tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126505819071547839.post8936680476165666071..comments2023-09-14T08:16:53.465-07:00Comments on Lawrence Helm's Blog: Britain as SuperpowerLawrence Helmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05215801232171928120noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126505819071547839.post-76481743343012666742009-08-13T18:10:06.915-07:002009-08-13T18:10:06.915-07:00Anonymous,
See response at http://www.lawrencehel...Anonymous,<br /><br />See response at http://www.lawrencehelm.com/2009/08/britain-commonwealth-as-superpower-sans.html <br /><br />LawrenceLawrence Helmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05215801232171928120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126505819071547839.post-44311112520427718062009-08-12T12:01:27.691-07:002009-08-12T12:01:27.691-07:00Britain's military is as well trained and equi...Britain's military is as well trained and equipped as either the United States, Russia, or China. <br /><br />Yes our armed forces are smaller, as is our population, but in a crisis, Britain has many friends. If Britain was in peril you can practically guarantee the support of much of the commonwealth, many of whom share equipment and routinely conduct shared military exercises. Even today the British Army draws a significant proportion of its recruits from the commonwealth, and even Ireland.<br /><br />Britain has fought for or alongside many countries in the past and these may also offer it military support, Poland and France(though Sarkosy seems to have forgot about Britains role in WW2, and the United States may feel obliged to repay the debt of support we have given them.<br /><br />Few countries in Eurasia, China or Iran would willingly support Russia against any significant threat unless they themselves were directly threatened. Eurasia makes all the right noises to Russia at the moment, but they would all gain from a weaker Russia. Chinas policy of growing economically without rocking the boat is working to well to get involved in Russian sabre rattling. <br /><br />All that said I would rather the world powers competed in space and for the future rather than compete over old territorities and historical disputes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126505819071547839.post-56476522257753592632009-06-19T13:10:12.705-07:002009-06-19T13:10:12.705-07:00Lawrence,
I struggled to comprehend which country...Lawrence,<br /><br />I struggled to comprehend which country (apart from Britain) the Anonymous considered to be a second superpower, but I failed.<br />Indeed, mostly he sounds rather inadequate.<br />So, I do not feel like having a discussion with him.<br /><br />I have re-read my older comments on your blog and found that, actually, I have already expressed all what I could.<br /><br />From time to time I visit your blog and continue to consider it interesting. <br />Sometimes your materials sound funny, e.g. the childish thesis about how General Frost defeated both Napoleon and Hitler. <br />It's very funny ha-ha!<br /><br />Some other materials sound extremely revelatory and explicitly self-exposing.<br />For example, I quote your words:<br /><i>"So, yes we are hard-wired for war, as the anthropologists tell us, but not in a blind way. We calculate, and if the odds are against us, or if there is no advantage in moving ahead with an attack, then we refrain. We don’t do it. And we see that we don’t have to do it . . . [although, when attacking Iraq] The risks of retaliation were low."</i><br /> <br />For us Russians, the American idea, expressed by you, <b>to attack only those weak who could not strike back</b> sounds unexpectedly too much <b>self-disgraceful.</b><br /><br />If, some fifteen or so years ago, I had read (but I had not) such phrases anywhere in our Russian press, I would have immediately concluded it to be a dirty piece of sheer anti-American commie's propaganda.<br /><br />But I do strongly believe that you personally are neither a Communist, nor an anti-American activist.<br />Hence, Lawrence, I feel very much amazed with your revelations.<br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />Michael<br />http://www.russian-victories.ruMichael Kuznetsovhttp://www.russian-victories.runoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126505819071547839.post-5275839945577980632009-06-19T07:04:18.095-07:002009-06-19T07:04:18.095-07:00Lawrence, Britain IS a superpower. It is one of 2 ...Lawrence, Britain IS a superpower. It is one of 2 superpowers left in the world, the other being NOT United States. US is being controlled through various "international" organizations such as United Nations, CFR, and various sects of Freemasonry - like Skull and Bones. None of what's been going on in America is actually benefiting american people, so I don't think it is a superpower - it is a SUPERCONSUMER. And that's about to change.<br /><br />Now, about Russia. Russia since 1917 has been controlled by 2 most powerful organizations in the world, control going from one to the other. Russia has no its own production base, most factories need western production lines and tools to do its job. Military research and technology is often being "shared" between the power nations. After Perestroyka, Russia basically destroyed its productional and educational base, and now is a third-world country with nuclear veapons that depends on natural resources to survive - which is what western communists and socialists need.<br /><br />As far as Michael Kuznetsov's comments - there's way more than 1 country that can resist nuclear strike - Britain and China, for instance. But there won't be a full-size nuclear war, ever. As far as "Pentagon's secret policy to destruct Russia"...He-he my tovarish, you should stoup listening to russian propaganda and start using your brain. US has been secretly spending BILLIONS financing various Russian projects since revolution. West is buying russian resources, which it needs to continue its "consummerism" strategy. God will help Russia indeed, if it'll stop paying tribute to various masonic and financial cliques that are controlling its destiny. Think you have what it takes? Well then, I am all for russian ruble being the part of the world's top currency. But what I see now is Russia submitting to EURO, and that is not a superpower's move.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126505819071547839.post-4227495598518805602009-03-06T12:49:00.000-08:002009-03-06T12:49:00.000-08:00Lawrence,I offer here a few quotes from William En...Lawrence,<BR/><BR/>I offer here a few quotes from William Engdahl, and some of my thoughts, for your possible interest:<BR/><BR/>“While still ostensible allies, during the World War II the United States started to prepare for war with the Soviet Union. In the summer of <B>1945</B>, at the time of the Conference in Potsdam, <B>the United States had secretly adopted a policy of ’striking the first blow’ in a nuclear war against the Soviet Union.</B> To that effect a secret document JCS 1496 was drafted on July 19, 1945. The first plan for nuclear attack was drafted soon afterwards by General Dwight Eisenhower at the order of President Truman.<BR/><BR/>The plan, called TOTALITY (JIC 329/1), envisioned a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union with 20 to 30 Atomic-bombs. <B>It earmarked 20 Soviet cities for obliteration in a first strike:</B> Moscow, Gorki, Kuibyshev, Sverdlovsk, Novosibirsk , Omsk, Saratov, Kazan, Leningrad , Baku, Tashkent, Chelyabinsk, Nizhni Tagil, Magnitogorsk, Molotov, Tbilisi, Stalinsk, Grozny, Irkutsk, and Jaroslavl. Detailed in Michio Kaku and Daniel Axelrod, To Win a Nuclear War: The Pentagon's Secret War Plans, Boston, South End Press, 1987, pp. 30-31. The secret Pentagon strategy since the end of the Cold War to use modernization of its nuclear strike force and deployment of missile defense technology is but a modern update of a policy established in 1945 — Full Spectrum Dominance of the world, via the destruction of the only power capable of resisting that dominance — Russia.”<BR/><BR/>http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10062 <BR/><BR/>“The pressures of an increasingly desperate US foreign policy are forcing an unlikely ‘coalition of the unwilling’ across Eurasia. The potentials of such Eurasian cooperation between China, Kazakhstan, Iran are real enough and obvious. The missing link, however, is the military security that could make it invulnerable or nearly, to the sabre-rattling from Washington and NATO. <B>Only one power on the face of the earth has the nuclear and military base and know-how able to provide that — Vladimir Putin’s Russia. The Russian Bear sharpens its nuclear teeth . . .”</B><BR/><BR/>http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Putin/putin.html <BR/><BR/>End of quotation.<BR/><BR/><B>Which is why I call my country Russia a Superpower.</B><BR/><BR/>As to the numbers of soldiers . . . I am convinced that what matters is not the QUANTITY but QUALITY.<BR/><BR/>For example, Israel has been successfully pitting against the innumerable Arab enemies surrounding it with the ratio 1 to 40. Imagine: ONE to FORTY! Nevertheless, the Arabs can never defeat the Jews. This is because of the Israeli soldiers' very high QUALITY. They are made of “different stuff” than their Arab adversaries.<BR/><BR/>The Russian soldier is the best in the world. We are made of different stuff than that of our potential adversaries. By my calculations we can gather an army of 30 million Russian MEN. Not women, of course! It is sheer misogyny to send women overseas to kill and be killed!<BR/><BR/>As long ago as in October 2007, as you may remember, our President said: <B>“Why worsen the situation and bring it to a dead end by threatening sanctions or military action?"</B> Putin asked. <B>“Running around like a madman with a razor blade, waving it around, is not the best way to resolve the situation.”</B><BR/><BR/>We Russians do absolutely agree with our President. To stop the madman who is approaching our throat with a razor blade we need a very good, big and reliable nuclear club.<BR/> <BR/>So, I regret to say that soon all of us, the Russians and the Westerners are most likely to see with our own eyes “who is made of what stuff”, including each nation’s resilience and the capability to arise from the ashes after the all-out thermonuclear devastation.<BR/> <BR/>We believe that with the Lord God’s help we Russians shall arise again as it happened always in our long history.<BR/>We the Russian people are like a stone, like a single monolith, like one colossal organism. At the same time the West is made of individuals separated like grains of sand. Moreover, we Russians trust in God and rely upon His Divine mercy towards us, while the Westerners have sunk in their godless sins and abominations like sodomy, etc., etc., etc. <BR/><BR/>God seeth everything. We fear no one on earth but only the Lord God in heaven. Which is why Holy Russia is invincible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-126505819071547839.post-45953187540014233782009-03-06T02:08:00.000-08:002009-03-06T02:08:00.000-08:00Hey Lawrence-Completely off topic but in a previou...Hey Lawrence-<BR/><BR/>Completely off topic but in a previous blog you mention a grandfather William Leander Sparks from Adams County, Illinois. I'm related to WLS through his second wife, Elizabeth Elwood. Would be interested in corresponding with you.<BR/><BR/>colin_murphy@sbcglobal.netColin Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15776245513152528227noreply@blogger.com