By Finian Cunningham
May 16, 2016 "Information Clearing House" -
"Sputnik" - The
deployment this week of a US missile system in Eastern Europe is another step
towards all-out global war. Despite Western propaganda demonizing Russia, the
truth is that it is Russian military might that is actually holding the line to
prevent such a cataclysm.
The United
States and its NATO allies are already at war with Russia. This is
not hyperbole. It is fact. The US and its allies are amassing weapons and troops on Russia’s
borders, and engaging in simulated attacks
from various directions.
Orwellian
language of “war games” in Western media serves to diminish the
disturbing fact that NATO forces are preparing offensive strikes
on Russia.
War
machinery on both sides are locked on. The encounter last month
of the US warship with Russian fighter jets in the
Baltic Sea is but one of many such close encounters occurring almost
every week. Granted, weapons have not actually been fired yet. Nevertheless,
the weapon machinery is engaged.
Again,
Western media serve to normalize what is a balefully abnormal situation.
At the behest of Washington, the Western countries are trying
to blockade Russia with economic sanctions. This is
just another provocative act of war.
Moreover,
diplomatic channels between Washington and Moscow seem attenuated
to levels as low as at any time during the former Cold War.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has apparently maintained a cordial working relationship with his
American counterpart John Kerry, but apart from that individual
rapport the bilateral position between the two powers has sunken
to an all-time low.
Another
manifestation of war is the US proxy conflict with Russia
in Syria and Ukraine. On the surface there may be talk about ceasefires and
political solutions, but make no mistake the jihadist mercenaries and the
neo-Nazi Kiev regime are nonetheless American military assets ever-poised
to attack Russia’s geo-strategic interests.
The move
this week by Washington to activate its long-anticipated missile
system in Eastern Europe is another act of aggression in a whole
panoply of offensive actions. US and NATO officials deny that the Aegis system is
targeting Russia, and make the ludicrous claim that it is to defend Europe
against Iranian ballistic rockets or some other “rogue state”. Such
transparent, deceitful nonsense.
Russia
rightly dismisses Washington and NATO’s cynical assurances. The Kremlin this
week said that the installation of the US missile system is a direct
threat to Russia’s security. Moscow said it would take counter-measures
to restore the strategic balance of nuclear deterrence. It was no
coincidence that official Russian reports disclosed details of a new
hypersonic Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile that
could penetrate any American missile shield to deliver a warhead capable
of destroying an area the size of Texas or France.
This is
not irresponsible Russian bravado. It is vital that Russia lets aggressive
Washington know that any future war moves will be met with equal or
greater force. Of course, the outcome would be an all-out nuclear war which
could destroy the planet as we know it. But the only way of saving
the peace and the planet is for Russia to show that it has the
military might to face down any American belligerence.
And let’s
face it. It is the US that is the source of belligerence. As American
political analyst Randy Martin points out, the so-called Wolfowitz Doctrine is
the touchstone of Washington’s foreign policy. The neocon doctrine
of former Department of Defense official Paul Wolfowitz, who served
in the George W Bush administrations, is embedded in US military
strategic thinking.
Says
Martin: “Wolfowitz’s worldview of seeing the US as the world’s only
superpower and not tolerating any other rival to the point of going
to war, is taught in all American military academies. It is
mainstream US military thinking.”
This is
what motivates Washington’s bellicose policies towards Russia and China,
adds Martin. “The US is programed to go to war with any
perceived rival global power in order to maintain its unwarranted
ambitions of hegemony.”
The
analyst says that if it were not for Russian, and Chinese, military power
the US state planners would have gone further by now in prosecuting
their war actions, with catastrophic consequences for the world. It
is a sobering thought that, despite all the Western media disparagement
of Russia, it is actually Russia that is saving the world from such a
catastrophic conflict – a conflict that the US alone is pushing.
Indeed, it
is averred that Russia’s intervention in Syria may have been partly based
on this bigger, far more serious calculation. Not only was Russia
salvaging the Middle East country from Western-backed war for regime
change. Moscow’s deployment of latest weaponry, including its sea-launched
cruise missiles and the S-400 anti-ballistic defense, could
have been aimed at demonstrating to Washington that it better think
twice about pursuing a wider war agenda.
Little do
we know it because of so much Western mind-numbing misinformation,
but our world is facing the abyss of nuclear war. Russia’s military
power is holding the line from this abyss.
How can we
transcend this abysmal situation before stumbling over the edge?
Russia
must remain vigilant and strong, with a determination to not
capitulate.
The anniversary last week of the
defeat of Nazi Germany is a timely reminder of Russia’s epic
importance in thwarting international aggression. The same fascist
aggression is virulent again in the form of American hegemonic
ambitions, and just as with the Third Reich it is Russian fortitude that
is preserving the world from Total War.
Political
analyst Randy Martin does not see the American public has having a decisive
role in practice. In theory, yes, US citizens need to call their
warmongering leaders to account and to elect a democratic government
– for a change. However, says Martin, the American public are so
disenfranchised, brainwashed, beaten down, and oppressed with poverty and
consumerist psychosis, he does not see how a mass movement in the US can
be mobilized at this point in history in order to abolish
the warmongering ruling elite in Washington.
Perhaps,
it is up to the people of Europe to take decisive action.
Growing popular discontent with European leaders who toe the American line
of aggression and sanctions on Russia may have the potential
of decisively breaking the US-EU-NATO war front.
What
people need to urgently wake up to is that Washington and its
European vassals in government are already at war on Russia.
There is absolutely no objective justification for this destructive
dynamic, other than the US trying to unilaterally assert its
hegemony. That is not the policy of a law-abiding democracy; it is a
fascist power in the same vein as Nazi Germany.
The war
on Russia is being waged on entirely spurious grounds of alleged
Russian annexations, invasions and expansionism. This is utter propaganda –
again a la Nazi Germany.
The
crucial question is this: can Russia hold the line long enough
against US-led aggression until the people of the world mobilize
the political action to overthrow the criminal regime that operates
out of Washington and through European capitals?
