Dimitri Orlov teams up with The Saker (a Russian military analyst) and several other Russians living in the west to voice their concern about the western provocation of Russia. This is quite concerning to me.
A Russian Warning
We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with the Russian Federation, as well as with China.The undersigned include: Evgenia Gurevich, Ph.D., Victor Katsap, PhD, Andrei Kozhev, Serge Lubomudrov, Dmitry Orlov and The Saker (A. Raevsky)
But we—knowing both Russian history and the current state of Russian society and the Russian military, cannot swallow these lies. We now feel that it is our duty, as Russians living in the US, to warn the American people that they are being lied to, and to tell them the truth. And the truth is simply this: If there is going to be a war with Russia, then the United States will most certainly be destroyed, and most of us will end up dead.This group brings a particular perspective to this issue that includes knowledge of the sophisticated technological state of the Russian military and a keen eye to the "Russian is evil" mythology being produced in the western press. This is combined with the progressive encirclement of Russia with western military assets, most recently placing the Aegis Ashore anti-ballistic missile sites virtually on Russia's borders.
They offer an insiders perspective of the Russian temperament: Russia does not surrender.
There is no objective reason why US and Russia should consider each other adversaries. The current confrontation is entirely the result of the extremist views of the neoconservative cult, whose members were allowed to infiltrate the US Federal government under President Bill Clinton, and who consider any country that refuses to obey their dictates as an enemy to be crushed. ... [A] maniacal insistence that the USA must be a world empire, not a just a regular, normal country, and that every national leader must either bow down before them, or be overthrown. In Russia, this irresistible force has finally encountered an immovable object.I have the impression that they are voicing a real concern over where this global domination effort could go. They are seeking to remind westerners that their own civilization will be destroyed in a kinetic war with Russia.
[I]f tomorrow a war were to break out between the US and Russia, it is guaranteed that the US would be obliterated. At a minimum, there would no longer be an electric grid, no internet, no oil and gas pipelines, no interstate highway system, no air transportation or GPS-based navigation. Financial centers would lie in ruins. Government at every level would cease to function. US armed forces, stationed all around the globe, would no longer be resupplied. At a maximum, the entire landmass of the US would be covered by a layer of radioactive ash. We tell you this not to be alarmist, but because, based on everything we know, we are ourselves alarmed. If attacked, Russia will not back down; she will retaliate, and she will utterly annihilate the United States.They call on NATO military officers to think critically and take the moral high ground by refusing orders that violate the Nuremberg Tribunal war crimes criteria and to refuse orders that initiate a war of aggression.…
Even if the entire Russian leadership is killed in a first strike, the so-called “Dead Hand” (the “Perimetr” system) will automatically launch enough nukes to wipe the USA off the political map. We feel that it is our duty to do all we can to prevent such a catastrophe.