COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Partly caused? Well, William Perry was always a cautious man
and he is not going say the things which would make him persona non grata in his own land.
Please, Putin and his key staff, such as Foreign Minister
Lavrov, are amiable, gifted, and very civil people. They had no motive for any
hostilities, looking forward to increased trade and cooperation with the west.
They have reacted only to America’s extremely hostile acts.
The Ukraine coup was engineered and paid for by the CIA. We
even known the dollar amount, thanks to the State Department’s most bizarre
neocon, the close-to-incompetent Victoria Nuland, a hateful person inexplicably
put in charge of this file who has offended just about every senior person
involved.
The coup was a flagrant challenge and insult to Russia, much
comparable to Russia’s doing the same in Mexico. You only have to imaging how
Washington would react to that. I can almost guarantee the reaction would not
show the same restraint. In a way, the insult is even worse because Ukraine and
Russia have such an ancient common history with many connections.
The coup toppled a democratically-elected government, but
that is nothing new for the CIA. It has toppled many democratic governments in
the past, including Iran and Guatemala in the 1950s.
It is a bit stunning that Obama would support this kind of
thuggery, but it is pretty clear in this and other cases – Syria or Libya, for
example – that he is pretty much a prisoner of the ongoing unelected government
in Washington, the massive defence/security apparatus. Either that or Obama is
much more like Dick Cheney in temperament than any of us would have guessed
years ago.
The government installed in Ukraine has proved a disaster
for the country and its people. Right-wing thugs, like the Azov Battalion, run
loose in the country, threatening even its coup-installed government. (Here
again, imagine Russia arming and supporting American malcontents such as the Minutemen
or Aryan Church?) The new government is divided and has made a long series of
incompetent and destructive decisions.
It attacked Russian-speaking portions of the country,
creating a civil war in which thousands have died, and even tried making their
language illegal. Its armed forces are so badly led and incompetent they could
not prevail against a much smaller enemy. When Ukraine tried raising more
troops in Western Ukraine by conscription, there were massive run-aways.
And for those who’ve studied the case carefully, there isn’t
a doubt that Ukraine’s poorly-led and incompetent armed forces shot-down MH-17.
Believe me, if it had really been the Russians, there would have been a storm
from Washington, including the release of American radar and satellite data,
which have not been released to this day. The Dutch investigators are working
under immense American pressure to creep along at a snail’s pace and let time
do its work in forgetfulness. Of course, had the world early discovered what
really happened, America’s coup-installed government likely would have
collapsed immediately.
At the same time as generating all this hostility, the US
has increased its armed forces near Russia’s borders, pushed Europeans to do
the same, provocatively staged huge war games, and initiated a long series of completely
unwarranted anti-Russian economic sanctions. The truth is, almost certainly,
all this violence and fear-mongering represents a studied effort to separate
Russia from Europe in what had been a growing friendly and economically
beneficial set of relationships. It represents a harsh declaration that Europe
is more or less American territory, and the ineffective current leaders of
Europe don’t seem even capable of saying no.
It is all shameful, and I am sorry Europe’s major countries
are today so poorly led that they support America’s dirty work without
objection.
