Comments by "Michael Mappin" (@michaelmappin1830) on "The Grayzone"
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@callummcmac4079 what the United States wants to do to Russia is a matter of public record. Individuals such as Zbigniew Brzezinsk are on record saying they want to make Russia bleed as much and for as long as possible.
▪ Zbigniew Brzezinsk, formal National Security advisor of the United States, 1996:
"Ukraine, an important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. If we can control Ukraine, then we can control Russia."
▪ "In the biggest power grab since George Bush seized Eastern Europe and converted it into a NATO bastion confronting Russia, the Obama regime, together with the EU, financed and organized a violent putsch in the Ukraine which established a puppet regime in Kiev."
~ James Petras, 2014 (the American Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social Research, and Journal of Peasant Studies).
▪ Noam Chomsky:
"In 2014, a Russia-supported government in Ukraine was forcefully removed from power by a coup supported by the U.S. and replaced by a U.S. and European-backed government. It was a development that brought closer to war the two main antagonists of the Cold War era, as Moscow regards both U.S. and European involvement in Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) continued eastward expansion as part of a well-orchestrated strategy to encircle Russia.
The strategy of encirclement is indeed as old as NATO itself, and this is the reason why Russian President Vladimir Putin issued recently a list of demands to the U.S. and NATO with regard to their actions in Ukraine and even parts of the former Soviet space. In the meantime, senior-level Russian officials have gone even further by warning of military response if NATO continues to ignore Moscow’s security concerns. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is a solvable problem, but one wonders if the U.S. will remain dedicated to a 'zombie policy' that could produce potentially awful consequences in the event of a diplomatic failure.
There’s more to add, of course. What happened in 2014, whatever one thinks of it, amounted to a coup with U.S. support that replaced the Russia-oriented government by a Western-oriented one. That led Russia to annex Crimea, mainly to protect its sole warm water port and naval base, and apparently with the agreement of a considerable majority of the Crimean population. There’s extensive scholarship on the complexities, particularly Richard Sakwa’s Frontline Ukraine and more recent work."
▪ Christopher Black, international criminal lawyer based in Toronto. He is known for a number of high-profile war crimes cases:
"... NATO powers have lately relied on their bogus legal doctrine of “responsibility to protect” that they invented after the fact to try to justify their aggression against Yugoslavia. No such doctrine exists in international law, but they claim the right to use it nevertheless.
It applies, according to them, when a military action is justified, though illegal, “for legitimate humanitarian reasons.’ They were warned that this false doctrine could be turned against them. Russia has not referred to it at all, but if NATO can rely on it for their wars of aggression, then surely Russia can rely on it to justify their military action to defend the Donbass, and themselves.
When one takes account of all the factors that governed the Russian decision to send its forces into Ukraine it is clear that in law they had the legal right to do so whereas the United States continues its illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and Syria to this day and the NATO media powers and governments say nothing, because they are all complicit in those invasions.
If the United States and the NATO alliance had complied with international law in the first place as set out in the UN Charter, the world would not be in this mess. They caused this, not Russia. The responsibility is entirely theirs and they will be judged for it."
▪ The United States formed NATO in 1949 with 11 countries in its own interest and with the aim of destroying the communist bloc. Today, NATO is engaged in creating terrorism in more than 30 countries around the world. The United States and NATO have opened shops around democracy and destroyed countless countries, large and small. They are not friends of anyone. They are bigots.
Why was NATO not dismissed in 1991 when the Warsaw Pact was disbanded? The USSR, the CIA's deep conspiracy, was broken into pieces and then those pieces were gradually incorporated into NATO, lastly Ukraine. Attempts by NATO to destroy or pressure Russia, which is surrounded by NATO, are never acceptable. A war organization called NATO should be disbanded immediately. Then the world will return to balance. Get rid of NATO and save the world from nuclear annihilation.
▪ Russia did not start the war, it's putting an end to it. https://youtu.be/GZLLdZbzDTY
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