Stratfor [shadow CIA] CEO George Friedman on the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis
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– What is the goal of US policy in the Ukrainian direction?
– The Americans have had a very consistent foreign policy for the past 100 years. Its main goal is to prevent any power from concentrating too much power in its hands in Europe. At first, the United States sought to prevent Germany from dominating Europe, then they prevented the strengthening of the influence of the USSR.
The essence of this policy is as follows: to maintain the balance of power in Europe for as long as possible, helping the weaker side, and if the balance is about to be significantly upset, to intervene at the very last moment. So the United States intervened in the First World War after the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, preventing Germany from strengthening. And in World War II, the United States opened a second front only very late (in June 1944), after it became clear that the Russians were gaining the upper hand over the Germans.
At the same time, the United States considered the most dangerous potential alliance between Russia and Germany. It would be a union of German technology and capital with Russian natural and human resources.
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The United States was interested in forming a pro-Western government in Ukraine. They saw that Russia was on the rise and sought to prevent it from consolidating its position in the post-Soviet space. The success of pro-Western forces in Ukraine would make it possible to contain Russia.
Russia calls the events of the beginning of the year a US-organized coup d’état. And it really was the most overt coup d’état in history.
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– And what, from your point of view, is the meaning of American sanctions? Russian authorities say the US wants to bring about regime change.
“The purpose of the sanctions is to hurt Russia with minimal damage to the US and a little more damage to the EU so that it capitulates to American demands.
“The interests of the Russian Federation and the United States in relation to Ukraine are incompatible with each other”
Tag: CAUCASUS
U. S. trains Georgian army for new Caucasus conflict
Georgian Ministry of Defense – September 6, 2022
Major General Thomas Carden of the National Guard of the US state of Georgia got acquainted with the course of the training together with the leaders of the defense forces. Major General Giorgi Matiashvili hosted the American guest in the headquarters of the Multinational Brigade in the 4th Infantry Brigade.
U. S. trains Georgian army for new Caucasus conflict
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The purpose of the exercise, which will involve more than 2.4 thousand military, including from Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey and Estonia, is to increase the compatibility of the forces of Georgia, the United States, regional partners and allied countries “to ensure the stability and security of the Black Sea region.”
[2009] EU report states Georgia started 2008 war with Russia
When is military aggression not military aggression? For the powers that be in Washington and their media lackeys, the foreign policy interests of US imperialism dictate the answer. Hence, in the August 2008 war between US-ally Georgia and Russia, the former was portrayed as the helpless victim and the latter the aggressive bully.
EU report states Georgia started 2008 war with Russia
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Turkish-Kurdish Tensions in Syria Expose NATO Dysfunction
Jun 12, 2022 | Military activity in northern Syria is accelerating, Turkey is intent on striking at US-backed Kurdish militants who in turn are seeking aid not from the US but from Syria and Russia.
The situation in Syria is another illustration of the true nature of US foreign policy and another glimpse at what becomes of America’s many “partners.”
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Turkey urges Russia to fulfill deals to clear N. Syria of terrorists
Ankara says it must act because Washington and Moscow failed to keep their promise to push the YPG 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the border after a 2019 Turkish operation, adding that attacks from YPG-controlled areas have increased.
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In 2019, an operation into northeast Syria against the YPG drew widespread international condemnation, prompting Finland, Sweden and others to restrict arms sales to Turkey. Now Turkey is blocking the two Nordic countries’ historic bid to join NATO because of the weapons ban and their support of the terrorist group.
Turkey tells Russia it will respond to destabilising moves in north Syria
US-backed Syrian Kurds to turn to Damascus if Turkey attacks
Assad explains why Syria is sticking with Russia
The attacks increase as Turkey disapproves of Finland & Sweden’s NATO memberships?! Coincidence?! NOT!!
Read More »A New Generation of US-trained Extremists Is Fighting Russia. Are We Prepared for the Blowback?
A boomerang. By TJ Coles, Global Research, 6/8/22
US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program follows the blueprint established by Western intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Syria.
TJ Coles: A New Generation of US-trained Extremists Is Fighting Russia. Are We Prepared for the Blowback?
The Emergence of the “Multiple Alignment” Doctrine, a Headache for Imperialism
Fernando Bossi Rojas
The confrontation between NATO and the Russian Federation in Ukrainian territory is aligning countries in positions that surprise many.
The Emergence of the “Multiple Alignment” Doctrine, a Headache for Imperialism
Azerbaijani armed forces train for new war in Caucasus
Presidents: Georgia, Ukraine share commitment to NATO membership, “de-occupation” of lands from Russia
Presidents: Georgia, Ukraine share commitment to NATO membership, “de-occupation” of lands from Russia.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili paid a two-day visit to Ukraine earlier this week (her first) and met with her opposite number President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Presidents – Georgia, Ukraine share commitment to NATO membership, “de-occupation” of lands from Russia
Question of Syrian mercenaries takes over Armenia-Azerbaijan information war
Question of Syrian mercenaries takes over Armenia-Azerbaijan information war
The reports of the Syrian militias indicate that they are former members of the “Syrian National Army,” which fought under Turkish command in northern Syria against Kurdish forces and the Islamic State in that country’s civil war. (Armenia has had its own small involvement in that war: it sent deminers and medics to Syria as part of a Russian military mission there.)
“These fighters, however, are not jihadists, as they are sometimes portrayed,” tweeted Elizabeth Tsurkov, a scholar of Syria who has been in touch with several Syrians who were recruited to fight in Azerbaijan. “Their willingness to fight for Turkey, a state jihadists consider to be apostate, attests to that. Thousands of them signing up to fight for Shia-majority Azerbaijan attests to that too.”
Related: Azerbaijan’s leader says no end to fighting until Armenia sets pullout timetable
Reminder: Armenia is occupying Azerbaijani land.
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