By Jolly Green

If
you wouldn’t buy a used car from them, God help you if you buy a
new one. Even worse, if you want to buy their military equipment
because Vladimir, the armaments salesman, wants’ to sell the World
military equipment that is not just grossly unreliable, but may be
programmed to be used against the very country that buys it.

Russian
equipment is well known to have about a 7% inherent failure rate when
it comes to being operated or used. Russians have always been pretty
naff at engineering. In the USSR days, the failure of equipment was
even greater. But failing equipment like their frequently crashing
airliners was strictly treated as a state secret.

The
Russian vehicles, Moskvich, Lada, Zaz, and Chiaka Limousine, and
several others were all so unreliable that in recent years before
European and US sanctions took hold, Russians were buying imports.
They imported great numbers of vehicles and exported their rubbish,
stacked it high and sold it cheap.

Their
Nuclear reactors have such a bad record it’s unsafe to live within
5000 miles of one. Even nuclear military equipment they are building
exploded a few weeks ago, killing scientists and military personnel
and radiation caused a whole town to be evacuated. Even today, they
have withheld the truth about injuries and fatalities, which may run
into hundreds or even thousands.

The
S 400 has a program linked to a satellite that can enable the
Russians to take control of the equipment from a control centre that
can be in Russia or anywhere on the planet. It’s certainly the kind
of thing Russia would have considered and applied to any equipment
sold to any country that may use the equipment against the Russians.

Say,
for instance, a country is to be invaded by Russia, and its defence
system and anything they bought from the Russians has a computerized
system. The Russians can remotely turn the systems off or on and
make them inoperable or perhaps have the equipment turn on the users
and attack the very country it is supposed to protect. At the flick
of a switch, even jet fighters and other aircraft sold by the
Russians can be destroyed in the air or on the ground. It’s called
the kill switch, the switch kills the equipment and the equipment
kills the people.

Country
leaders must be crazy if they think for one moment Russia would sell
them equipment that can be used against Russia. Even secretly sold
atomic weapons can be programmed to explode in storage by a command
from Russian control.

The
new S 500, I am reliably told, will have a hidden program that can,
when activated, turn it from defence into attack equipment and can
well destroy key elements and installations of the user country.

It’s
a modern version of the Trojan horse. The Trojan horse is a classic
tale set during the Trojan War. In the story, the Greeks built a
large wooden horse and hid inside it; the Trojans accept the horse as
a victory trophy and pull it into the city. When night falls, the
Greeks climb out of the horse and open the gates of the city of Troy.

Computer
Trojans are a serious threat to unsuspecting users of Russian
computerized military equipment. The users unknowingly have these
Trojan programs pre-installed, usually controlled through the
equipments GPS satellite software, or even internet connection. The
control of the equipment can be remotely taken control of by Russian
technicians from the other side of the World or from somewhere down
the street; the possibilities are incalculable.

Russia,
and in particular Putin, offer’s military equipment at discounted
prices, rapid delivery times, and a line of credit that cannot be
refused.

But
should it be a matter of buyers beware? ‘Caveat emptor’ is a
neo-Latin phrase meaning "let the buyer beware." It is a
principle of contract law in many jurisdictions that places the onus
on the buyer. Again buyers of Russian equipment should remember the
saying, “If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
"If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is” is a
catchphrase used to alert the buyer to shady business practices. But
in the case of Russian equipment it far worse than that.

The
Russians have the known ability to hack into power supplies all over
the World; they can turn off the power in Istanbul or New York State,
as they did recently in Venezuela to create work for Russian power
companies. They hack into computers all over the World and have even
taken control of elections worldwide.

But
one thing they do not have to hack into is the Russian natural gas
supply to the Far East, China, and Europe. They can turn off a valve
in the middle of winter and freeze half the world to death overnight.
Countries come to rely on Russian gas as their sole energy source,
Germany is almost totally reliant. This is an enormous international
misjudgement that puts Russia in charge and at front.

The
Russians are dangerous people to do any business with, and Vladimir
Putin wants to rule the World. Sooner or later, he may be able to do
that by creating a World War where all the Russian military equipment
sold abroad, is fighting it’s owners, and the countries that were
silly enough to buy it are overthrown by Russian technology.

Nothing
is for nothing, and for sure, what appears a bargain more often than
not turns out to be far less than expected. In the case of Putin's
weekly specials, they are for sure the introduction of a poison
chalice into unsuspecting countries.

Every
deal that Putin currently does puts another nail in the coffin of
NATO, The more NATO members that buy Russian equipment, the more NATO
members that will end up outside the NATO military coalition, because
you cannot serve both masters.

Would
you really buy a used car from a man like Putin? How about a Trojan
Horse?

Jolly Green.

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