USSA/RUSSA: Cuban Missile Crisis II – Russian and U.S. Battle Groups off Syrian Coast

Posted on November 28, 2011 by willyloman

by Scott Creighton

Do we have another Cuban missile crisis taking shape? Do other recent developments point to the winds of war and the gathering gloom? Russia Today is confirming the earlier reports that a Russian naval battle group is heading to Syrian waters. There they will meet a U.S. battle group already floating around off the coast of Syria.

Moscow is deploying war ships at its base in the Syrian port of Tartus. The long-planned mission comes, providentially, at the very moment when it could help prevent a potential conflict in the strategically important Middle Eastern country.

­The Russian battle group will consist of three vessels led by the heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser, Admiral Kuznetsov.

Russian military officials insist that the move has no connection with the ongoing crisis in the region and was planned a year ago, the Izvestia newspaper reports. Apart from Syria, the aircraft carrier and its escort ships are set to visit the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Genoa in Italy and Cyprus, says the former Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Viktor Kravchenko.

Nevertheless, he added that the presence of a military force other than NATO’s is very useful for this region, because “it will prevent the outbreak of an armed conflict,” Izvestia quoted Kravchenko as saying.” Russia Today

Meanwhile it has been reported the U.S. warships are already anchored off the coast of Syria, running maneuvers for the Orwellian named “Operation Enduring Freedom”

“Nuclear aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush has reportedly anchored off Syria. As an Arab League deadline to allow observers into the country passes with no response from Damascus, the possibility of intervention in Syria seems to be growing.

The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group along with additional naval vessels are to remain in the Mediterranean to conducting maritime security operations and support missions as part of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn.The US 6th Fleet is also patrolling the area, Interfax news agency reports.

Meanwhile, America and Turkey are urging their citizens to leave Syria” Russia Today

We came within a hare’s breath of all out nuclear war back then. Some say the only thing that prevented it was Cuba’s determination to launch their nukes at the U.S. regardless of the terrible outcome that surely would befall the country. Thus, there would be no profit in the conflict if Cuba was reduced to cinders. Kennedy was certainly more level headed that Obama is by all accounts (Obama is known to rant and rave at people behind closed doors and away from the cameras)

This brinksmanship contest is moving to the next level. Obama and Clinton want another Libyan style regime change at all costs in order to show their usefulness to the financial elites who rule the world. I guess next year’s election isn’t quite in the bag for the current administration just yet. If they can force Russia to back off and allow Syria to fall to NATO “humanitarian” bombing campaigns, then they have proven their value to the Global Free Market Wars.

But it doesn’t look like Russia is ready to back down just yet so the question becomes “just how far will Russia go to protect Syria from NATO bombs?”

The timing of all of this couldn’t be more ominous. With the collapse of the Euro set to take place and certain senators and the Obama administration looking to do away with Posse Comitatus, one has to wonder if all out war is brewing in someone’s mind in DC and the European Central Bank. This war would be extremely unpopular in the states and we know that they have been working on certain agendas over the past couple of years like putting troops on the ground here in America and shutting down dissident sites on the internet, declaring their operators “extremists” and “enemy belligerents”. Is it possible that someone is looking to cover all their bases including a massive anti-war movement within the U.S.? And why is it that 18 cities just recently risked serious blow-back by evicting the OWS movements at just this time? It was a coordinated effort, some saying that the Department of Homeland Security put it all together. Why the rush?