Putin appears preparing to attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar next, Illarionov says

[Aramagedon]

Putin appears preparing to attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar next, Illarionov says

This image from the Russian Defense Ministry shows a Russian Air Force bomb hitting a target in Syria. Khaled Khoja, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, said at the UN that Russian air strikes killed dozens of civilians, with children among the dead. Photo: AP

2015/11/19 • ANALYSIS & OPINION, RUSSIA

Events of recent days may have obscured what is the most important development of all: Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing for a Russian military strike against Saudi Arabia and Qatar, a move that would dramatically worsen the situation in the Middle East and send oil prices soaring, according to Andrey Illarionov.



Andrey Illarionov, Russian economist and former economic policy advisor to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Currently, a senior fellow in the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC (Image: Voice of America)

Heargues that Russia’s bombing of targets in Syria, Putin’s success at the G20, “the de facto paralysis of NATO,” Russia’s acquisition of France as an ally, US intelligence sharing with Russia, and proposals for restructuring of Ukraine’s debt distract the world’s attention from Moscow’s preparations for such attacks.

The Moscow analyst says that “the vigilance of the West has been weakened” by this series of events, thus opening the way for Moscow to carry out a strategic operation that it has been hoping to launch against “military, infrastructure and energy sites in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.”

As he typically does, Illarionov presents a careful listing of the evidence he has for his conclusion which if true would highlight some of the dangers involved of including Moscow in any alliance to fight international terrorism because such attacks would almost certainly provoke more of it.

Illarionov calls attention to 15 indicators or steps he suggests show that Putin is planning for such attacks:

1. Moscow knew that terrorist shot down the plane over Sinai “at a minimum on the third day after” it occurred.
2. But the Russian authorities did not announce that they knew until “after the conclusion of the G20 summit in Antalya in order to “avoid a practically inevitable discussion in that event of the nature of the possible Russian response to the terrorist action.”
3. However, “in order not to lose time,” Moscow announced that it was a terrorist act as soon as the Antalya summit was over.
4. The FSB immediately then put out details that it had not been prepared to release earlier.
5. Putin said that Russia would do whatever it took “to find and punish the criminals” regardless of when they acted or where they are now.
6. The Kremlin leader said that he had tasked all of Russia’s force structures to come up with a plan that would deal with all those involved.
7. Putin declared that Russia “will act in correspondence with Article 51 of the UN Charter which recognizes the right of states to self-defense,” thus cloaking himself in international law for a possible act on particular states.
8. Already at Antalya, Putin had said that it was necessary to strike at those who “finance terrorist activities,” a group of countries which include Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
9. The FSB announced in an unprecedented move that it was offering a 50 million US dollar reward to anyone who could provide evidence about the terrorist acts and these links, an amount certainly guaranteed to lead some to provide what they see as evidence of Saudi or Qatar complicity.
10. Such attacks would be unthinkable, of course, if the US acted in defense of those countries; but that is unlikely. On the one hand, the US is less dependent on oil from there than it was; and on the other, President Barack Obama, compared to his predecessors, is less willing to act in that way.
11. “The Kremlin’s conviction that the current US Administration is hardly likely to support Saudi Arabia has been essentially strengthened by the refusal of the US and the UK to support not only Saudi Arabia or Ukraine but even France, a member of NATO, in its assessment of the Paris terrorist actions as an act of war and consequently to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Charter.”
12. This refusal contrasts sharply with what happened after September 11, 2001, and prompted French President Francois Hollande to go to Moscow and seek an alliance with Putin.
13. “The vigilance of the West has been weakened as well by the changes at first glance of the Kremlin’s course,” including the bombing of ISIS targets in Syria and a more positive stance on restructuring Ukraine’s foreign debt, changes that have been amplified by “a massive propaganda campaign of the Kremlin and the Putinintern.”
14. Consequently, “in the near future, Saudi Arabia (and possibly Qatar) could be declared sponsors of international terrorism and thus one way or another involved in the deaths of hundreds of Russian citizens. Invoking Article 51 of the UN Charger, the Kremlin could carry out an operation of revenge.”
15. The consequences of such attacks on oil prices are obvious, and the refusal of the US and the UK to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Charter for the defense of France marks the de facto paralysis of this organization and in essence an open invitation to the carrying out of new aggression against its other members.”

Putin appears preparing to attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar next, Illarionov says -- EUROMAIDAN PRESSEuromaidan Press |

 

[Aramagedon]

Illarionov offers additional arguments that Putin is planning to attack Saudi Arabia

The aftermath of air strikes by a Russian plane in Tabliseh, Syria, on 30 September 2015 YouTube (Image: independent.co.uk)

2015/11/20 • ANALYSIS & OPINION, MILITARY ANALYSIS, RUSSIA

Yesterday, Andrey Illarionov laid out the logic behind his suggestion that Vladimir Putin is preparing to attack Saudi Arabia in order to destabilize and possibly dismember it.



Andrey Illarionov, Russian economist and former economic policy advisor to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Currently, a senior fellow in the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC

Not surprisingly, that suggestion precisely because it would involve an action few have thought possible immediately sparked a vociferous reaction in Moscow and elsewhere. And so today, the Moscow analyst provides additional arguments on behalf of his conclusion.

As he did yesterday and has done before, Illarionov lays out his argument point by point. In this case, he offers 10 additional detailed discussions that he says force the conclusion that Putin’s new war “will be directed not only and not so much against ISIS” as “against Saudi Arabia” with the goals being its “destabilization and–it can’t be excluded–its dismemberment.”

1. “In the course of the historic session of the ‘force politburo’ of the Russian Federation November 16-17,” Russia’s FSB secret police chief Aleksandr Bortnikov focused on the origins of the explosives that blew up the plane over Sinai rather than on who carried out the attack, thus at a minimum confusing the issue concerning who was responsible by “intensifying suspicions that arose earlier” about that.
2. Bortnikov also stressed that the bomb itself was “self-acting” rather than the work of a suicide bomber, a conclusion of course supported by ISIS claims earlier the same day and one that again has the effect of spreading the blame for the bombing beyond Islamic State activists. The FSB chief insisted that Russian experts had established this independently.
3. Popular business magazine “Kommersant” carried a story suggesting parallels betweenthe 1999 bombings and the downing of the plane, a potentially dangerous one for the Kremlin if people conclude that it might have been behind both but useful to Putin because the Russian security experts the paper cited mentioned “nameless ‘people from the North Caucasus’” as being to blame once again. And these “experts” recalled “the names of those who ‘prepared those who carried out the terrorist acts’ –‘Khattab and his right-hand Abu al-Walid.’” And what “a surprise!” Illarionov says. “Both of the named individuals as is well known were from Saudi Arabia.”
4. “The appearance in Russian anti-terrorist discourse of Saudi Arabia and the absence in Putin’s commentaries… of any reference to ISIS hardly can be considered accidental,” the analyst continues. The Kremlin leader talked about unnamed “criminals” rather than being more specific even in terms of suspicions, a marked contrast to analysts in the West who have pointed to ISIS as behind this attack.
5. Despite not naming anyone, Putin nonetheless promised to take the harshest measures immediately to “find and punish the criminals.” “In other words,” Illarionov says, “Putin declared that there will be conducted extra-judicial reprisals over unknown persons without offering any evidence of their guilt or even their connection with the catastrophe of the Russian jet.” And he added that these reprisals will be carried out “with the help ‘of people who share our moral values.” Given what happened after 1999, one can only imagine what that means.
6. Putin announced that Moscow would step up its air raids in Syria without presenting any “cause and effect link” between those in Syria and the airplane disaster. Russian commentators and many Western ones have accepted his logic without any questions about his failure to provide a link or to follow “the basic principles of the Western legal tradition – the presumption of innocence, the need to present evidence of their guilt to the accused, court hearings… [and] the right of the accused to a defense.”
7. In this way and by attacking people before identifying them as guilty, “Putin in a completely Freudian way demonstrated not only the lack of evidence of their guilt … but the absence of any desire to find it.”
8. “Despite such a demonstrative violation by the Russian authorities of the basic principles of Western (and now all-human) legal tradition, the expansion of the Kremlin’s use of force won the approval from the side of the current American president: ‘Barak Obama declared that he has always supported the struggle of Russia against… ISIS.’”
9. All of this, Illarionov points out, follows what has become “the Putin model of unleashing large (open and not hybrid) wars (the second Chechen and the Russian-Georgian).” First, provocations, then terrorist acts, then the loss of innocent life, then finding one’s opponents guilty without evidence, loud promises to destroy them, the physical destruction of the opponents Putin has identified, and then “an essential change in the domestic or geopolitical situation.”
10. “Nevertheless, the war of 2015 in comparison with the former large wars of 1999 and 2008 is different in certain key ways.” It is conducted far beyond Russia’s borders. Unlike the earlier conflicts, “the beginning of the third war is openly supported by the West and the Obama Administration is ready to greet it with ovations.” And the new war is directed at a country Moscow has long blamed for supporting terrorist actions against Russia, Saudi Arabia.

“In large measure,” Illarionov says, “this is not a new war but a continuation directed at the defeat” of an enemy Putin has long had in his mind. And that enemy is Saudi Arabia. If Putin does attack and succeeds in defeating or even dismembering that country, he will achieve “the radical reordering of the entire contemporary world as we have known it.”

 

[C130]

I don't think Russia would need to go that far. Winning Syria and Iraq and bolstering it's alliance with Iran is more enough to ruffle KSA feathers.

Putin so far has outplayed NATO and the GCC no need to attack KSA and Qatar and have 1+billion Muslims as your enemy.

 

[anon45]

Really, I mean with what army and what route, and where are the soldiers building up? So far this guy looks idiotic.

Did a quick perusal, and yes the guy is a confirmed idiot.

France did not even invoke article 5, why would the US and UK do it? If France wanted to they would have.

 

[FullSerivce]

What kind of nonsense ? Illarionov has access to the Internet from the madhouse ?

 

[anon45]

I don't think Russia would need to go that far. Winning Syria and Iraq and bolstering it's alliance with Iran is more enough to ruffle KSA feathers.

Putin so far has outplayed NATO and the GCC no need to attack KSA and Qatar and have 1+billion Muslims as your enemy.

How has he outplayed NATO? Last I checked we now have a Ukrainian buffer that is anti-Russia. Crimea is Putin's consolation prize, and NATO has a new lease on life. Even the Swedes are contemplating joining!

So far Putin has been a godsend for NATO!

Also NATO doesn't have a role in Syria.

 

[Aramagedon]

I'm not sure if Russia is going to attack Saudia to eliminate wahhabi regime or not, but it seems if any conflict between Russia and US happens Russia will also attack Saudi and turn riyadh to pre historic age to bring peace to the world.

I don't think it would be wise for a non-Islamic country to attack the "Defender of the Grand Mosque"

Defender of holy mosque is absolutely nonsense and doesn't work anymore... Nowdays Muslims know the reality and nature of british made wahhabi regime. They are defender of West and Zionist interests to please their masters and be in power more. 30% of Saudis live in poverty and 40 - 50% live in rented houses while Saudi family live in palaces and have saved billions dollars in European banks.

52% of Saudis in Riyadh rent houses | Arab News

Islam means our holy prophet, Quran and their bright way that Muslims are following for 1400 years not dictatorship savage british made Saudi regime.
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Saudi regime has destroyed 90% of holy historical sites in Mecca and Medina:

The occupiers of the two Harams appear determined to destroy both for their nefarious agendas. The House of Saud and the Zionists are two faces of the same coin.

Islam’s holy sites are under attack. From al-Masjid al-Haram in Makkah to al-Masjid al-Aqsa in al-Quds (Jerusalem), the occupiers of the holy sites have set their sights on destruction. In Makkah and Madinah, the Saudis are busy wiping out the last vestiges of Islamic heritage under the pretext of expansion of the two hold places. The Zionists are busy trying to physically take control of al-Masjid al-Aqsa in al-Quds (Jerusalem). Zionist occupation troops have attacked Palestinians trying to defend the sacred sanctuary of al-Haram al-Sharif that houses both al-Masjid al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock (symbolized by the huge golden dome) in Jerusalem.

Rabbinical law prohibits Jews from stepping on the noble sanctuary lest they desecrate it. There is even a board erected at one of the entrances warning Jews not to trespass al-Haram al-Sharif. Observant Jews — groups like Neturei Karta — have spoken out against such trespassing and condemned Zionist attempts to occupy the holy sanctuary. Zionist zealots allege that al-Masjid al-Aqsa is built on the site where the Temple of King Solomon (the Prophet Suleiman – a) once stood. There is no proof of this. In fact, the temple was destroyed twice: in 586bce by the Babylonians and in 70ce by the Romans. The latter even dug out the foundations.

Since occupying the whole of Jerusalem in June 1967 (the Zionists had already occupied the western part in 1948), the Zionists have attempted to take over the holy sanctuary through a process of creeping annexation. For decades they have excavated under al-Masjid al-Aqsa ostensibly to find the foundations of the “lost temple.” They have found none. The real aim is to weaken the foundations of the Masjid to cause its collapse so that the Zionists can build their temple on its ruins.

Al-Masjid al-Aqsa has existed for nearly 1,400 years. It came into Muslim stewardship in 15ah/638ce but for the brief interregnum during the Crusaders’ occupation (1099–1187), it has remained under Muslim oversight. It is built on the spot where the noble Messenger (pbuh) led all the other Prophets (Å) in salah (prayer) before his mi‘raj (ascension) in the 12th year of his mission in Makkah. Why should Zionist mythology take precedence over prophetic/Islamic history?

Not only Palestinians but Muslims elsewhere have expressed grave concern about the Zionists’ plan to annex al-Masjid al-Aqsa. Zionist squatters (misnomered as “settlers”) have on numerous occasions trespassed on the holy sanctuary. They are pushing for the “right” to worship there. These alien invaders have come to Palestine from Europe and North America. Their agenda is to dispossess the Palestinians of their land, homes, villages, towns and even the sacred sites such as al-Haram al-Sharif. They want to wipe out Palestinian history and memory; in fact Islamic history and memory.

The Saudi occupiers of the Arabian Peninsula are busy with a similar project that predates the Zionists’ vandalism in al-Quds by decades. The Saudi plans are even more dangerous. They have already destroyed 90% of all the historical sites in Makkah and the rest are about to be bulldozed under the spurious pretext of expanding al-Masjid al-Haram that houses the Ka‘bah. Saudi court ‘ulama have issued fatwas to do so. Aside from the fact that there are other ways to provide space for the hujjaj, the Saudis do not own the two holy cities; they are the common heritage, like al-Masjid al-Aqsa, of the entire Muslim Ummah and all humanity. They have no right to take such unilateral decisions and embark on a destructive spree as they did early last month. They destroyed the historic columns commemorating the noble Messenger’s (pbuh) ascent to heaven (mi‘raj) that links al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa. The Qur’an in its 17th chapter, Surah al-Isra’ or Surah Bani Isra’il, describes this nightly journey.

With Hajj season now over, bulldozers have revved up their engines to begin demolition. One place in particular is their target: the house where the noble Messenger (pbuh) was born. Previous Saudi attempts were stayed when people urged the Makkah municipality to spare it and turn it into a library. It may be difficult to save it this time unless there is worldwide pressure. A royal palace for the aging monarch Abdullah is being built there. It will be five times larger than the current palace and built into a mountain overlooking the Haram. Clearly, in Saudi thinking, the king’s palace is more important than preservation of the house where the noble Messenger (pbuh) was born.

Relics of the Saudi ruling family including items linked with ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Saud are carefully preserved in a museum but anything linked with the blessed life of the noble Messenger (pbuh) is being destroyed. The same mindset is at work in Madinah whose people provided sanctuary to the noble Messenger (pbuh) when the Makkan mushriks drove him out of his city of birth. The Saudis now want to “complete” the unfinished business of the mushriks by demolishing the house where he was born. They want to go even further: the Saudis have the audacity to suggest removing his body from the present grave. It is in the dwelling where he resided in Madinah. The pretext is the same: expansion of al-Masjid al-Nabawi. Other Islamic monuments are similarly targeted.

The idea to remove the body of the noble Messenger (pbuh) from its present grave has been brought up a number of times, the latest in August 2014 when an article appeared in the Royal Journal of the Haramayn. The brainchild of one ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Shabal, a professor at Muhammad ibn Saud University in Riyadh, the 61-page document is both brazen and scandalous. It has been circulated among the supervisors of al-Masjid al-Nabawi and makes the same sacrilegious suggestion as previous rantings of Saudi court ‘ulama: the green dome over Rawdhah al-Mutahharah should be destroyed and the Prophet’s (pbuh) body relocated to an unmarked grave in Jannah al-Baqi‘! After protests from Muslims — and indeed some non-Muslims — the Saudi regime issued a terse statement saying no final decision has been made. They did not deny the plan.

The question that must be asked is: why are the Zionist occupiers of the Holy Land and Saudi occupiers of the Arabian Peninsula so determined to wipe out all traces of Islamic heritage and history? One can see what the Zionists are up to: they want to wipe out Islamic/Palestinian history and since al-Masjid al-Aqsa stands as a symbol of that identity, they are targeting it. Despite their demented thinking, the Zionists know their legitimacy is not complete without their taking control of al-Masjid al-Aqsa and building the “third temple” in its place. While the Zionists’ criminal enterprise must be vigorously resisted, what reason is there for the Saudis’ vandalism in the Haramayn? Unlike the Zionists, they call themselves Muslims yet they have no regard for Muslim sensitivity or sentiment. They seem to be gripped by extreme hatred of Islam, the noble Messenger (pbuh) — nastaghfir-allah — and Islamic history.

The Zionists and the Saudis appear to share a common hatred of Islam. Will Muslims rise up to prevent this or allow their history, historical monuments and indeed their sacred sites to be desecrated in such a manner?

Below is an incomplete list of destroyed sites:

Mosques

• • The mosque at the grave of Sayyid al-Shuhada’ Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib.[13]
  • The Mosque of Fatima Zahra.[13]
  • The Mosque of al-Manaratain.[13]
  • Mosque and tomb of Sayyid Imam al-Uraidhi ibn Ja‘far al-Sadiq, destroyed by dynamite on August 13, 2002.
  • Four mosques at the site of the Battle of the Trench in Medina.
  • The Mosque of Abu Rasheed.[19]
  • Salman al-Farsi Mosque, in Medina.[19]
  • Raj'at ash-Shams Mosque, in Medina.[19]

Cemeteries and tombs

• • Jannat al-Baqi in Medina, leveled, still open access for men only.
  • Jannat al-Mu'alla, the ancient cemetery at Mecca.[19]
  • Grave of Hamida al-Barbariyya, the mother of Imam Musa al-Kazim.
  • Grave of Amina bint Wahb, Muhammad’s mother, bulldozed and set alight in 1998.
  • Graves of Banu Hashim in Mecca.[19]
  • Tombs of Hamza and other casualties of the Battle of Uhud were demolished at Mount Uhud.[19]
  • Tomb of Eve in Jeddah,[19] sealed with concrete in 1975.
  • Grave of the father of Muhammad, in Medina.[19]

Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Saudi Zionist regime gifts Palestine to Jews cousins:

An ancient document has revealed how Sultan Abdul Aziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia assured Britain of creating a Jewish state on Palestinian lands, a news report says.
The document, expose the deep commitment of first Saudi King to the United Kingdom and his assurance to British authorities to give Palestine to the Jews.


The controversial document, written as a notice to then British delegate Major General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, is yet another proof of Saudi royal family's hostile approach to the Palestinian nation.


"I am the Sultan Abdul Aziz Bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud al-Faisal and I conceded and acknowledged a thousand times to Sir Percy Cox, delegate of Great Britain, that I have no objection to giving Palestine to the my Jew cousins or even to non-Jews, and I will never ever violate their [the UK] orders,"

read the note signed by King Abdul Aziz.

The note also expose the extent of Saudi royals' fidelity to the UK government.

Britain used to attaché great importance to Saudi Arabia in 1930's, as it was located along the shortest seaway to India and Australia throughout the Red Sea and shortest air route to the east. Saudi Arabia was also close to the main British motor route and oil pipeline between Iraq and Palestine through Trans Jordan.

The ruling of Al Saud family also added to the importance of Saudi Arabia for Britain, as the UK believed ibn-e Saud kings could greatly influence the Arab countries.




Salafi Aqeedah: Lord of Najd - The Rise of Darkness Horns of Satan

Read more: Zionist rulers of Saudi

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Great news once Russia-Shia Alliance get control of oil price，the downfall of petrodollar will send US economy back to 1970s.

 

[Arsalan mehmud]

I don't think so..Putin is anyway going to attack Saudi...

 

[zebra7]

I don't think Russia would need to go that far. Winning Syria and Iraq and bolstering it's alliance with Iran is more enough to ruffle KSA feathers.

Putin so far has outplayed NATO and the GCC no need to attack KSA and Qatar and have 1+billion Muslims as your enemy.

I like the dedication of the Putin. Russia have full right to take revenge, after all its their citizens that are killed in the attack, and the punishment to the one who planned, and financed the operation would give loud and clear example, that wherever you would hide, Russia, will find you and give the same treatment. Now it does not means that Russia, needs to attack KSA, Russia could use Covert operation, same what Israel do with its Mosad, and Russian working matches with the Israeli, when it comes to the hostage crisis, and expression of terror.

Big question, when KSA is not involved, then should it fear from russia.

 

[C130]

I like the dedication of the Putin. Russia have full right to take revenge, after all its their citizens that are killed in the attack, and the punishment to the one who planned, and financed the operation would give loud and clear example, that wherever you would hide, Russia, will find you and give the same treatment. Now it does not means that Russia, needs to attack KSA, Russia could use Covert operation, same what Israel do with its Mosad, and Russian working matches with the Israeli, when it comes to the hostage crisis, and expression of terror.

Big question, when KSA is not involved, then should it fear from russia.

Putin is crafty he's got something in the works, but war no.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I don't think it would be wise for a non-Islamic country to attack the "Defender of the Grand Mosque"

 

[Slayer786]

If Russia does attack Saudi Arabia. There will be a backlash from 1.5 billion Muslims concerned with protecting Holy cities Mecca and Medina. Russia is powerful but not enough to take on Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt and other Arab countries with strong air forces. USA and Europe will intervene. And Russia well face Muslim insurrection inside ITE territories.
It would take a mad man to do it. Now is Putin a mad man?

 

[Maarkhoor]

Putin appears preparing to attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar next, Illarionov says

This image from the Russian Defense Ministry shows a Russian Air Force bomb hitting a target in Syria. Khaled Khoja, head of the Syrian National Council opposition group, said at the UN that Russian air strikes killed dozens of civilians, with children among the dead. Photo: AP

2015/11/19 • ANALYSIS & OPINION, RUSSIA

Events of recent days may have obscured what is the most important development of all: Vladimir Putin appears to be preparing for a Russian military strike against Saudi Arabia and Qatar, a move that would dramatically worsen the situation in the Middle East and send oil prices soaring, according to Andrey Illarionov.



Andrey Illarionov, Russian economist and former economic policy advisor to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Currently, a senior fellow in the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC (Image: Voice of America)

Heargues that Russia’s bombing of targets in Syria, Putin’s success at the G20, “the de facto paralysis of NATO,” Russia’s acquisition of France as an ally, US intelligence sharing with Russia, and proposals for restructuring of Ukraine’s debt distract the world’s attention from Moscow’s preparations for such attacks.

The Moscow analyst says that “the vigilance of the West has been weakened” by this series of events, thus opening the way for Moscow to carry out a strategic operation that it has been hoping to launch against “military, infrastructure and energy sites in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.”

As he typically does, Illarionov presents a careful listing of the evidence he has for his conclusion which if true would highlight some of the dangers involved of including Moscow in any alliance to fight international terrorism because such attacks would almost certainly provoke more of it.

Illarionov calls attention to 15 indicators or steps he suggests show that Putin is planning for such attacks:

1. Moscow knew that terrorist shot down the plane over Sinai “at a minimum on the third day after” it occurred.
2. But the Russian authorities did not announce that they knew until “after the conclusion of the G20 summit in Antalya in order to “avoid a practically inevitable discussion in that event of the nature of the possible Russian response to the terrorist action.”
3. However, “in order not to lose time,” Moscow announced that it was a terrorist act as soon as the Antalya summit was over.
4. The FSB immediately then put out details that it had not been prepared to release earlier.
5. Putin said that Russia would do whatever it took “to find and punish the criminals” regardless of when they acted or where they are now.
6. The Kremlin leader said that he had tasked all of Russia’s force structures to come up with a plan that would deal with all those involved.
7. Putin declared that Russia “will act in correspondence with Article 51 of the UN Charter which recognizes the right of states to self-defense,” thus cloaking himself in international law for a possible act on particular states.
8. Already at Antalya, Putin had said that it was necessary to strike at those who “finance terrorist activities,” a group of countries which include Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
9. The FSB announced in an unprecedented move that it was offering a 50 million US dollar reward to anyone who could provide evidence about the terrorist acts and these links, an amount certainly guaranteed to lead some to provide what they see as evidence of Saudi or Qatar complicity.
10. Such attacks would be unthinkable, of course, if the US acted in defense of those countries; but that is unlikely. On the one hand, the US is less dependent on oil from there than it was; and on the other, President Barack Obama, compared to his predecessors, is less willing to act in that way.
11. “The Kremlin’s conviction that the current US Administration is hardly likely to support Saudi Arabia has been essentially strengthened by the refusal of the US and the UK to support not only Saudi Arabia or Ukraine but even France, a member of NATO, in its assessment of the Paris terrorist actions as an act of war and consequently to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Charter.”
12. This refusal contrasts sharply with what happened after September 11, 2001, and prompted French President Francois Hollande to go to Moscow and seek an alliance with Putin.
13. “The vigilance of the West has been weakened as well by the changes at first glance of the Kremlin’s course,” including the bombing of ISIS targets in Syria and a more positive stance on restructuring Ukraine’s foreign debt, changes that have been amplified by “a massive propaganda campaign of the Kremlin and the Putinintern.”
14. Consequently, “in the near future, Saudi Arabia (and possibly Qatar) could be declared sponsors of international terrorism and thus one way or another involved in the deaths of hundreds of Russian citizens. Invoking Article 51 of the UN Charger, the Kremlin could carry out an operation of revenge.”
15. The consequences of such attacks on oil prices are obvious, and the refusal of the US and the UK to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Charter for the defense of France marks the de facto paralysis of this organization and in essence an open invitation to the carrying out of new aggression against its other members.”

Putin appears preparing to attack Saudi Arabia and Qatar next, Illarionov says -- EUROMAIDAN PRESSEuromaidan Press |

این برادر خنده دار است که نمی تواند رخ دهد به ما خواهد کرد که روسیه بمباران حتی آنها در مورد آن فکر می کنم و برای شما اطلاعات من دوست سعودی نه بیش از حد است

 

[mb444]

Russia is on the brink of an economic collapse. Whilst any attack on Saudi will raise oil prices temporarily the ensuing permanent enmity will destroy Russia in the long term. The Russian are not that stupid. No country takes on another unless guaranteed of victory.... Saudi and Qatar just too rich and influential in the world order.