BRITAIN
AND THE UNITED STATES RESTART THE COLD WAR WITH RUSSIA
PETER'S NEW YORK - June 18, 2007
-- It's quite
obvious that Bush and his counterpart in Britain are moving toward a
conflict with Russia. They have been working on this for quite a while,
but now the hostility, which those two nations have provoked, is
obvious for all to see. The question
that each of us must ask is, "Why?" Because there is a reason, so
deliberate have these provocations been.
The latest
is Britain's insistence that Russia extradite one of its citizens who
is accused of a rather bizarre murder involving an isotope of
polonium, the element discovered by the Polish scientists Marie Curie
and which was named after her home country. Apparently, the element is,
under certain circumstances very poisonous, although I would find it
hard to understand why it would become the poison of choice for an
assassination.
The victim
was some fellow whose name I cannot pronounce (Alexander Litvinenko),
who was Russian but who emigrated to Great Britain. Putin was
supposedly after him because he was one of those pseudo-democratic
reformers in Russia, but in reality probably on the British
intelligence payroll. After having supposedly investigated the matter,
Britain has accused another Russia, former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi
(another one of those hard-to-pronounce names), of committing the
crime.
[Can't we all just agree to stick with the names Vladimir and Natasha
as the Russian spies?) Apparently, they traced radiation from the
element to various people and locations, and then said that this other
guy that did it.
Britain is
insisting that Russia turn the guy over to them, and Russia, quite
naturally, is saying "No." They claim that by their constitution, they
cannot extradite. This somehow makes sense. Britain could forward the
evidence to the Russian authorities, and they could take it from there.
But that would not suite the purpose of this elaborate scheme. So in
retaliation for not handing this fellow over, Britain has sent four of
Russia's diplomats packing. Does it not remind one of the US demands
for the Taliban in Afghanistan to hand over Osama Bin Laden, and when
the Taliban
asked why, and asked that evidence be provided, the US just invaded the
country. What new pretext -- and for what? -- is being designed for
Russia here?
The entire
affair looks like a scenario dreamed up by British intelligence, and
the accused Russian, Lugovoi, has said as
much. The use of polonium smacks of a
CIA-style concoction, in much the same way as the so-called "dirty
bomb" is a fiction made up by the American intelligence agencies,
whipped up as another way to accuse people of terrorism. The so-called
"shoe-bomber<" who probably never intended to bomb anything, was at
first accused of plotting to explode a "dirty bomb," but those charges
were.....dropped....I wonder why?
It's
because there is no such thing as a dirty bomb except in academia or in
the plethora of security-oriented nonprofits and in the CIA. So with
polonium..
It has
become obvious that Britain wants to pick a fight, and they are using
this polonium case to do so.
The United
States has been trying to pick a fight with Russia for years. Vladimir
Putin, Russia's new hero and very rightly so, noticed that the
nonprofit organizations that had proliferated throughout Russia
supposedly fighting for democracy were no more than spy agencies,
interfering with elections and other internal matters. He therefore put
restrictions on their operation, and banned some of them from operating
altogether.
It is, I
hope, no secret that the United States has been using nonprofits
for ages now to interfere with the internal affairs of countries and
for
intelligence gathering. That is why it is no longer safe to do work for
them in foreign countries. If you are a journalist or working for a
nonprofit, you are, and rightly so, almost automatically suspected of
being an American spy.
So now,
with Britain expelling Russia's diplomats, the situation of trying to
isolate Russia and brand it as anti-democratic is reaching a critical
juncture. Remember just a few weeks ago, the United States said it was
going to put missiles in the countries bordering Russia, another
provocative act. Russia said it would point missiles at Europe. Then,
it has actually suspended its participation in a treaty as a result of
Britain's highly provocative action. The question we must all ask, is,
what is the objective of the runaway foreign policy of the United
States, and its sidekick, Britain, and what can be done to stop it?
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