Grand Puppetmaster Brzezinski: Directing War Strategies from the Shadows

"From the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other perceived enemies like China and Iran. It has brought 12 countries in central Europe, all of them formerly allied with Moscow, into the NATO alliance. US military power is now directly on Russia's borders"This crisis is in part the result of a zero-sum calculation that has shaped US policy toward Moscow since the Cold War: Any loss for Russia is an American victory, and anything positive that happens to, for, or in Russia is bad for the United States. This is an approach that intensifies confrontation, rather than soothing it." ~~ Stephen Kinzer, "US a full partner in Ukraine debacle", Boston Globe

"We have removed all of our heavy weapons from the European part of Russia and put them behind the Urals" and "reduced our Armed Forces by 300,000. We have taken several other steps required by the Adapted Conventional Armed Forces Treaty in Europe (ACAF). But what have we seen in response? Eastern Europe is receiving new weapons, two new military bases are being set up in Romania and in Bulgaria, and there are two new missile launch areas -- a radar in Czech republic and missile systems in Poland. And we are asking ourselves the question: what is going on? Russia is disarming unilaterally. But if we disarm unilaterally then we would like to see our partners be willing to do the same thing in Europe. On the contrary, Europe is being pumped full of new weapons systems. And of course we cannot help but be concerned." ~~ Russian President Vladimir Putin, Munich Conference on Security Policy, February 2007

The Obama administration's rationale for supporting the fascist-led coup in Ukraine collapsed on Wednesday when a "hacked" phone call between EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet revealed that the snipers who fired on protestors in Maidan Square in Kiev were not aligned with President Viktor Yanukovych, but with the protest leaders themselves. The significance of the discovery cannot be overstated since the Obama team has used the killing of protestors to justify its support for the new imposter government. Now it appears that members of the new government may be implicated in the killing of innocent civilians. This new information could force Obama to withdraw his support for the coup plotters in Kiev, which would derail the administration's plan to remove Russia from the Crimea and expand NATO into Ukraine. Here's a short recap of the details from an article in Russia Today:

"Estonian foreign ministry has confirmed the recording of his conversation with EU foreign policy chief is authentic. Urmas Paet said that snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were hired by Maidan leaders.

"During the conversation, Paet stressed that 'there is now stronger and stronger understanding that behind the snipers, it was not Yanukovich, but it was somebody from the new coalition...'

"The Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also issued a statement on its website, saying that the recording of the leaked telephone conversation between Paet and Ashton is 'authentic.'" ("Estonian Foreign Ministry confirms authenticity of leaked call on Kiev snipers," Russia Today)

To its credit, the UK Guardian published an article reporting the basic facts, but there's been no coverage by the New York Times, the Washington Post or any of the major TV News networks. America's elite media are engaged in a coordinated news blackout to keep people from seeing that the Obama administration and their EU collaborators are supporting a group of far-right extremists who were directly involved in the killing of civilians in order to topple a democratically-elected government. Here's more from the same article:

"...'there is a stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not Yanukovych, it was somebody from the new coalition,' Paet says...'the same handwriting, the same type of bullets, and it's really disturbing that now the new coalition, that they don't want to investigate what exactly happened.'" ("Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals conspiracy theory about Kiev snipers," Guardian)

There won't be an investigation because an investigation would reveal the truth, and the truth would undermine Obama's plan to install a puppet regime in Kiev. The new government has already shown that it is more than willing to do Washington's bidding; that is, to impose austerity measures on the working people of Ukraine, to pay off fatcat bondholders in Berlin and Brussels via more extortionist IMF loans, to extend NATO to Russia's border in contravention of agreements made with Bush the Elder following the fall of the Berlin Wall, and to pursue the crackpot dreams of global hegemony laid out in "The Grand Chessboard" by New World Order fantasist Zbigniew Brzezinski. These are the primary objectives of the present policy which could be upended by the allegations of foul play.

The smoking-gun revelations of the hacked phone call came just hours before US officials indicated they were planning to increase their military footprint in Eastern Europe. According to the World Socialist Web Site:

"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the Pentagon will boost joint training of NATO forces in Poland and step up NATO air patrols in the Baltics...US military officials said they were deploying six F-15 fighter jets and KC-135 transport planes...One guided-missile frigate, the USS Taylor, is still in a Black Sea port in Turkey after patrolling the region during the Sochi Olympics...

"Turkish officials confirmed that they had given a US Navy warship permission to pass through the Bosphorus straits into the Black Sea, which borders Ukraine." ("Amid Ukraine crisis, US launches military escalation in Eastern Europe," World Socialist Web Site)

Also Russia Today reports that: "The guided missile destroyer, the USS Truxton, is heading to the Black Sea, for what the US military said is a "routine" deployment...The ship has a crew of about 300 and is part of an aircraft carrier strike group that left the US in mid-February." ("US navy confirms missile destroyer USS Truxton approaching the Black Sea," RT)

"Routine deployment"? So provoking a war with Russia is "routine"? Talk about understatement.

The military escalation occurs in an atmosphere of heightened tension between the two nuclear-armed powers and will certainly add to their mutual distrust. Hagel's deployment is consistent with a plan for antagonizing Moscow that was proposed just days earlier in the Washington Post by the Obama administration's ideological godfather, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Here's a bit of what Brzezinski had to say in the article titled "What is to be done? Putin's aggression in Ukraine needs a response":

"...the West should promptly recognize the current government of Ukraine as legitimate. Uncertainty regarding its legal status could tempt Putin to repeat his Crimean charade...

"The West should convey... that the Ukrainian army can count on immediate and direct Western aid so as to enhance its defensive capabilities. There should be no doubt left in Putin's mind that an attack on Ukraine would precipitate a prolonged and costly engagement, and Ukrainians should not fear that they would be left in the lurch.