Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
The United States is a gung-ho supporter of a genocide<\/span><\/a> that it created<\/span><\/a>. (Click on those links, for the verification of these shocking facts \u2013 shocking only because they\u2019re covered up by our \u2018press.\u2019) Why does Europe tolerate this, and even participate in it? But, they do.<\/span><\/p>\n On November 14th, France missed the second deadline for them to supply to Russia the Mistral helicopter-carrier ship that Russia had already paid for in full, and which had been built to Russian specifications, not suitable for use by NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n Back on 14 May 2014, Michael R. Gordon \u2013 one of the New York Times<\/i> \u2018reporters\u2019 (more-realistically: stenographers for the U.S. Administration) who had \u2018reported\u2019 back in 2002 about how horrific were the WMD or Weapons of Mass Destruction that Saddam Hussein was building up, but which actually didn\u2019t exist except in the Administration\u2019s disinformation-agencies \u2013 headlined in that propaganda-outlet for the U.S. Government (propagandistically calling itself a \u2018news\u2019paper), \u201cFrance\u2019s Sale of 2 Ships to Russians Is Ill-Advised, U.S. Warns,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he lambasted the dastardly purveyor of what U.S. nationalists had contemptuously called \u201cfreedom fries\u201d; he opened his \u2018news report\u2019 as the stenographer to power that he and his newspaper are, with: \u201cIn a closed-door meeting in February 2010, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates urged his French counterpart not to proceed with the sale of two amphibious assault ships to Russia because it \u2018would send the wrong message to Russia and to our allies in Central and East Europe.\u2019\u201d In other words: Russia is the enemy; don\u2019t deal with them in any other way.<\/span><\/p>\n Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post<\/i>, headlined the next day disdainfully, \u201cEurope goes its own way,\u201d<\/span><\/a> and she opened, \u201cFrance\u2019s attempt to sell warships to Russia is both a \u2018sell the rope to hang themselves\u2019 moment and a comment on U.S. stature these days.\u201d She lied: Russia isn\u2019t France\u2019s enemy; the U.S. has become that. And France wasn\u2019t in any \u201cattempt to sell warships to Russia\u201d; those warships had already been sold and built and paid for, but Washington was turning the screws on their \u2018friend\u2019 France, to induce them not to deliver what had already been sold and manufactured. <\/span><\/p>\n For America\u2019s fascists, and even for our racist-fascists or \u201cnazis,\u201d the Cold War has never ended, not even when the Soviet Union did and when Marxist economics became rejected everywhere but in Cuba and North Korea. Apparently, the Cold War was never really about communism, if one believes these fascists; it was about destroying Russia. For them, it has actually been just a marketing plan for U.S.-made weapons. Now that Russia is a democracy \u2013 perhaps more so than the U.S. now is \u2013 the old hatred still burns like hot coals in the black hearts of Barack Obama, Republicans, and all other far-rightist, pro-oligarchic, U.S. politicians, who serve the people at Raytheon Corporation and Lockheed-Martin, and other producers for NATO, the Western arms-buying club.<\/span><\/p>\n Gutless France isn\u2019t telling Uncle Sam to shove off about that, but is instead setting itself up to pay a very heavy price for today\u2019s peddler of genocide, the U.S. You don\u2019t see this fact<\/span><\/a> \u2013 or this<\/span><\/a>, or even this<\/span><\/a> \u2013 reported in the New York Times<\/i>, or the Washington Post<\/i>, or the Wall Street Journal<\/i>. Those facts come from \u2018the enemy.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n I am a European-American who is outraged that my country has taken up what had been one of Hitler\u2019s big objectives, of destroying and subjugating Russians, and that Europe is participating in this moral degradation of America<\/span><\/a>, all for the benefit of an all-too-powerful group of U.S. and a few cooperating European oligarchs<\/span><\/a>, who think that their blood is not on the line if this produces a nuclear war against Russia. But their gated communities and frost-windowed limousines won\u2019t protect even them from the viciousness of the hatreds and psychopathies that they harbor, if they succeed at prostituting \u2018democracy\u2019 in this way.<\/span><\/p>\n America needs a real press, not an aristocratically controlled \u2018news-media,\u2019 that are constantly for sale to the highest bidder, whomever can put up the advertising bucks to buy the \u2018news reporting\u2019 and \u2018editorial opinions,\u2019 that shape \u2018democracy.\u2019<\/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>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eric Zuesse The United States is a gung-ho supporter of a genocide that it created. (Click on those links, for the verification of these shocking facts \u2013 shocking only because they\u2019re covered up by our \u2018press.\u2019) Why does Europe tolerate this, and even participate in it? But, they do. 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