Atilio Boron: In connection with the murder of the Russian ambassador in Ankara

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ATILIO BORON

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The growing role of Russia in international affairs is a cause of great concern for the ill-named “Western” Democracies”, in reality nothing but a group of sordid and immoral plutocracies willing to sacrifice their own people on the altar of the market. 

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Concern because after the disintegration of the Soviet Union Russia was given up for dead by many brainy analysts and experts from the United States and Europe. Mired in their self-inflicted ignorance and blinded by prejudice they forgot that Russia had been, since the beginning of the eighteenth century under the scepter of Peter the Great and, above all, during the reign of Catherine the Great at the midpoint in the same century, one of the major powers of Europe, whose intervention used to tip the balance in the ongoing conflicts between its western neighbours, especially the United Kingdom, France and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Forgetting history invariably ends up producing rude errors of analysis, the sort of perplexing situations which are now vexing Western strategists.

The Russian revolution and the collapse of the czars caused a transient eclipse in Russia’s prominent role in world affairs, which many thought would be final. However, the allied victory in World War II and the crucial role the Soviet Union played in that conflict, besides her formidable post-war economic recovery, permitted Moscow to resume its traditional high rank in the comity of nations. For almost half a century the summit of international system had the mark of bi-Polarity, with the west and the (again) so-called “free world” on one side and the Soviet Union and its allies on the other.

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]ith the sudden implosion of the Soviet Union many again believed, that now, yeah, at last, Russia would disappear forever and that “a new American century” marked by the undisputed unipolar hegemony of the United States, freed from its traditional adversary, and with China still far from becoming what it would become a few years later, would be the new global reality.

The replay of history proved, however, devastating to such dreamers. As noted by Eduardo Febbro in his essay last Sunday, ” There’s no ground where king Putin has not beaten his opponents: crushed the revolt in Chechnya, won in Syria, annexed Crimea [actually Crimeans freely voted to return to the Russian Federation], without intervening militarily, he assured that separatist Ukrainians in Novorossiya would not be forced to pass under NATO/European influence, restored order in Georgia and Ossetia, and of course, managed to ward off much of the pressure laid at his door by a vassal Europe. Seventeen years after having reached the top of power this shy former Lieutenant Colonel of the secret service, the KGB, is today the key political figure of the twenty-first century.”

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he alliance of Russia with China and the subsequent incorporation of Iran and India [the latter still very much a treacherous partner in these realignment of forces] and the more patient and cunning rapprochement with Turkey represent the “worst case scenario” for the declining global hegemony of the United States, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, Washington’s russophobic senior Eastern European strategist.

The Murder of Andrei Karlov in Ankara has two transparent purposes: one, to prevent Turkey—currently host to the impressive US air force base in Incirlik, with a permanent garrison of about five thousand men—from being drawn into Moscow’s orbit, thereby depriving NATO of a key location to complete from the Eastern Mediterranean the encirclement of Russia, which begins in the north with the Baltic countries.

Two, to serve notice to Russia that the West will not stand idly by while Putin gains strength and prestige by putting an end to the chaos the United States and its allies have sown in Syria [and elsewhere], a horrendous  situation they couldn’t or wouldn’t solve.

Karlov’s murder (probably by a patsy who may not have been told he was going to be killed on the spot—Eds.) may well be a provocation—an act that has parallels with the assassination of Archduke Franz Josef of Austria in Sarajevo, in 1914—since it could trigger a war if the affected party—Russia—were to react impulsively.

But if a character as controversial as Putin has demonstrated anything so far it is that he cannot be accused of being a loose cannon. President Putin is a political player distinguished for being cerebral and thoughtful, a man who plays with amazing calm in the hot chessboard of world politics. The crime perpetrated in Ankara was clearly a mafia message directed at Moscow. That’s why the Jihadist who carried out the murder was “terminated” right then and there, sealing his mouth forever. Western services are experts at recruiting suspected radicals to perpetrate crimes that maintain the continuity of the Empire.

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