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silos throughout Russia. We have been told that these missiles are
no longer targeted, but they could be re-targeted with little effort,
so it is difficult to feel too relieved about the disarmament
conditions.

Russia's war machine continues to expand. Contrary to popu­
lar notion, Russia did not disband its military-industrial complex.
In recent months Russia has deployed a regiment of TOPOL-M
intercontinental ballistic missiles, weapons more sophisticated
than anything in the American arsenal. This past fall, President
Yeltsin commissioned Peter the Great, the largest ballistic missile
cruiser ever built. The war machine also turned out a new stealth
bomber, and Russia continues to build new submarines at rates
equal to the days of the Cold War.

While these and many other ominous developments take place
in Russia and China, the Clinton administration has slashed
defense spending and reduced America's military readiness. No
longer can America fight a war on one front, let alone two. The
Clinton administration has also destroyed two-thirds of America's
nuclear arsenal, making Russia the nation with the largest nuclear
arsenal.

Never has America been so vulnerable. With Russia's econom­
ic collapse, never has the fate of world peace been so precarious.

As has been seen in India, Pakistan and North Korea, it is not
difficult to move from a nuclear power plant to primitive nuclear
weapons. There are rumors that Iran already has possession of a
nuclear bomb. If they do not, it will probably only be a matter of
time before Iran will have this capability, and they have their
patron Russia to thank for it.

Iran, of course, is the Persia of the Bible, and the fact that
Russia and Iran are working closely together in these matters could
pave the way for them to forge an attack against Israel. This is the
kind of cooperation indicated by the prophecy in Ezekiel that will
lead to a joint invasion.

In the current geopolitical map, Iran (Persia) and Iraq are sep­
arate countries. Indeed, they were actually at war with one anoth­
er throughout most of the 1980s. However, think of the condition
of Iran at the time Ezekiel wrote his inspired book. It was a subor­
dinate district to the nation of Babylon (Iraq) and was actually