John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Trump and Putin Got a Lot Done in Helsinki — Top Russian Politician Sets Record Straight”
"[T]he liberal media, firstly, is Russophobic, [and] secondly, opposed to Trump"
I don't know what this official is trying to say, but there are no liberal media in the United States. It is almost silly to characterize the American press that way. America’s Right Wing has long done so, but it remains an interest group which speaks only to itself.
Even Trump’s detested CNN network has an appalling record that could never be accurately described as liberal. Sure, it doesn’t like Trump, but that does not, ipso facto, make it liberal.
The American press is, indeed, sickeningly Russophobic, and I don't see how that has anything to do with being liberal or not. In fact, it is evidence of the opposite. A liberal point of view simply does not include fixating on imagined enemies.
The press is pure American establishment. It defends establishment interests, and does anyone on the planet regard America's establishment as liberal? Constant wars, dirty security service tricks in many lands, coups, and friendship with some of the world’s most criminal and repressive governments, just so long as they support what good old America wants?
The American establishment sees Russia as an unwelcome competitor, bringing different interests and points of view to many areas of international conflict and supporting interests - eg., Assad - to which it is opposed.
A major US interest is its quasi-colony in the Mideast, otherwise known as Israel. That’s why it tried destroying Syria. That’s why it destroyed Iraq and Libya. And why it is so violently opposed to Iran. Indeed, we just now have a recording, leaked in Israel, of Netanyahu bragging in private about Trump following his directions on Iran.
Does anyone see liberalism in the terrible behavior of Israel? Mass-killing, abuse, repression, and theft – where’s anything liberal, or even decent, in its behavior? Or in the American establishment’s additional mass-killing in support of Israel, the toll, from Iraq to Syria, being on the order of two million killed and many million turned into refugees?
Obama is often cited as a liberal president. My God, the man was dropping bombs every single day for eight years. He started coups, as in Ukraine. He initiated the American extrajudicial-killing operation with fleets of drones. He spied on people and had the NSA building its huge new secret infrastructure under him. This is someone’s idea of a liberal?
His obsession with secrecy and his frequently observed arrogance – remember how he referred to Russia with petty contempt on more than one occasion? – and his willingness to use and tolerate underhanded methods in the 2016 election, none of these are characteristics of a liberal.
Well, the truth is Obama is no liberal. He is a ruthless man with a boyish smile. He once actually said, almost jokingly, “I guess I’m pretty good at this killing stuff.” No wonder the murderous Hillary Clinton got on so well with him.
As for the rest of America’s senior political establishment, you won’t find a liberal among them. What you will find are arrogant, self-important, and corrupt people who faithfully serve the interests of major lobby groups and the interests of American imperial dominance in the world.
America uses the word “liberal” in much the same way it uses words like “democracy” and “human rights.” It uses them in speeches, with about as much conviction as a corrupt Pope from the Middle Ages talking about honesty.
But more importantly, it sees Russia as the only country whose armaments are capable of destroying America, and it does not welcome that fact, especially given the rampage America has been on in so many parts of the world with its new drive to exert dominance. It feels the loss of its glory days, after WWII when it enjoyed carefree domination, drawing to a close, keenly.
The American establishment pursues wars and coups in many parts of the world today. It supports without hesitation the law-breaking and mass-killings in Israel. How on earth are they reckoned to be liberal, always remembering that America’s corporate press supports them unquestioningly in all these things as just another part of the establishment?
