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To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (7035)	2/1/1998 6:37:00 AM
From: Abner Hosmer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116762

Bobby - Don't know if you read this. Alexander Lebed creates an extremely scary picture of conditions in Russia: Russia is ripe for a military coup. So says a soldier who is one of the most popular men in the country. "The politicians treat ordinary people as garbage" forbes.com Some excerpts: >>The so-called generals needed a big war somewhere so that a large amount of armor could be destroyed and conveniently written off. When the Western Army Group was demobilized, Pavel Grachev [former defense minister] and Matvei P. Burlakov [commander of the Western Army Group] stole 1,600 tanks and sold them on the black market-to Croatia, Serbia and elsewhere. The correspondent Dmitri Kholodov came close to uncovering this, but he was killed. That's why the generals attacked the city of Grozny with columns of tanks without infantry cover. A tank in a city is like an elephant in a pit. A kid can throw gasoline down on it, throw down a cigarette and the tank burns. ...Since 1945 the Soviet Union participated in 52 wars...The globe is seeded with our corpses. But not once has the government made an effort to rehabilitate the men coming back from the fighting... Russia has a huge number of people full of anger and pain, intent on destruction, violence and revenge.<<

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (7035)	2/1/1998 11:14:00 AM
From: Ron Everest	Respond to of 116762

Indeed these are interesting times. Agreeing with you that the obvious is usually not the way things are acted out. The US and others - Britain definitely want to protect supply lines, oil. There are many very powerful people influencing the activities in the middle east IMO and there is no chance that anyone attacking Israel will go unscathed. A number of years back a friend was working on an underground air base installation for Israel. This thing is right inside a mountain and can take a direct nuclear hit. The problem for a perpetrator is that the planes can take off and be airborne before they leave the undergroud facility. Woe to anyone attacking Israel as the retaliation will be swift and severe. Best regards, Ron E