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Saturday, 29 June 2019
Putin: "liberal idea" has "outlived its purpose."
While the village idiots who call themselves journalists restrict themselves to this crap...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/393213/trump-jokes-to-putin-don-t-meddle-in-elections
... there are some serious journalists (and I mean ANALYSTS) out there.
Putin:
"liberal idea" has "outlived its purpose."
The
Duran
How Russia's President Putin Explains The End Of The 'Liberal' Order
28 June, 2019
Today
the Financial
Times published a
long and wide ranging interview with
the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
The
talk is making some waves:
From
the last link:
Putin said in an interview with the Financial Times Friday that the "liberal idea has become obsolete," and referred to Germany's decision to welcome more than one million refugees — many fleeing savage urban warfare in Syria — as a "cardinal mistake."
It
is only the last part of the very long interview, where Putin indeed
speaks of the 'obsolesce' of the 'liberal idea', that seems to be of
interest to the media. Most of the interview is in fact about other
issues. The media also do not capture how his 'obsolete' argument is
ingrained in the worldview Putin developed, and how it reflects in
many of his answers.
Here
are excerpts that show that the gist of Putin's 'obsolete' argument
is not against the 'liberal idea', but against what may be best
called 'international (neo-)liberalism'.
Putin
explains why U.S. President Donald Trump was elected:
Has anyone ever given a thought to who actually benefited and what benefits were gained from globalisation, the development of which we have been observing and participating in over the past 25 years, since the 1990s?
China has made use of globalisation, in particular, to pull millions of Chinese out of poverty.
What happened in the US, and how did it happen? In the US, the leading US companies — the companies, their managers, shareholders and partners — made use of these benefits. [..] The middle class in the US has not benefited from globalisation; it was left out when this pie was divided up.
The Trump team sensed this very keenly and clearly, and they used this in the election campaign. It is where you should look for reasons behind Trump’s victory, rather than in any alleged foreign interference.
On
Syria:
Primarily, this concerns Syria, we have managed to preserve Syrian statehood, no matter what, and we have prevented Libya-style chaos there. And a worst-case scenario would spell out negative consequences for Russia.
...
I believe that the Syrian people should be free to choose their own future.
...
When we discussed this matter only recently with the previous US administration, we said, suppose Assad steps down today, what will happen tomorrow?
Your colleague did well to laugh, because the answer we got was very amusing. You cannot even imagine how funny it was. They said, “We don’t know.” But when you do not know what happens tomorrow, why shoot from the hip today? This may sound primitive, but this is how it is.
On
'western' interventionism and 'democracy promotion':
Incidentally, the president of France said recently that the American democratic model differs greatly from the European model. So there are no common democratic standards. And do you, well, not you, but our Western partners, want a region such as Libya to have the same democratic standards as Europe and the US? The region has only monarchies or countries with a system similar to the one that existed in Libya.
But I am sure that, as a historian, you will agree with me at heart. I do not know whether you will publicly agree with this or not, but it is impossible to impose current and viable French or Swiss democratic standards on North African residents who have never lived in conditions of French or Swiss democratic institutions. Impossible, isn’t it? And they tried to impose something like that on them. Or they tried to impose something that they had never known or even heard of. All this led to conflict and intertribal discord. In fact, a war continues in Libya.
So why should we do the same in Venezuela? ...
Asked
about the turn towards nationalism and more rightwing policies in the
U.S. and many European countries, Putin names immigration as the
primary problem:
What is happening in the West? What is the reason for the Trump phenomenon, as you said, in the US? What is happening in Europe as well? The ruling elites have broken away from the people. The obvious problem is the gap between the interests of the elites and the overwhelming majority of the people.
Of course, we must always bear this in mind. One of the things we must do in Russia is never to forget that the purpose of the operation and existence of any government is to create a stable, normal, safe and predictable life for the peopleand to work towards a better future.
There is also the so-called liberal idea, which has outlived its purpose. Our Western partners have admitted that some elements of the liberal idea, such as multiculturalism, are no longer tenable.
When the migration problem came to a head, many people admitted that the policy of multiculturalism is not effective and that the interests of the core population should be considered. Although those who have run into difficulties because of political problems in their home countries need our assistance as well. That is great, but what about the interests of their own population when the number of migrants heading to Western Europe is not just a handful of people but thousands or hundreds of thousands?
...
What am I driving at? Those who are concerned about this, ordinary Americans, they look at this and say, Good for [Trump], at least he is doing something, suggesting ideas and looking for a solution.
As for the liberal idea, its proponents are not doing anything. They say that all is well, that everything is as it should be. But is it? They are sitting in their cosy offices, while those who are facing the problem every day in Texas or Florida are not happy, they will soon have problems of their own. Does anyone think about them?
The same is happening in Europe. I discussed this with many of my colleagues, but nobody has the answer. The say they cannot pursue a hardline policy for various reasons. Why exactly? Just because. We have the law, they say. Well, then change the law!
We have quite a few problems of our own in this sphere as well.
...
In other words, the situation is not simple in Russia either, but we have started working to improve it. Whereas the liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done. The migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their rights as migrants must be protected. What rights are these? Every crime must have its punishment.
So, the liberal idea has become obsolete. It has come into conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population. Or take the traditional values. I am not trying to insult anyone, because we have been condemned for our alleged homophobia as it is. But we have no problems with LGBT persons. God forbid, let them live as they wish. But some things do appear excessive to us.
They claim now that children can play five or six gender roles. I cannot even say exactly what genders these are, I have no notion. Let everyone be happy, we have no problem with that. But this must not be allowed to overshadow the culture, traditions and traditional family values of millions of people making up the core population.
While
Putin says that liberalism is 'obsolete' he does not declare it dead.
He sees it as part of a spectrum, but says that it should not have a
leading role:
You know, it seems to me that purely liberal or purely traditional ideas have never existed. Probably, they did once exist in the history of humankind, but everything very quickly ends in a deadlock if there is no diversity. Everything starts to become extreme one way or another.
Various ideas and various opinions should have a chance to exist and manifest themselves, but at the same time interests of the general public, those millions of people and their lives, should never be forgotten. This is something that should not be overlooked.
Then, it seems to me, we would be able to avoid major political upheavals and troubles. This applies to the liberal idea as well. It does not mean (I think, this is ceasing to be a dominating factor) that it must be immediately destroyed. This point of view, this position should also be treated with respect.
They cannot simply dictate anything to anyone just like they have been attempting to do over the recent decades.Diktat can be seen everywhere: both in the media and in real life. It is deemed unbecoming even to mention some topics. But why?
For this reason, I am not a fan of quickly shutting, tying, closing, disbanding everything, arresting everybody or dispersing everybody. Of course, not. The liberal idea cannot be destroyed either; it has the right to exist and it should even be supported in some things. But you should not think that it has the right to be the absolute dominating factor. That is the point. Please.
There
is much more in the interview - about Russia's relations with China,
North Korea, the Skripal incident, the Russian economy, orthodoxy and
the liberal attack on the Catholic church, multilateralism, arms
control and the G-20 summit happening today.
But
most 'liberal' media will only point to the 'obsolete' part and
condemn Putin for his rallying against immigration. They will paint
him as being in an alt-right corner. But even the Dalai Lama, held up
as an icon by many liberals, says that
"Europe is for Europeans" and that immigrants should go
back to their own countries.
Moreover,
as Leonid Bershidsky points
out,
Putin himself is, with regards to the economy and immigration, a
staunch liberal:
Putin’s cultural conservatism is consistent and sincere.
...
On immigration, however, Putin is, in practice, more liberal than most European leaders. He has consistently resisted calls to impose visa requirements on Central Asian countries, an important source of migrant labor. Given Russia’s shrinking working-age population and shortage of manual workers, Putin isn’t about to stem that flow, even though Central Asians are Muslims – the kind of immigrants Merkel’s opponents, including Trump, distrust and fear the most.
What
Putin is aiming at, says Bershidsky, is the larger picture:
[W]hat Putin believes has outlived its usefulness isn’t the liberal approach to migration or gender, nor is it liberal economics – even though Russia has, in recent months, seen something of a shift toward central planning. It is the liberal world order. Putin wants to keep any talk of values out of international politics and forge pragmatic relationships based on specific interests.
...
Putin’s drive to put global politics on a more transactional basis isn’t easy to defeat; it’s a siren song, and the anti-immigrant, culturally conservative rhetoric is merely part of the music.
There
is in my view no 'siren-song' there and nothing that has to be
defeated. It is just that Putin is more willing to listen to the
people than most of the western wannabe 'elite'.
The
people's interest is simply not served well by globalization, liberal
internationalism and interventionism. A transactional approach to
international policies, with respect for basic human decency, is in
almost every case better for them.
Meanwhile, In addition to Vladimir Putin here is someone who calls a spade a spade rather than asking, like liberals, is it a "nice" spade
Friday, 28 June 2019
Stephen Cohen on the G20 meeting
Tales
of the New Cold War: Waiting for the G-20 meet between Trump and
Putin.
Stephen
F. Cohen @NYU @Princeton eastwestaccord.com.
For another viewpoint
Monday, 10 July 2017
The Trump-Putin agreement is up agaisnt the Deep State
Trump
Putin Up Against US Deep State
By Finian Cunningham
By Finian Cunningham
July 09, 2017 "Information Clearing House" -
It
was pleasing to see Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin greet each other
cordially at the G20 summit. After their breakthrough first meeting,
one hopes the two leaders have a personal foundation for future
cooperation.
At
a later press conference in Hamburg, where the G20 summit was
held, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he
believed there was a chance for restoring the badly frayed
US-Russia relations. He praised Trump for being thoughtful and
rational. “The TV Trump is quite different from the real life
one,” quipped Putin.
Meanwhile,
the White House issued a statement hailing the two-hour discussion
(four
times longer than originally scheduled)
between the two leaders as a good start to working
together on major world problems.
“No
problems were solved. Nobody expected any problems to be
solved in that meeting. But it was a beginning of a
dialogue on some tough problem sets that we’ll begin now
to work on together,” said HR
McMaster, Trump’s top national security adviser.
Trump
deserves credit for the way he conducted himself. He met Putin
on equal terms and with respect. “It’s an honor to meet
you,” said the American president as he extended a handshake.
The
much-anticipated encounter comes nearly seven months after Trump
was inaugurated in the White House. Over that period, large
sections of the US media have run an unrelenting campaign
accusing Trump of being a Russian stooge and alleging that Putin
ordered an interference operation in last year’s US election
to benefit Trump.
Apart
from innuendo and anonymous US intelligence claims, recycled
endlessly by dutiful news organizations, there is no evidence
of either Trump-Russia collusion or Putin-sanctioned cyber
hacking.
Trump has dismissed the claims as “fake news”, while Moscow has
consistently rejected the allegations as baseless Russophobia.
Against
this toxic background of anti-Russian propaganda, President
Trump met Putin at the weekend. The two men were due to talk
face-to-face for 30
minutes. As it turned out, their discussions went on for two
hours. They reportedly exchanged views on pressing matters
of Syria,
Ukraine and
North Korea among other things. Trump brought up the issue
of alleged Russian meddling in the US elections, and Putin
responded in detail to assure his American counterpart it
was a fabricated brouhaha in which Russia had nothing to do
with it.
Only
days before the big meeting, US media editorialists and pundits
were warning Trump to confront Putin in an aggressive
manner. The Washington Post, one of the leading anti-Russia
voices, exhorted Trump
to rap Putin on “US election meddling” as if the claim
was a proven fact. It also urged the president to give notice
to Putin that Russia had to accede to regime change
in Syria. It was a get-tough order.
To
his credit, Trump did not allow the Russophobia in the US media
to influence his manner with Putin. He was cordial,
respectful and open to listening to the Russian viewpoint
on a range of issues. So much so that it appears both
leaders have agreed to work together going forward.
The
question now is: what next? Trump and Putin have evidently got off to
a good start despite the inordinate delay and toxic background.
But what does Trump’s willingness to engage positively
with Moscow actually mean in practice?
The
US Deep State comprising the military-intelligence nexus and their
political, media machine in Washington does not want
to normalize relations with Russia. Russian independence
as a powerful foreign state under President Putin is a
problem that rankles US global ambitions. That’s why the Deep State
wanted anti-Russia hawk Hillary Clinton to win the election.
Trump’s victory upset their calculations.
Under
immense pressure, Trump has at times appeared to buckle
to the US political establishment with regard to projecting
hostility towards Russia, as seen in the prosecution
of the covert war
in Syria and
renewed sanctions on Moscow.
The day before he met Putin in Germany, Trump was in Poland where he delivered a barnstorming speech in Warsaw in which he accused Russia of “destabilizing countries”, among other topics. The American president also inferred that Russia was undermining “Western civilization”. It was provocative speech bordering on hackneyed Russophobia. It did not bode well for his imminent meeting with Putin. A clash seemed to be coming, just as the US media had been cajoling.
However,
the meeting the next day with Putin was surprisingly congenial.
And the substance of discussions indicates a genuine desire
from both sides to cooperate.
It
is good that both presidents have struck up a rapport and
personal understanding. Nevertheless, it is important to not
bank too much on that.
Immediately
following the constructive meeting between the leaders, the
US media started cranking up the Russophobia again. The US media
are vents for Deep State hostility towards Trump and his
agenda for normalizing relations with Moscow.
The
New York Times reported another
breathless story about Trump’s
election campaign having contact with “Kremlin-connected” people.
CNN ran opinion
pieces on how
the president had fallen into a trap laid by Putin.
It
is hard to stomach this outlandish confabulation that passes
for journalism. And it is astounding that a friendly meeting
between leaders of nuclear powers should not be received
as a good development.
But
it shows that Trump his up against very powerful deep forces
within the US establishment who do not want a normalization
with Russia. The US Deep State depends on confrontation,
war and endless militarism for its existence. It also wants a
world populated by vassals over which US corporations have
suzerainty. An independent Russia or China or any other foreign power
cannot be tolerated because that upends American ambitions
for unipolar hegemony.
Trump’s
encounter with Putin was commendable because he did not succumb
to toxic Russophobia and adopt a stupid, mindless tough-guy
posture. Instead, Trump reached out to Putin in a genuine
way, as two human beings should do.
The US Deep State is not about humanity or understanding. It is about maintaining perceived dominance over other humans, where anyone seen to be an obstacle is disposed of in the most ruthless way.
President
John F Kennedy was assassinated in broad daylight by the US
Deep State because he dared to seek a normalization and peaceful
coexistence with Moscow. The Deep State does not want
normalization or peace with Russia or anyone else for that
matter because there are too many lucrative vested interests
in maintaining the war machine that is American capitalism.
This
is not to predict a violent demise for Trump. The Deep
State has other methods, such as the orchestration of media
and other dirty tricks.
Trump’s
friendly overtures to Russia are at least a promising sign.
But given the power structure of the US, and its incorrigible
belligerence, it is doubtful that Trump will be allowed to go
beyond promises. If he attempts to, we can expect the dark
forces to step up.
What
needs to change is the US power structure through a
democratic revolt. Until that happens, any president in the
White House is simply a hostage to the dark forces of the
Deep State.
Paul Craig Roberts on Putin-Trump meeting
"I
am afraid that The Saker and Finian Cunningham are correct. Nothing
can come of Trump’s meeting with Putin, because, as Cunningham puts
it, “Trump doesn’t have freedom or real power. The real power
brokers in the US will ensure that the Russophobia campaign
continues, with more spurious allegations of Moscow interfering to
subvert Western democracies. Trump will continue to live under a
cloud of media-driven suspicions. And thus the agenda of regime
change against Syria and confrontation with Russia will also
continue. Trump’s personal opinions on these matters and towards
Vladimir Putin are negligible—indeed dispensable by the deep
powers-that-be.”
Putin’s
Assessment of Trump at the G-20 Will Determine Our Future
Paul
Craig Roberts
7
July, 2017
The
backdrops to the Putin/Trump meeting are the aspirations of Israel
and the neoconservatives. It is these aspirations that drive US
foreign policy.
What
is Syria about? Why is Washington so focused on overthrowing the
elected president of Syria? What explains the sudden 21st century
appearance of “the Muslim threat”? How is Washington’s
preoccupation with “the Muslim threat” consistent with
Washington’s wars against Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad,
leaders who suppressed jihadism? What explains the sudden appearance
of “the Russian threat” which has been hyped into dangerous
Russophobia without any basis in fact?
The
Muslim threat, the Russian threat, and the lies used to destroy Iraq,
Libya, and parts of Syria are all orchestrations to serve Israeli and
neoconservative aspirations.
The
Israel Lobby in the United States, perhaps most strongly represented
in Commentary, The Weekly Standard and The New York Times, used the
Septemer 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon to
urge US President
George W. Bush to
begin “a determined effort to removeSaddam
Hussein from
Power in Iraq.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
See also: http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/iraqwar.shtml
See also: http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/iraqwar.shtml
Saddam
Hussein (Source: britannica.com)
Saddam
Hussein was a secular leader whose job was to sit on the anomosities
of the Sunni and Shia and maintain a non-violent political stability
in Iraq. He, Assad, and Gaddafi suppressed the extremism that leads
to jihadism. Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11, and under
his rule Iraq constituted a ZERO threat to the US. He had been a
faithful vassal and attacked Iran for Washington, which had hopes of
using Iraq to overthrow the Iranian government.
Removing
secular leaders is what unleashes jihadism. Washington unleashed
Muslim terrorism by regime change that murdered secular leaders and
left countries in chaos.
Fomenting
chaos in Iraq was the beginning for spreading chaos into Syria and
then Iran. Syria and Iran support Hezbollah, the militia in southern
Lebanon that has twice driven out the Israeli Army sent in to occupy
southern Lebanon so that Israel could appropriate the water
resources.
The
neoconservatives’ wars against the Middle East serve to remove the
governments that provide military and financial support to Hezbollah.
By spreading jihadism closer to the Russian Federation, these wars
coincide perfectly with the US neoconservative policy of US World
Hegemony. As expressed by Paul
Wolfowitz,
US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy:
“Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”
Israel
wants Syria and Iran to join Iraq and Libya in American-induced chaos
so that Israel can steal the water in southern Lebanon. If Syria and
Iran are in chaos like Iraq and Libya, Hezbollah will not have the
military and financial support to withstand the Israeli military.
The
neoconservatives have broader aims than Israel’s. The
neoconservatives want Syria and Iran in jihadist turmoil so that the
neoconservatives can send jihadism into the Russian Federation and
into China. China has a Muslim province that borders Kazakhstan. By
causing internal problems for Russia and China, the neoconservatives
can reduce Russia and China’s abilities to hinder US unilateralism.
That
is what Syria is about. It is not about anything else.
The
“Muslim threat” appeared suddenly with the 9/11 attack on the WTC
and Pentagon. The attack was instantly blamed on Muslims. Although
the US government maintained that it had no idea that such an attack
was in the works, the US government knew instantly who did it. Quite
clearly, it is impossible to know instantly who did an attack about
which the government had no idea. In what has become the hallmark of
every “terrorist attack,” IDs left at the scene conveniently
identified the “terrorists.”
There
are now 3,000 architects and engineers who put their reputation on
the line by challenging the official story of the collapse of the WTC
buildings. According to all known science, the official explanation
of the destruction of the 3 highrise WTC buildings is strickly
impossible. There is endless evidence online provided not by ignorant
presstitutes, conspiracy theorists, and lying politicians, but by
real experts. Just go to the Architects & Engineers for 9/11
Truth website, to the Firefighters and First responders for 9/11
Truth website, to the Pilots for 9/11 Truth website. Research what
some foreign government officials have to say about the absurd story
told by the US government. That any percentage of the US population
believes the obvious false official 9/11 story is proof of the total
failure of education in America. Much of the population is incapable
of thought. People simply accept whatever the government tells them
regardless of the absurdity of the explanation.
Where
did the alleged “Muslim threat” come from? What produced it? 9/11
happened before Washington destroyed in whole or part seven Muslim
countries, killing, maiming, orphaning, and displacing millions of
Muslims who are now overrunning Washington’s vassal states in
Europe. Such wars on innocents could produce terrorists, but 9/11 was
prior to Washington’s wars against Muslims.
Osama
bin Laden and
Al-Qaeda were Washington’s allies against the Soviets in
Afghanistan. Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda most certainly did not have the
inside information and inside connections to outwit all 17 US
intelligence agencies, the National Security Council, all
intelligence agencies of Washington’s NATO vassals and Mossad, and
airport security four times in the same hour on the same morning.
Moreover,
in the last video attributed to bin Laden by independent experts, bin
Laden said he had no motive for any such attack and had nothing to do
with it. Generally speaking, real terrorists claim responsibility
whether they did it or not in order to build the movement by showing
its capability. It makes no sense that “the mastermind” allegedly
determined to overthrow the West would disavow the greatest
humiliation ever inflicted on a major power. The United States was
completely humiliated by its impotence against a handful of Muslims
with nothing but box cutters. This humiliation is a world record that
will stand forever. It is impossible that the alleged terrorist, bin
Laden, would repudiate such an accomplishment.
This
fact alone proves that Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda had nothing
whatsoever to do with 9/11.
Anyone
who believes the official 9/11 story, like anyone who believes Oswald
killed JFK, like anyone who still believes that Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction and Al-Qaeda connections, that Assad used
chemical weapons, who believes the Gulf of Tonkin lie, who believes
that Sirhan Sirhan killed RFK, that Russia invaded Ukraine, etc., is
too far gone to ever be rescued from The Matrix in which they live.
I
do not know if the insouciance and gullibility of peoples in the West
extends into Latin American, Africa, and Asia. Some of the people in
Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia, whose governments are slated for
regime change by Washington, must be aware that they are not in
control of their own fate. But how widely spread is awareness of
Washington’s lust for world hegemony? The only signs of awareness
are the initial and limited agreements between Russia and China.
To
this day, not a single European government has made the connection
between Washington’s wars, supported by Europe, and the millions of
refugees from Washington’s wars that are overrunning Europe, intent
on collecting welfare from European peoples while raping European
women. We hear all sorts of complaints about the refugees, but never
is a connection made between the refugees and Washington’s European
supported wars.
Washington
so successfully portrayed itself during the Cold War as peace,
justice, and truth astriding the white horse that the world cannot
see Satan sitting in the saddle.
Now
that Washington’s 16 years of inhumane war against Muslim
populations have destroyed the lives of millions of peoples, why
aren’t there 9/11s every day? Instead are there only a few alleged
terror attacks carried out by individuals, which appear to many to be
orchestrated false flag events, such as individuals running over
people with trucks in France and England, shooting up a French deli
and magazine office. But nothing in the US, “the Great Satan.”
Very suspicious.
The
orchestrated event of 9/11 was the neoconservative’s “New Pearl
Harbor” that provided the excuse for wars that advanced their
purpose and Israel’s. It was the neoconservatives themselves who
said that they needed a “new Pearl Harbor” in order to begin
their wars in the Middle East.
Why
don’t Americans and Europeans know this? The answer is because the
US and Europe do not have independent medias. They have presstitutes.
Washington
created “the Russian threat” when the Obama regime’s frameup of
Assad on his alleged use of chemical weapons failed. The UK PM
David Cameron pledged
Great Britain’s cover for Washington’s invasion of Syria, but the
UK Parliament voted no. No more UK coverups for Washington’s war
crimes, said the Parliament. Russia stepped in and said, no need for
more war. We have an agreement with Syria. We are going to collect
all chemical weapons and turn them over to the US for destruction.
The US is probably using these chemical weapons turned over by naive
Russians for the false flag chemical attacks in Syria.
Stymied
in their war aims against Syria, the neoconservatives turned with
fury against Russia. How dare the insignificant Russians get in the
way of the exceptional, indispensable people! We will teach Russians
a lesson! Washington unleashed on the democratically elected
government of Ukraine the US-financed NGOs in the amount of $5
billion according to Assistant Secretary of State
neoconservative Victoria
Nuland.
Not
realizing its vulnerability, Russia was focused on the Sochi Olympics
and suddenly found that Ukraine had undergone a US coup and was
committing violence against the Russian populations in Ukraine.
Previously in history Soviet leaders had assigned Russia provinces to
the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR. These Russians
faced with violence by the neo-Nazi government installed in Kiev by
Washington demanded to be reunited with Russia from whence they had
come.
Russia
agreed to take back Crimea because of the Russian Black Sea Naval
Base, but refused the other Russian areas, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Hoping against all rationality to convince Europe that Russia was
non-aggresive, Russia refused the Russian breakaway republics and
left them to the mercy of the Kiev neo-Nazis that continue to attack
them in violation of the agreements.
The
Russian government’s tolerance for provocations and insults makes
the Russian government look like a weakling to the American
neoconservatives, who continue to demonize Russia and its president
and to press for more sanctions and more bases on Russia’s borders.
Prior to his meeting with Putin, Trump, according to the BBC, called
“on Russia to stop ‘destabilising’ Ukraine and other countries,
and ‘join the community of responsible nations.’” How is that
for standing truth on its head?
The
Russian desire for Western acceptance could end up compromising
Russia’s sovereignty. Washington is figuring out how much
sovereignty Russia will give up in exchange for being granted
acceptance by the West.
The
Russians are also endangered by their belief that Muslim terrorism is
a world threat. It is a delusion for the Russian government to think
they can reach an agreement with Washington to fight terrorism
jointly. The Russians simply cannot accept that terrorism is
Washington’s weapon directed against them.
The
only reason Muslim terrorism exists is that Washington created it.
Washington first used jihadism against the Soviet army in
Afghanistan. Then against Gaddafi in Libya. Then when Obama’s plan
to invade Syria on the trumped-up chemical weapons charge was blocked
by the UK Parliament and Russia, Obama sent ISIS to overthrow
Assad. General
Flynn,
who was the director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency stated
this matter-of-factly on Al Jazeera. Flynn said it was a “willful
decision” of the Obama administration to send ISIS to overthrow
Assad. This is why Russia’s hopes of a common front against ISIS
never made any sense.
Jihadism
is Washington’s best weapon with which to destabilize Russia. Why
would Washington help Russia to defeat this weapon?
There
is so much fake news and disinformation spread in the Western media
that it even affects the Russians, perhaps even the Chinese.
Even
Western analysts who reject the official Syria story still buy into
the lie that Assad is a dictator.
When
Putin meets with Trump, Putin will have to assess whether Trump is a
real president or just another front man for the powerful interest
groups that run Washington’s empire.
If
Putin concludes that Trump is merely a front man, then Putin has no
alternative but to prepare for war.
Trump Cannot Improve Relations With Russia When Trump’s Government and the US Media Oppose Improved Relations
9
July, 2017
President
Trump Has Been Contradicted by His Own Government, Which Has Lined Up
Against Him in Favor of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National
Committee, and the Russophobic Presstitute Media that serves the
military/security complex and the neoconservatives.
I
am afraid that The Saker and Finian Cunningham are correct. Nothing
can come of Trump’s meeting with Putin, because, as Cunningham puts
it, “Trump doesn’t have freedom or real power. The real power
brokers in the US will ensure that the Russophobia campaign
continues, with more spurious allegations of Moscow interfering to
subvert Western democracies. Trump will continue to live under a
cloud of media-driven suspicions. And thus the agenda of regime
change against Syria and confrontation with Russia will also
continue. Trump’s personal opinions on these matters and towards
Vladimir Putin are negligible—indeed dispensable by the deep
powers-that-be.”
Cunningham
points out that instead of lauding the meeting as the beginning of
the process to defuse the high tensions between the two major nuclear
powers, the US media denounced Trump for being civil to Putin in the
meeting.
What
is missing from the media in the entirety of the Western world and
perhaps also in Russia is the awareness that the dangerous tensions
are orchestrated not only by Hillary and the Democratic National
Committee, the neoconservatives, the US military/security complex,
and the presstitutes, but also by President Trump’s own appointees.
Trump’s
own ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, and Trump’s own Secretary of
State, Rex Tillerson, sound exactly like Hillary Clinton, the
Democratic National Committee, the neoconservatives, the Washington
Post, the New York Times, CNN and the rest of the totally discredited
presstitute media that is committed to raising tensions between the
US and Russia to the point of nuclear war.
On
the same day that President Donald Trump said “it is time to move
forward in working constructively with Russia,” and the day after
he said “I had a tremendous meeting yesterday with President
Putin,” the ignorant, stupid, Nikki Haley, who Trump appointed as
US UN Ambassador, publicly contracted her president, forcefully
stating: “we can’t trust Russia and we won’t ever trust
Russia.”https://www.rt.com/usa/395814-us-trust-russia-haley/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spotim_referrer=recirculation&spot_im_comment_id=sp_6phY2k0C_395814_c_rDCXsj
The
ignorant stupid Haley is still in office, a perfect demonstration of
Trump’s powerlessness.
The
ignorant stupid Haley has gone far beyond Obama’s crazed UN
Ambassador, neocon Smantha Power in doing everything in her power to
ruin the prospect of normal relations between the two major nuclear
powers. Why does Nikki Haley work in favor of a confrontation between
nuclear powers that would destroy all life on earth? What is wrong
with Nikki Haley? Is she demented? Has she lost her mind, assuming
she ever had one?
How
can President Trump normalize relations with Russia when every one of
his appointees wants to worsen the relations to the point of nuclear
war?
How
is President Trump going to improve relations with Russia when
President Trump stands powerless in face of his dressing down by his
UN Ambassador? Clearly, Trump is powerless, a mere cipher.
Joining
Nikki Haley was Trump’s Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.
Tillerson, allegedly a friend of Russia, is also working overtime to
worsen relations between the two nuclear powers by publicly
contradicting the President of the United States, thereby making it
clear that Trump is barely even a cipher. Tillerson, a disgrace, said
that Putin’s refusal to admit that Putin elected Trump by
interfering in the US election “stands as an obstacle to our
ability to improve the relationship between the US and Russia and it
needs to be addressed in terms of how we assure the American people
that interference into our elections will not occur by Russia or
anyone
else.” https://www.rt.com/usa/395814-us-trust-russia-haley/?utm_source=spotim&utm_medium=spotim_recirculation&spotim_referrer=recirculation&spot_im_comment_id=sp_6phY2k0C_395814_c_rDCXsj
Trump’s
incompetence is illustrated by his appointments. There is no one in
“his” government that supports him. Everyone of them works to
undermine him. And he sits there and Twitters.
So,
what is President Putin’s belief that an understanding can now be
worked out with Washington worth? Not a plugged nickel. Trump has
zero authority over “his” government. He can be contradicted at
will by his own appointees. The President of the United States is a
joke. You can find him on Twitter, but nowhere else, not in the Oval
Office making foreign or military policy. The president Twitters and
thinks that that is policy.
The
Trump administration was destroyed when the weak Donald Trump allowed
the neoconservatives to remove his National Security Advisor, General
Flynn. Trump has never recovered. “His” administration is staffed
with violent Russophobes. Wars can be the only outcome.
We
know two things about the alleged Russian interference in the
Trump/Hillary presidential election. One is that John Brennan,
Obama’s CIA director, and Comey, Obama’s FBI director, implied
repeatedly that Trump was elected by Russian interference in the
election, but neither the CIA nor the FBI have provided any evidence
whatsoever that any such interference occurred. Indeed, months into
the case, the special prosecutor, the former FBI director, can
produce no evidence. The whole thing is a sham, but it is ongoing.
There will be no end to it as it is designed to undermind President
Trump with the people who elected him. The message is: “Trump is
not for America. Trump is for Russia.”
This
is astounding! The NSA has intercepts of all transmitted data. If
Russia interfered in the US presidential election the evidence would
be obvious and immediately available.
Despite
the obvious lies told by Brennan and Comey, the New York Times,
Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the scum, no one has been
arrested and put on trial for their efforts to overthrow the elected
president of the United States. This proves beyond all doubt that the
President of the United States is a non-entity. A figurehead
incapable of action independently of the Deep State that controls
him.
If
Vladimir Putin really believes from his meeting with Trump that all
of the orchestrated false charges against Russia can now be removed
and normal relations restored, Putin is in la-la land. Nikki Haley
says that the US will NEVER trust Russia. If Putin trusts Washington,
Russia will be destroyed. And the rest of the world with Russia.
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