Eric Zuesse<\/p>\n
World leaders \u2013 heads of state especially \u2013 tend to be tactful people, whatever else might be said about them. When they discover that one of their number happens to be incredibly arrogant and psychopathic (and some leading psychopaths are skilled charmers; they\u2019re not necessarily blatant about their aggressive intents like Hitler was), they don\u2019t generally publicize the discovery of this unpleasant fact, because doing so would be worse than tactless: it would be downright stupid \u2013 it would jeopardize lots of the interdependencies that nations have with one-another. It would be counterproductive.<\/span><\/p>\n A good example of how they receive such negative information about one-another was provided by a telephone conversation on 26 February 2014 that was between Catherine Ashton, the EU\u2019s Foreign Affairs chief, and her investigator, Urmas Paet, Estonia\u2019s Foreign Minister, whom she had sent to Kiev when Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected (though corrupt, as were all of his predecessors) President, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown in a very bloody sequence of events during\u00a0January<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0February<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of 2014, and the question she needed an answer to now was whether this had been a revolution (authentically resulting from the Ukrainian public), or instead a coup (organized top-down, by \u201csomeone from the new coalition,\u201d meaning a person who was on the side of the coalition against Yanukovych, the coalition that now controlled the Government). In other words: As the EU\u2019s Foreign Affairs chief, Ashton needed to know whether the pro-EU coalition in Ukraine, who now were in control there, were in power because the Ukrainian public wanted them to be, or instead because they had seized power through those violent and, as yet, hard-to-understand, clashes, which might possibly have been orchestrated by \u201csomeone from the new coalition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n That \u201ccoalition\u201d were the leaders who had hoped that Yanukovych would seek to bring Ukraine into the EU. Just a few months earlier, Yanukovych had decided not to do that, but instead to continue Ukraine\u2019s\u00a01,200-year relationship with Russia.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(Kiev was known as \u201cthe cradle of Russian civilization,\u201d and the origin of the\u00a0Rus people<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 those were the relocated Norsemen who had moved east and settled there (which is why so many Slavs are blond and why Hitler was an incredible bigot for worshipping the Norsemen while he despised the Slavs). It was a choice between Europe to the west, or Russia to the east; and Yanukovych had chosen to retain Ukraine\u2019s ties to Russia. Ukraine is the main transit-route for Russian gas going into Europe, and received fees from Russia for that; Yanukovych chose to continue this; and he received, from Russia\u2019s Gazprom company, steep discounts on Ukraine\u2019s own gas-needs, as a further inducement for continuing that relationship. Polls of Ukrainians showed Ukrainians to be sharply divided about the issue, with western Ukraine strongly favoring to join the EU, and eastern Ukraine equally strongly favoring to stay with Russia. (For example, see\u00a0this poll<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is that phone-conversation, between Ashton and Paet, annotated by me to explain what they were referring to, and accompanied with a link to the phone-conversation itself, so that you can hear it if you wish.<\/span><\/p>\n As you can see (and hear) from that, Ashton was shocked to learn that it had been a coup that brought down Yanukovych, but she continued right on with the conversation, to other business, as if to indicate, \u201cWell, let\u2019s take care of less-disturbing matters, now.” It was clear from the conversation, up to that point, that Paet regretted needing to inform Ashton that the pro-EU side was actually controlled by some scoundrel (as yet unknown), and it\u2019s clear that Ashton was shocked to hear this; but, as Ashton made evident from her response, she didn\u2019t want to discuss this matter any further. These were two seasoned diplomats, and they both understood that there was nothing they could do about water already “under the bridge,” and on its way. But both of them realized, now, that its way was anything but democratic. This was useful information for Ashton to have, in her professional capacity for the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n She probably entertained a strong suspicion, even then, however, as to who was actually behind this coup (as she had only now learned it to have been). A few weeks before that phone-conversation,\u00a0this youtube recording<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of yet another phone-conversation, in which Obama\u2019s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nuland, blurted to the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, her infamous \u201cF\u2013k the EU\u201d statement (which, of course, was also an insult to Ashton personally), included also Nuland’s instruction to Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in Kiev, to get Arseniy Yatsenyuk appointed to run the post-coup Ukrainian Government (1:10 on the\u00a0video<\/span><\/a>): \u201cI think Yats is the guy who\u2019s got the economic experience, the governing experience; he\u2019s the guy, you know, who, what he needs is Klitch and Tyahnybok on the outside, he needs to be talking to them four times a week.\u201d To which, Pyatt promptly said \u201cYeah, I think that\u2019s right. Okay.\u201d He had his assignment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This assignment ended up being fulfilled on 26 February 2014, just four days after the February 22nd coup.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Coincidentally, on the very same day when Ashton heard Paet tell her that it had been a coup, \u201cYats\u201d publicly received the appointment to run Ukraine’s Government, but not as Ukraine\u2019s President (since the previous one had just been overthrown and such an immediate and non-democratic replacement of him would have been too obviously a coup), but instead as Ukraine\u2019s other top post: Prime Minister. Obama wanted Yats\u2019s sponsor, Yulia Tymoshenko, to win the election to replace Yanukovych as President, when that post was put up for a vote in only the northeastern half of Ukraine, the half that favored the EU and the U.S. over Russia. (It\u2019s one of the reasons he had insisted she be released from prison from her corruption-conviction, immediately at the coup.) But she turned out to be too extreme in her Russia-hatred to be able to win even in just the northeast (the anti-Russian part of Ukraine); and, so, Obama had to settle for the slightly less racist-fascist anti-Russian, Petro Poroshenko, when he won on May 25th, and the Presidency was now downgraded to little more than a figurehead status.<\/span><\/p>\n Russia\u2019s leader, Vladimir Putin, knew everything that was going on: for examples, both of those phone-conversations had been posted to youtube after having been recorded by Russian intelligence. So: he took the action that he needed to take in order to enable the residents of Crimea, where Russia had had its main naval base since 1783, to vote on whether to rejoin Russia, of which they had been a part until the Soviet dictator Khrushchev donated Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 \u2013 a move that was extremely unpopoular in Crimea. Putin enabled them to hold a plebiscite in Crimea on 16 March 2014, which was declared by international observers to be free and fair; and the result was 96% to rejoin Russia \u2013\u00a0virtually the same percentage that was shown in opinion-polls of Crimeans.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n U.S. President Obama wanted to punish Putin for taking this defensive measure against U.S. aggression \u2013 against the anti-Russian coup in Ukraine. At first, the EU went along with the weakest sanctions that Obama pushed for against Russia, and they held out for as long as they could to delay the serious ones, until 17 July 2014, when\u00a0the Obama regime in Ukraine sent up at least one fighter-jet and downed the MH17 Malaysian airliner over Ukraine\u2019s conflict-zone and blamed it on pro-Russian separatists<\/span><\/a>\u00a0who had been\u00a0bombed for months by the Ukrainian regime<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 the legend was that they had fired a \u201cBuk\u201d missile-launcher at the MH17 mistaking it for being one of Ukraine\u2019s bombers. Not knowing that this had been yet another set-up job by the Obama-team, the EU now consented to join really stiff sanctions against Russia \u2013 on the theory that the downing wouldn\u2019t have happened if Russia had not helped the separatists to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n But, then, EU leaders came to know that Obama had been behind this atrocity too.<\/span><\/p>\n What had started with Nuland\u2019s \u201cF\u2013k the EU\u201d was now the EU\u2019s complicity with the\u00a0racist-fascist, or ideologically nazi, anti-Russian coup-imposed Government that she and her boss Obama had placed into power in Ukraine.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0A lot of influential people in Europe aren\u2019t as accepting of nazism as Obama quite evidently is.<\/span><\/p>\n When it became clear \u2013 after two successive invasions of the resisting Ukrainian region, Donbass, both of which invasions failed to do anything other than to destroy the region that Ukraine claimed to be protecting against \u2018Terrorists\u2019 via Ukraine’s \u2018Anti Terrorist Operation\u2019 or \u2018ATO\u2019 for short \u2013 that assisting any further with America\u2019s take-over of Ukraine would be not only war-criminal, but likely to lose, they started falling away from the entire effort.<\/span><\/p>\n Critically important in this regard was a 21 November 2014 vote in the U.N. on whether to condemn racist fascism, and especially to condemn Nazi Germany\u2019s World War II Holocaust against mainly Jews. Far-right racist nationalism has been booming recently; and, so, when\u00a0the United States was one of only three countries \u2013 the U.S., Ukraine, and Canada \u2013 to vote against<\/i> this resolution<\/span><\/a>, almost the entire world was shocked. <\/span><\/p>\n Clearly, now, President Obama, despite his liberal rhetoric, is far to the right of the vast majority of world-leaders, and is an insult to the memory of the U.S. troops who died fighting Hitler in World War II.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Among the first to abandon Obama on this, right on Christmas Eve, was\u00a0Viktor Orban, Hungary\u2019s leader<\/span><\/a>, who was outraged at Obama\u2019s treatment of Hungary as if it were a vassal-state of the U.S. Empire.<\/span><\/p>\n Then, on 3 January 2015,\u00a0Milos Zeman, the Czech head-of-state<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0joined with Orban in that.<\/span><\/p>\n Those countries had experienced Hitler\u2019s horrors first-hand, and they don\u2019t like nazis, not even ones (such as Obama) who speak liberal platitudes and have dark skins (and so arent\u2019 a fit for the nazi stereotype \u2013 but only for the Big Lie extremity of nazism).<\/span><\/p>\n And, now, it seems to be the majority of the EU who are resisting Obama\u2019s contemptuous treatment of every other nation than his or her own.<\/span><\/p>\n Then, on March 12th,\u00a0Iceland terminated its candidacy for joining the EU.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0The EU\u2019s rightward bend toward the U.S. seems to have been a big turn-off to Icelanders \u2013 they won\u2019t touch even the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n On March 13th, Ukraine\u2019s figurehead President announced that he had reached agreement with\u00a0\u201ca series of the EU countries on the supply of armament\u201d; and, the next day, Russian Television reported that 11 of the 28 EU member-nations had agreed to supply Ukraine with weapons. 17 refused<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Ukraine\u2019s request for arms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Then, on March 17th, washingtonsblog bannered,\u00a0\u201cMajor American Allies Ignore U.S. Pleas and Join China\u2019s Alternative Bank<\/span><\/a>\u201d and reported that UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, India, France, Germany, and Italy, had all agreed to join China\u2019s newly-forming international-development bank competitor to Washington\u2019s IMF and World Bank. China, ever since the U.S. had started its Ukrainian proxy-war against Russia, has sided with Russia, against that war; and what this international conflict is really about is\u00a0the continuance of the U.S. dollar as the global reserve-currency<\/span><\/a>: Russia, China, and the rest of the BRIC countries \u2013 the rising developing economies \u2013 are seeking to replace the dollar-monopoly.<\/span><\/p>\n The Obama Administration has been twisting arms all over the world to try to block nations from signing onto China\u2019s new world bank; and Obama’s getting rebuffed by all these nations, many of which have been traditional U.S. allies, is a historic turn away from the American Empire that he is trying to ram down everyone\u2019s throat.<\/span><\/p>\n And, on March 20th, zerohedge bannered,\u00a0“US \u2018Isolated’ As Key Ally Japan Considers Joining China-Led Bank.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0If this happens, then the American Empire will be all but over.<\/span><\/p>\n When President Bill Clinton virtually spat upon Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s historical heritage by joining with the Republicans\u2019 war against Russia and inviting as many former Soviet-bloc nations into the U.S.\u2019s now anti-Russian<\/i>\u00a0(no longer anti-communist;<\/i> communism was gone) military alliance, NATO, as possible, and he even terminated the FDR-era Glass-Steagall Act requirements that had blocked the big banks from gambling with taxpayers\u2019 money and from their keeping only the winnings and transferring onto the Government the losses when their bets go bad, Clinton started what Obama is now trying to culminate; and, finally, at long last, the world-at-large is clearly telling this anti-FDR, aggressively imperialist, U.S.A., to just shove its fascism down its toilet. More and more nations are saying, in effect: Good-bye, Uncle Sam; you\u2019re not the nation you were during World War Two; you\u2019ve instead become the global enemy; you\u2019ve turned and become fascist yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n Among the few parts of Obama\u2019s international rhetoric that are not fake, and that (because they are part of his anti-Russian propaganda campaign) express his actual fascist imperialist views \u2013 and which are increasingly being rejected<\/i> \u2013 are these:<\/span><\/p>\n Bragging about his foreign policy, including his killing the Russia-friendly Muammar Gaddafi:<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201cWherever we have been involved over the last several\u00a0years, I think the outcome has\u00a0been better because of American\u00a0leadership. \u2026 We are hugely influential; we\u2019re the one indispensable\u00a0nation. But when it comes to\u00a0nation-building, when it comes to what is\u00a0going to be a generational project in a place\u00a0like\u00a0Libya\u00a0or a place like\u00a0Syria\u00a0or a place like Iraq, we can help, but we can\u2019t do it for\u00a0them.\u201d [He pretends the U.S. is a big international charity.]<\/span><\/p>\n Telling West Point cadets that Russia and the other BRICs are enemies:<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201cWhen a typhoon hits the Philippines, or schoolgirls are kidnapped in\u00a0Nigeria, or\u00a0masked men [that\u2019s actually his own regime\u2019s thugs] occupy a building in Ukraine, it is America that\u00a0the world looks to for\u00a0help. (Applause.) \u00a0So the United States is and\u00a0remains the one indispensable nation.\u00a0That has been true for the\u00a0century passed [he misspelled \u2018past\u2019] and it will be true for the century to come. \u2026 Russia\u2019s aggression toward former Soviet states unnerves capitals in\u00a0Europe, while\u00a0China\u2019s economic rise and military reach worries its\u00a0neighbors. From Brazil to India,\u00a0rising middle classes compete with us,\u00a0and governments seek a greater say in global\u00a0forums. \u2026 America\u2019s willingness to apply force around the world is the ultimate safeguard\u00a0against chaos.\u201d [Development of underdeveloped countries is \u2018chaos,\u2019 to him. Wow!]<\/span><\/p>\n To Wall Street\u2019s CEOs, gathered in the White House:<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201cMy administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.\u00a0[The\u00a0public are\u00a0here analogized to the KKK; and the\u00a0banksters\u00a0are instead being\u00a0portrayed\u00a0as the Blacks whom the KKK are trying to lynch]\u00a0\u2026 I want to help. \u2026 I\u2019m\u00a0not out there to go after you. I\u2019m protecting you\u00a0[against the \u2018pitchforks’].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Lies denigrating Russia and Putin:<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u201cImmigrants aren\u2019t rushing to Moscow in search of opportunity. \u2026 The life expectancy of the Russian male is around 60 years old. \u2026 The population is shrinking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n His obsession to conquer Russia,\u00a0as I reported it on 12 February 2015:<\/span><\/a>\u00a0“U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s just-issued\u00a0National Security Strategy 2015<\/i>\u00a0uses\u00a0the\u00a0term \u2018aggression’ precisely 18 times, all but one of which are\u00a0either explicitly, or else\u00a0possibly, referring to Russia, as allegedly\u00a0doing the alleged \u2018aggression’ \u2013 never the\u00a0U.S., and on only one\u00a0occasion is he identifying North Korea with that term of\u00a0opprobrium.\u00a0Presumably, he thinks that Russia is by far the most \u2018aggressive’ country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After the\u00a0bloody coup that replaced Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected President by a nazi regime a year ago<\/span><\/a>; and after that regime, serving Obama\u2019s need for hiked EU sanctaions against Russia,\u00a0shot down the MH17 Malaysian airliner on 17 July 2014 and slaughtered those 298 innocent people and blamed it all on Russian-supported separatists, all in order to further Obama\u2019s bloody designs<\/span><\/a>, he now has the gall to accuse Putin of \u201caggression\u201d for defending the residents of Crimea from the\u00a0nazi<\/span><\/a>\u00a0regime that Obama had installed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And there\u2019s so much other icing on this bloody cake. For example, Russia\u2019s Sputnik News headlined on March 20th,\u00a0“South\u00a0Stream:\u00a0Life\u00a0After\u00a0Death?\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that the Obama regime was caught trying to instigate a coup to overthrow the current leader of Macedonia, who is balking against increasing sanctions on Russia, and who wants Macedonia to host a new pipeline for Russian gas into Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And Sputnik News headlined the very next day, March 21st,\u00a0\u201cNew OSCE Report on Ukraine Says Ukrainian Forces Obstruct Monitors\u2019 Movement,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and reported that, “OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission said on Saturday\u00a0it was denied access to an east Ukrainian territory\u00a0controlled by Ukrainian armed forces.\u201d Obama is re-arming his Ukrainian stooge-regime for yet a third attempt at\u00a0exterminating the residents of the area<\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Ukraine that had\u00a0voted 90% for the man he overthrew.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Obama and his stooges apparently think that they can get away with everything. And Republicans in the U.S. Congress complain not that he\u2019s doing this, but instead that he\u2019s not giving Ukraine enough weapons to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n And, all of this happened after\u00a0Gallup international had polled 67,000 people in 65 countries in 2013<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(and never again) on\u00a0\u201cWhich country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in\u00a0the world today?\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and found that the U.S. crushed the \u2018competition\u2019 on that, with three times as many repondents identifying the U.S. as compared to the #2 nation, which was Pakistan. Russia wasn\u2019t even listed in the news-reports (and the poll itself wasn\u2019t made public), because the news-reports listed only the top six-mentioned nations, and Russia wasn\u2019t among them. No doubt, this was one reason why Gallup yanked the question from their polling during 2014, especially after all of the international mayhem (including the coup in Ukraine) that the U.S. perpetrated last year.<\/span><\/p>\n So: EU leaders are finally getting the message \u2013 and even Japan and Australia are.<\/span><\/p>\n When George W. Bush put together a coalition of English-speaking countries to invade Iraq in 2003, nuclear weapons (other than the depleted uranium that we showered down upon Iraqis) weren\u2019t an issue.\u00a0Now, they definitely are.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0And, more and more, the world\u2019s leaders are trying to dispense with \u201cthe one indispensable nation,\u201d so that they (and everyone) won\u2019t be dispensed with, themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s well-known that only aristocrats profit from wars. And O\u2019Bomba represents them just as much as his Republican \u2018opposition\u2019 do. But, now, even the aristocrats in other nations are increasingly abandoning him. All he evidently still has going for him is liberal and Democratic fools in the United States, who haven\u2019t yet figured out that he\u2019s a Manchurian candidate, Trojan horse, \u2018Democrat,\u2019 who (like the Clintons) would have FDR twisting in his grave if only he saw this. Fortunately, Roosevelt isn\u2019t around to see it.<\/span><\/p>\n President O\u2019Bomba might become even more isolated internationally than he is at home, where there are enough liberal fools to keep him barely aloft, and enough conservative fools to keep alive the myth that he\u2019s a Marxist Muslim. <\/span><\/p>\n The U.S. has become a nut-hatchery, and the foreigners (especially the leaders in the \u2018dispensable\u2019 countries) are beginning to notice. Even America\u2019s former friends are no longer amused.<\/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":" Eric Zuesse World leaders \u2013 heads of state especially \u2013 tend to be tactful people, whatever else might be said about them. When they discover that one of their number happens to be incredibly arrogant and psychopathic (and some leading psychopaths are skilled charmers; they\u2019re not necessarily blatant about their aggressive intents like Hitler was), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":143894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[115,30,32,96,535,59,5624,77,526,524,92,49,76,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-144839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-barack-obama","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-cia","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-global-news","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-money","16":"tag-oil","17":"tag-propaganda","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-terrorism","20":"tag-usa-news","21":"tag-warfare","22":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144839","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=144839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![voted 90% for the man he overthrew.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nObama and his stooges apparently think that they can get away with everything. And Republicans in the U.S. Congress complain not that he\u2019s doing this, but instead that he\u2019s not giving Ukraine enough weapons to do it.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd, all of this happened after\u00a0Gallup international had polled 67,000 people in 65 countries in 2013<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(and never again) on\u00a0\u201cWhich country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in\u00a0the world today?\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and found that the U.S. crushed the \u2018competition\u2019 on that, with three times as many repondents identifying the U.S. as compared to the #2 nation, which was Pakistan. Russia wasn\u2019t even listed in the news-reports (and the poll itself wasn\u2019t made public), because the news-reports listed only the top six-mentioned nations, and Russia wasn\u2019t among them. No doubt, this was one reason why Gallup yanked the question from their polling during 2014, especially after all of the international mayhem (including the coup in Ukraine) that the U.S. perpetrated last year.<\/span><\/p>\nSo: EU leaders are finally getting the message \u2013 and even Japan and Australia are.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen George W. Bush put together a coalition of English-speaking countries to invade Iraq in 2003, nuclear weapons (other than the depleted uranium that we showered down upon Iraqis) weren\u2019t an issue.\u00a0Now, they definitely are.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0And, more and more, the world\u2019s leaders are trying to dispense with \u201cthe one indispensable nation,\u201d so that they (and everyone) won\u2019t be dispensed with, themselves.<\/span><\/p>\nIt\u2019s well-known that only aristocrats profit from wars. And O\u2019Bomba represents them just as much as his Republican \u2018opposition\u2019 do. But, now, even the aristocrats in other nations are increasingly abandoning him. All he evidently still has going for him is liberal and Democratic fools in the United States, who haven\u2019t yet figured out that he\u2019s a Manchurian candidate, Trojan horse, \u2018Democrat,\u2019 who (like the Clintons) would have FDR twisting in his grave if only he saw this. Fortunately, Roosevelt isn\u2019t around to see it.<\/span><\/p>\nPresident O\u2019Bomba might become even more isolated internationally than he is at home, where there are enough liberal fools to keep him barely aloft, and enough conservative fools to keep alive the myth that he\u2019s a Marxist Muslim. <\/span><\/p>\nThe U.S. has become a nut-hatchery, and the foreigners (especially the leaders in the \u2018dispensable\u2019 countries) are beginning to notice. Even America\u2019s former friends are no longer amused.<\/span><\/p>\n———-<\/span><\/p>\nInvestigative 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":"Eric Zuesse World leaders \u2013 heads of state especially \u2013 tend to be tactful people, whatever else might be said about them. 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