China\u2019s Ambassador to Belgium (which has the capital<\/span><\/a> of the EU) said that the \u201cnature and root cause\u201d of the Ukrainian conflict is \u201cthe West,\u201d and that “The West should abandon the zero-sum mentality, and take the real security concerns of Russia into\u00a0consideration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n By \u201creal security concerns,\u201d he is clearly referring to NATO\u2019s expansion right up to Russia\u2019s border, and America\u2019s surrounding Russia with U.S. military bases, now increasingly including the most strategic of Russia\u2019s bordering countries: Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n In other words, this diplomat says: \u201cthe West\u201d has a \u201czero-sum\u201d attitude toward Russia, instead of seeking to move forward with an approach in which neither side among the nuclear superpowers benefits at the other\u2019s expense \u2013 the entire world moves forward together.<\/span><\/p>\n This is a direct criticism of Barack Obama, and of all of the pro-Obama, anti-Putin, EU leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s also an implicit repudiation of Obama\u2019s having repeatedly referred to the U.S. as “the one indispensable nation.”<\/span><\/a> (Another example of that phrase is here<\/span><\/a>.) Obama keeps saying: every other nation, except the U.S., is \u201cdispensable.\u201d He clearly thinks that Russia is. <\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s not merely an insult: it\u2019s an act of provocation; it is virtually asking for a fight. And all for what? For whose nuclear char?<\/span><\/p>\n This criticism of the aggressive nationalist Obama does not come from China\u2019s top leadership, but it would not have come at all if they had not approved of it in advance.<\/span><\/p>\n China thus now tells Obama: Stop it. Stop it in word, and in deed.<\/span><\/p>\n Implicitly, China is also telling Obama: China is not dispensable, either. In fact, the entire mentality, which Obama embodies, is not just callous and insulting; it\u2019s dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\n Like President G.W. Bush, Obama is increasingly an embarassment to his country.<\/span><\/p>\n Shortly before Obama\u2019s coup<\/span><\/a> in Ukraine, Gallup International issued, on 30 December 2013, a poll of 65 countries<\/span><\/a>, which found that: <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe US was the overwhelming choice (24% of respondents) for the country that represents the greatest threat to peace in the world today. This was followed by Pakistan (8%), China (6%), North Korea, Israel and Iran (5%). Respondents in Russia (54%), China (49%) and Bosnia (49%) were the most fearful of the US as a threat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n More details of that poll were reported here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n When the U.S. Government is hankering for a war with the only other nuclear superpower, such findings certainly make sense. And the 54% of Russians who cited the U.S. as the greatest threat to peace would probably be far higher today. But Gallup International didn\u2019t publish any update on that poll-question, perhaps because the original financial backer (which was unnamed) wouldn\u2019t fund it.<\/span><\/p>\n Already, the finding was bad enough. But Obama keeps calling the U.S. \u201cthe one indispensable nation in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/a> He keeps telling other nations: you are dispensable. He keeps rubbing it in \u2013 not the fact, but his own nationalism. <\/span><\/p>\n It reminds some people of Mussolini, and of Hitler. But Obama pretends to be a democrat, not a fascist. <\/span><\/p>\n Maybe he\u2019s just a bigger liar than they were. Maybe that\u2019s what he is so arrogant about: his terrific ability to deceive. <\/span><\/p>\n After all, he won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for it: for lying. For misrepresenting himself as being progressive, instead of regressive.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, now: anyone who doesn\u2019t know the reality is deluded by propaganda \u2013 and it\u2019s not coming from Russia, nor from China. It\u2019s coming from their own nation\u2019s \u2018news\u2019 media.<\/span><\/p>\n Which heads-of-state want to be publicly associated with a foreign leader like that, one who tells the given leader\u2019s public: your nation is dispensable. Fools. Only fools.<\/span><\/p>\n Obama is encouraging other countries to oppose the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Wow. He\u2019s the black George W. Bush.<\/span><\/p>\n (image: salon.com<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n ———-<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse A much-ignored huge news report from Reuters on Friday, February 27th, was headlined\u00a0“Chinese diplomat tells West to consider\u00a0Russia’s security concerns over Ukraine.\u201d\u00a0 China\u2019s Ambassador to Belgium (which has the capital of the EU) said that the \u201cnature and root cause\u201d of the Ukrainian conflict is \u201cthe West,\u201d and that “The West should abandon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":144025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screen](\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-02-at-7.11.53-PM-383x267.png\")
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