Category: Strategic school

3. Implications for the US economy. Lesson twenty

Edward Snowden’s disclosure about how US intelligence (NSA) spies on millions of people’s telecommunications and data communications has led to problems for US technology companies. The simplest explanation is that customers are reacting to the surveillance from the NSA, which collects what we call Metadata, i.e. ingelligence about what contacts people have on the Internet, or on the phone.

In Europe, the NSA’s espionage is much more up close and personal. Snowden’s data has shown that large US technology companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, have more or less been forced, with reference to the law, to let the NSA into their systems in the intelligence agency’s search for terrorists.

Since it is now known that millions of people who are not suspected of anything also are monitored by the NSA, some of them have reacted with anger towards technology companies. When they cannot guarantee privacy, the customers turn to someone else, or build their own systems which they think are safer. The New York Times has spoken to an expert who believes that the business losses of major technology companies can reach $ 35 billion in a few years. Other analysts guess $ 180 billion in potential loss. This was in 2014.

Technology companies wants to know what the president and the congress will do to regulate and limit the monitoring of their customers. One of Microsoft’s managers told the New York Times that business customers in particular wants to know, more than ever, how their information is stored, used and secured. Right now, technology companies cannot provide any answers to that. They are waiting for the politicians to speak up and they are frustrated about not having received it already. They don’t know how to get answers, it’s like sucking blood from a stone. They have more or less given up on answers by now.

In March 21, 2014, President Obama met a number of technology company representatives in a two-hour meeting. They have had several meetings before that in which they talked about monitoring and integrity.

The technology companies are also concerned that the responsibility for storing that big amounts of data would be transferred to them, from the NSA. The technology companies do not want that, but it was an idea that Obama favored. He referred the questions to the Congress.

In the meantime, new disclosures are coming up almost every week about the NSA’s surveillance. Bush’s and Obama’s motives for NSA’s deep wire tapping goes like this;

if the NSA had the right to overlook foreign individuals and organizations, we would have been able to prevent nineeleven.

And they claim that they have been able to prevent terrorist attacks after nineeleven thanks to the survaillance program. The claim is probably not as true as that nineeleven could not be prevented due to territorial pissing. They didn’t manage to prevent the Boston bombers or the gay nightclub shooter in Orlando Florida, Omar Mateen, from committing their deeds even though their deeds came after nineeleven.

If there had been no waterproof bulkheads between the CIA, the FBI, the DIA and the NSA and if the organizational culture had not been so sluggish in government agencies such as the CIA and the FBI, then nineeleven perhaps could have been prevented. In the summer of 2001, the CIA in vain repeatedly warned President George W. Bush and other White House officials that an al-Qaeda attack was imminent. A few special agents at the CIA’s Alec station tried to warn the FBI headquarters that the malicious terrorist al-Mihdhar was in the US, but a CIA manager ordered the agents to be silent. One of the agents stated, quote “It was a classic example of when analysts owns information,” he said. “Operators share information. Some analysts tended to think of information as; never you mind.” End quote. Source; SR; Ekot, March 2014

Anyway, these are old but very alive news. We’ll probably have to wait and see if there comes a new Edward Snowden in the future, that would stir up the hornets nest. We have VPN services today, but I don’t trust the bulk of the VPN providers, like Surfshark or NordVPN. What we can know is that the US security organizations will continue and try to get to European industrial companies’ knowhow with the sitting and all the future US presidents’ blessings. It’s like a culture of forced weddings.

Homework:

What solutions do you think are available to us Europeans regarding how to force the current American president to a sufficient level speak up to our satisfaction about storing of data and the surveillance programs? I can tell you one thing. The closer to a second presidential terms end limit, the more the probability goes up. But at the same time the promise will proportionally be worth less, closer to a presidential terms end limit. But overall the probability is very small for a thorough US account on how the NSAs information is stored, used and secured. Please let me know if you have any ideas!

Roger M. Klang, defense political spokesman for the Christian Values Party (Kristna Värdepartiet) in Sweden

2. Cyber espionage. Lesson nineteen

Target Sweden

Ever since the Bush era the National Security Agency (NSA) collects, saves and sometimes reads/listens to selected conversations of millions of French and Spanish and probably also millions of Germans, Swedes and others. Merkel incidentally turned sour when she subsequently in late October 2013 realized that she was probably herself wire-tapped by the NSA. The NSA wired the German head of state Angela Merkel’s phones and 33 other world leaders, at least according to the whistleblower Edward Snowden’s leaked information. The wire-tapping has not been denied by the NSA or the White House. The NSA says they are wire-tapping people to avoid future terrorist acts. Is Merkel a terrorist sympathizer then?

In any case, you can be sure that everything Angela Merkel has said have also been listened in to by someone high up in the US government apparatus, unlike most of the other “noise”. The question is whether they even consider themselves to be competitive without the NSA’s controversial methods any longer.

It seems probable that the Americans will let go of the wire-tapping of the western world’s leaders and the European parliament through the NSA’s “section 702 program” whose aim is foreign individuals on our side of the Atlantic Ocean and most likely also on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. But as for the other European citizens, I do not think we will see any penitence from the Americans. The section 702 program differ from section 215 program which is aimed at citizens’ metadata. What they are interested in with section 215 program is not primarily what is said, instead it is oriented to whatever networks exist, i.e. information about who is calling who, when and how often, according to a Swedish security expert. Section 702 is probably much more thorough. It is usually not as easy to spy on your own people in a democracy from a legal perspective.

Target Germany

An employee of the German intelligence service BND is reported to have spied on behalf of the United States. The man is said to have handed over secret documents to the Americans. These are documents that concerns, among other things, the German political committee that investigates the US intelligence service NSA’s activities in Germany. The 31-year-old employee at the BND intelligence service is said to have collected 218 documents on a USB stick over a period of two years. The United States reportedly has paid him a trivial sum of about 28,000 US dollars in total. The suspected spy scandal was rolled up after suspicions that the man stood in contact with the Russian security service. He was arrested somewhere in the area around Munich and in the subsequent interrogation of him he has admitted that he had sold information to the US.

According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German Foreign Ministry invited the US Ambassador to ask him to help unravel what has happened. The suspect is suspected of handing the documents to the US, from the “NSA committee” in the German Bundestag. The committee’s task is to examine the extent of NSA’s operations in Germany, and it was appointed after Edward Snowden’s leaked information. Thus data from the committee who is set to examine the US intelligence service may have leaked to the United States. Moreover, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone has, as believed, been wire-tapped. Source; SR; Ekot, July 5, 2014

In July 2014, the German government requested that the highest representative of the US intelligence service (CIA) in Berlin was to leave the country, and this was the last thing I have heard about the controversy.

In the book “The Great Spy Scandal” or ”Pullach intern”, which was first published in 1971 in Germany and 1972 in Sweden, written by the two Der Spiegel journalists Hermann Zolling and Heinz Höhne who were leading experts in intelligence services operating in West and East Germany at the time, it appears that the phenomenon of American political espionage and industrial espionage against (West) Germany has been going on since long before the IT age.

There are only four designated countries that the NSA are not allowed to wire-tap according to secret legal documents from 2010, which Edward Snowden leaked in June 2014. According to the documents, the intelligence agency NSA has had much greater freedom to collect information than previously known, the Washington Post writes. Only the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are exempted from wire-tapping. Among the leaked documents, there is also a list of 193 countries in the world whose governments can be of interest to the NSA, and that is almost all the countries of the world. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) may also be wire-tapped.

The special US court whose task it is to monitor the NSA has determined that it is permissible for the NSA to wire-tap all telecommunications traffic that goes to and from interesting spy targets in other countries. But what is more is that according to the Washington Post, the NSA also collects all the communication concerning these interesting spy targets. This means that a much larger group of people are included in the circuit that can be wire-tapped, the Washington Post reports. It fits.

What is app?

But the NSA cannot be allowed to spy indiscriminately on individuals. First, the individual must himself approve the terms of use for various apps, which people sometimes have to do in order for the phone to work as it is intended, since the installation of the app is essential for the mobile’s function. So in practice it is mandatory to let yourself be spied on.

NSA can easily find out where you have been, when you have been there, which route you have taken and they also know what people you have text messaged or talked with and how you look, provided that you have taken pictures that end up in the cloud connected to your mobile phone and computer.

Had it not been up to the user himself to approve the espionage against him/her then everyone could have spied on anyone, especially the United States, and the United States could not have done anything about it without losing its face. It would have become “Bellum omnium contra omnes” = everyone’s war against everyone. Now, the US publicly can push countries to prosecute or extradite cybercriminals for espionage, instead of the United States just sitting silent and idle. All apps may not be used for NSA purposes and their terms of use are not written by the NSA or even by US lawyers.

The Posse Comitatus Act prohibits the US military from collecting information about US citizens, and the NSA is too part of the armed forces under the United States Department of Defense.

The above is just a hypothesis but it is highly reasonable and logically derived, because we know that the NSA is engaged in espionage against us, the question is just how and under what forms. There is where we can start to unravel.

I do not know, and I do not think there is anyone in Europe who knows, since it is not explicitly stated anywhere in the terms of use when downloading an app, that one can be spied on by the NSA when approving certain apps. Maybe the UK government and secret intelligence know. But I read in June 2014 that the NSA is focusing on – probably shared – pictures now. Probably they will now focus on already suspected persons, their appearance and clothing and the surroundings where they have been or are, personal associations, photo associations, timing of moving activity and camera activity, and modes of transport e.g. train, bus, car or motorcycle. The NSA keeps track on where some of the suspects resides via their mobile phones’ GPS apps, like Family Locator, an app among many that requires access to your personal photos and sensitive data when you install it. Trains run in unique patterns on railroad rails and the stations are located with long intervals at given locations. Cars run in a pattern that often means the straightest route without predictable intermediate stops on straight roads. Buses run in predetermined patterns and stops regularly at the same recurring places on straight roads. Motorcycles can drive and park on some streets, where cars or buses cannot drive or park, and arrive faster than other traffic in rush hour traffic.

This is against individuals who are already stuck in the NSA’s claws through suspicious emails and text messages. But there is a feeling of dissatisfaction for us ordinary Swenson’s that the NSA can take part of personal pictures and information about us, regardless of whether our images will be inspected by experts at the NSA or not. It is enough that someone else has access to personal images of our family members, our most intimate and most valuable.

The NSA has problems with many concerned Europeans and other world citizens outside the US being reluctant to installing or updating apps that require access to personal information and images on their cellphone. Therefore their policy have been to attract customers with a generous free storage space in the cloud. For my part, I have resigned. I download all the apps I get proposed to me now, even those that require access to sensitive data, otherwise there is a risk that I will have problems with the cellphone. Or its full function as an Android obviously gets reduced. They can have access to my entire private life, because they probably already have it anyway!

In August 2015, we probably saw the effects of the US government’s more or less openly promised ”tightening” of the section 702 program, with the upgrade to Windows 10 to make life miserable also for PC owners with Windows operating systems. Actually, it is Microsoft that collects the information, but because of the amount of information it is stored only temporarily. This does not mean that they cannot store interesting information for longer times. Nor does it mean that Microsoft does not disclose information to US authorities when they require access to sensitive information about citizens and businesses in Europe, apart from citizens and businesses in the UK of course. Everything you type on the keyboard are uploaded, including passwords, credit card numbers, content in encrypted emails, medical records, police investigations, defense secrets, etc. The dice are loaded to our disadvantage. This also means that the United States whenever they wish can get to key people, hijack their savings and, above all, steal their identity. Those who use mobile broadband will also see their monthly transmission capacity eaten up continuously when Microsoft is spying on them and uploades large amounts of your data. Even if you have deactivated the voice control, everything is immediately loaded into an activated microphone up to a number of servers.

Tape over your webcam with masking tape and turn off your microphone on your computer, that’s my advise! Because so bad has it become. Orwell’s 1984 is here for everyone except for big brother USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. You get indignant. But I can comfort myself with that in the long run, it will be the United States that loses on the wire-tapping. But the question is whether our era’s civilization is coming to an end, since there is no other nation that can take on themselves America’s former central role for God.

Homework:

What are you doing to protect yourself from NSA’s, China’s and Russia’s cyber espionage? Make a multipoint list or start making plans.

Roger M. Klang, defense political Spokesman for the Christian Values Party (Kristna Värdepartiet) in Sweden

1. Who owns the Internet? Lesson eighteen

I’m not going to hold anyone on the stretch bench, the answer to the headline’s question is the US. We know that the United States can continue with its surveillance of non-American organizations and citizens online without any repercussions.

We don’t have to start a war to outmaneuver the Anglo-American axis dominance. It is sufficient enough to do two things.

i. Follow God’s will.
ii. Build a parallel Internet more free from surveillance.

It is of course no small thing to build an Internet from scratch with all its individual components and networks. But I believe that, together with most northern European countries, we can do that. France, Italy and Spain are also possible collaborators. It depends on what they can participate with. Noone here in Europe should prevent cooperation, between individual American/British academics and the Nordic countries in this project, but unfortunately Britain is too much intertwined with and favored by the United States to be considered as a trustworthy national cooperation partner. I believe that they as a state would rather counteract us than contribute to the realization of the project. This is certain because the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth countries are excluded from the surveillance that the United States has placed on all other countries including Germany and Sweden.

As for the facts about the US surveillance of the EU, the so-called PRISM surveillance program, we do not know much about it. You can read the following on Wikipedia;

On June 19, 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama, during a visit to Germany, stated that the NSA’s data gathering practices constitute “a circumscribed, narrow system directed at us being able to protect our people”.

Wikipedia does not provide any clues about what and whom the US has been spying on, despite an exhaustive and long, obviously government authorized Wikipedia page – PRISM surveillance program. The government apparently considered it better to forestall than to get caught.

It is known that the German BND (foreign espionage) has used the American spyware XKeyscore (XKS) for analyzing but not collecting data since 2007, and German BfV (domestic intelligence) has used a test version since 2012. So the Germans secret service must have been aware of the until July 2013 secret tools for the US surveillance program. However, they did not say that they approved of the American surveillance of the European Parliament or Angela Merkel and the disclosure of their e-mail.

In May 2015, however, it appeared that much were indicating that the German BND helped the American NSA to committ industrial espionage against European industrial companies. It is therefore close at hand to think that the Americans have been able to monitor mainland Europeans, not so much because the Americans have had technological solutions, but because of the Europeans’ own cooperation with the NSA. The Americans have played European countries on the continent against each other.

We may not even need to build our own internet to stop the Prism surveillance section 702 programs. It may be sufficient to divest European intelligence organizations from cooperating with the NSA, through exposing of the Americans’ methods. But we would still probably benefit by taking technical precautions.

On the 2 of December 2013, the European Commission criticized what it calls ”US large-scale espionage against citizens, businesses and leaders” in Europe. Danish Telenor and Vice Chairman of the Norwegian Storting’s (the government) Control and Constitutional Committee, Michael Tetzschner, is upset by FRA’s (Swedish government organization equivalent to the NSA) surveillance of our neighboring countries.

I would be very surprised if the rest of the world do not do the same kind of work as FRA, and half of the world’s security services work with FRA, including Denmark’s and Norway’s security services. A large part of Russia’s communication with the outside world takes place via Swedish cables. But I do not think that FRA spies on the Storting, there are still no revealing Edward Snowden documents, which speak for Swedish espionage of that kind against friendly nations and especially not Nordic neighboring countries. We are simply better than that. As we say in Sweden when we hope for something not to happen; Pepper, pepper, knock on wood.

Homework:

Axel Oxenstierna, the Swedish Royal advisor to the very successful 17:th century warrior king Gustav II Adolf, is said to once have made a remark to his son. ”Dost thou not known, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.”

Do you think the Germans are completely bonkers who helps the NSA spy on businesses in other European countries, or do you think they are just surprisingly stupid? The Germans are the last to be invited to a US turkey dinner! It’s just mindboggling and tiering.

Can you explain how the Germans cannot see how they are working against their own interest?

Roger M. Klang, defense political spokesman for the Christian Values Party (Kristna Värdepartiet) in Sweden

SVR and FSB:s extraordinary authority. Lesson seventeen

Noone in the highest Russian summit in the Security Council, the President, the Prime Minister, the FSB or the SVR takes any responsibility for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian defector and former officer of the Russian FSB secret service. Non of them takes the responsibility for the death of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. I’m going to sort this out here and now. I previously thought that Putin was directly involved in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya on October 7, 2006, but then I read that she was murdered on Putin’s birthday. 364 versus 1 that this was no coincidence. Putin would not kill Anna herself on his own birthday. It’s kind of an unofficial holiday when many Russians celebrate Putin. I can only assume this event is celebrated by many disturbed war veterans in the streets. I think it was one of them who in the spur of the moment wanted to give Putin a birthday present. Or it may have been planned, but it was not planned by Putin in that case. It is therefore quite possible that Putin does not lie when he says that he had nothing to do with Anna’s murder.

Presumably, Putin believes in what he himself says when he sort of establishes [at the time when George W Bush was president. Author’s note] that he is; “The only democrat among the leaders of the world”. But he is not. Putin cannot be blamed for every evil deed that happens in the world, but he owns the war in Ukraine. The problem is that Russia is free for some, but like a prison for others. It can be associated with life-threatening danger to express yourself in the “wrong” manner in Russia, as the situation is in so many other countries. The quote: “I disagree with what you say, but I am prepared to die for your right to say it” cannot be translated to the political life in Russia. Consequently, Russia is not a democracy. Perhaps Russia is quarter-democratic, but Thomas Jefferson once said; “Freedom of expression cannot be limited, only lost.”

That one or some of the highest-ranking members of the Russian Security Council have been involved in the death of the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko on November 23, 2006 in London must be considered as evident. Why? Because polonium 210 is only produced on an industrial basis in one state in the whole world, namely in Russia. Russia produce only 100 grams of polonium 210 in the world on an annual basis. Polonium 210 costs 2,000,000 American dollars per gram (0.03527396 oz). Most murderers couldn’t afford it, however, a state can. Polonium 210 is an industrial product, which is used in microscopic quantities, among other things when manufacturing plastic cups for water containers and the like. Apart from states with nuclear power plants, no one can come across polonium 210 in the quantities used for the murder of Litvinenko, if he doesn’t have control over the Russian enrichment of Uranium. I assume that the Russians have control over these 100 extremely valuable grams produced per year.

And in addition, that person must have prior knowledge of the properties of the alpha-radiating polonium, such as that it is difficult to trace in a human body, that it is toxic only when swallowed or absorbed via wounds, and that it has a very short half-life in these contexts. It suggests that someone has asked scientists, or has been informed by a scientist, someone who has ambitions within Russia’s borders. It has been claimed from the Russians that one of the Russian oligarchs (read Boris Berezovsky, now living in London) has bought polonium 210 from Russia with the obscure purpose of killing Litvinenko. Interestingly, Litvinenko himself on his deathbed, pointed out Putin as his killer, and not Berezovsky who knew Litvinenko personally.

Boris Berezovsky can be acquitted by English authorities. The English know what business and productions Boris has got in England. Is polonium 210 included in any of Berezovsky’s companies products, and if so, how many decigrams, centigrams or even milligrams does he buy per year? I am sure that no radioactive material is allowed to be brought into the United Kingdom without permission, and Berezovsky has got far too much to lose to jeopardize his citizenship in England by letting some obscure person smuggle it in on his behalf. But it’s just a sidetrack in the form of a conspiracy theory that Berezovsky is guilty. The only thing that distinguishes that “theory” from an ordinary conspiracy theory is that “the theory” comes from the top of the Russian Security Council (I have put the word theory within quotation marks here, because the Russians know that they are the ones who are guilty).

Putin may not be behind the death of Litvinenko personally, but he knows who murdered him, so high up in the hierarchy must the killer be. This makes Putin a Machiavellian liar. It is noteworthy that both the murder of Anna Politkovskaya and the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko took place within less than 2 months, shortly after SVR and FSB received extended authorities, i.e. the right to kill in the service of the state.

The conclusion is that Putin must abolish the law about the right for SVR and FSB to liquidate people, who are considered a threat to Russia’s internal security within or outside the borders of the Russian Federation, if Putin wants to be a democrat as he says he is. Because if Putin knew nothing of the murder plans during the time of Litvinenko’s death, he has no control over the security organs. He has their loyalty, but he has no control over what they do. And that is entirely due to the new law from 2006, which really came into existence primarily for counteracting against the Chechen rebels first of all.

If you do not have control over the security organs, you do not control the country. Russia is a ship that sails wind for wave on the stormy waters of patriotism, and they are about to crash against the rocks. Not because they are patriotic, but because they are undemocratic and violent. I remember when Putin said, “The weak gets beaten”. It was after the failed hostage rescue in a school in Beslan in September 2004. I have pinpointed that day as the day when Putin changed his attitude from democratic thinking, to nomenclature, machiavellism and elite thinking, probably. One must not forget that it was the relatively good Boris Yeltsin who appointed Putin as Prime Minister in 1999. [This chapter was written by me in 2007, the year before the war in Georgia. Author’s Note.]

If Putin does not revise the Russian law about SVR and FSB having the right to liquidate what they call terrorists and other people, then some cold-hammered future statesman in Sweden may introduce a similar law. It is not difficult to imagine, on the above grounds, that weaker Swedish politicians who are less of statesmen, sit as in a fox trap and lets themselves be extorted, but without descending from their powerful positions because of a trivial thing like that. They constitute about 85 percent of the entire government, with the exception of Carl Bildt, who on the other hand lacks domestic as well as foreign support. He is the self-important Swede who is married to that Italian woman. Or as a high up ranking American said about C.B.; “He is a medium sized dog with a big dog attitude”. I am convinced that he is perceived like so because he represents a small state with a weak military defense that cannot back up his big mouth. I think that Carl Bildt has plenty of statesman characteristics, just a little bit less than Göran Persson’s. Jan Björklund certainly has a certain poise, but lacks important statesman characteristics just like all other pseudo-statesmen in the bourgeoise Alliance. The Alliance as a whole was and is a veritable disaster for Sweden.

Homework:

Is there even a faint possibility that the murder of Alexander Litvinenko was not Russian state organized? If yes, please motivate your standpoint.

Do you see a pattern with the poisoned Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in 2018? Or am I being a slight bit paranoid? Note, I speak ironically.

Roger M. Klang, defense political spokesman for the Christian Values Party (Kristna Värdepartiet) in Sweden

American CE-II in Poland. Lesson sixteen

Barrack Obama has previously hinted in September 2009 that he would revise the plans for a missile base in Poland, but someone had clearly managed to persuade him to pursue Bush’s plans. However, it was not a valid argument Russia Today had about the United States having so many missile bases around which could shoot down the Iranian missiles because the Iranian missiles would big circle navigate over northern latitudes (latitudes or west-east stretches) to reach the United States.

It may also be that the Americans will be forced to shoot down Iranian nuclear missiles over the Russian sky. Intercontinental nuclear weapons missiles have high parabolic trajectories and travel at a speed of 3 miles per second (6 km/s). A missile with only a kinetic effect can not easily be remote controlled in its parabolic trajectory against a target in its highest altitude that travels maybe as much as 45 degrees in the opposite direction of an enemy missile at a speed of mach 17,6 (approximately 13,000 miles per hour or 22,000 km/h) towards an American multi-million people city.

If we assume that the United States would be willing to sacrifice a substantial portion of their satellites due to the Nuclear EMP effect, in exchange for saving a big US city. A nuclear anti-nuclear missile would have to detonate as close to the enemy nuclear missile as 550 yards (500 meters) in order to stop it in its deadly trajectory. Fortunately, the American Anti-Nuclear missile CE-II Exo (Exo Atmospheric Kill Vehicle) has only a kinetic effect.

The Americans themselves said that they had technical difficulties with the intended missile shield in Europe.

Interestingly, Putin has not mentioned anything about that US anti-nuclear weapons missiles in the future from Poland could shoot down their targets over the Baltic countries or over Russia to intercept a hypotethic Iranian missile with its aim London. For example, from Romania or Bulgaria, you would have to shoot down an Iranian ballistic missile with its aim London over central Sweden or Norway. If the nuclear weapons missile cross the Barents Sea with its aim New York it has to be shot down approximately over Greenland. Whether the target is London or New York, the nuclear missile has to big circle navigate over parts of Russia.

It is probably so that the US missile base must be located in the Czech Republic or southern Poland, and that the US Exo Atmospheric Kill Vehicle then intercepts an Iranian nuclear missile with its goal New York over Greenland. Unless the nuclear missile crosses the North Sea with its target London, which in this case allows the downing of the nuclear missile over the Baltics or Russia.

The power of two more or less frontally colliding missiles partially level each others out. Plutonium exposed to friction and heat becomes strongly radioactive and radioactive material may contaminate large areas on our soil, if and when the Iranian missile is shot down in its trajectory on its way to London. That is if the plutonium does not burn up in the atmosphere.

Any trajectory missiles are detected at an early stage with e.g. satellites with IR-sensors for them to be able to intercept enemy missiles in time.

An American AN/TPY-2 ground radar is also in operation at Kürecik since 2012 in eastern Turkey, and it is an early missile warning radar station with a range of up to 620 miles (1,000 km). AN/TPY-2 is usually combined with THAAD, which has to shoot down its target “close to its belt”. THAAD is a tactical army system that is developed to shoot down short and medium-range ballistic missiles in the descending phase. But THAAD will not be able to shoot down intercontinental nuclear missiles. An AN/TPY-2 radar with its 620 miles range can not detect objects any further away than the southern Caspian Sea.

A Space-based IR sensor is required. The sensors for an interceptor launched from Poland that are to be used against nuclear targets traveling over the Greenland area must have outstanding features, since they do not even know which US city is the target. Speeding up to the nuclear missile at an angle of about 30 degrees from behind will not be easy to achieve. A mid-course radar is supposed to be located near the American missile base in southern Poland or in the Czech Republic. The interceptor must be programmed before starting. You must first know what altitude the nuclear missile is flying at and at what speed and at what stage it is in its trajectory and in exactly what direction it is flying, so that the Anti-Nuclear missile knows where to intercept it.

The Americans have less than 6 minutes of warning and preparation time if the American missile base is located in southern Poland while the Iranian is located near the Caspian Sea in the north of Iran. The Iranian nuclear missile must big circle navigate. Then the missile must be shot down somewhere over Greenland’s east coast or over the north Arctic Ocean.

The systems used for the European Missile Shield must be the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) with an Interceptor (GBI) called CE-II, as well as a land-based version of SM-3. The SM-3 is very small for an ABM, about 3,300 pounds (1,500 kg). But an interception of an Iranian missile with the SM-3 will not happen over the north Arctic Ocean, it completely falls outside of the missile’s performance capability. But with a CE-II you can shoot down an Iranian missile that has a trajectory over northern Europe, and shoot them down over the Baltics or Russia.

The CE-II can also intercept by flying over the nuclear missile and ”push” it away from its path from behind. You can read the following online (Wikipedia): “On April 30, 2014, the Government Accountability Office issued a report stating that the system may not be operational any time soon because “its development was flawed”. It says the GBI missile is “capable of intercepting a simple threat in a limited way.” ”

With ”In a limited way”, they are likely to mean that the angle can not be too big to be able to hit the target either from the rear or from the front. The CE-II interceptor requires assistance from ground radar and space-based sensors against more complex and sophisticated targets. The CE-II interceptor has an Exo-Atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV).

If the Russians try to wipe out the American ground facilities in Europe with cruise missiles, I do not see how they could manage without knowing in advance when the Iranians send their nuclear weapons missiles against the United States or London.

Russia and China jointly agreed in March 2013 that they should coordinate their reaction to the United States plans to expand their missile defense in the Asia-Pacific region. The statement follows the United State’s declaration on March 16 of 2013 by Defense Minister Chuck Hagel, to abolish the construction of the fourth phase of the Missile Defense Shield in Europe in favor of a missile defense shield in Alaska, which would provide the Americans with coverage to resist a North Korean nuclear attack. One of the reasons the Americans intended to scrap phase 4, in other words the intercontinental missile shield in Europe, are the technical difficulties.

Homework:

What signals do you figure that Obama was sending to Greenland, the Baltic states, Sweden and Norway as he gave a green light to building a missile shield that would effectively shoot down missiles over selected countries, considering that radioactive material would spread over wide areas, to spare London from a nuclear blast?

Or do you think the whole attempt was to keep our countries in the dark about nuclear stuff spreading over selected countries in case the US were to shoot down a nuclear missile?

Note; it is impossible to beforehand determine exactly where to shoot down a missile. The interception point depends on not controllable circumstances. So to say that ”we would shoot it down over the Baltic Sea” is not a valid argument because they do not know in advance exactly where a missile is going to be shot down.

Roger M. Klang, defense political spokesman for the Christian Values Party (Kristna Värdepartiet) in Sweden