The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert

by Ron Ridenour

Ron Ridenour’s book, The Russian Peace Pentagon on Alert, a true historical page-turner, is destined to endure and inform future readers, writers and researchers about both what has been reported—mainly malicious propaganda—and what truly took place in the one hundred years from the 1917 Russian Revolution until the eruption of the distinct harbingers of the collapse of the US empire in the early twenty-first century. Events often just seem to happen, caught up in the swirl of history. But still, we try to interpret them and to understand. And then, in many cases, take a stand for or against. Understanding is like discovering a new world, like converting to a new faith. Revolt invades your life and everything is different from what it once was. Ridenour’s book helps us along the way to first remembering the historical facts so that we can then understand. His new work documents clearly facts about the early years of the Soviet Union’s relations with the West, its difficult steps toward socio-political maturity and Communism, and its enormous sacrifices along the its defeat of Western intervention during the revolutionary and civil war period; its regulation of state economic planning and the reforms required for the industrialization of the nation; its defeat of the German Nazi military juggernaut at the gates of Russia’s major cities and the coup de grace in the ferocious battle in Stalingrad, defeating German invaders and crushing Nazi Germany before the USA even entered the war; and finally the arduous salvation of Russia after the collapse of the USSR under US post-WWII economic firepower and the most treacherous anti-Russian policies since the early 1900s. Those Western policies continue to determine US-Russian relations today. Throughout this long work Ridenour recalls and clarifies diverse significant historical details, obscured by time and by Western propaganda, facts that are so easily forgotten or that were never such ignored truths as the importance of the USSR in the defeat of Japan in WWII and the timing of the US use of the atomic bomb in Japan. Not many people are aware of the extent of the destruction of many Japanese cities which the author details here. He points out that the Soviet Union kept its word to help the United States by its intervention against Japan, the decisive reason why Japan was defeated even before the atomic bombs fell. A stunning but little known fact is that in response to the Russians' sacrifice the Anglo-American leaders—first Churchill and later Truman— were hatching Operation Unthinkable and Operation Pincher to launch a surprise war against Soviet forces in Europe. These military plots included the potential use of nuclear bombs. This is a book that no well-informed Western reader should be without, especially those inhabiting the homeland of the new empire, the dangerously brainwashed United States.

564 pages, Paperback

Published June 22, 2018

Reviews

[Randall Wallace · Rating 5 out of 5]

JFK: The author writes, “Every US president must collaborate with big money else they would never have enough money to win an election.” JFK had Mafia support (JFK’s father was part of organized crime in the 20’s). The author says mobster Giancana had Marilyn Monroe murdered – he says “Needles” Gianola and “Mugsy” Tortorella came into Monroe’s house (after Bobby Kennedy had got his tip wet and left her) “and inserted a Nembutal suppository into her anus (see book “Double Cross”). The press bought it because Nembutal is an untraceable poisonous drug, and didn’t ask questions because they are docile corporate tools. The author (of Double Cross) says the Mob was part of the “triad” that killed JFK because he had cost the mob too much money. Giancana told his brother and nephew that JFK’s death was “a coup” and “not one American even knew what happened.” JFK also tried to back off attacking Cuba and to shorten the Vietnam War which he realized could not be won w/o nuclear weapons. He was a realist. But that super-pissed off Generals like Cabell who called him a traitor. Recently leaked info (p.85) shows that unlike LBJ, JFK tried to make peace with North Vietnam and withdraw troops. Eighteen material witnesses to the JFK assassination died within three years of the shooting – London Times hired an actuarial firm who put the odds of that happening at 100,000 trillion to one (p.87). 52 people connected to that killing died “within a few years.” JFK’s brain “disappeared” so it was never even examined for bullet trajectory. Nothing to see here folks.

Cuba: Between 1959 and 2000 there were 638 plots to kill Castro, England’s Channel 4 even had a documentary w/ that title. Let’s see the breakdown of shameless assassination attempts by each President: Ike 38 - JFK 42 – LBJ 72 – Tricky Dick 184 – Carter 64 – Reagan 197 – Bush Sr. 16 and Clinton 21. Yes Sir, as Noam says, you just can’t beat the threat of a good example. How dare Castro remove a US supported dictator allied with the Mafia? How dare Cuba want its stolen Guantanamo back or think $2,000 per year from the US is somehow NOT enough to “lease” it? How dare Cuban doctors do more to help the world than US doctors? Did you know Ike dropped napalm on Cuban oil refineries and sugar cane fields? Now you do. Cuba only sought help from the Soviet Union AFTER Ike had ordered both Fidel’s assassination and Cuba’s invasion. In just one year (1961), Castro’s Cuba reduces illiteracy from 25% to 3.9%. How dare they? Just during JFK’s presidency, CIA expert Tim Weiner found “163 major covert operations against Cuba.” Just under Obama, the US embargo of Cuba cost the US $1.2 billion annually – in other words the Cuba embargo hurts US businesses that amount but we still aren’t supposed to talk about it? Even the US Chamber of Commerce calls for an end to the Cuba embargo. Liberals won’t mention terror committed by the US – but what the heck was Operations 40, Mongoose, Patty, Northwoods, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and the JFK assassination? And what the heck was the germ warfare the US inflicted at least five times (p.89) on Cuba?

The CIA kept enough shellfish toxin to kill 14,000 people at Ft. Detrick where the CIA also bred mosquitos to carry dengue fever. One CIA handler said, “the CIA was often interested in crop plagues and domestic animal sicknesses. The US sabotaged Cuban airlines – in one case 57 Cubans died, in another (Flight 455) Cuba’s entire junior fencing team were killed. Thank self-exiled Cuban mercenaries and the US for those. The US then harbored two of the terrorists responsible Dr. Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles in the US. The US shamelessly harboring two OBVIOUS terrorists and we were not supposed to notice. Shhhh…

The Russian Revolution of 1917 began with “Bloody Sunday” where the Tsar’s men killed between 300 and 1,000 Russian citizens for asking for an 8-hour day, a minimum wage and a democratically elected assembly. No wonder US businessmen hated those commie bastards! The same thing happened in the US in 1886 with the same deadly results with the Haymarket Affair– you want fairness for all classes? We’ll shoot you dead. Anyway, the Tsar was forced to sign the October Manifesto which created the Duma to placate the middle class and (more or less) ignore the working class. The Duma quickly transformed “into a pillar of autocracy.” When Russia entered WWI, it had the largest army in the world (1.4 million and then it rose to five million). As you can imagine, the Russian working classes paid the biggest price for Russia’s fighting in WWI; “millions of workers and soldiers marched against the war.” “The ten days that shook the world” turned out to be only two days of fighting w/ zero formal battles. The Bolsheviks promised Peace, Land and Bread and prioritized feeding people – the total opposite of what Israel presently offers starving Palestinians in Gaza. No wonder the US funds Israel but would not fund the Bolsheviks. The Russian Civil War was the aristocracy’s White Army (those who already had Land and Bread) against those who had none. All this Bolshevik empathy towards the lower classes led the US, Britain, France, Canada, Italy, Romania, Greece, Poland, Japan, Czechs and Slavs to join the White Army defending the upper classes. These countries were also invading to: A.) Thwart a potential Russo-German alliance. B.) Keep Bolsheviks from defaulting on Imperial loans C.) To stop the threat of a Good Example – advocating fairness for the lower classes? How dare they? Just like today’s Zionists who picture even Palestinian infants as terrorists, Churchill said Bolshevism must be “strangled in its cradle” – who doesn’t want to picture Churchill strangling a baby in its cradle? “Literally no story about the Bolsheviks was too contrived, too bizarre, too grotesque, or too perverted to be printed and widely believed” even “babies being eaten.” The US view was “Why should THEY have all that wealth (buried under the Ural Mountains)?” Meanwhile the US General Graves who commanded the US troops in Russia later admitted “I do not know what the United States was trying to accomplish by military intervention.” The US troops entered the peaceful village of Ivanovka and “burned it down and killed 1,300 inhabitants.” Pause to salute the US flag. Thanks to US and British help, the Russian Civil War killed seven to twelve million Russians “mostly civilians.”

US Uber Alles: Hitler said, “I regard (Jew hater and eugenics enthusiast) Henry Ford as my inspiration” and gave him Germany’s highest medal. Hitler kept a life-sized portrait of Ford next to his desk. Hitler gave IBM’s founder his second highest medal – couldn’t do the Holocaust w/o IBM’s tabulating machines. Hitler gave even GM’s CEO an award, for all those great war vehicles (Opel Blitz trucks), while Mussolini gave JP Morgan an award for their loans to his fascist state. Texaco sold Hitler gasoline during his worst crimes. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil helped Germany “produce 6.5 million tons of oil for war aircraft.” GM, Exxon and Standard Oil worked w/ IG Farben to create synthetic leaded gas for the Nazis. Together the US provided Nazis w/ 12% of their oil needs during Hitler’s worst crimes. George Seldes wrote that the US didn’t have enough aluminum because Alcoa was giving Germany an “unlimited supply.” US Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes said, “If America loses this war, it can thank the Aluminum Corporation of America.” Imagine in school being taught ANY of this! Those Nazis couldn’t have done all this w/o the Yanks!

The US wouldn’t sign the Treaty of Versailles or League of Nations because “there was too much money to be made in armament.” That killed the League of Nations. Two US Titans (Morgan and Rockefeller) “conspired to overthrow, even murder President Roosevelt (p.125).” FDR agreed to let the plotters go free if they backed off opposition to the New Deal – thus instead of being executed as traitors, they continued to rule the US. That sure was a GOOD deal. Smedley Butler who foiled that plot suggested that the profit should be taken out of war, that the youth which fight in US wars should have a say in whether to fight, and our military who be restricted to defense not offense. Can’t have Americans learn ANY of this. The Dulles Brothers had a list of the six leaders they wanted gone: Mossadegh/Iran, Arbenz/Guatemala, Ho Chi Minh/Vietnam, Lumumba/Congo and Castro/Cuba. How sad they personally got to illegally remove or kill only three of the six. All for the crime of leaders trying first to help their OWN people.

The Reichstag Fire ended German right to assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, constitutional protections and police restraint. Hitler moved from chancellor to “legal” dictator in two months; US liberals who refuse to read books today comically believe that Trump is still on the same EXACT trajectory – if so, he’s a few months late. Stalin signed his pact with Hitler to buy himself some time to prepare for war. It was an agreement to partition Poland if need be and give the Soviets neutral buffer states (like the US has with Canada, Mexico, and Latin America). Hitler defeated France in only six weeks and in fact took Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands on the way. Where was Napoleon when you needed him?

Spain: Russia was the biggest supporter of the anti-fascists (the Republic). Fun Fact: Hitler & Mussolini’s planes take out Guernica in 1937 (intentionally leaving two weapons plants there) to help fascist Franco. Picasso then does his Guernica painting. If you thinking intentionally bombing civilians is morally wrong, like Guernica, explain why you don’t care about the fire-bombing of Tokyo and Dresden. Catalonia had achieved an 8-hour workday by 1919. France and England hated the “Threat of a Good Example” so close to them that they both recognized Franco’s government ONE month BEFORE the Republic even fell. So much for WWII being a fight AGAINST fascism. Fascist Franco couldn’t have won Spain w/o Germany, Italy, England, and France. So much for WESTERN Civilization. Think of the Spanish Civil War as what it was: a class war fought by four countries with no class. Keep the hard-working class from gaining traction EVERYWHERE.

Trotsky was murdered with an ice axe. Still not happy, Stalin executed his actual closest ally Bukharin in 1938. Friends don’t let friends …stay alive. Who knew? The largest invasion force in history was Nazis putting four million Krauts in the Eastern Front against the Soviets which included “between 600,000 to 700,000 horses”. While the Soviets were drinking vodka, Nazis were walking while staring LOTS of horse genitalia. This book and many others (and the US Ambassador to the USSR Joseph Davies) explain that that US only intentionally entered the war when assured the Soviets would beat the Germans. Fun Fact: Hating Russia historically is MORE American than Apple Pie because North America didn’t have apples until the Europeans arrived and apple pie originated in England. But, in consolation, the US did invent the TV advertisement and school shootings. So back off… Our Johnny-Come-Lately Normandy Landing was in 1944, and the Europe war was over less than one year later. The Soviets, not the US, liberated Berlin. Stalin said he’d enter the Pacific War three months after Germany was defeated and he kept his promise, unlike the US which breaks promises (not to expand NATO, etc.). This book also confirms that the A bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to threaten the Soviet Union. The war was already won before then and the Soviet Union had just shown the world it could do in just four days what the US couldn’t do in four years of its Pacific War. Luckily US media spun the story 180 degrees and US liberals eagerly devoured the narcissistic thought that WE saved the Free World all by our lonesome. The Private Ryan treatment – we did it all – e.g. Spielberg refused to acknowledge that ALL the landing craft in the Normandy first wave were piloted by Brits. In fact, the first waves had more British and Commonwealth troops than US – check it out on Google. During the Cold War voicing such facts as these would have liberals telling you were at best, “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” Churchill ordered Operation Unthinkable (p.166) which was attacking Soviet forces in Germany. Yeah that’s it, attack the very people who just finished saving YOUR ass from the Nazis. Operation Unthinkable was kept secret until 1998. Now you can Google it all in seconds on You Tube. Churchill even wanted to use big bombs on Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kiev. Truman (not known for his self-control) to his credit said no to Churchill about these plans. Still, he introduced the Truman Doctrine which told the world if Truman ever got his panties in a bunch, non-interventionist US would attack whoever it wanted – namely take over for the British meddling in Greece bent on disempowering those Greeks who successfully fought the Nazis. Truman showed another rare act of self-restraint when he told General MacArthur, no you can’t use nuclear weapons on the mainland Chinese. MacArthur’s balls were evidently bigger than the balls on those 600,000 horses the Nazis led into the Soviet Union.

The US supported underdog Chiang Kai-Shek over Mao in China’s Civil War because he was no commie. General MacArthur made surrendering Japanese (WWII) give their weapons only to Chiang’s Nationalists. The Communists still easily won because they had a secret weapon: land reform – which the peasants loved and Chiang didn’t. The Chinese Civil War had a death toll of 17-18 million which was more than death toll of the Japanese Occupation of China (14 million). The Sino/Soviet Split happens in 1961 (after the Korean War). The top Korean War historian Bruce Cuming wrote that “we carpet bombed the North for three years with next to no concern for civilian casualties.” That included 635,000 tons of bombs and 32,557 tons of JUST napalm. What we did to North Korea then was worse than anything the dictatorship of North Korea has since done to anyone. Terrorism is what THEY do, not us. Our US army dropped “canisters filled with disease-infected insects (and rodents) over both Korea and China. They hoped to wipe out large numbers of people with deadly bacteria and viruses, which they had taken from Japanese experimentations during the Second World War.” They succeeded in causing both hemorrhagic fever and the plague in the civilian population (p.188). Then we brought the nastiest Japanese biologists back to Ft. Detrick in Maryland to teach us some seriously sadistic shit (p.187).

Vietnam War: This war “was launched to prevent Vietnamese sovereignty.” What? Let a country choose their own leaders and path forward? How dare they! Truman started it in 1955 deploying MAAG to Southeast Asis. Truman’s delusional fantasy was that he could crush a liberation movement with a paid proxy army. The US then used Agent Pink, Agent Green, Agent Purple, Agent Blue, Agent White in addition to Agent Orange on Vietnamese civilians. This amounted to 20 million gallons of concentrated herbicides sprayed over crops and trees. Winning hearts and minds – ha ha… “As of 2006, the Vietnamese government estimated that there were over 4,000,000 victims of dioxin poisoning in Vietnam (p.212).” The CIA used dead soldiers to transport drugs (heroin +) to the US by sewing them into their carcasses (p.213). Even the NYT reported that story. The CIA created heroin labs in Laos and moved the drugs through their own airline Air America. Laos became “the most bombed country in the history of warfare�� – “eight bombs per minute over a nine year period in 580,000 bombing raids (p.215).” 15% of US soldiers became hooked on heroin and there were 900 cases of fragging – deliberately trying to kill your sergeant or commanding officer – strong incentive to end the war right there, especially if you factor in massive student unrest back in the states. In total the US wasted 8,600,000 military personnel sending them to a war that couldn’t possibly be won – 70,000 to 300,000 US soldiers committed suicide, 700,000 got PTSD, more than 100,000 deserted. The US wasted $173 billion on that losing war (one trillion $ if you include veteran benefits) and all we got to show for it was a few thousand ugly black POW/MIA flags for faux patriots who like to delusionally pretend Vietnamese villagers STILL feed 2,000 aged POWs for free while they are locked in backyard tiger cages. At least armchair patriots can delight in 3-5 million dead Vietnamese, and their unshakable belief that Jane Fonda is somehow still the Devil w/ a vagina. William Calley’s punishment for MY Lai (murdering 500 villagers) was three years under house arrest thanks to Nixon. Unexploded US ordinance killed 42,000 Vietnamese and 20,000 Laotians after the war ended. Makin’ Jesus proud…

Dictators R US: The Pentagon and/or the CIA installed Latin American dictators in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia. Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador. This is what the US wanted in Cuba (Batista) before Castro introduced to Latin America the dreaded “threat of a Good Example.” Fun Fact: Reagan was an FBI informer when he was an actor. Israel LOVES to hate Iran today but in 1985 it sent 508 anti-tank missiles to Iran (p.243). Explain that one. The famed Colonel North (think Contras) drew up a plan to “suspend the Constitution (p.245)”. What a guy… We were all taught to love Lech Walesa decades ago, but did you know the CIA funded his Solidarity for a few years with $10 million (p.247)? German reunification was in 1990. Drunkard Yeltsin takes power in 1991 and then destroys Russia economy (poverty reached 40% and average income dropped 50%) with shock therapy, and neoliberal nationwide privatization created the billionaire oligarchs which armchair liberals instead blame on Putin today. Bush Sr. and Clinton “embraced the wild alcoholic as their perfect post-Soviet Union leader.” The owner of US News and World Reports (Mortimer Zuckerman) called the Rape of Russia “the largest giveaway of a nation’s wealth in history.” More stuff Anne Applebaum, Rachel Maddow and Heather Cox Richardson will NEVER tell you.

Due to this review length, the last five paragraphs are in the comment section below: check it out - this book was great - HIGHLY recommended.

[John Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ron Ridenour’s masterfully-written indictment of U.S. militarism and its take-all-prisoners imperial project is of such breathtaking scope and astonishing depth, it would be hard to exaggerate its value and timeliness, as the foreign policy of the Empire of Chaos now as never before in recorded history, steers the world toward apocalyptic confrontation and puts the survival of the entire human race at risk.

Those readers still in the embrace of the most toxic pile of propaganda ever assembled by a world power, that America is a force of good, spreading democracy, defending human rights, standing with the oppressed and marginalized, should have medics in the room with them to apply emergency procedures as the truth pours off the pages of this book. Ridenour pulls no punches and with meticulous research and documentation, leaves little doubt that his narrative offers nothing less than the explicit and savage truth of over a century of exploits and exploitation. We see brutal, barbaric, merciless application of military and economic power, with the clear and unambiguous goal of world domination — the U.S. as the ultimate empire blessed by God and history and the Fates, exempt from the rules of international law and judgment by anyone who would challenge it. While the focus is Russia, this book covers a lot more ground, offering glimpses into many theaters of confrontation and conflict: China, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam, of course the Middle East, as well as many countries in its more immediate sphere of influence, Central and South America. With its 800+ bases currently sprawling across the planet, we’re hard-pressed to find anywhere where the heavy foot of American power does not exercise its self-serving prerogative.

Those readers who already are familiar with the scope of U.S. hypocrisy, who understand that behind the smiley face of official beneficence and goodness lies an agenda that serves a ruling elite at the expense of the vast number of everyday citizens, both inside the U.S. and out, will still benefit enormously from this book. Much of it might constitute a refresher course, but I suspect many, myself included, will be pleasantly — or unpleasantly — rewarded with both disturbing factual knowledge and Ridenour’s fresh insights and analysis. It may be for such readers “preaching to the choir” but I’ve never heard a choir that didn’t need to be tuned up from time to time.

Ridenour quotes “The Naked Human”, a poem written by Gustav Munch-Petersen.

I am only a human
but I shall one day
raise earth’s mountains
and let them shake
in the ears of those who sleep

I am only a human
but I shall one day
take the sun down from heaven
and light up all the dark holes
with merciless white light

I am only a human
but I shall one day
steal the gods lightning
and sweep the earth clean of dust

If I may do some metaphorical borrowing, I’d say that with The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert Ron Ridenour has raised some mountains, taken the sun down from heaven, and stolen lightning from the gods. Let’s hope his exceptional scholarship and writing wakes up some people, lights up the dark holes, and sweeps away the dust.

Our survival as a species depends on it.

[Mike Lisanke · Rating 1 out of 5]

OK... so I aborted reading the ending chapters (as the author went full socialist libtard). But I read most of this author's book even though he's admitted anti-American anti-War (for any reasons) and Socialist. Also, while it appears he forgives any current Russian or former Soviet/Cuban aggression/war (and makes them Peacemakers) he rags on America incessantly. I agree our (USA's) military industrial complex is over the top and that we have spooks crawling out from any woodwork to produce transport sell drugs and do the most nefarious acts against humanity in the name of Just actions (likely of "Democracy"). The author had many details of our government lying and subverting other nation's governments In our (we the people's) best interest (which we doubt). If you can stomach all of the America bashing though out and especial the final chapters, I'd say read it.