NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on
February 2nd that he approves of US ‘Defense’ Secretary Ash Carter’s
proposal to quadruple US armaments and troops in Europe, against
‘Russian aggression’.
Secretary Carter said earlier that same day, in his announcement of America’s arming for war against Russia:
We are reinforcing our posture in Europe to support
our NATO allies in the face of Russia’s aggression. In Pentagon
parlance, this is called the European Reassurance Initiative and after
requesting about $800 million for last year, this year we’re more than
quadrupling it for a total of $3.4 billion in 2017.
That will fund a lot of things: more rotational US forces in
Europe, more training and exercising with our allies, more preposition
and war-fighting gear and infrastructure improvements to support all
this.
And when combined with US forces already in and assigned to
Europe – which are also substantial – all of this together by the end of
2017 will let us rapidly form a highly capable combined arms ground
force that can respond across that theater, if necessary.
The US is preparing for an invasion of Russia.
«By the end of 2017» the US will be prepared to invade Russia.
Secretary Carter went on to say:
Russia and China are our most stressing competitors.
They have developed and are continuing to advance military
system[s] that seek to threaten our advantages in specific areas. And in
some case[s], they are developing weapons and ways of wars that seek to
achieve their objectives rapidly, before they hope, we can respond.
Because of this and because of their actions to date, from
Ukraine to the South China Sea, DOD has elevated their importance in our
defense planning and budgeting.
Since he is a Secretary of ‘Defense’ instead of a Secretary of Offense, he immediately added:
While we do not desire conflict of any kind with either of these nations – and let me be clear.
That’s all there was to the assertion there; he didn’t finish the
sentence, nor even the thought. But in this offhanded way, he did at
least try to give the impression that the US is never an aggressor – for
example: that, though the US is expanding NATO right up to Russia’s
borders, Russia is being the ‘aggressor’ to move troops and weapons up
to those borders – up to Russia’s own borders (to counter the US &
NATO invasion-threat, of course; but, no: it’s to threaten NATO, if you
believe the West).
In the statements by Ash Carter, Barack Obama, and Jens Stoltenberg,
that’s ‘Russian aggression’. In the allegory by George Orwell, 1984,
America’s rhetoric is called simply «Newspeak».
It’s as if during the Soviet Union (i.e., before 1991), when Nikita
Khrushchev was the aggressor in 1962 and John Kennedy was the defender
(against Soviet missiles in Cuba), Khrushchev had refused to yield and
said that Soviet nuclear missiles near the US had only a defensive, not
offensive, purpose (no purpose for a blitz nuclear attack against the US
too fast for the US to be able to get its missiles launched in
retaliation). Kennedy said no to that idea then, and Putin says no to
that idea (right on Russia’s very borders) now. The US, in post-Soviet,
post-communist, Russia, has turned around and become the aggressor –
against the now democratic nation of Russia. (And Putin’s approval-rating from the Russian people is at least 80%, whereas Obama’s approval-rating from the American people is near 50%.)
We’ve switched roles. The US has turned to dictatorship, while Russia
has turned to democracy. It’s a super-switcheroo. ‘Democracy’ in the US
has become, during recent decades, the election of Presidents and
congresspersons who were campaigning on lies, and who then actually
delivered more like the opposite, as their actual governmental policies.
A good example of this is that when Mr Obama was campaigning for
re-election to the Presidency in 2012, he outright mocked his opponent
Mitt Romney’s asserting (2:22 on the video) that, «Russia, this is without question our number one geopolitical foe». But the moment that Obama became re-elected, Obama activated a 1957 CIA plan to overthrow Russia’s ally Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and a more-recent CIA and State Department plan to overthrow the actually neutralist Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine and replace him with a rabidly
anti-Russian government. The head of Stratfor called it «the most blatant coup in history,» and it was an extremely bloody coup, followed by a civil war – and economic collapse, and even more corruption there. In addition, Obama carried out a French plan to overthrow Russia’s ally Muammar Gaddafi in Syria.
All of these plans were strongly welcomed by Russia’s main oil-market
competitors, all of them fundamentalist Sunni Arab financial backers of
jihadists: the Saud royal family of Saudi Arabia, and the Thani royal
family of Qatar, as well as the Sabah royal family of Kuwait,
and the six royal families of the UAE. Those royals own most of the
world’s oil, and only Russia and its ally Iran are even in that league.
All of those Sunni Arab royal families (especially the Sauds)
are the main financial backers of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other jihadist
groups, all of which are fundamentalist Sunni terrorist groups, which
especially aim to exterminate all Shiites – and Shiites just happen to
be supported by Russia. (The US overthrew the democratically elected
progressive President of Iran and installed the tyrannous Shah, back in
1953, and Iranians have loathed the US government ever since.)
President Obama, in his second Administration, ceased his previous
focus against the Sunni group al-Qaeda, and refocused US policy to be
against Russia, even to the extent of supporting al-Qaeda, ISIS, and
other rabidly anti-Russian Sunni groups, who are driving millions of
refugees from Syria, Libya, etc., into Europe. (Of course, Obama’s
rhetoric remains against those Sunni extremists – just as his rhetoric
was against Romney’s policies that Obama ended up imposing in his second
term.) All of those terrorist groups are allied with the Sunni Arab
royal families against Shiite-led Iran, and Shiite-allied Syria.
The fundamentalist Sunni beliefs of
the Arab royal families have, since at least 1744, been committed to
exterminating all Shiites. Now that Shiite and Shiite-allied nations are
supported by Russia, the United States is more overtly than ever
preparing to conquer Russia, for the benefit of the aristocracies of
America, and of Arabia.
And there are many other examples of President Obama’s policies exposing him to be an example of «the
election of Presidents and congresspersons who were campaigning on
lies, and who then actually delivered more like the opposite, as
policies», such as his claiming to champion democracy in Syria when
his actual demand regarding Syria is to block democracy there because
all the evidence shows that
it would result in an overwhelming electoral victory for Bashar
al-Assad. And another example is Obama’s support of the right of
self-determination of peoples regarding Scotland and Catalonia, but not
in Crimea, nor in Donbas, nor in Abkhazia. The United Nations supports
the right of self-determination of peoples everywhere, and Ban Ki-moon
has clearly stated that
America’s demand for the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power is alien
to the principles upon which the United Nations was founded.
So: the US regime is moving toward a nuclear confrontation against Russia, as a ‘defensive’ measure against ‘Russian aggression’.
Obama had previously used ‘The Iran Threat’ as his basis for placing
anti-ballistic missiles in European countries near and bordering Russia,
but he can’t do that anymore and so he’s now doing it with what had
been his actual motive all along: to ‘protect’ Europe from ‘Russian
aggression’.
What had led up to Romney’s assertion that Russia «is without question our number one geopolitical foe» was his having been baited by CNN to comment upon a private statement that Obama had made to Dmitry Medvedev, saying that, «This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility». CNN didn’t
say what that matter was about, but simply baited Romney with it for
Romney to play the Red-scare Joseph R. McCarthy role, which Romney did
(McCarthy, of the anti-communist witch-hunts, being a Republican hero). Reuters explained what
the context was, what Obama had been replying to there: Putin’s concern
was that placing anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs) in Europe to strip
Russia of its ability to retaliate against a first-strike from NATO
forces in Europe, was unacceptable. Obama was telling that he would «have more flexibility» against
Republican hate-mongers against Russia, after he’d win re-election. It
was just another lie from him. He won re-election and turned out to be
actually a black Mitt Romney. In fact, Obama had spent his entire first
term deceiving the entire world to think that he rejected Republicans
being «stuck in a Cold War mind warp», as he put it. It was all merely an act for him. He should be in Hollywood, not in the White House.
If this cat gets much farther out of the bag, it’s not just the cat but the whole world that will be lost.
The first priority for a President Bernie Sanders, or for a President
Donald Trump, must be to undo the Bush-Obama foreign policy, because it
certainly won’t be undone by a President Hillary Clinton, nor by a
President Ted Cruz, nor by a President Marco Rubio – and this is the
main thing that’s at stake in the current US Presidential contest.
What’s at stake here is nothing less than whether civilization even
survives another few decades. That’s now seriously at question, and
trillions are being spent right now to bring it to an end.
This isn’t kid’s stuff. And it’s not really rocket science, either.
It’s instead a fundamental and stark moral issue, that’s staring the
entire world in the face right now. And it hasn’t got a thing to do with
religion, but it has a lot to do with restoring democracy where it has
been eroded down to virtually nothing.
Democracy requires a truthfully informed public. And that’s the truth. Let’s get with it, before it’s too late to do so.
The likelihood of a nuclear war has never been higher than it is now,
except perhaps for the Cuban Missile Crisis, but the entire world was
being informed about that then, and what about the situation now? This
time around, the situation is perhaps even more serious. The urgency of
the situation is critical.
Is this the
type of ‘news’ coverage we’ll continue to get on the world’s top matter
– that Russia is invading our territory, when we’re actually constantly
invading (and perpetrating coups) in theirs, and they’re actually doing what they must do in order to defend the Russian people themselves from NATO?
End NATO now. Or else it (and its cooperative ‘news’ media in the
West) will end us all. The whole expansion of NATO up to Russia’s
borders has been based upon US President George Herbert Walker Bush’s lie to
Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990, which induced Gorbachev to end not just the
Soviet Union but their equivalent of NATO, the Warsaw Pact – all of
which Russia did do in 1991. Russia has consistently fulfilled its part
of the bargain, but GHWB’s vicious violation of his promise has been
consistently followed, adhered to, by American Presidents ever since.
The deceit goes on, and the US is now heading towards culminating the
most dangerous lie in world history.
Eric Zuesse, Investigative
historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not
Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010 ,
and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity .
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