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USA expels 48 Russian
diplomats, EU countries to make similar decision
We live, now, in a very bizarre world.
Any ally of the US is free to assert anything, supplying
absolutely no proof for their assertion, and with a story which doesn't even
add-up in many details, yet America and its allies will act as though a judge
and jury had come to a legal decision following a detailed courtroom case.
This same kind of thing has happened with a number of
matters in recent years.
It is in many respects stranger than the world of 1984,
because it all happens with such a sense of almost everyday normality.
Of course, the EU and the US couldn't just let Theresa May
dangle in the wind after all her unsupported public assertions, so they have
taken some dignity-preserving action as expelling diplomats.
In the end, the action is a big game, with Russia
necessarily having to make a response expulsion of diplomats, and the net
effect after a lot of sound and fury is every nation being heavily inconvenienced
in their diplomatic arrangements.
I do believe I understand the underlying cause, and it has
largely to do with Syria and Russia’s having blocked the Pentagon from bombing
Damascus. The Americans did take Russian General Valery Gerasimov very
seriously when he promised not only to target missiles but to target their
points of origin, as ships. But it reflects, too, the entire recent situation
from Ukraine to Syria, a situation which is very frustrating to Americans
wanting their own way after having spent a lot of money.
So, the angry bullies in the Pentagon found other games to
play, games called “Spies Being Poisoned without any Poison” and “Blaming a
Disliked Head of Government without a Shred of Evidence.”
See, the sheer weight of numbers of all those
American-allied states is supposed to shout to the world that just has to the
truth, but our experience of recent years with American aggression in the
Middle East and in Ukraine tells us that is not the case at all. NATO countries
now do absurd things in order to support America in its destructive marches in
the world. They are afraid themselves to do otherwise, and there isn’t a leader
in Europe who stands on principles like the rule of law.
Europe paid a terrible price for supporting American
policies in receiving floods of refugees, all of them the result of America’s
setting fire to the Middle East. Germany’s leader felt so bad about the
results, she hurt her own country trying to help too many refugees at once. Of
course, the EU pays big money to Turkey to keep the millions they have living
in camps. But in all that horror, did you ever hear one word of criticism about
the people responsible for it all, the United States? No, you did not.
Again, the EU countries have seriously injured their own
economies in supporting billions of dollars’ worth of punitive trade measures,
all the result of arbitrary American measures against Russia for aggression in
Ukraine, aggression that does not exist. But they all pretend that it does
exist because they fear what even more an angry US can do to their economies.
The Europeans all carefully ignore the clear fact that the
US created a coup in Ukraine against an elected government, and Russia acted in
the most controlled and non-aggressive way against the attack on its border. We even learned the cost of the coup from the
ugly American Neocon, Victoria Nuland, overheard bragging to someone. The same
gracious lady who once said, “Fuck Europe!”
One of the European countries I long admired for its
achievements and its society, Holland, has, under this same ugly American
pressure, disgraced itself with a carefully constructed effort to look as
though it were conducting a fair investigation of the crash of Flight MH-17
over Ukraine.
But it became obvious it was not doing so as it ignored
evidence, failed to collect many pieces of evidence on the ground, and
published preliminary conclusions which do not match some facts any
well-informed person is aware of. But there the fraud has been allowed to sit
because that is how America wants it.
Of course, for years, Europe has pretended that America –
with its allies Israel, Saudi Arabia, Britain, France, and originally Turkey –
is not conducting a vast proxy war against Syria, a country which has never
threatened it. Its paid mercenaries, posing as jihadis, have torn a beautiful
land apart.
But you’ll never hear a European leader say that. They are
all cowed into submission, lying and supporting mass killing. Britain and France
actually helped in many matters from supplying armaments to bombing Syrian
infrastructure while telling their own people they were fighting ISIS, a
creation of the same group of American allies listed above.
France and Britain paid an additional price in “terrorist
attacks” which actually are blowback, retribution against their own destructive
efforts in Syria, Libya, and other places. Just look at the former President of
France, Sarkozy, now under arrest for having taken large secret sums of money
from Libya’s Gadhafi, a man Sarkozy turned around afterward to help murder
during America’s effort to reduce a well-run Libya into bloody chaos. Can you
even imagine greater hypocritical and brutal behavior, all while posing as a
champion of “Western values”?
But this is our glorious Western civilization today under
the domination of a hyper-aggressive United States which works desperately to
gain control over everyone everywhere.
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