L’Antonov 124-100 surnomm\u00e9 Ruslan’ (Code OTAN : Condor’) est le second plus gros avion du monde produit en s\u00e9rie (le premier \u00e9tant l’Airbus A380) ; l’avion le plus gros du monde hors s\u00e9rie est l’Antonov An-225. Il permet de transporter les charges les plus diverses telles que locomotives, grues, satellites, bateaux. Cet avion est \u00e9quip\u00e9 de deux ponts roulants disposant chacun de deux palans pouvant supporter un poids maximum de 20 tonnes. Il peut peser jusqu’\u00e0 400 tonnes au d\u00e9collage et embarquer jusqu’\u00e0 150 tonnes (120 t en version de base An-124, 150 t en version An-124-100) de charge utile (six fois celle du C-160 Transall’ des arm\u00e9es fran\u00e7aise et allemande)…<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tNous citons ci-dessous l’essentiel du texte de Madsen, qui est extraordinairement d\u00e9taill\u00e9 et renvoie sans aucun doute \u00e0 une source clandestine du renseignement dont Madsen est coutumier d’acc\u00e8s. (Source US ? Russe ? D’autres pays, \u00e9galement impliqu\u00e9s ? Le choix existe, mais on notera que Madsen fait allusion dans son texte au jugement de Poutine selon lequel l’arm\u00e9e ukrainienne est une l\u00e9gion \u00e9trang\u00e8re au service du bloc BAO, US et OTAN principalement. Les services russes doivent avoir suivi \u00e0 la trace l’odyss\u00e9e du An-124\/UR82072, d’autant que l’arm\u00e9e russe a des facilit\u00e9s d’acc\u00e8s et de renseignement sur les \u00e9quipements militaires ukrainiens venus de ses propres arsenaux et des constructeurs qui ont aliment\u00e9 les forces militaires de l’URSS.) La lecture du texte de Madsen peut para\u00eetre fastidieuse, sur les vols de l’An-124 ainsi que les d\u00e9tails des escales qui concernent des lieux strat\u00e9giques de l’ensemble USA\/CIA\/OTAN et d’autres pays, etc. ; mais l’ensemble fournit une impression g\u00e9n\u00e9rale substantiv\u00e9e par tous ces d\u00e9tails pr\u00e9cis d’une activit\u00e9 routini\u00e8re extr\u00eamement significative du point de vue strat\u00e9gique du fait des caract\u00e9ristiques inhabituels du An-124\/UR82072, termin\u00e9e par un commentaire sur la signification strat\u00e9gique de ces livraisons. A la suite de ce long texte, nous proposons quelques remarques sur notre interpr\u00e9tation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00ab… In a repeat of the Central Intelligence Agency’s globe hopping weapons transport cargo planes of the Iran-Contra scandal era and the more recent Libyan rebel supply caper to overthrow Muammar Qaddafi, a Ukrainian Antonov AN-124 (tail number UR-82072) heavy lifter military transport plane, denoted as an \u00abInternational Cargo Transport\u00bb and belonging to the \u00abAntonov Transport Bureau\u00bb, astonished residents around Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla International Airport in Serbia when it landed there on January 28, 2015. The Ukrainian plane, the world’s largest aircraft, was a rare sight at an airport in a country that generally supports Russia in its conflict with Kiev.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb[Secretary of State John<\/em>] Kerry and<\/em> [ NATO military commander General Philip<\/em>] Breedlove are talking about commencing an arms shipment by NATO that actually began last year. In September 2014, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated that a number of NATO countries agreed to deliver weapons to Ukrainian forces, which consist not only of regular Ukrainian troops but irregular battalions supported by billionaire Ukrainian-Israeli warlord Ihor Kolomoisky consisting of neo-Nazis, U.S. and other private military forces, and ex-Israel Defense Force personnel. At the time of the September 2014 NATO summit in Wales, Ukrainian presidential adviser Yuri Lutsenko said that the United States, France, Poland, Norway and Italy had agreed to supply weapons to Ukraine and Canada later revealed that it had also commenced weapons transfers to the Kiev putschists.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbUkraine’s military forces have received so much NATO military aid and assistance and personnel, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said that the Ukrainian Army is acting as NATO’s foreign legion. There are also credible reports that NATO has supplied the Kiev regime with deadly cluster bombs that are being used against the largely Russian-speaking civilian population of the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe AN-124 that landed in Belgrade appears to have been ferrying weapons from a number of known NATO air terminals used for such purposes. After arriving in Bucharest, Romania on January 23, 2015 from the Italian island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Libya, the aircraft departed on January 23 for New Jersey in the United States. Lampedusa was a major staging base for NATO weapons supplies to Libyan rebels during the Western- and Islamist-inspired rebellion against the Qaddafi government. Bucharest has become a major base for NATO military support to Kiev.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOn January 25, the Antonov departed Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey for Trondheim, Norway. On January 26, the Ukrainian transport plane left Trondheim for Prestwick Airport, Glasgow, Scotland. The plane departed Prestwick on January 28 and touched down the same day at Belgrade. Prestwick was a favorite transit hub used by the CIA for the rendition of detainees following 9\/11.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe United States has positioned six storage units located in the mountains of Norway’s central Tr\u00f8ndelag region, the capital of which is Trondheim. U.S. military equipment, including tanks and armored personnel vehicles, are stored at two Norwegian Air Force stations in the area, one of them being co-located with Trondheim Airport V\u00e6rnes where the Ukrainian Antonov landed on January 26, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe Antonov’s destination after it left Belgrade was Mombasa, Kenya via Athens. The plane was reported by Serbian sources to be carrying special cargo weapons. It is conceivable that UR-82072 dropped off in Athens for further shipment to Ukraine weapons loaded at NATO airports in Lampedusa, Glasgow, and Trondheim, as well as Serbian caches placed on board in Belgrade and, perhaps, U.S. weapons stored at Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County, New Jersey, the Defense Department’s Specialty Site for Guns and Ammunition, and Naval Weapons Station Earle, New Jersey. Both weapons bases are in close proximity to Newark Liberty International. The AN-124 is permanently based at Kiev’s Gostomel Airport. The plane’s visit to Newark airport was said to be rare by local plane spotters.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbEver since fighting broke out between Ukrainian forces and Russian-speaking separatists in eastern Ukraine, the mysterious Ukrainian AN-124 has been spotted around the world, likely picking up weapons. On June 18, 2014, it was seen at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport. Before that, it was seen on May 22, 2014 at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, in what may have been a refueling stop. On January 1 and 6, 2015 and November 23, 2014, it was spotted at Leipzig\/Halle Airport in Germany; on July 2, 2014, it was Luqa International in Malta (Malta was another staging base for weapons supplies to anti-Qaddafi forces during the Libyan civil war); and on April 15, 2014 at Francisco Sa Carneiro Aiport, Porto, Portugal and a week later, on April 27, at Schwechat Airport in Vienna. In June 2014, the Ukrainian transport plane was at Boston Logan Airport, Tulsa International in Oklahoma (the home of Tinker Air Force Base, a major logistics center), and Philadelphia International Airport (near Boeing’s Rotorcraft Systems in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania). The Ukrainian plane was reported to have arrived from Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv to pick up an Agusta Westland ICH-47F Chinook helicopter, licensed by Boeing, for the Italian army. However, it is anyone’s guess what the Ukrainian plane picked up in addition to the Italy-bound Chinook and where such extra cargo may have ended up.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOn May 14, 2014, the Ukrainian Antonov was seen at Calgary International Airport in Alberta. Calgary is a major nexus for the Canadian and American military-industrial complex, hosting Raytheon Canada’s missile production division and plants producing the rotary Phalanx machine gun and infrared and targeting equipment for armored vehicles, and General Dynamics, Harris Corporation, and NovAtel factories manufacturing everything from avionics systems to satellite communications gear.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAlso in June 2014, the globe-hopping Ukrainian weapons transport was seen at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska. In June 2014 it was seen in Buenos Aires. In October 2013, just a month before the outbreak of CIA and State Department-supported Maidan protests in Kiev, UR-82072 was seen on the runway at Dulles International Airport, which sits in the middle of an American military-intelligence industrial complex that includes the CIA, Defense Logistics Agency operations, and major war contractors like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Dulles also hosts a German military base on American soil.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOn April 4, 2014, the Antonov weapons carrier was sighted at Portsmouth International Airport, the old Pease Air Force Base, which is now a New Hampshire Air National Guard Base. It is said to have departed for Dakar, Senegal. However, one of the most common tactics of the CIA and U.S. military during the heyday of Iran-contra was to file false flight plans and bogus bills of lading. Israel’s Mossad assisted in the clandestine shipment of U.S. weapons, such as the TOW anti-tank missile, to Iran.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIn September 2014, the Ukrainian weapons hauler was spotted on a runway at Tbilisi International Airport in the Republic of Georgia. Not far from it was a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster cargo plane that was supposedly delivering weapons to Georgia. The close proximity of the Ukrainian weapons heavy lifter to the C-17 at Tbilisi airport coincided with the NATO Summit in Wales. In 2013, the Ukrainian plane was involved in the transfer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThere is little doubt that Breedlove, an unapologetic Cold Warrior, had previously authorized the transfer of NATO weapons to Ukraine via Tbilisi. Georgia and Ukraine have formed an aspirant NATO member alliance against Russia on a front line extending from South Ossetia, through Abkhazia, through eastern Ukraine and Crimea, to the Transnistrian Republic north of Moldova. It is this front line that NATO war planners now dream of directly confronting indigenous and Russian troops protecting the independence of the phalanx of states of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Donetsk, Lugansk, and Transnistria but also Russia’s southern flank, including the Russian autonomous republic of Crimea and the Russian federal city of Sevastopol.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbIt is clear from the arrivals and departures of Ukraine’s gigantic weapons hauler, Breedlove’s comments about arming Ukraine with lethal weapons were ex post facto. Once again, America has chosen a foolhardy strategy of war over diplomacy. And, once again, it will pay a terrible price in terms of blood and treasure.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Une fois de plus, ces diverses pr\u00e9cisions qui paraissent irr\u00e9futables sur l’activit\u00e9 routini\u00e8re de livraisons d’armes depuis de nombreux mois \u00e0 l’Ukraine, posent le probl\u00e8me du d\u00e9calage extraordinaire, en contenu et en chronologie, entre la communication et les v\u00e9rit\u00e9s de situation. Quel sens r\u00e9el ont les conversations entre Obama et Merkel du 9 f\u00e9vrier sur la question des livraisons d’armes, et que repr\u00e9sente l’opposition de la chanceli\u00e8re \u00e0 ces pratiques qui se d\u00e9roulent de fa\u00e7on routini\u00e8re depuis de nombreux mois ? Plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment se pose \u00e0 nouveau cette autre question : que savent Merkel et m\u00eame Obama de ces livraisons d’armes quand on conna\u00eet l’autonomie d’action de facto<\/em> des myriades de services et d’agences, am\u00e9ricanistes et autres, dans cette sorte d’activit\u00e9 ? La m\u00eame question vaut pour tous les dirigeants, parlementaires, etc., personnalit\u00e9s civiles qui sont en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral tenues \u00e0 l’\u00e9cart des activit\u00e9s et des informations de ces services et agences du complexe de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale du bloc BAO r\u00e9pondant directement aux impulsions de surpuissance du Syst\u00e8me. A cet \u00e9gard et tenant compte du fait irr\u00e9futable que la communication a remplac\u00e9 la politique, il s’en d\u00e9duit que la politique est totalement paralys\u00e9e et inf\u00e9conde et ne peut qu’ent\u00e9riner les faits accomplis que lui impose ce m\u00eame complexe, une fois que ces faits sont devenus av\u00e9r\u00e9s et trop connus pour \u00eatre ni\u00e9s. L’incursion de la communication des r\u00e9seaux alternatifs et antiSyst\u00e8me complique encore plus le probl\u00e8me et rendent la politique des directions encore plus inop\u00e9rantes puisque ces r\u00e9seaux, par d\u00e9finition, travaillent \u00e0 faire correspondre le plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment possible les informations de leur communication avec les v\u00e9rit\u00e9s de situation. Pour qui s’aventure dans cette sorte de lecture, le texte de Madsen constitue un acte ridiculisant compl\u00e8tement les discussions Obama-Merkel sur le sujet des livraisons d’armes, et d\u00e9gradant \u00e0 mesure l’autorit\u00e9 et la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 de ces dirigeants politiques. Cette d\u00e9gradation intervient effectivement, m\u00eame pour ceux qui ignorent les pr\u00e9cisions du type-Madsen, simplement parce que ces pr\u00e9cisions circulent dans les milieux concern\u00e9s et cr\u00e9ent un climat favorable \u00e0 cette d\u00e9gradation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t( Une remarque annexe \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sente est le constate l’extraordinaire autonomie d’action dont disposent les agences et services du complexe de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale du bloc BAO. Cette autonomie s’\u00e9tend \u00e0 l’usage d’une myriade de bases dans de tr\u00e8s nombreux pays, mais aussi \u00e0 l’usage d’a\u00e9roports civils, y compris dans des pays \u00e9trangers inattendus par rapport \u00e0 leur position politique (Argentine). Ces divers points impliquent des complicit\u00e9s, des liens secrets et officieux, entre les divers services, agences, arm\u00e9es, etc., de tr\u00e8s nombreux pays dans le bloc BAO bien s\u00fbr mais aussi hors du bloc. Loin de faire penser \u00e0 une sorte de complot mondial, l’ensemble laisse une impression de d\u00e9sordre plan\u00e9taire et d’absence compl\u00e8te de contr\u00f4le des autorit\u00e9s politiques. Madsen a raison de comparer cette affaire \u00e0 celle des livraisons clandestines US aux contras<\/em> nicaraguayen, dans les ann\u00e9es 1984-1986. Mais l’action clandestine d\u00e9crite ici est infiniment plus globalis\u00e9e, mieux organis\u00e9e et quasi-officiellement si l’on peut dire, \u00e0 cause de la pr\u00e9sence active des services et agences, donc en essence tr\u00e8s diff\u00e9rente justement par le d\u00e9sordre et l’absence de contr\u00f4le.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t Si l’on fait une hypoth\u00e8se acceptable du volume des armes transf\u00e9r\u00e9es vers Kiev ne serait-ce que par ces vols de l’An-124\/UR-82072 (rien n’interdisant \u00e9videmment de supposer, avec toutes les raisons du monde, que d’autres livraisons ont eu lieu, par d’autres vols ou d’autres moyens), on comprend effectivement que l’arm\u00e9e ukrainienne a d\u00e9j\u00e0 re\u00e7u des quantit\u00e9s importantes de syst\u00e8mes divers en provenance du bloc BAO. Diverses mesures, au niveau du d\u00e9ploiement, des processus d’autodestruction, etc., peuvent avoir prot\u00e9g\u00e9 ces syst\u00e8mes de saisies spectaculaires par les s\u00e9paratistes, outre que l’on ignore la politique de publicit\u00e9 ou non de telles \u00e9ventuelles saisies que suivent ces m\u00eames s\u00e9paratistes, notamment en fonction des pressions russes selon une politique qui s’est av\u00e9r\u00e9e jusqu’ici d’une prudence extr\u00eame et attentive \u00e0 \u00e9viter toute provocation ou actes pouvant susciter une aggravation de la crise. Quoi qu’il en soit, la situation qui se r\u00e9v\u00e8le conduit \u00e0 penser que, dans tous les cas, l’aide militaire occidentale \u00e0 l’arm\u00e9e ukrainienne n’est en rien un facteur d\u00e9cisif pouvant changer les capacit\u00e9s de cette arm\u00e9e et la fortune actuelle de la guerre civile qui favorise les s\u00e9paratistes. On peut donc avancer l’hypoth\u00e8se que, si le bloc BAO, et les USA pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment, veulent une action militaire d\u00e9cisive contre les s\u00e9paratistes, \u00e9ventuellement pour forcer les Russes \u00e0 une intervention plus directe, on en viendra \u00e0 des engagements plus directs, c’est-\u00e0-dire des engagements de forces militaires du bloc BAO. Au reste, cet engagement devrait devenir in\u00e9vitable si les livraisons de syst\u00e8mes d’arme continuent et si des syst\u00e8mes extr\u00eamement avanc\u00e9s sont livr\u00e9s, les USA notamment ne faisant aucune confiance \u00e0 des forces non-US pour le maniement de tels syst\u00e8mes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t La conclusion g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de ces diff\u00e9rents constats et hypoth\u00e8ses \u00e0 partir du texte de Madsen et de ce qu’il nous dit de la situation en Ukraine, c’est que les faits sont tr\u00e8s largement en avance des intentions pseudo-politiques, dans le sens de l’aggravation. Bien entendu, c’est bien peu de dire que le pouvoir politique a perdu le contr\u00f4le des \u00e9v\u00e9nements puisqu’on sait bien qu’il ne l’a jamais eu… La crise ukrainienne pr\u00e9sente aujourd’hui le cas extr\u00eame de la dissolution de toute action politique, dans tous les cas dans le chef du bloc BAO, bien plus que dans toutes les autres s\u00e9ries crisiques, y compris celles du Moyen-Orient. Le complet transfert de la non-politique vers la communication, c’est-\u00e0-dire vers les narrative<\/em>, explique le d\u00e9calage stup\u00e9fiant entre le discours des directions politiques et les v\u00e9rit\u00e9s de situation qui se succ\u00e8dent. La crise ukrainienne est sans aucun doute le mod\u00e8le ultime de la crise hors de tout contr\u00f4le politique, c’est-\u00e0-dire hors de tout contr\u00f4le humain rationnel, pour s’en remettre aux seules impulsions des acteurs du syst\u00e8me du technologisme (services, agences, etc.), agissant \u00e9videmment dans le sens de la dynamique surpuissante du Syst\u00e8me. La crise ukrainienne est la crise-Syst\u00e8me par d\u00e9finition et, pour cette raison, elle nous entra\u00eenera tr\u00e8s, tr\u00e8s loin, et elle dupliquera \u00e9videmment le sort du Syst\u00e8me lui-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 5 f\u00e9vrier 2015 \u00e0 10H12<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Des armes pour Kiev ? L’odyss\u00e9e de l’An-124\/UR-82072 Le commentateur US Wayne Madsen donne un int\u00e9ressant article, le 3 f\u00e9vrier 2015 sur Strategic-culture.org. Cet article, extr\u00eamement minutieux quant \u00e0 l’odyss\u00e9e d’un exemplaire pr\u00e9cis de l’avion de transport strat\u00e9gique ukrainien An-124, permet de comprendre combien le d\u00e9bat actuel lanc\u00e9 par les USA pour la livraison d’armes… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6545,9795,3992,2933,16392,3012,16393,2631,2797,2622,4811,2937,16391,4205,5760,1296],"class_list":["post-75744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-an-124","tag-antonov","tag-armes","tag-bases","tag-clandestins","tag-complexe","tag-darme","tag-de","tag-kiev","tag-la","tag-madsen","tag-nationale","tag-ruslan","tag-securite","tag-systemes","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}