01-04-2014, 10:13 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:Peter Presland Wrote:And here's a new article by Finian Cunningham: US war plan for Europe and Russia
The first I agree with completely; the second I give considerable credence to
I found the article to be very thought provoking Peter, and it makes a strong case too for the US blackmailing Europe to remain in the NATO fold or otherwise it starts another European war. Blighty's financial clout would crumble without dollar hegemony I suspect, and that would explain why they would go along with such a scenario.
It's a rather chilling outline of real politik eh.
Chilling indeed.
I have no doubt that the US-UK collaboration will hold and that there are competent power-brokers in France, Germany and Russia who believe so too. Whether that applies to the current crop in Germany is perhaps moot, beholden as they are are to their occupiers' diktat, but Putin's advisors certainly see things quite clearly.
That is what I meant by Germany being set up for a re-run (continuation??) of the 20th century world wars a few posts ago. My hope is that Marx's oft quoted 'Bonapartism' that 'history repeats first as tragedy then as farce' may hold because the 2nd world war was certainly tragedy - and on a truly monumental scale for both Russia and Germany.
Europe is fast approaching a crunch choice. It will come down to either a long-overdue accommodation with Russia, with the US-UK manoeuvrings playing out as Marx's farce; or a continuation/rerun of WW's I and II the most probably outcome of which is just too horrific to contemplate. I know which is preferable in humanitarian terms and the future of the planet, but fear the worst.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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