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US and NATO
aggression towards Russia – danger at the Ukrainian Border 12/08/21 The US government
and its corporate media have been trying to build a case that Russia is
getting ready to invade Ukraine. Their main
argument is that they have observed around 90,000 Russian troops near the
border with Ukraine. Near the border means
that they are on Russian territory, this is what the US calls aggression. Although US and NATO forces have surrounded Russia
and have conducted military maneuvers right at the Russian border, that is
deemed to be not provocative, but Russia massing troops in its own territory
is. What is never said in any of these reports is that there are
125,000 Ukrainian troops in the Donbass region right near the Russian border. These troops have been freshly equipped by the US
with advanced weaponry and US military “advisors” have been aiding them in
their aggressive military posture. The massing of Russian troops near
its border is a defensive move on their part to counter the threat of the US
and NATO and their ally Ukraine that wants NATO membership.
In 1990, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, James
Baker the US secretary of state told the Soviet leaders that NATO would not
expand east of Germany. Since then,
it has expanded into 14 countries in violation of that agreement, right up to
the Russian border. History has since shown
the world that it is the US and its NATO allies that are the aggressors
everywhere in the world. It is the US with its
military in more than 170 countries, with 20 times the number of foreign
bases as all other countries in the world combined that has invaded and
occupied one country after the next. It is the
US that spends almost as much on the military as all other countries
combined. This is what the Russians fear and with good reason. The Russians have
only to look at the coup that the US orchestrated in Ukraine in 2014. They can recall Senator John McCain speaking to
the protesters in Maidan Square, Kiev, urging them forward to topple their government,
and US diplomat Victoria Nuland as she brought treats for the Maidan
protesters and was recorded on the phone saying “fuck the EU” because they
wanted to replace the Ukrainian president with someone other than the US
hand-picked person. The US pick, Arseniy
Yatsenyuk, of course, was installed as the new prime minister after the coup,
and ever since the US has had important influence in Ukraine. The new finance minister in the coup government
was Natalie Jeresko, from the US and Joe Biden’s
son took a role on the board of the largest Natural gas company in the
country. The new government contained
far right and Nazi parties such as the Svoboda Party and others associated
with a coalition of right-wing groups called the Right Sector.
In Ukraine today there are openly fascist
militias, swastikas chalked on walls or displayed on jackets and torchlight
marches through the streets with people chanting anti-Semitic and
anti-Russian slogans. This is
what the US put in place and what Russia – who lost 20 million people to the
Nazi terror in World War II – fears. The key demand of
Russia is that Ukraine, which has the largest border with Russia of any
European country, not become a NATO member. They
also demand that the U.S. and NATO back off on their approach to the Russian
border and stop placing armed nuclear installations on their border. The US/NATO/Ukraine aggression is happening
at a time when the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelenskiy
has been making promises to “win back” Crimea and has started an offensive
against the Eastern break-away regions of Luhansk and Donetsk. All three areas are Russian speaking regions that
rejected the 2014 coup as far-right and Nazi forces
took hold of the government. The people of Crimea voted by over 90% to
break from Ukraine and re-integrate into Russia since they had been part of
Russia untill 1956 anyway. In
the Donbass, which is the area of Luhansk and Donetsk, the people organized
into the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, created
their own flags and built people’s militias to
defend their territory against the right-wing and anti-Russian government of
Kiev. Although a cease fire agreement was reached, it has been
consistently violated by Kiev and recently the Zelenskiy
government has stepped-up attacks in the regions. More
than 14,000 people have been killed in this war in the Eastern Ukraine. Another reason
for the recent US/Ukraine aggression may be because just recently, Russia
completed its Nordstream 2 natural gas pipeline
from Russia to Germany and is ready to turn it on. This
can provide gas to Germany and Europe at a much better price than the US can
offer with its fracked gas. This will also
replace the Russian gas pipeline that runs through Ukraine.
Natural gas was a key factor in the 2014 Ukrainian coup. Like many of the other recent US initiated wars,
energy may be a big issue in this situation too. We demand: No US weapons or
military advisors for the Ukrainian military Stop the US saber
rattling, No war with Russia Keep Ukraine out
of NATO |
