Physical, moral coward Obama and his murdering CIA will not mistake the message Putin is about to send both him and NATO
WORLD NEWS
By Dallas Darling
03/30/2014
Instead of being overly alarmed with
Crimea's popular and democratic referendum to join
Russia, or as some in the
West would say Russia's military incursion into
Ukraine, the real concern should be if the
United States and western
Europe will again misread
Russian objectives. Starting right after
World War I and continuing through to the
Soviet Union's invasion of
Afghanistan, the
U.S. and its allies have consistently misinterpreted Russia's geopolitical maneuverings and aims. Militarily, they have responded with incompetence, committing long-term and costly armed interventions and occupations that still exist today. The gravest threat to both U.S. and
European security and stability, then, perhaps even the entire world, is how the West will respond.

When the
Soviet's invaded Afghanistan in
1979, the U.S. misconstrued it as a march to the
Persian Gulf. Both the
Carter and
Reagan Administrations sought greater access to military, naval, and air bases in the region, mistakenly believing the Soviet's were going to seize oilfields.
America's policy of containment,
Carter Doctrine, now extended into the
Middle East.
Along with threatening the
Soviets with nuclear annihilation, military aid was greatly expanded to
Saudi Arabia,
Egypt,
Israel, and
Pakistan.
While establishing another naval base at
Diego Garcia, the U.S. went beyond using surrogate forces forming the
Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force. Yet the real reason for Soviet involvement in Afghanistan was concern for its southern borders and radical, militant
Islam.
In trying to correct an
error made by
Geography when she somehow put the West's oil under Middle East sand(1), the U.S. and western Europe committed a similar geopolitical error in thinking
Joseph Stalin wanted to "communize" the world after
World War II.
After being attacked and invaded by
Germany twice and the West once,
Stalin's goal was to instead pursue a doctrine of "socialism in one country." So suspicious and paranoid was
Stalin, that his main purpose for establishing communist nations in eastern Europe was to have them serve as buffer states.
Even as far back as World War I, the U.S.,
Great Britain, and
France kept thousands of troops in northern Russia.
Although many commoners welcomed Russian liberals overthrowing the czar, most leaders, like
President Woodrow Wilson, viewed them as a threat to
Western capitalism and America's power and leadership in the world.
Wilson militarily intervened by aiding and arming all anti-Bolshevik forces, and by committing troops, even battling against revolutionary forces. Although the U.S. and western Europe maintained its vested interests and influence in much of the world,(2) it was unable to carve-up Russia and redraw its boundaries, as it had in the Middle East and southwest
Asia.

Like Stalin, the U.S., and some western Europe nations, have behaved as psychotic and megalomaniacal empires when dealing with foreign policy. Their self-importance, overly exaggerated roles in the world, and grandiose ambitions to correct geography, has caused them to be pathologically suspicious and paranoid of other nations. Consequently, they have been unable to reasonably analyze and understand other peoples and geopolitical events.
The affects have been devastating and deadly.
Middle Eastern tyrants and their security forces have been militarized.
Popular uprisings have been crushed.
Human rights abuses have been committed, including sectarian violence and atrocities. Military engagements and preemptive wars have killed millions, some of which are ongoing.
Hopefully, the U.S. and western Europe will not misread Russia's intentions, especially in light of
Ukrainian soldiers defecting to Russia. Neither should they misinterpret Russia's economic investments in Ukraine, Ukraine's $16 billion indebtedness to Russia, a number of treaties and military and naval base agreements, or attempt to correct Russia's historical ties in Crimea, including its geographical proximity in relation to the
Black Sea. Comparing Russia's
President Vladimir Putin to
Adolf Hitler,
Russians to the Nazis, shouting the historically infamous term "appeasement!", or calling for
World War III, as some U.S. leaders are constantly doing, will only turn a popular and democratic petition of secession into sectarian violence, the Black Sea into the
Red Sea.

For his part, and with all of the U.S.-Nato treaty obligations, Putin is not so bold as to invade Ukraine or a
Nato ally, is he?
Surely he will not behave as badly as the U.S. in trying to control the geographies of
Iraq and Afghanistan, will he?
Dallas Darling (darling@wn.com)
Dallas Darling is the author of
Politics 501: An
A-Z Reading on Conscientious Political Thought and
Action, Some
Nations Above God: 52 Weekly
Reflections On Modern-Day
Imperialism, Militarism, And Consumerism in the Context of
John's Apocalyptic
Vision, and
The Other Side Of
Christianity: Reflections on
Faith, Politics,
Spirituality,
History, and
Peace. He is a correspondent for www.worldnews.com. You can read more of Dallas' writings at www.beverlydarling.com and wn.com//dallasdarling.
(1) Galeano,
Eduardo.
Mirrors,
Stories Of
Almost Everyone.
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(2)
Williams, William Appleman.
Americans in a
Changing World. New York, New York:
Harper & Row, 1978., pp. 160, 161.
(3)
Parish,
Thomas.
The Cold War Encyclopedia. New York, New York:
Henry Holt and Company,
1996., p. 296.
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