Communist Bloc Military Updates: Baluyevsky: "Preventative" nuke strikes our right, Mediterranean drills continue, Red Square military parade revived

Moscow's bellicose stance against the West continues with the Kremlin's top general issuing yet another warning against NATO expansionism, even as Washington's globalist elite treasonously promote military cooperation with neo-Soviet Russia. Today Chief of the Russian General Staff Yuri Baluyevsky, speaking in Moscow, asserted his country's right to utilize preemptive nuclear strikes against its enemies, all the while falsely deyning that Moscow has any plans to attack anyone:

Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons on a preventative basis. We are not planning to attack anyone. But our partners should clearly understand... that the armed forces will be used if necessary to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation and its allies, including on a preventative basis, including with the use of nuclear weapons. Military force can and must be used to demonstrate the decisiveness of the top leadership of the country to defend its interests and as a last resort on a massive scale at a time when all other methods prove insufficient.

Pictured above: Neo-Soviet Tyrant Vladimir Putin and Baluyevsky.

Meanwhile, the Russian Navy, under the lead of its flagship aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, continues its maneuvers in the North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The comradely relationship between Putin and faux rightist French President Nicholas Sarkozy, who has already made his pilgrimage to the Third Rome (Moscow), is exemplified by the fact that the port of Toulon will receive a courtesy call from Russia's naval vessels. State-run Novosti reports:

Russian Navy to conduct exercises in the Atlantic next week
16:2717/ 01/ 2008

TOULON, January 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russian warships from the Northern and the Black Sea fleets will conduct joint maneuvers next week in the Atlantic Ocean, the Northern Fleet commander said on Thursday.

A Naval Task Force, consisting of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, the Udaloy-Class destroyers Admiral Levchenko and Admiral Chabanenko, and auxiliary vessels, is currently on a two-month tour of duty in the Mediterranean Sea and North Atlantic.

Vice-Admiral Nikolai Maksimov, who leads the task force on the tour, said the Moskva guided missile cruiser of the Black Sea Fleet, which left Sevastopol on January 12, was to join the group in the next few days.

"We will meet in the Atlantic on January 20 and start a joint exercise," Maksimov said. "The two fleets and strategic bombers will practice interoperability for several days."

He said the current expedition to the Mediterranean, which started on December 5, is aimed at ensuring Russia's naval presence "in the key operational areas of the world oceans" and establishing conditions for secure Russian maritime navigation.

"I think that after this visit to the Mediterranean and France, the first in 15 years, we will establish a permanent presence in the region," the admiral said.

"We have discussed naval cooperation with our French colleagues and they confirmed their readiness to receive our combat ships at French ports in 2008, including at Toulon," he added.

The Russian Army will also be flexing its muscles for the cameras in a May 9 parade in Red Square, the first to be held since the days of the old Soviet Union. State-run Interfax reports:

Modern arms to again be shown at May 9 parade on Red Square - ministry
Jan 15 2008 12:00PM

MOSCOW. Jan 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Modern examples of military equipment will again be demonstrated at a military parade of the Moscow garrison troops on Red Square on the Victory Day anniversary after many years hiatus, a source with the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"A meeting, which set the task of organizing and holding the military parade on May 9, 2008 on the Red Square in Moscow, took place on January 12 under the chairmanship of Moscow Military District Commander Gen. Vladimir Bakin. It was noted at the meeting that modern military equipment, including Topol-M modern mobile systems of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces, will take part in it," the source told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday.

Over 6,000 servicemen, "wearing a new type of uniform," will take part in the parade, the source said. ar sm