For Russia, as it is said in many predictions, it may begin with the invasion of the Chinese and peoples South-East Asia to Siberia and the Urals. All conditions for China's invasion of Russian territory has already. Fortified areas built during the Soviet Union along the border with China are abandoned. According to a joint Russian-Chinese agreement, Russian troops have been withdrawn from the common borders at a distance of up to 10 km. The number of military units near the Russian-Chinese border has significantly decreased.
China is rapidly increasing its military-industrial potential, arming the army with the most modern types of weapons. New roads have been built to the borders of Russia, so that in a matter of hours, to be able to carry out the transfer of troops. Buffer states between Russia and China will not save you from a Chinese invasion. According to the military mobilization plan, the Chinese can put under arms up to 200 million people within three days. This greatly exceeds the entire population of Russia.
As stated in the predictions, the main hostilities will begin after a global tectonic cataclysm, which is predicted in the near future. At this time, the countries located on the coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as Japan and Australia, will be thoroughly destroyed. Part of Chinese territory will go under water. Areas close to the Pacific Rift will be particularly hard hit. earth's crust. At the same time, all the main structures that ensure the vital activity of these regions will be destroyed, with horrific consequences: hunger, shortage drinking water, energy crisis, disease, pestilence, etc.
Armed crowds of brutalized people from China, Indonesia, Korea, Vietnam will begin their advance into the northern, less affected areas of our planet - Europe and Russia. Historian David S. Montaigne from America, based on the map of the invasion of Islamic-Chinese troops in Europe and Russia, which indicates that all of Spain, Italy, the Balkans, part of France, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Siberia will be captured. Enemy crowds will even reach the Volga.
In the beginning (after the tectonic cataclysm), the Chinese will occupy a significant part of Siberia in a “peaceful” way, fleeing the devastation in their country. As a result of the "Great Migration of Peoples", the Chinese and other residents of Southeast Asia will settle in the Far East and Eastern Siberia. The Russian government will be unable to resist this "invasion". Later, having settled on Russian soil, they would unleash a war against Russia and seize vast territories up to the Urals, and in the south to the Volga.
Alois Ilmeier
Predictions of Alois Ilmeier: “Chemical and bacteriological weapons will already be used. Shortly thereafter, the first atomic missiles will be fired. While the armed forces of the East (Chinese troops - ed.) will move on a wide front to Western Europe, fights will take place in Mongolia ... China will conquer India. The center of the battles will be the area around Delhi. Peking will use its bacteriological weapons during these battles. In India, due to the use of bacteriological and biological weapons by Beijing, 25 million people will die, and diseases unknown to this day will appear in Europe. Iran and Turkey will fight in the East. The Balkans will also be occupied by their troops. The Chinese will invade Canada.
America since 1907 will participate in only five wars. The Big City in the USA will be destroyed by missiles, and invaders from Asia will invade the west coast, but they will be repulsed ...
Absolutely new, hitherto unknown epidemics will break out. In Europe, hitherto unfamiliar diseases will appear. In France, people, especially young people, will be struck by blindness and loss of reason. The dead will begin to turn yellow and black. The cattle will fall, the grass will turn dry and yellow.”
Jean Dixon
The famous American clairvoyant (1918-1997) predicted that the war of conquest of red China with Russia would last from 2020 to 2037: “... the new superpower - China - will go on the offensive against Western troops in the Middle East. The Chinese army will fill all of Asia on the first try, including the Asian regions of the (former) USSR. Millions of yellow soldiers, armed with the most modern weapons, including nuclear weapons, will invade the Middle East.
Here the decisive battle between China and America and its allies for world domination must take place. Numerous "yellow" troops will inflict (former) Soviet Union a mortal blow, conquer all of its southern regions and, together with other Asian armies that came to the rescue, capture the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern and Southern Europe. But the decisive battle will be won by the West. At this time, many inexplicable cosmic phenomena will occur.
Francesca of Savoy
Countess Francesca of Savoy (12th century) predicted: I see the Red and Yellow Wars marching against the rest of the world. Europe will be completely shrouded in a yellow fog that will kill the cattle in the pastures. Those peoples who start a war ... will perish in a terrible flame. May the Lord send His mercy to my grandchildren, and strengthen their souls in the harsh time that is coming”; “Great calamities are coming…. The peoples will perish in the fire, hunger will destroy millions.
Reverend Theodosius
The Monk Theodosius (Kashin), Elder of Jerusalem (1948): “Was that a war? - preached the Monk Theodosius, speaking of the world war. “There will be a war ahead. It will start from the East. Mystical folk beliefs indicate at the end of the world, when China rises, its great battle with Russia between Biya and Katun. And then enemies will crawl to Russia from all sides. To us Christians, who understand the meaning of symbolism, it must seem significant that the emblem of China is the Dragon.
The dragon is called the Ancient Serpent. It is not for nothing that the Russian people from time immemorial have developed the belief that when China rises, then the world will end. China will go against Russia, or rather, against the Church of Christ, for the Russian people are God-bearers. It contains the true faith of Christ. The demons will first divide Russia, weaken it, and then begin to plunder. The West will contribute in every possible way to the destruction of Russia and will give its entire eastern part to China. Everyone will assume that Russia is finished. And then a miracle of God will appear, some kind of extraordinary explosion will take place, and Russia will be reborn again, albeit on a small scale. The Lord and the Most Blessed Mother of God will preserve Russia.”
Pelageya Ryazanskaya
Memoirs of Blessed Pelagia of Ryazan (locally venerated saint of the Ryazan diocese): “Pelagia said that all the evil that would be concentrated in Russia would be swept away by the Chinese. She wept bitterly about Russia: “What will happen to her, what misfortunes will befall her?! What will happen to Moscow? – In an instant underground! What about St. Petersburg? - That's the name of the sea! And Kazan? - Sea! - Pelagia spoke about what she was shown.
Osip Terelya
Ukrainian seer Osip Terelya : "At the beginning of the 21st century, terrible war. I was shown a map of Russia in a ring of flashes of fire. The outbreaks blazed in the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Baltic states and throughout the Far East, where China became Russia's adversary. The leader of Russia named Vladimir will unleash a war with Israel. There will be a devastating earthquake in California. After all the terrible cataclysms, "" will begin.
Vision of the Mother of God to Osip Terel (1992): “She came again the same week and said: “I have come, because terrible events are coming that will befall godless humanity that does not want to find my Son ... the events of the near future will shake the whole world. The Great War, the greatest war ever fought so far, is just around the corner. Then many will not survive, only those who accept Christ the King and obey God's commandments will survive. All this was written in the holy book of the Gospel of Christ. The servants of the Antichrist, the sons of Satan will come to proclaim peace and tranquility everywhere, but Satan is preparing great war which has never been seen before. His power is invisible, this power that will drive people to protect himself.
Again she warns us: “At the end of time, Satan will be punished and all his powers will be destroyed. The devil knows well the time to prepare for the great battle. Its goal is the destruction of all mankind, all people who serve God...
That is why the devil is raging in such a frenzy to draw all the nations of the world into big war. In order to destroy God's creation... that is why the invisible evil is the servants of the devil, evil spirits, as well as his evil forces, which are represented by all the godless rulers of the earth, are used for preparation by Satan big war. For the sole purpose of destroying God's human beings."
Osip Terelya, in an interview given by him in May 1993, said: “There is a large comet that is approaching the Earth. This is not the end of the earth, but it will be the cause of numerous cataclysms on the planet. Many lands in the US will be under water. Due to the huge flood, the crops will not grow, the animals will have nothing to eat, and this will contribute to a great famine. Sooner or later there will be a terrible battle for food. We will survive, but we are all witnessing major disasters. Don't be afraid and don't worry, pray and the Holy Spirit will guide you."
Edward Albert Meyer
Eduard Albert Meyer ("Billy") was born on February 3, 1937 in Bulach (Switzerland) in a large shoemaker's family. 1975 - Mayer stated that he repeatedly made contact with aliens from the constellation Pleiades. From January 1975 until the summer of 1996, according to Billy Meyer, there were about 250 contacts with extraterrestrials that reported some future events. He predicted many future events, many of which have already come true.
All of his amazingly accurate prophecies are documented long before the events that took place. Here are just Meyer's predictions regarding future wars: “The USSR will be dissolved within this decade or not later than the next. The person who carried out this act will be Mikhail Gorbachev. But this will not bring about change, because Russia will continue its long-standing conflicts with China over Inner Mongolia, as a result of which Russia will give part of this territory to China.
China is becoming dangerous, especially in India. At this time, China and India have a difficult relationship. China is attacking India, and if biological weapons are used, about 30 million people will die at the same time in the Delhi area. But this will not be the end of the calamity... a terrible epidemic, an unknown disease at that time, will arise and spread rapidly in many areas.
Pakistan will provoke a war against India, which will be especially dangerous due to the fact that both countries have atomic weapons.
John Pendragon
A clairvoyant from Britain predicted that an armed conflict would break out on Far East. At some point, America will be involved in a war with China because China will invade Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia. In this war, Japan and India will be an ally of America, and Russia will remain neutral until it is attacked by Mongolia. Then the war in the Middle East will begin.
Blessed Nicholas of Ural
Prophecy of Blessed Nicholas of Urals (1905-1977) “We are all afraid of the West, but we should be afraid of China… When the last Orthodox Patriarch is overthrown, China will go to the southern lands. And the whole world will be silent. And no one will hear how the Orthodox will be exterminated. In severe cold, women, old people, children will be driven out into the streets, and Chinese soldiers will settle in warm houses.
No one can survive that terrible winter. Everyone will drink one cup of death to the bottom. Europe will be neutral towards China. She will see China as a kind of antediluvian gigantic creature, isolated and reliably protected from any enemy by the Siberian and Central Asian expanses. Chinese armies will march to the Caspian Sea. Millions of Chinese settlers will follow the Chinese soldiers, and no one will be able to stop them. All indigenous people will be conquered and doomed to extinction.”
Ulyana Davydova
Prediction of the Yakut Ulyana Davydova (early 20th century): “The power will change. People will overthrow the king and destroy everything, forget God. So I see 50 years ahead and I don’t see a single church. The people of the new government are waving red cloth, gathering and talking a lot. Why do these people keep cattle and all wealth in one place. I see that they have built spacious houses and live together.
For some reason, I see: everyone is digging in the ground, they hunt little. I see strange animals: they seem to be at home, some are small and rumble strangely, blow smoke and run fast. These animals have fiery eyes and for some reason people sit in them. What a marvel! scary times fit. And in the sky such strange animals fly, and people also sit in them. And all these are made of iron, yes, yes, they are iron. Or will people create such creatures? People waving red cloth will defeat the old power. There will be a lot of blood and sin.
A little later, a terrible war will begin. From the west, iron beasts will bring people in iron hats and shiny shopping bags. Oh, how many people will be exterminated! The most the best part Yakut youth will go there to fight. They will fight not only with guns, but also with weapons that throw lightning. But ours will win. Very few returned from the field of war, but all returned wounded and with shiny tins on their chests.
But the new government will last only 70 years, and those in power themselves will overthrow their government. The time of mediocre kings will come. People will eat food that will be stored in paper "dishes". Air and water will be poisoned and disasters will come from the sky. The stars in the sky will be shifted, and will gradually begin. A new terrible war will begin. (From the book of V. Kondakov - "Secrets of the Sphere of Shamanism".
Sorcerer Tuve
Prediction of the sorcerer Tuve (Komi people): “There will be good and bad life. Good in the sense that a person will have to work less. Instead, iron horses will plow. Iron birds will fly across the sky. A web will stretch from house to house, light will go through them and each other's voices can be heard close. And the bad thing will be that even in their hallways people will be killed. There will be a third war. masculine will completely disappear. The women will wander through the forest, looking for male traces. They will argue whether these are bear tracks or men's. They will even fight for men's pants.
Schema Monk John
The prophecy of the elder monk-schemer John, who labored in the Church of St. Nicholas the Pleasant in the village of Nikolskoye (Yaroslavl region): “In April, when the “bald” one is taken out of the Mausoleum, Moscow will fall into salty waters and little will remain of Moscow. Sinners will swim in salt water for a long time, but there will be no one to save them. They will all die. Therefore, for those of you who work in Moscow, I recommend working there until April. Astrakhan and Voronezh regions will be flooded. Leningrad will be flooded. The city of Zhukovsky (Moscow region, 30 km from Moscow) will be partially destroyed.
The Lord wanted to do this back in 1999, but the Mother of God begged him to give him more time. Now there is no time at all. Only those who leave the cities (Moscow, Leningrad) to live in the countryside will have a chance to survive. It is not worth starting to build houses in the villages, there is no time left, you will not have time. It is better to buy a finished house. There will be a big famine. There will be no electricity, no water, no gas. Only those who grow their own food will have a chance to survive.
China will go to war against us with a 200 million army and occupy all of Siberia to the Urals. The Japanese will be in charge in the Far East. Russia will be torn apart. A terrible war will begin. Russia will remain within the borders of the times of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The Monk Seraphim of Sarov will come. He will unite all the Slavic peoples and states and bring the Tsar with him. The main thing for us is to survive 2008 and 2009… The authorities will literally go berserk. There will be such a famine that those who have accepted the "seal of the Antichrist" will eat the dead. And most importantly, pray and hurry up to change your life so as not to live in sin, since there is no time left at all ... ".
Hegumen Gury
Hegumen Gury (Chezlov) about the war with China: “There will be a war soon. The service has already been cut. God endures, endures, and then how it will shy away, and the cities will fall (Moscow, St. Petersburg ...). First there will be a civil war. All believers will be taken away, and then bloodshed will begin. God will save his own, and remove the unwanted. Then China will attack and reach the Urals. 4 million Russian soldiers will die for swearing (foul language), because we insult four mothers with foul language: the Mother of God, the Earth, the Church and the mother who gave birth to you. Archangel Michael will frighten the Chinese, and they will accept Orthodoxy, and they will let us choose a Tsar. 11 million Chinese will die in this war."
Edgar Cayce
The American "sleeping" prophet predicted: "Russia will become an ally of the United States. There will be an armed conflict between China and Russia… In the future, China will become a stronghold of Christianity… By human standards, this will happen in the distant future, but this is only a moment in the heart of God, for tomorrow China will wake up.”
Aristocles of Athos
Schieeromonk Aristokliy Athos (1917-18): “Now we are living through the time before Christ. The judgment of God over the living has begun and there will not be a single country on earth, not a single person who will not be touched by this. It started with Russia, and then further ...
And Russia will be saved. Lots of pain, lots of pain. It is necessary to suffer much and much and to repent deeply for everyone. Only repentance through suffering will save Russia. All of Russia will become a prison, and one must beg the Lord for forgiveness a lot. Repent of sins and be afraid to commit even the slightest sins, but try to do good, even the smallest. After all, even the wing of a fly has weight, but God has accurate scales.
And when the smallest thing outweighs goodness, then God will show His Mercy over Russia. But first, God will take away all the leaders, so that the Russian people look only at Him. Everyone will abandon Russia, other powers will abandon it, leaving it to itself. This is so that Russian people trust in the help of the Lord. Hear that riots will begin in other countries and similar to what you will hear about wars in Russia and there will be wars - but wait until the Germans take up arms, for they are chosen by God not only as an instrument of punishment for Russia, but also as a weapon of deliverance also.
By the command of God, the Germans will enter Russia and save her, but they will not stay in Russia and will go to their own country. Then, within five years, Russia will achieve prosperity and power more than ever. The end of Russia's troubles will be through China. There will be some unusual explosion, and the Miracle of God will appear. And there will be a completely different life on earth, but not for a very long time. The Cross of Christ will shine over the whole world, because our Motherland will be exalted and will be like a beacon in the darkness for everyone.”
Makariy Artemyeva
Schema-nun Makaria Artemyeva (1926-1993): “The Chinese are more terrible for us. The Chinese are very evil, they will cut without mercy. They will take half of the land, they don't need anything else. They do not have enough land (06/27/88).
Soon a bad person will go, he will go with a wheel. Well, it would be the end of the world, but here - the destruction of buildings and people, everything is mixed with mud, you will walk knee-deep in blood (03/25/89).
The hunger is great, there will be no bread - we will divide the crust in half. Soon you will be left without bread. Soon there will be no water, no apples, no potatoes.
There will be a big uprising. From the floors (from the cities) people will scatter, they will not sit in the rooms. You can’t sit in the rooms, nothing will happen, not even bread (1990).
War, everyone will be at war, they will fight with sticks, beat each other, many people will be killed. With sticks, when they beat, they will laugh, and with a gun, when they hit, they will cry (03/04/92).
The dead are properly laid, and we will have to turn somersaults. There will be no one to bury, so they will dump him in a pit and bury him (05/28/89).
Hudson Taylor
1889 - Hudson Taylor, a prominent English missionary to China and founder of the China Inland Mission, wrote of future wars: “I had a vision. I saw a great war engulfing the whole world. I saw how this war ended and then resumed, but in reality it was two wars. After that, I saw riots and uprisings that affected many nations, as well as spiritual awakening in some places ...
There will be a comprehensive national spiritual awakening in Russia, so strong that there will not be another like it. I saw how it spread from Russia to many European countries. Then there will be a worldwide revival, after which Christ will come.”
Throughout history, people have only solved their problems from a position of strength. Any war was a means of suppressing the enemy, resolving controversial issues. However, such skirmishes could not cause much harm either to the population or to the surrounding world. And only with the advent of people began to think that there could be no winners in it, the whole planet would perish.
However, some heads of state still do not understand the danger and escalate tension in the world. Therefore, it can flare up at the slightest provocation.
Today, there are three main players on the world stage that can give rise to: Russia, China and the United States. In our time, local non-nuclear wars are not waged for territory and/or human potential at all, they are waged for resources. And if in Russia there is an abundance of such resources, it even sells a significant amount of them, then in other countries, in particular, the United States, the situation is somewhat different. They, under the guise of fighters for democracy, are trying to establish their own regime for unhindered mining. Russia is doing its best to prevent this, therefore, according to many analysts, the Third World War will begin in the coming years. The reason for this will be the clash of interests of the superpowers in resource-rich regions of the planet.
So, one of these regions are the countries of the East, which are not particularly developed militarily, but have huge oil reserves. Therefore, the US is actively pursuing its policy in the region, trying to establish its control over it. What are the invasion of Iraq in 2003 under the pretext of having chemical weapons in Saddam Hussein, which was never found, in Libya in 2011 under the guise of fighting for democracy, support for radical coups in Iran and Syria. All this could provoke the outbreak of the Third World War.
And in Europe the situation is no better. America is constantly destabilizing the situation in certain regions to increase its military presence, as is happening in Ukraine. Therefore, the beginning of the Third World War can come at any moment.
It is also worth mentioning China as a superpower. Having broken into the first positions in the world economy in the last few decades, he is already declaring his claims to world domination and may become the initiator of World War 3. The fact that the country has nuclear weapons, delivery vehicles, significant economic and military potential forces most Asian countries to reckon with their position and influences the policy of Russia and the United States. So far, Russia is in a neutral alliance with China, which slightly outweighs the scale against the United States and allows it to somewhat restrain their aggressive policy.
The confrontation between the two opposing camps is ongoing, it just has not yet entered its hot phase. After all, Russia and the United States are located on different continents, and in order to achieve a final victory, it is necessary to overcome a powerful coastal defense system throughout. Therefore, if the Third World War starts without the use of nuclear weapons, then over time it will definitely fire to finish off the losing enemy, or as a gesture of despair of the defeated.
Oddly enough, the outbreak of the Third World War is beneficial to China, which has all the necessary means to repel the strike of a small group of American missiles with nuclear weapons aimed at its territory. After its completion, he will be able to dictate his conditions to all countries in the post-nuclear world, because both superpowers - Russia and the United States will be seriously weakened, if not destroyed.
On the other hand, if the Third World War begins with the alliance of Russia and China, this will mean the complete destruction of the overseas enemy with relatively small losses, so by combining missile defense systems, we will be able to shoot down most of the warheads flying in our direction. And then our main enemy will be nuclear winter and radioactive contamination. The chances of civilization in this case are estimated as maximum. Therefore, Russia's friendship with China acts as a kind of guarantor of the military balance on the planet.
Do not discount other states with nuclear potential, which are quite capable of starting the Third World War. Several rockets that have taken off can be assessed by the automatic system as an attack and adequate countermeasures are taken.
When the Third World War starts, no one knows, but its beginning will mean the end of civilization, because the resources of the planet are simply not enough for re-development and a breakthrough to the stars.
Western media about the global clash between Russia, China and the United States, the protest against the supply of weapons to Ukraine, the difficulties of modernization Russian fleet and Brezhnev's interference in American elections
AT recent times Along with the tightening of sanctions against Russia, the topic of the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine has again become more active in the top US government leadership. Such a move is being considered by Washington against the backdrop of the appointment of Kurt Volker, a well-known "hawk" who once spoke out for the toughest options for countering foreign policy Moscow. However, a large part of the Western media perceived the possibility of deliveries of weapons to Kyiv without much enthusiasm. Both the United States and Europe reasonably fear that the implementation of this idea will not only not contribute to the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, but will only provoke a new round of military confrontation in the region. Nevertheless, the course of escalation is quite consistent with the Russophobic part of the American elite, which seems to have finally broken President Donald Trump and is preparing to take revenge for its defeat more than six months ago. "The Bell of Russia" presents another collection of interesting materials in the Western media over the past week.
Thus, The American Conservative published an article under the heading “It’s stupid to arm Ukraine, whatever one may say” by the columnist Daniel Larison. The author recalls that the Pentagon, together with the State Department, developed a supply plan Ukrainian army Javelin anti-tank missiles. According to Larison, this will only contribute to the resumption of the hot phase of the conflict, as well as deepen Washington’s participation in it, which risks getting another “black hole” in Ukraine like Iraq and Afghanistan, absorbing a huge amount of resources and funds.
In addition, Larison emphasizes that the supply of lethal weapons to Kyiv will definitely cause opposition from Moscow. “The Russians are able to react much more sensitively, if only because of geographical factor- proximity to Ukrainian territory and transparency of the border with Donbass, and therefore have at their disposal much more opportunities for counteraction,” the author writes. The observer adds that, despite Washington's words of support for Kyiv, in reality, Ukraine will always be incomparably more important for Russia than for the United States. “And if so, then the Russians will resist the new actions of Washington in Ukraine with a vengeance,” sums up Larison.
The topic of arms supplies to Kyiv is also raised by the influential edition of The National Intrest in the article under the heading "Supplies of "defensive" weapons will bring only death to Ukraine" by the observer Leonid Bershidsky. According to him, the use of Javelins against the tank power of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics is nothing more than an attempt to "kill a fly with a sledgehammer." “Moscow has so many tanks that no other country in the world has: more than 20,000 vehicles. However, most of them are in storage, these are outdated T-72 and T-80 models. It is these tanks that were seen in the armed units of the pro-Russian armed units in the Donbass,” he writes. Bershidsky notes that some of these vehicles will certainly be destroyed by the Javelins, however, the DPR and LPR and the “forces behind them” will eventually break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops due to the numerical superiority in combat vehicles.
In addition, the author continues, it is still unknown how effective the Javelins are against more modern Russian combat vehicles - the T-90, not to mention the latest modifications. “In fact, so far there has not been a single case of the destruction of the T-90 by the Javelin,” the observer adds. At the same time, Bershidsky believes that not only Washington, but also Moscow may be interested in the supply of American anti-tank systems. According to a columnist for The National Interest, Moscow views the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria as testing grounds for its weapons. The Kremlin is clearly tempted to test the Javelins on both previous and new generations of Russian tanks.
Interested in this, he continues, and the American generals, who are in search of the most effective means against Russian
weapons. “However, over the course of two years of relative calm on the front in Donbass, the parties generally tried to comply with the demarcation line, and supplying Kyiv with American weapons is completely inappropriate from a military point of view, except that some “hot heads” in Washington finally chose the radical option of returning the DPR and LPR by force. part of Ukraine,” the author writes.
According to him, if the American political and military elite chose this scenario, then this is a big mistake. Bershidsky points out that despite the fact that at the moment Moscow clearly does not have enough resources to hold the entire territory of Ukraine, it is unlikely to spare military, financial, political and diplomatic resources to protect Donbass that is not controlled by Kyiv. “And even if the Kremlin doesn’t really want to support the DPR and LPR anymore, their destruction and return to Kyiv’s rule will deal a serious blow to the halo of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invincibility, putting him in a vulnerable position both at home and on the international arena,” he concluded.
Also published in The National Interest was an article titled "US Military vs. Russia and China: Who Will Win World War III?". As the reviewer notes Robert Farley After the collapse of the USSR, the United States developed a doctrine that, instead of a strategy of confronting one global adversary, determined the pattern of action that the Pentagon should have followed in the event of a sharp deterioration in relations with two regional adversaries. According to the author, the concept fighting against one enemy and deterring the second from war, and when the first is finished, the time comes for military operations against the second enemy. “However, at the end of the last decade, the United States abandoned this concept of connection with the changing international environment. But what if the US has to wage a war on two fronts in the future, and not against Iran or
North Korea, but against much more powerful opponents - Russia and China, who will act in a coordinated and coordinated way? Farley asks.
However, he notes, military engagement between Russia and China against the United States is extremely unlikely, as each country pursues its own goals and "according to its own timetable." Most likely, the author writes, Moscow and Beijing will choose a convenient time to put pressure on Washington when it gets stuck in another region. “For example, the Russians may well increase pressure on Ukraine if the president Donald Trump gets involved in the conflict in the South China Sea,” says Farley. In any case, the observer is sure, either Russia or China will become the initiators of the military conflict. “The United States, through its policies, can create conditions for direct conflict, but either Moscow or Beijing will pull the trigger,” the author believes.
In the event of such a war, he continues, US ground forces and part of the air force will be concentrated in Europe against Russia, providing assistance to European allies, while the other part of the air force and the most powerful fleet formations will be involved in the Pacific Ocean in combat operations against China. “Under such conditions, the most important task for the Pentagon will be to win as quickly as possible on one of the fronts. And given the ability of US NATO allies to act on their own, the Pentagon should start by focusing on the Pacific theater of war by pulling China out of the war.
Russia, according to him, is capable of successful operations in the Baltics at the first stage, but its ground forces will most likely suffer heavy damage from NATO aircraft, after which they will retreat from the occupied territory. “As for nuclear weapons, it is unlikely that they will be used even in such a conflict, since, given the accumulated arsenals, any use of them will mean the guaranteed destruction of both adversaries,” adds Farley. In any case, the author gives his assessment, the US armed forces are capable of winning a conflict with two global adversaries at once, or getting so close to triumph that neither Moscow nor Beijing hopes for success in hostilities with the United States.
At the same time, the author is sure that the Pentagon should understand that the unconditional military hegemony of the United States cannot last forever. “America cannot maintain this level of dominance indefinitely, so in the future, Washington will somehow need to prioritize and decide on the main enemy,” summarizes The National Interest columnist.
It is worth noting that the author of the material forgets about one very simple thing that can nullify the superiority of the American army - an extremely high sensitivity to losses. Throughout all the foreign conflicts that the United States has entered, they have suffered relatively low losses compared to other participants in the massacre. Vietnam was the last hot spot in which the United States suffered significant losses. After that, the Americans always got by with "little bloodshed", preferring to shoot the enemy with bombs and missiles from a distance, making direct contact extremely limited. Recall at least Yugoslavia, Libya and other conflicts of the last 25 years.
In the event of a war with Russia and China, and even more so - a simultaneous conflict with both powers, the United States will not be able to avoid colossal losses. And judging by how sensitive the United States is to them, military losses could provoke a real political crisis. Russia and China are much less sensitive to losses. The latter because of the colossal human resource. From time immemorial, Russia has believed that the achievement of the ultimate goal always justifies the expended human and material resources.
In turn, the Advance publication published an interesting article under the heading "A heavy burden for the Russian fleet." According to the reviewer Vadrana Obuchina, the modernization of the Russian naval forces should be completed by 2030, but Moscow has a number of problems on the way to this serious problems. “The question, among other things, is that the modern Russian Navy is a quarter smaller than the Soviet fleet, but its areas of responsibility remain the same - the Pacific Ocean, the Black Sea, the Arctic and other strategic important regions", - writes the author. At the same time, he adds, despite the significant reduction in the size of the modern Russian fleet compared to the Soviet one, Moscow still sees it as an element of intimidation. a potential adversary, and the main element in this are strategic nuclear submarine missile carriers.
In addition to entering neutral waters, the Russian fleet must ensure the security of the coasts of Russia directly, Obuchina continues. However, he notes, there are clearly not enough ships for this, and the shipyards that survived the collapse of the USSR and the hard times of the 90s need urgent modernization, which is impossible without imported components. "The economic restrictions imposed on Russia are putting serious pressure on the Russian Navy's renewal program," the observer said. That is why, according to him, Moscow switched to the “step by step” tactic, intending first of all to prepare the fleet in the northern and western directions. “The Atlantic is a region where the geopolitical interests of the forces of the multipolar world intersect, and the Arctic is a real resource treasury that promises colossal advantages to its owner,” the author states.
He believes that in the medium term, the Russian IMF will be able to save the modernization of the remaining shipyards and the construction of new ones. “The collapse of military shipbuilding in Russia is an accomplished reality. A striking indicator of this, Obuchina believes, is the fate of surface missile cruisers of the Kirov type. “Of the four ships of this project, only one is afloat - Peter the Great. Another one should return to service by 2020 after repairs. The other two were written off due to the impossibility of repair, ”the author emphasizes.
Missile cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov"
In addition, he adds, the crisis has slashed Russia's defense budget, leaving Moscow unable to fully modernize about 70 percent of its forces by 2020. “It is likely that the money may be enough at best for half of the desires of the Russian military department, so the ambitious plans for the fleet will have to be adjusted one way or another,” the observer writes. According to him, in the context of budget cuts in the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defense, they are forced to make a difficult choice between naval and ground forces. “On paper, the Russian Navy should represent a formidable international force, but in reality it turned out to be a hostage to an unfavorable economic situation,” the author emphasizes.
However, in any case, Moscow will not skimp on nuclear power. submarine fleet Obuchina is sure. “It is in this area that the legacy of the Soviet fleet is most tangible, because even since those times, Moscow's surface forces have been only a continuation of its underwater power. Geographically, based on current geopolitical challenges, Moscow will bet on the Baltic and Black Seas, as well as on the Arctic, in which a special military district will be created by 2020,” the observer writes.
And in The Atlantic, a very funny article was published, which, however, fits into the unrelenting heat of paranoia with clear signs of insanity about alleged Russian interference in the American elections. Thus, in an article entitled "The Secret Promise Leonid Brezhnev" author Jan Lodel writes that "treacherous Russia", and then the Soviet Union, it turns out, interfered in the electoral process in the United States as early as the 1970s. “42 years ago, in 1975, at a security conference in Helsinki, Secretary General of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev promised the President Gerald Ford that Moscow will support him in the elections and will do everything to get him re-elected for a new term,” writes Laudel, who, he claims, is now the only living witness to the events of that time.
According to the author, he was on the Ford team at the conference as an arms control expert. He writes that the first meeting between the Soviet and American delegations in Helsinki took place at the US Embassy, Brezhnev and Ford were negotiating in one of the halls. “After the leaders finished, they left and walked together to the front door of the building, and then, standing next to it, exchanged, as it seemed at the time, a couple of jokes. Nobody betrayed then of great importance this casual little conversation,” Laudel recalls.
Then all the delegations gathered together in one hall, he continues, and they sat quite close to each other. “Soviet was located right in front of us,” the author notes. He claims that he did not take his eyes off Brezhnev, and at some point he reached into his pocket and pulled out some pills, and then put the package from her in an ashtray next to him. “She immediately interested me, because if we see this package, we can find out what the Soviet leader is sick with,” continues Lodel. Some time later, he writes, the Soviet leader was handed a piece of paper with a printed text. “I thought that there was information on the topic of the conference. Brezhnev first carefully read what was written there, and then simply tore the sheet into small pieces and put them in his ashtray, where the packaging of pills was already lying, ”the author emphasizes.
Leonid Brezhnev and Gerald Ford
According to Laudel, he was extremely intrigued and, after waiting for the end of the meeting and the departure of the delegations, he went to the table and poured the contents of the ashtray into his pocket. “Already at the hotel we are with a personal secretary Henry Kissinger by Peter Rodman glued scraps of paper and made an approximate translation of what was written, ”the author writes. On paper, Laudel continues, was the text of that very short conversation at the door, in which only Brezhnev, Ford, and the Soviet leader's interpreter took part. “We were amazed to see that Brezhnev declared the full support of the Soviet leadership for Ford in his desire to run. The head of the USSR directly stated that Moscow would do everything to make this happen,” the author writes.
Ford, in turn, promised Brezhnev that if he was re-elected, he would help develop US-Soviet relations and deepen détente, Laudal said. “Rodman and I thought for a long time about what to do with this paper, but due to the confidential nature of the conversation, we decided not to give it a go, but only to make a copy of the document, which I eventually put in my work file and subsequently safely forgot about it. ", - continues the author. According to him, President Ford never talked about this conversation. “The importance of this conversation is evidenced by the fact that before starting a conversation at the door, Brezhnev checked with his interpreter whether someone outside would hear their conversation, to which he assured the Soviet leader that he deliberately lowered his voice so that only the US president could hear” writes Laudel.
In other words, he concludes, 42 years ago, Brezhnev, in fact, interfered in the American elections by offering the presidential candidate unlimited assistance from the USSR. “President Donald Trump continues to deny that Moscow influenced the election process in 2016. But the case of Brezhnev and Ford suggests that the Russians have been using methods of influencing our democracy for at least 42 years,” Laudel draws a “sensational” conclusion.
Material prepared by Ivan Proshkin
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So, today it became clear: the United States was already late with the Third World War. China started the first economic. China began to "press" the dollar. How long will the "green" last? If the United States loses in the economic war to Russia and China, in Ukraine "everything will be Donbass."
China has sold more than $100 billion worth of US debt. Well sold and sold. What a wonder, think ... Even the media bypassed this news, avoiding it. However, the close ones were struck by one nuance. The speed with which Beijing said goodbye to securities: in just two weeks. Arguments on this matter vary. Some say: well, that's right. Let the States deal with their own budget deficit. It's time for Washington to make it clear that it would not hurt to moderate appetites. And then they only know that they live in debt, not really caring about whether it has become more or less. How many times has the world witnessed how the US treasury ran out of money? Do not count. And each time the ceiling of public debt, with which you can live happily ever after, rose to new heights. Now it is already more than 18 trillion dollars. And everything is not enough. Stop spoiling the dollar, it's time, they say, to support your national currency. Moreover, the time is so vague. Either the yuan is forced to devalue, or the stock markets - downhill with the breeze.
Others believe that this is an occasion for the US to think about it. And what if others, looking at China, also start to get rid of US Treasury bonds? Then bad luck to Washington. If the process accelerates, then the collapse is within easy reach. And there and the dollar sunset - over the horizon. And everyone will breathe a sigh of relief, freed from the green bondage. Yes, only this horizon, if we reach it, then in fifty years, not earlier, third parties oppose. Painfully strongly this virus has spread across the planet. Although the diagnosis is clear, no one has yet been able to prescribe an unambiguous course of treatment. Many recipes have been suggested, and so far none have worked. The Yankees cleverly arranged everything. I had enough brains for that.
After all, how is it now? By buying US debt securities, consider that you provide yourself with peace of mind and the well-being of the national economy. Because the US economy is the largest. And a lot revolves around it. And everything is calculated in dollars, wherever you look. World unit of measure. With rare exceptions. Everyone is comfortable. And it's not easy to replace them. It is necessary to think over everything in such a way that a currency appears, which will clearly be stronger. Otherwise, do not overcome.
Perhaps Beijing's attempts to get rid of Treasuries are the first steps towards a strong yuan. One more circumstance leads to these reflections. China, in addition to those 106 billion since the beginning of 2015, has sold bonds for another 107 billion dollars. Not only the amounts are striking, but also the pace. So maybe Beijing did find the recipe?.. Maybe. At least, the US Fed froze in anticipation. What else will the Celestial Empire throw out and what surprises are in store?
And the Celestial Empire "threw out" the knee - a war for world leadership: China against the United States.
Any war consists of several important stages. On the eve of war, it is planning and preparation for war. Everything is important here. The production of a material base, an increase in the army and its combat training, effective propaganda that will make it possible not to have too many cowards and traitors during the war, diverting the attention of commanders and confusing all calculations. And it is also a search for possible allies who are ready to fight with you on the same side against your enemy. And the less an ally depends on the enemy, the more reliable he will be in battle.
The war itself is also divided into two types of actions. Fights and maneuvers. The first are open clashes with the enemy in an attempt to find out who is stronger in a given local area. The second is the open and covert movement of troops, the accumulation of ammunition and other material resources at the right points, the creation of actions that divert the attention of the enemy in other directions.
All of the above is typical not only for open wars of the conventional type. The same principles can be applied to economic wars.
At the moment, the world is witnessing the beginning of an open economic war between China and the United States. Thank God, so far only economic, although the exchange of explosions does not inspire optimism at all. The reason for the war is trivial. The United States is the global leader of the outgoing era, whose main victories are in the past. And like any leader who defeated an opponent who was considered the main and most dangerous, he gave water on his laurels, having missed the emergence and development of another dangerous competitor. China is the economic leader of the era of the future, stung by the fact that its economic potential has not yet been fully realized in political influence on the world.
Please note that in this material I specifically distance myself from any issues related to the possible transformation of the entire global economic system. All consideration will be exclusively in terms and values of the current reality. This will make it possible to more clearly define the initial positions of the Parties by the beginning of the unfolding open war.
Consider the preparation stage.
China
1. Raised the economic potential in the real sector to such a level that it came out on top in terms of GDP at PPP. And this is taking into account all the "miracles" of modern statistics, which initially put him in a deliberately unequal position.
2. Created a powerful financial system based on several large banks controlled by the state. Today, there are 4 Chinese and only one American in the list of the largest banks in the world in terms of assets. And even in terms of capitalization, the result is 4:4. That is, China has "built up its muscles" to parity (at least) in the area that is the main one for the United States. And this is without taking into account the quality of assets (in favor of China).
3. Accumulated large gold reserves, including in US dollars, which is his instrument of pressure on the reliability of the US debt market. Until recently, China held more than $1.2 trillion in US Treasuries. It is actively building up gold reserves, and hides most of them on the balance sheets of commercial banks so as not to frighten the "world community". Real gold reserves in China are estimated at more than 10 thousand tons.
4. All over the world I bought a practical complete set of modern technologies with rare exceptions and actively applies them in practical production.
5. Created multi-month reserves of all strategic material resources, including energy carriers. It is a virtual world monopolist in the production of rare earth metals and actively uses this monopoly to blackmail uncompromising "partners" in the acquisition of additional modern technologies.
6. Economically subjugated Taiwan, the only real competitor in the production of mass electronic circuits. Moreover, in fact, Taiwan has already moved most of its production to the continent.
7. Created a modern high-tech army. The nuclear potential is, in principle, completely unknown, but sufficient to inflict unacceptable damage on the enemy. It is actively building up the Navy, that is, it is playing "in the clearing" in which the United States considers itself the only significant player. And although the Chinese do not have the image of strong warriors, the Americans do not have the best.
8.Financially subjugated Europe - a natural ally of the United States. Without regular injections of money into the debt market of Europe from China, it will collapse within a few weeks.
USA
1. Almost completely eliminated their material production.
2. Overloaded the balance sheets of their largest banks with illiquid derivatives and risky stock values to such an extent that without the regular participation of the Fed, they are practically incapacitated.
3. Does not have real gold reserves. Even nominal gold in Fort Knox (about 8 thousand tons) was leased to private banks, after which it disappeared in an unknown direction. The United States does not even have a real opportunity to return gold to countries that once entrusted them with its storage.
4. All developed technologies, including some of the military ones, work in the factories of China and Taiwan.
5. Of the real reserves of material resources, there is only oil, which also began to be actively sold not so long ago.
6. They missed their one of the main allies in the region - Taiwan, so much so that, according to the Pentagon's calculations, they are no longer able to protect it even by military means in the event of a conflict with China.
7. With all the ostentatious power, the army is constantly falling apart. Nuclear arsenals are falling into disrepair. In fact, the only significant force remains the Navy.
8. So much overstressed and handed over their natural allies - Europe, that any opportunity to slip out of the power of the United States will be received by Europe with a bang.
In addition to what has been said, there is another interesting thing. China is very ancient civilization and the doctrine of the art of war has been mastered by him for a very long time. Much before the USA was born. "The Art of War" dates back to the 6th-5th century BC. And although these teachings are also taught at West Point today, teaching alone is not enough. It is necessary, among other things, to have an appropriate philosophy.
Among the postulates of this doctrine are those that say that victory is achieved even before the battle. And that in order to win it is necessary to deceive the enemy. And China has deceived the United States very well. The whole world still lives in the belief that China, which keeps its gold reserves in American and European debts, and also sells a significant part of its products in the US and European markets, is actually in the position of their hired worker, incapable of rebellion for fear of losing everything available.
But this is a profound delusion, stemming from the thoughtless worship of today's fetishes. Even if China loses some of its assets, it will gain much more. It will become the only economic giant in the world. The collapse of the Western financial system will not change the situation in which China remains the sole supplier of many goods consumed by the population of America and Europe. And this is the most powerful not only economic, but also political dependence.
Of course, this is an extreme option on the verge of a "hot war". And the same China would prefer to do with softer measures, a gradual increase in its power and an equally gradual replacement of the dollar with the yuan as a reserve currency. But this does not at all cancel China's readiness for more decisive steps.
In practice, China has ALREADY moved from quietly accumulating advantages to direct pressure on the West to recognize its power and influence. This is expressed in the fact that:
1. With a large number of countries, China has entered into an agreement on mutual currency swaps, eliminating the intermediation of the dollar in mutual settlements.
2. Started issuing foreign debt denominated in yuan.
3.Announced the further purchase of oil only for yuan.
4. Prepared international financial institutions under his control that could replace the pro-American World Bank and the IMF.
5. Actively develops land transport routes to Europe, independent of the US-controlled Strait of Malacca.
6. Signed a strategic partnership agreement with Russia, providing an uncontrolled US (through the same strait) channel for the supply of energy resources.
7. Shows great economic activity in Africa and Latin America, becoming the main trading partner for many countries in the regions.
8. He began the process of decoupling the yuan from the dollar, which, through the devaluation of the yuan already carried out and planned in the future, will not only protect its competitive advantage in the manufacturing sector, but also have a plausible excuse to reduce its investments in dollars and euros. Recently, China, already under the guise of needing funds to save its stock market from collapse, has withdrawn more than $100 billion from treasuries.
9. At a rapid pace continues to accumulate gold in reserves and at the same time created the most modern infrastructure in the world for its storage and trading.
Is it any wonder that all these Chinese actions are causing real panic in the US and Europe?
And one moment. China would have behaved so resolutely if it had not been sure that the support it has from other countries of the world is quite enough to win and fully consolidate its world leadership.
And it is very symbolic that this is happening right now, when on September 2-3, China will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the victory on the Pacific front of World War II, blogger chipstone emphasizes.
So, today it became clear: the United States was already late with the Third World War. China started the first economic
The US needed the war to avoid the collapse of its own economy. But in a situation of market collapse, war will no longer help.
The United States made good money on World War II by selling weapons to all countries of the world. The Soviet Union was sold exclusively for gold. Not a single bomb fell on US soil. Now the situation is completely different. Sowing chaos and instability around the world, the United States still received a retaliatory blow. What the Americans feared most of all happened - a joint war between Russia and China against the dollar.
The pressure on China escalated sharply after May 9th. They did not like the friendly conversations in Moscow of the Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington. There was a mess in Hong Kong, which was quickly cooled down. Maneuvers in the East China Sea, finally, accidents at chemical plants.
The Chinese could no longer bear this and pulled the trigger of the First World Economic War. For which, in principle, prepared for a long time.
First, China devalued the yuan, which led to a collapse of the Shanghai Composite Index by 7.6%. Then China began to actively intervene in the foreign exchange market, using its reserves. In a short period, Beijing has sold fantastic volumes of US bonds, and this has affected bond yields.
In just two weeks, China sold more than $100 billion worth of bonds. August 24 has already been declared Black Monday. One of the oldest existing US stock indices, the Dow Jones, for the first time in its 119-year history, fell more than 200 points in four days.
At the close of stock exchanges on Tuesday, August 25, Dow Jones was again in the red zone, setting a new anti-record. For the first time in its 119-year history, the Dow Jones plunged 1089 points to 15.370, which is a new anti-record for the entire existence of this index (the previous anti-record was recorded in 2008 and amounted to 777 basis points).
Since August 19, the traditional synchronous movement of US stocks and bond yields has been disrupted. This way of life was preserved for almost 30 years, but everything changed in 1 day.
Russia and China are getting rid of US bonds for the second year. But not in a hurry. Since December 2013, the volume of treasuries owned by Russia has decreased from $149.9 billion to $86 billion, as evidenced by the results of a study by the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Since the beginning of 2015, China has sold $107 billion worth of treasury bonds. And here is such a breakthrough. For the last two weeks as for the whole year.
Large volumes of US securities make the Chinese economy dependent on the US. For the collapse of quotations hits China itself. But everyone understood that this would have to be done, so they gradually got rid of the papers. To minimize losses.
At the end of June 2015, the volume of US Treasury securities on the balance sheet of the People's Bank of China is estimated at $1.271 trillion. dollars. But by losing securities, China also lost influence on the United States. And China still decided to strike this blow. If securities are sold quickly, then they will depreciate in others, but not in you.
Therefore, China has decided to no longer catch the financial wind that blows from Washington, but to create the wind itself. Now, having made this step - it is impossible to stop. According to experts, maintaining such sales rates will allow the People's Bank of China to intervene for another 18 weeks.
Whether the US economy will withstand such a blow is unknown. More likely no than yes. The US financial system has never been hit like this before. Therefore, it is obvious that now it is too late to start a military conflict.
According to experts, with each percentage drop in the markets, the amount of necessary injections grows by about 200 billion dollars. In the ten days since August 19, the loss of capitalization of the American economy has already exceeded $1.6 trillion. And the process is almost out of control. The dollar against the euro fell by 1.5% - to 1.12 dollars per euro. Went to rise in oil prices. The Russian ruble also went up, winning back 5 rubles from the dollar at once.
In this situation, the US has to pay more attention to internal problems and curtail its external presence. Obama is practically multiplied by zero. It requires the immediate adoption of the budget and the next increase in the threshold of public debt. But this only contributes to the growth of mistrust towards the United States.
In the United States itself, distrust of both Democrats and Republicans is growing, and the ratings of the infamous Trump are suddenly growing. I wouldn't be surprised if Donald Trump becomes the next president of the United States, although it will be completely out of the ordinary. This will destroy the entire political system in the US. And the United States will not succeed in a small victorious war to save the Democratic rating in the elections. And Ukraine is not the place where the Americans could win.
It was no coincidence that Poroshenko was invited to Berlin. For him to leave his military rhetoric, because Moscow made it clear that there would be no third Minsk, but capitulation. Moreover, Moscow, as a guarantor of the Minsk agreements, which became a UN document with the light hand of Russia in the event that Kyiv uses force, now has the right to carry out an operation to enforce peace, as it did in Georgia in 2008.
And no one else will give money to Kyiv. No one. A crisis. The Russians and the Chinese could give money. But not this power and under the condition of real federalization, where the regions will receive real independence up to their own armed forces.
No one has ever disarmed the winners. Therefore, there were talks about the adoption of a new Constitution, only the current Supreme Council is clearly not capable of this. And there will be no more world war with guns and tanks.
Black Monday, August 24, 2015 has already become a kind of economic Pearl Harbor and will probably go down in history as the beginning of the first world economic war. And if the United States loses in this world economic war to Russia and China, everything will be Donbass in Ukraine.
Alexander Luzan concludes his conclusions, I have often seen such inscriptions on the walls of houses in Kyiv. They apparently wanted to give a negative meaning. And present it as a threat. But time is the main judge. And sometimes the meaning is reversed. Now it will be salvation.
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military spending major countries, primarily the US, China and Russia, continue to grow. A lot of budget funds goes to the development latest types weapons. Recently, the United States has openly stated that it considers space as a space for waging war. States are investing in drones and hypersonic technology. It is precisely such weapons that can become the main one in the third world war, if it does start. talks about the weapons of the future.
On Earth and in space
Deploying weapons in space provides almost limitless opportunities for destroying the enemy. While building missile bases on the Moon or taking an asteroid into Earth orbit and dropping it on a target sounds like science fiction today, the technology already exists to use space for warfare.
It is considered extremely promising to launch a ship with electromagnetic weapons (EMP) into low Earth orbit. An electromagnetic pulse is capable of paralyzing electrical networks and systems of command, control, communications, collection and computer processing of information, surveillance and reconnaissance C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) of the enemy.
An EMP missile launched from Earth orbit is much more difficult to intercept. Today, the United States, China, Russia, India, Japan and countries are capable of launching such weapons into space. EMR can be especially effective when used against "rogue states" (Iran and North Korea), which actually have nothing to answer.
No less promising is the deployment of directed energy weapons (laser weapons) on satellites to intercept ballistic missiles almost immediately after launch. Currently, in fact, the only space weapon can be considered maneuvering vehicles that are being tested by the United States, China and Russia, as well as numerous observation satellites.
Hypersonic cruise missiles
A feature of cruise missiles is the ability to maneuver. This allows you to evade enemy anti-missiles and extremely accurately hit the target. The main advantage of hypersonic missiles is their speed, which exceeds Mach five (more than six thousand kilometers per hour). It is extremely difficult to intercept such missiles. Hypersonic cruise missiles open up huge opportunities for the military. Such a missile is capable of hitting any target on the planet in less than an hour.
This served as the basis for the American concept of instant global strike PGS (Prompt Global Strike), developed since 2001. The military focused on the X-51A Waverider, which develops a speed of seven to eight Mach numbers, with a flight range of about two thousand kilometers and an altitude of up to thirty kilometers. It is planned to launch missiles from strategic aviation aircraft, and demonstration samples of weapons should be made in 2020.
Russia is also working on a hypersonic cruise missile. The first tests of Zircons were reported on March 17, 2016. In addition, projects in this area are being implemented in China and India.
Image: Lockheed Martin
Smart drones
Most significant event in the defense industry over the past decade - the emergence of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). With the improvement of technology, drones take on more and more functions. It is possible that drones will completely replace manned aircraft in most combat missions.
While the vast majority of UAVs need a person, we are talking primarily about remote control and monitoring of the device. Moreover, key decisions regarding the elimination of a target are currently not made at all without human participation.
For example, the search for a target and the launch of the AGM-114 Hellfire, an American air-to-ground missile with laser or radar guidance, installed since 2007 on the MQ-1 Predator drone, requires human participation. However, UAVs will soon become fully autonomous.
This is due to the progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Such systems will be able to independently make decisions concerning, among other things, life and death. This is exactly what scientists and businessmen mean by regularly reminding them of the dangers of uncontrolled development of AI.
Autonomous UAVs, endowed with the most advanced AI, will be able to work for a long time, and, if necessary, make an instant decision. The party to the conflict, which has such weapons, will receive a key advantage over the rest of the participants in hostilities. This is well understood in the US, China, EU countries and Russia.
“Artificial intelligence is not only the future of Russia, it is the future of all mankind. There are colossal opportunities and threats that are difficult to predict today,” the President of the Russian Federation said on September 1, 2017 at the Projectoria forum. In his opinion, "whoever becomes a leader in this area will be the ruler of the world."
Last Arguments
Promising types of new weapons also include stealth aircraft using stealth technology, railguns that accelerate a projectile electromagnetic field, and kinetic weapons operating from space. Nuclear weapon will also not lose relevance, remaining the last argument in the war of the future, but large and expensive military submarines are likely to lose their special significance. They are becoming easier to detect with small, inexpensive drones.
The academician voiced a long-known truth: without support fundamental science the potential for applied research is limited in time and eventually exhausted, as a result of which the country becomes technologically dependent on other states. “If we do not have the results of fundamental science, then our production and applied science will have to purchase the results of fundamental research abroad. And there, excuse me, they will sell not modern at all. We need the modern ourselves. They will sell what is out of need, ”Sergeev believes.
