He now has told the U.S. Congress (on February 6th but not reported until March 6th, when the German Economic News<\/i> found the clip) that Russia\u2019s leader Vladimir Putin \u201cseized\u201d Crimea and that Putin will probably try to do the same to Estonia and Latvia, unless the U.S. immediately supplies weapons and troops to those countries and to Ukraine. Here is his stunning testimony (click on the link under it, to hear it, but the key part is quoted in print below):<\/p>\n
http:\/\/deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de\/2015\/03\/06\/brzezinski-rede-vor-dem-us-kongress-russland-wird-angreifen\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI wonder how many people in this room or this very important\u00a0senatorial committee really anticipated that one day Putin\u00a0would land military personnel in Crimea and seize it. I think if\u00a0anybody said that\u2019s what he is going to do, he or she would be\u00a0labeled as a warmonger. He did it. And he got away with it. I\u00a0think he\u2019s also drawing lessons from that. And I\u2019ll tell you what\u00a0my horror, night-dream, is: that one day, I literally mean one\u00a0day, he just seizes Riga, and Talinn. Latvia and Estonia. It\u00a0would literally take him one day. There is no way they could\u00a0resist. And then we will say, how horrible, how shocking, how\u00a0outrageous, but of course we can\u2019t do anything about it. It\u2019s\u00a0happened. We aren\u2019t going to assemble a fleet in the Baltic,\u00a0and then engage in amphibious landings, and then storm\u00a0ashore, like in Normandy, to take it back. We have to respond\u00a0in some larger fashion perhaps, but then there will be voices\u00a0that this will plunge us into a nuclear war.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n He continues there by saying that we must pour weapons and troops into the nations that surround Russia, in order to avoid a nuclear conflict: deterrence, he argues, is the way to peace; anything else than our sending in troops and weapons now would be weakness and would invite World War III.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He says that American troops must be prepositioned in these countries immediately, because otherwise Putin will think that America won\u2019t respond to a Russian attack against those countries.<\/span><\/p>\n The most serious falsehoods in his remarkable testimony are three, and they’ll be taken up here in succession:<\/span><\/p>\n (1) The crucial background for what Brzezinski there calls the \u201cseizure\u201d of Crimea by Russia on 16 March 2014 was an extremely aggressive action by the United States, a violent coup in Kiev that climaxed prior, during February 2014, which used the \u201cMaidan\u201d demonstrations there as a cover in order to take over Ukraine\u2019s Government, a\u00a0violent coup<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which the founder of the \u201cprivate CIA\u201d firm Stratfor subsequently (and correctly) referred to as\u00a0\u201cthe most blatant coup in history,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and which the President of the Czech Republic says\u00a0should not be compared at all to Czechoslovakia\u2019s 1968 \u201cVelvet Revolution,\u201d and that only \u201cignorant\u201d people don\u2019t know that it was a coup instead of a revolution.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0But not only was it an incredibly bloody coup, but the leader of the post-coup Government who became officially designated on 26 February 2014 turned out to be exactly the same person whom\u00a0Obama\u2019s controlling agent on the entire matter had explicitly selected and informed her underling on 4 February 2014 to get appointed to become the new leader<\/span><\/a>; so, she not only knew that the coup would soon be occurring, but she had already selected by no later than 18 days beforehand the person who would replace the then sitting, democratically elected, President of Ukraine. Furthermore, Ukraine is a country bordering Russia, and so this coup was far worse for Russia than even the 1959 communist takeover of Cuba was for the United States. The U.S. many times tried to overthrow Castro \u2013 so, how much gall does the United States have today for its refusing even to acknowledge that our extremely violent takeover of Ukraine, on Russia\u2019s very border, constitutes an existential threat against Russia? (And\u00a0even the top EU leadership knows that this was a U.S. coup, not any authentic revolution.<\/span><\/a>) For Brzezinski to say nothing at all about any of this is simply scandalous (an obvious intention by him to deceive), but for the U.S. Senate to invite such a man to address it is even worse: it is as if the U.S. Congress in 1933 had invited Hitler to lecture it about \u201cthe Jewish threat.\u201d It\u2019s worse than insane; it is bloody dangerous in a nuclear-armed world.<\/span><\/p>\n (2) As I recently documented with links to the direct sources, headlining\u00a0\u201cThe Entire Case for Sanctions Against Russia Is Pure Lies,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Gallup polls in Crimea both before and after the 16 March 2014 plebiscite on whether to stay within Ukraine, which Crimea had been part of since 1954, or instead to rejoin with Russia, which Crimea had been part of between 1783 and 1954, showed that by more than 90%, Crimeans wanted to be part of Russia and held both the U.S. and EU in extremely low esteem. Furthermore, because Russia\u2019s key Black Sea Fleet had been stationed there since 1783, Russia always had troops there and didn\u2019t need to \u201cland military personnel in Crimea and seize it.<\/i>\u201d There was no invasion, no \u201cseizure\u201d at all. The plebiscite was entirely peaceful, because the public craved it (on account of the recent bloody coup in Ukraine) and because the already-existing presence of Russian troops to protect them to have it so that Ukraine wouldn\u2019t send in their army to prevent it, enabled it to be carried out peacefully. There is no military base of any sort from Russia anywhere in Latvia nor in Estonia, nor in any other NATO country. The very idea put forth by Brzezinski, that the two situations are at all analogous, is insane and can be understood only within the context of the bizarre hatred held by this born aristocrat who learned his hatred since birth and who is now obsessed with it in his old age. The very fact that U.S. Senators would invite such a person to testify is scandalous, and is an indication of their ignorance or else of their sharing Brzezinski\u2019s rabidly counterfactual and extremely dangerous beliefs. Russia should take that as being a clear indication of hostile intent from the U.S. Congress, because Brzezinski\u2019s statements are entirely out of line and an irrational outburst that\u2019s based on nothing but hatred and a distorted portrayal of the clearly documented realities to the contrary of Brzezinski\u2019s selective and false description of Russia, Ukraine, Putin, and NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n (3) The basis of the NATO Treaty is its mutual-defense provision: that all members are committed to the defense of each member. How crazy does Brzezinski have to be to think that in order to prevent Putin from invading NATO, the U.S. must now send weapons and troops in to each one of the 12 NATO member-nations that were formerly Russia\u2019s allies? Brzezinski\u2019s alarmist and sensationalistic lies and distortions go well beyond standard propaganda into the realm of the insane: propaganda that\u2019s directed at fools and yet that\u2019s being presented to U.S. Senators. Are they crazy, too?<\/span><\/p>\n Russia has every reason to believe that the U.S. Government is set upon surrounding it by armed and dangerous hostile nations and taking it over by force.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0This isn\u2019t at all about Putin; it is about\u00a0U.S. President Barack Obama<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0the U.S. Congress.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n For whatever democratic nations that still exist in the EU and NATO not to quit those organizations is for them to consent to being ruled by the U.S. dictatorship, which means that they themselves are dictatorships serving the American aristocracy. This is a dictarorship by America\u2019s aristocracy, the very same people who are ruining the United States and who are now determined to take over every other aristocracy in the entire world \u2013 determined to reign over the entire planet.<\/span><\/p>\n Testimony such as Brzezinski presented to the U.S. Senate on February 6th is shocking and damning against the Senate itself. Brzezinski accuses Russia of planning to invade NATO when instead the United States has been surrounding Russia by formerly-Russian-allied nations, which are new members of America\u2019s anti-Russian military club, NATO.\u00a0The preparations for an all-out nuclear war have begun.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0The U.S. aristocracy definitely started this incipient war; for them, it\u2019s a war of choice. It\u2019s not a war of choice for anyone in Russia. (Ukraine\u2019s oligarchs, especially the White-House-connected Ihor Kolomoysky<\/span><\/a>, are ripping off everything they can<\/span><\/a> from it.) The significance of the Ukrainian conflict is that it\u2019s the beachhead to take over Russia. And the Ukrainian post-coup leadership have stated proudly, many times, that this is their ultimate aim. It clearly is\u00a0Obama\u2019s<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Why are Americans not marching by the millions against this rogue government in Washington? How much longer will the American people continue to tolerate it \u2013 an affront against not only the American people but the entire world?<\/span><\/p>\n Brzezinski\u2019s testimony to Congress on February 6th was so brazen because he\u2019s like he describes Putin as being: he does what he can get away with doing. It\u2019s way over the line. If there is no public revulsion expressed against it, then we are all heading into danger that\u2019s unprecedented since 1962\u2019s Cuban Missile Crisis, when the shoe was on the other foot and the United States was the country facing the existential threat.<\/span><\/p>\n Russia has already let things go too far, with 12 former Warsaw-Pact allies already being members of the NATO alliance against Russia. If Putin doesn\u2019t draw the line at Ukraine, as being over the line, then he might as well do everything that America\u2019s President demands him to do. But America\u2019s Presidency no longer represents the American people; it now represents the American aristocracy. So: for the welfare of everyone except America\u2019s aristocrats, Putin should stand firm. But the danger of America to the world exists<\/span><\/a> no matter what he does.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/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 Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. President Obama\u2019s friend and advisor on Russia, is a born Polish aristocrat who has hated Russia his whole life but who hid that hatred until after the communist Soviet Union collapsed and he then publicly came out as hating and fearing specifically Russia \u2013 the nation, its people, and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":144269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,884,32,96,535,524,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-144268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-brzezinski","12":"tag-cia","13":"tag-cover-up","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-usa-news","18":"tag-warfare","19":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144268","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=144268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Screen](\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-06-at-9.40.20-AM.png\")
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