Which one is Putin?
Friends, on the 6th of July, Obama is to visit Moscow and have a chat with the Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin. It all sounds very jolly and friendly, doesn’t it?
Think again! Reuters reports today that Putin said: “If we see that our American partners stop the deployment of new military complexes, missile defence systems or, for example, reconsider their approach to expanding military-political blocs … this would be a great step forward.” Wow! What a mouthful! It’s truly a triumph of optimism over reality.
It boils down to Putin suggesting to America that it stop expanding its military bases which already straddle much of the world; that America stop its plans to put missile bases all over Europe; and that America stop trying to build military-political alliances which are designed to isolate and threaten powers like Russia and neutralize growing powers like India and China. This is equivalent to suggesting to a lion that it become a herbivore.
America, despite its small population (5%), is a nation whose unstated raison de etre, based on its actions, is war! Its manufacturing industry is largely geared to producing the weapons of war either to use or to sell. Even its President is called Commander in Chief and he wears both a civilian hat and an army helmet.
History shows that America engages in wars at the drop of a hat (though it was rather slow to enter WW2). It is involved with several at the moment and others are in the pipeline. It sees much of the world as a threat so, to counter this, it has bases everywhere, bases which its huge debt shows it can’t afford.
The skies of the world are filled with increasing numbers of American spy satellites and American drones which, together with earth-bound listening bases, feed information to underground bunkers where dutiful uniformed men and women take notes and relay their suspicions to generals and admirals and politicians.
War cabinets are held frequently and maps are poured over and options are discussed and risks assessed and plans are made, plans based purely upon America’s perceived security and economic interests as if they were the only things in the world which are important.
So the Putin-Obama meeting will go ahead and clever, devious words will be exchanged and the American lion will leave the meeting still a raging carnivore. America will still possess its military mindset, will still be filled with insecurity, will still maintain its armament manufacturing industries, will still have its armies at the ready, armies filled with deranged people who think that killing those who they are told are their enemies is good and that dying for their country on a battlefield is both glorious and patriotic.
The American war mindset is probably the most dangerous thing that exists in our world today besides the myth of religion. In fact, in America, as in Israel, war and religion have a cozy, incestuous relationship.
America, for purely selfish reasons, keeps our world on a war footing. It promotes war and tensions. It makes sure that no other options see the light of day. Peace is the last thing that the American leadership wants to see (though many American citizens desperately cry out for it)!
How much longer is the rest of the world going to allow this deplorable situation to continue?
Let’s smash the American war machine! Let’s start by getting American military bases off our soil!
No matter how bad the economy becomes the US always has the money for war. Now with health insurance reform coming up one major question is how will we pay for it, but that is never a question when it comes to making war.
One good thing about the economic crisis is that sooner or latter, probably much latter, it will force the US to bring troops home; the only problem being all the death and destruction they will inflict before then. For a lot of working class kids the military, right now, is the only job on town and some still beleive all the propaganda the media spills out about fighting for “our freedom”.
Here in the US the reality of war is hardly ever mentioned; it is seen mostly as glorious and exciting and noble and heroric. Such is the power of propaganda.
Anyone who opposes it is demonized.
Good luck to anyone who wants the US out of their country!
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Apropos Putin, Russia, and the Americans (Obama) turning things op side down.
here a excerpt from the latest by Poul Craig Roberts article “The Big Whorehouse On The Potomac”.
["Washington Post reported President Obama’s claim that Russian Prime Minister Putin is a person who lives partly in the past, with “one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new.”
If Putin has “one foot in the new,” he is ahead of Obama who has both feet in the past.
Obama said that Putin needs to learn that “the old Cold War approaches” to relations with the US are “outdated.”
The Post reported this as if a failure of Putin’s is endangering US/Russian relations.
The Post did NOT point out that it's Obama, NOT Putin, who has wars of aggression against three independent countries--Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, with a fourth war threatened with Iran. We know for a fact these wars originated in Bush administration lies and deception, but Obama continues the occupations and expands the wars, thus endorsing the deceptions. "]
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next step in Danish:
op = up
but
down is NOT dawn!
down = ned
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The lion’s nature is to kill and/or dominate. So who does that resemble… Russia or the USA?
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LT Reply:
July 5th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Wether it’s able to do so or not… that is it’s nature.
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Jeannie, if Americans experienced the horror of war on their soil and occupation as the Europeans have they might be less warlike!
John, Americans, in the main, have no ability to see themselves as they really are. They live in a constant state of conceited derangement something encouraged by those who profit from war!
LT, the important question is whether war and killing is a natural part of man’s nature or whether it is mainly a learned response.
War is not something that civilized people or nations engage in!
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Russia fought off the Jewish Crime Network, and USA is dominated by it, so, of course, we are the marauder.
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I am going to read Galileo’s Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue on the two main world systems).
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“Manifest Destiny” is what the US believes it must follow, for this others have always suffered and will continue to do so.
Would like to draw your attention to a very good article by Dhar Jamail and Jason Coppola in truthout.org -
http://www.truthout.org/070209A
Hope all our American friends had a wonderful 4th of July weekend!
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We are animals, albeit human animals. Animals nevertheless.
I would imagine Obama may see the US as the fierce lion not as the prey. Although it seems he goes there saying to us that if we dont act like the lion, we could easily end up like the antelope(!)
I have been figuring where to use this quote from the novel, Black Beauty. About a horse, but full of words of wisdom for that other animal; humans.
“..in double harness with my mother, because she was steady and could teach me how to go better than a strange horse. She told me the better I behaved the better I should be treated, and that it was wisest always to do my best…; “but,” said she, “there are a great many kinds of men; there are good thoughtful men like our master, that any horse may be proud to serve; and there are bad, cruel men, who never ought to have a horse or dog to call their own. Besides, there are a great many foolish men, vain, ignorant, and careless, who never trouble themselves to think; these spoil more horses than all, just for want of sense; they don’t mean it, but they do it for all that. I hope you will fall into good hands; but a horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him; it is all a chance for us; but still I say, do your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
Sounds good. Must we kill and threaten in order to keep our good name?? Or just or fierce reputation, Then there are al those weapons contracts and money to be made. Never mind our own Constitution and Declaration of Independence warning America to not act so..
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I disagree that Americans are aggressive and want wars. Americans are cowards and go to wars only against weak and poor nations. When Americans deal with strong opponent (like Russia) then they push their puppets, mostly little nations, against their opponent like we saw during the war in the Caucasus in August 2008. But when their puppet gets victimized then Americans do nothing. Americans are not aggressive but cowards without any moral values. US Empire is counting its last days.
Last year
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@Bear
YOU ARE 100% CORRECT!!
Niall Ferguson (historian) wrote a very insightful book on this subject.
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-Rise-Fall-American-Empire/dp/0143034790/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246999305&sr=8-1
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Bear, I think that quite a few people around the world would disagree with your statement that ‘Americans are not aggressive.” I seem to remember Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan…
Cheers.
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We were late in joining WW11 because it was a fight among the ruling class as to which side we would join!
And then the US let the USSR do the brunt of the fighting and only opened the promised second front in Europe in June 1944! After millions of Russians and Germans had died, which was part of the plan.
And the US only joined the fight in WW1 when it was almost over, the Europeans having bloodied themselves into exhaustion. The US bankers looked to lose their investments, so US soldiers were sent “over there”, bringing the flu with them, and wiping out millions more in the process. The intervention of the US defeated Germany soundly, leading to the punishing Treaty of Versailles, which led to WW2, which bloodied Europe again (see above).
For this, Americans berate the French to this day, believing that the US singlehandedly won both wars. Most Americans don’t even know who fought in WW2, or which side Germany and Japan were on.
And we are aggressive and cowardly. We go to war easily, with countries we’ve never heard of, but only small and/or unarmed countries, so that we can kill people without too much harm to ourselves.
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Oh, and have you seen Ecuador? They are kicking the US base out of their country, although President Correa has offered to leave the base if the US will let Ecuador have one in Miami!
How cool is that? The US says it’s in South America to “fight drugs” (yeah, right. To ensure that there is no competition to the CIA’s drug running).
So shouldn’t Ecuador have a base in the capital city of the USA’s drug business?
Come on, Australia! Get the US out.
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David G Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 8:53 am
That really is cool, Wagelaborer! Good on Ecuador. If only more nations would follow suit it would strangle the ugly American Empire.
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