By Diana Johnstone
The European Union is girding for a long war against Russia that appears clearly contrary to European economic interests and social stability. A war that is apparently irrational – as many are – has deep emotional roots and claims ideological justification. Such wars are hard to end because they extend outside the range of rationality.
The Specter of Germany Is Rising
Tag: WWII
Okinawa governor poll results hamper plans to expand US military presence in Japan
The re-election of Denny Tamaki marks the third consecutive gubernatorial election in Okinawa where an anti-US base candidate has won with a clear majority
Okinawa governor poll results hamper plans to expand US military presence in Japan
[2014] Stratfor CEO George Friedman on the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis
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”
Racists Depict Russia as “Asian” Whenever they Want to Affiliate Russia with Barbarianism
In 2018, a drawing of Russian President Putin was released by the Wall Street Journal. In this image, President Putin was depicted wearing Mongolian garb and armor. Behind him rides a faceless Mongol horde. A caption in bold characters read: “RUSSIA RETURNS TO ITS ASIAN PAST”. What may appear to be an innocent political cartoon is actually connected to very deep anti-Asian roots.
Racists Depict Russia as “Asian” Whenever they Want to Affiliate Russia with Barbarianism
Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works
By John Pilger
Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.
Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works
Queen Elizabeth II, longest-reigning British monarch, dead at 96
Fact-Finding Mission to Donbass Part 3
Bernie Sanders at RMT rally in London: Hawking the myth of a trade union revival
US Senator Bernie Sanders was the featured speaker at a rally held August 31 by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) at London’s Congress House—headquarters of the Trades Union Congress. Billed as an event to “Save Public Transport” from Conservative government cuts, its purpose was to channel a growing wave of working class struggle behind the trade union bureaucracy and the Labour Party.
Bernie Sanders at RMT rally in London: Hawking the myth of a trade union revival
RIP Great Britain
Russophobia Running Riot
Though the news that Clown Prince Zelensky, Ukraine’s contemptible puppet President, is renting one of his Italian villas out to Russians for €50,000 per calendar month would lead to protests if his junta had not banned all such protests on pain of death, this further evidence of his corruption flies in the face of the rampant Russophobia all of Western Europe’s opinion makers have signed up to. Although I previously wrote about this Russophobia in the context of Russian children’s stories and the Ukrainian junta’s book burning policies, none of that could prepare either you or me for what now follows, for what resembles a German Jew watching Kristallnacht unfold one shattered window and one shattered life at a time.
Russophobia Running Riot
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