{"id":149870,"date":"2015-05-09T19:43:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=149870"},"modified":"2015-05-10T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T16:40:03","slug":"u-s-europe-boycott-russias-celebration-of-its-9-may-1945-victory-over-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/u-s-europe-boycott-russias-celebration-of-its-9-may-1945-victory-over-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. & Europe Boycott Russia’s Celebration of Its 9 May 1945 Victory Over Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

At first, a few progressive heads-of-state in Europe were appalled at U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s pressure for them to reject Russia\u2019s invitation to an upcoming 9 May 2015 celebration of victory against Hitler, and Czech President Milos Zeman\u00a0even came out publicly saying<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0in a conspicuous face-slap to Obama, on 3 January 2015, that the\u00a0U.S. overthrow<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 had been a coup and that \u201conly poorly informed people\u201d were comparing that to Czechoslovakia\u2019s own \u201cVelvet Revolution\u201d against communism on 29 December 1989. Zeman even said that Ukraine\u2019s 22 February 2014 U.S. overthrow of Yanukovych, or the event (under the cover of public demonstrations at the) \u201cMaidan, was not a democratic revolution\u201d but instead a coup. Or, as the head of Stratfor, the private CIA firm, has acknowledged, it was even\u00a0\u201cthe most blatant coup in history,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0because it was so well doumented in videos taken by bystanders at the time<\/span><\/a>, as well as by internal intelligence leaks (such as\u00a0this<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0this<\/span><\/a>). So: indeed, \u201conly poorly informed people\u201d didn\u2019t know about it. (And some still don\u2019t.)<\/span><\/p>\n

On\u00a02 January 2015,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the progressive Zeman \u2013 a passionate opponent of Hitler and of his Nazis and their nazism \u2013 courageously stated his intention to go to Moscow for its upcoming May 9th victory-over-Nazism celebration; but, on\u00a08 April 2015,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the Czech deputy prime minister, who leads a conservative party, caved to pressure from the U.S. Ambassador, and said that Zeman would have to do it at his own personal expense if at all; and, so, two days later, on\u00a0April 10th,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Zeman said that he wouldn\u2019t attend \u2013 the pressure from the U.S. was just too great.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, on 3 May 2015, France\u2019s Boulevard Voltaire<\/i>, as translated at Fort Russ, reported that no Western leader would be attending, and Fort Russ headlined on May 9th,\u00a0\u201cPutin \u2018all by himself in Red Square\u2019 \u2013 with the leaders of half the planet.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(The only Western official to attend is Greece\u2019s Speaker of Parliament<\/span><\/a>.) Obama had, indeed, succeeded at blocking virtually all Western representation at Russia\u2019s 70th-Anniversary victory celebration against nazism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Obama had earlier paid homage to Hitler, the historical founder of nazism or racist fascism, by making the U.S., on 21 November 2014,\u00a0one of only three countries in the entire world to vote against a resolution at the United Nations condemning the recent upsurge in racist fascism in many countries.<\/span><\/a> Although Hitler wasn\u2019t even mentioned in it, Obama had his U.N. representative vote against it \u2013 vote against condemning Hitler\u2019s ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even before that, in February 2014, Obama was the first-ever U.S. President to\u00a0perpetrate a coup overthrowing a democratically elected head-of-state and installing a racist-fascist, or ideologically nazi, regime as its replacement.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0This is what he did in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That regime subsequently engaged in an\u00a0ethnic-cleansing campaign,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0which Obama supports. <\/span><\/p>\n

All of this is due to Obama\u2019s obsession to defeat Russia, which, of course, is adjoining Ukraine, which proximity makes Obama\u2019s takeover of Ukraine especially useful for his main foreign-policy goal of defeating Russia<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Western accounts<\/span><\/a>, the whole problem started on 21 November 2013, right after Ukraine\u2019s freely elected President Viktor Yanukovych announced his rejection of the EU\u2019s offer, but\u00a0America\u2019s planning for the coup actually started back in Spring of 2013, not after 21 November 2013; and Yanukovych had good reason to reject the EU\u2019s offer, because it would have cost Ukraine an estimated $160 billion.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0So, that account in Western media is demonstrably false, insofar as it pertains to what had actually caused those public demonstrations. It was Obama\u2019s determination to defeat Russia<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s TPP and TTIP international-trade deals are part of that \u2013 to lock out both Russia and China. But Obama even opposes the policy<\/span><\/a>, which is already in place in all industrialized countries except America, and even in some underdeveloped countries, that basic healthcare is not a privilege that should be available only to persons who have the financial ability to pay for it, but is instead a basic human right, which must be made available to all citizens regardless of how rich they are. <\/span><\/p>\n

Obama even places higher priority<\/span><\/a> on defeating Russia than on defeating ISIS and Al Qaeda.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some people say that none of this can be true, because it doesn\u2019t fit with Obama\u2019s rhetoric. But no intelligent person trusts his rhetoric anymore. Too much is established by his record<\/span><\/a>, for anyone today still to be trusting his mere rhetoric. But anyway, as President he has argued to the U.S. Supreme Court (and the Court unanimously agreed) that the right to lie in politics is guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and cannot be limited by any state<\/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>, and\u00a0of\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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