BRICS eta Ukraina/ Errusia/ AEB + EB + NATO/ Txina (21)

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Putin’s speech from the Kremlin on September 30th delivered to the nation and the world was for regions of Ukraine

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were reintegrated into Russia was another stunner in line with numerous

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others he’s made this year demons breaking a fundamental turn in the Russian presidents thinking over the

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past eight months the implications of this new prospective warrant careful consideration

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Putin has taken to looking forward and seeing something new and in this his heart here though the world has entered

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a period of a fundamental revolutionary transformation Putin said while standing

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beside the leaders of the luansk and dunats republics and the Curson and zebrasive regions

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phrases such as this bear the weight of History power of magnitude presidential speeches

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do not get any larger here is how the Russian Lear expanded on the thought new centers of power

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emerging they represent the majority of the International Community

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they are ready not only to declare their interests but also to protect them they see in multipularity an opportunity to

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strengthen their sovereignty which means gaining genuine Freedom historical

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prospects and to write their own independent creative and distinctive

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forms of development to a harmonious process Putin has been speaking in this register since February 4. 20 days

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before Russia launched its intervention in Ukraine and on the eve of the Winter Olympics in Beijing in the joint

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Declaration on international relations entering a new era and Global sustainable development issued Vegeta

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Putin and the Chinese president declared today the world is going through

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momentous changes and humanity is entering a new era of Rapid development

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and profound transformation there’s increasing interrelation and interdependence between the states a

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trend has emerged toward redistribution of power in the world Putin’s rhetoric

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has grown markedly sharper from February to September 30th he has attacked the

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European Union for its selfishness and Countess the U.S for its hegemonic aggression including the genocide of

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Native Americans and the West all together for the near Colonial character of its relations with the non-west

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Putin and his foreign minister it’s again avrov used to rougher to Western

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Nations as our partners as of September 30th yesterday’s partners are Russia’s

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enemies all very grim Putin has made this turn toward confrontation reluctantly and out of

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frustration with the West’s obstinate refusal to negotiate the new security or that Europe’s obviously needs

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he’s angry at the spectacle of wasteful violence and prolonged disorder but

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there’s a certain brightness to these Outlook that we must not miss Amit The Bleak global politics and economy are about to

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undergo fundamental and irreversible changes Putin asserted again this time

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the summit of the Shanghai Corporation Council held in San marcan last month

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not based on some rules forced on us by external forces and which nobody has

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seen But on universally recognized principles of the rule of international law and the U.N Charter namely equal and

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indivisible security and respect for each other’s sovereignty National values and interests in his Moscow address he

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said they do not wish us freedom but they want to see us as a colony

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they want not equal cooperation but robbery they want to see us not as a free Society but as a crowd of solar

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slaves Western countries have been repeating for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other peoples

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everything is exactly the opposite instead of democracy suppression and exploitation instead of freedom

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enslavement and violence the entire universe World Order is

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inherently anti-democratic and not free it is deceitful and hypocritical through

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and through let me also remind you that the United States together with the

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British turned Dresden hammock cologne and many other German cities into ruins

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without any military necessity during Second World War and this was done

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defiantly without any I repeat military necessity there was only one goal just

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like in the case of a nuclear bombings in Japan to intimidate pavar country and

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the whole world the US dictate is based on brute force on this law sometimes

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beautifully wrapped sometimes without any rapper but the essence is the same this law the collapse of Western Germany

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that has begun is irreversible and I repeat again it will not be the

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same as before this vision of Putin has been developing for years the way the U.S treated Russia after the

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collapse of the Soviet Union and all along to the present here we have Scott Ritter and Alexander merkor is

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explaining it much there’s been much more calculation about some of these American moves than

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um it’s not just a case of two countries operating in different universes I think that the decision to move NATO eastwards

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which bear in mind was happening in the 19 started in the 1990s at a time when

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the United States was also micromanaging or trying to micromanage Russian policies Russian domestic policies was a

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very calculated move maybe not at the very highest level you know the president and people of that kind but I

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certainly think that the United States knew perfectly well what it was doing it was basically acting to knock out once

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and for all a former and potentially future International right rival and

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competitor so I think the United States has had a long-standing policy

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of pushing back Russia pushing it to the point of driving it out of Europe I

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think there have been other countries in Europe that have been quite keen on that policy also I think what has now

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happened however and I think this is perhaps the other dimension I think there’s now this astonishment and dismay

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that the Russians have said enough we are now drawing red lines you can’t move

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Beyond these red lines if you start moving beyond these red lines we are in a position to respond our military has

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been rebuilt our political system has been rebuilt our economy is now much stronger than it was we’ve now got a

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network of international alliances or at least friendships or strategic Partnerships as they call it we’ve got a

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friendship with China at our back we we’re on good terms with India so we are

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in a position now to do that which we were not able to do before in the 9

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1990s and early 2000s and we which is to say uh so far but no further you’ve now

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reached the Stop and you have to accept this stop and this huge

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anger that we’re now see is um the fact that people in the west the

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Western Powers find that very difficult to accept and come to terms with they’ve

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become accustomed to thinking that they can roll NATO eastwards they can tear up

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treaties with the Russians disregard Russian concerns and as a result this a

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huge anger when they’ve discovered that finally Outlast the Russians are pushing

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back and are pushing back in ways which show that they can actually enforce

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their headlines hey I’m in in full agreement uh you know

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this what we’re seeing today is a um is the byproduct of a concerted

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effort by the United States and NATO to uh contain and control Russia to ensure

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that Russia never again emerges as a soviet-like adversary or a counterpart

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um you know but I I would also add this that you know back when I was uh when I was

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doing the Soviet thing back in the 1980s and early 1990s um

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you know we the United States didn’t get it perfect but we had populated

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our um are are deploy you know diplomats in our military ranks with genuine experts on

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the Soviet Union uh people who knew and understood uh the reality of the Soviet

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Union and as a result um could accurately

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um you know discuss what was you know important to the Soviet Union

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what the Soviet Union way of thinking was Etc so that our policy makers could

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predict uh Soviet reactions and come up with a variety of options uh to to to

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resolve these uh hopefully in a peaceful manner but if not to be prepared with

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real options to confront um you know any potential Soviet aggression we took the Soviets seriously

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because they were a serious opponent but with the collapse of the Soviet Union

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however the United States stopped taking this was instantaneous um I recall you know that I was I was

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brought in I was the CIA tried to recruit me back in 1992

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um as an analyst um and when I went and interviewed with the head of um it was no longer Sova it

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was no longer Soviet uh Affairs it was now Oreo the office of Russian Eurasian Affairs so automatically we see a a

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demotion of of Russia in the mindset it’s now part of Eurasia

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um but I was told that my uh my way of thinking remember at this time I was what third all of 32 years of old so my

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way of thinking was already outdated because I was painted by my experience

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in the Soviet Union that I that the fact that I reviewed the Soviet Union in Russia with respect

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um was not tolerant tolerated they literally cleaned house brought in a new

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school a new a new wave of uh analysts and this was in the state department as well and these are people who uh were

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part of the exploitation of Russia uh the the Yeltsin years where we were in

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there buying elections and remember we bought the 1996 election there’s no just literally no doubt about that this is

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about the ex the economic exploitation of uh of the former Soviet Union where

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we were trying to get our Western oil companies in it it on terms it would be

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be unacceptable to any other Nation but because Russia was a defeated Nation that’s how we viewed them we were

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pressuring Russia um and then when you know yeltsin’s health and Corruption conspired to

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compel his removal from the scene and uh Vladimir Putin a surprise pick uh

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emerged we were shocked when Putin said no more uh Russia will no longer bow to the west

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but we never took it seriously we never took him seriously and and I can tell you why one of the reasons why I know

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they didn’t take him seriously is for the last 20 years since Putin came to power all we’ve talked about is Vladimir

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Putin we haven’t talked about Russia the reality of Russia the fact is Putin is

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not a dictator dictators don’t win elections by 56 percent of the vote

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okay Putin is a byproduct of Russian democracy however flawed that may be

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Putin is also a prisoner to a Russian bureaucracy Russia is a huge landmass

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very difficult to govern it can only be governed by this gigantic civil service

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that transcends every aspect of Russian life the Civil Service defines policy

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defines the means of implementing policy and brings policy decisions up to the executive who makes decisions nobody

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today in the United States is talking about this all we talk about is Vladimir Putin the impulsive leader The Gambler

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the irresponsible leader who’s threatening the world with his actions no

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Putin’s Russia today um knows what they’re doing they they’ve

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taken a long look at this problem and they recognize two things one NATO and

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the United States because we haven’t taken Russian seriously no longer have a range of viable options to confront

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Russia and two Russia because they have taken nato in the United States

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seriously has a plethora of option available to confront nato in the United

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States yeah well first of all can I just say again now this is in danger of becoming

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too much uh us agreeing but that is exactly correct can I just make a few

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observations firstly this idea of josinski is that without uh Ukraine

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Russia is no longer a European power well that theory has now been tested to

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destruction and of course Russia lost Ukraine in when the Soviet Union

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collapsed and surprise surprise it is still a major problem if you want to

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conceive of it as a problem in Europe it is still proving impossible to construct

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a security architecture a stable security architecture in Europe without

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Russia even without Ukraine Russia Remains the most powerful country the

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biggest country in Europe some people in Europe Emmanuel macron the French

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president for example understand that but I think there are still many people

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in London in Washington who don’t understand it and who still talk about Russia as this declining power this

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waning power this force that is lost somehow it’s uh energy that can’t really

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push back so that that’s that’s the first thing I wanted to say the second point and this is I think a point which

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I absolutely want to endorse what Scott said just now which is that this idea

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that all policy in Moscow is made by one person that there’s only one policy

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maker I’ll be listening to people like secretary blinkum saying this this is

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completely wrong Russian policy making at the moment in fact through most of

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Russian history but you know certainly now is extremely structured it goes

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through a very complex process there are a whole you know apparatus of policy

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making and when Scott talked about this huge bureaucracy this huge system of

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government that exists in Russia it’s important to remember the Putin himself is a creation of it he emerged from it

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he’s not somebody who came from outside it so Scott is absolutely right that

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this is a very structured very calculated uh um policy making machine

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because it functions in a way that is very different from that of say the

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United States it has been making decisions over a fairly mean you know long term you know we mustn’t fall into

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the Trap of talking about the Russians you know as if these Grand masters of all things of that kind but they do have

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longer time Horizons than Western policy makers tend to do and they have

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incrementally built up their Armed Forces they’ve reorganized their economy they’ve done all kinds of things they’ve

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they’ve sorted out their International systems in a way which I think Western

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Powers don’t fully understand or have not fully understand and I think what

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has been happening over the last few weeks is that as this crisis has

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deepened and it’s a little mysterious to me while we are even in a crisis but maybe we’ll

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talk about that in more detail but as this crisis has deepened and as Western

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governments have been looking at their options they are starting to recognize

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to their own shock the point that Scott is making that they are short of options

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that the economic sanctions that they’re talking about are not going to be as devastating on Russia as they imagine

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that if they try and make them more devastating they could have very

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dangerous spillover effects for Western economies that Russia is not isolated

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internationally in the way that they also imagined and here um against God is

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better discussing these things the the Russians have a far bigger range of

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military options than the West could possibly imagine and that the option for

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the west of taking on the Russians in Ukraine simply does not exist it is not

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practical so this has been a realization that has come as a shock

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and again it also explains I think some of this extreme anger that we’re seeing

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at the moment because suddenly people are realizing well you know we thought we had all these levers we could pull

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all these bottoms we could press and we’ve discovered that perhaps we can’t

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what I would also add to this is you know first of all we’re supposed to be in our position and finding out that we

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actually agree on everything so far so I’ll try and uh and push the envelope here a little bit but

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I again I I think what I’m about to say is is fact-based

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um Russia is the one who initiated the

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current crisis not I mean we we can go back and say no wait a minute goes back to Nato expansion Etc yes that’s that’s

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old history um this crisis was defined in 2008 when

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NATO uh at the Bucharest meeting said we’re we’re considering letting uh

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Ukraine and Georgia in um William Burns The Who at the time was the U.S ambassador to uh to Moscow uh

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wrote a cable um that basically accurately uh defined

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the the Russian position uh and he was open about it it was no to Nato

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expansion this is a red line so in 2009 February 2009 when Burns wrote this

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cable the United States knew that this was a red line that could if we pushed

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it lead to confrontation the Russians were very open about it back then there is no secret and the reason why I bring

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this up is if the Russians in 2009 were defining a potential crisis between

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the United States and NATO and Russia over Ukraine that means that when that today what

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we’re looking at isn’t a policy that’s been made up on a whim where we’re looking at in our Russian

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actions that have that are part of a very concerted effort to bring together

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a Confluence of diplomatic economic military and policy

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um options and when Russia decided to act because again it was the Russian the

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Russians tested the system in in April of last year when they mobilized a hundred thousand troops

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um and brought them into the western and southern military districts to see what NATO’s response would be

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and they they saw what NATO’s response was they listened to the rhetoric and then they with they demobilized and then

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in November they remobilized this time they knew exactly what was doing there’s there’s an American fighter pilot you

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might be familiar with them as a John Boyd the oodaloo the uh observe oriented

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side act decision-making cycle Russia initiated this crisis

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knowing that they were the they were inside nato in America’s decision-making

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cycle Russia has predicted every outcome they have a policy option for every

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outcome and they they’ve defined this crisis and I believe Russia has a clearly defined end game that they’re

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going to achieve because NATO and the United States simply have nothing to put on the table but rhetoric I mean it was

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embarrassing what happened at the United Nations where all we have is this empty rhetoric okay you spoke loudly in New

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York now what are you going to do nothing Russia has an entire menu of options to draw from

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yes I I agree about the UN session I’m not quite so sure that the Russians did

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initiate this because certainly there was a major buildup of forces by the Russians in the spring

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um I I the the complicated the very strange facts about this latest

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development this this latest alleged buildup or or build up that we’re hearing about

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is that of course all of the claims about it are coming exclusively from the western side

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the Russians say we’re not going to invade Ukraine we have no plan to invade Ukraine this is not not what we’re

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considering doing we have our red lines we will defend our red lines but we’re not planning to invade Ukraine

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um we’re not even confirming that we actually have undertaken this

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huge build up and I wonder whether the Russians actually haven’t undertaken a

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build up in exactly the kind of way that Scott is saying because I again I I stress this I’m talking now as somebody

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who’s not a military man I understand that you don’t keep troops in the field especially in Winter for long periods of

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time what I am hearing and you know I’m not you know again this military person

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is that what has been happening is a steady incremental build up of logistics

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of Barracks of all sorts of things which has been going on for some time the

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tempo of which accelerated after the events of the

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spring but that this is a rather more steady cumulative build up rather than this

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vast you know Gathering of forces that’s ready to bounce

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um in some ways maybe if we’re talking about this uh you know incremental build

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up you know building up Barracks building up bases establishing supply

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lines all that kind of thing that I can imagine is actually more intimidating but that may suggest that the time frame

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for any Russian move and we have to perhaps look at what would cause a Russian move but the time frame would be

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a lot longer uh than just you know an attack in February at least that that that that’s what I think and if that is

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correct then of course the West suddenly or is the United States and Britain

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suddenly hyping up the rhetoric around all of this and the kind of way that they did they actually have played into

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Russian hands because what we’re actually seeing and you know this is again goes a little bit to what Scott

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was saying about you know angry rhetoric at the United Nations lack of options on

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the actual table what we’re actually seeing is that in the negotiations and

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lavrov was actually quite interesting about this he said you know the Americans are now starting to talk about

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things that they weren’t prepared to talk about before it’s not enough for us now it doesn’t address our core issues

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but once upon a time these were important issues for us so they’re starting to talk about intermediate

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nuclear force weapons they scrap the INF treaty but now they’re talking about taking steps that might revive something

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very like it we proposed to them some time ago uh steps of steps involving uh

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deconfliction and you know not holding exercises close to borders and keeping

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our airplanes distant from each other they weren’t interested now before now

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suddenly this former proposal of ours has become a proposal of theirs so you

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know you could sense that the ground is gradually shifting and I

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by the way do agree that there is an end game here but I wonder whether the timeline

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is rather longer than Scott says because if we’re talking about a kind of build

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up of massive forces On the Border that suggests that there’s a definite plan for an invasion within the next few

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months or at least an option for an invasion so let’s get back to Putin’s speech in

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which he stated that the collapse of Western Germany that has begun is irreversible this kind of talk is daring

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it is a million miles from anything you will hear from any of America’s purported leaders lacking All Vision as

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they do what is Putin talking about it not a new era in world history the kind that get

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its own chapters in the history texts of the future what will distinguish this new era we

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have to ask there are various ways to interpret what Putin she and their allies among non-western nations are

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working toward they draw distinction none has put into words but which is nonetheless essential to their Vision

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there are strong Nations and their other merely powerful in the world order as we have it the

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powerful dominate ever more evidently by force alone in the world water now emerging it is

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genuinely strong Nations that will at last Prevail over those reliant on power alone and force will have little to do

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with it you may distinguish between the strong and The Powerful the Vietnamese the South Koreans the

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Chinese in their way even the Japanese in theirs in these nations we saw

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durability and coherence act had nothing to do with the size of their armies what was it that made them strong

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the answers of which many came to us only after years of considering the question

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we do not consider the answers anything like complete strong Nations serve their people as their primary responsibility

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they have a purpose a Telus as the ancient Greeks put it and are shared

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belief in the worth of their ideal they have a commitment to advancing the well-being of their citizens to

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constructive action in the interest of the Common View they value their cultures their

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histories their memories these common characteristics confer on strong Nations solid but flexible social fabrics and an

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assumed sense of shared community they’re a source of identity and at the

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same time expressions of identity are honestly strength of the kind tends to generate power but it is power

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judiciously deployed genuinely strong Nations have no need to dominate others

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they are ungiven to subterfuge or subversion see no purpose in it they

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value Mutual benefit in their relations with others simply because this is the surest way to stability and a peaceful

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order let us not traffic in impossible ideals or in the thought of Nations as

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pure as snow there are none a strong Nation may have many things about it that are not to be

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admired or awful things even a strong Nation may also be powerful China is

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such a case China does not use its power to malign purpose remove the xenophobia

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and anti-chinese paranoia and the record supports this in the same unscientific

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fashion that is considered a merely powerful Nations dependent on power

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alone lack the coherence found among the strong and then you find that all relations are

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power relations the social fabric is in consequence free there’s an evident determination among

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the citizens of these nations leaving them with no social bonds or common purpose and nothing to believe in when a

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nation’s ethos States toward the pursuit of power the poverty is hollowed out all

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the familiar social ills proceed from this inequality corruption greed and the

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collapse of mediating institutions through which people are able to express the political will the rampant perverse

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corporatization of every aspect of life in unduly powerful Nations represents the institutionalization of these

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characteristics when everything is measured according to its potential to turn profit we have to

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say that Margaret Thatcher was horribly right when she asserted there’s no Society there are only individuals

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this is a key feature of Nations that are merely powerful their Gatherings of survivors in constant struggle against

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one another the merely powerful consume what remains of their strength in the

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course of exercising the power an example of this is the censorship protein that descends upon America like

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a long and Dark Cloud as digital media corporations act at Washington’s behesta

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control what can they said in public they do more much more and impose an information monoculture

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upon Americans this is the use of power to intrude on the full range of our interpersonal

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relations they’re telling us what we can and cannot say to you in this way they

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are destroying public discourse and in Nations where we find it a vibrant public discourse conducted in public

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space ranks among the important sources of strength they are also destroying people’s

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abilities to discern to think and to judge for themselves which is another source of a nation’s strength in strong

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Nations that curtail free speech and there most certainly are some called German tradition nonetheless strengthen

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communities and leadership often uses them for this purpose this is how the exercise of power leads to the

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disintegration of the nation where in power alone counts maybe it is obvious by now that we count the United States

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the premier example of a nation that is powerful but lacking in strength

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there is no anti-American sentiment in this it is simply because the exercise of

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power of the expense of strength is more advanced in the US with its excessive corporatization and its excessive

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dependence on technology as an instrument of power than anywhere else on earth when Jefferson and the signers

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wrote debated and sent the Declaration of Independence to George III to advise

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of their intent they were announcing a strong Nation bound together in purpose

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and faith in itself strong but hardly powerful it has been this nation’s wrong persistent

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abandonment of its founding ideals ever accelerated as its pursuit of power came

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to dominate that has rendered it weak the paradox as America determined to

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make itself a world power beginning with the Spanish-American war in 1898 it has

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steadily lost its strength in the way we use the term power as exercised by the

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merely powerful acts primarily in the cause of its own self-preservation it is the spot to Milan purpose deployed

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the detriment of others and is almost invariably a destructive force among its

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objectives is the destruction of the strengths of others Vietnam is a clear case as they wage war against the

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Vietnamese people U.S forces infamously set about destroying the village to save it that

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is to shred the fabric of Vietnamese Society so as to defeat it American

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forces have since done the same elsewhere in Syria for instance in Libya

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in Iraq you don’t have to approve with any given feature of these societies to

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recognize that what has been fundamentally at issue is their coherence those inevitable things that

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bound them together as one even if it was a fractious Unity this is why we can now speak of these

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nations as broken we should consider the Ukraine conflict from this perspective the wanton useless destruction and we

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should think about what it is the US most wants to destroy as it forces its campaign to destroy Russia then we can

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think again about Putin’s speeches over these past months and the sentiments in them that many other nations the

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majority share we have long found Putin’s speeches all available on the Kremlin website worth

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reading whatever else one may think of him he has an excellent grasp of history and

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the Dynamics of international relations in our understanding the change that has come over the

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Russian leader dates to last December when the U.S threw sand in his face in

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response to his effort by those to draft treaties Moscow said to Washington and

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NATO headquarters in Brussels to Fashion a new security order in Europe

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that is when his anger arose that is when he said in effect to hell with them

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we will have to build a new world order on our own China by that time had

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already given up on the west and it was then the Russians and Chinese took their Great Leap Forward together we are sure

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they share large measures of bitterness and anger as they look back over their deteriorated relations with the West

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it is what they see looking forward that interests us far more they are not talking about power as the

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principal feature of the order they now appear fully committed to realizing they are talking about a world built by

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