US GOVERNMENT CRIMES

As the world moves toward multipolarism, and the US hegemon tries its best to sabotage and sink this development, the media barely explain the topic, and the incredibly high stakes involved in the process. The Grayzone’s senior editor Ben Norton, who resides in Nicaragua, is now creating a separate channel to focus precisely on this immensely important transformation.

Massive lies, hypocrisy and cynicism characterise the Anglo-American history of dealings with Russia, and their way of doing foreign policy in general. Now as their plots unravel in Eastern Europe, it will be hard for the hardliners in Washington and London to keep the warmongering hysteria going. The Ukraine itself, says Mercouris, is denying the imminence of a Russian attack. And France’s Macron, with Germany’s support, is looking for a way to defuse the crisis. Meanwhile, the sheer brutishness and arrogance of US and UK maneuvers in Europe are clearly pushing Germany and France into an open break with London and Washington. 

Much is being made out of the threat of sanctions against Russia. But such threats won’t deter Moscow. For a start, even draconian sanctions have proved to be a weak coercive tool. Indeed, US sanctions had a poor coercive track record in North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Vietnam, etc. 

Russia is a big power. It has huge reserves, which currently stand at a record $638.2 billion — the fourth largest in the world. Russia’s credit position is good and it owns much of its debts. It has no critical need of US investors. Russia is in no desperate need to sell its currency. 

Having gone through four traumatic shocks previously in its 30-year post-cold war history, Russia knows how to absorb shocks. Therefore, while Russia may take a big hit and there could be currency volatility causing outflow of capital initially following the sanctions, its reserves give a big cushion. 

THE SAKER—The notion of a Russian ground operation to take Kiev is total, hallucinatory, nonsense. Ditto for the idiotic idea that Russia must invade in February before the frozen ground turns into dirt (Russian ground forces have no problems operating or fighting with dirt, snowmelts or any other natural phenomenon between -50C to +50C).  That is exactly the kind of crap McFaul always spews (with this uniquely paranoid eyes and freaked-out facial expression).  But the fact that McFaul is a drooling idiot does not mean that he does not have access to what is going on behind the scenes (Blinken is just as dumb, and he is in charge of the entire US diplomacy).

CHRISTOPHER BLACK—We face a situation in which the United States of America and its satellites in NATO have a single-minded political objective with regards to Russia-its complete submission to American diktats and control, and the break up of Russia into smaller entities the Americans, Germans, and British, can control and exploit. This is the reason they have advanced their military alliance east, secured rapid resupply routes, placed their weapons systems, logistics bases, advance military headquarters and intelligence units, and special forces along Russia’s western border. This is the reason that NATO keeps the war going in Ukraine, to try to weaken Russia, and to provide themselves with a pretext for a wider war when they decide intimidation, threats, and sanctions have failed their objective.

Russia has the single objective of removing the existential threat presented by these preparations and planning of war against it, of surviving, of freeing itself from the US-NATO threat once and for all, so it can develop and prosper as a free and sovereign nation.