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America Now Preparing for World War III

Author : Eric Zuesse | Editor : Samus | April 15, 2016 at 02:25 PM

After having expanded NATO right up to Russia’s borders and essentially surrounded Russia with U.S. military installations, the United States is now using the pretext of Russia’s having allowed the people of Crimea in 2014 to rejoin Russia (after the Soviet dictator Khrushchev had transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954) as being an excuse for arming and soldiering Russia’s northwestern borders sufficiently to be able to launch as soon as 2017 a ground invasion of Russia, which would then be backed up by U.S. air power and nuclear arms.

In the United States and Europe, the promotion for this action presents the plan as purely defensive against ‘Russian aggression’, for Russia’s having ‘seized’ Crimea in 2014. Promptly, U.S. President Barack Obama slapped economic sanctions against Russia for Russia’s accepting Crimea back into Russia. It was actually hardly a ‘seizure’; it was a protection of the residents there, 75% of whom had voted for the man who had recently been overthrown in a violent coup (which was presented in the West as being a ‘democratic revolution’).

However, the U.S. had virtually forced Russia to accept the pleas of the residents of Crimea to become again a part of Russia, after the anti-Russian coup in Ukraine — which the head of Stratfor has called “the most blatant coup in history” — after that coup had terrified the residents of Crimea, whom even Western-backed polling of Crimeans had shown wanted to rejoin with Russia, even before the U.S. took control of Ukraine in its very bloody coup. (Ever since that coup, there has been no action condemned by the U.S. White House, on the part of the thus-installed anti-Russian Ukrainian government. Now, instead, the condemnations of the Ukrainian government are coming from Moscow, against Russia’s now having such a rabidly anti-Russian-led nation along Russia’s longest European or western border. It’s as if Canada were being led now by anti-American bigots who had been installed by the world’s superpower in a world in which the U.S. were only the #2 power. The U.S. would then be extremely disturbed at that type of situation; and, so, too, are naturally Russians.)

The anti-Russian Cato Institute calls Russia “a defensive, paranoid, nuclear power.” Cato doesn’t call the U.S. by a phrase that actually fits the U.S. but certainly not post-Soviet Russia: “the greatest threat to peace in the world today.” That’s because America’s aristocracy want the American people and the people in the nations controlled by their allied aristocracies to view Russia as being “a defensive, paranoid, nuclear power,” instead of as being an intensely threatened nation — threatened by the U.S., the nation that is actually generally viewed as being, by far, “the greatest threat to peace in the world today.”

The U.S. has expressed full support for Ukraine to become a part of NATO, but some other member-nations of NATO haven’t yet allowed that to happen.

The United States government, via its USAID, and NATO, and Atlantic Council, and Brookings Institution, and American Enterprise Institute, and Open Societies Foundations, and Cato Institute, and all of the other foreign-affairs ‘charities’ run by the U.S. aristocracy, is promoting this preparation for WW III, by repeating the U.S. White House’s line, that the coup in Ukraine was no coup but just a ‘democratic’ overthrow of the democratically elected President of Ukraine (Viktor Yanukovych), done in order to eliminate a corrupt (but democratically elected — his having been democratically elected is not being disputed) President, but conveniently ignoring that all Presidents of post-Soviet Ukraine have been corrupt, and none of them would even have been able to win that office in any other way. Furthermore, the U.S.-installed regime there is yet more corrupt than was the one the U.S. overthrew. Yet, still, the U.S. isn’t condemning its new client-state. ‘Corruption’ was an excuse for the coup, not the actual cause of any ‘Maidan Revolution’ — and now the residents even within the formerly pro-overthrow portion of Ukraine regret the overthrow. (And how!) (And, for Gallup, there, to compare the favorability rating of the post-coup President, Poroshenko, who rules a country which no longer includes Donbass, which had voted 90% for the man whom Obama overthrew, and also no longer includes Crimea, which had voted 75% for the man whom Obama overthrew, isn’t at all fair — even though Gallup still did find that Yanukovych’s approval-rating “was never as low as Poroshenko’s is now.” Poroshenko was bombing Donbass, which is the dark purple part of that map, and he still wants to go to war against Crimea; so, his approval rating in those two former parts of Ukraine, would be about zero — which would lower his approval in all of the former parts of Ukraine, even lower than it showed in Gallup’s recent poll.)

You can see here and here what the Obama regime was actually sponsoring in Donbass: the bombing of the cities and villages there, while labeling all of the residents there as ‘terrorists’ and this bombing campaign against them as an ‘Anti Terrorist Operation’ or ‘ATO’. And here are the international laws that the Obama-imposed Ukrainian regime was violating. The goal of this bombing was to kill as many of the residents as possible and drive the rest into Russia as refugees, so as to clear Donbass for gas-drilling by U.S.-backed companies — and maybe set up U.S. nuclear missiles there, also. The plan didn’t succeed, though it did produce lots of corpses and refugees.

On February 6th, I reported:

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on February 2nd that he approves of U.S. ‘Defense’ Secretary Ash Carter’s proposal to quadruple U.S. armaments and troops in Europe, against ‘Russian aggression.’

Secretary Carter said earlier that same day, in his announcement of America’s arming for war against Russia:

“We are reinforcing our posture in Europe to support our NATO allies in the face of Russia’s aggression. In Pentagon parlance, this is called the European Reassurance Initiative and after requesting about $800 million for last year, this year we’re more than quadrupling it for a total of $3.4 billion in 2017.

“That will fund a lot of things: more rotational U.S. forces in Europe, more training and exercising with our allies, more preposition and war-fighting gear and infrastructure improvements to support all this.

“And when combined with U.S. forces already in and assigned to Europe — which are also substantial — all of this together by the end of 2017 will let us rapidly form a highly capable combined arms ground force that can respond across that theater, if necessary.”

However, the truth is: Russia is not expanding to NATO’s borders; NATO is expanding to Russia’s borders. The baldness of the Western lie to the contrary is an insult to Westerners’ intelligence.

The U.S. is preparing for an invasion of Russia.

However, it turned out that that wasn’t an insult to the intelligence of a certain reader at a different site, where an article I had written about the news-media’s failures to report these realities, was posted, and at which a “fuster” responded by saying that “most likely reason why other media wont carry the story is…because the story is false and shoddy.” He then insulted me personally, and alleged that I “was predicting that the US was gonna nuke the Russians over the Ukraine.”

However, (beside the fact that that reader had apparently not clicked onto the links in the article, which documented the truth of what it was alleging), for me to have said that “The U.S. is preparing for an invasion of Russia” is not at all for me to have said that “the US was gonna nuke the Russians over the Ukraine.” There is an important distinction between those two statements, and I shall highlight it here, so that readers can more accurately understand what U.S. policy is, on this very important matter:

For the U.S. to prepare for an invasion of Russia, is not necessarily for the U.S. “to nuke the Russians.”

A good example of this distinction is that, when the Soviet dictator, Nikita Khrushchev, tried to place nuclear missiles 90 miles from the U.S. in Cuba in 1962, that could have been seen by him as being a defensive measure against a possible nuclear attack against his USSR, as Khrushchev alleged it to be, but the U.S. President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, took it, and with good reason, to be instead an aggressive move against the United States — and he was willing to launch a nuclear attack against the USSR if Khrushchev didn’t withdraw those missile facilities (which hadn’t yet been supplied with missiles). The entire world (except for Fidel Castro, who had requested the missiles in order to be able to prevent another Bay of Pigs invasion) agreed with JFK on that; and, on the very same grounds (but even more so) the entire world ought now to support Russia when a succession of U.S. Presidents have expanded NATO right up to the very borders of Russia, and now plan to place thousands of U.S. soldiers and U.S. attack-planes and state-of-the-art tanks, right onto Russia’s borders. This is a no-no, if anything is.

Russia isn’t being faced here with merely one locale, 90 miles off the U.S. coast, but instead with numerous locales, right on Russia’s very borders, which might soon be bristling with U.S. nuclear missiles against Russia. And, clearly, America’s having basically false-flagged the entire Ukraine-Crimea matter so as to be able now to position yet more nuclear weapons along Russia’s longest border (which is its border with Ukraine) is intensely aggressive, and would be seen as such by any rational leader of Russia — and should be seen that way by any rational person, in any country.

On top of that, Jens Stoltenberg has recently stated that NATO will now be coordinating more closely with the alliance of Arabic nations that are owned by fundamentalist-Sunni royal families: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Bahrain, and Oman. Those royal families, and their retainers (state-contractors), provided virtually all of the funding to Al Qaeda prior to 9/11, and (according to their friend Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State in 2009) were continuing to do that (and she was requesting them to stop doing it — and she also noted that they were the major funders of other anti-American jihadist groups, which she was hoping they’d stop funding). However, they’re all against Russia; and, so, NATO will be even more actively teaming up with them. (Saudi Arabia also happens to be by far the nation that’s the largest of all purchasers of U.S.-and-EU-manufactured weapons, such as from Lockheed Martin.)

Russia is being surrounded. In such circumstances, if Russia strikes first, its enemies are the ones to blame. One can only hope that ‘the West’ (the U.S. and its stooge-aristocracies) will back down, and finally end its incredibly dangerous attempt to conquer Russia — before the whole world gets ‘conquered,’ into nuclear rubble.


- Source : Eric Zuesse

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