Ukraine Situation Has Brought Focus Back On America's 'Military-Industrial Complex' Prophesized by President Dwight Eisenhower in His Farewell Speech on Jan. 17, 1961
America is provoking war in
Ukraine
1. Ukraine has a cultural and linguistic affinity with
Russia.
2. Russia has said it did not intend to attack
Ukraine.
3. Russia said the American reports of an impending
Russian attack were a lie.
4. Russia wants to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO
for its own security.
5. If Ukraine joins NATO, it will force Ukraine to
wage war against Russia to recapture Crimea.
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An Ukrainian serviceman
attends in a dugout on the frontline with the Russia-backed separatists near
Avdiivka, Donetsk region, on February 2, 2022. PHOTO BY AFP CONTRIBUTOR#AFP
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Mr Tarek Fateh’s analysis
of the cold-war situation between Ukraine and Russia is only a reminder of the
war-mongering of the US for making money by selling arms to the otherwise
peace-loving nations. The war hysteria created by the US and NATO has pushed
the two bordering nations to the brink of war. Ukraine and Russia may have some
political disputes but both are trying to solve them peacefully but the US has
been crying hoarse over the alleged concentration of Russian troops on its
borders whereas the fact is that the Russian troops have been stationed on the
border for a long time. This is not new so far as the US policy is concerned.
The US was behind civil wars in many countries and behind wars between Iraq and
Iran in the 80s. It used the same war hysteria and creating mutual fear and
threat perception between the two bordering countries it is using in
Ukraine-Russia tension. It has been selling arms and security equipment to the
Arab countries by instilling fear of Iran among them though they don’t need
them. It sold arms and ammunition worth billions of dollars to Pakistan by
creating fear of India among the Pakistanis.
The US is creating panic in
Ukraine by insisting that Russia may invade Ukraine any day whereas Russia has
made it clear that it has no plans to attack Ukraine and termed the US warning
of an impending Russian attack a lie. To make Ukrainians believe in an
impending Russian attack it has used the Russian attack and annexation of the
Ukrainian peninsula Crimea but that was a different context. The real reason
for American interference in Ukraine is that it wants Ukraine to join NATO so
that it can play extend its political and economic influence in the region and
prevent Russia’s growing influence in the region. Russia knows that as soon as
Ukraine joins NATO, the US will provoke Ukraine to wage a war to reclaim and
recapture Crimea and thus stir a war between Ukraine and Russia.
To avoid that situation,
Russia Putin has categorically said that it was mandatory for Russia to prevent
Ukraine from joining NATO at any cost. Putin also accused the US of
pumping weapons into Ukraine and demanded that NATO should pull its troops out
of Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Putin is also worried about NATO’s
military activity in Eastern Europe. Putin is also said to be of the view that
Ukraine and Russia are one nation and is incensed at NATO’s attempt to set
Ukrainians against Russia so that Russia’s interests can be harmed by the US
and NATO. By airing the rumour that Russia was piling up weapons on the
borders, NATO has started sending additional troops and weapons to Ukraine thus
building up the possibility of war between the two countries. NATO countries
are trying to establish military training centres in Ukraine. This would
further give to military bases in the country that will give further strength
to NATO countries in Ukraine even if Ukraine does not join NATO. In short, the
history of the U.S. is replete with such military machinations against
peace-loving nations to sell their weapons and expand their military industry.
They have also provoked wars between nations who had disputes but those
disputes could have been resolved diplomatically.
America Is Provoking War in
Ukraine
By Tarek Fateh
Trust the United States to
create conditions for a war when none exists. Despite Ukraine insisting that it
did not face an invasion by Russia, America insists that Moscow intends to do
just that.
It seems, after getting a
bloody nose in Afghanistan after betraying U.S. allies by helping the Taliban
take over Kabul. President Joe Biden needs a war to win in a theatre of his
choosing where the terrain is not as harsh as Kandahar and where G.I. Joe could
party on his days off duty.
And then there is the
business of America buying military hardware from its armament industry to keep
them manufacturing armaments that enhance their bottom line and feed the stock
markets.
Perhaps that is the nature
of America today, a “Military-Industrial Complex” prophesized by President
Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell speech on Jan. 17, 1961.
In a speech that lasted
less than ten minutes, the celebrated hero of the American people, during and
after the Second and after the Second World War raised the alarm warning
Americans not to let the U.S. Government beckon to the call of the defence
industry.
He told a national radio
audience: “A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment…
[W]e have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast
proportions... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a
large arms industry is new in the American experience …. Yet we must comprehend
its grave implications … In the councils of government, we must guard against
the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced
power exists and will present.”
Last years would see the
American Military-Industrial Complex pushing the U.S. into wars as far apart as
Vietnam and Iraq with invasions of Grenada and Cuba bringing the world to the
edge of catastrophe.
It did not matter whether
it was JFK or LBJ, Bush Senior or Junior, proxies such as Turkey and Pakistan,
Arab monarchies and African dictators, toppling Mosaddegh in Iran, eliminating
Patrice Lumumba of Congo or Salvador Allende in Chile …. U.S. multinational
corporations, worked hand-in-hand with the CIA while the Military-Industrial
complex held any developing nation trying to get on their feet after centuries
of European colonial rule.
The latest U.S. venture is
to edge Ukraine against Russia. Seems the simpletons in D.C. just don’t have a
clue about either Crimea, its history and why in 1954 Moscow handed the
peninsula from the Russian Republic to the Ukrainian Republic, considering both
were part of one country.
The President of Ukraine,
Volodymyr Zelensky is currently urging the US, NATO, and other world nations to
not overstate the probability of Russian invasions and explained how this can
lead to destabilizing Kiev’s economy.
As CNN described it:
“Speaking to foreign reporters, Zelensky said he explained in phone calls to
world leaders like US President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron that
thought the threat from the Kremlin is “imminent and constant,” Ukrainians have
“learned to live” with it since Moscow invaded in 2014.”
While the US and NATO keep
hammering the news that Russia has deployed over 100,000 troops on its border
with Ukraine, they fail to mention the fact that according to Zelensky, the
Russians have had such troop concentration for a long time and that this is
nothing new. “They [US and NATO] are saying tomorrow is the war. This
means panic,” Zelensky said.
This column is my cry in
the wind. War may fatten the pockets of the people Eisenhower warned us about,
but look at Afghanistan America.
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Courtesy: New Delhi Times
e-paper, 7-13 February 2022
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