By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor on March 2, 2016
by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor … with New
Eastern Outlook, Moscow
“Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we
got violence, poverty and social disaster. Nobody cares a bit about human rights,
including the right to life.” – Vladimir Putin – UN Address, Sept. 28, 2015
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– First published … March
02, 2016 –
NATO seems to have a
permanently warped view of what defense is.
We have watched an incredible shift in Western
anti-Putin propaganda, which reached hysterical levels early after the Western
coup in Kiev was not able to consolidate its power over the entire country.
It seems the largely Russian-heritage population in
East Ukraine did not want to go under the boot of fascistic neo Nazis. But on
Ukraine, NATO, the US unipolar domination and Syria debacle, Mr. Putin has been
proven right.
The Crimeans reading the tea
leaves early asked for help from Russia, which had little interest in losing
its major Black Sea base to NATO’s new proxy, after paying the rent for ten
years in advance to assist in Ukraine’s economic woes. When its coup failed,
the West screamed bloody murder to put the blame on invisible Russian commandos
and armored divisions, which no satellite or drone images ever confirmed.
Advisors were there for
sure, as military advisors are everywhere within conflicts. Russian volunteers
had crossed over to fight in Ukraine, just as Western neo Fascists had, and the
usual Blackwater type US defense private contractors.
But Putin never swept across
Ukraine in three days as U.S. General Breedlove had claimed was planned.
OSCE observers on the Russian border for the planned military exercises there
reported over and over that they saw none of the preparation needed for a major
offensive.
Regardless of the debunking of Breedlove’s hoax, that was followed by
more NATO the silliness about Putin’s goal to retake the Soviet
Union’s former East European territory, something that is now looked
back on in embarrassment by the Intel community that something so
ridiculous would be said publicly which undermined public trust in the stated purpose
of NATO.
Western leadership debased itself by using what many
ironically now call old-school Soviet propaganda tactics against Russia and
Putin. Why were so many so brash in their Putin bashing? My answer is that
their focus polls told them that Westerners had no real feeling about who Putin
was, nor how most of Russia felt about him.
While the pro-European
segment of the population, funded by the CIA and a variety of NGO fronts led
the charge against Putin’s repression, the polls finally showed they were not
even in the major opposition in Russia at 11%. The communists were at 18%.
Putin has the highest domestic ratings on any statesman on the planet, with
Lavrov just behind him.
While Western think tanks
bashed Putin as the new Stalin, his world wide approval skyrocketed.
Putin’s biggest weapon in breaking down the wall of
anti-Putinism was his never-ending press conferences, where in both length and
scope he covered material that no Western politician would ever attempt to do.
Mainstream corporate media
has not covered these well, as the material is too damaging to the negative
propaganda image they have worked to help build against Putin.
His end of the year 2015
Valdai press conference was a sterling example of the Western media’s lying by
omission. I meet no one outside of very active alternative media people who had
ever heard of Valdai or Putin’s history of addresses and his famous Q&A
sessions.
So I wanted to do a highlights piece for not only NEO, but
to be able to republish for Western audiences. The video footage shows
middle-aged people sitting on the edge of their chairs with laser focus, almost
like people at a John F. Kennedy address.
If jealous Western leaders wanted a valid reason to
hate Putin, the best I have seen so far is the contrast in both style and
content that he represents to them. There are many names for it, but in the US
the term “bush leaguer” comes to mind — people claiming to be in professional
sports, but playing for a team or league that no one has ever heard of.
Putin at Valdai, with
attendees on the edges of their seats, knowing they are watching history
The theme topic for the 2015 Valdai conference was “Societies between War
and Peace: Overcoming the Logic of Conflict in Tomorrow’s World”. Geopolitical
experts and media people from thirty countries attended, many of them alumni
from over ten years of meetings. I highly recommend checking out the Valdai
website. The one Putin speech has more gem quotes in it than you will find in a
year’s worth of the NATO brand. His full speech and the Q&A are both
available.
I will start with Putin
asking former US Ambassador Jack Matlock about the consequences of the US
withdrawing from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, where Matlock objected to
the withdrawal but did not think it should pose a threat to Russia.
Putin reviewed that the
phony Iran nuclear threat was used like a strawman threat for its being able to
nuke European countries, yet that lie was exposed in the successful conclusion
of those talks, without even Israel submitting evidence of a secret program.
Former ambassador to Russia,
Jack Matlock was a prominent guest at Valdai
With that phony threat exposed to the world in 2015, we learn that
the Russian claim that it was pointed at that is exactly the truth. The missile
shield locations close to Russia could easily be converted to cruise missile
first strike capability, and with mini-nuke warheads can be used for
decapitation strikes.
An anti-missile screen
deployment is all about protecting oneself from retaliation to a Pearl
Harbor-type sneak attack — about as serious a threat as there is.
As to the question on the
mess in Ukraine, Putin reviewed how the West had supported the election of
Yuschenko via a third round of voting that was flagrantly unconstitutional. And
this was followed by the violent Western-backed Maidan coup after Yanukovych
had agreed to the protestors’ demands.
After Russia had worked with
both the Yuschenko and Tymoshenko governments, including continuing subsidies
to Ukraine, the West imposed sanctions on Russia for protecting the Russian
people in Crimea against the murdering thugs in Kiev. Putin reviewed not only
the US involvement in financing opposition in Ukraine, but Russia, also.
This brought up the subject of the US’ and NATO’s
intentions toward Russia, where NATO does its stand-up comedy routine claiming
that its advance toward Russia’s border should not be viewed as a hostile
attack, but as validation that it would come to the defense of Eastern European
countries if they were attacked by Russia.
Putin reviewed that during
the talks on German reunification, the German partner that Europe’s future
should also be settled so as to not kick that can down the road, which is what
happened.
Putin during Valdai Q&A,
where he sometimes was asking the questions
“Mr.
Ambassador [Matlock], your colleagues did not reach agreements then
on the basic principles of what would follow Germany’s
reunification: the question of prospective NATO membership
for Germany, the future of military infrastructure, its forms
and development, and the coordination of security issues
in Europe.
Oral agreements were reached back then, but nothing was
put on paper, nothing fixed, and so it went from there.
But as you all recall from my speech
in Munich, when I made this point, back then, the NATO Secretary
General gave the oral assurance that the Soviet Union could be sure
that NATO – I quote – would not expand beyond the eastern
borders of today’s GDR. And yet the reality was completely
different. There were two waves of NATO expansion eastwards, and now
we have missile defense systems right on our borders too. “
There is an old saying among attorneys that
agreements are made to be broken, and in this case, verbal ones certainly were.
And this seems to have become a habit with the West, which hawks freedom and
democracy like a snake oil salesman, while subverting non-threatening countries
and fomenting regime change for any profitable purpose that some elite group
aspires to. The American people certainly have not signed on to any of these
offensive actions.
“If looks could kill ” …
Putin and Poroshenko have to shake hands
The question on Minsk2 found Putin well prepared to give a round down on
the devious tactics of Kiev. Concerning the constitutional amendments agreed
upon – that they should be made with the agreement of the unrecognized
republics – the agreement has not been honored. The substitute passed was not
permanent, but for just three years.
Kiev had to pass a new elections law with the agreement
of the republics, which was also not done. It then went ahead and passed one
for the rest of Ukraine that did not include the republics, an overt violation
of the Minsk accords. The amnesty provision was ignored, and the special status
for the republics was ignored by adding article 10, saying that it would only
come into effect after elections. But the elections provision had been
subverted.
Kiev and its various lawyers and Western backers had
a good laugh over this, knowing that most of the Western public would never
know the outright fraud their governments oversaw with Minsk2. One might ask
how could anyone ever justify signing any agreement with the Kiev coup-meisters
and their EU and US bosses, which is a very good question.
Jim W. Dean, managing editor for Veterans Today,
producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.
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