Authored by Nick via The Saker blog,
The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group left the east coast Naval Station Norfolk, VA on 11th April.
The aircraft carrier is accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy, the guided-missile destroyers USS Burke, Bulkeley, Forest Sherman and Farragut, and the destroyers USS Jason and The Sullivans. The strike group carries 6,500 sailors and Carrier Air Wing One.
Recent announcements about Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal (‘Dagger’) missile system having made these vessels effectively obsolete, this means that the ships and their crews are essentially being sailed into a bloody scrapyard.
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Even without the recent upgrading of the Kinzhal system, the experience of the British fleet in the Falklands conflict illustrates the vulnerability of warships to low-flying missiles. In addition to the sinking of the HMS Sheffield and Sir Galahad, virtually every British ship was hit by at least one of Argentinian’s French-made Exocet missiles – a weapons system which was already 20 years old at the time.
Exocet missile sinks HMS Sheffield during Falklands War:
Reportedly the only thing that saved the UK force from obliteration was that the Argentinians had got their missile altimeter settings wrong. The Russians will not make the same sort of error!
These facts are of course known to the US military planners and – one would assume and hope, for it is duty to know – by Donald Trump. And yet the US fleet is now nearing the coast of Syria, where it will met up with American and other NATO warships already in position. Together, they will make one big flock of sitting ducks.
If the people pushing Trump manage to get him launch a new strike on Syria (and we must expect a new false flag attack) and if the massive increase in NATO firepower means that enough missiles get through to enough targets to kill Russians, then Putin really has no choice but to sink the US fleet.
No choice because, whatever the danger of doing so, failure to respond would signal Russian defeat and retreat in Syria, which would of course lead to a rapid escalation of military pressure against Lebanon and Iran, and mean that when the Empire then rolls on to strike Russia, her most reliable allies will already have gone and her ‘soft underbelly’ will be seriously exposed.
So Putin orders the destruction of the US fleet, and an hour later all that is left is debris and mangled corpses in some oil slicks – and some ‘great’ photos and video clips to illustrate Trump’s declaration of war on account of “Russia’s deadly sneak attack on a US humanitarian force”.
Sounds familiar? It should do. Because we’re not just thinking here of the USS Maine, the Lusitania and the Gulf of Tonkin. The Washington habit of using sunken ships as the causus belli also of course included Pearl Harbor.
Just in case you need a reminder, here’s just one example of the many short videos out there on the truth about the Japanese attack on 7th December 1941 which explain how Roosevelt had advance intelligence of the planned attack, but decided not to pass it on to the anchored sitting duck fleet:
The more or less official excuse (the President’s guilt never having been formally acknowledged) is that to have alerted the fleet would also have tipped off the Japanese that their naval codes had already been broken. But the truth is of course that deliberately didn’t warn the fleet because he knew that the sacrifice would goad the American people into a war against Hitler to which he and those around and behind him were committed, but which the American people opposed.
The circumstances this time are of course somewhat different, not least that everyone with even a passing knowledge of the Russian missile capability already knows that 6,500 sailors are “on their way to Samara”.
Which makes Donald Trump either a criminally incompetent fool, a bad poker player or a wholly controlled puppet of the psychotic Anglo-Zionist elite. If he is one of the first two of these, then there is of course still a chance that he might respond to the disaster by blinking and retreating. In which case, the Beltway elite will use the human tragedy and his humiliation to remove him from office (not a bad consolation prize, from their point of view).
But if he is the third, then the ‘shock’ blitz on the US fleet will lead to the immediate declaration of World War Three.
Indeed, if things get that far (and we’re probably 48 hours and one White Helmets’ video away from it) then the only thing that realistically stands a chance of stopping the racist Anglo-Zionist psychopaths in their tracks is if the Russian attack and its result are such a devastating show of ‘shock and awe’ as to make it impossible for them to ignore a simultaneous public warning by Putin to Netanyahu that any further US hostile response will place Israel directly in the firing line as well.
That might JUST be enough to make the Neocons back off. If not, then World War Three it will be. It might not go nuclear straight away, but even while it is conventional EVERYTHING will change:
Dissident anti-war voices such as this will rapidly be silenced by blanket censorship and internment; your sons and daughters will be conscripted; your taxes will go through the roof – and you will have to live with the ever-present fear that, once China enters the war against Washington and its client states, the tide will run so fast against the ‘democratic allies’ that their ‘humanitarian missiles’ will end up with nuclear tips.
If that disturbs you (and it surely should) then all I ask is that you take the Pearl Harbor analogy and get busy spreading it on social media RIGHT NOW. Because once those young sailors and airmen have been sacrificed, the demand for a war of ‘revenge’ will be unstoppable. But if the warmongers realize that plenty of people have already understood the plan, it might just spook them into backing off.
In which case the fleet can do a few face-saving manoeuvres and then sail home again and we can look forward to a summer which may be warm, but not as uncomfortably hot as it could otherwise become!
The citizens of the US have been left off the hook thinking each of their Presidents being torch carriers for Freedom and Democracy.
I suggest each of our notorious Presidents that have been responsible for the killings of millions upon millions of innocents be adorned with a despicable name that will be remembered by historians.
Let’s start with Obama, he of the Libya and Syria shame.
“MEN”( and I use that term loosely with the worms that run our country ) will send others to fight these wars. Instead of them actually having any skin in the game. That is what cowards do…..Oh there will be one or two of them that will send a son or daughter,but they will remain in the rear with the gear. The media will play it up,as they will be the future leaders. Al Gore anyone. When I ask? WHEN!!!! will the American people see these cowards for what they are?
As I attempted to explain to a mother of sons who has bought the war on terror bull shit line , your oldest is 20 and your youngest is 17 ! Remember the 20 year old signed up for the selective service draft at 18 . Her response was classicly pathetic , they don’t do that no more !
I know far to many Americans live in this Polly Anna world where we are the good guys . Time to wake up America , we as a nation are not prepared and have no real industrial capabilities to fire up to be prepared for war !
I mean a real WAR , not some nonesense in some far away land ! This one has serious potential to get up close and personal . Don’t believe it at your own peril !
Oh I forgot you know “THEY” won’t let that happen .
Get a clue that ever present “THEY” don’t give a fuck about you your children nothing . All “THEY” concern themselves with is their own security and the assholes that support them . It’s a big club and we are not in it nor are those in uniform steaming that way now . Prepare for bad news soon !
Boat,
you are on fire today. +10
Thanks Suzanna , I lost far to many friends and witnessed to many young American lives shattered from the warfare some POS in Washington DC lied to make happen . It’s going on still and all we can do is speak out where we can . I am worn out but not done in !
“…The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese armed forces] into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves…” — Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, 1941
American Hubris 1941, “…We can wipe the Japanese off the map in three months…” – Navy Secretary Frank Knox – 1941
“…History says that when any country wants to fight against another country, even one that it does not neighbor, it begins to seek out borders, through which it could reach the borders of the country it wants to attack…” — Joseph Stalin
American Hubris 2012: U.S. Central Command believes it can destroy or significantly degrade Iran’s conventional armed forces in about three weeks using air and sea strikes, according to a defense source familiar with the discussions. – The Washington Times – May 1, 2012
We never learn.
“…Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war…” — Otto von Bismarck (1815 – 1898) – German aristocrat and statesman; Prime Minister of Prussia (1862–1890), First Chancellor of Germany (1871–1890)
We have a hierarchy of military “leaders” that were convinced “we” could win a thermonuclear war with the Soviets during the cold war. Small wonder they remain delusional today.
should I be ‘Deplorably Deplorable’???
If missiles launched at US ships fail to destroy their target, we’ll know it was a false flag. Not that they won’t try. The desk warriors in Washington may well decide it’s worth sacrificing someone else’s sons on a hapless frigate to get WW III underway. Sending an aircraft carrier down would be even better, guaranteeing WW III while boosting defense stocks. But US missile tech seems to have proven hopeless at hitting targets sitting still in Damascus. Their volley of missiles would fall harmlessly into the sea.
How?
Missiles leave a very definite signature and it is hard to pretend they are from a different source than the one that launched or provided them.
They “own” the press. That’s how.
And the Press has what to do with the missile remnants left after an attack, or the tracked flight from it’s origin point by both ground radar and satellite?
From my rapidly decling memory, a few observations.
The answer to the Falklands sinking of the British ship was the Phallax weapons system, that can shoot down a surface skimming missile, except for the time they left the system turned off (forgot the details for this episode but pretty sure it happened).
Not to take away from the threat the article presents, hypersonic delivery systems do spell doom for WWII based carrier fleets and the public is not up to speed on the limitations of “the greatest military in the world.” One of the many different possibilities that we may find ourselves engaged in a war that the American people are not prepared for and the grim reality they will have to face.
Americans are not prepared for casualties in the numbers of Viet Nam , Korea and WWII. The shock will completely demoralize the civilian population.
If that Carrier task force is attacked it will have have to be done by the Americans themselves. Putin has time and time again refrained from retaliating even after ever increasing provocations. Why would he change course now as should it be obvious to everyone that is exactly what his enemies wish him to do. Interesting that planners of the last attack left the Donald Cook all alone to fend for itself. Might the plan then have been for the US Navy to sacrifice that ship. Maybe. And still it didn’t work.
So no it is go big or stay home.
So on to the next White Helmet event and subsequent missile barrage. And barring the introduction of new armies on the ground the facts West of Euphrates will not change. Assad and Putin have won the war west of Euphrates by turning the other cheek. There is no reason to change course now.
RiNS……………the Cook didn’t fire any missiles, which it is why it is still floating. Also, no Russian personnel were injured/killed.
Putin and his team are patient…and…very smart. Putin knows if Syria falls, then Iran will fall, eliminating his underbelly of protection. DC knows this and didn’t want to be embarrassed with that last missile strike.
Correct. I says a lot that they left that boat out there dangling in the Med. They ended up being nothing more than diversion to the real show. I do find it interesting that attack occurred late on a Friday. Tells me at least that the those carrying out attack were just a bit worried about whether it was successful. I learned long ago that if you have embarrassing news to let loose do it at end of week, not a first. The Cook is still floating not because it refrained from firing Tomahawks but rather Putin as you say is smarter than your Average Bear.
The Russians will continue to punch in places that US military don’t have a good response. Next up is an attack near and about Daraa South West of Damascus . All this equipment being sent right now will likely be operated by Russian Soldiers, probably Chechen, who will, in conjunction with SAA get to work liquidating what is left of the opposition near Golan.
Should be quite the show…
If the BRICS are patient, the gold backed Yuan will sink the profligate US Government’s fiat dollar and the BRICS will not have to fire a shot.
So how much gold is in a Yuan coin that you can trade your Yuan paper or electronic balance for at the bank?
No actual attack has to happen to pull it off.
Remember the Maddox.
Never were any torpedoes fired. Just the media screaming that it happened is all that is needed.