BONUS FEATURE Dmitry Orlov: “It Can Always Get Worse. There Is No Limit to…
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MIKE WHITNEY—The issue, of course, could have been resolved long ago if Washington had acted in good faith, but Washington has not acted in good faith. In fact, Washington is still determined to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia in order to implement its “pivot to Asia” strategy to ensure its future as the world’s only unchallenged superpower. These goals cannot be achieved without escalation, confrontation and a full-blown war. The NATO summit is merely a prelude to a broader and more violent conflict between the nuclear superpowers.
The question we should be asking ourselves is whether NATO can actually win a war with Russia. Can it? The answer is “No”, it cannot.
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EDITOR—Probably jockeying for a position in the Trump administration, Lindsay Graham, US Senator for South Carolina, and one of the most revolting and depraved politicians ever produced by the US ruling elites (and we know this establishment produces some real prizes) admits that much of the reason for the Ukraine war is plain old conquest and plunder. With a view, of course, of triggering regime change in Moscow and later capturing and dismantling Russia. (This has been the West’s wet dream for at least 75 years if not longer). ALSO: Criticism of sickening “Hostage Rescue” raid, with US soldiers (US Special Forces?) backing up the IDF killers. It’s clear US full-bore partnership in Israel’s war against Palestinians is a war crime. The testimony is soul-crushing: “Video of a Palestinian boy in Gaza has gone viral in which he says members of his family were shot and killed by American soldiers during the recent raid to recover Israeli hostages. The boy says the soldiers were definitely not Israeli, and in addition to killing his brother they also shot him in the finger, tied his hands behind his back and put out a cigarette on his neck.
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BILLY BOB—Despite Mearsheimer’s eminent reputation, the tremendous respect which he commands, and his accurate and scathing indictment of Western foreign policy, his framework is surprisingly shallow and lacking in even a basic grasp of “how the world actually works”. Why do I say this and what do I mean? For starters, Mearsheimer is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who seemingly has never even heard of the concept of class. There are innumerable instances throughout history of seemingly inexplicable behavior that the lens of liberalism is incapable of explaining. Only when one adopts the lens of oppositional class interests and class struggle does history even begin to make any sense. The same is true regarding contemporary reality.
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EDITOR—Garland dives deep to explore the nature of Ukraine and the Ukraine War (“the Ukraine Project”, as US neocons call it). For starters, Garland affirms that Ukraine is not so much a nation, let alone an independent, sovereign nation, as Western propaganda claims, as a tool of the West to harm and irritate Russia so as to provoke the conditions for social turmoil that could usher in the overthrow of Vladimir Putin. Ukraine is not making the critical war decisions, notes Garland, and this is especially true for the deployment and use of advanced weapons, whose use is decided and implemented entirely by NATO.
The ultimate end is to remove Russia as a great, peer power blocking US global domination, and the same goes for China and other powers such as Iran, Brazil, and others that may aspire to independent action and sovereign multilateralism. The strategy being used by the West is constant terrorism and war. Having lost the war in Ukraine, a huge humiliation, the West is clearly engaged in a campaign of indefinite terrorism inside the Russian Federation and its BRICS allies. In this effort, the West relies on numerous “assets” cynically created over the years, chiefly ISIS, al-Qaeda and other extreme jihadists.
