The American Reich : - Every Indian, particularly PM Modi need to read

[Satya D]

Please read the article below which gives at the end what the many prominent Western strategic thinkers including Henry Kissinger, Stephen Cohen, George Kennan have  for a long time have warned about NATO expansion to the East would push Russia to invade Ukraine because it is simply an existential crisis for them.

The American Reich:

By Kalavai Venkat

Below are some of the headlines from the American mainstream media regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I've juxtaposed the headlines from the leftwing and rightwing media. One can hardly tell the difference between the two. Both are jingoistic. Both disregard facts and the moral principle. Both appeal to misplaced emotions and long-held prejudices about other cultures to skew reader perceptions.

"Putin, do you plan to decapitate Ukrainian leadership?"

"Putin fears freedom and democracy that America stands for"

Nobody who relies upon US media would even suspect that the real aggressor is the US and her racist NATO allies. Russia and Ukraine are not only cultural kin but also signed the Minsk Agreement in 2015 which would've ushered in lasting peace in that region. However, that was not in the interest of America's Military Industrial Complex (MIC). They need justification to siphon off tax dollars by the trillions, destabilize world peace, and wage continual wars. So, Americans found a conniving ally in the Ukrainian president to provoke Russia by bringing NATO weapons to the Russian border. Putin understandably retaliated. 

America waging wars by inventing fiction is nothing new. American media amplifying jingoistic war cries with fulsome propaganda is nothing new. Americans playing the useful idiot by applauding those war cries is nothing new. These have been the norm at least over the last two decades. Remember 9/11? How did they determine the identity of the attackers? US media and establishment atrociously claimed that the passport of a hijacker fell off the plane that crashed into WTC and dropped on the sidewalk to be conveniently picked up by a policeman. Really? The fire incinerates steel and the entire fuselage but a paper passport is unsigned? How did the media prove that the hijackers had planned to hijack the planes? It reported that the hijackers had left flight manuals in the glove compartment of their rental cars! Really, people read the flight manual while driving their rental car and then fly the planes? Why did WTC 7, which was not even hit by a plane, collapse - and that too at the rate of free fall and symmetrically? No American media even reported these. Americans weren't bothered. A handful of Americans who asked these questions were dismissed as conspiracy theorists in an active propaganda and persecuted. How did America invade Iraq? By inventing the fiction of WMD which the US media amplified. The same media then embedded its journalists within the invading force. Anywhere from 160,000 to 1.3 million Iraqis were exterminated. Americans weren't bothered one bit by this. They weren't because this was nothing abnormal. This is how things have always been. We've killed Native Americans before. We killed the Japs. We killed the Vietnamese. All for their own good so they get a taste of American values.

It's sometimes argued that there are conscientious objectors in America who did speak up. Indeed, yes. Any society would have those. However, are they anything but the American fringe? No. I can demonstrate that. In 2008, Obama ran for POTUS. Asked about the Iraq invasion, he remarked, "I am not against wars. I am only against dumb wars." A war based on lies and a complete abandonment of moral scruples and which exterminated a massive number of Iraqis is just a "dumb war?" Americans weren't bothered. They applauded. Politicians like Obama take such stances only because a vast majority of Americans won't tolerate a contrarian stance. Before that Bush had roared, "We are ushering in democracy. If you're not with us then you're against us." Americans applauded. It does not matter whether an American self-identifies as left or right. The difference between the two is epidermis-deep. Both are blind adherents to a predatory ideology which is deeply rooted in the biblical command, "God created this world for Christians. Take it. Rape it."

Very often, Americans portray themselves as free. They portray the Chinese, Russians, or Saudis as lacking in freedom. It's true that the Chinese, Russians, and Saudis don't have much freedom. However, they're under no delusion that they're free. Americans have no freedom either. If an Obama couldn't speak freely then the average Joe just can't. However, Americans delude themselves that they're free although they are just echoing and amplifying criminal propaganda. Americans are exceptional. They own up a propaganda dished out from above. If something is exceptional about Americans then it's their willingness to be useful idiots and advertise it as free choice. 

It is this trait which enables a handful of political institutions and MIC to manipulate Americans time and again. Take the 2008 economic crash. The average American lost a lot. Not the Wall St predators though. They got a TARP bailout in billions. The CEOs reaped an obscene profit. Americans consumed the propaganda that these predators were too big to fail. Or, take Covid. Every single initiative be it lock downs, ban on social gatherings, mask mandate, and vaccine mandate was carried out against scientific facts. American sheeple willfully submitted themselves and indulged in virtue signaling. The rightwing virtue-signaling resistance was equally unscientific. Big Pharma pocketed $ 11 billion to develop the vaccines and also reaped an obscene profit on each dosage. Nobody even discussed it. FDA refused to release clinical trial data on the vaccines for the next 55 years. Americans are oblivious to this. There's a complete apathy. It's only the plot which varies from 9/11 to Ukraine. The actors, audiences, dialog, perceptions, and outcomes remain the same. 

It's not just the Americans who pay the price for this. The entire world pays the price. If someone doesn't realize that American totalitarianism is a more pernicious form of totalitarianism one observes in China, Saudi Arabia, or Russia then one deserves to be nominated for the Darwin Award. Germans were willing executioners of the Third Reich. However, they didn't advertise their connivance as virtue. They knew how to commit a ghastly crime silently. American crimes far surpass those of the Nazis. The American public too have outsmarted Hitler's willing executioners by advertising their connivance in the most sickening moral predation as virtue. 

I can only hope, rather wish, that the moralistic American fringe would multiply in numbers one day. It's one delusion worth harboring.

If you're a patriotic American then support Putin.

One needn't be a rocket scientist to realize that the American Reich has carried out the most genocides and predatory wars in the last seven decades. If anything, this demonstrates how dangerous a unipolar world is. Especially one which is governed by the Christian 'ethic' of "God created the earth for Christians. Take it. Rape it." 

What's the solution? The only pragmatic solution is a bipolar world where the caveat of retaliation would keep the American Reich in check. In other words, Russia should setup a base in Cuba and Venezuela to usher in bipolar power balance to fend off the aggression of the American Reich. 

It's one thing to criticize Islam as an ideology. It's another to countenance the genocides of innocent and defenseless Iraqis, Libyans, and Afghans by the American Reich. A Muslim sans Islam is as much of a human as you and I are. You think the American Reich and her NATO allies would stop with Afghanistan? India ain't that far away! If the American Reich could attack Iraq with the lie of WMD and get away with it, rest assured they could repeat that with India too.

Guess what? They actually attempted it in 2021 when the American Reich enforced a blockade on the export of the raw materials for the production of Covid vaccines in India. The intent? Induce a genocide to effect a regime change. The racist pig Angela Merkel lamented that the West had "allowed India to produce drugs and vaccines." 

WESTERN STRATEGIC THINKERS WHO HAD WARNED OF UKRAINIAN CONFLICT (a compilation by @RnaudBertrand)

By Avi Das

1. George Kennan, America's foreign policy strategist, the architect of the U.S. cold war strategy. As early as 1998 he warned that NATO expansion was a "tragic mistake" that ought to ultimately provoke a "bad reaction from Russia".

2. Kissinger, in 2014. He warned that "to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country" and that the West therefore needs a policy that is aimed at "reconciliation".

He was also adamant that "Ukraine should not join NATO"

3. John Mearsheimer - arguably the leading geopolitical scholar in the US today - in 2015: "The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked [...] What we're doing is in fact encouraging that outcome."

4. Jack F. Matlock Jr., US Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991, warning in 1997 that NATO expansion was "the most profound strategic blunder, [encouraging] a chain of events that could produce the most serious security threat [...] since the Soviet Union collapsed"

5. Clinton's defense secretary William Perry explained, in his memoir, that to him NATO enlargement is the cause of "the rupture in relations with Russia" and that in 1996 he was so opposed to it that "in the strength of my conviction, I considered resigning".

6. Stephen Cohen, a famed scholar of Russian studies, warning in 2014 that "if we move NATO forces toward Russia's borders [...] it's obviously gonna militarize the situation [and] Russia will not back off, this is existential"

7. CIA director Bill Burns in 2008: "Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all redlines for [Russia]" and "I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests". (He was then Ambassador to Moscow in 2008 when he wrote this memo). He is now director of the CIA. ‘08 memo ‘Nyet Means Nyet: Russia's NATO Enlargement Redlines’

8. Russian-American journalist Vladimir Pozner, in 2018, stated that: NATO expansion in Ukraine is unacceptable to the Russian, that there has to be a compromise where "Ukraine, guaranteed, will not become a member of NATO."

9. Malcolm Fraser, 22nd prime minister of Australia, warned in 2014 that "the move east [by NATO is] provocative, unwise and a very clear signal to Russia". He adds that this leads to a "difficult and extraordinarily dangerous problem".

10. Paul Keating, former Australian PM, in 1997: expanding NATO is "an error which may rank in the end with the strategic miscalculations which prevented Germany from taking its full place in the international system [in early 20th]"

11. Former US defense secretary Bob Gates in his 2015 memoirs: "Moving so quickly [to expand NATO] was a mistake. [...] Trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching [and] an especially monumental provocation"

12. Pat Buchanan, in his 1999 book A Republic, Not an Empire: "By moving NATO onto Russia's front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation."

13. In 1997, a group of individuals including Robert McNamara, Bill Bradley & Gary Hart wrote a letter to Bill Clinton warning the "US led effort to expand NATO is a policy error of historic proportions" and would "foster instability" in Europe. Today it's fringe, traitorous position.

14. Pat Buchanan, in his 1999 book A Republic, Not an Empire: "By moving NATO onto Russia's front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first-century confrontation."

15. Dmitriy Trenin expressed concern that Ukraine was, in the LT, the most potentially destabilizing factor in US-Russian relations, given the level of emotion & neuralgia triggered by its quest for NATO membership.

16. Sir Roderic Lyne, former British ambassador to Russia, warned a year ago that "[pushing] Ukraine into NATO [...] is stupid on every level." He adds "if you want to start a war with Russia, that's the best way of doing it." 

17. Even last year, famous economist Jeffrey Sachs, writing a column in the FT warning that "NATO enlargement is utterly misguided and risky. True friends of Ukraine, and of global peace, should be calling for a US and NATO compromise with Russia."

18. Fiona Hill :"We warned [George Bush] that Mr. Putin would view steps to bring Ukraine and Georgia closer to NATO as a provocative move that would likely provoke pre-emptive Russian military action. But ultimately, our warnings weren’t heeded."

19. Aleksandr Dugin, in 1997, had predicted everything that Putin has done, in his book "Foundation of Geopolitics." 

EVERYBODY knew that trying to rope Ukraine into NATO was crossing Russia's red line, but now people would like to hold up Russia as a villain AFTER having done everything to teeter on the redline. And this happened only AFTER Biden came to power. Nothing against any stand of yours as a geopolitical expert, but show that you are aware of the geo politics?

One can peruse the compilation here:

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1498491107902062592

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(compiled from different sources by Satya Dosapati)