© Off-Guardian
Experienced foreign policy analysts such as Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, and Pepe Escobar, while agreeing that the
Biden administration is clearly guilty of provoking Russia over Ukraine, are divided over whether it will lead to war.All agree that Russia has no intention of invading Ukraine and that it is
clearly justified in demanding safe borders by insisting US/NATO withdraw troops and missiles from the countries surrounding it, stop NATO's "open door" policy, stop putting nuclear weapons in Europe, etc.
Clearly such demands are consonant with the US's own historical demands for safe borders, evidenced most clearly in the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the world nearly suffered a nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba. And equally obvious is the fact that the
American posture today is hypocritical in the extreme and can only be accepted by propagandists and those ignorant of history.The Biden administration must assume that most people are ignoramuses and that its obvious belligerence and blatant propaganda will pass as some sort of defense of freedom, even when the US engineered a Ukrainian coup d'état in 2014 in support of Neo-Nazis when Biden was President Obama's vice-president. But that was nearly eight years ago, which is an eternity in a country of amnesiacs.
Whether this US persistent aggression is a propaganda charade or not,
it is a most dangerous game.In December 2021, Russia claimed that the US was preparing a false flag event to provoke a Russian response. This was dismissed or ignored by the western media as absurd. Recently, however, the Biden administration has been pounding the message that it is Russia that is preparing a false flag event to blame on Ukraine in order to justify a Russian invasion.
The western press, led by
The New York Times, CNN,
The Guardian, and the
Washington Post - stenographers for the CIA, British intelligence, and the Pentagon - have become more hysterical by the day pushing this lie without any evidence whatsoever. It is sardonically comical.
Comment: Threats only buy time and discredit the source.