Western
media and in particular American media are utterly failing to contextualize the
growing crisis with Russia. They have ignored NATO expansion and the violation
of the 1997 agreement with regard to former Warsaw Pact countries. They have
ignored US manipulation and plundering of Russia during the Yeltsin years.
They have
ignored US militarization of Eastern Europe, moves toward Central Asia and the
Caucasus and most importantly they have ignored the significance of the United
States pulling out of the thirty year old Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in
2002.
American
media talks of American Missile 'Defense' being positioned in Eastern Europe.
There's no pretending that's about Iran anymore. It never was.
But what
they fail to report (and apparently people have forgotten) is that it was the
development of Anti-Ballistic Missiles that led to the out-of-control nuclear proliferation
in the 1960's. ABM's could shoot down incoming missiles and thus the way to
defeat an ABM system was to launch multiple missiles at every target. That
meant building more and more warheads.
The ABM treaty
of 1972 stopped the development of ABM systems, or at least restricted them,
which meant each side (the US and USSR) could quit expanding their arsenals.
Reagan's SDI
was a violation of this and that among other things brought the US and USSR
close to war in 1983. Reagan basically backed off and started to negotiate. This
enabled the USSR to peacefully collapse rather than go down swinging.
Leaders in
the Christian Right called Reagan the Kremlin's 'useful idiot' and 'dupe' at
the time. Of course that's all forgotten. Today, St. Ronald is the man who
'won' the Cold War. Revisionist history is engaged in by both camps.
Russia's
security rests in its nuclear weapons. That's its only guarantee of safety. You
must understand Russia's geography, history and psyche to understand why this
point is so important to them.
When George W
Bush pulled out of the treaty in 2002 (remember the context, America was on the
march) and started talking about missile defense, basically ABM systems along
Russia's perimeter, that was an aggressive move. It sought to destroy Russia's
ability to defend itself and missile batteries can very easily be 'flipped' to
work the other direction. What may designated as 'defensive' can in many ways
be reduced to the semantics of the moment.
Putin,
wicked man that he is, has pulled Russia out of the morass and humiliation of
the 1990's, broke the power of the oligarchs, many of whom were allied with the
West, and has sought to stand his ground. He's not the aggressor. The United
States and its tool NATO have moved very aggressively against Russia for more
than two decades and Putin is not willing to set himself up for a fall. It
cannot be overstated that Central Asia plays a big part in all of this,
something that once again our media fails to report.
Recently
Putin has been accused of nuclear sabre rattling.
This is
despite the fact that the US has stationed nuclear missiles in Europe and
Turkey for many years. Can you imagine Russia positioning missiles in Central
America? Russia tried to put missiles in
Cuba to block a US invasion and it almost provoked a nuclear war. I do not wish
to defend the Soviets but the US already had missiles on their borders!
Recently the
US began negotiating with the UK to expand its nuclear arsenal in Britain. This
is a pretty big story in the Left-wing media and overseas but it has all but
been ignored by American media outlets... I'm including all the so-called
'liberal' ones that are really just entertainment enterprises and mouthpieces
for the Establishment.
And yet when
Putin responds to American nuclear threats he's made out by our media to be the
aggressor.
We're being
spun. Our media is an absolute joke. It quite literally is no better than
Pravda under the USSR. To not fully report this story is a clear case of
manipulation. No matter what Putin does, he's the aggressor.
The US is
moving toward confrontation and frankly it's frightening. We must take comfort
in knowing this age is one of wars and rumours of wars, but it's disturbing to
see so many blind people and many 'Christians' leading the charge. We were warned
of that too.
Putin is not
easily going to drop Ukraine. It would be like the US losing Mexico to China or
Russia. What will be his response? There's only so much he can do, but he'll do
all he can. NATO on the borders means that Russia will in a short time
experience a Western funded and fomented episode of civil unrest or perhaps a
border skirmish and when it gets ugly NATO will move in. They want him removed.
Russia and
the United States are basically enemies again but this isn't a simple repeat of
the Cold War. Today's Russia is weak compared to the former USSR and Russia has
no European allies except maybe Belarus and Armenia. Greece (and thus Cyprus)
may soon join the club.
If the
United States keeps pushing Turkey we may find Asia Minor to be the next theatre
of crisis. Turkey and Russia are historical enemies and Turkey would rather
play the bridge role between the East and West, but the United States won't
stand for it. They're salivating at the thought of removing Erdogan. He may
move toward Moscow and Putin will be ready to embrace him.
The United
States has sought to destroy Russia's ally in Syria and to contain Iran. Russia
is almost out of necessity being driven toward an alliance with Beijing. My, won't the Dispensationalists feel
justified in their distortions of Biblical prophecy!
Will it come
to open war? God forbid.
But a new
phase or type of Cold War will be very profitable and it creates conditions
that mobilize society and create unity and cohesion. Those of us who grew up
during the Cold War remember this very well. We all grew up being brainwashed
by the paradigm.
Look for
growing tensions in Central Asia. The divisions in the Taliban, the US
withdrawal and Pakistani-Indian politics will play a part. The expansion of
ISIS may lead to some future trouble as the 'powers' move to counter their
influence and narrative. They are branching out into Afghanistan, Pakistan and
it won't be long before they are in Central Asia.
Obama has
been a terrible disappointment to the Left and has proved to be just as
Imperialistic as his predecessors but we can be thankful John McCain isn't
occupying that office. Many in social media try to pretend that if Reagan were
president, then he'd 'sort this out'. How quickly they forget Reagan's total
and humiliating withdrawal from Lebanon. He had no stomach to fight Shiite
radicals. Instead he preferred to pay them off and then when discovered they
spun that episode too.
Wisdom is
justified by her children.
