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Washington intends Russia’s demise, by Paul Craig Roberts
May 2, 2014 by
Fri May 2, 2014 3:19PM GMT
By Paul
Craig Roberts
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Washington has no
intention of allowing the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved. Having failed to
seize the country and evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base, Washington
sees new opportunities in the crisis.
One is
to restart the Cold War by forcing the Russian government to occupy the
Russian-speaking areas of present day Ukraine where protesters are objecting to
the stooge anti-Russian government installed in Kiev by the American coup.
These areas of Ukraine are former constituent parts of Russia herself. They
were attached to Ukraine by Soviet leaders in the 20th century when both
Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country, the USSR.
Essentially,
the protesters have established independent governments in the cities. The
police and military units sent to suppress the protesters, called “terrorists”
in the American fashion, for the most part have until now defected to the
protesters.
With
Obama’s incompetent White House and State Department having botched
Washington’s takeover of Ukraine, Washington has been at work shifting the
blame to Russia. According to Washington and its presstitute media, the
protests are orchestrated by the Russian government and have no sincere basis.
If Russia sends in military units to protect the Russian citizens in the former
Russian territories, the act will be used by Washington to confirm Washington’s
propaganda of a Russian invasion (as in the case of Georgia), and Russia will
be further demonized.
The
Russian government is in a predicament. Moscow does not want financial
responsibility for these territories but cannot stand aside and permit Russians
to be put down by force. The Russian government has attempted to keep Ukraine
intact, relying on the forthcoming elections in Ukraine to bring to office more
realistic leaders than the stooges installed by Washington.
However,
Washington does not want an election that might replace its stooges and return
to cooperating with Russia to resolve the situation. There is a good chance
that Washington will tell its stooges in Kiev to declare that the crisis
brought to Ukraine by Russia prevents an election. Washington’s NATO puppet
states would back up this claim.
It is
almost certain that despite the Russian government’s hopes, the Russian
government is faced with the continuation of both the crisis and the Washington
puppet government in Ukraine.
On May 1
Washington’s former ambassador to Russia, now NATO’s “second-in-command” but
the person who, being American, calls the shots, has declared Russia to no
longer be a partner but an enemy. The American, Alexander Vershbow, told
journalists that NATO has given up on “drawing Moscow closer” and soon will
deploy a large number of combat forces in Eastern Europe. Vershbow called this
aggressive policy deployment of “defensive assets to the region.”
In other
words, here we have again the lie that the Russian government is going to
forget all about its difficulties in Ukraine and launch attacks on Poland, the
Baltic States, Romania., Moldova, and on the central Asian states of Georgia,
Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The dissembler Vershbow wants to modernize the
militaries of these American puppet states and “seize the opportunity to create
the reality on the ground by accepting membership of aspirant countries into
NATO.”
What
Vershbow has told the Russian government is that you just keep on relying on
Western good will and reasonableness while we set up sufficient military forces
to prevent Russia from coming to the aid of its oppressed citizens in Ukraine.
Our demonization of Russia is working. It has made you hesitant to act during
the short period when you could preempt us and seize your former territories.
By waiting you give us time to mass forces on your borders from the Baltic Sea
to Central Asia. That will distract you and keep you from the Ukraine. The
oppression we will inflict on your Russians in Ukraine will discredit you, and
the NGOs we finance in the Russian Federation will appeal to nationalist
sentiments and overthrow your government for failing to come to the aid of
Russians and failing to protect Russia’s strategic interests.
Washington
is licking its chops, seeing an opportunity to gain Russia as a puppet state.
Will
Putin sit there with his hopes awaiting the West’s good will to work out a
solution while Washington attempts to engineer his fall?
The time
is approaching when Russia will either have to act to terminate the crisis or
accept an ongoing crisis and distraction in its backyard. Kiev has launched
military airstrikes on protesters in Slavyansk. On May 2 Russian government
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Kiev’s resort to violence had destroyed the
hope for the Geneva agreement on de-escalating the crisis. Yet, the Russian
government spokesman again expressed the hope of the Russian government that
European governments and Washington will put a stop to the military strikes and
pressure the Kiev government to accommodate the protesters in a way that keeps Ukraine
together and restores friendly relations with Russia.
This is
a false hope. It assumes that the Wolfowitz doctrine is just words, but it is
not. The Wolfowitz doctrine is the basis of US policy toward Russia (and
China). The doctrine regards any power sufficiently strong to remain
independent of Washington’s influence to be “hostile.” The doctrine states:
“Our first
objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the
territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the
order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant
consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we
endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources
would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.”
The
Wolfowitz doctrine justifies Washington’s dominance of all regions. It is
consistent with the neoconservative ideology of the US as the “indispensable”
and “exceptional” country entitled to world hegemony.
Russia
and China are in the way of US world hegemony. Unless the Wolfowitz doctrine is
abandoned, nuclear war is the likely outcome.
PCR/SL
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