The Russians may have checkmated the U.S. and NATO today, but the article is a useful reminder of who the world’s number one aggressor has been since World War II. From Mike Whitney at unz.com:
“We want to remind you that Russia has never attacked anyone throughout its history.” Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin spokesman
“NATO leaders are now engaged in the most blatant and irresponsible destabilisation and hybrid war operation since they used Islamic terrorists to destroy Libya and attempted to use them to break up Syria.” Nick Griffin, political analyst and former Member of the European Parliament, Unz Review
Here’s your US Foreign Policy quiz for the day: Which of these militant organizations has the United States supported over the years?
- Marxist guerillas in East Syria (The YPG, The People’s Protection Units, The Syrian Democratic Forces)
- Far-right Neo-Nazis in Ukraine (Ukrainian Security Services, Azov Special Operations Detachment)
- Islamic extremists in Syria, Libya, Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan. (aka– Al Qaida, Al Nusra etc)
- Anti-leftist Death Squads in El Salvador and Nicaragua
- All of the above
If you picked “Number 5”, then pat yourself on the back. That is the right answer. The US has “armed and trained” all of these disparate groups and still supports many of them today. And the reason Washington supports them, is because they help to advance America’s geopolitical agenda. It doesn’t matter if the group is on the “right” or the “left”. It doesn’t matter if they are religious extremists or Godless atheists. What matters is whether they can be turned into an effective fighting force capable of achieving America’s strategic objectives. That is the overriding goal.
Bottom line: Ideology is irrelevant. What matters to Washington is power; pure, iron-fisted power.
