reply to post by Iago18
And while all of this is going on the BBC are reporting on the Royal Mail strike and the sale of Vauxhall and Opel to Magna. Oh, and that pesky Obama
speech.
It doesn't even deserve a mention on the BBC news website. Curious, considering almost every move Russia makes is reported and commented on by the
BBC usually.
How America stands in this situation is anyone's guess, they like to pretend to be "sensible" by making demands about settlements and the
harassment of Palestinians, but in action they prop-up the Israeli war machine.
It's all smoke and mirrors, as long as the people think you're doing good, you can sell all the arms you like through the back door without causing
much fuss. Especially when the MSM is on your payroll to look the other way.
Ultimately, nothing might come of this. Various leaders have such meetings all around the world at various times. When they all get together for a G20
or G8 meeting, do you not think they sequester an odd hotel room here or there at three in the morning to discuss something they don't want others to
know about?
Of course they do.
There are intelligence communities in operation 24 hours a day. We have spies everywhere, we monitor communications, we bug rooms and send satellites
to watch movement... there is an entire industry in all our countries built on the knowledge that governments do things they don't want other
governments to know about, for defence, strategy, financial benefit...
The reasons this is significant though are as follows...
1. When governments make a meeting secret, it usually stays that way for the duration of any scenario. If the info is "leaked" it is not likely to
be an accident, it's through sabotage or a deliberate act of espionage. This means that someone (likely a nation with a spy somewhere they
shouldn't) decided that it was in their strategic interest to leak this meeting.
Any offers?
2. This is Israel and Russia. Say no more.
3. It is now widely accepted that either Russia or China are about to take the lead globally. Now would be the right time to solidify an alliance.
China is not making any moves other than financial, whereas Russia has been making increasingly bold military moves in various directions for the last
eight or nine years.
However we analyse this, if it does lead to war it probably won't be clear to us for another fifty years exactly what this meeting meant.
Having said that, it certainly shouldn't be dismissed as nothing simply because we don't know the details of it.
You can guarantee that there are teams of people in the UK, USA, China, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, Poland... all now convening in closed rooms to
discuss the intelligence they themselves have gathered (and likely discussing between nations too), what it means, what they could have discussed,
what their plan is, what it will mean for each nation, how best to deal with it, what to tell their own people... That's their job. To them this will
be significant.
People should now be watching their own media to see what happens over the next few weeks in relation to national defence. If this is viewed as a
pre-war meeting, I'd expect to see Britain quietly announcing plans to improve defences, increase energy independence, and suggestions of military
improvement/expansion. I'll bet any money over the next few weeks or maybe a month or two Gordon Brown will pull a U-turn on cutting defence
budgets.
The G20 meeting will allow for a lot of discussion behind closed doors, so I would expect to see some military comments after that.
I very much doubt any nation is simply disregarding this meeting as "nothing". Because even with the very basic intelligence we have it is certainly
something.