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بوش يصعد مواجهة مع روسيا على جورجيا
ب [برّي] [غري] | في بيان تحريضيّة يسلّم من البيت الأبيض [روس] حديقة في يوم الإثنين, رئيس جورج [و.]. Bush escalated the confrontation between the United States and Russia over the current fighting in Georgia.
بوش شجب ماذا هو دعا روسيا "مثيرة وقاسية" تصاعد عسكريّة وطلب أنّ يوافق موسكو إلى وقف النّار فوقيّة والإنسحاب من قواته من البلد [كوكسن] على حافته. هو اتّهم روسيا من يخطّط أن يقصف تبليسي مطار وحمّل أنّ بحث موسكو كان أن يسقط ال [برو-وس] حكومة من رئيس جورجيّة [ميكهيل] [سكشفيلي].
بوش كرّس [أوس] بيانات حول الحرمة من سيادة جورجيّة وإقليميّة [إينتغريت-ديبلومتيك] لغة يساند الجهود من الحكومة في تبليسي أن يقيم تحكم على الجمهوريات انفصاليّة [برو-روسّين] من جنوبيّة [أسّتيا] و [أبكهزيا].
بوش تبع ملاحظات بيان يوم الأحد ب [فيس-برسدنت] ديك [شني], الذي يقول روسيّة "إعتداء" استطاع لم يذهب غير مجاب. [شني] اقترح تدخل الوجود من زمرة ضمن ال [بوش دمينيسترأيشن] أنّ يكون يدفع لأكثر عدوانيّة [أوس] إستجابة إلى التدخل روسيّة في جورجيا.
عبّر عن البيانات من البيت الأبيض [ستغّرينغ] مستوى النفاق. ال [أوس] أصدر حكومة ما من إحتجاج عندما قوات جورجيّة عسكريّة هاجموا [أسّتيا] جنوبيّة متأخّرة يوم الخميس ليل, دون تمييز يستهدف شقة كتل في الرأس مال [تسكهينفلي] مع دبابة مدفع ومدفع هاون. هو قدرت أنّ قتل المعتدي جورجيّة 2,000 مدنيات, [بلوودلتّينغ] أنّ يعلّل الشحن ضخمة من موت مدنيّة [تو دت].
هو كان فقط عندما الجيش روسيّة استجاب إلى الهجوم جورجيّة مع سريعة و [كونتروفّنسف] ضخمة, يسحق ال كثير قوة صغيرة جورجيّة, أنّ أصبح واشنطن ينذر.
هناك لاشيء بعيدا تقدّميّة في الأعمال عسكريّة يؤخذ ببوتين نظامة. يتتبّع الروسيّة يحكم نخبته خاصّة أهداف لصوصيّة في قوقاز, منطقة أنّ كان حكمت لاثنان قرون بموسكو قبل التحطم من [سفيت ونيون] في 1991.
فضلا عن ذلك, يسطّر الثوران الحرب في قوقاز النتيجات مأساويّة من الإنحلال من الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة. هو قد عرض ال [مسّ] من [سفيت ونيون] سابقة, بما في ذلك روسيا والأخرى جمهوريات سوفييتيّة, إلى ال [دنجر وف ور] وال [بردأيشن] من القوى كبريات إمبرياليّة. For the peoples of the former USSR, the answer is to be found not in the nationalist and militaristic policies of Putin, but rather in the internationalist program of socialist revolution.
Notwithstanding the reactionary aims of the Russian regime, no objective observer can contest the fact that Washington’s provocative policy toward Russia—aimed at supplanting Russia in its long-time spheres of influence—is the primary factor behind the eruption of war between Russia and Georgia.
The media has been virtually silent on the visit just one month ago of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Georgia. Rice held talks with Saakashvili and gave a press conference at which she denounced Russia, backed Saakashvili’s efforts to reassert Georgian control over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and reiterated US support for Georgia’s incorporation into NATO.
Russia has made clear that it considers the entry of former Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine into NATO an intolerable threat to its security. Were Georgia already a part of NATO, as Moscow is well aware, the alliance’s member states would be legally bound to intervene military in Georgia’s support.
It is inconceivable that Saakashvili did not review in detail with Rice his plans for a military assault on South Ossetia. Georgia—which is totally dependent on US military, diplomatic and financial support—could not take such a portentous action without informing Washington in advance and securing American sanction.
Preparations for the attack would have been far advanced when Rice met with Saakashvili a month ago. The Georgian military, moreover, is dominated from top to bottom by US military advisers.
The United States has been pouring military aid into Georgia ever since the US-led air war against Serbia in 1999, and the pace and scale of American military aid have accelerated since Washington engineered the so-called “Rose Revolution” that brought Harvard-educated Saakashvili to power in early 2004.
An article in Monday’s New York Times describes “a Pentagon effort to overhaul Georgia’s forces from bottom to top.” The article states: “At senior levels, the United States helped rewrite Georgian military doctrine and train its commanders and staff officers. At the squad level, American marines and soldiers trained Georgian soldiers in the fundamentals of battle.
“Georgia, meanwhile, began re-equipping its forces with Israeli and American firearms, reconnaissance drones, communications and battlefield management equipment, new convoys of vehicles and stockpiles of ammunition.”
As for the principle of national sovereignty and territorial integrity, the US is highly selective when it comes to its application. No one in either political party or in the establishment media has sought to explain why Serbia’s military intervention against Kosovan separatists was a war crime, while Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia was legitimate.
The Bush administration was the prime mover behind Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia last February, on grounds indistinguishable from those claimed by anti-Georgian separatists in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Moreover, the US encouraged and financed the forces that sought to effect the secession of Chechnya from Russia in the 1990s.
Since the United States was clearly involved in the Georgian assault on South Ossetia, one must ask what were its intentions. It is difficult to believe that US policy makers believed Russia would take no action in response to such an immense provocation. Why then, would they support a move that would bring Russia into a direct conflict with one of Washington’s principal allies in the Caucasus—a region that constitutes a bridgehead between the resource-rich Caspian Basin and Western Europe and houses critical oil and gas pipelines?
The only plausible answer is that the United States is deliberately seeking a major escalation of tensions between Russia and the West. Even if the current conflict does not spiral immediately into a wider conflagration, the fate of “little Georgia” will be invoked by the United States to justify a far more aggressive and confrontational stance toward Russia.
The demands being raised by the Bush administration, the European Union, the United Nations and others for a return to the “status quo ante” in Georgia are drenched in hypocrisy. They all know very well that the US is not about to abandon what it has come to see as a critical prop to its position in the Caucasus and its long-term perspective of reducing Russia to a semi-colonial status.
The resumption of something akin to the Cold War underscores the real motives that underlay the decades of confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. American imperialism considered the Soviet Union—and continues to view Russia—as an obstacle to its geo-strategic aim of securing hegemony over Eurasia.
There is undoubtedly a domestic political component to the US-backed provocation against Russia as well. The Bush administration and the Republican presidential candidate, John McCain, want the November elections to take place under conditions of immense international crisis. They calculate that an environment of fear and insecurity will strengthen McCain’s chances, since a major prop of his campaign is his supposed foreign policy experience and national security expertise.
Obama, predictably and pathetically, is responding by seeking to assert his own militaristic credentials. Within minutes of Bush’s threatening statement against Russia on Monday, Obama issued his own denunciation of Russia in terms almost identical to those of Bush and McCain.
The immensely dangerous implications of the eruption of war in the Caucasus leave no doubt about where the drive of imperialism to carve up the world is leading. US imperialism intends to let nothing stand in the way of its goal of establishing global hegemony. It is dragging the American working class and the world into a catastrophe.
The only force that can stop it is the revolutionary mobilization of the American and international working class.
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