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America's Great Lie. Europe's Great Shame. Russia's Great Case
Authored by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org,
The West owes Russia a hell of a lot; but what it owes Russia first is a deep apology, and a welcome into Europe, of which Russia has been and is an extremely important nation, and very unjustly denied its rightful place there. What doesn’t belong in Europe is the U.S., not in any way whatsoever, especially since the U.S. is now a dictatorship. (Anyone who says it’s not a dictatorship and who doesn’t click onto that link to find out that he’s been snookered to think it’s still a democracy, should just stop reading here right now, because this aricle is going to be suitable only for people with open, critical, inquiring minds — not for closed-minded or stupid readers.)
Why does America’s anti-Russia military club NATO still exist, after the Soviet Union’s equivalent Warsaw Pact disbanded in 1991 when the Soviet Union and its communism voluntarily ended?
NATO is nothing but America’s anti-Russia military club, against Russia and against any nation (such as Iraq, or Libya, or Syria) that supports Russia.
We killed Gaddafi in Libya because he supported Russia in international relations. We produced the failed state and jihadist mayhem that now exists there; we destroyed Libya and now the refugees from there are flooding into Europe, along with the refugees from our attacks to bring down Assad in Syria.
We overthrew (via a bloody coup and no ‘democratic revolution’ such as the West lies to assert) Yanukovych in Ukraine allegedly because he turned down the EU’s offer to Ukraine after learning that the price-tag for Ukrainians would be $160 billion if Ukraine were to comply with the EU’s demands. But the U.S. was already organizing the coup against him starting a year before the coup, and nine months before Yanukovych turned down the EU’s offer.
We are trying to overthrow Assad in Syria because he supports Russia in international relations.
This isn’t bullying?
This is ‘democracy’?
This is dictatorship: totalitarianism in the West, against Russia and any other nation that isn’t buckling to the U.S. aristocracy and its allied aristocracies in Europe, and (especially with the new bellicose nationalistic Abe government), also in Japan.
This is ugly.

This can’t be published in Western major ‘news’ media: it is samizdat, in the Western dictatorships, but it is all demonstrably true, nonetheless.
Here is how it started — the original sin of the post-Cold-War West, which has produced the problems of today and the future:
Let’s start with the results of a 2009 investigation by Germany’s Spiegel, or Mirror, magazine, which is a mainstream German news site, that’s a bit more honest than America’s equivalents:
They headlined, very directly: «NATO's Eastward Expansion: Did the West Break Its Promise to Moscow?»
They identified what that «promise» was, which Russia claims was violated, and which Spiegel was investigating: «that NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe violated commitments made during the negotiations over German reunification». The next sentence in Spiegel’s report states unequivocally their conclusion: «Newly discovered documents from Western archives support the Russian position».
The question Spiegel’s article discusses isn’t whether NATO’s continued existence is an evil, but instead whether NATO should have extended eastward up to Russia’s own borders — whether, to make this matter quite clear now, if the USSR had won, and its Warsaw Pact and not NATO had continued (though neither should have continued), the Warsaw Pact should have extended itself all the way to including Mexico and/or Canada?
How would the American people have felt about that possibility - nuclear missiles aimed against them at their own border? It’s so obviously disgusting (vile, actually - and what was John F. Kennedy determined to do if the USSR had placed nuclear millies in Cuba?), but do you learn in Western ‘news’ media that this is what the United States has done and is doing to Russia, and to Russia’s allies?
Here is how even Spiegel concluded that the West lies about this history, though Spiegel is itself a Western mainstream medium and so avoids saying it outright that directly, and instead veils the truth so that only the few people with brains and open minds will get the important point:
Spiegel makes clear that their investigation of the actual paper record shows that the then merely West German side, which was negotiating reunification of Germany with the then merely Eastern half of Germany, is exactly in accord with what Russia’s allegations have been saying all along, and exactly the opposite of what West Germany’s Foreign Minister then, Hans Dietrich Genscher, has been asserting to have been the case. Here is how we learn this from Spiegel:
Jack Matlock, the US ambassador in Moscow at the time, has said in the past that Moscow was given a «clear commitment». Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the German foreign minister in 1990, says this was precisely not the case.
After speaking with many of those involved and examining previously classified British and German documents in detail, SPIEGEL has concluded that there was no doubt that the West did everything it could to give the Soviets the impression that NATO membership was out of the question for countries like Poland, Hungary or Czechoslovakia.
On Feb. 10, 1990, between 4 and 6:30 p.m., Genscher spoke with Shevardnadze. According to to the German record of the conversation, which was only recently declassified, Genscher said: «We are aware that NATO membership for a unified Germany raises complicated questions. For us, however, one thing is certain: NATO will not expand to the east». And because the convers[at]ion revolved mainly around East Germany, Genscher added explicitly: «As far as the non-expansion of NATO is concerned, this also applies in general».
Never does Spiegel state outright that Genscher was lying; but, an intelligent person recognizes that if «the non-expansion of NATO… applies in general», then the promise made was excluding any eastward expansion of NATO at all. Not only «NATO will not expand to the east», but NATO will not expand. How much clearer can it be than that?
In other words: Genscher lies when he says that there was no «clear commitment».
For some reason, Russian officials don’t accuse the West of having «lied». Perhaps they feel that it would only exacerbate relations even further than the West itself has already done by its constant lying. However, wouldn’t it be better for the confrontation to come upon the battlefield of truth, than upon the battlefield of war?
The U.S. and its allies have been lying through their teeth in order not only to continue NATO, but to extend it up to Russia’s borders — in other words: for conquest.
For more about this key historical reality, the reader can click here, to see that there’s lots more than just the record disproving Genscher’s lies, but especially the record disproving the lies by U.S. officials.
Let me then summarize that here: George Herbert Walker Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev were the principals (Bush for the U.S. aristocracy; Gorbachev for the populations of the Soviet Union). Genscher and James Baker and Eduard Shevardnadze, etc. were merely agents; and Bush had his agents lie to Gorbachev’s agents, to say that NATO would not expand at all eastward. But he then, only later, instructed them not to follow through on what they had said, not to behave truthfully — but instead to set things up so as to allow the U.S. military alliance to extend right up to Russia’s borders. Here is how he instructed them to perform in this shameful (and potentially catastrophic) manner in private:
West German transcripts from the two leaders’ February 24–25 summit at Camp David show [that] Bush made his feelings about compromising with Moscow clear to Kohl: ‘To hell with that!’ he said. ‘We prevailed, they didn’t.’… In April, Bush spelled out this thinking in a confidential telegram to French President François Mitterrand… Bush was making it clear to Mitterrand that the dominant security organization in a post–Cold War Europe had to remain NATO.
The puppetmaster, Bush, sprung upon Kohl and Mitterrand the instruction for them to just keep up the lie, but that it would be a lie. They had believed what they had said when they said it, but were now instructed not to fulfill on it. What they had said would be a lie; they were instructed about this, only after they had said what they had believed to be true. From that point on, the anti-Russia thrust of the U.S. aristocracy, which controls the aristocracies (such as Europe’s) that are its allies, was clear; and the only way to disobey would be to become blackballed and trashed. Their careers would have been destroyed if they had disobeyed Bush.
Both in my own article there, and in the Spiegel one, the ancillary questions, such as why this promise had never been made in writing (though Gorbachev wanted it to be), are also discussed. However, something should be pointed out here regarding the Spiegel article, namely that Gorbachev’s Foreign Minister Shevardnadze was also shown there to be lying to Spiegel’s reporters, and not noted there to have been lying to them. Shevardnadze, «speaking in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, says that there were no such assurances from the West». In other words: he told, to Spiegel, a thing that was contradicting what Spiegel found in their own examination of Genscher’s papers from the period of the negotiations. Genscher had been negotiating then with Shevardnadze, and according to Genscher’s papers, Shevardnadze had indeed been informed by Genscher that NATO wouldn’t expand, at all. What Shevardnadze’s motive was for this, is not known, and Spiegel’s reporters didn’t even bring up to Shevardnadze the fact that what he was telling them was in direct contradiction of the written record. (Perhaps Shevardnadze, now retired after having become Georgia’s President, was hoping in 2009 to be favorably viewed by aristocrats in the West. Keeping up the lie would have fit for that purpose. But, even if he had been asked, he wouldn’t have given that explanation.)
* * *
George Herbert Walker’s having instructed his agents to lie and to avoid any signed treaty on this crucial historical matter, was the West’s Original Sin.
Europe’s remaining allied with the U.S. and participating in NATO, especially after having been instructed by America to lie, and to have deceived Gorbachev, who behaved honorably throughout and afterward, is Europe’s great shame.
And truth is Russia’s great case.
The U.S. is, in fact, Europe’s enemy - not merely Russia’s enemy. Not merely the truth’s enemy. Not merely democracy’s enemy.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity
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Thwart terrorists!
End this massive deception by omission now!
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Traditional United States is not found as Democracy, is found on rule of law, is republic. Only function of election is to remind custodial official they are quick remove if break law. But modern United States ("USSA") is neither democracy or republic, but is dictatorship because ruler (not leader) is rule (not lead) by dictate and is ignore law, both own law, and international law. It was fun while lasted.
US doesn't belong in europe?
even though frbny bailed out their banks....more than once
see buying of the 'toxic' derivs
see monstrous currency 'swaps'
those two events should stamp out any talk of currency war/competition between frn/euro
euro is nothing but frn in drag
Correction, the Jewish Lobby in the US is Europe's enemy.
Well said Nid. I will add that like Russia has "the great case of truth", so did Hitler. See how much that helped him in the face of zionist control of the entire west.
Unfortunately, the jews will not be forced out, their fangs have sunk in far too deep. The west has been stupified for over a hundred years and is enduring a perpetual ongoing gang rape by the zionist thugs.
Edit: I take that back Nid, you wimp who deletes posts because he is afraid of the jew.
IMO, I don't think the "enemy" are Jewish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpeK4iI5BoM
They really are not.
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
I for one would like a "trigger" warning whenever Jimmy Carter is invoked as evidence for water being wet or sky blue.. That said of course we are an oligarchy duh..
The great tragedy is that Russia is more "American" and more Northern European than a lot of Europe or the U.S.
For us to throw them to the "dogs" as it were, is a refutation of 1/3 or 1/2 of Western Civilization, to our loss.
A crying fucking shame, and incredibly fucking stupid and wrong; but it fits someone's agenda.
The "cold war" started at Nuremburg when Joe Stalin and his buddies looked at what was going down with Hitler's crowd and realized what was in store for them unless they dropped the "Iron Curtain"
As for "why' re NATO-
http://new.euro-med.dk/20141215-putins-confident-putin-to-nationalize-ro...
"All wars are bankers wars"
There are no oligarchs in Russia? Great news.
You know they have drugs for delusion and paranoia now, right? You should try them...
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -- Henry Ford
Indeed, there are drugs for this delusion and paranoia. Prozac, Alcohol, football, TV, crack, coke, blind patriotism to a flag without understanding what it stands for, etc.
Don't forget Smut.
Everyone seems to want to be famous nowadays...and baby they don't stop at nothing for getting it.
http://goo.gl/N4Kl6x
...go and peddle your porn links on WSJ, you'll get a better response.
Unannounced porn links are pretty damned rude. Particularly if someone's on break at work or reading side by side with the family.
That's the beauty of it. Life is full of surprises.
BTW, one should be WORKING not browsing and if you have family.. spend time with THEM !
Pwned.
There's still a thing called decorum, you asswipe. You're too goddam ignorant to even know you're being disrespectful by posting it.
It's a good free porn site. Thanks for the link.
So then Lord Acton was right.
Who'd a thunk it?he is also right about this..
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."
it's not so much that power corrupts, but that power attracts the corruptible.
Plus power attracts corruption as the thieves get more bang for their buck by corrupting a centralized government.
It isn't that power attracts the corruptible, rather that once you obtain absolute power, the corruption is absolute.
Right out of your excellent novel "Chapterhouse Dune".
Quoted at the beginning of one of its chapters.
Your finest work.
The U.S. is, in fact, humanity’s enemy - not merely Russia’s enemy. Not merely the truth’s enemy. Not merely Europe’s enemy.
Now is fixed for you.
The U.S. GOVERNMENT, AND THE HIDDEN HAND(S) THAT CONTROL IT is, in fact, humanity’s enemy - not merely Russia’s enemy. Not merely the truth’s enemy. Not merely Europe’s enemy.
NOW it's fixed
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
The United States is at fault. If your government is a threat to humanity, it is your duty to throw them off. That the United States, and her citizens, have failed to do so, is evidence that the United States is as dangerous as her leaders.
By apathy and its subsequent neglect - yes.
Exactly.
When we talk about leaving other countries and governments the hell alone to solve their own problems, whatever they might be, because it is the people themselves who are responsible for what their own governments do, however vile, rather than the US' perogative to interfere, whether covertly or overtly, we assert this very truth.
Problem is that Americans want to then turn around and cover themselves in the warm blanket of blind innocence--but we're all just sheeple! we've been made sheeple, we have no say! we don't know! it's not our fault! etc.
Fact is that the buck stops with the American people regardless of the bullshit. If we have a dictatorship, it's our own responsibility to throw it off. If we don't--if we don't even try--we're responsible for its actions.
We're pathetic. People caressing the triggers of their precious Second Amendment rights and pretending that just having a gun is the whole point. If they ever use it, however, it will be against their fellow citizens when food shortages and other problems finally kick in.
Stereotypical or not, I think a comparison to Nazi Germany is instructive regarding the level of moral debauchery we've attained as a people. Nazi Germany is also an apt example because of its unprovoked wars of aggression, a record the US has certainly matched in the past 14 years. History has come to scorn the claims of the "Good Germans" who plead that they were good people, but nonetheless did not stand up against a murderous regime.
I look at the situation those "Good Germans" were in, however: Germans were literally starving at the time! One can at least understand how desperate people can line up to vote for a murderous government that promises to lift the economy to a survival level. Compare that to the US, where the big stressor facing the poor, poor sheeple is where to eat out next, what to buy, which movie to watch or sports team to cheer for. Really, sheeple?! While our government established police state controls and spread murder and mahem across the ME, we were all out shopping. Or saying radical things on the internet.
Shopping is not a good excuse. Neither is paying the bills. It's hard to escape the conclusion that of all the world's most "powerless" people, we're the most corrupt and indefensibly irresponsible of all.
Sheeple is no excuse.
Peace activist Ken O’Keefe and Journalist Gearóid ó Colmáinl explain in a 6 minute video why the zioNazi's “war AND terror” and ISIS attacks. like the one in Paris. are the creation of Western governments and the global elite.
http://sgtreport.com/2015/11/have-you-heard-the-horrible-truth-about-isi...
The real source of the problem is worse than most even know.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
USA out of Eurasia.
Just Do It.
I don't think they're there.
Israel has some F-15 in Azerbaijan, but the IAF pilots could wake up one morning and find all their planes had flat tires.
My perspective:
U.S. defeated Germany in WWII
Germany defeated Europe and took over when the E.U. Formed and through subversive measures economically destroyed Europe so that it couldn't put up a fight even if it wanted to.
The U.S. , U.K. and Chinese Governments have been taken over by some unknown third party with interests in starting WWIII for unknown reasons, probably just clearing some of the population out.
That's where we stand.
Nazis own Europe
Someone else or the Nazis own the U.S. and the U.K.
Russia is against everyone and the NWO and wants to ensure is own survival in the aftermath of the coming Wars.
And well here we are at the edge of a cliff.
The reason is well known. This planet is fucked unless there are some major changes made.
Plan B is never going to work until they figure out how to travel through time as opposed to space.
War is the only remaining option.
Russia won WWII through their degradation of the German War Machine.
Imagine Normandy Beach if the Russians hadn't tied up more than half the German Army on the Eastern Front?
Russia lost 20 million people - US lost 500,000
Discovery Channel "Battlefield": ..."The western front consisted of 22 German divisions, the eastern 600 german divisions..." You were saying something?
None of this changes the fact that US is determined that the planet shall be destroyed by thermonuclear war. They will not rest until the entire planet in lain waste.
Or at least the entire Northern hemisphere.
Israel is controlling the situation.
Israel is controlling the situation.
who is this commie? What doesn’t belong in Europe is the U.S., not in any way whatsoever, especially since the U.S. is now a dictatorship.
In any way whatsoever? After we re-created Europe, more or less in our image? After saving your ass after you've been killing each other
the past 100 years? Because your "military" cannot even fly to Libya without our help, let alone shoot anything without our intelligence,
material and protection? If you're a puppet, and you are, Grow up. Then try to say something intelligent. There is serious S&^T happening and this whining screed adds
nothing.
might be best if the assistance was removed.
Might not be a choice soon given how bankrupt the US is. (Morally and financially)
History shows it was Russia that saved Europes arse , with help from the USA, which rather supoorts the authors point of view not yours.
so you'd rather be speaking Russian than Amerkan? if you imagine i'm saying how great we are you would be mistaken. someone
far smarter than i ended a great saying with ..."until you consider the alternatives"
Russia is finding it's way after the disaster of Peristroika, admittedly not without some misteps. The USA has completely lost their way and only an event of the magnitude of the Russian Revolution will bring it back.
Learn from Russia and don't let the Bolshevics manage the revolution. Chase all the tools of AIPAC and dual citizens from the government as the first order of business.
To be honest, as a white European, yes I would rather be speaking Russian than errrr "American" (Though i presume you meant English), as things have turned out. At least Putin protects and preserves his own culture
There are many differences between English and 'Merikan.
Here is a Rockabilly Song by the Screaming Blue Messiahs, "I Can Speak American".
Listen to the lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQLimCioEIA
I doubt that you are intelligent enough to learn Russian anyway, so the question is moot.
yo kodosho.
kok de la?
Yeah assistedliving keep getting your history from Fox news or some zio-shit media. Why would us Europeans even NEED to fly to Libya to bomb it into the dark ages . Libya under Ghadaffi , despite whatever bullshit you have been fed, had the highest standard of living in Africa , the best health care system in Africa and on a par with the best in the world , free education and higher education abroad (I worked at a British/American university that had many Libyan students paid for by their government), free housing and cash grant for every newly wed couple, secular government and rule of law. American and Euro serfs can only dream about a standard of living compared to this, paid for admittedly by oil revenues but that is the point Khadaffi was no thief to his people , he shared the wealth. Now this civilised place has been returned to Mad Max Hell thanks to USA/NATO war crime thugery. AS for the history of Europe , it was European bankers who engineered America into destroying Germany twice , completely unnecessarily. Left alone from being stabbed in the back by Zionist bankers , Germany could have defeated Bolshevic communism 70 years ago, instead we are still stuck with it now in EU and USA. So yeah thanks America and say hi to your new socialist "communitarian" masters
USA = TERROR
Obama, stop downvoting my posts!
Wackoism.
potato boy ;)
Oh look.
"alphahammer" is off duty and "yomutti" is now on duty.
A change of shift. Imagine that :-)
yomutti is a flamer, dude.
When I told him that he was either a woman or a fag and then used the word, "cunt" he did not respond as good ol' FlakFRAU did.
Through FlakFRAU's response to the epithet "cunt", I discerned that she was a woman.
From the lack of response from yomutti to the epithet "cunt" I discerned that he is a practicing faggot.
I just wonder how the rest of his NSA crew enjoys knowingly working with a flaming faggot..you know?
With a flamer as Commander in Chief practicing his faggotry with Reggie it is not a surprise that the rest of the US Military has gone limped wrist.
I was always amused how women would utterly freak out at a truthful yet damaging assessment like that - the more truthful the barb, the greater the freak out. Ex wife, would flip at being called a cunt, babymomma would lose her shit at being called a bitch, because the comments were simply pure unadulterated truth.
The exceptionals lie. The exceptionals believe their lies. Europe is a running dog of the exceptionals.
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Exceptional people have Barack Hussein as their leader?
Democracy in name only = DINO
Obama is the leader in name only as well, the teleprompter president.
People originally thought that when Victoria Nuland said "Fuck the EU" it was just the use of colorful language, I think they now understand that she really meant it.
Those who know Zion know she meant it from day one. The EU has blocked dealing with Israeli companies in the west bank. It opposes settlements, etc, etc. EU has been on Zion's hit list for a while.
Tell us something we do not know.
Tell us what you are going to do about this.
Nothing.
First order of business, dismantle all U.S. military bases in Europe.
Next?....
Next? Dismatle the Fed, imprisons all Zionists, confiscate the wealth of the top 300 families of the world. That would be a start.
A trinity of posts that presupposes the abuse is no longer able to be sustained and maintained in secret with dollar payments in a postmodern world of umpteen flash cash crash currencies ...... http://www.amanfrommars.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/151120.html
A better beta use of abused assets though, would be a real welcome radical gamechanger, and in times and spaces of catastrophic volatilty requiring and resulting in major liquidations and portfolio writedowns and writeoffs, much more a fundamental wholesale reevaluation of means and memes of universal cyber command and remote special force control too.
Greater freely shared intelligence with novel views is the new instant virtual reality future driver that delivers absolute power and wealth energy which one can try to pervert and corrupt if one so wishes, but then it morphs and becomes a fabulous fabless fabricated fools' folly which immediately displays to immediate associates and commanding peers a distinct lack of necessary future intelligence to survive and prosper.
Prepare for its global markets launching.
lol your interesting
You really do need to work on improving your communications skills. Your use of the language is atrocious. It tries to be intellectual, but fails miserably.
Few realize that elegance is simplicity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
I love how this video renders most people unable to understand english
for some reason your comment made me think of it and I searched "technical gibberish," lol...
Destruction of America is the only solution to save humanity
That was my gut reaction too, but I now disagree.
If/when the US falls, the Nazi vampires in charge will move on to the next victim; just as they did when Germany was a withered husk, left for dead.
As this crashes, we need to wake the sleepers. We have information not available to any commoners as WW2 ended. We have a chance they didn't have.
Too late for us maybe, but the next generation deserves better.
It is totally clear that the zioNazi vampires are totally in charge of the US
The US is rotten to the core. The problem is mainly the government, but we cannot forget how it gets to power.
As long as the (American) people cannot control their government, they are by implication part of the problem.
It is sad, but it is also true.
Moderne people are not what they used to be.
The system is seriously in need of reform, and that will not come by itself! and it will not be without sacrifices.
two things:
When you say "negro" it conjures up visions of Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray R, Mohammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, Sidney Poitier and Louis Armstrong.
All those were the best of America's sports and artistic world.
So Obama is not just a negro, he is a black President of a power matrix that rules the world; who maybe, maybe, does not want to finish his life like JFK/AL.
Why debase a whole part of the US population to make your point ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98IErW5ReY
Would I be better off using the word "nigger", to describe Obama? No chance then of confusing him with Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and Leontyne Price, the greatest American singer in our history.
But I am loathe to use that word, as it is mostly used by those I detest.
I see the word "joos" here at ZH quite often to describe Americans of a particular heritage.
Which also conjures up images. Of great orchestra conductors like Eugene Ormandy, Sir George Solti, Leonard Bernstein; great comedians like the Marx Brothers, Danny Kaye (the flagon with the dragon), Sid Caesar, scientists like Einstein and Jonas Salk and, debatably, the Rosenbergs, without whom we would not be having this conversation.
Life is not simple
Nothing new. America is Rome. New Empire the same as old Empire.
The thing is, this 'promise' was never signed into a treaty. Treaties can be broken up of course anyway. That former SU bloc countries were looking for entry into an organisation that would protect them is not strange. But this organisation has become a threat now.
Woodwork squeeks and out come the freaks ...
The article is a lot of rehashed quibbling about Soviet-era NATO strategy and pacts and whether or not the U.S. is using NATO to marginalize Russia. Is any of this surprising or even vaguely questionable? Major powers fight against other major powers and take vicious and cruel steps to maintain their dominance. When has this EVER not been the case? The author seems to think that because the U.S. is a democracy (which it isn't and never has been ... it's a republic and there is a big difference) that it has to operate under do-goodnik and angelic rules. What an ignorant and naive view of the world.
But outside the comical article, the comments for this type of dribble are even funnier. How can you call yourself a reader of ZH and still buy in to the lines of the US is the source of everything bad in the world or removing the U.S. will solve everyone's problems? It's a global mess we're all living in and it was made and is sustained by a global group of masterminds. Keep on strutting down the pro-Europe, pro-Russia, pro-China or pro-U.S. walkway and see where that gets you.
Sorry - untrue....the US is an oligarchy - read the Princeton Report.
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_a...
The trolls are out in force meaning their bosses' concerns are increasing AND that's GOOD NEWS.
Putin should ramp up the pressure and quit being deluded that the EVIL that is the European Elite will somehow come to their senses and see the USSofA/UK for what it is.
Putin's Patience, although quite admirable, has past in my opinion, it's expiry date and he should just say F IT.
Obliterate the Frankenstein monster (IS) that the USSofA has helped create with Sodomy Arabia & Israel and bring peace to the Middle-East thereby adopting her role as the REAL World Power Broker for Peace and Accord.
You slimy .gov treasonous trolls are on the back foot and it's all downhill from here. Somehow i expect that the sleaze that you are, you will find a position in the New Order. Ass-Lickers often do!
Remember PNAC and the NEo-cOns and how some of them wrote "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New American Century"??
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the same said group of men (with new additions) have created an off-shoot to PNAC:
http://www.choosingtolead.net/
They have now written a "book" although you can read it in pdf form or on their website called:
"Choosing to Lead: American Foreign Policy for a Disordered World"
I haven't read it yet, but glancing it over it looks like same bullshit, same people, different name...
Here is the Table of Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTION 1
1 Rebuilding American Foreign Policy Eliot Cohen, Eric Edelman, Brian Hook 2
PART II: REBUILDING AMERICA’S ALLIANCES 9
2 America’s Alliances for the 21st Century Eric Edelman 10
3 Europe A. Wess Mitchell 22
4 Western Hemisphere Daniel W. Fisk 29
5 Asia and the Pacific James Shinn 38
6 The Middle East Elliott Abrams 45
7 Africa J. Peter Pham 53
PART III: NATIONAL DEFENSE 62
8 Strategy for the Common Defense Eliot A. Cohen 63
9 Military Readiness and Defense Modernization Jim Talent & Lindsey Neas 73
PART IV: ADDRESSING THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY 84
10 International Terrorism Gen. Michael Hayden & Jamil Jaffer 85
11 Iran Mike Singh 98
12 Afghanistan and Pakistan Paul Miller 107
13 Russia Paula J. Dobriansky & David J. Kramer 121
14 North Korea Dan Blumenthal 132
PART V: CHINA 141
15 U.S. Economic Policy Toward China Leland Miller 142
16 Military Competition with China Jacqueline Deal 152
17 An Integrated China Policy Aaron L. Friedberg 161
PART VI: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 170
18 Connecting Economics and Security Laurence Zuriff 171
19 The Trade Agenda Clay Lowery & John Herrmann 181
PART VII: FUNCTIONAL CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES 189
20 A Strategy of Cyber Deterrence Michael Chertoff & Frank Cilluffo 190
21 Leading Intelligence Michael Allen & Bryan Smith 201
22 Countering Nuclear Threats Robert Joseph & Rebeccah Heinrichs 214
23 Energy Security Jeffrey Kupfer 228
24 International Organizations Kristen Silverberg & Brian Hook 237
25 Democracy and Human Rights Mark Green 246
26 Development Assistance Daniel Runde 256
PART VIII: ORGANIZING FOR SUCCESS 267
27 Implementing an Effective Foreign Policy Peter Feaver & Will Inboden 268
Thx! Folks, get your soveneir guide to Armageddon here:
http://www.choosingtolead.net/s/Choosing-to-Lead.zip
A Zionist masterpiece.
as far as terrorist states and terrorist factions are concerned.
the Bush War of Aggression against Iraq
is the greatest terrorist act of the 21st century
far eclipsing all other recent acts of terrorism
The Tylers have been spreading the pro-Russia propaganda pretty thick lately. I'm going to grab my rubber boots cause the shit is getting pretty deep around here.
LGP
Question, WHY STICK AROUND? Just Curious!
I can only think of one reason, in that, you're PAID to do so.
If not, then you're one sick puppy , refusing to see the light, despite an avalanche of evidence.
Better get a matching trench coat to go with those rubber boots as the shit's about to rise considerably.
It's strange to think that the US is backing NAZIs in Ukraine, Al Qaida in the Middle East, and now trying to set up color revolutions in Central Asia.
Maybe one reason the US is so focused on gays and transgender rights is that the US has, in effect, had its own geopolitical sex change and is now some impotent, raging, confused, maniac with no moral compunction whatsover.
In just the last 2 years, Putin has proved why NATO exists. IF NATO had been disbanded, it would have to be re-created, as Putin has broken all the rules of semi-civilized behavior by annexing part of a sovereign state.
Putin is desperately trying to stay in power, so must create another 'Great Patriotic War' to murder innocents, both Russian & Ukrainian citizens. He has presided over the near death of RF, due to his failure to diversify economy for what... 15 YEARS?!?!
Russian citizens are a bit behind the curve, they've never had the benefit of any drive for a government that respects human dignity. They passed from the Tsars, to the Commissars, then back to the KGB. Putin can play Obama successfully, (who can't?) but it gets him another month in power. He is dead meat!
Is your inability to learn fromn world events born of stupidity, or simply a genetic deficiency?
Lol, did somebody take a wrong turn from the Guardian or some other castrated neo-socialist rag?
I've never believed in "an alternative universe", but then I read your delusional comments, related them to similar nonsense from Obomber, Samantha Power, John McCain, etc. and it does seem that there is "an alternative universe" in which everything is upside down from the reality in this one.
Hannity, take your tripe elsewhere.
I think I've worked it out, Yanks have little Penis Syndrome. They got to have the biggest Burgers, the biggest war machine, even the Gallons are bigger.
But they can't get the job done!!!!!
Somehow the rest of us need to supply them with a rag doll so they can maul the crap out of it, and leave the rest of the world alone.
In Other News All European Member Countries have Ratified an EU-Ukraine Association Agreement which will take effect from 1st Jan 2016 . . . . . Membership remains a DISTANT PROSPECT.
First they let in the DAESH and now the Fucking NAZI PARTY . . . What The Fuck?
Maybe the PLAN is for the Nazis in Kiev to take on Daesh as they were so successful in the Donbass. S/C
You mean in between weapons sales to Daesh?
Affirmative Vic
The only dictator in the world is the one who wields the global reserve currency as a WMD the USA.
While this situation persists there will never be global peace onle ever increasing violence to keep it.
While this situation persists there will never be global peace onle ever increasing violence to keep it.
While this situation persists there will never be global peace onle ever increasing violence to keep it.
Yes GU but the Dolla will slide into the Abyss. Even Daesh have refused to accept payment in this fiat, insisting on Toyota Motos & Parts and/or pics of Kim K's booty.
EuroPeons still haven't figured out who won the second world war for them so how could they grasp the Pedophile Politburo claptrap of Brussels insulting Russia on a daily basis as the limp dick North Amerikan Terror Organ (NATO) does its best to poke the Russian Bear in the hopes of dragging Urupp into a full blown confrontation for their chsoen racer bankster masters and the Washing town thugocracy? This time thank goodness not only will the ignorant Euro masses burn but their equally stupid Mercan cousins.
Meanwhile get ready to blow up the planet and "save" the Saudi Mercan petroscrip toilet paper dollah!
S'truth Fireman a history of the West in a Paragraph.
lol, a zest of truth wrapped up in earthy poetry !
Old polish joke : He that shits on you is not necessarily your enemy. He that pulls you out of the shit is not necessarily your friend.
Since Aldous Huxley day back in 1963 Pax Americana plays a global game where its time and time again : "We are making you an offer you can't refuse"...
It is far worse...
EuroPeons still haven't figured out who STARTED the Second World War for them
FIFY
Most Americans do not know either.
By the way...It was the Wall Street Bankers and America that did that trick...in case you did not know.
READ "Wall Street and Hitler" by Antony Sutton.
https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_Hitler.pdf
We could have stopped that war at ANY TIME...BEFORE OR DURING.
And Heads up...There were few Jews on Wall Street at the time. But Henry Ford and John Rockefeller, along with Preston Bush, had a lot to do with it.
The only problem with Russia is that they love to occupy surrounding countries. If this was not the case, I bet they would like to actually cooperate with them quite extensively.
What countries are they occupying? Stalin was paronoid before WW2 and even more afterward. Thus he occupied eastern Europe. Now that those countries are no longer occupied, and haven't been for a long time, the NATO creep to Russia's borders proved Stalin and the USSR were justified to be paranoid. The Chech Republic, Hungary, and Bulgaria are quite friendly with Russia. Many of the formerly occupied countries were ecstatic to sign on to the South Stream pipeline and only dropped out after getting threats of retaliation from the US. Poland is the most vocal against Russia but that seems to be from hatreds going back centuries and they, and the Baltic States, need US cash to stay afloat with crappy economies and Russian counter sanctions hurting them badly. The coup in Ukraine by the US was a message to all in Europe that to be friendly with Russia would incur the wrath of the US. Europe exported a lot of stuff to Russia and they lost a lot of jobs to obey US sanctions. Many of those jobs are not coming back as many of those companies set up and continue to set up manufacturing plants inside Russia to supply that market. The Russians are known as honest business people who live up to their end of the deal and won't bullshit you. Quite the opposite of the US.
"The only problem with Russia is that they love to occupy surrounding countries."
I think you should consider a refresher course in contemporary world history. ;-)
The USSA is a parasitic, criminally psychotic, ZIO-NeoCON Rogue Regime masquerading as the legitimate USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-oaeN3LaS4
11/22 - 6 min clip on what our govt has done behind our backs with our tax dollars (SGT report)
i live in Germany and when you talk with most germans they think Russia is the problem, they think isis is the problem and is actually a terrorist group, they actually think Assad is the problem, frankly speaking most people have been so dumb down and bamboozle, mesmerized by rubbish on tv that they are not even noticing the draconian laws being enacted by those sociopath burocrates in Brussels. how sad
Your link to a Huffington Post article desytoys all your credibility, I stopped reading after that.
I've just decided to boycott Huffpo due to their "incite a mob with 3 paragraphs articles.. Angry Black mobs outside Trump conventions is their goal today.
Since when has the American government since Admiral Perry honored it's international obligations to the letter?... And I might as well not even bother to mention all of our annexation(s) from Mexico in the middle of 19th Century!...
"Charge of the Light Brigades" for the 21st Century and why the Eastern European CAN NEVER TRUST the West to be an honorable partner in ANYTHING!
Bravo Mr. Zuesse a fine summary of examining the soul-less nature of the American politician and the Republic as a whole, and why a strong Russian and Chinese military is ultimately the only way "Europe" will ever have any hope of keeping the peace!
I don't see any reason whatsoever why the great nations can't live in peace. The US government kills innocent people daily. It's like a narcotic for the corrupt leaders. Not happy unless they are destroying something. The US has held no moral ground or purpose since the end of WWII with their military actions. Vietnam was a total waste. Johnson promised that war to the neocons back then. The US saved nothing and nobody in Vietnam. Only racked up a large body count and brought home broken soldiers. The US has now been at war for more years than at any other time in its history. Shameful.
Because the psychopaths with all the money and their suck up friends, the ones that can get anything they want - are bored with their lives and can't find anything better to do than entertaining themselves by causing misery for others. They're psychopaths, that's what they do.