{"id":144290,"date":"2015-03-09T05:10:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T05:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=144290"},"modified":"2018-07-07T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T14:12:55","slug":"origin-new-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/origin-new-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of the ‘New Cold War’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

This will be history, replacing myth. So: if at the start it might seem unbelievable, I request the reader \u2014 please click onto the sources; and, as you read them, you will (if you have been getting your \u2018news\u2019 from the popular mainstream and \u2018alternative\u2019 \u2018news\u2019 sources) experience the replacement of myth by actual history. The world in our time will come directly alive via the most-reliable sources that exist; and it clearly contradicts, it disproves, the widespread myth that has been projected from the \u2018news.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

To start with: the \u2018new Cold War,\u2019 against Russia, is something of a misnomer, because it differs from the original version, against the U.S.S.R., in that it\u2019s already a hot war, which started in Ukraine as being the key proxy-state for the American Government\u2019s chief foreign-policy aim, of defeating Russia; and it\u2019s a war that is very bloody, and widely lied-about in both the U.S. and Europe, but that is discussed in Russia as if it were somehow the result of mere errors by Western powers, when in fact all of the Western leaders knew from the get-go that this was intended to be a lynching of Russia by Uncle Sam, and when the EU have been going along with this aim because the U.S. aristocracy supposedly have the interests of European aristocrats in mind and not only their own: it\u2019s \u2019the Western Alliance,\u2019 after all. <\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not \u2018the Western Alliance,\u2019 really. It\u2019s instead a gangland war by aristocrats on the global stage, and it\u2019s threatening to become the hottest war that ever was.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding the knowledge by top EU officials that this conflict is based on a set-up job and not a development of democracy in Ukraine, the essential documentation is this<\/span><\/a>. It\u2019s an annotated transcript I did of the 26 February 2014 conversation<\/span><\/a> between two top EU officials when one of them, Catherine Ashton, the EU’s Foreign Affairs chief, heard by phone from her investigator in Kiev, Urmas Paet, that he had discovered that even Petro Poroshenko, who supported the public demonstrations against Ukraine\u2019s President Viktor Yanukovych, knew that the snipers whose slaughter of people doing the demonstrating there came not from Yanukovych\u2019s side but from \u201csomeone from the new coalition\u201d \u2014 in other words: from the \u2018pro-Western\u2019 side, the side that favored the EU and United States against Russia, and not from the side that favored the Yanukovych Government. (To clarify here: It was \u201cthe Yanukovych Government,\u201d and not<\/i> \u2019the Yanukovych regime,\u2019 because it had been fairly and freely elected by all regions of the entire Ukrainian public in 2010 and because Yanukovych\u2019s term was not yet up; Yanukovych was still Ukraine\u2019s democratic President, still the legal Government in the most fundamental democratic sense; and its overthrow by \u201csomeone from the new coalition\u201d was blatantly illegal<\/span><\/a>. So, it wasn\u2019t \u2019the Yanukovych regime,\u2019 which many people in the West call it. And \u2019the West\u2019 didn\u2019t install democracy in Ukraine; they ended it, by this coup<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, in the other key documentary source on this overthrow, which is the phone-conversation between U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s two chief operatives who arranged the overthrow, a conversation that occurred 18 days before the overthrow<\/span><\/a>, Victoria Nuland instructed Geoffrey Pyatt to have Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed to lead the junta-regime that would become installed when the coup was completed. Everyone should hear that conversation; it is massively important, in a historical sense, especially because it proves that this was a coup and not anything of a democratic nature \u2014 it proves that Western goverments and press have been lying through their rotten teeth about this being some sort of victory for \u2018democracy,\u2019 when in fact it was the exact opposite<\/i> of that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who hears those two phone-conversations will know that the press has been lying rabidly about this entire matter. The brazenness with which Western \u2018news\u2019 people and think-tank operatives and government officials lie about this is shocking, because it proves that democracy in the West is all but ended, already. This is even worse than the lies leading up to our invasion of Iraq in 2003, because this can lead to a nuclear war between the superpowers. There can be no democracy when the public is so pervasively lied-to by the thugs who are in the positions of power and influence, and who do things like that, but this is the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The documentation on the matter is by now well beyond conclusive. For example, recently came to light a Ukrainian parliamentarian speaking the day before wikipedia says that the \u201cMaidan\u201d demonstrations against Yanukovych even started<\/span><\/a>, in which speech he described in detail the U.S. Embassy\u2019s already months-long operation for a coup. And a reader-comment there, from a terrific researcher \u201cian56,\u201d pointed out and linked to loads of terrific background to that parliamentrian\u2019s speech, such as this note<\/span><\/a> from America\u2019s Embassy in Kiev back on 1 March 2013, and this detailed backgrounder from Steve Weissman<\/span><\/a> providing an even fuller picture of the conspiracy. The U.S. Government was carrying out an international criminal conspiracy to destroy a fragile but functioning democracy, yet keeps lying about it, and pretends it was all done in order to<\/span> \u201cbuild democratic skills and institutions\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span> there. They just keep playing the public for suckers. They rape the public\u2019s mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this is also why the ethnic-cleansing operation<\/span><\/a> to get rid of<\/span><\/a> the residents in the region of Ukraine that had voted 90% for Yanukovych<\/span><\/a> is kept silent by those thugs. If the residents in that area (\u201cDonbass\u201d<\/span><\/a>) were to survive and vote in future Ukrainian national elections, then the existing coup-regime in Ukraine would be bounced out of office; that\u2019s why Obama wants these people eliminated.<\/span><\/p>\n

And even the coup itself was violent and very bloody<\/span><\/a> \u2014 the slaughtering didn\u2019t start with the mass-extermination program (called by the American side the \u2018Anti Terrorist Operation\u2019 or \u2018ATO\u2019) in Donbass.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: what is the source<\/i> of this already-hot war?<\/span><\/p>\n

Strategically, I have earlier dealt with that in several articles, especially here<\/span><\/a> and here<\/span><\/a>; but, basically, President Obama (at least publicly) agrees with this viewpoint<\/span><\/a> which his friend presented to Congress \u2014 the view that Russia must be defeated \u2014 he supports it because the U.S. aristocracy want to control the whole world. (Some of Obama\u2019s own words on that will be following here shortly.) That\u2019s it in a nutshell: Obama represents the U.S. aristocracy, not the U.S. public. And so do almost all members of the U.S. Congress.<\/span><\/a> Like I said before: democracy has ended in the United Sates \u2014 this is a dictatorship. (I have a book coming out soon which will explain how and why that happened; its title will be Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism, and Economics<\/i>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

However, historically, the origin<\/i> of this war can be seen in the following sources:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The great investigative historian and journalist George Eliason, an American who lives in Donbass, the former Ukraine\u2019s war-zone, has written extensively about the background of this conflict, especially in two articles, one being\u00a0\u201cThe Nazis Even Hitler Was Afraid Of,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the other being\u00a0“Why Bandera Have the Largest Geo-Political Voice in EU.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Especially the latter one is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the war\u2019s background.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, an important thing that\u2019s left out of the second of those two articles is that even as early as the 1960s, both in the British Parliament and in the U.S. Congress, conservatives were pushing this very same basic idea, which now is being pushed so hard by Obama, and by today\u2019s Republican Party (as well as by Hillary Clinton and other leaders of the Clintonite, or anti-FDR, post-Reagan, Democratic Party), that what \u2018the West\u2019 was fighting against during the Cold War wasn\u2019t just communism, but was, even more importantly, Russia itself, as being something that\u2019s instrinsically dangerous, irrespective of communism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a><\/span>, then, is a speech by a Republican in the U.S. House, on 18 February 1969, saying that our enemy is Russia<\/i>, not at all Marxism.<\/span><\/p>\n

And here<\/span><\/a> is a speech by a Conservative in the British House of Commons, on 31 July 1961, saying the same thing, though more briefly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both speeches cite an alleged article by Karl Marx in which Marx allegedly said that “Russia’s policy is unchangeable. Russia\u2019s methods, tactics and maneuvers may change but the lodestar of Russian policy\u2014world domination\u2014is a fixed star.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This alleged Marx-article was cited by both men, admiring Marx (the founder of communism, which both men allegedly opposed) as the Republican said: \u201cKarl Marx\u2019s reports are an excellent survey\u00a0of Russia’s policy during fifty years before\u00a0the Crimean War and of the traditional\u00a0political maxims of the Russian Empire which\u00a0go back a long way in history. It is a historically valid political expose which does credit to his\u00a0sharp, analytical powers and to his gift or\u00a0interpretation.\u201d (Those \u2018sharp, analytical powers\u2019 led to a labor-theory-of-value and other false assumptions that collapsed communist economies.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Their saying this, during a time when the U.S. public thought that what we were against in the Cold War was the ideology communism, and not an ethnicity of Russians (or of anyone else), should be understood within the context of Eliason\u2019s\u00a0“Why Bandera Have the Largest Geo-Political Voice in EU.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Eliason explained it there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Essentially, what the conservatives are saying is that the only final solution to \u2018the Russian problem\u2019 is to exterminate them. They don\u2019t come right out and say it, but that\u2019s their underlying position. (As I just noted, they were even willing to cite Marx to support it.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The CIA nurtured this bigotry, for decades. Here<\/span><\/a> is a lengthy BBC documentary on it. And here<\/span><\/a> is a short, and more up-to-date Russian TV documentary on it. Of course, the U.S. Government and the American-aristocracy-controlled media don\u2019t produce such documentaries; this type of information is severely suppressed in the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n

This CIA operation is the view that has now taken over in Washington and controls the U.S. Government. (Eliason has pretty well explained that, too.) <\/span><\/p>\n

Europe will need to go with either the U.S. or Russia, because the U.S. has now laid down the gauntlet, regarding Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Barack Obama, in his \u201cNational Security Strategy 2015\u201d uses the word \u201caggression\u201d 18 times, and 17 of them are referring to Russia.<\/span><\/a> In point of fact, he concentrates even more on Russia as the enemy than on jihadist Islamists as the #1 enemy. What Mitt Romney said in public (that \u201cRussia is America\u2019s \u2018number one geopolitical foe,\u2019\u201d as Fox Noise summarized it and Obama still publicly says he disagrees with<\/span><\/a>, even though his actions prove otherwise<\/span><\/a>) he believes in practice<\/span><\/a>, if not in private. (He knows that polls show Americans are far more concerned about jihadist Islam than about Russia; Obama is a gifted<\/span><\/a> and proven liar<\/span><\/a>, and he does read the polls and modulate his rhetoric accordingly.)<\/span><\/p>\n

He also has said<\/span><\/a> this about the nation that he leads: \u201cThe United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. [So: all other<\/i> nations are \u2018dispensable.\u2019] That has been true for the century passed [he misspelled \u2018past\u2019] and it will be true for the century to come.\u201d And he didn\u2019t mince words about what the enemies of \u2018the one indispensable nation\u2019 are: \u201cRussia\u2019s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in Europe, while China\u2019s economic rise and military reach worries its neighbors. From Brazil to India, rising middle classes compete with us.\u201d He was saying this, about \u201ccompetition,\u201d to military<\/i> men, whose \u201ccompetitors\u201d are dealt with by bombs instead of by lowered prices. Obama (perhaps he should be renamed \u201cO\u2019Bomba\u201d) knew what he was doing: identifying as \u2018enemies\u2019 the foreign aristocracies that seek to compete (economically, not<\/i> militarily) against America\u2019s aristocracy. For Obama to have raised economic-competitive issues in his address at West Point was despicable, but it shows where his heart is at \u2014 it\u2019s with the American aristocracy, the only segment of the population whose incomes and wealth are rising during his Presidency (the first time that\u2019s happened in U.S. history after an economic crash: normally, economic inequality goes down<\/i> after a crash).<\/span><\/p>\n

And, now, Obama is committed to the view that Russia is seeking to control the world \u2014 even though he insists that only his<\/i> nation, America, is \u2018the one indispensable nation.\u2019 Which nation, then, is actually seeking to control the world? Should any<\/i> nation? (That\u2019s the basic difference he has with Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, who answers a resounding \u201cno\u201d to that question.)<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the origin of \u201cthe \u2018new Cold War\u2019,\u201d which is really a new hot version of the old conservative war against Russia \u2014 a war conservatives have been hankering for, during decades, for it to become hot, and which it now is<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The closer the EU gets to this war \u2014 meaning the hotter that it becomes \u2014 the more they seem to be finding it too hot for to handle. Maybe they\u2019ll abandon<\/span><\/a> Obama, the U.S. Congress, and the aristocracy that America\u2019s Government represents. Maybe NATO will be left with just the U.S. and a few fanatical racist anti-Russian European nations (Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Croatia). (And, throw in Israel if Rupert Murdoch gets his way.<\/span><\/a>) But America\u2019s Republicans, Britain\u2019s Tories, and other conservative Western parties (and virtually all concerned aristocrats<\/span><\/a>) in the West will fight tooth-and-nail to prevent that shrinkage or elimination of NATO from happening: they are, indeed, demanding the conquest of Russia<\/span><\/a>. That\u2019s Obama\u2019s basic position, too. But if Germany, France, and a few other countries, abandon NATO \u2014 which should have been disbanded when communism and the U.S.S.R. ended \u2014 then the U.S. aristocracy might cease their demand, and maybe an all-out nuclear war can be avoided. The very idea of surrounding Russia with NATO nations (already 12 former Warsaw Pact members) as \u2018the West\u2019 is doing, is so evil it constitutes, alone, reason to consider NATO in the post-Soviet era to be ipso-facto or automatically a criminal enterprise, an outrage against the world\u2019s future \u2014 not an organization for international security (such as it pretends) but instead an enormous and criminal agency promoting global insecurity.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s things like this that led to World War I. But this would be WW III \u2014 and almost inevitably nuclear. And there is no justification for it, whatsoever.<\/span><\/p>\n

The origin of the \u2018new Cold War\u2019 is a decades-long international criminal operation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who doesn\u2019t think that the United States is so corrupt should just dig a little deeper: things like this<\/span><\/a> are now routine in America. Are we finally \u201ccompeting\u201d with Ukraine? <\/span><\/p>\n

Obama is throwing stones from a glass house. He could destroy the whole thing. And Republicans are egging him on to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0 and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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