethermeaningfully. China is at least 10 times larger than Russia population-wise and finance-wise, and DOESN’T consider Russia (or Putin) to be anAsian brother. Thanks to Russian assistance, Iran, N. Korea, andVenezuela will now be more stabilized yet will take advantage of Russianaid while using growing Chinese assistance to disengage eventually fromRussia, which can’t offer long-term guaranteed subsidies.Just like with his domestic policy to date, Putin’s foreign policy, which, outof necessity due to financial and logistical weakness, will be to re-captureand re-consolidate as many of the former autonomous Soviet Republics(mainly, those which are also financially and logistically weak due to beingso near Russia’s borders and thus under constant threat) as possible tomake a stronger entity in as-yet-to-be-determined forms UNDER THEABSOLUTE RULE of the present RUSSIAN FEDERATION. The intenthere will be to suck as many natural resources out of these countries aspossible while offering nothing in return financially under the guise of thethreat of military intervention disguised as an offer of security fromwestern usurpers. Putin must wait on Georgia until after the 2014 WinterOlympics in nearby Sochi have been completed. A slow and long time frame involved for the above is now feasiblebecause of western resignation to the length of Putin’s expected reign,which will totally discourage any further substantial western investment inthe formerly autonomous republics---regardless, it’s a kiss of death forthem, especially for those rich with gas and/or piping systems for samelike the “STANS” (those former republics which have “stan” at the end oftheir names, like UzbekiSTAN). The main problems with this scenario are Russia’s growing weakness as a nationality within its own country and its financial weakness. These twocombined will make it tough to implement the man-power-heavy Soviet-style tough administration necessary, to which these former vassals hadbeen earlier accustomed to. This same management style will be re-introduced into The Russian Federation, and the masses will once againbe resigned to conscript duties to aid in the country’s “defense.” It willwork because almost all of the poor and 70% of the middle class are justfighting to survive and could care less about politics---a big plus for Putin,who will strive to maintain existing conditions which will maintain suchattitudes. When Putin says: “I must lead or Russia will fall into chaos” heREALLY MEANS IT. He and his “pack” know that no small group ofdemocratic, free-market-thinking middle-class intellectuals and poor could begin to manage or radically alter the bureaucratic governmental morassin place now. Does this sound decidedly non-evolutionary??? Absolutely. Is this view shared by almost all of the poor and 70% of the middleclass??? Absolutely. Once this step 1 has been completed, BOOLAVA will be much easier toimplement and once again, Putin plans to view this new RussianFederation as a super power based on mainly nuclear deterrence. Putinwants to withdraw the weaker masses from their heretofore mildinternational perspectives and get them back into focused domesticisolation, using their energies mainly on making Russia a military force. The key word here is WEAK: as in the Russian work force is alreadyextended physically and finances are in a weak state overall. Investingmainly in defense and in the subjugation of the populations involved willnot yield any long-term INTERNAL result different than that of 1918 andthe early 1990’s, regardless of international military stature. But Russiamust go on its own path. Its leaders are different and they realize this. It’s people really are not so different from those in the rest of the world butthey are powerless. Both leaders and led have variations of exactly thesame mindset, so the led will go down the path prescribed for them,regardless of circumstances, with the comprehension that the outsideworld will never understand them. For better or worse, there is nothingthe outside world can do, because our western world is one of segmented short-term policies which, because of our higher standards of living, reallynever reflect serious concern for those in other countries. Putin has afirm long-term policy which is substantively impervious to the world’sforeign policies. He has already shut Russia’s doors to the outsideworld. The iron curtain has become transparent. The world can look inbut not touch. Hopefully, this site will make the situation clearer.