US is pushing Russia into Cold War (and Europe too)

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This is not what the world needed. And as usual, a compliant American media will not bother teaching Americans the historical context. Nato is pushing Russia into a new Cold War (see below posts as to the reason), but also Europe. Europeans aren't as compliant as Americans who are on the whole, detached and do not have any collective memory of what living during the Cold War, in the midst of it all (think fall-out), was like. Excerpt from 'US is pushing Russia into Cold War' ;

As so often, the Americans are proving a menace on the international stage.

And the term humbug is wholly inadequate to describe the reproaches that President Bush heaps on the Russians.

As are reckless and irresponsible to describe the use of the U.S. military to carry humanitarian aid to Georgia. That is the way conflicts can escalate.

That's right. aid can come through neutral bodies such as the Un or the Red Cross except neutrality and the 'pissing context-factor' is still at hand. Russia is not putting up with this and I hope to God that neither will the Europeans. Come on Europe, you've got a stable Euro vs a very weak dollar.. show or grow some spine!

Ok..one more excerpt;

It is easy to imagine the frenzy in Washington if Russia treated the U.S.'s Latin American neighbours as though they were within its sphere of influence.

One question has been lingering for years.


Whatever made Washington think it could keep pushing Nato right up to Russia's border without provoking conflict?

Some European governments have long been uneasy about this provocative strategy, but never the United States.


This dangerous recruitment drive started under President Clinton.

Now we have Poland and the Czech Republic agreeing to U.S. missile and radar sites.

Did you get some of these points? It was started under Clinton. A democrat. So whatever 'force' is behind this, neither party can be trusted. Democrat or Republican.

Another one is the fact that the US has continued provocation and it only shows more clearly now. What are you, the ordinary US citizen going to do? What can you do? That's right, nothing. Either 'you' want or you can't. Don't you just love living in the greatest democracy of the world where you can't or people won't?

think about it..

The continued notion of Nato

US missile launch, Russia blog asks, does E stand for Expansion? Exclusion? Engagement?


Adrian Hamilton argues that the West, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the coming down of the Iron Curtain, continued its Cold war mindset by trying to expand eastward and accepting and/or opening up towards new states post USSR. In his "We Are Still Fighting The Cold War" he dismisses EU minister Jim Murphy (in charge of the foreign policy announcements) when Murphy says; "[that] Georgia, or anyone else, had the right to apply for membership of Nato and the EU without Russia asserting a veto."


In fact, Hamilton argues it is the institutions themsevles that ought NOT to allow Georgia and some of the other nations into Nato or the EU:
"Georgia has no contiguous border with the EU and meets none of the economic requirements for membership of an organisation that has already got itself into enough problems with trying to absorb Bulgaria and Romania prematurely without a new member lacking even common borders."

"Nato membership is even more problematic. The US wants Georgia as an inroad into the Russian sphere of influence, Georgia wants membership to give it a military backing against Russia. Yet, as Chancellor Merkel keeps pointing out, it is not in Nato's interests to be dragged into the kind of territorial squabble that we have just witnessed."

Let me repeat what I put in bold and italics;

The US wants Georgia as an inroad into the Russian sphere of influence.. do I need to say it again?

"Punishing Russia for its actions would only serve further to damage our own interests for the sake of disguising our impotence. The military co-operation now halted was primarily concerned with disabling nuclear arsenals. The EU-Russian economic association discussions have as a main spring talks on energy security of crucial importance to ourselves. Worst of all is the step of holding G7 meetings without Russia. The G8 is an association of industrialised nations aimed at improving international co-operation on economic issues. Never has that co-operation been more needed."

Not that he sees no problems with Russia, but he's putting the onus on the EU and the US to behave rationally and approach it with Europe's 'reality-based' politics.. not the US's neocons' version that allows for invasions of oil countries and expects to get away with fooling around in someone else's backyard.

Read his whole commentary and do not leave out the comment section. So many people are having their eyes open it's nice to see that more and more do not follow the official BBC and CNN and (blech) Fox lines of Russia bad, Georgia good. Punish Punish Punish!!

While you're at it, check out 'Why Russians Feel Squeezed by Nato Expansion.