Ο Μπους κλιμακώνει την αντιμετώπιση με τη Ρωσία πέρα από τη Γεωργία
Από Barry Grey | Σε μια προκλητική δήλωση που παραδόθηκε από το λευκό οίκο αυξήθηκε κήπος τη Δευτέρα, Πρόεδρος George W. Ο Μπους κλιμάκωσε την αντιπαράθεση μεταξύ των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών και της Ρωσίας πέρα από τρέχουσα παλεύω στη Γεωργία.
Ο Μπους κατήγγειλε τι κάλεσε δραματική και βάναυση» στρατιωτική κλιμάκωση της Ρωσίας «και απαίτησε ότι η Μόσχα συμφωνεί με μια άμεση εκεχειρία και την απόσυρση των στρατευμάτων της από την καυκάσια χώρα στα σύνορά της. Κατηγόρησε τη Ρωσία για τον προγραμματισμό να βομβαρδιστεί ο αερολιμένας του Tbilisi και χρέωσε ότι η Μόσχα επιδίωκε να νικήσει την κυβέρνηση υπέρ-ΗΠΑ του της Γεωργίας Προέδρου Mikheil Saakashvili.
Ο Μπους επανέλαβε τις αμερικανικές δηλώσεις για το απαραβίαστο της της Γεωργίας κυριαρχίας και της εδαφικής ακεραιότητα-διπλωματικής γλώσσας που υποστηρίζουν τις προσπάθειες της κυβέρνησης στο Tbilisi για να επανεγκαθιδρύσει τον έλεγχο των αποσπασθεισών υπέρ-ρωσικών δημοκρατιών της Νότιας Οσετίας και της Αμπχαζίας.
Οι παρατηρήσεις του Μπους ακολούθησαν την Κυριακή δήλωσης από τον αντιπρόεδρο Dick Cheney, ο οποίος είπε ότι η ρωσική «επιθετικότητα» δεν θα μπορούσε να πάει αναπάντητη. Η επέμβαση του Cheney πρότεινε την ύπαρξη μιας φατρίας μέσα στη διοίκηση των Μπους που ωθεί για μια επιθετικότερη αμερικανική απάντηση στη ρωσική επέμβαση στη Γεωργία.
Οι δηλώσεις από το λευκό οίκο εκφράζουν ένα παραπαίον επίπεδο υποκρισίας. Η αμερικανική κυβέρνηση δεν εξέδωσε καμία διαμαρτυρία όταν τοποθετεί σε δεξαμενή η της Γεωργίας στρατιωτική επιτεθειμένη δυνάμεις Νότια Οσετία τελευταία Πέμπτη νύχτα, αδιακρίτως που στοχεύει στις ομάδες διαμερισμάτων στο κεφάλαιο Tskhinvali με το πυροβόλο και τα κονιάματα. Υπολογίζεται ότι οι της Γεωργίας εισβολείς σκότωσαν 2.000 πολίτες, μια αφαίμαξη που αποτελεί τον απέραντο όγκο των πολιτικών θανάτων μέχρι σήμερα.
Ήταν μόνο πότε ρωσικός ο στρατιωτικός αποκρίθηκε στην της Γεωργίας επίθεση με μια γρήγορη και ογκώδη στρατιωτική, συντρίβοντας την πολύ μικρότερη της Γεωργίας δύναμη, ότι η Ουάσιγκτον έγινε ανησυχημένη.
Δεν υπάρχει τίποτα μακρινά προοδευτικό στις στρατιωτικές ενέργειες που λαμβάνονται από το καθεστώς Putin. Η ρωσική κυβερνώσα ελίτ ακολουθεί τους αρπακτικούς στόχους της στον Καύκασο, μια περιοχή που κυβερνήθηκε για αιώνες δύο από τη Μόσχα πριν από την αποσύνθεση της Σοβιετικής Ένωσης το 1991.
Επιπλέον, η έκρηξη του πολέμου στον Καύκασο υπογραμμίζει τις τραγικές συνέπειες της διάλυσης της ΕΣΣΔ. Έχει εκθέσει τις μάζες της πρώην Σοβιετικής Ένωσης, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της Ρωσίας και των άλλων σοβιετικών δημοκρατιών, στους κινδύνους του πολέμου και τις προχρονολογήσεις των σημαντικότερων ιμπεριαλιστικών δυνάμεων. 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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