Preparing For War: Russian Citizens Stocking up on Essential Supplies
Moscow residents buying matches & salt as fears of new NATO conflict accelerate
Paul Joseph Watson
Russian citizens across the
country are stocking up on essential supplies like salt, matches and
buckwheat in preparation for war, according to an expert who recently
visited the region.
Jill
Dougherty, who served as CNN’s Foreign Affairs Correspondent for three
decades, reveals how Russians are paranoid about a major imminent
conflict in an article for the Wilson Center.
After
explaining how a taxi driver in Moscow asked her, “When are we going to
war?”, Dougherty relates how she traveled from “the Baltic region, to
Georgia, and to Russia” and that “talk of war is everywhere”.
“At
the office I ask a Russian employee about the mood in his working-class
Moscow neighborhood,” she writes. “The old people are buying salt,
matches and “gretchka,” (buckwheat) he tells me – the time-worn refuge
for Russians stocking up on essentials in case of war.”
According
to Dougherty, many prominent voices in Russia are incredibly concerned
about NATO’s increasingly harsh rhetoric and military maneuvers.
She
cites comments made by Sergei Karaganov, foreign affairs expert and
member of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Foreign Policy and Defense
Council, who told Der Spiegel that the western propaganda offensive
against Russia is “reminiscent of the period preceding a new war.”
As Mac Slavo explains, all signs point to a major escalation.
“With
Vladimir Putin having recently purged 50 of his top commanders
following an old Soviet doctrine that calls for exactly such maneuvers
ahead of war, there appear to be a variety of actions being undertaken
by both East and West in anticipation of a large-scale conflict.”
“NATO
is deploying more assets to the Eastern front and the Russians for,
their part, are feverishly deploying new weapons systems, one of which
is reportedly capable of obliterating an entire U.S. state the size of
Texas, as well as a Tsunami torpedo that could wipe out entire coastal
cities.”
