布什升级与俄国的交锋在佐治亚
由 巴里灰色 | 在星期一在从白宫玫瑰园提供的一个诱惑声明，乔治· W.总统。 布什升级了交锋在美国和俄国之间在当前战斗在佐治亚。
布什谴责了什么他称俄国的“剧烈和残酷”军事逐步升级并且要求莫斯科赞成一次直接停火和撤退它的队伍从白种人国家它的边界。 他指责了俄国计划轰炸第比利斯机场并且充电莫斯科寻求推翻英王乔治一世至三世时期总统Mikheil Saakashvili的赞成美国政府。
布什在第比利斯重申了美国声明关于支持政府的努力的英王乔治一世至三世时期主权和领土正直外交语言的inviolability重建对南Ossetia和Abkhazia脱离赞成俄国共和国的控制。
布什的评论被Dick Cheney副总统跟随了声明星期天，说俄国“侵略”不可能是未回答。 Cheney的干预在为对俄国干预的一个更加进取的美国反应推挤在佐治亚的布什政府内部建议了一个派别的存在。
声明从白宫表达伪善的一个摇摆的水平。 当英王乔治一世至三世时期军事力量在Tskhinvali的首都攻击了南Ossetia最后星期四夜，不加区别地瞄准公寓团体与坦克大炮和灰浆，美国政府没有发布抗议。 它估计英王乔治一世至三世时期侵略者杀害了2,000个平民，迄今占浩大的大多数平民死亡的放血。
它是只有俄国军事反应了英王乔治一世至三世时期攻击以迅速和巨型的反攻，击碎更小的英王乔治一世至三世时期力量，华盛顿变得惊动。
没什么遥远地进步在Putin政权采取的军事行动。 俄国支配的精华在高加索追求它自己的掠食性目标，被统治在二个世纪由莫斯科在苏联终止之前1991年的区域。
而且，战争的爆发在高加索强调苏联的溶解的悲剧结果。 它暴露了前苏联的大量，包括俄国和其他苏联共和国，在战争危险和主要帝国主义霸权的掠夺行为。 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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