25.05.2017
They always talk about
"Russian threat".
It was not long ago that
another ambitious power cited Russia as a threat and invoked “collective
defense” to justify what would become a contest between nations leaving tens of
millions dead and entire countries in ruins. Nazi Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler
would claim regarding his decision to invade Russia that:
The purpose of this front
is no longer the protection of the individual nations, but rather the safety of
Europe, and therefore the salvation of everyone.
I have therefore decided
today once again to put the fate of Germany and the future of the German Reich
and our people in the hands of our soldiers.
Sounding eerily familiar
are US and NATO justifications for their continued expansion east and
escalations made against Russia today. And also like that other ambitious
power, the United States has waged wars all across the planet, far from
Russia’s borders and with little to do with Russia’s interests beyond its
borders, long before it turned its sights on Moscow.
Since World War II, the
United States has invaded, bombed, and/or occupied the Korean Peninsula,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Somalia, Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan,
Libya, and Syria. Some of these nations have been attacked by the US more than
once. In many more countries the US has facilitated the violent overthrow of
various governments, particularly in South America and the Middle East, first
through the use of its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), then through more
veiled organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). It has
troops stationed in over a hundred nations around the world, occupying hundreds
of military installations.
Its NATO alliance openly
seeks to expand. A look at the map of NATO expansion over the past several
decades after its creation shows it clearly encroaching upon and encircling
Russia – violently overthrowing many of the nations along Russia’s borders with
backed uprisings like those seen most recently in Ukraine.
