{"id":179119,"date":"2015-09-07T00:57:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=179119"},"modified":"2015-09-07T00:57:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T00:57:07","slug":"u-s-drops-bombs-eu-gets-refugees-blame-this-is-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/u-s-drops-bombs-eu-gets-refugees-blame-this-is-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame. This is insane."},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Starting in 2011 in Libya, the United States dropped bombs on Libya in order to replace its pro-Russian<\/span><\/a> dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. The EU is now tearing itself apart with guilt-feelings at European nations\u2019 responses to the refugee-crisis that was caused by this American bombing-campaign in Libya, and then by the one in Syria. Europe has also received refugees from the American-sponsored bombing-campaign in eastern Ukraine (the bombing-campaign<\/span><\/a> that the 2014 American-installed<\/span><\/a> anti-Russian Ukrainian government calls an \u2018Anti-Terrorist Operation,\u2019 or \u2018ATO,\u2019 which labels the residents in that pro-Russian area<\/span><\/a> \u2013 where the residents reject the February 2014 U.S. coup<\/span><\/a> \u2013 as \u2018Terrorists\u2019 and thus as being suitable to be bombed, and even firebombed<\/span><\/a>). <\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, despite these millions of U.S.-caused refugees into Europe, European nations still permit U.S. troops to remain stationed on European soil decades after the entire reason for NATO\u2019s very existence (which was protection of Europe against a communist invasion from the east) ended. (The Soviet Union\u2019s equivalent Warsaw Pact had dissolved and ended in 1991, when the Soviet Union itself did \u2013 yet NATO continued on, and constantly touts \u2018the Russian threat,\u2019 just as it did the Soviet threat, as if there were no change when communism collapsed, as if the ideological reason for the Cold War had been fake all along. There is no justification whatsoever for \u201cthe New Cold War.\u201d) Russia is now responding to this new American-created hostility of Europeans against Russia, by its matching this newly transformed now anti-Russian<\/i> <\/span>NATO\u2019s war-games against Russia, with similar Russian defensive maneuvers to prepare for an increasingly possible NATO invasion into Russia. <\/span><\/p>\n

So: the current refugee-crisis was, in fact, caused by America\u2019s continuing obsession to destroy Russia \u2013 an obsession that the EU goes along with, and now suffers greatly from, not only because of loss of their Russian trading-partner, but because of the influx into Europe of millions of refugees that were caused by this New Cold War. This crisis was not caused by Russia\u2019s defensive measures against an increasingly aggressive NATO. It was caused by U.S. aggressions, which the EU continues to endorse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to the very beginning of the current crisis:<\/span><\/p>\n

The great investigative journalist Christof Lehmann headlined on 7 October 2013 at his nsnbc news site, \u201cTop US and Saudi Officials responsible for Chemical Weapons in Syria,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he opened: \u201cEvidence leads directly to the White House, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey, CIA Director John Brennan, Saudi Intelligence Chief Prince Bandar, and Saudi Arabia\u00b4s Interior Ministry.\u201d (The U.S. has been allied with the Saudi royal family since 1945.) Lehmann discussed the chemical-weapons attack \u201cin the Eastern Ghouta Suburb of Damascus on 21 August 2013,\u201d which attack U.S. President Barack Obama was citing as his reason for planning to bomb<\/span><\/a> to bring down Syria\u2019s pro-Russian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, whom Obama was blaming for the chemical attack. However, much like another great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh subsequently reported (using different sources)<\/span><\/a> in the London Review of Books<\/i> on 17 April 2014, Lehmann\u2019s even-earlier investigation found that the U.S. had set up the chemical attack, and that it was actually carried out by Islamic jihadists that the U.S. itself was supplying in Syria, through Turkey. Lehmann reported: <\/span><\/p>\n

After the defeat of the predominantly Qatar-backed Muslim Brotherhood and Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces, which were reinforced by Libyans in June and July 2012, the U.S.-Saudi Axis was strengthened. Uncooperative Qatari-led brigades which rejected the new command structure had to be removed. The influx of Salafi-Wahhabbi fighters to Syria was documented by the International Crisis Group in their report titled \u201cTentative Jihad\u201d. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Hersh\u2019s report added to Lehmann\u2019s, a powerful confirmation by British intelligence, which found that the source of the chemical-weapons attack couldn\u2019t possibly have been Assad\u2019s forces. However, the Brits, of course, didn\u2019t publicly expose Obama\u2019s lie; after all, just as Tony Blair had been George W. Bush\u2019s \u201clap dog\u201d in Iraq and Afghanistan, David Cameron is Obama\u2019s lap dog in Syria and Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Libyan campaign turned Libya into a failed state, just as the Syrian campaign is doing (and as the Ukrainian campaign is also trending), and Europe is now getting the resulting refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

The great investigative journalist John Pilger provided<\/span><\/a> the best summary description of the horrific and intentional catastrophe that Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton perpetrated upon the Libyan people. For example: \u201cIn 2011, NATO launched 9,700 \u2018strike sorties\u2019 against Libya, of which more than a third were aimed at civilian targets. Uranium warheads were used<\/span><\/a>; the cities of Misurata and Sirte were carpet-bombed. The Red Cross identified mass graves, and Unicef reported that \u2018most [of the children killed] were under the age of ten\u2019.\u201d These were international war-crimes, which will never be prosecuted. Hillary Clinton expressed merry pride (\u201cWe came, we saw, he died! (Laughs)\u201d<\/span><\/a>) regarding what she and Obama did in killing Gaddafi, no matter how many people\u2019s lives were destroyed in the process. Europe is reaping America\u2019s whirlwind.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have\u00a0elsewhere<\/span><\/a>\u00a0explained how all three of these bombing-campaigns are part of an attempt by the Obama Administration and the Saudi royal family, to transfer away from Russia, and toward the Saudi and other Arabic royal families, Europe\u2019s main supply-source for oil and gas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps some EU leader will be able to explain why all EU nations don\u2019t just kick out NATO and ally with Russia, so as to put a stop to Islamic jihad, which is funded by the royal families of the Arabic oil states<\/span><\/a>, and also so as to put an end to the sources of these flows of refugees, and also to put a start to, and become a part of, the emerging Eur-Asian economic giant which will finally eclipse the corrupt declining American empire, and perhaps bring it to an end \u2013 bring to an end the world\u2019s biggest single threat to peace<\/span><\/a>, and the world\u2019s biggest single sponsor of endless wars. <\/span><\/p>\n

Or are EU\u2019s leaders instead in America\u2019s pay? Why else, for example, would Angela Merkel\u2019s Germany in 2012 have been providing spying-assistance to the jihadist rebels in Syria<\/span><\/a>? (Merkel\u2019s spies were at the same time spying against Sahra Wagenecht and other members of the Bundestag who opposed Merkel\u2019s anti-Russian policies<\/span><\/a>.) That just makes Germany\u2019s own leader, Merkel, complicit in helping to cause the surge of Syrians who are trying to find safe haven in Germany and other European countries. (And, this way, EU leaders can then blame the rise of the far-right opposition to that influx, as if they themselves had opposed, instead of helped to cause \u2013 as they had \u2013 this influx.) The sheer corruption behind this could be incalculable. But, surely, the hypocrisy behind it is intolerable. <\/span><\/p>\n

Why, then, do European voters accept it? (For example, why isn\u2019t someone like Wagenecht leading Germany?) Why are U.S. lap-dogs, such as Merkel, in power? Why aren\u2019t they repudiated? The public suffer much from them. Europe is being destroyed by them \u2013 by U.S. agents. <\/span><\/p>\n

Do Europeans not know what is happening and why? Attaining freedom from the U.S. yoke is not nationalism; it is not right-wing: it is patriotism; it is progress, not regress. It is looking forward, not backward. It is serving the people whom one claims to represent. It is real democracy. America is no longer the nation of the Marshall Plan. That nation, sadly, has been replaced: a new group took it over, and their obsession is empire. Or, as President Obama himself has arrogantly said<\/span><\/a>: \u201cThe United States is and remains the one indispensable nation.\u201d He promised to keep it that way: \u201cThat has been true for the century passed [he misspelt \u2018past\u2019 [[somebody at the White House didn\u2019t even know the difference between \u2018past\u2019 and \u2018passed\u2019]] and it will be true for the century to come.\u201d (At least he wasn\u2019t predicting a Thousand-Year Reich. He\u2019s not yet quite that bad.) <\/span><\/p>\n

He was saying that the U.S. empire must continue for at least another century. Do the people of Europe really find that acceptable, especially now that they can see where it is heading them? Real compassion for those refugees would demand getting the U.S. out of the EU. And ending NATO. Why are there not enormous public displays in the EU against America, instead of against the refugees, etc.? Do Europeans really think that the nation of the Marshall Plan still exists? If so, they are wrong. Very wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org Starting in 2011 in Libya, the United States dropped bombs on Libya in order to replace its pro-Russian dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. The EU is now tearing itself apart with guilt-feelings at European nations\u2019 responses to the refugee-crisis that was caused by this American bombing-campaign in Libya, and then by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":172816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[115,30,32,96,1035,535,698,882,59,522,753,524,754,523,76,40,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-179119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-daily-news","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-hillary-clinton","15":"tag-libya","16":"tag-military","17":"tag-obama","18":"tag-police-state","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-syria","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-warfare","23":"tag-white-house","24":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179119","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=179119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}