Presidents
Bill Clinton and Vladimir Putin used some very
interesting choice of words in their joint statement
given on Sunday, June 4. While the statement was
supposed to be addressing "strategic"
military issues, which normally implies nuclear
devices and missile delivery systems, it seems to have
gone beyond just strategic issues. In point
two, for instance, they not only state their
agreement on "strengthening strategic
stability", which means to control and limit the
number of nuclear weapons and delivery missiles, but
they also state they want to strengthen
"international security," which goes far
beyond strategic issues.
International
or global security is a key phrase in global
governance with far-reaching meaning--far beyond
anything the general population believes the term to
mean. It is used frequently by key Western world
leaders in speeches and comments to mean far more than
seems to be implied in the statement.
The
full breadth of the meaning behind global security was
provided by UN Commission on Global Governance in its
1995 report. The report states, "The concept of
global security must be broadened from the traditional
focus on the security of states to include the
security of people and security of the planet.... The
primary goals of global security policy should be to prevent conflict and war
and to maintain the integrity of the planet's
life-support systems by eliminating the economic,
social, environmental, political and military
conditions that generate threats to the security of
people and the planet.... It is necessary to
assert...the rights and interests of the international
community in situations within individual states in
which the security of the people is extensively
endangered. A global consensus exists today for a UN
response on humanitarian grounds in such cases.... The
[Security] Council should be authorized to take
enforcement action...when other methods
fail."
This
is, of course, exactly what the "international
community" did in Kosovo. NATO used humanitarian
reasons as the excuse to bomb Yugoslavia. The only
reason NATO undertook the action and not the UN is
that Russia and China would veto any effort by the
"international community" to bomb Serbia.
Russia and China knew the humanitarian reasons were
merely a smoke screen to cover a huge agenda to
justify world government. The Kosovo bombing led both
nations to begin a huge military mobilization to
confront this new reach of "global
governance". (See the May,
1999 issue of DTT Digest for more
information.)
The seventh
point of the Clinton-Putin joint statement also
seemed to go beyond what is inferred on the surface of
the joint statement. The two presidents stated that
future international threats would be resolved "through
mutual cooperation and mutual respect of each other's
security interests." This statement seems to go a
long way in meeting the demands of Boris Yeltsin and
Jiang Zemin made in their December
9, 1999 joint statement to join the West in
creating global governance. The key sticking points
have been the demands by Russia and China that all
international issues (like Kosovo) be settled through
mutual cooperation, and that the West respect the
right of China and Russia to have sovereignty over
their respective internal affairs (i.e.
Chechnya-Azerbaijan-Georgia and Taiwan). The seeming acquiescence
by Clinton in Sunday's Clinton-Putin joint statement
strongly suggests that an agreement has been reached
on this demand.
The
possibility that a breakthrough has been made on the
East-West negotiations over the place of Russia and
China in the new world government is also supported by
comments made by Clinton on Saturday,
June 3 while leaving Germany for Moscow. Russia
Today/AP reported that Clinton was quoted on
Saturday as saying "Russia must be given a fair
say in determining world economic and security
frameworks. If Russia shows weakness and insecurity
within its own borders, then our own security is
threatened," he told the German newspaper Welt am
Sonntag, adding that Moscow needed to be better
integrated into global institutional structures.
"I am convinced the best way to achieve this goal
is to enhance Russia's integration in the world
economy and within rule-based political and defence
structures. If Russia has a say in setting these
rules, we think it will be more inclined to accept the
legality and values of the rules," Clinton added.
Like
the Clinton-Putin joint statement, Clinton's comments
in Germany address the specific demands outlined in
the December 9
Yeltsin-Jiang joint statement. The reference that
"our own security is threatened" very
strongly suggests that Clinton is really aware that
military action was likely if the West did not met
those demands. DTT has been warning of this likelihood
since the December 9-10 Summit between presidents
Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin when they issued their
joint statement, and wrote the as yet undisclosed
Cooperative Military Agreement treaty.
The
East-West breakthrough seemed to have taken place
about May 15-18. On May
19 US Security Advisor Sandy Berger met with Russia's
newly-confirmed Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.
Kasyanov told Berger that he was strongly in favor of
building warm ties with Washington and is "is
ready to move ahead in all directions" on
cooperation with the United States. "Russia-US relations in the fields of
political cooperation, security matters and also in
the field of cooperation in economics, are of primary
importance for our countries and are felt across the
whole world," Kasyanov said.
The same
day, NATO's Secretary General George Robertson
called for a
speedy resumption of cooperation between NATO and
Russia, which he said is essential for the development
of Europe's security architecture. "We need to
get NATO-Russia relations back on track. A new
European security architecture cannot be built without
Russia," said Robertson at an international
security conference in the Lithuanian capital...."We
have a huge stake in the future of this very large
country," said Robertson, and "as the new
President Putin clearly recognizes, Russia also has a
huge stake in developing a reasonable relationship
with the West. "That is why the speedy resumption
of the full range activities across the NATO-Russia
agenda is in the interest of all Europe," he
said. On May
24, Robertson said that there was a good chance
Russia could even join NATO. Relations between Russia
and NATO had entered the deep, deep freeze since NATO's
bombing of Yugoslavia. Those relations had almost
completely thawed in February, 2000 during the last
round of seemingly successful East-West negotiations.
The negotiations collapsed, however, on February 20-21
resulting in two months of increasingly hostile
tensions between Russia and NATO (and China with
Taiwan and the U.S.) During his address to the Duma,
Clinton said he would support Russia's entrance into
NATO.
Perhaps
the most surprising statement that supports the
conclusion that a breakthrough in negotiations had
occurred came on May
23. China suddenly reversed its long-standing
attack on Taiwan and President Chen by saying that
" Beijing believed it could do
business with Chen and would be patient as his
policies toward the mainland took shape." The
next day, May
24, Janet Reno took what was described by the
press as a bizarre action by placing Taiwan on the FBI's secret
list of hostile intelligence threats, equating Taipei
with aggressive spying by Beijing and Moscow. The
action is not so bizarre when placed into context of
an effort by Clinton to demonstrate to China the U.S.'s
intentions of honoring China's "internal
affairs."
While
a breakthrough in the negotiations had apparently
occurred last month, Russia and China were not about
to make the same mistake they did in early February
when all threats against the West virtually ceased and
glowing comments were spoken about new
"partnerships" were being forged with the
West and global security issues would be settled
"jointly" and as "equals." Both
Russia and China felt betrayed following three-days
negotiations between China and U.S. Assistant
Secretary of State Strobe Talbot from February 17-20.
Talbot, who considers himself to be the one-worlder
among all one-worlders, apparently refused to grant
total sovereignty of China's "internal
affairs" over Taiwan. The negotiations collapsed
and were not revived until late last month when it
became obvious to the West that a shooting war was
about to start, and weapons of mass destruction were
probably going to be used on U.S. soil (See May
4, May
23 and May
29 editions of DTT NewsBytes and the May,
2000 issue of DTT Digest for more
information on terrorism.) As noted earlier, Clinton's
acknowledgement in his Saturday,
June 3 comments in Germany that "our own
security is threatened" unless the West met
Russia's demands for internal security is a very
strong signal that Clinton was aware of this threat.
This
time, the gentle words used by Russia and China to
describe a hopeful future with the West are offset by
continuing, albeit reduced, threats and other hostile
rhetoric. On May
26, China made it known that its generals were
pushing for a Taiwan invasion immediately. The same
day it was announced that Russia had treated the
Serbian defense minister, who is an indicted war
criminal, with full honors when the minister visited
Moscow. This was a slap in the face to Clinton and
Europe and a sharp reminder that Russia would keep all
options open. The snub merely served as a reminder
that Putin had put his cabinet together with blinding
speed, and made clear on May
19 that by keeping key military people in cabinet
posts that Putin could start a war at any time. But,
Putin's cabinet appointments also suggested he did not
want war. Several key appointments included strong
economic reformers, which strongly suggested that
Putin wanted to take a peaceful economic road. The dichotomy
in Putin's cabinet gives Putin the option of pursuing
economic goals, but also gives him the option to use
military force if needed. The same message was being
given by China.
While
it appears almost certain now that some sort of deal
has been struck by Russia-China and the U.S.-Europe,
the details are not yet clear. The next several weeks
will be critical to understanding what has been
decided. Although developments look promising, we must be ever vigilant to the
possibility that this agreement could once again come
unraveled. Or it may be a smokescreen by
Russia, China and North Korea to keep us off-guard
until they are ready to put into motion whatever
diabolical plan they have developed between
themselves. And, never forget that both Russia and
China are rearming themselves with state-of-the-art
ships, planes, missiles and other military hardware.
Finally, just what does Russia plan to do with the
huge Yamantau
underground city discussed in the Tuesday, June
6 edition of DTT NewsBytes and last November's
issue of DTT Digest? Russia has spent tens
of billions of dollars building this mammoth
underground city and 200 more smaller scale
underground cities like it when her people were
starving. While peace may be in the offing, war is
still a possibility. Be ever vigilent.
The
potential settlement is good news for America, which could have
experienced major terrorism using weapons of mass
destruction and cyber warfare. On the other hand, it
probably represents a major advance towards the goal
of world government and the horror that will surround
those Biblical last days. We are living in the days in
which deception rules and delusion is increasing. It is a time when all
Christians must begin to pray for God to give them
discerning eyes. It is also a time to seek God about how we will be used in these last, troubled days when the Church will
face increasing persecution -- even if there is a
pre-tribulation rapture.
V mc
