Obama's Anti-Russia Policy Escalates: DoD Tells Congress Nukes Are Still On The Table
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June, 2015
The
War Party is a veritable propaganda machine,
churning out product 24/7. Armed
with nearly unlimited resources, both from government(s) and
the private
sector,
they carpet-bomb the public with an endless stream of lies in order
to soften them up when it’s time to roll. In the past, their job
has been relatively easy: simply order up a few atrocity stories
– Germans
bayoneting babies, Iraqis
dumping over babies in incubators –
and we’ve got ourselves another glorious war. These days, however,
over a decade of constant warfare – and a long
string of War
Party fabrications –
has left the public leery.
And
that’s cause for optimism. People
are waking up. The War Party’s propaganda machine has to work
overtime in order to overcome rising skepticism, and
it shows signs of overheating – and, in some instances, even
breaking down.
In
a blow to the “let’s arm Ukraine” movement that seemed to be
picking up steam in Congress, a
resolution introduced
by Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan) and Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Florida)
banning aid to Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, and forbidding shipments
of MANPAD anti-aircraft missiles to the region, passed the House
unanimously.
This
is significant because, up until this point, there has been no
recognition in Washington that the supposedly “pro-democracy”
regime in Kiev contains a dangerously influential neo-Nazi
element.
As
I reported early
on,
Ukraine’s ultra-nationalists – who openly utilize wartime Nazi
symbols and regalia,
and valorize Stepan
Bandera,
the anti-Soviet guerrilla leader who collaborated with the Third
Reich – were the muscle behind the movement
that pusheddemocratically
elected President Viktor Yanukovich out of power. With the rebellion
in the east, the paramilitary
militias of
the far right have been officially incorporated into the Ukrainian
army: Dmytro Yorash, the leader of Right Sector and a member of
parliament, is an aide to
Viktor Muzhenko, the supreme commander of the Ukrainian military, and
Right Sector – an openly neo-Nazi organization – has
been officially
integrated into
the armed forces.
The
Conyers-Yoho amendment won’t stop Ukraine’s neo-Nazis from
feeding at the US-provided trough,
but, hey, it’s the thought that counts. They’ll just abandon
their independent existence and blend into the official military,
effectively going underground, just as they did in the last Ukrainian
elections, where fascists like Yarosh won a seat in the parliament
with the tacit
support of
the “mainstream” parties, which withdrew their candidates in his
district: Adriy Biletsky, commander of the Azov Battalion, enjoyed a
similar advantage. Open fascists hold prominent positions in
the Ukrainian
government,the
military,
and the
police.
Vadim
Troyan, the deputy
leader of the Azov Battalion,
is now the regional
chief of
the Kiev district police, and fascists have the run of the city. The
perpetrators of an arson fire at a Kiev theater that sponsored a gay
film festival were charged with “disturbing
the peace”
and let off with a light sentence – and the
theater was
held responsible for not providing enough security! "I think the
government prosecutor and those who are prosecuted are playing for
the same team," says one activist, and this is quite true: the
fascists permeate the Kiev regime from top to bottom. When gay
activists announced a Gay Pride march, the Mayor of Kiev said
he couldn’t –
or wouldn’t – guarantee their safety and asked them to cancel it.
What was an open invitation to violent
thugs was
accepted when dozens of Right
Sector stormtroopers
attacked the procession, which ended the event after thirty bloody
minutes.
As
the Kiev regime shows its true colors, its most fervent backers are
forced to acknowledge its shortcomings. Yes,
even our UN Ambassador, Samantha “responsibility
to protect”
Power …
In
a recent
speech delivered
in Kiev, Ambassador Power made oblique reference to the embarrassing
slip ups on the part of our sock puppets in Kiev, gently scolding
them to be more … discreet. Citing Abraham Lincoln, she urged
Ukrainians to listen to “the better angels of our nature,” and
averred that “Ukraine is stronger” when it does so:
“It means that Ukraine should zealously protect freedom of the press, including for its most outspoken and biased critics – indeed, especially for its most outspoken and biased critics – even as the so-called separatists expel journalists from the territory they control, and even as Russia shutters Tatar media outlets in occupied Crimea. It means that politicians and police across the country should recognize how crucial it is that people be able to march to demand respect for LGBT rights and the rights of other vulnerable groups without fear of being attacked.”
Citing
Lincoln while calling for press freedom is a bit problematic –
Abe shut down “treasonous” newspapers and jailed his more
vociferous critics, but, hey, Power probably figured the Ukrainians
aren’t up on the details of Civil
War history,
so what the heck. As
the US continues to pump money – and weaponry – into the country,
they’ll listen politely to Power’s lectures, and laugh all the
way to the
bank.
Amid
all the publicity given to ISIS and the rise of its “caliphate,” the
volatile condition of the Balkans has remained in the shadows. Yet
the US, while sending only a few hundred “advisors” to Iraq, is
sending a huge shipment of tanks and other heavy weaponry to nearly
every country in Eastern Europe – enough
to equip 5,000 American troops.
Ostensibly
proposed in response to a nonexistent Russian “threat” to invade
its Baltic neighbors, and/or
Ukraine, this represents a significant escalation of the new cold
war. And if the tanks are already on the ground, you can bet the
troops won’t be long in coming. As NATO James Stavridis put it: “It
provides a reasonable level of reassurance to jittery allies,
although nothing is as good as troops stationed full-time on the
ground, of course.”
And
we aren’t just talking about troops here: the Pentagon is also
consideringstationing
nuclear missiles alongside them.
The
US is playing a dangerous game of nuclear
brinkmanship. Robert
Scher, undersecretary of defense, has even floated the idea of a
nuclear first strike against Russia. Claiming that Russia has
violated the INF Treaty by testing a banned ground-launched cruise
missile, Scher laid out possible options in testimony before
Congress:
“Robert Scher, assistant secretary of defence for strategy, plans and capabilities, told politicians in April that one option could be to beef up defenses of potential targets of the Russian cruise missile.
“A second option could ‘look at how we could go about and actually attack that missile where it is in Russia,’ Scher said.
“And a third option would be ‘to look at what things we can hold at risk within Russia itself,’ Scher said.
“His comments appeared to signal employing forces to strike at other Russian military targets — apart from the missiles that allegedly violate the INF accord.
“Brian McKeon, deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, told politicians in December that the United States could consider putting ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe. Such weapons are banned under the INF treaty.”
Yes,
that’s how crazy the warlords of Washington are: in their demented
calculus, nuclear war is just another “option.”
And
if that isn’t the definitive argument for regime-change in
Washington, then I don’t know what is.
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