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Cold War Politics Heats Up
Washington demands Russia surrender its sovereignty to America.
by Stephen Lendman
Previous articles discussed how Washington reinvented the "evil empire." On March 8, 1983, Ronald Reagan coined the term. He addressed the National Association of Evangelicals.
He called communism "the focus of evil in the modern world." He said don't "ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire".and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil."
That was then. This is now. Cold War politics returned. Vladimir Putin is prime target. Boris Yeltsin was Russia's first president. He played Washington's game. He instituted neoliberal shock therapy.
He ignored essential human needs. He let corruption and other criminality flourish. He surrounded himself with likeminded apparachiks. He institutionalized pro-Western free market rapaciousness.
He let Russia's oligarch class accumulate enormous wealth at the expense of suffering millions. Decades may be needed to recoup the enormous damage he caused.
Putin and former President Dmitry Medvedev haven't done much to change things. Modernizing Russia's economy inflicts horrendous harm. Creating a favorable investment climate makes ordinary people suffer.
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