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The Russian Bear rouses from Hibernation

kingfisher | 12.02.2007 12:58 | Analysis | Globalisation | World

Speaking at the Munich security conference, Vladimir Putin took the opportunity to denounce America for its pursuit of world domination. Putin's verbal attack lacked the clout the old Soviet Union once possessed, however, the message was not lost on the Americans who immediately went into recovery/spin mode regarding their hegemonic pursuits.

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America's ambitions were made plain by arch-neoconservative, Richard Perle, who stated that after the fall of the Soviet Union America was perfectly positioned to impose its will onto the world - PNAC without the gloss! This 'philosophy' is shared by other rabid sociopaths of note, particularly Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice and the retired (damage is done) Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney's terminology of "taking out" regimes and leaders who obstruct America's Middle East oil supplies is indicative of a brutish approach that has resulted in a horrendous civilian death toll in Iraq.

The brutish, cowboy logic of the neo-cons is personified in the imbecile, Bush, whose repertoire of political skills amounts to the garbled mutterings of a caveman and the application of brute force! Putin merely stated what analysts and commentators have known for years, however, it was the assertion or the act of open opposition to U.S. ambitions that is worthy of some analysis. It would seem that Russia has learnt from its previous blunders in the Balkans and is now quietly but steadfastly supporting its traditional ally, Serbia, in relation to Kosovo and Serbian sovereignty.

The proposed installation of U.S. anti-missile 'defence' systems in Poland and the Czech Republic (clearly targeting Russia) may have had 'some' bearing on Putin's verbal attack on American military expansionism. It may have finally dawned on the Russian body politic that America could care less about the chaos it inflicts as long as its primary aims of securing energy reserves and preparing for all-out conflict/war with Russia and China are fulfilled. America has made no secret of the fact that it "must fight" China one day - that day would seem nearer than most anticipated. The cowboy logic of this 'town' isn't big enough for the three of us typifies the limitations of the current regime!

The facts are plain; America has expressed no interest in arriving at shared, cooperative solutions to the world's problems, it wants it all and will stop at nothing to achieve its sociopathic aims (PNAC). If we use the single criterion of civilian casualties as defining terrorist activity, the USA leads all other groups as the most criminal terrorist organisation in the world! The few thousand deaths attributed to al-Qaeda are dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths the U.S. is directly responsible for in Iraq. The U.S. commits its crimes with the impunity that hegemony offers!

The Sino-Russian alliance has no choice but to face the option of an instant, decisive, overwhelming, pre-emptive response to the threat it now faces or to suffer horrendous defeat in the near future.

The psychopath MUST be eliminated. Facts speak louder than spin. The most destructive nation in the world today is AMERICA - the proof is on the nightly news, if you would care to face the ugly truth!


We are ONE.

Full english transcript of Putin speech available:
link to cleaves.zapto.org

homepage:  http://cleaves.zapto.org/clv/newswire.php?story_id=405

kingfisher

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Are you saying

12.02.2007 13:37

Russia should launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on The United States just to kill Bush?

Gungadin


thousands protested against the NATO-security conference in Munic

12.02.2007 17:05

ben


NATO is nasty

12.02.2007 22:05

If NATO is so nasty, why has the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the organisation in the last few years?

yosser


Wrong about Russia

13.02.2007 13:23

This seems to be a classic example of Nic Cohen's theory about how the left has made itself look really, really stupid by automatically siding with anyone opposed to the US.

Russia's treatment of its own citizens' human rights is far worse than the US'. Its interventions in Chechnya have not exactly been brilliant, either. Try reading Putin's Russia by the recently murdered journalist Anna Politskyova. And while there's hope on the horizon in the US (with the election next year), Russia seems to be slipping back towards totalitarianism.

The piece also contains several obviously wrong generalisations, for instance:

"America has expressed no interest in arriving at shared, cooperative solutions to the world's problems."

Erm, apart from today's announcement which will help avert a nuclear war with North Korea?

Norville B


@yosser:

13.02.2007 16:30

NATO is nasty, yes. It is the sword of capitalism

zara


@zara:

13.02.2007 18:01

so 100 million people have joined a nasty organisation in the last ten years? Why?

yosser


Why

13.02.2007 21:06

Yosser:

Because the elites of those countries want to be rich and wealthy like us, so they choose to side with the global bully in the hope some of the oil loot we plunder from the Middle East will drift their way.

Djinn


not the people; the governments

14.02.2007 09:40

not the people joined the NATO - the capitalist governments joined the NATO- that makes a big difference

zara


capitalist governments

14.02.2007 18:46

... funny - I thought countries like Latvia were democracies ... perhaps we should change the people.

josser


@josser: you seem to be very brainwashed

15.02.2007 20:37

choosing between 2 puppets of the capital is not electing.

therefore capitalist states are no real democracies.

zara


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