COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MARK GALEOTTI IN THE
GUARDIAN
"Putin’s new arms
race is all about his need to be taken seriously”
I'm sorry, but I follow these matters closely, and this
author is offering something unrecognizable to any informed person.
Putin is on record, a number of times, saying Russia will
enter no arms race.
But he would be an irresponsible leader were he to neglect
Russia's ability to deter aggression, and he most certainly has not done that.
The President made it clear in his words what these
announcements represent.
The author either did not read him or ignored him.
Context is everything in this vital matter.
America's just-announced changes in its nuclear weapons
posture plus America's known efforts to develop "more usable."
yield-adjustable nuclear weapons plus its efforts to ring Russia with
anti-missile missiles plus its highly aggressive activities in Europe plus its
treatment of the INF Treaty are without question unnecessarily frightening,
destabilizing, and threatening.
America is launching a new Cold War, but one this time where
the rest of the world does not see the dark threatening shadow of a Stalin.
Instead we see a peaceful modern articulate Russia willing and ready to
cooperate and to do business with everyone. No, this Cold War has only one
truly dark presence, and that is a Pentagon-security agency complex, bloated
with money and dedicated to the malignant principle of “full-spectrum dominance
everywhere.”
And this threat comes from a United States which has spent
the last 15 years terrorizing and bombing and setting fire to the Middle East,
acts which tell us that It means business.
It has shed not a tear for the two million or more souls
that it has killed there. Nor for the many millions it has reduced to hopeless
refugees. Nor for de-stabilizing Europe with those same refugees, which it
ignores and for which it even expresses contempt. Nor for the previously
well-ordered societies it has reduced to chaos.
America's new nuclear posture and its demonstrated hostile
attitude towards Russia must be seen in light of such a determined march of
terror. Washington’s belligerence and threats must be taken very seriously
indeed.
And thank God from all the rational people of this earth Mr.
Putin has told them he does take it very seriously.
