Chronicles of the Dark Messiah: Prologue & Chapter 1

PROLOGUE


The thirty or so warriors that remained of the Tribe of the White Elk stood proudly and defiantly, regardless of the fact that they were all that was left of their once mighty tribe. Many carried the tell tale wounds of battle. Their women and children huddled together behind them. Some of the children and younger women whimpered or sobbed, somewhere a baby wailed. The rest of their people stood in silent defiance like their men. All knew what was about to descend upon them. They had just spurred the final offer of the so-called Khan to integrate them into his new confederacy.

The White Elk had been a proud and powerful tribe that had kept its independence for generations through the strength of its warriors. But a mere day ago, that had all been undone. The tides of battle had gone against them as the upstart youngster who called himself a Khan, had wielded a mystic blade of great power against them. The survivors had tried to make a run for the far northern mountains but had been over taken. Now this small valley would see their final, futile stand and serve as their grave.

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“What have they to say to my generous offer?” Abtu asked, seated on his plains pony, the Myst Blade upon his lap. The young Hekesh warrior was growing his first true mustache and he scratched it often, almost with no thought. Though his face was that of a youngster, his eyes belayed that fact. They were deep and authoritative. The Khan’s gaze pierced into men, making them squirm and look away. There was an almost fevered drive in them.

“They do not accept. They wish to fight,” said the older warrior, serving as the young would-be Khan’s steward. The family resemblance between nephew and uncle was startling. “Should I give the order to attack?”

Abtu gave his uncle a cross look. “Is that, dear uncle, any way to address your Khan?” Abtu’s hand absent-mindedly caressed his blade. The tingle of its magik ran through his fingers. He had always been ambitious and had known that he would climb far, but even his wildest imagination had never dreamt of what the Sword had given him.

“My apologies…neph…my Khan, how could I have forgotten?” the man did little to hide his sarcasm.

“Very well, give the order to attack. Spare no one, not even the women. We shall make an example of the White Elk Tribe for all the other Hekesh tribes to learn. They can join or face extermination. At least all will not be lost with this waste.”

The other bowed shallowly and rode off to pass on the Khan’s order. Abtu’s eyes followed his uncle closely. Under his breath he said to himself. “And as for you uncle, you too shall make an example of the discipline I demand of others.”

CHAPTER I


What made Sarnin’s Thousand so
dangerous is that each one was
a man with no hope, seeking only
the glorious death.
Milthanous Diaries

4 Marte AE 514

Adarian wiped the icy rain from his eyes with his left hand, the leather gauntlet was soaked through. With his other hand he gripped the reins of his chestnut while hunkering further down in his cloak. Water ran down his soaked through leather breeches filling his boots. Adarian had already stopped and emptied them thrice. Adarian was thoroughly miserable and it was only midmorning. He shuddered uncontrollably as the wind blew his oiled cloak up and rain pelted his tuniced back.

Glancing about, Adarian eyed the hills and trees that spread about him, with suspicion. The Urgi Hills were not known for the hospitality of their inhabitants. The Urgi Hills were located between Melik and Lserria forming a natural barrier between the civilized lands of Melik, its neighbors Vavitica and Tusin and the tribal Lserr.

The hills were a no man’s land inhabited by brigands, humanoids, and renegades. They were also a breeding place for beast of all types, both mundane and magical. As a sight, however, their dangerous nature could easily be over looked. The terrain was mostly rolling forested hills. Occasional rock outcropping belayed the Urgi Hills true nature. They were all that remained of the once powerful peaks that crossed the land here. The weather was usually very moist providing for a rich canopy. At the southwestern edge of the Hills lay the heavy forest of Ok-Met-Ruyk. It was believed to be the true source of many of the beasts that made their way into the Hills and beyond.

This was the perfect place for what Adarian sought. The North Coast Lands had been to quiet recently, ever since the Second Bhorrgoh Wars had ended. Adarian smiled to himself, running his left thumb over the jagged scar under his left eye. The Second Bhorrgoh Wars had ended two years prior and to Adarian’s grief, he had found himself out of a job as General of the Sued Armies. He had also lost the chance for what he truly sought. The glory of the battle was now denied him. There were other places where he could go. The Inner Sea Lands were always a hot bed of turmoil.

Rounding a huge, two-story rock out cropping of leach covered granite, Adarian found himself looking down upon a serene valley. Tall aspens, just starting to turn green covered much of the ground and a creek, swollen by the melting snow, ran down its center. Despite the dismal weather Adarian found it beautiful, though he wasted little deep thought upon it. Another Adarian, a much younger Adarian, would have thought deeply upon such splendor, but that man was no more. The rain suddenly slackened and the clouds temporarily parted, causing Adarian to smile in relief. It had thankfully been an early spring.

It was then that he noticed the Smovona box wagon that sat in a small clearing in the valley’s heart, some six hundred paces below. The nomad folk were little danger, except maybe to one’s purse, that is if one was not careful of its whereabouts. It was rumored that these people harbored a secret so deep that it could shatter the Inner Sea Lands and for that reason they were bound to their nomadic life. Adarian paid such legends little heed, meant to scare small children.
The Smovona had come across with the others in the Great Exodus, some five centuries past. Unlike the other peoples who came to these barbaric lands, bringing with them the laws and ways of civilization, the Smovona had returned to the more primitive state of nomads. However they were not hunter-gatherers like so many of the local peoples had been. Now they traveled as entertainers, storytellers and purse pickers. It was quite evident to the perceptive mind, however, that some deeper purpose drove them. These secrets were never told to outsiders, and Adarian had his suspicions, even to most of the common Smovona.

The rain had slackened off and a break in the clouds allowed the sun to peak through ever so quickly, like an arrant child afraid of being punished if caught.

Adarian prepared to ride down the soft hillside when a glint of sunlight reflecting off of metal caught his eye. Adarian stopped, looking closely. He could make out figures moving about. One was clutching something long and thin, and obviously metallic. It was the reflection off of this that had caught his attention. With an over the head swing, the wielder brought it down on to another figure, felling it. A sword! From what he could see, there were probably six or more armed figures down there. A sane man would surely turn away. Who ever accused Adarian of sanity was a fool, and probably a dead fool at that.

Guiding the chestnut down the hill and through the aspens, Adarian made his way to the edge of the clearing. The soft, wet, moss covered ground silenced his approach. The whole of the way down he prepared for battle. The oiled cloth came off of his large round shield, its symbol of Adros shining brightly on the blue gray steel. Adros’ lion and dragon heads faced outwardly portraying the guardian god’s vicious strength for all to see. Once Adarian had been one of the god’s Protectors, cherished in the North for the safety they brought to those around them. Adarian had been the greatest of these, a man of whom legends had been spun, often much more embroidered then the truth.

Adarian spit at these memories. He winced at the cracked skin of his lower lip. Those times were past. He had walked away from his god, though the god seemed to continue to pursue him. Why else had the markings of Adros not faded?

The large double crossbow, also of steel, sat in the crook of his right arm. He
had had it made especially to his instruction during the last great Murghe uprising. The weapon was deadly, able to pierce a steel breastplate at a thousand paces. Only a man of considerable strength could hope to reset the steel bowstrings, even with the use of the pulley and lever.
Mentally Adarian inventoried his various swords and daggers.

In the clearing before him the brigands were busy. A young Smovona man lay on the ground, beside the colorful box wagon, his pale, lifeless skin in sharp contrast to the colorful and conflicting outfit that he wore. His blood flowed from the jagged slash at the base of his throat. It fed the new spring grass. Another Smovona man stood against the side of the wagon, pinned to it by a broken javelin in his right shoulder. His bright green silk shirt was turning dark with blood. His eyes were blank, shock was setting in.

A brigand dressed in ragged furs stood guarding him, holding a bronze tipped spear. The small bow legged man’s attention was, however, not on his charge, least he would have spotted Adarian. Instead the man was watching his seven friends who were gathered around the three Smovoni women who were laid out in a row for the brigands’ pleasure. Three of the brigands were on top of the women, using them.

Bile rose up into Adarian’s mouth, he pushed it back down. No matter how many times he had seen it, it still made him sick. Even his cynical self recoiled at the sight of man’s bestiality toward man. While a younger Adarian might have wished to find a solution to this, a way to placate the evil beast in man, this Adarian wished only to destroy it with all the violence he could muster. He could muster much violence. He would crush these men like the insignificant insects that they were.

Placing his steel and leather half helm over his head, Adarian lifted the crossbow to his shoulder and took aim.

With a high pitched twang the first bolt was loosened. Without seeing the results, Adarian redirected his aim and loosened the second. The first foot long bolt buried itself in the guard’s neck, with such force that it actually snapped the vertebrae. With barely a gurgle the man collapsed. The Smovona only stared in shocked disbelief. The second bolt planted itself in the shoulder of the left rapist, smashing the shoulder blade. The man fell on top of his victim, screaming and thrashing, unable to reach the bolt stuck in his back.

The brigands stood, for a moment, in disbelief before starting for their weapons. It was all the time that Adarian needed. Kicking his horse in the flanks, he charged. A fierce throat wrenching war cry escaped his lips. The long Erdorian sword went singing out of its scabbard. The red sapphires that were the eyes of the lion and dragonheads of the pommel glowed in red flames, while the blade itself shimmered in an unearthly green glow. Once more that blade would taste blood.

The chestnut slammed into the first two men, crushing one man’s skull with a hoof. The other fell and rolled, drawing two daggers as he came up in one smooth move. A third man came charging onto Adarian’s left, his battle scream drawing Adarian’s deadly attention. The large burly, fur clad brigand wielded a huge battle-ax raised over his head to strike. It’s curved and pitted blade promised only death.

Without thought Adarian swung. His sword gave a high pitched hum as it sliced through the battle-axe’s blade, showering red sparks. It ended its flight at the base of the man’s neck, having passed through his head. With a heave Adarian freed his blade, as its victim’s lifeless body collapsed, blood fountaining out. The reverse swing caught the second brigand, severing his right arm at the elbow. The dagger fell harmlessly to the ground. Adarian spared but a second on the man who was now on his knees screaming and grasping the knob that had been his arm.
The remaining three uninjured men had formed a semi circle around Adarian. Two were armed with crude stone tipped spears, the third with a rusty broad sword. The forth man, his pants now up, stood behind them. His left hand clumsily held a short sword of Atherin design, its cross guard almost non-existent. The man’s right arm hung uselessly at his side, the bolt still protruding from his back. His bearded face was set in rage.

“Well what’r you maggots waiting for?” he yelled out, spittle showering through his broken, blackened teeth and hanging in his beard. The others ignored their leader, eyeing Adarian with apprehension and obvious fear. The chestnut snorted, striking at the ground with a hoof. Swinging his left leg over the pommel, Adarian stepped down. He arrogantly rounded on the brigands. They, as one, moved back into a more guarded posture. He watched them. It was obvious they did not know what to make of this mad man who had attacked against impossible odds and as yet was still standing. They slowly shuffled around him, weapons leveled and ready. Ever so slowly Adarian moved his left hand down, the shield hiding the movements, reached for the small hand ax on his belt. It was time to finish this affair.

In a flash, the axe was loose and sent flying and Adarian was a blur on the move. The spearman on the left dodged, the axe nicking his left shoulder. The swordsman charged. The spearman on the right raised up his spear, fear upon his dirty, young face. Adarian butted aside the spearman’s strike. His sword stroke took the man’s head off above the lower jaw, brains spilling forth.

Spinning to meet the sword man’s charge, Adarian slipped on the wet grass and fell to one knee. It saved his life. The rusty broad sword flew by where Adarian's head had been seconds before. Adarian’s blade went forward spitting the attacker, the sword came out between the forth and fifth rib. Blood flowed from between the startled man’s lips. His eyes glazed and the body slumped, sliding off of the blade.

Expecting further attack, Adarian brought his shield up, sword back. None came. Lowering his shield, Adarian evaluated his situation. The remaining spearman was down, his throat slit from ear to ear. An old Smovona woman kneeled beside him, blood covering her naked and bruised form and her long sagging breasts. She made no move to cover herself. The brigand leader just stood there, his face showing the shock of the slaughter. Adarian purposely marched toward him. He batted aside the shortsword the other raised clumsily. Teeth broke as Adarian slammed his fist, sword pommel held tightly, into the man’s mouth. The blow collapsed the brigand. Adarian thrust his sword, turning as he cut, ending it.

Cleaning and sheathing his blade, his shoulders slumped. The nausea was almost uncontrollable. It always was, ever since that slaughter years ago. Adarian heaved for several minutes. Wiping his chin he regained control and began stripping the dead of their meager valuables. He never noticed the Smovona man, no longer pinned by the javelin, coming up behind him.
“Ah…master?” the other began.

Adarian spun around, a snarl on his face. The other man jumped back startled, wincing at the pain of his wound. “What?” Adarian snarled at him.

“I...I...We want to thank you for the help you....”

“I don’t care, go away.”

“But? Will you take my youngest daughter as my gratitude? Teasi will serve
you well.”

“What do I want with a Smovona girl? I did what I did because I wanted to,
not because of you.” Adarian looked down at the coin pouch he was holding. “Here take this” He threw it to the man.

“Wha...”

“Tell everyone you meet that Adarian of Thesskelok passed here.”

“But master, a man such as you must have many enemies. Wont they find you?”

Adarian smiled, a fatalistically doomed smile. “Yes, yes they will.”

US Russophobia Will Mean Russia's Survival

As many of you may have noticed, there are not a lot of Russian made goods for sale in America. Now most people of average intelligence will come to a conclusion that that must mean that there is nothing produced in Russia, as even the few food items sold in specialty stores are made in some upstate New York area or in California or Canada. However this is far from the truth and that truth will equally save Russia from the US led collapse.

Russian industry is booming, with an average 7-8% growth rate, low taxation and a motivated work force and it has been doing so since 1999. The final trigger that allowed Russian industry to burst out was the 1998 economic collapse, which was really just the final fall of the 1990s decade of collapse. The key that started this was not really just the fall of the Soviet Union but the readiness of the Russian establishment to believe the West that by letting in Western companies they would all become rich...well the oligarchs and chivaks became rich but the people as a whole suffered. Why? Simple: Russian industry had little time to learn to play in the Western world before it was crushed by Western giants who then sucked it dry and left empty husks, while flooding the market with US/EU goods.

The 1998 collapse, however made those imported goods entirely to expensive. This in turn led to demand being satisfied by local production, which in turn led to job growths and more demand and more job growth and so on...the road to recovery. This is the exact path, but in the opposite direction, that a quickly deindustrialized, debtor nation America is traveling on as it comes more and more to resemble the third world nation it now is...ok, maybe 2nd world.

Russian exports have also been growing and not just in raw materials, but also in grains, finished foods, beverages, machinery, weapons, IT and many other fields.

But why are there no products in America and how will this help the Russian economy survive America's death throws that threaten much of the world?

It all comes from America's own Russophobia...or rather that of the ruling elites who do as they please, the people be damned (and it will soon seem that way). Basically put, Russia is still under the Jackson-Vanik regime. What is the Jackson-Vanik Act? It was a 1970s law that forbade American trade with nations that prohibited free movement of their peoples and was used to undermine the Soviet Union. But, now you'll notice that the Soviet Union has been gone for 17 years, how could this still be in effect? It should not, but it is.

Russia, in the hopes of trading with America and in the spirit of revolution, quickly liberalized its immigration laws. Over 1 million Jews left, and after all the Jackson-Vanik Act was aimed at them. In the 17 years that have passed, some 15% returned to live in Russia from Israel. But the law has stayed in effect, hung like a treat in front of the Russian mule to get it to move constantly to the whims of the American master. This of course came to an end some 5 years ago, when the government basically said to hell with the US promises, just like with WTO membership, which not only will never happen (Russia is the ONLY industrialized nation not in the WTO, thanks to the US or its proxies like Georgia...which has 6 factories in the whole country) but Russia no longer needs the WTO and it's socialism.

Now, Russian industry is primarily aimed at satisfying the rapidly growing internal markets and not on exports to the world's debtors, the US. Because of this, mostly thanks to US Russophobic politicians, Russia will survive this world shaking economic collapse to come out one of the strongest industrialized nations in the world.

This statement has been evidenced that out of the BRIC group of countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) Russia is the only one who's stock market has continued to grow while the others have been on the free fall, along with their primary customer America. The Europeans who also export heavily to the US will not be and are not to far behind.

Russia, however, with low taxes, massive resources, all the energy she needs and a huge internal market demand and a middle class of between 20-30% and growing and a poverty class of 15% and falling, will be standing rather tall by 2012.

Here's to the Holy Third Rome.

Globalization? Now it's Regionalization.

Globalization may be its own worst enemy, driving a new trend of regionalization.

There are several very strong trends that are now in the process of reshaping the terrain of the global economy in a very unglobal way.

The first of these trends is the collapsing US dollar, which for the world's largest economy and importer, means that those imports, both of the completed product and the subcomponent nature are no longer quite so attractive. This is not across the board, of course, but it is a major acting factor. China is one of the few nations not directly affected by this because their currency devalues along with the dollar. However, due to the dollar evaluation, so far, most US businesses are facing a price increase (read inflation) of between 12-20%. Another major cut by the Fed will have catastrophic effects. While the short term effect for American business will be disastrous, because of the higher cost of parts and few or no local suppliers, a long term decline on the dollar will drive local suppliers to develop new capacities.

However, this is a centric trend, even if it is affecting the world's biggest economy. There are two other trends that are equally putting pressure for regionalization. The first of these mega, world trends, is the obvious price increase in oil and thus fuel oil used for sea bound transportation. As prices increase in the cost of moving goods to and from, local more expensive suppliers suddenly do not seem so expensive, as companies are steadily coming to grips with TCO. TCO is an acronym for Total Cost of Ownership, which is the full real price that one pays for a good. Earlier in the drive to outsource, most companies had a siloed approach to this, meaning they were looking only at the bottom line of the man-hours and or over head costs. The cost of transportation, port fees, import/export duties, quality issues, safety stock, geopolitical risk and even port facility capabilities were all ignored. Wisdom, at a high price in lost dollars, has at last prevailed and has found that the TCO often made those cheap cheap manufacturing prices not so cheap cheap. Indeed, not only the transportation fuel costs but also it's capacity has become a major issue, which blends into the other global trend: capacity.

Most people are aware that the ports are struggling to handle the amount of traffic coming and going and coupled with the cost of the various inspection regimes, has led to very long lead times and thus to a demand for much higher and more expensive safety stocks..aka inventories. However, what most people are not aware of is that the actual transport capacity has fallen far behind demand. It has already been reported that China has effectively locked in 80% of the super transport capacity for 2008, leaving the rest of the world with crumbs to fight over. Add to this the often 2 to 3 week wait periods at Chinese ports just to unload and the three to four year construction period for a new super transport and one quickly realizes how much of a real issue this is. Woe to the fact that demand is still growing much faster then new ship construction.

These two trends globally and the US centric trend all lead to regional suppliers in what was once the dieing rust belt of the West having one more shot at life. In America, with stagnant manufacturing wages and massive illegal employment (the social costs are carried by the very generous or naive and politically powerless US taxpayers), this becomes even a better proposition.

You Bet a Weak Dollar Drives Inflation

So here I am in this position as a global sourcing manager and I've got news for you, a weak dollar is going to kill the American economy. What you say? How could that be? Why the Fed swears up and down that it's doing this to save the US economy.

Well the problem is, the Fed has built a house of cards over the years, with a massive creation of M3 (cash) flooding the world, very low interest rates and no regulation of lending along with low amounts of reserve cash at banks...all to create a perfect storm. Of course, for those who create the money (the private banking system called the Federal Reserve) this is a windfall that's moving your wealth to their pockets...suckers.

Now, back to this driving inflation thing and the weak dollar. As most people learned in the one or two economic classes they might actually have taken, a weak currency allows a nation to export more, especially finished goods. Alas, that's under normal circumstances and there is absolutely nothing normal about the modern American shamonomy. With most of the US' manufacturing base overseas there is little to either 1. export or 2. export that does not require at least some of the components to be manufactured globally and brought back to America.

Again, back to the sliding dollar and my suppliers. Well now, I've just gotten done with several supplier conferences and guess what: I've got suppliers from India to Indonesia, from Italy to Canada asking for price increases from 7-15%. Yup, ghouls and goblins (it is Halloween) this is called inflation, inflation driven by global manufacturing and the falling dollar. And while we here in what's left of American industry might still be able to fight off these full increases it should never be mistaken for what it is: a rear guard action and that's absolutely what it is, a fighting retreat just made worse by Mr. Bernanke and the interest knife he wields. Never mind how he'll compete for investments for Uncle Spend Like a Drunken Sailor's budget deficits when competing with much higher European and Japanese rates.

So boys and girls, ghasts and ghosts, while the shock might not be hitting you yet, just give it another 3 or so months and you'll definitely have a yule tide log...that'll cost you 15% more.

Russia and the US Farmer

There exist two problems with one simple solution: a solution that would benefit both parties tremendously and would alleviate a worse future out come for both.

The first problem is that Russia has lots of land, a lot of empty agricultural land at that and a desire to not only grow its' population but also its' agricultural output. It would further rather not have this land exploited and its' population increased by the Chinese illegals streaming across the Russian borders.

America has a different problem. This is a problem of people, or rather of one class of people in particular. These are a new, unappreciated and unneeded people, as determined by American society. What ever the benefits to a nation of a class of successful small farmers, and there are many, the American progressive society has made a conscious decision to ditch them. To kick them to the curb, a throw away class from a throw away past by a throw away society. This is obvious by the growth of mega corporations, subsidized by government largess of tax payer funds. Since the late 1970s, over 300,000 small farms have failed and at an average of 5 members per household, that's 1.5 million people without their lively hood that they loved and cherished.

Thus the two problems beg a solution, a solution that is linked and limbered to each other as few others can be. With well over 1.5 million members of the farming class, in America, facing or experiencing failure or at best, just barely hanging on, Russia can offer an outlet of abundant land for these masses.

Several initiatives will make this possible. Russia should offer these farmers twenty acres a piece and allow them to buy more for hard cash, no loans. It should then attach with this a mandatory one year road to citizenship, free transportation of the farm equipment and animals from the US to Russia and a low interested fixed rate loan for building (where needed) a homestead and starting capital for the first year's season.

In exchange, these farmers will agree to several conditions and will in turn provide key benefits. The first issue is loyalty. To assure this, immigrants and their families will agree in writing to take up Russian citizenship within 1 year of arrival. Before immigration takes place, they will be given six months to learn a set minimum fluency in the Russian language and Russian history/culture.

The immigrants will further guarantee that each of their sons, upon reaching the legal age, will serve out the minimal term of enlistment in the Russian armed forces. Furthermore, the immigrants will provide classes weekly, to their adopted communities, on Western standards and science of agriculture. These will continue as long as there is a demand from the community.

Lastly, the immigrants will be required to donate 5% of their income to their adoptive communities for a period no longer then 15 years. This money may be given to the local established church, the village government, directly to the poor or as an individually initiated and executed project that shows results within a 24 month period. The immigrant will have his choice of the above.

There are, undeniably, several hazards and drawbacks.

The primary issue is absorption into the main culture/society of Russia. To this end, immigrants should not be allowed to make up more then 5% of the population in any community. This will keep them permanently a minority and thus force absorption into the main stream culture within one or two generations. Similarly, the different religious background of most American immigrants (protestants and catholics) should also be tended to through education of the Orthodox faith and gentle missionary work by properly prepared clergy. The requirement for military service will also help ensure that the second generation is culturally and genetically absorbed, through a much greater chance of mixed marriages.

Issues of American historic territorial expansion, through colonization followed by land grabs (as seen in Texas, California, Colorado, Florida and Hawaii) will also be addressed by keeping the immigrants a minority and away from the eastern coastal regions.

Finally, any local jealousy over accusations of favoritism for immigrants, should be alleviated by the 5% required re investments and the classes given by the immigrants.

Once and if this program is a success, as this author predicts it will be, the gold mines of British, German, Italian, French dissatisfaction can be equally mined for new Western, Christian immigrants, whose absorption into the dominant Russian culture will help ensure Russia of remaining Russia and growing more prosperous.

Butovski Poligon

The name, Butovski Poligon is synonymous with death. Here in the 30s Stalin's henchmen murdered over 20,000 people, at what was once a barracks area. Today, a new chapter opened and this chapter represents the new Russia, or rather the Old Russia reborn.

Across the street from these killing fields, today opened a cathedral who's original corner stone was placed by both the Patriarch Alex II of the Russian patriarchy of the Eastern Orthodox Church and by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia's ruling bishop. Today, on it's opening service, the two sister churches are now one, one Holy Orthodox Church of the Russian Patriarchy. Regardless of the CIA's best efforts to sabotage this union, the union has taken place and the Russian Church is now again represented in unity and fullness around the world.

In doing so, the Russian Church and in truth all of Orthodoxy stands stronger and fuller. Together the Russian Church, which is the largest of the Orthodox Patriarchies will once again function as the defender of Orthodox Christians and of all Christians from persecution, be it by atheists, Islamics or whom ever. Furthermore, the Church by its strong power over the Russian people and thus the Russian state, will have Russia's power behind it when it moves forward to protect persecuted Christians around the world.

Rejoice, for while the West, led by America, as a civilization has singularly betrayed Christianity and often sided with Islamics in destruction of small Christian groups, Russia, as leader of the Orthodox world, will now stand in the defense of these groups, as a counter to both the Humanist evil of the West and the Islamic Satanic evil of the Meccans.

Hristos Voskress

Georgia, NATO and the Next Caucacus War

Allow me to make my point firmly and right away: The Republic of Georgia can not be allowed to join NATO under any circumstance. Such a move would not only spell genocidal disaster for the Abkhaz, the South Ossessians and the Armenian minority of Georgia, it would not only move NATO into striking distance of key Russian oil assets, but it would open the door to jihadists in a way that has not been possible up to now and might quite literally lead to World War Three.

As we should remind any readers, mainly the Westerners who have no idea of the history of the region, that the US backed Georgians attempted to exterminate their minorities between 1991 and 1994. Two areas in particular, Abkhazia and South Ossessia. However, the Georgians have been rather lousy soldiers since for the past thousand plus years, accounting for why they've been over run by all of their neighbors. In all intents and purposes, they have lost those two regions, both of which wish to join the Russian Federation and are 90%+ Russian citizens.

In retaliation for this, the Orthodox Christian nation of Georgia has been busy not only looking the other way on Islamics heading for the Jihad in Chechnya, but providing visas and active support. More then two thirds of the foreign Islamics killed in southern Russia have had Georgian entry visas. Thus the immediate effects of Georgia joining NATO will be as follows: the Georgians will throw open the gates for Islamics (those who fight Russia or India or the Serbs are rarely listed as terrorists by D.C. and it's Farce on Terror. Often enough they are given material support and asylum in Washington or London.) who will flood in to destabilize the Russian southern regions. This will of course play into DC's and NATO's hands, as well as the Saudis, by not only deflecting Moscow's attentions away from Ukraine and Belarus and other centers of NATO/EU/DC imperialism, but also will work to damage Moscow's ability to fulfill oil and gas sales and thus Russia's GDP and stability. While Washington would never be able to control any Islamic states that would rise up out of the Caucasus, neither would Moscow. Washington dearly hopes that this will happen and will have a ripple affect dismembering Russia fully and once again opening up Russia's natural resources and human capital for plunder: a tactic as old as Rome, to which Washington is often compared.

As for the Georgian's despised large Armenian minority, the formula will be forced Georgianization or extermination. NATO, regardless of what propaganda about freedom or such it likes to put out, has no problems with mass exterminations. Not only did it oversee such genocides by it's Albanian clients in Yugoslavia's Kosovo, it also has no problems with blood stained Croatia's history of genocide, another NATO candidate. Of course NATO is also quite able to (and this includes the EU as well) to ignore the NAZI and SS parades in Estonia and Latvia, even when both are backed by the ruling governments and ministers who regularly make speeches at these occasions. America too, seems to be rather silent on this, with all it's human rights reports. Rather interesting, isn't it?

Following this will be the solving of Georgia's issues with the break away regions: Abkhazia and S.Ossessia. Of course this will be genocide of the Abkhaz and Ossessian populations, under NATO's nose...or rather with it's aid. This has been seen as the solution in Yugoslavia's Kosovo, who's natural resources and factories were stripped away from Belgrade and given to NATO nations companies. Of course the more likely effect will be an escalation and full war, as both of these regions are essentially Russian citizens. Furthermore, Russian Cossacks and other volunteers have flooded the region and the Abkhaz are crazed fighters to begin with. Northern Ossessians will also flood south to defend their ethnic and often times, clan-tie brothers. This will in turn draw the Russian army into direct confrontation with NATO member Georgia and thus the US, which will be treaty bound to go to nuclear war over Georgia.

The Solution is War

Russia must take several steps to deal with this, to avoid the dangers of total war with NATO or it's own eventual dissolution at the hands of Washington and Brussels.

In the least of these steps, Russia MUST recognize the independence of Abkhazia and S.Ossessia and allow them to instantly hold referendums to join the Russian Federation. As soon as their independence is recognized, Russian forces must be invited in to keep the Georgians out. Moscow must once and for all give up on the option of negotiations with the fascist, Washington/Brussels backed government in Tbilisi. There is no negotiations when the other side is incapable of seeing clearly or living in reality. Those of Saakasvhili's party who had the power and the ability to do this have long ago been murdered or purged. The opposition has been arrested and the intellectual class of Georgia is a long time Russians resident.

A Causa Bella must be declared, triggered by Georgia's entrance as a NATO Candidate. The Georgians, embodying the largest reserve of pride in the world, will of course only accelerate their move towards NATO as will the dictatorship in Azerbaijan. Thus as prewar playing field must be set up.

By its nature, any war in such circumstance must be fast, efficient and minimizing damage to the infrastructure and civilian population. Furthermore, certain players must be accounted for. Georgia has one natural ally in the area, Azerbaijan. It also has a pseudo backing of the Turks, who are not all to happy to see Russia again upon their borders. Both issues must be dealt with.

The Turks can be bought off by three major moves. First, for their neutrality, they will be awarded Ajaria and other immediate border regions. The Turks must be guaranteed a low cost of gas and oil, particularly that traveling through the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline and easy entry to Turkish goods into the Russian market. Without active Turkish support, NATO will be powerless to intervene effectively against a Russian blitzkrieg through Georgia and by necessary through northern Azerbaijan.

In order to further weaken Georgian resolve and forces and to strip them of support in depth from Azerbaijan, Armenia must enter the war. Armenia must be guaranteed territory belonging to Georgia where the Armenians are the majority. This will also include a section of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, from which they will be able to collect a transport fee and some of the oil and gas.

Azerbaijan must also be dealt with. To this effect Russia will require the aid of Iran. Iran has a long standing border and political dispute with Azerbaijan which has been actively agitating the Azerbaijani minorities within Iran. Thus Azerbaijan will be divided into three parts: the western parts will go to Armenia, the southern (the line running just south of Baku) to Iran and the northern to Russia.




But Moscow can not go into this proposition half ready. Upon the declaration of war, four Russian forces must move out and into combat. The coast of Georgia must be blockaded by the Black Sea fleet. A brigade of Russian marines must be brought in to capture Poti, at the very outset of hostilities. From Abkazia, a combined force of one mechanized and one armored divisions must drive south, first taking Zugdidi. A brigade strength unit must move down, first linking up with the marines at Poti and then moving out on the second day to secure Adjaria. The remainder of the Western task force must move out along Route 6 sweeping up Senaki and Kutaisi on the 2nd and 3rd day.

Task force Center, composed of a mechanized infantry brigade and an airborne division, will strike the center. The Brigade will take and occupy Gori and the surrounding area, cutting off Route 6 and any Georgian reinforcements moving west from Tbilisi. Meanwhile from the first declaration, the airborne division will take the high ground surrounding Tbilisi and lay siege to the city in order to stop any massing of troops or any logistical movements of Georgian defense forces.

Task Force East will comprise of a mechanized division and a mechanized brigade. Task Force East will seize Lagodekhi in the first hours of hostilities. The division will then move out to seize Telavi by the end of the first day. The brigade will move south to seize Tsnori and then on the following days to occupy Tsetili-Tsakora.
The mechanized division will then proceed to move west over the following 2 days and occupy blocking positions from the south east of Tbilisi, slowly rolling up the Georgian capital from the south, while Airborne artillery and Russian airforce planes prevent any large groupings by the Georgian forces.

No later then by the 4th day, Task Group West must make contact with Task Force Center around Gori. After a one day pause and refit, it will move out and occupy positions on the NW edge of Tbilisi and begin rolling up the Georgian capital from that end. Operations in the capital must not take more then 4-6 days.

The key to all of these operations is speed and brutal force, coupled with broad opportunities for the enemy to surrender.

Armenian forces must also move out from the south occupying Bogdanovka, Kazreti and Akhalkalaki. Once Ajaria is taken, Russian forces can move back, allowing the Turkish army to roll in.

On the Azerbaijani front, Task Force Azerbaijani, consisting of two Task Forces Az West and AZ East, both composed of a Mechanized Division, one Armored Brigade and a Motorized Infantry Brigade.

AZ West will take Sheki on the first day. At least one battalion will be left to garrison the area and keep any Azeri forces in the nw corner locked up. The task force will then move out and strike Vartashan. Additionally, an airborne brigade will be dropped between Vartashan and Kutkashan, cutting lines of communication. AZ West will link up with the airborne brigade on day 2 and proceed to Kutkashan. The airborne brigade will then occupy Vartashan and Kutkashan. A second airborne brigade will be dropped in the Akhsu/Shemakha area. AZ West will link up with this brigade after taking Lagich, no later then by day 5. After taking one day for rest and reconsolidation, AZ West will strike out towards Karasu and Zardob, splitting its force in the process and meeting the Iranians on the Kura River.

AZ East will strike out down the coast, first at Nabran, then Khudat on the first day. On the second day it will take Khachmas and then link up with an airborne brigade between Khachmas, Divichi and Siazan, which will be deployed in the area to cut communications. The airborne brigade will then be divide up to garrison the area. AZ East must take Siazan no later then day 3. From there it will strike out for Sumgalt. A second airborne brigade will be deployed in the between Sumgalt and Shemakha, providing western security for AZ East. Upon taking Sumgalt, AZ East will spend one day, day 5, on rest and reconsolidation. On day 6 it will strike out towards Baku.

Two further Marine brigades will strike Kala on day 1, drawing Azerbaijani forces east and the second will strike Baku's ports on day 4, reinforced by a helicopter infantry (airlift) battalion and sea borne fire support. Major hostilities should be over within 10 days with mopping up taking the following 3-4 weeks.

Loving Conquerers

Several key steps must be taken in order to secure the surrender of enemy forces and population. The key is to strike hard enough to destroy all opposition but to equally give the Georgians and Azeri reasons not to fight or hold a long grudge, since they will be incorporated directly into the Russian Federation.

As such, all surrendering enemy forces must not only be well treated but guaranteed a speedy Russian citizenship (upon surrender they will turn in their Georgian/Azeri passports for Russian ones). They will be guaranteed full military pensions and a $1,000 bonus for surrendering and the first opportunity to fill police and security positions. The key is a speedy collapse of enemy forces before NATO can intervene or the EU can voice strong opposition.

Furthermore, stations must be set up where Georgians and Azari citizens can turn in their passports for Russian passports and receive 2 months worth of pensions (for the elderly) and the ability to travel into Russia. Furthermore, trucks with food must arrive quickly to prevent hunger for any displace peoples. Refugee camps must be set up on the Russian side of the border, accepting displaced persons and allowing them to travel to relatives inside of Russia. Repair crews must be ready to provide repairs for all major services. Furthermore, monies must be readied to pay for all war damaged houses, even if claims are some what doubtful.

Benefits of War

The immediate benefits will be the closing down of entry points for the Sunni Jihad inside of Russia. With Shiite Iran controlling entry from the east, secular Turkey in the west and Orthodox Christian Armenia in the south, guarding the borders. The removal of NATO/EU influence in the Caucasus will further lower tensions in the area, allowing for an easier development of the regions resources. The biggest local beneficiaries will be the local peoples, freed from the twin Western backed tyrannies in Tbilisi and Baku. Lastly, the threat of WW3 will be pushed back, as the West will be knocked out of the Great Game of the Caucasus and Russia's future on it's most vulnerable flank will be finally and fully secured.