What Russia Wants: Threat of a Russian Invasion of Ukraine Is a Western Invention
By John Scales Avery, New Age Islam
16 February 2022
Military-Industrial
Complexes Want Is A Level Of Tensions Sufficiently High To Justify Obscenely
Bloated Military Budgets
Main Points:
1. Russia does not want to invade Ukraine
2. Russia Fears the Eastward Expansion of NATO
3. The Threat of a Nuclear War
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Russia Does Not Want
To Invade Ukraine
Both Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, and its Foreign
Secretary, Sergey Laverov, have repeatedly stated that Russia does not intend
to invade Ukraine. Logic also tells us that if they had wished to do so, they
would have done it long ago. The threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is a
western invention.
A Ukrainian
serviceman carries an NLAW anti-tank weapon during an exercise in the Joint
Forces Operation, in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, February 15, 2022.
(AP)
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Russia Fears the
Eastward Expansion of NATO
To understand how Russians feel about having western weapons
and troops poured into a position on their nation's borders, we should imagine
how the United States would react if large numbers of Russian weapons and
troops were stationed in Mexico or Canada.
The Monroe Doctrine
There is no document more fundamental to the foreign policy
of the United States than the Monroe Doctrine. It states that interference in
the Western Hemisphere by European powers would be interpreted as an attack on
the United States, and would be opposed by the United States. The Monroe
Doctrine has been used to justify U.S. interventions in Central America and in
the Caribbean. Understandably, the United States wishes to have its backyard
secure. Why should Russia not have the
same wish? Here is a link to an article that explores this question:
https://janataweekly.org/the-united-states-of-hypocrisy-revisiting-the-monroe-doctrine/
A Broken Promise
In 1990, US Secretary of State James Baker assured Mikhail
Gorbachev that “not an inch of NATO's present military jurisdiction will spread
in an eastward direction”. In return,
Gorbachev agreed not to oppose the reunification. Russia kept its side of the
bargain, but the United States broke its promise.
What
Military-Industrial Complexes Want
Military-industrial complexes do not actually want war. What
they want is a level of tensions sufficiently high to justify obscenely bloated
military budgets. In 2021 the world spent roughly two trillion dollars on
armaments. This enormous river of money, almost too great to be imagined, flows
like current in a devil's dynamo from immensely rich arms corporations to buy
the votes of corrupt politicians and the propaganda of mass media, numbed by
which, citizens vote to perpetuate the system.
In the United States the industrial-military complex is particularly
strong, and it has bipartisan support. This may explain US President Biden's
aggressive actions in the Ukraine crisis. However, although nobody wants war,
and especially not a suicidal and potentially omnicidal nuclear war, a
situation with very high tensions can become out of control through a technical
or human error, through escalation of a
small inciident, or through a false flag operation.
The Threat of a
Nuclear War
Looking at modern history we can remember a number of times
when the world came extremely close to nuclear war, The Cuban Missile Crisis is
one example, but there are a number of others. We cannot continue to be lucky
forever. Just as the politicians and generals who started World War I had no
imaginative idea of what it would be like, our present day leaders seem not to
realize the catastrophic nature of nuclear war. Because of the nuclear winter
effect and because of the long-lasting effects of radioactivity, our
civilization and much of the biosphere would not survive such a war. In the
present crisis over Ukraine, both the United States and Russia possess more
than enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world completely.
As citizens we must prevent our politicians from pursuing
this insane brinksmanship.
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