Russia\u2019s Rise To Global Power<\/p>\n
Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n
This article first appeared in Strategic Culture Foundation http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2014\/05\/22\/russia-rise-to-global-power.html <\/a> <\/p>\n Western propaganda about events in Ukraine has two main purposes. One is to cover up, or to distract from, Washington\u2019s role in overthrowing the elected democratic government of Ukraine. The other is to demonize Russia.<\/p>\n The truth is known, but truth is not a part of the Western TV and print media. The intercepted telephone call between US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt reveals the two coup plotters discussing which of Washington\u2019s stooges will be installed as Washington\u2019s person in the new puppet government. The intercepted telephone call between Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet and EU foreign policy official Catherine Ashton revealed suspicions, later confirmed by independent reports, that the sniper fire that killed people on both sides of the Kiev protests came from the Washington-backed side of the conflict.<\/p>\n To summarize, when Washington orchestrated in 2004 the \u201cOrange Revolution\u201d and the revolution failed to deliver Ukraine into Western hands, Washington, according to Victoria Nuland, poured $5 billion into Ukraine over the next ten years. The money went to politicians, whom Washington groomed, and to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that operate as educational, pro-democracy, and human rights groups, but in fact are Washington\u2019s fifth columns. <\/p>\n When President Yanukovych, after considering the costs and benefits, rejected the invitation for Ukraine to join the European Union, Washington sent its well-funded NGOs into action. Protests broke out in Kiev demanding that Yanukovych change his decision and join the EU.<\/p>\n These protests were peaceful, but soon ultra-nationalists and neo-nazis appeared and introduced violence into the protests. The protest demands changed from \u201cjoin the EU\u201d to \u201coverthrow Yanukovych and his government.\u201d<\/p>\n Political chaos ensued. Washington installed a puppet government, which Washington represented as a democratic force against corruption. However, the ultra-nationalists and neo-nazis, such as the Right Sector, began intimidating members of Washington\u2019s stooge government. Perhaps in response, Washington\u2019s stooges began issuing threats against the Russian speaking population in Ukraine. <\/p>\n Areas of southern and eastern Ukraine are former Russian territories added to Ukraine by Soviet leaders. Lenin added Russian areas to Ukraine in early years of the Soviet Union, and Khrushchev added Crimea in 1954. The people in these Russian areas, alarmed by the destruction of Soviet war memorials commemorating the Red Army\u2019s liberation of Ukraine from Hitler, by the banning of Russian as an official language, and by physical assaults on Russian-speaking people in Ukraine broke out in protests. Crimea voted its independence and requested reunification with Russia, and so have the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.<\/p>\n Washington, its EU puppets, and the Western media have denied that the votes in Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk are sincere and spontaneous. Instead, Washington alleges that the protests leading to the votes and the votes themselves were orchestrated by the Russian government with the use of bribes, threats, and coercion. Crimea was said to be a case of Russian invasion and annexation. <\/p>\n These are blatant lies, and the foreign observers of the elections know it, but they have no voice in the Western media, which is a Ministry of Propaganda for Washington. Even the once proud BBC lies for Washington.<\/p>\n Washington has succeeded in controlling the explanation of the \u201cUkrainian crisis.\u201d The unified peoples in Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk have been branded \u201cterrorists.\u201d In contrast, the Ukrainian neo-nazis have been elevated to membership in the \u201cdemocratic coalition.\u201d Even more amazing, the neo-nazis are being described in the Western media as \u201cliberators\u201d of the protest regions from \u201cterrorists.\u201d Most likely, the Russophobic neo-nazi militias are becoming Washington\u2019s stooge government\u2019s army, because so many units of the Ukrainian military have been unwilling to fire on peaceful protestors. <\/p>\n The question before us is how will Russia\u2019s leader, President Putin, play this game. His hesitancy or reluctance to accept Donetsk and Luhansk again as part of Russia is used by the Western media to make him look weak and intimidated. Within Russia this will be used against Putin by Washington-funded GGOs and by Russian nationalists.<\/p>\n Putin understands this, but Putin also understands that Washington wants him to confirm their demonized portrait of him. If Putin accepts requests from Donetsk and Luhansk to return to Russia, Washington will repeat its allegation that Russia invaded and annexed. Most likely, Putin is not weak and intimidated, but for good reasons Putin does not want to give Washington more propaganda to employ in Europe. <\/p>\n Washington\u2019s press for sanctions against Russia has an obstacle in Germany. The German Chancellor, Merkel, is Washington\u2019s vassal, but Germany\u2019s foreign Minister, Frank Walter Steinmeier and German industry are no friends of sanctions. In addition to Germany\u2019s dependence on natural gas from Russia, thousands of German companies are doing business in Russia, and the employment of several hundred thousands of Germans is dependent on economic relations with Russia. Former German Chancellors, Helmut Schmidt and Gerhard Schroeder, have slammed Merkel for her subservience to Washington. Merkel\u2019s position is weak, because she has stupidly put herself in the position of sacrificing the interests of Germany to Washington\u2019s interests. <\/p>\n Putin, who has demonstrated that he is not the typical dumb Western politician, sees in the conflict between Washington\u2019s pressure on Germany and Germany\u2019s real interests a chance to break up NATO and the EU. If Germany decides, as Yanukovych did, that Germany\u2019s interests lie in its economic relations with Russia, not in being a puppet state of Washington, can Washington overthrow the government of Germany and install a more reliable puppet?<\/p>\n Perhaps Germany has had enough of Washington. Still occupied by Washington\u2019s troops 69 years after the end of World War II, Germany has had its educational practices, its history, its foreign policy, and its membership in the EU and euro mechanism coerced by Washington. If Germans have any national pride, and as a very recently unified peoples, they might still have some national pride, these impositions by Washington are too much to accept. <\/p>\n The last thing Germany wants is a confrontation, economic or military, with Russia. Germany\u2019s vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, said that it \u201cwas certainly not smart to create the impression in Ukraine that it had to decide between Russia and the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n If the Russian government decides that Washington\u2019s control of Ukraine, or whatever part remains after secession, is an unacceptable strategic threat to Russia, the Russian military will seize Ukraine, historically part of Russia. If Russia occupies Ukraine, there is nothing Washington can do but resort to nuclear war. NATO countries, with their own existence at stake, will not agree to this option. <\/p>\n Putin can take the Ukraine back whenever he wants and turn his back on the West, a declining corrupt entity mired in depression and looting by the capitalist class. The 21st century belongs to the East, to China and India. The enormous expanse of Russia sits above both of these most populous of all countries.<\/p>\n Russia can rise to power with the East. There is no reason for Russia to beg the West for acceptance. The basis for US foreign policy are the Brzezinski and Wolfowitz doctrines, which state that Washington must prevent the rise of Russia. Washington has no good will toward Russia and will hamper Russia at every opportunity. As long as Washington controls Europe, Russia has no prospects of being a part of the West, unless Russia becomes Washington\u2019s puppet state, like Germany, Britain, and France.<\/p>\n The post Russia’s Rise To Global Power — Paul Craig Roberts<\/a> appeared first on PaulCraigRoberts.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia’s Rise To Global Power Paul Craig Roberts This article first appeared in Strategic Culture Foundation http:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2014\/05\/22\/russia-rise-to-global-power.html Western propaganda about events in Ukraine has two main purposes. 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