Peace!

Here is a little piece I wrote back in rhe 90’s. What is surprising to me is that it took so long for Russia to realize the US’s game. It took a long time to awaken from its stupor.

“The Cold War has been officially declared terminated. The winner by unanimous decision…The United States of America. The loser, the mighty Soviet Union, disintegrated, The true story of how this came about may never be fully known. We were told that it had something to do with the inability of communism to compete with free market economies and to enslave the minds of it’s citizens. Freedom along with unemployment, poverty, crime, social discontent, economic chaos, and state bankruptcy have been the great rewards for Russia and the Russian people. It is very hard, indeed, to see any benefit from this act of self destruction committed by the Soviet Union. Yet, that was a country possessing an enormous arsenal of weapons, including twenty-three thousand nuclear warheads. Throughout history, countries with such power simply took what they needed for survival. That is why I say the true cause of these events may still be unpublished.
Nevertheless, the benefits for the United States of America have been plenty. The feared Warsaw Pact, the only opponent of NATO, has gone to its grave. The East European countries that formed it have now become client states of the U.S. The former republics of the Soviet Union, such as Kazakstan, are now independent countries. Not satisfied with this state of affairs, the United States has launched a very aggressive campaign against Russia. First in the West, the United States is pushing for the incorporation of it’s former allies into NATO, bringing this formidable military alliance to their very border. In the North, similar protocols have been signed with the Baltic States. In the South, in oil rich Kazakstan and others, American oil companies are attempting to gradually replace the Russians in the exploration and exploitation of the gigantic oil and gas reserves of the Caspian sea. There has even been talk of joint military exercises with the Kazak military. The same policy is being actively pursued with Azerbaijan and Georgia. The extraordinary support given by the U.S. to the Georgian president Eduard Shevarnadze who was the last foreign minister of the Soviet Union and an active participant in its dissolution may give us a hint of the untold story of this momentous event. In any case, it does not take a strategic genius to realize that these geopolitical moves are meant to secure the gigantic oil reserves of the Caspian Sea and a route for it to Turkey and the Black Sea.
This is not a very wise policy, since it will only serve to radicalize Russia, a country that can not be taken for granted since it remains a potent nuclear power. There is deep concern in Russia about America’s growing economic and military influence in the former Soviet Republics. The Russian military has observed the U.S.’s willingness to use devastating force against Iraq to eradicate any threat to its oil interest in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. In Grenada and Panama, violent assaults were severely executed to serve notice that the United States would not tolerate any challenge in an area it has traditionally considered its own backyard. Is it not only a question of time before Russia starts to assert itself with force when it feels that its vital interests in its traditional backyard are being threatened ? And now that more and more Russians are seeing the U.S. as this threat, isn’t the possibility of a military confrontation between Russia and the U.S. becoming less and less inconceivable ? And the winner of such a confrontation will be the side that can muster the political will to carry on to the brink of global thermonuclear war. My guess is that the side with the greedy multinational corporations that have the most to lose will back down. I often wonder if our mediocre policy makers have ever taken this scenario into account.”

Invaded,destroyed,and occupied a country never was a threat to you attacked you,brought death and destruction to millions of people,and made millions more refugees that war crimes!

With today’s technology there is no reason at all for the U.S. to have embassies and consulates in any country—except for the age-old reason, they create taxpayer-funded jobs for the state’s favorites.

Sorry to break it to you but the ones who truly hate America are the ones you support. You know the ones – the ones that shred the constitution, engage in illegal wars, drain the treasury, curtail American citizen’s freedoms, out CIA agents, jerry-rig elections etc etc etc.

And how is pointing out that America has troops stationed around the world “hating America”? Seriously now – think about what you are saying. You are clearly stating that any and all exercising of long-standing rights to freedom of speech are not to be used in any fashion that can be construed by the tiny-majority(that’s you) as anti-American. It’s you that hates America because you don’t want anybody to exercise their right to free speech.

Joe use your GI bill to get an education – you need it.

Peace!