According to Reuters, "NATO will consider permanently stationing forces in eastern Europe, something it has refrained from doing in the 15 years since the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined the alliance after the fall of the Berlin wall." The aim of the Obama Administration seems to be that Russia will be compelled, by public opinion back home in Russia, to send into Ukraine, planes, tanks, and troops, to stop the U.S. stooge-regime in Kiev from bombing Russian-speakers in Ukraine's southeast, at which point the U.S. can then claim that "Russia's aggression" is proven, and the U.S. can then go to war against Russia's invading forces. Russia seems not willing to comply and to provide Washington the pretext it seeks for an outright U.S. invasion of Ukraine to protect the Ukrainian people from "Russian aggression" there. The Reuters report further says that, "the United States and NATO allies want to show Moscow that former Soviet republics on the Baltic are under the alliance's security umbrella." When the Soviet Union tried to show Washington that America's nearby neighbor, Cuba, was under the Soviet Union's security umbrella, John F. Kennedy said no, he wouldn't allow it; and Russia's Vladimir Putin will do the same this time around. The only difference between then and now is that, then, Khruschev could claim the capitalist-communist ideological divide as being ultimately behind his effort to threaten the United States with missiles; but, now, Obama doesn't have any such ideological excuse. If anything, it is Putin who comes across as the seeker-of-peace here.
The mass-murder of residents in Ukraine's southeast by Obama and his stooges will probably fail to produce the effect that he had been hoping for.
The great progressive, but former conservative, Paul Craig Roberts, recently wrote about the fissures that are now beginning to emerge at the very top of the Kiev regime's outright Ukrainian-nazi power-structure, between Arsen Avakov and Dmitry Yarosh; and Roberts then succinctly describes what seems to be a natural reconstruction of what is going through Vladimir Putin's mind now. It makes remarkable sense:
"This is what Putin thinks: The Americans promised Gorbachev that they would not take NATO into Eastern Europe, but the Americans did. The Americans withdrew from the ABM Treaty, which prohibited escalating the arms race with anti-ballistic missile systems [systems designed to give the U.S. first-strike nuclear ability to wipe out Russia without Russia being able to attack the U.S. in response]. The Americans arranged with Poland to deploy anti-ballistic missile bases on Poland's border with Russia. The Americans tell us the fantastic lie that the purpose of American missile bases in Poland is to protect Europe from non-existent Iranian ICBMs. The Americans change their war doctrine to elevate nuclear weapons from a retaliatory deterrent to a pre-emptive first strike force. The Americans pretend that this change in war doctrine is directed at terrorists, but we know it is directed at Russia. The Americans have financed 'color revolutions' in Georgia and Ukraine and hope to do so in the Russian Federation itself. The Americans support the terrorists in Chechnya. The Americans trained and equipped the Georgian military and gave it the green light to attack our peacekeepers in South Ossetia. The Americans have financed the overthrow of the elected government in Ukraine and blame me for the anxiety this caused among Crimeans who on their own volition fled Ukraine and returned to Russia from whence they came. Even Gorbachev said that Khrushchev should never have put Crimea into Ukraine. Solzhenitsyn said that Lenin should not have put Russian provinces into eastern and southern Ukraine. Now I have these Russian provinces agitating to return to Russia, and the Americans are blaming me for the consequences of their own reckless and irresponsible actions."
Perhaps, to Putin, Obama looks to be stupid; but Putin's public words regarding the America President are so conciliatory as to make excruciatingly painful Obama's continued demonizing of him. Putin is letting Obama punch himself right over the ropes and outside the ring, into the aghast audience.
Maybe we are watching Barack Obama flush himself down history's toilet, because Republicans need to despise him for being a "Democrat," and Democrats have to be idiots to continue thinking he's actually one of them. He's instead the greatest gift that the Republican Party (which gave us the scandalously vile George W. Bush) can have, in order to make this nation feel now actually nostalgic about Bush's Presidency. Obama is the lowest-regarded of all living Presidents or former Presidents, considerably below GWB. Watching his Presidency collapse is sort of like watching America's dreams about itself go up in smoke. It is amazing.
Something's gone really bad in America. Two Presidents in a row like this, and: What's next? As long as America's media keep lying to us like they've been doing, it can only be a continuation of very bad surprises. And the aristocracy, who own those media, will blame the American public for it. How neat.
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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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