Bush escalade la confrontation avec la Russie au-dessus de la Géorgie
Par Gris de Barry | Dans un rapport provocateur fourni du jardin de Rose de la Maison Blanche lundi, le Président George W. Bush a escaladé la confrontation entre les Etats-Unis et la Russie au-dessus du combat courant en Géorgie.
Bush a dénoncé ce qu'il a appelé la Russie escalade militaire « dramatique et brutale » et a exigé que Moscou sont d'accord sur un cessez-le-feu immédiat et le retrait de ses troupes du pays caucasien sur sa frontière. Il accuse la Russie de la planification pour bombarder l'aéroport de Tbilisi et a chargé que Moscou cherchait à renverser le gouvernement pro-USA du Président géorgien Mikheil Saakashvili.
Bush a réitéré des rapports des USA au sujet de l'inviolabilité de la souveraineté géorgienne et de la langue intégrité-diplomatique territoriale soutenant les efforts du gouvernement à Tbilisi de rétablir le contrôle des républiques pro-Russes détachées d'Ossetia du sud et d'Abkhazia.
Les remarques de Bush ont suivi un rapport dimanche de vice-président Dick Cheney, qui ladite « agression » russe ne pourrait pas disparaître sans réponse. L'intervention de Cheney a suggéré l'existence d'une faction au sein de l'administration de Bush qui pousse pour une réponse plus agressive des USA à l'intervention russe en Géorgie.
Les rapports de la Maison Blanche expriment un niveau de chancellement d'hypocrisie. Le gouvernement des USA n'a publié aucune protestation quand les forces militaires géorgiennes ont attaqué Ossetia du sud jeudi nuit passée, visant aléatoirement des blocs d'appartement dans la capitale de Tskhinvali avec le canon et les mortiers de réservoir. On l'estime que les envahisseurs géorgiens ont tué 2.000 civils, une saignée qui explique la vaste partie des décès civiles jusqu'ici.
Il était seulement quand les militaires russes ont répondu à l'attaque géorgienne avec une contre-offensive rapide et massive, écrasant la force géorgienne beaucoup plus petite, que Washington est devenu a alarmé.
Il n'y a rien à distance progressif dans les mesures militaires prises par le régime de Putin. L'élite régnante russe poursuit ses propres objectifs prédateurs dans le Caucase, une région qui a été régnée pendant deux siècles par Moscou avant la dissolution de l'Union Soviétique en 1991.
D'ailleurs, l'éruption de la guerre dans le Caucase souligne les conséquences tragiques de la dissolution de l'URSS. Il a exposé les masses de l'ancienne Union Soviétique, y compris la Russie et les autres républiques soviétiques, aux dangers de la guerre et aux prédations des puissances impérialistes principales. 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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