Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
On Friday, 6 March, President Obama\u00a0placed temporarily on ice his planned increase in weapons and soldiers to help the Ukrainian Government<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to \u2018defend\u2019 Ukraine against the\u00a0\u2018terrorists\u2019<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Donbass, which is the Ukrainian region that had\u00a0voted 90% for the President<\/span><\/a>\u00a0whom the Obama Administration\u00a0overthrew in February 2014<\/span><\/a>. (Here<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is where the EU first learned, on 26 February 2014, that the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych had been a coup instead of a genuine popular revolution.) Obama replaced that Government with a\u00a0racist-fascist anti-Russian regime<\/span><\/a>, which quickly set about exterminating as many residents of Donbass as possible, as quickly as possible<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(calling them \u2018terrorists,\u2019 for their refusal to be ruled by the new Obama-imposed, anti-Russian, Government).<\/span><\/p>\n According to German Economic News<\/i>, Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel and France\u2019s Francois Hollande are balking at the speed of Obama\u2019s rush to war against Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier, some of the smaller national economies in the European Union \u2013 the\u00a0Czech<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Republic,\u00a0Hungary<\/span><\/a> and\u00a0Greece<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 dissented from America\u2019s effort to increase economic sanctions and military measures against Russia. But there is now increasing pressure upon the leaders in Germany, France, and Italy,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0also to separate the EU from the American\u00a0rush to war against Russia.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Here is my translation of the key passage from the article on this matter, dated March 7th, in German Economic News:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n “Apparently, the developments have shown that in the Euro-zone the Americans\u2019 desire for a full escalation of the\u00a0conflict against Russia could no longer be accepted without objection by the Europeans. The Americans\u00a0were apparently informed by Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande that they are concerned about the rise of France’s National Front Party: Its\u00a0chairman, Marine Le Pen, rejects the current EU policy towards Russia. If the National Front comes to\u00a0power in France, it would be almost impossible for the EU to pursue a U.S.-coordinated foreign policy, such as they both want to do. Therefore, Merkel and Hollande aim to contain the negative economic consequences to their own nations of sanctions against Russia, so as to prevent victory for the\u00a0National Front.<\/span><\/p>\n “Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has spoken with President Putin in Moscow on a stronger partnership\u00a0between Italy and Russia. The Italians are feeling the effects of the sanctions particularly strongly, and want to\u00a0avoid an escalation in any case.<\/span><\/p>\n “Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias also has doubts as to the purpose of the US sanctions policy of the EU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Washington criticizes many European politicians for their opposing Washington\u2019s anti-Russian policies. In Hungary and France, nationalist political parties offer especially strong resistance, because they oppose their own nation\u2019s being ruled by Washington\u2019s dictates. Even though Washington backs nazis in Ukraine, some European right-wing (though\u00a0not nearly as far right-wing as in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>) parties are patriotically opposed to European taxpayers donating to fund Ukraine\u2019s fascists. The odd result is that some semi-fascist parties in Europe are especially balking at the\u00a0extreme fascism, even nazism,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Washington supports in Ukraine. It\u2019s too far to the right for them to go; they don\u2019t want to be forced to go that far; they don\u2019t want their nation to fund Washington\u2019s aims.<\/span><\/p>\n Obama thus needs to juggle many balls at once in order to keep the Western Alliance together with him in his\u00a0overriding foreign-policy goal of destroying Russia.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/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><\/span>,<\/i> <\/span>and of <\/span>\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse On Friday, 6 March, President Obama\u00a0placed temporarily on ice his planned increase in weapons and soldiers to help the Ukrainian Government\u00a0to \u2018defend\u2019 Ukraine against the\u00a0\u2018terrorists\u2019\u00a0in Donbass, which is the Ukrainian region that had\u00a0voted 90% for the President\u00a0whom the Obama Administration\u00a0overthrew in February 2014. (Here\u00a0is where the EU first learned, on 26 February 2014, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":156780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,524,92,523,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-144281","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-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-terrorism","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\/144281","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=144281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![voted 90% for the President<\/span><\/a>\u00a0whom the Obama Administration\u00a0overthrew in February 2014<\/span><\/a>. (Here<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is where the EU first learned, on 26 February 2014, that the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych had been a coup instead of a genuine popular revolution.) Obama replaced that Government with a\u00a0racist-fascist anti-Russian regime<\/span><\/a>, which quickly set about exterminating as many residents of Donbass as possible, as quickly as possible<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(calling them \u2018terrorists,\u2019 for their refusal to be ruled by the new Obama-imposed, anti-Russian, Government).<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to German Economic News<\/i>, Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel and France\u2019s Francois Hollande are balking at the speed of Obama\u2019s rush to war against Russia.<\/span><\/p>\nEarlier, some of the smaller national economies in the European Union \u2013 the\u00a0Czech<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Republic,\u00a0Hungary<\/span><\/a> and\u00a0Greece<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 dissented from America\u2019s effort to increase economic sanctions and military measures against Russia. But there is now increasing pressure upon the leaders in Germany, France, and Italy,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0also to separate the EU from the American\u00a0rush to war against Russia.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nHere is my translation of the key passage from the article on this matter, dated March 7th, in German Economic News:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n“Apparently, the developments have shown that in the Euro-zone the Americans\u2019 desire for a full escalation of the\u00a0conflict against Russia could no longer be accepted without objection by the Europeans. The Americans\u00a0were apparently informed by Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande that they are concerned about the rise of France’s National Front Party: Its\u00a0chairman, Marine Le Pen, rejects the current EU policy towards Russia. If the National Front comes to\u00a0power in France, it would be almost impossible for the EU to pursue a U.S.-coordinated foreign policy, such as they both want to do. Therefore, Merkel and Hollande aim to contain the negative economic consequences to their own nations of sanctions against Russia, so as to prevent victory for the\u00a0National Front.<\/span><\/p>\n“Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has spoken with President Putin in Moscow on a stronger partnership\u00a0between Italy and Russia. The Italians are feeling the effects of the sanctions particularly strongly, and want to\u00a0avoid an escalation in any case.<\/span><\/p>\n“Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias also has doubts as to the purpose of the US sanctions policy of the EU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nWashington criticizes many European politicians for their opposing Washington\u2019s anti-Russian policies. In Hungary and France, nationalist political parties offer especially strong resistance, because they oppose their own nation\u2019s being ruled by Washington\u2019s dictates. Even though Washington backs nazis in Ukraine, some European right-wing (though\u00a0not nearly as far right-wing as in Ukraine<\/span><\/a>) parties are patriotically opposed to European taxpayers donating to fund Ukraine\u2019s fascists. The odd result is that some semi-fascist parties in Europe are especially balking at the\u00a0extreme fascism, even nazism,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that Washington supports in Ukraine. It\u2019s too far to the right for them to go; they don\u2019t want to be forced to go that far; they don\u2019t want their nation to fund Washington\u2019s aims.<\/span><\/p>\nObama thus needs to juggle many balls at once in order to keep the Western Alliance together with him in his\u00a0overriding foreign-policy goal of destroying Russia.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013\u2013<\/span><\/p>\nInvestigative 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><\/span>,<\/i> <\/span>and of <\/span>\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Zuesse On Friday, 6 March, President Obama\u00a0placed temporarily on ice his planned increase in weapons and soldiers to help the Ukrainian Government\u00a0to \u2018defend\u2019 Ukraine against the\u00a0\u2018terrorists\u2019\u00a0in Donbass, which is the Ukrainian region that had\u00a0voted 90% for the President\u00a0whom the Obama Administration\u00a0overthrew in February 2014. 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