US putting more weapons in Europe because of Russia, while also concerned about China’s militarization
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The USA has announced it will put more military equipment in Europe and blames Russia, while Russia has a different view:
June 23, 2015
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday the U.S. will pre-position about 250 tanks, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled howitzers in eastern and central Europe in a move meant to reassure NATO allies unnerved by threats seen from Russia and terrorist groups.
Carter, during a trip to Tallinn, said the Baltic states – Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia – as well as Bulgaria, Romania and Poland agreed to host elements of the military equipment. Some of the equipment would also be located in Germany.
The amount of equipment that would be stored in each country would be enough to supply either a company, which would be enough for about 150 soldiers, or a battalion, enough for about 750 soldiers.
“We will temporarily stage one armoured brigade combat team’s vehicles and associated equipment in countries in central and eastern Europe,” Carter said at a joint press conference with three Baltic defense ministers.
He said the equipment could be moved around the region for training and military exercises.
The equipment, along with the commitment of resources for NATO’s high-readiness task force, would be part of a two-pronged U.S. plan meant to underscore America’s commitment to helping allies counter the growing threats on Europe’s eastern and southern fronts.
Russian reaction
A Russian defense ministry official said stationing tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia’s border would be the most aggressive U.S. act since the Cold War.
President Vladimir Putin announced Russia would add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year.
Carter has condemned Russia’s “loose rhetoric” involving nuclear arms.
On Monday, Carter said the United States “will not rely on the Cold War playbook” in dealing with Russia, but instead will rely on a combination of military and non-military tools to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Carter spoke in Berlin Monday before traveling to Estonia for meetings with the defense ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union.
He said there is neither a desire for a return to a Cold War nor for a new, active conflict with Russia, and that economic sanctions on Russia are having the desired effect of imposing economic hardship on Moscow.
NATO meeting
Carter will meet with NATO defense ministers Wednesday and Thursday in Brussels to discuss plans for dealing with Russia following its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and its military support of Ukrainian separatists.
Moscow denies providing troops or arms to pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Carter said Monday that while the West is not looking to be enemies with Russia, it will defend itself if necessary.
“Ukraine is only one part of our larger concerns these days about Russia. In response, we are taking a strong but balanced strategic approach, an approach that seeks to ensure Russia cannot force anyone to turn towards the past, all the while welcoming and encouraging Russia to turn back towards the future,” Carter said. http://www.voanews.com/content/carter-us-will-not-rely-on-cold-war-playbook-with-russia/2833572.html
June 23, 2015
TALLINN, Estonia — Secretary of Defense Ash Carter confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. is to station heavy military equipment, including tanks and other weapons, in new NATO member states for the first time since the end of the Cold War.
“These are responses to Russia’s provocations,” Carter told CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan in an exclusive interview in Estonia, one of the nations the American defense chief said could already “feel” the imminent threat posed by its massive neighbour to the east.
The increased American military presence — some 250 tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment — on Russia’s doorstep is intended to reassure jittery allies like Estonia, which have been alarmed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its support for separatists leading the war in eastern Ukraine. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ash-carter-heavy-weapons-eastern-nato-russia-nuclear-provocations-ukraine/
The USA is acting like this is the ‘Cold War’ again, despite official denials. And I will add it was AFTER reports that the USA was considering putting more military equipment in Europe that Russia made the statement about increasing its nuclear arsenal there (see Russia says USA’s weapons ideas for Eastern Europe means it will add 40 more ICBMs).
The USA is also having issues with China:
June 23, 2015
STATE DEPARTMENT—
U.S. officials are promising a “very direct” conversation with Chinese officials during a high-level, annual dialogue that continues Tuesday in Washington.
Cybersecurity, China’s disputed maritime claims and bilateral efforts to combat climate change are among the main topics expected to be raised during the meetings.
The talks opened Monday with a series of wide-ranging Strategic Security Dialogue meetings, which a senior State Department official described as frank.
“They’ve been candid and to the point in dealing with issues where we disagree and are very good for trying to find ways to narrow our differences on these most sensitive issues in the relationship,” the official said.
China’s official Xinhua news agency said the two sides held an “in-depth exchange of views on issues of common concern” and said they agreed to continue working to promote trust and improve relations.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will join Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang and State Councilor Yang Jiechi at Tuesday’s broader U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
One of the thornier issues the U.S. will raise with China is Beijing’s construction activity in disputed regions of the South China Sea.
The U.S. voiced concern that China’s construction on islands and reefs may restrict movement of foreign vessels and planes. China has said its construction is “lawful.”
“It is not about accepting the status quo,” Kirby said.
He said the U.S. had made clear its concerns about the land reclamation. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-china-kick-off-wide-ranging-talks/2833495.html
June 23, 2015
China is mounting a serious effort to challenge U.S. military superiority in air and space, forcing the Pentagon to seek new technologies and systems to stay ahead of its rapidly developing rival, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said on Monday.
The Pentagon’s chief operating officer, speaking to a group of military and civilian aerospace experts, said China was “quickly closing the technological gaps,” developing radar-evading aircraft, advanced reconnaissance planes, sophisticated missiles and top-notch electronic warfare equipment.
While hoping for a constructive relationship with China, the Pentagon “cannot overlook the competitive aspects of our relationship, especially in the realm of military capabilities, an area in which China continues to improve at a very impressive rate,” he said.
China’s state-run news agency Xinhua late on Monday cited Xu Qiliang, a vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission, as saying China must innovate even more.
“Our military’s equipment construction is shifting from catch-up research to independent innovations,” Xu said.
Work made his remarks to the inaugural conference of the China Aerospace Studies Initiative, a partnership of the U.S. Air Force and the RAND Corporation think tank. The initiative aims to boost U.S. research on China’s aerospace ambitions.
The conference came as hundreds of Chinese officials were in Washington for the three-day U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, wide-ranging talks that look at areas of mutual cooperation and address points of friction.
Asked about the timing of the military conference, Work said U.S. and Chinese leaders both see the bilateral relationship as one in which there are “measures of cooperation and measures of competition.”
“We’re hoping over time that the cooperative aspects outweigh competitive aspects,” Work added. “As the Department of Defense, we’re the hedge force. … We say, ‘Look, here are capabilities that we see that the Chinese are developing and it’s important for us to be able to counter those.” http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/23/us-china-usa-airforce-idUSKBN0P22G120150623
Despite difference, Russia and China wish to topple USA military primacy in Asia. They also both wish to topple the dominance of the USA dollar and its military around the world.
The government of the USA realizes this. And it has been trying to take steps to counter this. However, because the political leaders of the USA do not understand much about biblical prophecy, they are making serious strategic errors.
Although the Bible teaches that Russia and China will end up in a military confederation together, the Bible shows that they will actually be involved in a massive attack against the end time ‘daughter of Babylon,’ which is a European power. Jeremiah was inspired to write that a military confederation including Russia (“people from the north”) and Asian nations like China (one of the “kings…from the ends of the earth”) will form against Europe:
50:41 “Behold, a people shall come from the north,
And a great nation and many kings
Shall be raised up from the ends of the earth.
42 They shall hold the bow and the lance;
They are cruel and shall not show mercy.
Their voice shall roar like the sea;
They shall ride on horses,
Set in array, like a man for the battle,
Against you, O daughter of Babylon. (Jeremiah 50:41-42).
The above is also consistent with the following from the New Testament:
12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 15 Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.” 16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon (Revelation 16:12-16).
Here we see that the kings of the East are those that need to cross the Euphrates. Russia, China, India, Japan, and others are from the north and east and also probably “kings of the East.”
Some forget that although Russia is a nation of the far north (cf. Ezekiel 38:3,6), it is also a nation that has parts in the far, far, east.
Russia is prophesied to work with the East militarily.
However since USA officials are overlooking key prophecies, they do not realize that the actual power that will defeat the USA militarily will be European (cf. Daniel 11:39) (though there could be some assistance from Russia and China).
Because of perceived threats from Russia and China, the USA continues to take steps to arm Europe, encourage Europe to arm itself, and provide the Europeans military technology and secrets which it ultimately will use to eliminate the USA.
Some will say, but are not the Europeans ‘friends’ of the USA? Others will say that the Europeans would not want to do this. Yet, the Bible is clear that it will be ‘friends’ that will takeover the USA, even though they did not really think that they wanted to:
1 How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The princess among the provinces
Has become a slave!2 She weeps bitterly in the night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies. (Lamentations 1:1-2)5 “Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger
And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
6 I will send him against an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
7 Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.
8 For he says,
‘Are not my princes altogether kings?
9 Is not Calno like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria like Damascus?
10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols,
Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
11 As I have done to Samaria and her idols,
Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?'” (Isaiah 10:5-11)
So ‘friends’ who do ‘not mean so’ will attack and the USA will be no more. Let me add here that many prophetic references to Samaria in the Hebrew scriptures are references to the melting pot called the USA (see Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel).
As US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton pushed the ‘Asia pivot’ policy, which is something that the USA is still doing. This is a pivot away from defending Europe as much to concentrate on the perceived threats in Asia. Despite her claiming that the Obama Administration greatly improved relations with Europe, the reality is that because of the Snowden leaks and other espionage issues, the Obama Administration offended the Europeans so much that they will no longer have the same trust in the USA. This is causing the Europeans to try to better arm themselves, while at the same time getting them to pressure the USA for arms to attempt to appease them. The USA is trying to appease Europe, but as the late Nevil Chamberlain learned because of World War II, appeasement does not really work, but leads to war. USA attempts at appeasement will help lead to WWIII, and this will be a world war that it will lose (see World War III: Steps in Progress).
The issues between the USA and Russia and China are leading USA officials to prepare for a massive war against Russia and China that will NOT happen the way USA planners worry about, but instead are getting the USA to better prepare the Europeans to one day takeover the USA.
Some items of possibly related interest may include:
Anglo – America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel Are the Americans, Canadians, English, Scottish, Welsh, Australians, Anglo-Saxon (non-Dutch) Southern Africans, and New Zealanders descendants of Joseph? Where are the lost ten-tribes of Israel? Who are the lost tribes of Israel? What will happen to Jerusalem and the Jews in Israel? Will God punish the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and other Anglo-Saxon nations? Why might God allow them to be punished first? Here is a link to the Spanish version of this article: Anglo-América & las Tribus Perdidas de Israel. Information is also in the YouTube sermons titled Where are the Ten Lost Tribes? Why does it matter? and British are the Covenant People. A short YouTube of prophetic interest may be Barack Obama and the State of the Apocalypse.
Will the Anglo-Saxon Nations be Divided and Have People Taken as Slaves? Will the lands of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand be divided? What about Jerusalem? What does Bible prophecy teach? Are there non-biblical prophecies that support this idea? Who will divide those lands? Who will end up with the lands and the people? Here is a link to a video titled Will the USA and other Anglo-nations be Divided and Their People Made Slaves? Here is a related item in the Spanish language ¿Serán divididas las naciones anglosajonas?
British are the Covenant People What do ‘British’ and ‘Britain’ mean in Hebrew? Are the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons people of the covenant? Does the British royal family connect to the throne of David? What does the Bible teach? What does history show us? Is there any DNA evidence related to British-Israelism? When did Christianity make it to the British Isles? Could Jeremiah have made it to the British Isles? What type of Christians made it to the British Isles? Did the last King of England believe in British Israelism?
The ‘Lost Tribe’ of Reuben: France in Prophecy? What is the origin of this in France? What is prophesied to happen to them? A two-part sermon related to history and prophecy is available online: The ‘Lost Tribe’ of Reuben and France and Prophecy.
Ten clues tying Belgium and Luxembourg with the tribe of Asher Who did some in Belgium and Luxembourg descend from?
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Russia and Ukraine: Their Origins and Prophesied Future Russia in prophecy. Where do the Russians come from? What about those in the Ukraine? What is prophesied for Russia and its allies? What will they do to the Europeans that supported the Beast in the end? There is also a video sermon available: Russia in the Bible and in Prophecy and a video sermonette available: Ukraine in Prophecy?
Is Russia the King of the North? Some claim it is. But what does the Bible teach? Here is a link to a video, also titled Is Russia the King of the North?
Ezekiel 38: For Russia & Iran in Our Day? Is Ezekiel 38 about to be fulfilled? A related video is available titled Ezekiel 38: For Russia, Ukraine, & Iran Now?
When Will the Great Tribulation Begin? 2015, 2016, or 2017? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before the Great Tribulation in the “beginning of sorrows”? What happens in the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? Is this the time of the Gentiles? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord? Who are the 144,000? Here is a version of the article in the Spanish language: ¿Puede comenzar la Gran Tribulación en 2014 o 2015? ¿Es el Tiempo de los Gentiles? You can also see the English language sermon video: The Great Tribulation from the Mount of Olives.
World War III: Steps in Progress Are there surprising actions going on now that are leading to WWIII? Might a nuclear attack be expected? Does the Bible promise protection to all or only some Christians? How can you be part of those that will be protected? A related video would be Is World War III About to Begin? Can You Escape?
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Must the Ten Kings of Revelation 17:12 Rule over Ten Currently Existing Nations? Some claim that these passages refer to a gathering of 10 currently existing nations together, while one group teaches that this is referring to 11 nations getting together. Is that what Revelation 17:12-13 refers to? The ramifications of misunderstanding this are enormous. A related sermon is titled Ten Kings of Revelation and the Great Tribulation.
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The Eurasian Union, the Kings of the East, and Bible Prophecy Is there a Eurasian union that will be formed? Is one being formed right now? Are any leaders working on that in the 21st century? Does the Bible teach that there will be a Eurasian union? If some type of Eurasian union is formed, who might it benefit and who will it destroy? A related video would be Is The Eurasian Union Rising?
China, Its Biblical Past and Future, Part 1: Genesis and Chinese Characters Where did the Chinese people come from? This article provides information showing that the Chinese peoples must have known about various accounts in the Book of Genesis up until their dispersion after the Tower of Babel. Here is a link to a version of this article in Spanish: ¿Prueban los caracteres chinos la exactitud de la Biblia?
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