{"id":143606,"date":"2015-02-16T21:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143606"},"modified":"2017-11-06T20:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T19:50:05","slug":"gallup-americans-fear-russia-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gallup-americans-fear-russia-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup: Americans’ Fear of Russia Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Gallup headlined on February 16th,\u00a0“Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top U.S. Enemy,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that whereas back in 2011 only 3% of Americans answered \u201cRussia\u201d when asked \u201cWhat country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States\u2019 greatest enemy?\u201d 18% cite \u201cRussia\u201d today, which is 3% more than the #2-cited threat, \u201cNorth Korea,\u201d cited now by 15% (which had been 16% back in 2011, when the top-cited threat of all was then Iran, at 25%, which is now cited by only 9% of Americans, as being America\u2019s \u201cgreatest enemy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States Government has, ever since the end of the Soviet Union and the end of communism there, placed America\u2019s weapons very near the most-highly-industrialized western part of Russia, with 11 NATO members being added since then that had previously been Warsaw Pact members (i.e., that were allies of Russia):\u00a0Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,\u00a0Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Albania.<\/span><\/p>\n

These European countries weren\u2019t motivated to join NATO only by their fear that a now-capitalist Russia might try to re-assemble the empire that the communist dictator Stalin had put together \u2014 there was no indication of that even being wanted by Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, nor by Yeltsin. These Warsaw-Pact nations were being actively courted by the United States, to join what had previously been a NATO that was anti-communist, but that America\u2019s aristocracy wanted now to become simply an anti-Russian<\/i> alliance \u2014 which is all that it now actually is.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

America\u2019s aristocracy succeeded in this effort: NATO is now solidly a military alliance against Russia. Everything else about NATO is just for show.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Warsaw Pact is dead, and NATO should be too; but, instead, NATO continues on, as now a U.S.-led military alliance against Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even during the days of the Soviet Union, America\u2019s aristocracy were anti-Russian, not merely anti-communist. In fact, they recruited Hitler\u2019s top scientists and intelligence-operatives to work for the CIA and other U.S. agencies, in order to weaken, first, the U.S.S.R., but then (after the Soviet break-up), Russia itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Soviet leadership, when the brutal dictator Stalin died, tried to avoid a Cold War, or any war, against the U.S. and other major capitalist countries, but the aristocracies in the capitalist countries rejected that peace-effort, and decided to go with nazis instead, who viscerally hated Russians (as did Adolf Hitler himself). America\u2019s aristocrats recruited \u2018former\u2019 Nazis, and protected them from prosecution.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0wikipedia<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn March 1954, the USSR, fearing ‘the restoration of German Militarism’ in West Germany, requested\u00a0admission to NATO.[10][11][12]\u00a0By then, laws had already been passed in West Germany ending\u00a0denazification\u00a0[13][14]\u00a0and the\u00a0Gehlen Organization [headed by the former head of Nazi Germany\u2019s intelligence, General Reinhard Gehlen], predecessor of the\u00a0West German Federal\u00a0Intelligence Service, was fully operative and employing hundreds of\u00a0ex-Nazis.[15] [<\/i>Gehlen was chosen for this by America\u2019s Allen Dulles<\/i><\/span><\/a>.]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

“The Soviet request to join NATO arose in the aftermath of the\u00a0Berlin Conference\u00a0of January\u2013February\u00a01954. Soviet foreign minister\u00a0Molotov\u00a0made different proposals to have\u00a0Germany reunified[16]\u00a0and\u00a0elections for a pan-German government,[17]\u00a0under conditions of withdrawal of the\u00a0four powers\u00a0armies\u00a0and German neutrality,[18]\u00a0but all were refused by the other foreign ministers,\u00a0Dulles\u00a0(USA),\u00a0Eden\u00a0(UK) and\u00a0Bidault\u00a0(France).[19]\u00a0Proposals for the reunification of Germany were nothing new: earlier in\u00a01952,\u00a0talks about a German reunification\u00a0ended after the United Kingdom, France, and the United\u00a0States insisted\u00a0that a unified Germany should not be neutral and should be free to join\u00a0the\u00a0European\u00a0Defence Community\u00a0and rearm.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

America\u2019s CIA had coordinated all of this, as\u00a0a BBC documentary<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has explained. The CIA had recruited \u2018former\u2019 Nazis especially in eastern Europe, such as in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consequently, the Cold War was on; and, from its very start, it wasn\u2019t just an ideological (capitalist-versus-communist) war; it was also, for the western aristocracies that controlled their nations\u2019 foreign policies, very much an anti-Russia<\/i> war. That BBC documentary makes this fact very clear: ideological nazis, who had previously worked for or under the guidance of Hitler\u2019s Nazi Party, were now being paid by the CIA and worked for the CIA, not only against communism, but also as nationalists, hating Russia and Russians as ethnicity<\/i>, quite specifically as nazis who admired Adolf Hitler and who still held the hope for an ultimate victory against Russia, a victory which Hitler himself had failed to achieve.<\/span><\/p>\n

This tragic background led to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev\u2019s effort in Cuba during 1962 to place Soviet nuclear missiles into Cuba, right next door to the United States \u2014 an outrageous threat to American national security, which President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was willing to go to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union to prevent, and so he prevented it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Khrushchev had crossed the line, and now he backed down. However, it had actually been JFK\u2019s predecessor, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, who had crossed this line the first: As wikipedia (which is edited by the CIA<\/span><\/a>) has buried in a picture-caption in\u00a0its article on the Cuban Missile Crisis<\/span><\/a>, “More than 100 US-built missiles having the capability to strike Moscow with nuclear warheads were\u00a0deployed in Italy and Turkey\u00a0in 1961.\u201d If one clicks there on the link that\u2019s supplied, one finds that the plan to get U.S. missiles within striking distance of Moscow had originated actually in 1956, and started becoming operational in 1959, which was the same year that Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. In other words: it preceded Castro\u2019s coming-to-power. It was the start of the really dangerous part of the Cold War, and it was an act of sheer aggression by the U.S. against Russia. This was being done by the same President who had made the pro-Nazi Allen Dulles the Director of the CIA, and the pro-Nazi John Foster Dulles the Secretary of State. Under Eisenhower\u2019s leadership, America\u2019s competition against communism became a Cold War against not only communism, but against Russia, and against ethnic Russians \u2014 whom Hitler and all of his followers despised.<\/span><\/p>\n

John F. Kennedy inherited the anti-Russian threat that Dwight Eisenhower had engendered with 100+ nuclear missiles against Moscow. And Kennedy defused it.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the wikipedia article on the Cuban Missile Crisis notes:<\/span><\/p>\n

“In response to the failed\u00a0Bay of Pigs invasion\u00a0of 1961, and the presence of American\u00a0Jupiter ballistic\u00a0missiles\u00a0in\u00a0Italy\u00a0and\u00a0Turkey\u00a0against the USSR with Moscow within range, Soviet leader\u00a0Nikita\u00a0Khrushchev\u00a0decided to agree to Cuba’s request to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to\u00a0deter future\u00a0harassment of Cuba. An agreement was reached during a\u00a0secret meeting between Khrushchev and\u00a0Fidel Castro\u00a0in July and construction on a number of missile sites started later that summer.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

So: not only had the United States, under the Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, loaded the CIA with ex-Nazis, but \u201cIke” had secretly placed in Italy and Turkey nuclear missiles aimed against Moscow \u2014 an extremely provocative act, which precipitated Khrushchev\u2019s attempt to place Soviet missiles into Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n

A secret part of the agreement that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis was that Kennedy accepted Khrushchev\u2019s demand for those 100 missiles to be removed. They were quietly removed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Cuban Missile Crisis started in 1956, before communism reigned in Cuba, and it was a result of Eisenhower\u2019s, and the Dulles brothers\u2019, hatred of Russians, and not merely of an opposition to communism. Those people weren\u2019t democrats at all: they were fascists if not racist ones (nazis), and the Soviet leaders were communists, but totalitarians of any stripe are enemies of the public, enemies of the people \u2014 and, now, Americans under Obama are coming to fear Russians, for what? It\u2019s sheer suckerdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Russians today thus have very sound historical reasons for fearing east-European nazis who are backed by the United States \u2014 it\u2019s what they\u2019ve seen since Dwight Eisenhower was America\u2019s President. However, until the time of U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s second term, this anti-Russian sentiment was not ruling America\u2019s foreign policy; but, now, it tragically is. Barack Obama is the first-ever U.S. President to install a nazi (i.e., racist-fascist) regime anywhere in Europe. In fact, if one doesn\u2019t count Eisenhower\u2019s 1954 overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and replacement of him by a fascist regime as having installed a \u201cnazi\u201d regime there (which one might if one considers the subsequent widespread slaughter there of the native population to have been genocidal or an ethnic cleansing), then Obama is the first-ever outright nazi U.S. President: the first one who has installed a nazi (i.e., racist-fascist) regime anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Obama set up a\u00a0violent coup that in February 2014 overthrew the democratically elected President of Ukraine<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and replaced him with\u00a0a racist-fascist, anti-Russian, regime, and with a follow-on ethnic cleansing program to eliminate the residents<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the portion of Ukraine that\u00a0had voted 90% for the man whom Obama had just overthrown<\/span><\/a>, Russian public opinion turned sharply against the United States. This kind of behavior resonated strongly with Russians\u2019 historical recollection of Adolf Hitler. According to Pew Global<\/span><\/a>, whereas 56% of Russians had had a favorable view of the United States in 2011, that percentage had dropped to only 23% in 2014. Russians now saw the U.S. sponsoring and increasingly arming a regime that was determinedly eliminating ethnic Russians from the Ukrainian population \u2014 and especially\u00a0exterminating the residents in Donbass, the region that had voted 90% for the man Obama overthrew<\/span><\/a>. This did not make the residents of Russia feel very safe against the global superpower. Russians were shocked to find that the nation that Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had led in a war against nazis and other fascists, had now become, under \u2018Democratic\u2019 President Barack Obama, a nation that instead sponsored a nazi coup in Ukraine so as to place NATO missiles near Moscow \u2014 even worse than President Eisenhower, who at least had an excuse: that he was anti-communist<\/i>. Obama has none at all; he has only\u00a0hostility toward Russia and contempt for Russians<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans have\u00a0no reason, other than American media-propaganda and brainwashing<\/span><\/a>, to fear Vladimir Putin, but plenty of reason to fear Barack Obama \u2014 he\u2019s goading Putin into another arms-race and weapons-buildup,\u00a0toward a possible nuclear war<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Gallup poll merely shows the result of Americans being drenched with propaganda. As for the Pew poll\u2019s showing Russians\u2019 opinions of the United States plunging, anyone in Russia who is at all rational and who has open eyes will feel that way. The drenching in propaganda is the U.S., not Russia \u2014 or, at least, not nearly to the same extent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Americans are drowning in propaganda; that\u2019s what this Gallup poll is showing.<\/span><\/p>\n

American \u2018news\u2019 media are doing their job, for the aristocracy that own them. It\u2019s what they\u2019re paid to do. They\u2019re paid to keep the public in line. What the media are to people\u2019s minds, the police are to people\u2019s bodies. One is mental force: deception. The other is physical force: violence. This combination of deception and violence is the cost-effective way to control the public. It\u2019s efficient.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: the American public is being prepped to hate Russians and to fear Russia. Americans are starting to get in line, for the Big War. That\u2019s also the reason why the U.S.-initiated ethnic-cleansing program in the Donbass region of the\u00a0 <\/span>former Ukraine<\/span><\/a> isn\u2019t reported in the western press. All that Americans know is that Russia is bad. And, for most Americans, that\u2019s enough to know. It gives them a fighting spirit. Unfortunately, they\u2019re fighting the wrong enemy. But that\u2019s the purpose, isn\u2019t it?<\/span><\/p>\n

Even before the coup in Ukraine, a Gallup poll<\/span><\/a> had shown that worldwide the U.S. was considered to be the greatest threat, of all nations, to world peace. But Americans didn\u2019t think so. Now, what would explain that discrepancy? Perhaps the same thing that caused Americans to think that Saddam Hussein\u2019s WMD and support for Al Qaeda necessitated an American invasion of Iraq in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n

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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><\/span>,<\/i>\u00a0<\/span> and of <\/span>\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse Gallup headlined on February 16th,\u00a0“Americans Increasingly See Russia as Threat, Top U.S. Enemy,\u201d\u00a0and reported that whereas back in 2011 only 3% of Americans answered \u201cRussia\u201d when asked \u201cWhat country anywhere in the world do you consider to be the United States\u2019 greatest enemy?\u201d 18% cite \u201cRussia\u201d today, which is 3% more than the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":143589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,526,524,49,76],"class_list":{"0":"post-143606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-cia","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-military","14":"tag-propaganda","15":"tag-russia","16":"tag-usa-news","17":"tag-warfare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}