JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: PRESS ECHOES THE MOST EGREGIOUS WASHINGTON PROPAGANDA ABOUT AMERICA LOSING THE NEXT BIG WAR - EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE THE OBVIOUS CONCLUSIONS ARE IGNORED - RUSSOPHOBIA RESEMBLES A NEW FORM OF BRAIN CANCER

John Chuckman

COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MURRAY BREWSTER IN CBC NEWS



“Why the U.S. could lose the next big war - and what that means for Canada

“If the U.S. faces a security crisis, so do we, says one defence expert

“A special commission report, presented to the U.S. Congress this week, delivered one of the most stark — even startling — assessments in the last two decades of the limits of American military power.”



Well, the first sensible conclusion to draw from such information - assuming it's correct, about which I very much have doubts - is that the United States should avoid starting new wars then.

Sounds simple, but please look around our world, and you'll find American-started or American-inspired wars in a dozen places.

The country has become the most senselessly aggressive on earth. It is literally drunk on its own sense of entitlement to run the planet.

Russia spends about one-tenth of what the US spends on its military. Russia is involved in no wars, except for its having been invited by an ally, Syria, to help defend against an army of mercenaries tearing the country apart. Guess who is behind those mercenaries, too?

I have grave doubts here, too. Washington endlessly hypes nonsense about Russia in an effort to hike military budgets and strike anxiety into Americans and allies. It is well known that in the Cold War CIA never even came close to the realities of (lower) Russian capability in their annual estimates exactly so that budgets could grow like mushrooms after a drizzly night.

Study some maps, and it will become clear who threatens whom in the world. American ships, planes, and tanks inch closer every year to the gate posts of Russia. Spy planes now constantly and dangerously, flying with transponders turned off, buzz Russia’s border. The coup in Ukraine was an American project on which we know it spent $5 billion to threaten a long border, much as though Russia had promoted a coup in Mexico.

America, on its own, tears up working treaties like INF and the anti-missile treaty and the Iran Nuclear agreement. America busies itself with telling all its allies what they should be doing, how much they should spend, and what they should buy from the US.

America keeps expanding NATO with militarily useless countries like Estonia or Macedonia just for the purpose of creeping up on Russia's border. It also uses these places as a way of loading the dice at NATO. These militarily insignificant countries get a vote in NATO affairs, and they vote in light of having been asked out on a big date by a hunk.

Sick, all of it. Russophobia resembles some new form of brain cancer.