- By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
Russia, China and three central Asian countries of Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO) are conducting a joint military exercise in Tajikistan, a pro-Moscow regime with a military base of terror India, which has already killed thousands of defenseless Kashmiris, to support devastating GST and the killing of Muslims by the US-led terror forces in Afghanistan. The operation involves helicopters, military aircraft and armored vehicles and up to 1,000 military personnel. One of the exercises involves Russian and Tajik special forces countering a simulated terrorist attack from Afghanistan, which borders Tajikistan. Troops from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are also taking part in the direct Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO) drill. Observers from India, Pakistan and Iran were also present at the event.
Moscow and Beijing originally set up a regional body, known now as the Shanghai Co-operation Organization or SCO, in 1996 to resolve border disputes between China and its central Asian neighbors. It has since evolved into an alliance seeking co-operation on trade, energy and security issues and when Uzbekistan signed up in 2001 the body was named the Shanghai Co-operation Organization.. Many witnessed the war games and said military personnel shot, ran and parachuted from the sky into a vast training field. Some analysts have speculated the revival of the Warsaw Treaty type military organization under SCO and described the security grouping of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan as a potential counterweight to the Western military alliance, NATO. However, Russia and China have been able to mislead the world by their pro-NATO overtones as well. More, SCO members have expressed their support for US and NATO efforts to stabilize Afghanistan. Georgia’s Foreign Ministry accused Russia of "yet another undisguised attempt to impose its will on the international community and to interfere in the internal affairs of the sovereign state of Georgia." “Russia’s actions clearly indicate that its aggression against Georgia has not come to a halt for one day," it said in a statement.
Central Asian states have become awfully corrupt and incompetent. Generally, they play according to the Russian directions and allow their lands for military bases by USA and other global terror states. South Asian regional terror state India is trying to become a superpower with arms arsenals indoors and airbases abroad. Tajikistan has an Indian Airbase located in Farkhor/Ayni in Tajikistan,130 kilometres (80 miles) south east of the capital Dushanbe and it is being used by the US-led terror nations on payment basis s per the latest nuclearism deal. . The US and Tajikistan have reached a deal on sending non-military cargo through Tajik territory to neighboring Afghanistan. The US should be allowed to send non-military supplies to Afghanistan, US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher said in Tajik capital Dushanbe. Earlier, Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have agreed to open their territories for transit of US non-military supplies, including construction materials, water and fuel, to Afghanistan. The US has been seeking alternative supply routes to Afghanistan after Kyrgyzstan’s parliament passed overwhelmingly the closure of US Manas air base near Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek in February. Russia helps US-led terror forces in destroying Afghanistan which it once occupied and got kicked out unceremoniously.
The Georgian standoff has caused tensions in the Kremlin about NATO’s real intentions. The leader of Georgia's Independent (separatist) region of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh, said the region was reinforcing its border with Georgia and confirmed earlier announced plans to host a Russian naval base and an air base, adding that the deal with Moscow would be signed "fairly soon." "Because Western nations will now hold their exercises -- allegedly to support Georgia -- we will hold similar exercises with Russia in response, both in Abkhazia and South Ossetia," Bagapsh told a news conference in Moscow. “Georgia must decide for itself how it wants to exist -- at the epicenter of fighting or as a stable and peaceful state." But NATO officials and diplomats in Brussels expressed surprise at Moscow’s sharp reaction to the exercises, which were planned last year. Russia was fully informed and as a NATO partner country had been free to participate.
NATO also conducts their usual exercises. "We will follow what happens there in the most thorough manner and make certain decisions if need be," Medvedev said of the NATO exercises. Following the Georgian brief war last August, NATO cut all formal ties with Russia as a result of Moscow’s invasion of Georgia, but earlier this year they agreed to resume relations. NATO says the exercises, to be held 20 kilometers east of Tbilisi, Georgia, from May 6 to June 1, will be based on a fictitious United Nations-mandated, NATO-led crisis response operation and will not involve heavy weaponry. They will involve 1,300 troops from 19 countries. Russia sees much more in these exercises.
The Pentagon said that Russian objections were nothing new and that Georgia has insisted that the exercises go ahead. NATO member Italy sought to allay Russian fears. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said, "There is no desire by NATO to irritate the Russian Federation” We are not interfering or intervening in any way." One NATO diplomat said it was difficult to predict how tough a line Russia would take on the NATO exercises in Georgia, saying, ahead of this weekend's Orthodox Easter, "It could be something that will disappear with the Easter eggs."
But Russia occasionally makes challenging posture to NATO and USA, which misleads the world about a revival of old Cold war. But the reason for that is, the West claim, only to get some of its grievances with the West redressed. President Dmitry Medvedev warned NATO last week that planned military exercises in Georgia could hinder efforts to mend ties. "This is the wrong decision, a dangerous decision," Medvedev told a news conference at his Barvikha residence outside Moscow. Azerbaijan, a former Soviet state, has decided to participate. "Decisions of this kind are aimed at muscle-flexing," he said. "Such decisions are disappointing and do not facilitate the resumption of full-scale contacts between the Russian Federation and NATO."
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Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal
Columnist & Independent Researcher in World Affairs, The only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation,
South Asia.
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