Russia
Calls For International Intervention In Ferguson
In
a moment of perfect irony, Russian MP Sergey Neverov has put out a
call for an international intervention in the wake of continuing
violence in Ferguson, Missouri. This came after a tweet from MP
Aleksei Pushkov, the committee for international relations chair for
the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of Parliament, came down
strongly against the use of tear gas and rubber bullets
USA
has used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a protest in
Ferguson. Is not it a sign of dictatorship and excessive use of
force?
As
reported
by RT, the State Duma, has already begun preparing for such an
intervention with Aleksei Pushkov the likely Russian delegate to an
international commission set up for addressing the continuing
violence in Ferguson.
The
envoy for the Russian Foreign Ministry’s envoy for Human Rights,
Konstantin Dolgov, posted
some particularly harsh criticisms as well.
A
teenager was kneeling before policemen with his arms raised and still
he was shot six times. It is worth remembering that over 400 people
in the US become victims of policemen every year.
The
US Department of State should be concerned about the situation in
their own country. Instead of trying to calm the people after the
killing of a young black man by the police they are deploying the
National Guard against their own people. This means that the number
of victims can increase.
While
demanding that other countries guarantee the freedom of speech and
stop suppressing anti-government protests, at home the US authorities
never show any leniency towards those who actively express their
discontent with inequality, de-facto discrimination, and the position
of second class citizens. As we have all seen, reporters who perform
their professional duty also get their share of ill treatment.
To
be carefully considered is that the US now has an estimated 6
million domestic terrorists which have been moving to engage
in escalating the tensions in the St. Louis suburb. These
terrorists have now been labelled as the single
largest threat within the US. Using the metric which the US
itself established, with the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the
Russians now are weighing the need for a peacekeeping mission to
Ferguson as well as other US cities to help quell the violence which
is threatening to destabilize the nation.
The
irony in Russia now using the UN programs which the US pushed to
legalize interventions around the world cannot be ignored. In fact,
Russia has been engaged in deploying peacekeeping forces now for many
years, deploying in partnership with Moldova within the breakaway
republic Transnistria to prevent the nations collapse in to civil
war.
If
Russia does manage to call for such an operation within the US, and
it sticks in the UN, we could be looking at a near reversal of
fortune for the United States. Our once proud nation having devolved
to little more than a police state controlled by an oligarchy. The
real irony is how less than a week ago, such an action was
contemplated as satire
by vox. Now it is becoming all
too real. To even further underscore the irony, during a live
broadcast, CNN had the crowd behind them calling
for help from North Korea. It is highly unlikely that the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea would intervene, but so far
there has not been a public
statement from the reclusive Asian nation.
And,
to further add a level of irony, the US has already pre-approved such
an action through the
UN resolutions passed in order to authorize action in Afghanistan and
Iraq. To prevent a Russian based operation would undermine US
operations around the world.
Will
this happen? Highly unlikely. But, Russia is at least enjoying the
awkward situation which they have now put the United States into.
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