The US & NATO appear to be stumbling toward a confrontation with Russia over US insistence that Ukraine be allowed into NATO (see NY Times headline today, February 4, 2022, p. 1). What’s the full story behind the drift toward confrontation? Is it simply that Russia wants to ‘take back’ Ukraine, as western media maintains? Or are the causes and various political forces behind the scenes more complicated? Is a Russian invasion ‘imminent’ as Biden says? Is Biden’s statement part of an attempt to provoke Russia? Who wants a proxy war between US/NATO and Russia in Ukraine? How may the US war hawks, oil corporations, and politicians benefit from a Russian invasion?
Listen to my discussion of the event, tracing its origins back to the 2014 US coup in the Ukraine, and even earlier to the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s. And a list of at least 10 ways various factions of the US capitalist class and their politicians may actually benefit from a Russian invasion.
TO LISTEN GO TO:
SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT:
Dr. Rasmus reviews the historical background to the possible military confrontation in the Ukraine, going back to Gorbachev and the breakup of the USSR in the early 1990s; aggressive moves by the US to move NATO into East Europe after promising not to do so; then US efforts to push pro-Russian politicians out of Ukraine in 2006 and the US backed Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, Russia; followed by the US financed coup of 2014 and Russian responses in Crimea and eastern Ukraine and US unilateral withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Weapons (INF) treaty with Russia in 2019 and moving of NATO missile systems into Poland and Romania. Rasmus chronologically describes events since Putin’s public article last summer indicating NATO in Ukraine was a ‘red line’, up to the current maneuvering going on between Biden and Putin since December 2021 and western European leaders’ shuttle diplomacy now underway. Why a Russian invasion is not ‘imminent’, as Biden claims, but is nonetheless still possible. A preview of Dr. Rasmus’ latest article, ’10 Reasons Why the US May Want Russia to Invade Ukraine’ is presented (see his blog, http://jackrasmus.com for the print version)
[…] whose popularity has been slipping due to a lackluster domestic performance. The US empire has much to gain: further unifying NATO under US domination, reducing Russian economic competition in the European […]
[…] whose popularity has been slipping due to a lackluster domestic performance. The US empire has much to gain: further unifying NATO under US domination, reducing Russian economic competition in the European […]
[…] whose popularity has been slipping due to a lackluster domestic performance. The US empire has much to gain: further unifying NATO under US domination, reducing Russian economic competition in the European […]
[…] whose popularity has been slipping due to a lackluster domestic performance. The US empire has much to gain: further unifying NATO under US domination, reducing Russian economic competition in the European […]
[…] whose popularity has been slipping due to a lackluster domestic performance. The US empire has much to gain: further unifying NATO under US domination, reducing Russian economic competition in the European […]
[…] whose popularity has been slipping due to a lackluster domestic performance. The US empire has much to gain: further unifying NATO under US domination, reducing Russian economic competition in the European […]
[…] has been slipping due to a lackluster domestic performance. The US empire has much to gain : further unifying NATO under US domination, reducing Russian economic competition in the European […]