Hating Russia Is a Full-Time Job.“Who is Driving the Hostility towards Russia?”
Neocons resurrect tribal memories to fan the flames
Having just
returned from a trip to Russia, I am pleased to report that the Russian
people and the officialdom that I encountered displayed none of the
vitriol towards Americans that I half expected as a response to the
vilifying of Moscow and all its works that pervades the U.S. media and
Establishment.
To be sure, many
Russians I spoke with were quick to criticize the Trump Administration
for its hot and cold performance vis-à-vis the bilateral ties to Moscow
while also expressing mystification over why the relationship had gone
south so quickly, but this anger over foreign policy did not necessarily
translate into contempt for the American people and way of life that
characterized the Soviet period. At least not yet.
Somewhat to my surprise, ordinary Russians were also quick to openly criticize President Vladimir Putin
for his autocratic tendencies and his willingness to continue to
tolerate corruption, but everyone I spoke to also conceded that he had
generally acted constructively and had greatly improved life for
ordinary people. Putin remains wildly popular.
One question that came up frequently was “Who is driving the hostility towards Russia?”
I responded that the answer is not so simple and there are a number of
constituencies that, for one reason or another, need a powerful enemy to
justify policies that would otherwise be unsustainable. Defense
contractors need a foe to justify their existence while congressmen need
the contractors to fund their campaigns. The media needs a good
fearmongering story to help sell itself and the public also is
accustomed to having a world in which terrible threats lurk just below
the horizon, thereby increasing support for government control of
everyday life to keep everyone “safe.”
And then there
are the neocons. As always, they are a distinct force for creative
destruction, as they put it, certainly first in line with their hands
out to get the funding of their no-expenses-spared foundations and think
tanks, but also driven ideologically, which has made them the
intellectual vanguard of the war party. They provide the palatable
intellectual framework for America to take on the world, metaphorically
speaking, and constitute the strike force that is always ready to appear
on television talk shows or to be quoted in the media with an
appropriate intelligent sounding one liner that can be used to justify
the unthinkable. In return they are richly rewarded both with money and
status.
The neocons
believe in only two things. First, that the United States is the sole
world superpower, given license by something like a Divine Entity to
exercise global leadership by force if necessary. That has been
translated to the public as “American exceptionalism.” Indeed, U.S.
interventionism in practice has been by force majeure preferably as it
leaves little room for debate or discussion. And the second neocon
guiding principle is that everything possible must be done to protect
and promote Israel. Absent these two beliefs, you do not have a neocon.
The founding
fathers of neoconism were New York Jewish “intellectuals” who evolved
(or devolved) from being bomb throwing Trotskyites to “conservatives,” a
process they self-define as “idealism getting mugged by reality.” The
only reality is that they have always been faux conservatives, embracing
a number of aggressive foreign policy and national security positions
while also privately endorsing the standard Jewish liberal line on
social issues. Neocon fanaticism on the issues that they do promote also
suggests that more that a little of the Trotskyism remains in their
character, hence their tenacity and ability to slither between the
Democratic and Republican parties while also appearing comfortably on
disparate media outlets considered to be either liberal or conservative,
i.e. on both Fox news and MSNBC programs featuring the likes of Rachel
Maddow.
I have long
believed that the core hatred of Russia comes from the neocons and is to
a large extent tribal or, if you prefer, ethno-religious based. Why?
Because if the neoconservatives were actually foreign policy realists
there is no good reason to express any visceral dislike of Russia or its
government. The allegations that Moscow interfered in the 2016
presidential election in the U.S. are clearly a sham,
just as are the tales of the alleged Russian poisoning of the Skripals
in Winchester England and, most recently, the claimed assassination of
journalist Arkady Babchenko
in Kiev which turned out to be a false flag. Even the most cursory
examination of the past decade’s developments in Georgia and Ukraine
reveal that Russia was reacting to legitimate major security threats
engineered by the United States with a little help from Israel and
others. Russia has not since the Cold War ended threatened the United
States and its ability to re-acquire its former Eastern European
satellites is a fantasy. So why the hatred?
In fact, the
neocons got along quite well with Russia when they and their
overwhelmingly Jewish oligarchs and international commodity thieves cum
financier friends were looting the resources of the old Soviet Union
under the hapless Boris Yeltsin during the 1990s.
Alarms about the alleged Russian threat only re-emerged in the neocon
dominated media and think tanks when old fashioned nationalist Vladimir
Putin took office and made it a principal goal of his government to turn off the money tap.
With the looting
stopped by Putin, the neocons and friends no longer had any reason to
play nice, so they used their considerable resources in the media and
within the halls of power in places like Washington, London and Paris to
turn on Moscow. And they also might have perceived that there was a
worse threat looming. The Putin government appeared to be resurrecting
what the neocons might perceive as pogrom plagued Holy Russia! Old
churches razed by the Bolsheviks were being rebuilt and people were
again going to mass and claiming belief in Jesus Christ. The former Red
Square now hosts a Christmas market while the nearby tomb of Lenin is
only open one morning in the week and attracts few visitors.
I would like to
suggest that it is quite possible that the historically well-informed
neocons are merely longing for the good old Bolshevik days in Russia.
The fact is that much of Bolshevik state atheism was driven by the large
overrepresentation of Jews in the party in its formative days. British
journalist Robert Wilton’s meticulously researched 1920 study “The Last Days of the Romanovs” describes how David R. Francis, United States ambassador in Russia, warned in a January 1918 message to Washington that
“The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90 percent of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution.”
Dutch Ambassador William Oudendyke echoed that sentiment, writing that
“Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately, it is bound to spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole world as it is organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality, and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things.”
Russia’s greatest twentieth century writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn,
feted in the west for his staunch resistance to Soviet
authoritarianism, suddenly found himself friendless by the media and
publishing world when he wrote “Two Centuries Together: A Russo-Jewish
History to 1972”, recounting some of the dark side of the Russian-Jewish experience.
In particular, Solzhenitsyn cited the significant overrepresentation of
Russian Jews both as Bolsheviks and, prior to that time, as
serf-owners.
Jews notably
played a particularly disproportionate role in the Soviet secret police,
which began as the Cheka and eventually became the KGB. Jewish
historian Leonard Schapiro noted how
“Anyone who had the misfortune to fall into the hands of the Cheka
“stood a very good chance of finding himself confronted with, and
possibly shot by, a Jewish investigator.” In Ukraine, “Jews made up
nearly eighty percent of the rank-and-file Cheka agents.”
In light of all
this it should surprise no one that the new Russian government pf 1918
issued a decree a few months after taking power making anti-Semitism a
crime in Russia. The Communist regime became the world’s first to
criminally punish any anti-Jewish sentiment.
Wilton used
official Russian government documents to identify the make-up of the
Bolshevik regime in 1917-9. The 62 members of the Central Committee
included 41 Jews while the Extraordinary Cheka Commission Cheka of
Moscow’s 36 members included 23 Jews. The 22 strong Council of the
People’s Commissars numbered had 17 Jews. According to data furnished by
the Soviet authorities, out of the 556 most important functionaries of
the Bolshevik state in 1918-1919 there were: 17 Russians, two
Ukrainians, eleven Armenians, 35 Latvians, 15 Germans, one Hungarian,
ten Georgians, three Poles, three Finns, one Czech and 458 Jews.
In 1918-9,
effective Russian governmental power rested in the Central Committee of
the Bolshevik party. In 1918 this body had twelve members, of whom nine
were of Jewish origin, and three were Russians. The nine Jews were:
Trotsky, Zinoviev, Larine, Uritsky, Volodarski, Kamenev, Smidovich,
Yankel, and Steklov. The three Russians were: Lenin, Krylenko, and
Lunacharsky.
The Communist
diaspora in Europe and America was also largely Jewish, including the
cabal of founders of neoconservativism in New York City. The United
States Communist Party was from the start predominantly Jewish. It was
in the 1930s headed by Jew Earl Browder, grandfather of the current snake oil salesman Bill Browder,
who has been sanctimoniously proclaiming his desire to punish Vladimir
Putin for various alleged high crimes. Browder is a complete hypocrite
who has fabricated and sold to Congress a largely phony and self-serving
narrative relating to Russian corruption. He is also not surprisingly a
neocon media darling in the U.S. It has been more than plausibly
claimed that Browder was a principal looter of Russia’s resources in the
1990s and Russian courts have convicted him of tax evasion among other
crimes.
The undeniable
historical affinity of Jews for the Bolshevik brand of communism coupled
with the Jewishness of the so-called oligarchs rather suggests that the
hatred of a Russia that has turned its back on those particular aspects
of Jewish heritage might be at least part of what drives some neocons.
Just as in the case of Syria which the neocons, bowing to Israel’s
interests, prefer to see in chaos, some might long for a return to the
good old days of looting by mostly Jewish foreign interests, as under
Yeltsin, or even better for the heady days of 1918-9 Bolshevism when
Jews ruled all of Russia.
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This article was also published on The Unz Review.Philip M. Giraldi is a former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer who served nineteen years overseas in Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Spain. He was the CIA Chief of Base for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and was one of the first Americans to enter Afghanistan in December 2001. Phil is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a Washington-based advocacy group that seeks to encourage and promote a U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East that is consistent with American values and interests. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
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