Dramatic Escalation of Tensions in the New Cold War

On September 3, 2020 three U.S. Air Force B-52 nuclear bombers skirted the Crimean peninsula, brushing right up against Russian air space. The Russian military responded by launching eight fighter jets to intercept and escort the bombers away from Russian air space. Also lurking in the area were several US and UK intelligence-gathering planes and ships, apparently analyzing Russia's radar and air defenses over Crimea, as well as their response. This comes one day after NATO called an emergency meeting of all its member states to discuss a possible move against Russia, a meeting at which they concluded that so-called Russian "opposition leader" Alexei Navalny was poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok, concurring with the statements of German doctors who treated Navalny. That incident, of course, came on the heels of the United States sanctioning the Russian Defense Ministry Research Institute for its work in developing a Covid-19 vaccine and is now culminating with a push to break Germany away from Russia's Nordstream 2 pipeline project.

What a mess. And what an increasingly dangerous series of provocations. It can hardly be considered a surprise though as Mike Pompeo earlier this summer declared that the United States will "do everything" in its power to stop Nordstream 2. While the pressure is being applied to Germany to break their agreement with Russia over the Navalny poisoning, the big question becomes what really happened to Navalny and what does sanctioning Russia over the development of a coronavirus vaccine have to do with it?

In the West there is great distrust over Bill Gates and his coronavirus vaccine and with good reason. Gates has advocated for reducing the global population by 10-15% to reduce co2 emissions through new vaccines, healthcare and reproductive services (abortions) (see this link, 4:10-4:27: https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero#t-269275). Gates is not even a scientist or a doctor yet suddenly he's an expert on vaccines and vaccinations. To throw a spanner in the works of a potential global vaccine program, Russia actually banned Bill Gates and all Microsoft products in October 2016, with Gates also being placed on a Federal Security Services watchlist in that country due to "concerns over security and reliability".

The fact then that Russia appears as if it will be the first in the world to develop a Covid-19 vaccine must enrage the West to a ridiculous extent, hence the clearly jealous sanctions placed on the Russian Defense Ministry Institute for helping create it. But there's more. The Russian vaccine clearly has some things going for it that the US vaccine doesn't: 1. Bill Gates is not involved. 2. The Russian Government has already let it be known that their vaccine will not be mandatory to continue normal life, unlike the US vaccine which is heavily tied to ID 2020 (www.id2020.org, an organization partnered with Microsoft.) 3. Early peer reviews of the Russian vaccine show that it does produce an immune response and has no side effects. The purchase of this vaccine by other countries would greatly upset any "New World Order"-style plans to mass vaccinate the global population with a specific formula.

With the vaccine agenda facing this new problem, the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny becomes the next step. Despite the assertions of Western media, Navalny is not an opposition leader in Russia, nor is he all that popular. With only 2% public support among Russians and no seats in the Duma, Navalny is the furthest thing from opposition you will ever find and he certainly poses no threat to Putin, the Kremlin, or any other powers that be. What little public support he has gained has been from anti-corruption activities, yet even many of his supporters admit being disturbed by his intense racism - not just towards those of a different skin color but against anyone who is not Slavic. On August 20, 2020, Navalny fell ill on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Omsk where he was rushed to a hospital. Navalny's spokeswoman afterwards said that Navalny had fallen into a coma and had only drank tea at a cafe at the airport in Tomsk, suggesting his beverage must have been tampered with. Other sources allege that Navalny had spent the entire night before drinking moonshine with friends and then drank several energy drinks the next morning. Navalny, being diabetic, then went into diabetic shock. Whether this is true or not, some legitimate questions do arise: 1. If the state or Putin had poisoned Navalny, why was he allowed to be flown out of the country? 2. How would the state or Putin know where Navalny was, what airport he would be flying from, what cafe in the airport he would be stopping at and at what time in order to poison his tea? 3. Why wasn't the scene of the crime or the cup Navalny drank from analyzed and investigated? Why weren't employees at the airport cafe questioned? These should have been the first things to happen.

Doctors in Russia claimed to find no traces of poison in Navalny's system, yet doctors in Germany claimed he had been poisoned by Novichok, the same substance the Skripals allegedly were poisoned with in London in 2018, the nerve agent so toxic that saying the very name of it out loud would kill a thousand people instantly, yet that failed to kill the three people poisoned with it in the past two years. The coronavirus of the poison world. Had Navalny actually been poisoned by this substance, most everyone he came in contact with would likely be dead, yet like the Skripals the details don't fit the narrative. Now the Skripals have been disappeared, their intended purpose served (attempting to sabotage the FIFA World Cup in Russia). Will Navalny now also be disappeared? Either way, the screws are being put to Germany to leave the Nordstream agreement with Russia and we're all waiting to see the outcome. Mike Pompeo's declaration to stop the pipeline may prove to be more prophetic than anyone at the time realized.

Now this insanity of B-52 bombers buzzing the Crimean peninsula, one day after NATO declares that Russia must answer for Navalny, and the intelligence gathering of Russia's radar, communications and defense response near that region. Why would anyone want that information unless one were looking for a weak point or a blind spot? This is not simply the usual harassment that we've seen before. This is an insanely dangerous escalation and what appears to be the preparation for an irreversibly reckless action. With the Open Skies treaty canned and more and more missile systems treaties between the US and Russia being thrown out the door, we are inching closer and closer to a point of no return.