COMMENT POSTED TO A BOOK REVIEW BY CHARLES KAISAR IN THE
GUARDIAN
Secret meetings and
dirty money in a compelling investigation of the US president’s 30-year
relationship with Russia
“Collusion: How Russia
Helped Trump Win the White House by Luke Harding"
I cannot believe people continue to generate this kind of
stuff. Talk about “conspiracy theories,” here we have a deep new vein of them
being mined to yield mountains of uninformative articles, political speeches,
books, and a range of activities about Trump and Russia.
I am not a Trump supporter, but I follow current events
closely. Trump is not really the target in this onslaught although his behavior
and unpopularity serve to stoke the fires.
I have yet to read one fact that supports as much as a charge
of public nuisance for urinating on a sidewalk.
The United States literally has been reduced to mumbo-jumbo
insanity.
But, in fact, like Polonius's observation of Hamlet,
"there's a method to his madness."
The real target is Russia.
I believe the genuine underlying cause for all this
viciousness is the anti-Russian Neocons who have seized control of American
foreign policy.
Russia is seen as an enemy by them because it is the only
country capable of ultimately opposing the United States, capable of ultimately
obliterating the United States. China, owing to geography and its state of
weapons’ development is not quite there yet, but it will be, and already, it,
too, is being treated abusively.
Russia also has become one of the more fair-minded and
balanced players in world affairs today. It has become everything people once
railed against the Soviet Union for not being – business-oriented, communicating
with the world, ready to trade and make big business deals anywhere, and with
reasonably democratic institutions.
Its behaviors are measured and restrained, quite the
opposite to those of the United States.
But none of that is palatable for America's Neocons who are
dangerous ideologues intensely focused on the assertion of American power. The
official, accepted goal for international affairs today in America’s power
establishment is termed, “full-spectrum dominance worldwide,” about as odious
and dangerous a goal as you could come up with.
Fairness and reasonableness are not what is being sought by
the folks who created a coup and civil war in Ukraine, started a terrible
bloody war by phony-jihadi mercenaries in Syria, destroyed Libya, flattened
Iraq, and are busy with a whole list of ugly, murderous projects.
We live in truly dangerous times because in matters of war
and power conflicts, it is never a specific ideology – as, communism or fascism
– which is truly dangerous, it is simply the existence of powerful ideologues
of whatever description bent on getting their way.
And that is precisely what we have in Washington.
So, at every opportunity Russia is attacked as though it
were "An Enemy of the People," when in truth, just like Dr. Stockman
in the powerful Ibsen play, it is the one opposing irrationality and aggression
in the present world.
