Bush is aching for a new Cold War. It would suit his short term agenda to isolate Russia and China and would hope to forestall the coming shift in energy resources away from the U.S. as Russia and China bargain for a bigger share of the world's oil. The U.S. assumes the world’s oil is ours for the taking, but, some less-than-friendly oil-producing nations which we rely on to supply our country’s insatiable consumption, are looking to replace the share of their oil they’ve promised to the U.S. and give that business to China.
Putin is rumored to be seeking the same defensive shift in oil partnerships which would favor countries the U.S. would rather they not associate with, but are more compliant to their interests than an increasingly arrogant America. The Bush regime sees the prospect of Russia’s shifting alliances as threats to the U.S. 'national security'; defensible using the same military force they used to crush Iraq and Afghanistan, merely citing the target country as a ‘threat to national security.’
The Bush regime would like nothing more than for Russia and China to be regarded as pariahs in the world community, especially now that their votes will likely be determining factors in Bush's scheme to get a force resolution against Iran out of the U.N.
The Pentagon is set to ask Congress for a $1.6b 'anti-missile' base in Eastern Europe to defend against, what they claim, is a threat to the region from Iran's ballistic missiles.
Under consideration are sites in countries like Poland and the Czech Republic. The prospect of these former Soviet satellites aligning with the U.S. against a major economic ally of Russia’s is a retreat from the cooperation that marked the security agreements made between Russia and NATO after Sept.11.
Cheney visited Kazakhstan a few weeks back to coerce them into bypassing Russia with their oil pipeline and supply the West directly through Turkey. He did this right after trashing the Putin government at a conference in Lithuania, right in the midst of U.S. efforts to punish one of Russia's major oil partners, Iran, for 'unanswered questions' about its nuclear program.
It's not clear what Cheney got from Kazakhstan, but today it was reported that the former Soviet republic has begun to supply China through its pipeline which links the two countries. China, the world's number two oil consumer next to the U.S., is poised to receive 20 million metric tons of oil a year.
Russia's president Putin answered the Bush regime's jingoistic catcalls at a EU conference today with an open dig at Bush's imperious reign. "We see how the United States defends its interests, we see what methods and means they use for this," Putin said.
The Bush regime would be more than satisfied to isolate Russia, and China as well, with a manufactured pall of suspicion and fear, making oil-producing nations reluctant to do business with them out of fear of U.S. retaliation.
The 'Chinese military buildup' reports from the Pentagon, which have surfaced in the past week, are old and deliberately released to discredit China, isolating them and their vote in advance of the Security Council action against Iran that the Bush regime has been pushing for and expects as early as June.
The weapon’s systems the Pentagon and US analysts are citing are no secret and have been under development for years. There is no surprising new threat.
The Financial Times reported today that, "it was unclear what aspects of Beijing’s development of its nuclear missile forces had surprised US analysts. The report merely cited information about the introduction of new weapons such as the solid-fuelled, road-mobile DF-31 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which has been under development for decades.
The level and intensity of our government's manipulation are astounding, and should give a pause to those who continue to let the Bush regime set the agenda at the U.N.
This is nothing but a Pentagon production which FOX News has been broadcasting for two days like there's some new threat. All of this plays right into the PNAC world domination scheme which can be used to justify their planned missile defense boondoggles they want to spread around Eastern Europe.
And, it meshes with their fear campaign which gives Bush his only relevance as our chimp commander and allows him to continue to brandish the specter of national security as he subverts our constitution and our laws.
Be very afraid . . . of the Bush regime and their destabilizing propaganda. Do they want a new cold war? They're angling for one. These brainless, unschooled megalomaniac see a short term plus in their agenda to isolate Iran and those who would dare to trade with them.
Ron Fullwood, is an activist from Columbia, Md. and the author of the book 'Power of Mischief' : Military Industry Executives are Making Bush Policy and the Country is Paying the Price
There is a highly circulating open letter from general Leonid Ivashov to the Russian Defense Minister S. Ivanov practically accusing Ivanov of selling Russia to NATO. That position is very popular among the powerful Russian Officers Association.
In dealings with Russia the US actually behaves like a money- grabbing gangster. There is no 'Russian policy'. There is only push and shove. The US in may cases is being 'led' by the slick Europeans as a shark with big teeth but no brain. It was not in the US interests to push for the partition of the former Soviet Union and openly help the separatists in Ukraine and Asian districts. It was in the private interests. It was not in the US interests as a country to destroy Jugoslavia. Whoever directs the US policy towards the slavic countries is a traitor to the US interests. Those individuals put our citizens at mortal danger. There is no Cold War: there is a a very much looming real war and we already have casulaties. It is interesting to see that the letter by general Ivashov practically says the same thing about Russian leadership I say here. In both cases, whether here or there we deal with the low- level scum selling the interests of their countries to highest bidder. Only our scum makes noises about democracy and their scum- about stability. In both cases the real cause that scum rules is that we, the populus let them do that.
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Mark Sashine (42 articles, 19 quicklinks, 227 diaries, 3219 comments)
on Friday, May 26, 2006 at 11:51:08 AM
