Bush intensifica il confronto con la Russia sopra la Georgia
Da Grey del Barry | In una dichiarazione provocatoria trasportata dal giardino della Rosa della Casa Bianca il lunedì, presidente George W. Bush ha intensificato il confronto fra gli Stati Uniti e la Russia sopra il combattimento corrente nella Georgia.
Bush ha denunciato che cosa ha denominato la Russia escalation militare “drammatica e brutale„ ed ha richiesto che Mosca accosente ad un cessate il fuoco immediato ed al ritiro delle relative truppe dal paese caucasico sul relativo bordo. Accusa la Russia di progettazione bombardare l'aeroporto de Tbilisi e si è caricato che Mosca stava cercando di overthrow il governo pro-STATI UNITI del presidente georgiano Mikheil Saakashvili.
Bush ha ripetuto le dichiarazione degli Stati Uniti circa il inviolability della sovranità georgiana e della lingua integrità-diplomatica territoriale che sostengono gli sforzi del governo a Tbilisi ristabilire il controllo sopra le repubbliche filorusse staccate di Ossetia e di Abkhazia del sud.
Le osservazioni del Bush hanno seguito una dichiarazione domenica dal vice presidente Dick Cheney, che “l'aggressione„ russa detta non potrebbe andare senza risposta. L'intervento del Cheney ha suggerito l'esistenza di una fazione all'interno della gestione di Bush che sta spingendo per una risposta più aggressiva degli Stati Uniti all'intervento russo nella Georgia.
Le dichiarazione dalla Casa Bianca esprimono un livello di vacillamento di ipocrisia. Il governo degli Stati Uniti non ha pubblicato protesta quando le forze militari georgiane hanno attacato Ossetia del sud ultima notte di giovedì, designante indiscriminatamente i blocchi come bersaglio dell'appartamento nel capitale di Tskhinvali con il cannone ed i mortai del carro armato. È valutato che i invaders georgiani hanno ucciso 2.000 civili, un bloodletting che rappresenta la massa ampia delle morti civili fin qui.
Era soltanto quando i militari russi hanno risposto all'attacco georgiano con un counteroffensive veloce e voluminoso, schiacciando la forza georgiana molto più piccola, che Washington è stato allarmata.
Ci è niente di a distanza progressivo nelle azioni militari intraprese dal regime di Putin. L'elite di regolamento russa sta perseguendo i relativi propri obiettivi predatori nel Caucaso, una regione che è stata regolata per due secoli da Mosca prima del disfacimento dell'Unione Sovietica in 1991.
Inoltre, il eruption della guerra nel Caucaso sottolinea le conseguenze tragiche della dissoluzione dell'URSS. Ha esposto le masse dell'Unione Sovietica precedente, compreso la Russia e le altre repubbliche sovietiche, ai pericoli della guerra ed alle predazioni delle alimentazioni imperialist principali. 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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