April 14, 2010
From Russia with Love: Death in a Box
Chet Nagle
Media ignore the disasters, praying they will go away, but two effects of White House foreign policy are already on display this week. Traffic jams caused by Washington’s ballyhooed “Nuclear Summit” are missing two motorcades. It seems that Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have something better to do than meet with the Obama administration. Oh dear.
Why are such important leaders uninterested? Mr. Brown’s parliament officially noted the Obama administration has killed the “special relationship” (and Brown didn’t need any more DVDs); Mr. Netanyahu didn’t want to be sent home without dinner again. Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s Dear Leader, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran were simply too busy making nuclear weapons to take time out for any “Nuclear Summit.”
But the White House soldiers on anyway, heedless of these unfortunate setbacks. After all, there is that wonderful Nuclear Policy Review in which the Obama administration promises they will not nuke any nation that attacks the United States with biological or chemical weapons, as long as the attacker has signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. What a relief for Iran, Syria, and Islamic terrorists everywhere! And then there is the new START treaty with Russia that the White House plans to use to eviscerate our nuclear arsenal. Fortunately, an event took place that should help the Senate decide whether or not to ratify START; a Russian company just announced they are ready to sell a deadly new cruise missile system on the global market – the Club-K Container Missile System.
What is it? Simple. It is four cruise missiles and a launch system packaged in a standard 40-foot shipping container. These are the containers you see on ships in every major harbor, on railroad flatcars, and rolling down our highways on flatbed trucks. The graphic below shows a small commercial ship, like hundreds of such vessels near American shores right now. This one has a Club-K container on board. You can see that the top of the container has folded open, and the four missiles are erected in their launch tubes. If that image does not make your skin crawl, then go to the Russian company website and watch a video that shows the system in action.
Click here for the company website, or you can see the short video directly here.
The animated movie shows the Club-K System in action. To the strains of “Born Free,” a beautiful nation of palm trees and beaches is seen loading shipping containers on ships, trains, and trucks to be sent to a nearby country. The neighbor is shown in somber shades of gray. Once they arrive at the launch positions the shipping containers open, the cruise missiles are boosted out of the launch tubes and travel hundreds of miles to destroy the gray neighbor’s tanks, planes and ships. The missiles shown in the video are armed with conventional warheads, not nuclear weapons. But what if they were carrying nuclear warheads? And what if, in a different movie, just one of those containers was put on a commercial ship that was sent to our Atlantic coast? Or to our Pacific coast, or the Gulf, or the Great Lakes? To find it, the Coast Guard and Navy would have to be very lucky indeed. But there is an even worse scenario.
In support of his various policy reviews, treaties, and summits, the Obama administration says the most dangerous threat facing the world today is terrorists armed with nuclear weapons. But the likelihood of terrorists building or even stealing an atomic bomb is remote. It is much easier for them to get anthrax, nerve gas, or radioactive dust from spent nuclear power plant fuel rods. With the pin point accuracy of a single Club-K Container Missile System they could easily kill tens of thousands of Americans, and make the hearts of four major cities uninhabitable for decades. It is likely we would not know who fired the missiles until long after Americans died. We might never know who did it, especially if the attackers sank the small cargo ship right after launching the attack.
The jihad warriors of Islam are planning to kill Jews and Christians and all infidels who do not submit to Shariah law. They tell us that every day. Perhaps one of them is in Moscow right now, walking into number 29 Entuziastov Avenue. The sales manager of Concern Morinformsystem-Agat will be happy to show him the latest model of the Club-K system.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing editor Chet Nagle is a Naval Academy graduate and Cold War carrier pilot who flew in the Cuban Missile Crisis. After a stint as a navy research officer, he joined International Security Affairs as a Pentagon civilian – then came defense and intelligence work, life abroad for 12 years as an agent for the CIA, and extensive time in Iran, Oman, and many other countries. Along the way, he graduated from the Georgetown University Law School and was the founding publisher of a geo-political magazine, The Journal of Defense & Diplomacy, read in over 20 countries and with a circulation of 26,000. At the end of his work in the Middle East, he was awarded the Order of Oman in that allied nation’s victory over communist Yemen; now, he writes and consults. He and his wife Dorothy live in Virginia.
Great timing on nuclear climb down from the great Commander in Chief. While Russia plays along for global PR purposes with the new Messiah's latest disarmament claptrap, it is up to its tricks. Boy how those guys must laugh in the Kremlin. Look at Russian history...this tactic is nothing new. No wonder Israel is keeping well clear of Obama... fortunately they do smell the coffee.
posted by: malcolm cowing
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 09:18 AM
We'd better all get right with our Maker.
posted by: glee
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM
This bunch are masters of kabuki- and masterbaiters at national security. God save us from this lunatic-- Hurry, November-- Adios dems, and Obamabegone in '12
posted by: WH Kurz
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Surely anyone not gauging events through a hallucinatory prism understands the grave perils western civilization is facing, particularly at a time where the leader of the Free World is busy genuflecting before world tyrants.
It may very well be the case that Israel, through its 'do or die' pre-emption of Iran, will brink the west back from the brink.
My point being, once Iran is given a thorough smack down, it will very likely take the tailwind out of many other Islamofascists who are bent on killing us-at least for a VERY long while!
posted by: Adina Kutnicki, Israel
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10:32 AM
If the present administration doesn't change course and wake up to the harsh realities of this unstable world, then I'm afraid we in the US are all at serious peril of not only losing our country, but of losing our lives to the muslim extremists and jihadists.
posted by: Bob
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 12:02 AM
So when are we going to wake up and impeach Obama and remove him from office?
posted by: Kay
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 03:32 PM
P.S. Go to impeachobamacampaign.com if you have had enough.
posted by: Kay
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 03:34 PM
Strategically the planners of 9/11 failed because the Capitol Building wasn't taken out killing as many Congressmen and Senators as they could while they did take out the US Naval Command Center cutting off all communications with US Naval assets around the world.
The entire top of the Polish government just got taken out, I suspect because they didn't go along with the EU's global warming carbon tax agenda.
Now Russia is heating up. This leads me to think we've got Cold War II brewing here and this time missiles are hot.
posted by: Sherlock
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 06:56 PM
We are no match for Vlad the Impaler. All attempts by both President Bush and President Obama are like kid's play in the lion's den. We are outsmarted, outclassed and outmaneuvered all the time. Is anyone - especially the dopes in Washington - really surprised that this missile system is available on the open market?
posted by: Myra Conklin
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 08:31 AM
WOW - everyone needs to see that video! Horrifying in its implications. If for no other reason than to educate yourself about what we are up against, watch the video! No wonder Bush and Obama are runnig neck and neck in polls now - at least Bush had b**ls and people are beginning to realize, we need him back.
posted by: Bill Foster
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 10:30 AM
Please forward Chet's missives to everyone as we need to be educated in the realities of terrorist agendae. We applaud his intelligence and courage in reporting the consequences of apathetic, victimized, oppressed "fundamentalist liberalism" or a leftist pedogagy of oppression.
posted by: Suzanna Cody, PhD
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 11:13 PM
This is already a situation of knowing the weapon is available and being totally incapable of doing much about it. Unless, of course, there's a serious 'November' change in Washington DC. At some point common sense must prevail in the handling of tyrants who threaten friends and when nukes are involved and ship carrying launch pads are available, home security giveaways and delicate diplomacy must make room for swift Kennedy-like action. I almost wish I had not seen that company video. I have new thoughts tonight.
posted by: 2old4this
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 11:34 PM
Obamageddon is on its way.
posted by: Roy Mc
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 04:19 PM
