Russia-US: global warming after Ice Age?
06 July, 2009
The amazing and tragic events in South Ossetia last August seem to baffle most Western experts. While a majority of them fall back on the 'safe' position of blaming Russia for everything others, in particularly on the Left, appear to be rather unsure of what to think of all this; many basically ignore the issue altogether. In contrast to the Leftist blogosphere or to the free and independent press, the corporate media immediately understood that this was, yet again, a perfect opportunity to prove to its political and corporate masters what a loyal propaganda tool it is. While CNN basically used an 24/7 'open mike' policy towards Saakashvili, the rest of the US and European media uniformly bought into the US propaganda on the causes and effects of this conflict. This purely ideological approach to the Ossetia crisis ended up blinding almost everyone to the real nature of what is going on.
In August 2008, it was quiet amusing to hear on CNN, Fox News, etc how the Bush and Condoleezza Rice threatens Russia with long term damage in their relationship. Think about it: is there anything, anything at all, short of a nuclear war, which the Bush administration could do to Russia which it had not already done? One crackpot at the Necons Heritage Foundation was seriously suggesting that the West should prevent Russia from hosting the Olympic games. Some threat! A marginally more realistic option is for the West to implement some kind of economic sanctions except this idea overlooks two simple facts: first, Russia does not need the West, but the West needs Russia (think Iran and Afganistan, think North Korea, think oil) and second, this ignores the fact that most of the planet has no interest whatsoever in cutting down economic ties with Russia.
In their seemingly incurable imperial hubris, the Imperial Overloards in the West think that they can threaten Russia with a worsening of relations while in reality it is Russia which could threaten the West. The Russians won't threaten though; there is a basic tenet of Russian hardball play which says that one should never threaten, never promise and only take direct action. This is exactly what happened in South Ossetia.
The Russians, both the people in the Kremlin and the general population were so angry at the West because they (correctly) felt that the West hates them and has being waging a unilateral war against everything Russian since 1991. They are angry because the double-standards and the hypocrisy of the West are simply too immense to fully comprehend. For example, it is mind boggling that the Bushs Representative at the United Nations SC accused Russia of using disproportionate actions in Georgia when the NATO found it legitimate to bomb all of Serbia and Montenegro during its aggression on Kosovo. What about Iraq disaster? Two decade of we hate you messages from the West have not fallen on deaf ears in Russia and, unfortunately, after Georgian war the feeling has become very mutual. The outraged Russian anger at the West after Georgian aggression last August was of a comparable fundamental quality, if not magnitude, to the one the Russians felt against the Nazis in WWII. It is fueled by an acceptance that Russia itself is being attack by an uncompromising and evil foe which cannot be dealt with anything other than force. Those of you who have seen Russian TV and movies recently can attest that they are literally filled with stories about WWII and how the Russian people had to accept the greatest of hardships to prevail; some will call it propaganda, which it is in many aspects, but it is also the expression of a popular mindset, of a mental mode which says that you have to fight to survive.
The ugly attack by Bush's Georgian puppet on the Russian peacekeepers combined with failed genocide in South Ossetia was topped with the absolutely amazing hypocrisy of the Western media and politicians who all fully sided with the aggressor turned into something of a last straw for Russia. This seemingly marginal development, at least when assessed quantitatively (what else is new?) ended up making a huge qualitative difference: it brought up a new Russian resolve to deal with, to use a favorite Neocon expression, an existential threat represented by the Western Empire. It will take a long while for the West to realize what has really happened and the most obtuse of pundits and politicians will probably hang on to their usual self-righteous rhetoric forever, but historians will probably look back at the month of August 2008 as the moment when Russia decided to strike back against the Evil Force of Bush's Western Empire for the first time since the Hitler's WW2
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Заявление Дмитрия Медведеваby kremlin63,786 views
Russia+USA=pease!!
DeviantartDen 2 years ago 7
@viktor19ss да уж, на самого ВладимВладимыча крамолу наводит. постыдился бы так по солнцеподобного то
Trupoed0 11 months ago 3