Red Flag

“[The Russians] have all but stated that war is imminent,” wrote Stratfor last week
Something is afoot, concluded Stratfor, “and if it is not a war, it is something big enough that a war would seem to make a good distraction. Now that bears some watching.
Watch carefully, for instance, the meeting this Friday in Sochi, Russia, between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

This week Russia has my attention.They are up to something.
Pre-emption is my guess.They know Israel will make a move on Iran soon.
Their ex-KGB,the FSB has just finished severely damaging Israel's intelligence gathering capabilities in Lebanon if not completely destroying it as debka.com has been reporting.A pre-war move if you ask me.
Has Russian intelligence learned something related to Israel's attack on Iran ?
Then this interesting Stratfors article
where these seasoned intelligence experts can tell the Russians are up to something.
Next Russia is moving significant number of Red Army in Abkhazia next to Georgia.

And last but not least we have a distracted and incompetent Obamination bogged down in an unwinnable war in Afghanistan and sitting like ducks in Iraq and not ready for another prime time war.
I think Putin the chess player knows the U.S. is so weak that now would be a good time to stage an attack which can be blamed on Islamic terrorists or something bigger ?
Surprise is Russia's Checkmate advantage and they play Chess while Obama is playing beginners checkers.