Increased Military Pressure on All Fronts. The Threat of Global Warfare
US-Russian Hearings: Caught Again in Their Trap
Global
Research, June 26, 2017
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“…one
shouldn’t put one’s trust in speeches like that from the gentlemen, for on such
occasions the gentlemen liked to say agreeable things, but they had little or
no significance and, once uttered, they were forgotten for all time, but
admittedly, on the very next occasion one got caught again in their trap.”
(Franz Kafka)
With
these words Kafka described the
modern condition, each one of us trapped in the sticky web of technology and
deceit designed to manipulate us to act and think against our selves, to accept
the role of monkeys offered bananas in a cage, surrendering the struggling to
escape it.
The most dangerous element of that
technology is the constant and increasing flood of images of war, of “terror,”
of cities destroyed, cultures erased, entire progressive socio-economic systems
torn apart, or threatened with destruction, not by the “terrorists” but by the
states that declared their “war on terror,” by the states that in reality
created the terror in all its forms; the worst being the constant threat of
instant and universal annihilation in a nuclear war.
That threat, the threat of nuclear war
is more dangerous with every passing day as we see the NATO build-up along
Russia’s western borders echoing the Nazi build-up before their invasion in
1941, the rolling invasion of Syria by American and allied forces, the
hysterical rhetoric and military movements against North Korea, and the
increasing contempt for Chinese sovereignty. Any of these threats from the
United States could lead to nuclear war but the threat that concerns all of us
is the one against Russia because a nuclear war with Russia is, as President
Putin pointed out recently, not survivable. Yet, it is the threat against
Russia that is building, building, building; increased military pressure on all
fronts, increased economic warfare, called “sanctions,” increased hybrid
warfare ranging from hacking of Russian computer systems, to direct attacks on
Russian forces in Syria, from expulsion of diplomats to verbal abuse against
and assassination of ambassadors. But the extent of the danger is to be seen
not outside the United States but in the internal political turmoil that is
taking place inside the United States.
Their
propaganda against Russia as the “enemy” trying to destroy America through
various forms of subversion is daily fare in all the mass media.
The alleged subversion is stated as fact. The
fact that the allegations are patently absurd means nothing when those who
mould opinion refuse to say so and openly lie to the people with every word
they utter. But the level of the threat against Russia is signalled by the
willingness among the war faction to sacrifice anyone, no matter who they are
or what position, in order to advance this propaganda. We now watch as the US
Congress holds hearings in which senior government officials are called to
defend themselves against charges of having had Russian connections. The President
of the country is himself subject to a barrage of accusations of treason.
This scandal is not just about the
bickering between the losing party in the US elections and the winning party
with the losers willing to risk the security of the people of the country in a
bid to take power denied them at the ballot box. There is an element of that.
The war faction does want to have its finger directly on the button. Elections
and democracy mean nothing to them so long as they take the power. But they could
have used any scandal to try to do that. They have concocted the “Russian
threat to democracy” because they want war with Russia and to convince the
people of the United States and the world that this war is necessary and just,
are willing to destroy even their own leaders, and their country’s democratic
system, as weak and non-representative of the needs of the people as it is, in
order to achieve their purpose.
The longer this spectacle in the United
States goes on the worse it is going to get. But those under attack do not seem
to understand what is happening to them, that they are being used to advance
this propaganda, that they are being set up as scapegoats and in fact they even
play along with the game, with Jeff
Sessions, the US Attorney-General, today, the 13 of June, telling the US
Senate Intelligence investigative committee that the accusation he “colluded”
with Russia was “an appalling and detestable lie” but playing his role in this
propaganda show by adding,
“that
he was concerned the President did not realise the severity of the threat from
Russia interference that can never be tolerated.”
The former FBI Director James Comey, a man with deep state connections, testified
to the same committee that he was fired because of his investigation into the
Russian allegations even though he provided no proof there was anything to
investigate. Again, the facts don’t matter. The only thing that matters is the
impression left, that Russia has and is attempting to subvert the United States
and has succeeded in infiltrating its agents into the presidency and senior
government and military levels.
To further advance this propaganda
theme purges are necessary to add to the drama and we have seen Comey leave, General Flynn resign and others forced
out of office or threatened with it. But the main objective of these hearings
and the mass media coverage of them is to generate peoples hostility towards
Russia, and this seems to be succeeding, as polls indicate. The next level of
the propaganda war will be to create such an intense situation in the United
States that the calls for war by the people will be the natural reaction of
their outrage and, in any case, this is what the war faction and media will
tell us, that the people demand action.
President
Putin can meet with celebrities like Oliver Stone to correct the facts and state the truth. He can
successfully dance circles around bubble headed American journalists in
interviews, but he cannot control the mass media in the west that rarely allows
Russian points of view to be heard. Still the attempt must be made.
The United States is in a crisis. The
games being played there are dangerous for its people. The logic of the demands
made by those making the allegations means that President Trump must resign or be charged with treason. If he
refuses to go there will be attempts to force him. If he is forced out, the
people that voted for him and support him will feel rightly cheated and they
will react. And who is to replace him? It can only be one of the war faction or
a puppet and if that cannot issue be resolved peacefully then the military
could step in to “manage” things in a time of “threat” and “urgency.” There
have been coup d’états before in the United States. We are witnessing another
now.
The
United States is in a crisis generated by people who have no idea how to
control all the possible consequences of the events they have begun and because
of this they are very dangerous to themselves and to the world.
While the Russians prepare for the worst and hope for the best we in the west
must do what we can to challenge the war
propaganda, the propaganda of hostility and hatred that is inflicted on us by
the criminals in control of the western governments and western media. Each
of us is just one voice, but our voices united become a shout and with our
shout we can level the walls of hostility that keep us from the peaceful
coexistence that the peoples of world need to continue the struggle for
economic and social justice, for real democracy, for progress, against the forces
of reaction and fascism that always threaten us. Let’s not get “caught again in
their trap.”
Christopher Black is an international criminal
lawyer based in Toronto. He is known for a number of high-profile war crimes
cases and recently published his novel “Beneath the Clouds”. He writes
essays on international law, politics and world events, especially for the
online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
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