A Slavic People A Russian Superpower A Charismatic World Leader

By Goeran B Johansson

A comprehensive analysis of the MH 17 tragedy over eastern Ukraine begins the book. It is followed by a review of ISIS and the background to the conflict in the Middle East in the shadow of the importance of oil and concerning the US Pax Americana advance. Further description of Russia's military rearmament occurs to a lesser extent, but the extremely dramatic development in the South China Sea is examined all the more. In the shadow of the refugee crisis, Sweden's situation and its historically unstable attitude towards Russia, and its focus on the United States is critically examined. Putin's strategy in Syria and the Middle East is analyzed in detail. Detailed source list

• Language: English
• Publisher: Goeran B Johansson
• Release date: Nov 18, 2021
• ISBN: 9789198551396

Goeran B Johansson

Goeran B. Johansson is a retired teacher who has previously been a leisure politician and has served in the UN forces in Cyprus from 1967 to 68. He has traveled a lot and lived in different countries in Southeast Asia for a long time. Mainly in the Philippines. His primary interests are history, political ideologies, and independent geopolitical analysis focusing on the ongoing global power struggle between the United States, NATO vis à vis Russia, and China within the BRICS and SCO. But also fiction and some of his most recent, read works are, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov and last but not least The Dwarf by Pär Lagerkvist and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. He is also enthusiastic about chess and its strategic thinking. He is a multi-instrumentalist and plays piano, violin, classical guitar, and various accordions at a high level. He is fluent in English and Russian. He has also written two short stories published in Swedish and English, A Swedish Fellow in Asia, published in Swedish and English, and Lymene Holy Mother of Divine Grace.

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A Slavic People

A Russian Superpower

A Charismatic World Leader

Goeran B Johansson

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ISBN 978-91-985513-9-6

Cover

Pastelldrawing by the Author after a photo of Vladimir Putin

No changes were done except replacing a picture of the Chinese J-20 in the Chapter: The Dramatic Developments in the South China Sea.

  The first edition Published. 2016-17

With the Title :

Vladimir Putin: A Geostrategic Russian Icon, A Eurasian Continent, A Russian Superpower, A Charismatic World Leader.

ISBN 9781365681295 / ISBN E-BOOK 9783961643622

A Slavic People

A Russian Superpower

A Charismatic World Leader

Praeludium

Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, Philippines, July 17th, 2014

Malaysia Boeing MH17 over Eastern Ukraine’s War Zone, July 17th, 2014.

Various Downing Theories

Tank Destroying Mix of Ammunition Bullet holes in the Outer Skin

Reviews What Was the Most Likely Motive?

The Islamic Caliphate in the Syrian Civil War and its Consequences

A Reborn Russian Global Military Power in Action within the BRICS

The Latest Military Developments

Future Global Military Projects

The Dramatic Developments in the South China Sea

The Philippines Strongly Increasing Significance

Russia's and China's Joint Strategy

In Sweden

The Swedish View of Russia and President Vladimir Putin

Naive Sweden in the Epicenter of the Refugee Crisis

Sweden and NATO

Princeps Mundi

Vladimir Putin's Strategy in the Syrian Civil War and the Middle East

Towards a Gigantic Eurasian Continental Nationality-Based Superpower Constellation

Vladimir Putin and the Current Strategic Situation in Eurasia and Globally. A Brief Review and Summary.

The Global Upheaval

About Author

Index

Praeludium

Santa Fe, Bantayan Island, Philippines, July 17th, 2014

I got up early this morning since anything; I did not know what made me anxious. Menacing blue-black cumulus clouds loomed large on the horizon against Hagnaya on Cebu Island, about a 1-hour ferry ride or ten nautical miles away. But despite the intimidating atmosphere with a storm approaching, I began hesitantly move me the thirty meters down to the white beaches to pursue my daily gym workouts. Jogging three km along the shores, gymnastics with pushups sixty in three sections on twenty each on the beach, and swimming about five hundred meters. Then I went back to my room at LL Lodge to occupy a reasonably hearty breakfast, which I am always usually careful to do even in my home country, Sweden. But maybe then with the proviso, might well be added, that I down here in the tropics hardly drink good morning gruel or eat solid rye- porridge.

Here, it is usually a purely American breakfast or perhaps something between continental and American ditto consisting of cornflakes with refrigerated milk, crispy bacon, sometimes varied with dried and fried in butter dangit fish, toast, home-brewed Brazilian coffee with natural cream and sugar, freshly squeezed juice, either varied with fresh mango and pomelo.

Later this fateful day, I took out my relatively newly purchased good-sounding Alhambra P8 guitar and played through my repertoire to get the creative impulses. When I am playing, I can gather ideas and contexts for the advanced information the authorship certainly can be considered. Therefore, I started the daily program with two Renaissance melodies, Cancion del Emperador and Guardame Las Vacas by Luys Naraváez. It was closely followed by the introductory part of Johan Sebastian Bach's famous and fateful Chaconne, which makes itself superbly well on classical guitar even if it is written for solo violin, where I also played it before. Two waltzes followed this by Antonio Lauro.  El Marabino and Carora and the somewhat equilibristic El Colibri by Julio S. Sagreras and two Brazilian favorites by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Prelude and Etude 1, both in E minor. Finally, my Latin American favorite, the Paraguayan Aire de Samba by Augustine Barrios Mangoré. After that, a little bit sore in the fingertips,

I went to the computer machine, an ASUS K54 F, a few years old but in good condition to continue writing my second book in the ongoing trilogy about Russian President Vladimir Putin and his progress. Still, it is not a wholly harmless process to change the world order and take away the US's intentions to unipolar rule the world alone with NATO as a world policeman.

At this particular moment, he was on his way home from a visit to Latin America and the  BRICS conference in Fortaleza in Brazil on 14-16 July 2014. ¹ He met with leaders of the most important countries on the continent. Cuba has been under sanctions imposed by its powerful northern neighbor for 50 years. Before the visit, the Russian Duma had granted a waiver of a multi-billion-dollar loan that Cuba received from the former Soviet Union. Besides Cuba, Russia entered into agreements with Brazil, Argentina, and Nicaragua. In Cuba, one supports the construction of power stations, an airfield, and a port. In addition, Russia will create a new canal between the Atlantic and the Pacific in Nicaragua. China also has a sizeable financial finger in the pie. It is a significant strategic project and a counterweight to the US-controlled Panama Canal. In Brazil and Argentina, this applies primarily to nuclear power installations. Thus, Russia has realized that one needs Cuba for the global strategic balance and to create military bases to support their naval and air forces. But Cuba also needs Russia's support in the confrontation with the United States, and she fully supports Russia's foreign policy. Even in the Crimea issue. "One does not need to build dozens of naval bases to ensure an entire presence in the Atlantic or Pacific. Two or three will be enough to provide a permanent company, "Victoria Legranova, a former expert on US military forces, says.

Developing the GLONASS satellite navigation system is crucial in these Latin American countries, which Russia expects as partners. Putin negotiated essential issues in this area concerning either the design or construction of GLONASS. It provides an opportunity to track possible US targets. To install the equipment is a simple matter, according to the Russian military expert Alexander Shirokorad. Let's say that the colonial powers want to exclude Argentina from the GPS because of its position concerning the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). It is then easy to switch to GLONASS instead. And this is the most crucial thing in this context that gives significant advantages since Argentina can precisely handle the Falkland Islands crisis. "This system allows determining the location of, for example, units of troops, the location of ships, armored columns. It allows conducting accurate missile strikes. That is, this system will increase the combat efficiency of the armed forces of Argentina," Vladimir Yevseyev, the director of the Center for Public Political Studies, told Pravda.Ru.

Argentineans became especially delighted when Putin used Argentina rather than the Anglo-Saxon Falkland Islands. The Russian aid to Latin America's end goal is mainly to win support from Argentina and Brazil. So the final analysis of the visit to Latin America and China before becomes impossible to isolate Russia. It is necessary to build a new security system, but without military-technical cooperation, this is impossible. These two visits are considered strategically essential and highly caused by Kyiv's coup in February 2014.

I was impatiently waiting as it seemed to take forever for the computer to boot up. In the end, I came in at the desktop and clicked up my word document with book number two in order with the title. Vladimir Putin. A Geostrategic Russian Icon. In the Shadow of Ukraine, which I just was about to finalize before the publication. While waiting for the document to be uploaded, I went out on the Internet and checked the latest news.

Bolded headlines from most media worldwide met me with a Malaysian passenger plane that crashed over the Eastern part of Ukraine. There was talk about how it had been downed, but some ambiguities regarding the reason occurred. However, the following day, I saw a large number of headings. Here are some of them: The Times: Blown Out of the Sky, New York Post Murder at 33,000 feet, and the Guardian" Murder in the Sky: Missile destroys jet and kills 295 '. Although I was deeply shocked, I was reading this and had difficulty taking on what happened and how it could have happened.

However, the days afterward, I saw two headlines that made me raise eyebrows. It was in the New York magazine, Daily News under the heading Putin's War and last but not least English Sun with the even bolder title Putin's missile. I asked myself how the western media already the days after the disaster so determined that Putin's missile or war was the real reason. I decided to finish my second book in this series later in the autumn without further analyzing this tragic event because I wanted to investigate the accident.

Malaysia Boeing MH17 over Eastern Ukraine’s War Zone, July 17th, 2014.

Various Downing Theories

Numerous analyses, technical investigations, and speculations of all kinds appeared in the world press after the downing of the Malaysian airliner MH-17 over Eastern Ukraine on July 17th, 2014. I intend to focus on the most relevant theories and the most important in this context, namely the motive.

October 13, 2015, a final report came from Dutch Safety Board²,  but it said the same as the Western media stubbornly brokered during the past year and that it was a Russian-made BUK- missile that downed the aircraft. One writes in the report on page 126 that no gunfire is causing cube-like, arch, or fly-shaped holes were found in the wreckage and the crew's bodies. Furthermore, one writes on page 127 that no military fighter aircraft were within a closer distance than thirty km at the attack time. Eyewitnesses contradict this assertion on the ground and Russian radar information. This information has been completely disregarded. On page 128, some short, medium, and long-range aircraft missiles are presented, all Russian. But from none of these, there were no traces either in the wreckage or in the pilots' bodies. So-called MANPADS, anti-aircraft missiles carried on the shoulder by soldiers, are entirely excluded as these only reach up to about 3000 meters. DSB believes that the warhead was a 9N314M because there were traces of both the cube that fly-arc-shaped (I-beam) shrapnel in both the wreckage and the pilots' bodies.

Also, DSB allowed Ukraine to examine the firing circumstances even though the missile was believed to have been fired from the Ukrainian territory. In purely legal terms, Ukraine is 100% responsible for it happened. Just as a criminal court would permit a suspect to self-examine what weapons he is accused of using when he murdered someone in his own house. It smells like a rat here, and the report also determines from which area and the size of the projectile could have been fired.

Global Research writes that the Russian Buk missile manufacturer Almaz-Antey has conducted its survey ³to produce a more precise conclusion than the Dutch Safety Board report. The article criticized the DSB study in that "The 279-page report is full of commonplace charts and infographics. But when it comes to important data and assessments, it exposes a 320 sqr km zone of the possible launching site and mispresents the type of BUK missile which hit the Malaysian Boeing (9M38 and 9M38M1 missiles while no signs of specific I-beam striking elements of 9M38M1 missile were found on the wrecked parts of the fuselage. On the contrary, the new Almaz-Antey investigation report was made public almost simultaneously on Tuesday and gave a comprehensive and detailed picture to a definite conclusion: a missile was launched from Zaroshchenskoe, under the Ukrainian Defence Forces control at this time. The conclusion was based on thorough and transparent research including computer modeling and a full-scale real experiment conducted on October 7, 2015."

As a result of this experiment, as Almaz Antey's hypothesis, a missile was launched from Snezhnoe (under rebel control), is rejected.

When it comes to the missile type, it is about the difference between 9M38 and 9M38M1, whose striking elements are exposed through the Almaz-Antey - Group investigation.

"The fact is that there were no holes caused by I-Beam type elements on the fuselage of the Malaysian Boeing. That means that it was downed by the 9M38 missile compatible with only the first-generation BUK 9К37 launcher, which was produced in the Soviet Union in 1978-1986. Many BUK complexes were on service in the Ukraine-based Soviet Army Air Defense regiments and were left there after the collapse of the Soviet Union."

Paul Craig Roberts, a well-known and respected American columnist who previously worked for US President Ronald Reagan, presents arguments against the DSB report.

On the other hand, DSB criticizes Ukraine for not having closed the airspace over the war zone. But no accusations against Russia are given in the report. Neither is given any motive or someone responsible for the catastrophic event.

However, the report has been received with mixed comments worldwide. Russia is far away because the DSB has not accepted the Almaz Antey (BUK missile manufacturer) cooperation in the investigation. What is remarkable is that the DSB report establishes the same thing as the rabid Russian hostile Western media propaganda the days after the downing, namely a BUK -missile but not