{"id":358858,"date":"2018-04-29T00:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T23:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=358858"},"modified":"2018-04-29T00:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T23:32:26","slug":"u-s-regime-hates-vladimir-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/u-s-regime-hates-vladimir-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the U.S. Regime Hates Vladimir Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Here is Putin in extemporaneous discussion and interview (translated into English): <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JBTBBNOtbhM<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VjrlTMvirVo<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The second of those videos shows Putin offering Russia\u2019s billionaires the choice between being dispossessed of their companies by the Government, or else signing an agreement with the Government, promising that they will henceforth place the welfare of their workers and of the people of Russia, above their own personal welfare and wealth, and only one billionaire there, Oleg Deripaska, hesitated, at which point Putin treated him contemptuously and Deripaska promptly signed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is how Britain\u2019s Express<\/i> newspaper, on 7 October 2015, described that second\u00a0 <\/span>video<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

It shows the 63-year-old<\/i> [Putin], who has launched a blitz of more than 50 airstrikes against the terror regime<\/i> [Syria\u2019s ISIS] in recent days, directly confronting Russian oligarchs and ranting at them that they are good for nothing COCKROACHES.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

In the incredible footage, Putin humiliates Oleg Deripaska, one of the world’s richest men with a fortune of $6m<\/i> [Deripaska\u2019s fortune in 2009 was actually $3.5 billion<\/span><\/a>], and treats him like his personal lapdog.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

It was filmed on a tour of Pikalevo, a struggling factory town where families had been venting their anger over job losses and unpaid wages.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Back when the Putin-Deripaska encounter happened, the right-wing British newspaper Telegraph<\/i> had bannered, on 4 June 2009, \u201cVladimir Putin takes Oleg Deripaska to task\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and it placed their hostile slant on the event by sub-heading: \u201cVladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, publicly criticised his most faithful oligarch on Thursday in an attempt to deflect growing social discontent on to the country\u2019s unpopular super-rich.\u201d (Of course, the U.S. regime would ignore why<\/i> Russia\u2019s super-rich were \u201cunpopular,\u201d much less the fact that America\u2019s super-rich were involved in these heists from Russia that had caused so much of Russia\u2019s post-Soviet depression.)<\/span><\/p>\n

On 27 April 2018, Deripaska ceded control over the world\u2019s second-largest aluminum-producer, Russal<\/span><\/a>, and he did it because the United States regime had recently placed him and his corporations under new economic sanctions, which are allegedly focused against Russian billionaires who support Putin politically. If Deripaska wouldn\u2019t cede control, then the sanctions-hit would be harder and more damaging to Russia\u2019s economy, so Deripaska \u2014 in fulfillment of his agreement signed with Putin \u2014 ceded control.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, Deripaska, whom Putin had actually forced to commit to placing Russia\u2019s interests above their own, is now being treated by the U.S. regime as one of the chief people to \u2018blame’ for Putin\u2019s being in office, in Russia\u2019s \u2018dictatorship\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

This threat, by Putin, to Russia\u2019s wealthiest (Deripaska having been one of the billionaires whom Putin didn\u2019t dispossess when coming into power in 2000), wasn\u2019t a staged PR event, but instead was simply the best-filmed instance of Putin\u2019s standard policy, ever since becoming Russia\u2019s leader: his policy that an aristocrat can lose everything if he places his interests above the nation\u2019s interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

This policy was the fundamental change from the prior, Boris Yeltsin, years, when Harvard\u2019s economics department and the World Bank, during the immediate post-Soviet 1990s, came into Russia and set up the system, working in conjunction with Yeltsin’s friends, to funnel the future profits from Russia\u2019s vast undervalued natural resources, into partnerships between Yeltsin\u2019s friends and U.S. billionaires and affiliated investors.<\/span><\/a> That American-led corruption sent the Russian economy into a tailspin, from which the new Russian President, Putin, rescued it, by laying down the law to the billionaires: that their interests were subordinate to, not dominant above, the nation\u2019s interests. This is the principal difference between the ideology of today\u2019s America, and of today\u2019s Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

My 3 June 2014 article, “How and Why the U.S. Has Re-Started the Cold War (The Backstory that Precipitated Ukraine\u2019s Civil War)\u201d<\/span><\/a>, showed, by means of graphs, that the economic depression which engulfed Russia (and which was totally ignored by the Western press) during 1990-2000, ended and reversed immediately following (when Putin came into power), and especially ever since around 2004, so that Russia\u2019s economic growth-rate under Putin, at least the rate prior to America\u2019s economic sanctions against Russia in 2014, was one of the world\u2019s best and looked likely to pose serious competition to the U.S. aristocracy in the future. From the pits that were brought by the U.S. regime in Russia \u2014 including the massive heists from the Russian public \u2014 to the period of Putin\u2019s rule in Russia, has been a sea-change, and the U.S. regime cannot tolerate it; they want the U.S. elite\u2019s looting of Russia to return.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is necessarily a simplified overview of the conflict between the U.S. regime and Russia, but it\u2019s nonetheless true. In order to understand it more deeply, filling in the details during the period after the end of the Soviet Union \u2014 and of its communism, and of its Warsaw Pact military alliance mirror-image to America\u2019s NATO alliance, till now \u2014 cannot meaningfully be done outside the context of the U.S. regime\u2019s swindle of Russia ever since the night of 24 February 1990<\/span><\/a>, when U.S. President George H.W. Bush told America\u2019s allies that it was a lie to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev when Bush\u2019s people had promised Gorbachev that if the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact ended, then NATO would not expand, not move \u201cone inch to the east\u201d toward Russia\u2019s border \u2014 which the U.S. and those allies have since done all the way up to Russia\u2019s border. (In reverse, it\u2019s as if Russia now were placing its soldiers and its missiles on or near the Mexican border, and the Canadian border.) This swindle of Russia meant that though the Cold War did end on Russia\u2019s side, it never yet has ended on America\u2019s. The greed of the U.S. regime \u2014 and of its allies \u2014 seems to be endless, including, ultimately, grabbing Russia itself. Putin resists, and so they hate him. That\u2019s the reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

To the U.S. regime and its propagandists, Putin is \u201cThe Pariah\u201d and \u201cThe West\u2019s Public Enemy Number One\u201d<\/span><\/a>, but to the Russian people, he is the protector of their nation against the U.S. regime\u2019s threats to Russia\u2019s national sovereignty. More diametrically opposite views of the same man, could hardly even be imagined.<\/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>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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