{"id":202060,"date":"2015-11-21T00:27:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T00:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=202060"},"modified":"2016-07-04T14:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:44:25","slug":"americas-great-lie-europes-great-shame-russias-great-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/americas-great-lie-europes-great-shame-russias-great-case\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Great Lie. Europe’s Great Shame. Russia’s Great Case."},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The West owes Russia a hell of a lot; but what it owes Russia first is a deep apology, and a welcome into Europe, of which Russia has been and is an extremely important nation, and very unjustly denied its rightful place there. What doesn\u2019t belong in Europe is the U.S., not in any way whatsoever, especially since the U.S. is now a\u00a0dictatorship<\/span><\/a>. (Anyone who says it\u2019s not a dictatorship and who doesn\u2019t click onto that link to find out that he\u2019s been snookered to think it\u2019s still a democracy, should just stop reading here right now, because this article is going to be suitable only for people with open, critical, inquiring minds \u2014 not for closed-minded or stupid readers.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Why does America\u2019s anti-Russia military club NATO still exist, after the Soviet Union\u2019s equivalent Warsaw Pact disbanded in 1991 when the Soviet Union and its communism voluntarily ended?<\/span><\/p>\n

NATO is nothing but America\u2019s anti-Russia military club, against Russia and against any nation (such as Iraq<\/span><\/a>, or Libya<\/span><\/a>, or Syria) that supports Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

We killed Gaddafi in Libya because he supported Russia in international relations. We produced the failed state and jihadist mayhem that now exists there; we destroyed Libya and now the refugees from there are flooding into Europe, along with the refugees from our attacks to bring down Assad in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

We overthrew<\/span><\/a> (via a bloody coup<\/span><\/a> and no \u2018democratic revolution\u2019 such as the West lies to assert) Yanukovych in Ukraine allegedly because he turned down the EU\u2019s offer to Ukraine after learning that the price-tag for Ukrainians would be $160 billion<\/span><\/a> if Ukraine were to comply with the EU\u2019s demands. But the U.S. was already organizing the coup against him starting a year before the coup, and nine months before Yanukovych turned down the EU\u2019s offer<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are trying to overthrow Assad in Syria because he supports Russia in international relations<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t bullying?<\/span><\/p>\n

This is \u2018democracy\u2019?<\/span><\/p>\n

This is dictatorship: totalitarianism in the West, against Russia and any other nation that isn\u2019t buckling to the U.S. aristocracy and its allied aristocracies in Europe, and (especially with the new bellicose nationalistic Abe government), also in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is ugly.<\/span><\/p>\n

This can\u2019t be published in Western major \u2018news\u2019 media: it is samizdat<\/span><\/a>, in the Western dictatorships<\/span><\/a>, but it is all demonstrably true<\/span><\/a>, nonetheless.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is how it started \u2013 the original sin of the post-Cold-War West, which has produced the problems of today and the future:<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the results of a 2009 investigation by Germany\u2019s Spiegel<\/i>, or Mirror<\/i>, magazine, which is a mainstream German news site, that\u2019s a bit more honest than America\u2019s equivalents:<\/span><\/p>\n

They headlined, very directly:\u00a0\u201cNATO’s Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

They identified what that \u201cpromise\u201d was, which Russia claims was violated, and which Spiegel<\/i> was investigating: “that NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the\u00a0negotiations over German reunification.\u201d The next sentence in Spiegel\u2019s<\/i> report states unequivocally their conclusion: “Newly discovered documents from Western\u00a0archives support the Russian position.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The question\u00a0Spiegel\u2019s<\/i> article discusses isn\u2019t whether NATO\u2019s continued existence is an evil, but instead whether NATO should have extended eastward up to Russia\u2019s own borders \u2013 whether, to make this matter quite clear now, if the USSR had won, and its Warsaw Pact and not NATO had continued (though neither should have continued), the Warsaw Pact should have extended itself all the way to including Mexico and\/or Canada?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How would the American people have felt about that possibility \u2013 nuclear missiles aimed against them at their own border?<\/i> It\u2019s so obviously disgusting (vile, actually \u2013 and what was John F. Kennedy determined to do if the USSR had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba?), but do you learn in Western \u2018news\u2019 media that this is what the United States has done and is doing to Russia<\/i>, and to Russia\u2019s allies?<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is how even Spiegel<\/i> concluded that the West lies about this history, though Spiegel<\/i> is itself a Western mainstream medium and so avoids saying it outright that directly, and instead veils the truth so that only the few people with brains and open minds will get the important point:<\/span><\/p>\n

Spiegel<\/i> makes clear that their investigation of the actual paper record shows that the then merely West German side, which was negotiating reunification of Germany with the then merely Eastern half of Germany, is exactly in accord with what Russia\u2019s allegations have been saying all along, and exactly the opposite of what West Germany\u2019s Foreign Minister then, Hans Dietrich Genscher, has been asserting to have been the case. Here is how we learn this from Spiegel:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Jack Matlock, the US ambassador in Moscow at the time, has said in the past that\u00a0Moscow was given a “clear commitment.” Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the German foreign\u00a0minister in 1990, says this was precisely not the case.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

After speaking with many of those involved and examining previously classified British\u00a0and German documents in detail,\u00a0SPIEGEL has concluded that there was no doubt that\u00a0the West did everything it could to give the Soviets the impression that NATO\u00a0membership was out of the question for countries like Poland, Hungary or\u00a0Czechoslovakia.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

On Feb. 10, 1990, between 4 and 6:30 p.m., Genscher spoke with Shevardnadze. According to to the German record of the conversation, which was only recently\u00a0declassified, Genscher said: “We are aware that NATO membership for a unified\u00a0Germany raises complicated questions. For us, however, one thing is certain: NATO will\u00a0not expand to the east.” And because the convers[at]ion revolved mainly around East\u00a0Germany, Genscher added explicitly: “As far as the non-expansion of NATO is\u00a0concerned, this also applies in general.”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Never does Spiegel<\/i> state outright that Genscher was lying; but, an intelligent person recognizes that if \u201cthe non-expansion of NATO \u2026 applies in general,\u201d then the promise made was excluding any eastward expansion of NATO at all<\/i>. Not only “NATO will not expand to the east,\u201d but NATO will not expand. How much clearer can it be than that?<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words: Genscher lies when he says that there was no \u201cclear commitment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

For some reason, Russian officials don\u2019t accuse the West of having \u201clied.\u201d Perhaps they feel that it would only exacerbate relations even further than the West itself has already done by its constant lying. However, wouldn\u2019t it be better for the confrontation to come upon the battlefield of truth, than upon the battlefield of war?<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. and its allies have been lying through their teeth in order not only to continue NATO, but to extend it up to Russia\u2019s borders \u2013 in other words: for conquest.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more about this key historical reality, the reader can click\u00a0here<\/span><\/a>, to see that there\u2019s lots more than just the record disproving Genscher\u2019s lies, but especially the record disproving the lies by U.S. officials<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me then summarize that here: George Herbert Walker Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were the principals (Bush for the U.S. aristocracy; Gorbachev for the populations of the Soviet Union). Genscher and James Baker and Eduard Shevardnadze, etc. were merely agents; and Bush had his agents lie to Gorbachev\u2019s agents, to say that NATO would not expand at all eastward. But he then, only later, instructed them not to follow through on what they had said, not to behave truthfully \u2013 but instead to set things up so as to allow the U.S. military alliance to extend right up to Russia\u2019s borders. Here is how he instructed them to perform in this shameful (and potentially catastrophic<\/span><\/a>) manner in private:<\/span><\/p>\n

West German transcripts from the two leaders\u2019 February 24\u201425 summit\u00a0at\u00a0Camp David show [that] Bush made his feelings about compromising with\u00a0Moscow\u00a0clear to Kohl: \u2018To hell with that!\u2019 he said. \u2018We prevailed, they\u00a0didn\u2019t.\u2019\u2026 In April, Bush spelled out this thinking in a confidential\u00a0telegram to French President Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Mitterrand\u2026 Bush was making\u00a0it\u00a0clear to Mitterrand that the dominant security organization in a\u00a0post\u2014Cold War Europe had to remain NATO.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The puppetmaster, Bush, sprung upon Kohl and Mitterrand the instruction for them to just keep up the lie, but that it would be<\/i> \u00a0a lie. They had believed what they had said when they said it, but were now instructed not to fulfill on it. What they had said would be a lie; they were instructed about this, only after they had said what they had believed to be true. From that point on, the anti-Russia thrust of the U.S. aristocracy, which controls the aristocracies (such as Europe\u2019s) that are its allies, was clear; and the only way to disobey would be to become blackballed and trashed. Their careers would have been destroyed if they had disobeyed Bush.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both in my own article there<\/span><\/a>, and in the Spiegel<\/i> \u00a0one, the ancillary questions, such as why this promise had never been made in writing (though Gorbachev wanted it to be), are also discussed. However, something should be pointed out here regarding the Spiegel<\/i> \u00a0article, namely that Gorbachev\u2019s Foreign Minister Shevardnadze was also shown there to be lying to Spiegel\u2019s<\/i> \u00a0reporters, and not noted there to have been lying to them. Shevardnadze, “speaking in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, says that there were no such assurances from the\u00a0West.\u201d In other words: he told, to Spiegel,<\/i>\u00a0a thing that was contradicting what Spiegel<\/i> \u00a0found in their own examination of Genscher\u2019s papers from the period of the negotiations. Genscher had been negotiating then with Shevardnadze, and according to Genscher\u2019s papers, Shevardnadze had indeed been informed by Genscher that NATO wouldn\u2019t expand, at all. What Shevardnadze\u2019s motive was for this, is not known, and Spiegel\u2019s<\/i> reporters didn\u2019t even bring up to Shevardnadze the fact that what he was telling them was in direct contradiction of the written record. (Perhaps Shevardnadze, now retired after having become Georgia\u2019s President, was hoping in 2009 to be favorably viewed by aristocrats in the West. Keeping up the lie would have fit for that purpose. But, even if he had been asked, he wouldn\u2019t have given that explanation.) <\/span><\/p>\n

George Herbert Walker\u2019s having instructed his agents to lie and to avoid any signed treaty on this crucial historical matter, was the West\u2019s Original Sin.<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s remaining allied with the U.S. and participating in NATO, especially after having been instructed by America to lie, and to have deceived Gorbachev, who behaved honorably throughout and afterward, is Europe\u2019s great shame.<\/span><\/p>\n

And truth is Russia\u2019s great case.<\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. is, in fact, Europe\u2019s enemy \u2013 not merely Russia\u2019s enemy. Not merely the truth\u2019s enemy. Not merely democracy\u2019s enemy<\/span><\/a>.<\/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":"

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