Friday, October 9, 2015

Stop Millions of Western Immigrants!

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Tens of millions of European and North American immigrants, legal and illegal, have been flooding both the cities and countryside in Asia, Latin America, and even Africa.
Western migrants are charging like bulls and the ground is shaking under their feet; they are fleeing Europe and North America in hordes. Deep down they cannot stand their own lifestyle, their own societies, but you would hardly hear them pronounce it. They are too proud and too arrogant! But, after recognizing innumerable areas of the world as suitable for their personal needs – as safe, attractive and cheap – they simply pack and go!
We are told that some few hundred thousand African and Asian exiles are now causing a great “refugee crises” all over Europe! Governments and media are spreading panic, borders are being re-erected and armed forces are interrupting the free movement of people. But the number of foreigners illegally entering Europe is incomparably smaller than the number of Western migrants that are inundating, often illegally, virtually all corners of the world.
No “secret paradise” can be hidden any longer and no country can maintain its reasonable price structure. Potential European, North American and Australian immigrants are determined to enrich themselves by any means, at the expense of local populations. They are constantly searching for bargains: monitoring prices everywhere, ready to move at the spur of the moment, as long as the place offers some great bargains, has lax immigration laws, and a weak legal framework.
Everything pure and untapped gets corrupted. With lightning speed, Western immigrants are snatching reasonably priced real estate and land. Then, they impose their lifestyle on all those “newly conquered territories”. As a result, entire cultures are collapsing or changing beyond recognition.
Overall, Western immigrants are arrogant and stubborn; they feel no pity for the countries they are inundating. What surrounds them is only some colorful background to their precious lives. They are unable and unwilling to “adopt” local customs, because they are used to the fact that theirs is the “leading culture” – the culture that controls the world.
They come, they demand, and they take whatever they can – often by force. If unchecked, they take everything. After, when there is almost nothing left to loot, they simply move on. After them, “no grass can grow”; everything is burned, ruined and corrupted. Like Bali, Phuket, Southern Sri Lanka, great parts of the Caribbean, Mexico and East African coast, just to name a few places.
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Who represents the greater “menace”: some 300,000 “illegal” refugees escaping from the countries destabilized or outright destroyed by the West, or those millions of Westerners who are annually fleeing their depressing lifestyles and selfishly over-imposing themselves on so many economically weaker and therefore more vulnerable parts of the world?
I believe the answer is obvious.
People from devastated countries are often left with no choice: many are coming to their tormentors, forced by circumstances to accept totally unreasonable conditions, humiliation and marginalization. They have to work extremely hard. They have to accept jobs Westerners think themselves “too good for”, and they are expected, even ordered, to “adapt” culturally. They go through horrific screenings and interviews, and almost all of them have to degrade themselves just in order to survive and feed their children. Only a minority is allowed to stay. Those who do stay greatly contribute to local economies.
Of course, this is a part of the dirty trick: the West needs foreigners; it cannot survive without immigrants, without their cheap labor. But it would never admit it openly. Before “accepting them”, it has to first humiliate and break even those whom it desperately needs. It has to further demean those whose nations were already robbed of everything, and even thrown into war by the West’s imperialist foreign policy and by corporate terrorism.
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The West’s migrants are encountering totally different treatment in most of the countries they are inundating.
To begin with, Western immigrants do not even need visas to enter most countries. Decades ago, the Empire opened by force almost all “developing states”. Westerners are treated preferentially, and generally promoted as a “source of income” by local regimes.
It is mainly the Western multi-nationals that are dividing the loot from Asian, African and the Middle Eastern countries, but some part of booty always ends up in the pockets of those ordinary European and North American citizens, mainly in the form of retirement plans or other social benefits. Then, annually, tens of millions of Westerners, armed with funds that have been stolen from the “developing world” are hitting the road, trying to make their money go further in those places where their funds actually originated!
It is no secret that Western migrants are taking advantage of poverty, low prices, and corrupts legal systems. Their arrival raises prices for housing and land. It leaves millions of local people literally homeless, and it raises the prices of food and basic services for the local population.
In a way, people in many poor countries get robbed twice: by Western corporations, and then again, by Western migrants.
But damaged countries are not sending coast guard ships to intercept Western migrants. And there are hardly any deportations. Only those who dare to criticize the system get expelled.
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I saw entire islands being eaten alive by Western immigrants. Almost no coastal areas are left for local people on the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Bali. The Scandinavian mafias, the Central European mafias, Australian mafias… The theft had reached unimaginable proportions. Even when it is illegal to purchase land, the Europeans and the North Americans are teaming up with local gangs, or forging schemes that include marriages to local women. Western migrants are tremendously canny! There is always some way how to get around the laws and screw poor people in the most miserable countries on earth.
The Italian “takeover” of the Kenyan coast… the child prostitution there.
Thailand’s islands are all gone. No culture remains, almost no houses belonging to the local people… almost no coastal stretch is left untouched. There is just some banal, horrid tourist infrastructure, and millions of Western migrants baking on the sun, all year round, with their pot bellies exposed, wearing flip-flops, downing beer, hand in hand with their culturally uprooted Thai companions. What did these people bring to Thailand? Freedom? Prosperity? High culture? Seriously! Or honestly, isn’t it just a moral corruption and total cultural ruin?
There are literally millions – maybe even tens of millions – of Western (mainly European) migrants living all over Southeast Asia. Exact numbers are unknown; there are no reliable studies and statistics. Many Western immigrants in Southeast Asia are actually “illegal”. Some are “semi-legal”, with their constant “visa runs”, false marriages and shady investments.
Cambodia is one of the places that has been attracting the most depraved migrants from the West. Their sex sprees and “2 dollars per ‘shag’ bargains” have been described in detail in several colorful books.
I encountered many “expats” and “migrants” when I was first investigating and then helping to close down one of the most notorious child-prostitution centers on earth, so-called “Kilometer 11”, located just outside the capital city of Phnom Penh. There, thousands of kidnapped girls, many of them minors, were forced to serve predominantly European clientele. Some of them were kidnapped and gang-raped on the way by traffickers; dragged here from all over Cambodia and neighboring Vietnam. The girls lived in captivity, guarded by vicious gangsters. And all over the place, flashing their proverbial beer bellies, were cheerful middle-aged European migrants, who just moved here, as I was told, “shagging a minor is much cheaper than downing a pint of shitty beer”.
A local Reuters correspondent and I managed to interview several 14-years old girls, some of them clearly dying from AIDS. Later on, when we began photographing the scene from the car, the entire crowd of men began charging, beer bottles in their hands, shorts falling off from their backsides, ready to kill. A great gain for the country of Cambodia, those European migrants!
I fought with all my might those venomous German immigrants at Colonia Dignidad in Southern Chile. There, many European Christian religious fanatics set up their entire state inside the Chilean state, closely collaborating with the US-backed Pinochet’ dictatorship. At one point, Bormann was there, as well as other prominent Nazis. After settling in their “new fatherland”, the German immigrants went busily to “work”, raping children, performing medical experiments on local orphans, and mercilessly torturing opponents of the fascist dictatorship. Of course, they did not immigrate only to Chile; there were millions of European fascist émigrés pouring into all corners of South America. The most prominent of them were shipped there with care by US and British intelligence services.
While Western propaganda keeps talking about illegal immigrants crossing into the US from Mexico, there is very little talk about those tens of millions of people who are continuously immigrating to Latin America from all over Europe, settling in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and elsewhere. Before the latest wave of Latin American revolutions finally guaranteed equality and respect for the indigenous people of the continent, most European immigrants managed to implant deep racial and social segregation. In some places like Peru and Bolivia, the situation closely resembled that of South African apartheid. Until recently, European immigrants had been pushing the native population to extreme margins, stealing their land and making their cultures irrelevant. It was done all over Latin America and is still done in many other parts of the world.
So, “what are we going to do with those millions of Western immigrants?”
Can we really afford having them in our countries? Can we accommodate them? Can we pay for their needs, for their aggressiveness and their wild and violent cultural and behavioral patterns? Can we allow them to take everything from those who have very little left?
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Look left and right: the entire planet is full of Western immigrants. They are controlling diamond mines in South Africa as well as “conservancy areas” in Kenya. They are holding huge land expanses in Asia, and virtually all profitable commercial land and industry in Latin America.
And they are coming and coming! They are unstoppable. Most of them are sick of their gray lives in Europe and North America. They are full of superiority complexes, but in reality, they would do anything to escape their loneliness, depression and emptiness at home.
In order to be able to stay “legally” in Southeast Asia, millions of Western male immigrants are marrying maids, go-go dancers, or even sex workers. But then they treat them with spite (as many of them don’t really know how else to behave towards people from other cultures). There are tens of thousands of former US GI’s, living in the villages of Northern Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. After bombing Southeast Asia into the stone age, they “could not cope” with the treatment they received after coming back home. And so they immigrated; they returned to the land that they had already so thoroughly destroyed, poisoned and raped.
I met many of them, as I was writing about this part of the world for many years. Some former GI immigrants were now totally broke, trying to borrow money from me, and coming up with bizarre stories and schemes. Almost all of them felt spite for the local people, but were unable to return to their homeland, because they lost all contacts and skills that could allow them to live there. Some overstayed their visas, owing huge amounts of money in fines to the local authorities.
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I heard countless desperate stories. But, unlike those profound and heartbreaking stories told by the migrants from the countries destroyed by the West, the stories of the Western immigrants were mainly selfish, centered on the desire to improve their lives, or yearning to escape unpleasant conditions in their countries of origin. Most of the time, their presence brought nothing positive to the countries where they managed to relocate.
In her iconic book “Karma Cola”, an Indian writer Gita Mehta described, already a quarter of century ago, those millions of Westerners who have been flooding Sub-Continent in search of “enlightenment”, alternative lifestyles and other mass-produced, Westernized cultural and religious trends. Many ended up as illegal migrants, rotting in ashrams and in bizarre communes, some even selling their passports in order to survive.
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The world has been patient – I’d say too patient – with the Western immigrants!
This patience should end, because of the brutality, even savagery, that Europe has been recently demonstrating towards those desperate men, women and children who have been trying to escape from their countries resembling “sinking ships”; “ships” that were torpedoed by Western imperialism.
The world owes nothing to the West, to the contrary! Therefore, visa and immigration policies should be reciprocal, which is exactly the approach of several Latin American countries.
Practically speaking, there are many more legal and illegal Western immigrants living in Indonesia or Thailand, than the other way around. The same goes for countries like Chile.
After horrible centuries during which Western colonialism and imperialism managed to destroy billions of human lives in all corners of the world, Europe still dares to treat its desperate victims as worse than animals. I recently witnessed its spite towards refugees arriving in Greece, France, Germany and the Czech Republic.
And after what I saw, I feel indignant and appalled.
Enough is enough!
With its wars, destabilization campaigns, economic terror, and its plunder of the planet, the West continues to demonstrate how low and brutal its culture really is. The “refugee crises” is just the latest chapter of the never-ending neo-colonialist horror show.
While European ships keep intercepting pitiful boats crammed with wrecked people who are fighting for their lives, while European armies are re-erecting border controls, several Latin American countries which are now governed by progressive governments, including Argentina and Chile, have been demonstrating tremendous moral superiority, solidarity and internationalism, by inviting and taking care of thousands of Syrian and Palestinian refugees, and on top of that, treating them with great dignity and kindness!
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In one of the hotels in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in a bar late at night, I overheard a conversation between a visiting Swiss businessman and his Chilean counterpart:
“You know, those immigrants that we call ‘paperless’”, lamented Swiss man. “It’s too many of them… too many! We should just throw them directly to the sea; we should drown them! We don’t need such scum in Europe.”
A few days earlier, my friend, an Ecuadorian government official based in Quito, told me a story:
“Lately, many Europeans keep coming to Ecuador and to other Latin American countries, searching for jobs, trying to migrate. Their economies are collapsing, but there is no humility when they come here, only arrogance. Another day, a Spaniard came to me, applying for a job. I asked him for his CV. He looked at me with total outrage: ‘But I am a Spaniard!’ he shouted. ‘So what?’ I replied. ‘These days are over, comrade; days when just being a white European man would be enough to land you a job anywhere in Latin America!’”
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The non-Western world simply cannot afford to tolerate an annual influx of the millions of Western immigrants! First, it gets attacked by the West, and then robbed, and at the end, is expected to tolerate enormous hordes of ruthless, locust-like, self-centered migrants who are trying to swallow what little is left behind by the Western corporations and governments.
Reciprocal visa regimes should be introduced. Legal frameworks should be strengthened to prevent corruption and speculation with land and real estate. Potential Western immigrants should be forced to prove that their presence would benefit the country where they want to settle, that their skills are really needed, just as all African and Asian immigrants are obliged to prove when they want to settle in Europe, in North America or in Australia.
And once again: let us not forget that there are many more Western immigrants trying to settle abroad, than there are people from poor countries applying for residency in the West.
Immigration crises? Yes of course! But not really “crises” for the West!
Those who do not realize it should check the numbers!
Certainly, many of us understand how depressed many Westerners really are; how their lives in Europe and in North America are disagreeable, gray and confusing. We really understand how much they want to immigrate to a warmer (in terms of weather and in terms of human relationships) part of the world. And if they would humbly admit what they feel, instead of demonstrating arrogance and superiority… if we could have it all in open… if the same rules would apply for everyone… if they would be the same for those who want to immigrate to Europe, to the US, to Asia, Africa or Latin America… then I am sure that at least some people would be willing to show their sympathy and consider accepting at least some of the most desperate Western migrants.
But there can be no sympathy if there is no justice. While Westerners are freely immigrating wherever they desire, Europe is now deploying its military in order to intimidate, humiliate and to stop those mugged and tortured victims of Empire!
Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. His latest books are: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire” and “Fighting Against Western Imperialism”.Discussion with Noam Chomsky: On Western Terrorism. Point of No Return is his critically acclaimed political novel. Oceania – a book on Western imperialism in the South Pacific. His provocative book about Indonesia: “Indonesia – The Archipelago of Fear”. Andre is making films for teleSUR and Press TV. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in East Asia and the Middle East. He can be reached through his website or his Twitter.
More articles by:ANDRE VLTCHEK  first published: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/09/stop-millions-of-western-immigrants/
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Ethik oder Etat - eine Debatte mit Ken Jebsen und Gästen

Ein Prozent der Menschheit besitzt mehr als der Rest auf diesem Planeten. Diese Fakten haben mit dem vorherrschenden Wirtschaftssystem zu tun, das vor allem denen nützt, die reich sind. Es ist buchstäblich ihr Reich, und alles, was in diesem Reich geschieht, hat sich nach zuvor von den Reichen auf den Weg gebrachten Gesetzen, Ansichten und Plänen zu richten.

Mit Demokratie hat das wenig bis gar nichts zu tun, nur darf man das den Massen gegenüber nicht offen aussprechen, um eine weltweite Rebellion zu verhindern. Tarnen und Täuschen ist daher eines der Hauptanliegen der obszön reichen Eliten, deren elitärer Status sich ausschließlich auf den Nullen vor dem Komma stützt.

Was der Otto-Normal-Bürger schlicht als ungerechte Verteilung aller weltweit erbrachten Güter bezeichnen würde, wird von den Eliten als Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Marktes verkauft. Immer ist es ein abstrakter Markt, der für alle Fehlentwicklungen verantwortlich ist. An diesen Markt hat man zu glauben wie an eine Religion. Schon wer hinterfragt, macht sich verdächtig und wird als Ketzer abgestempelt.

Für den Markt hat nur Wert, was man zu Cash machen kann, was Profite verspricht, und da ist beispielsweise Ethik kein Produkt, mit dem man handeln könnte. Ethik lässt sich auf dem Markt weder kaufen noch verkaufen, und so hat sich der moderne Mensch im Kapitalismus gefälligst zu entscheiden! Ethik oder Etat?

Nur muss er das wirklich? Lässt sich nicht Ethik und Etat unter einen Hut bringen? Und sind unsere Werte nur Börsenwerte?

Diese Fragen stellen wir unseren vier Gästen der zweiten Ausgabe von Positionen: 

-Prof. Dr. Athanassios Giannis, Leiter des Instituts für organische Chemie der Universität Leipzig,
-Peter König, der über 20 Jahre für die Weltbank Wasserentwicklungsprojekte geleitet hat,
-Ernst Wolff, Autor des Buches "Weltmacht IWF - Chronik eines Raubzuges",
-Albrecht Müller, Ökonom, ehemaliger Wahlkampfleiter von Willy Brandt und Kopf des alternativen Nachrichtenportals NachDenkSeiten.

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

At Home and Abroad: Obama is Outsmarted, Outmuscled and Outgunned

Matthew JAMISON | 08.10.2015 | 00:00

President Barack Obama has never been more clearly out of his intellectual and leadership depth, whether it be on the «home front» after failing over the course of his administration to curb rampant gun violence in the United States or on the international stage with President Putin consistently outsmarting him and running rings around the American Government vis-à-vis Syria. 
After the latest, and sadly, all too regular and predictable gun massacre on an American college campus in Oregon on Friday October 2nd, Obama called a Press Conference to fume and vent his anger and demonstrate his heartache. However, this has become a consistent pattern of Obama's. He reacts, rather than acts. He talks a great talk, rather than leading with action and delivering results. It is not enough to simply talk about gun problems in America, as Democratic Presidential Candidate Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton has said. It is not enough to call a Press Conference. President Obama and Vice-President Biden have had almost seven years to actually do something about the disturbing level of gun violence in America and reform the nonsense and dangerous gun laws. 
At every turn Obama and Biden have been outsmarted and outmuscled by the Republican Party and the crazed National Rife Association. As the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said of her all male Cabinet: «If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman». President Obama and Vice-President Biden have spent the last near seven years «Speaking» and «Talking» and delivering «Speeches» on a range of major policy issues, from closing Guantanamo Bay, to a Cap and Trade Climate Change Bill, to closing the gap between the richest and poorest Americans, to reforming gun laws and curbing gun violence.
Obama-Biden are all mouth and no do, or in that Texan saying: «All hat and no cattle.» Obama spent his first year in power faffing around with what turned out to be a half-baked «Affordable» Health care Bill, with no public option. Then the Obama-Biden administration botched the roll out of the new health care system, spending $300 million on a website that did not even work, with the costs of the website ballooning to an eventual cool $2 billion plus. No wonder most Americans came to view Obamacare sonegatively. Obama's supposed master strategist, Mr David Axelrod, presided over a public relations and communications disaster regarding the selling and roll out of Obamacare to the American public, while Obama/Biden/Axelrod have presided over the largestnet losses for the Democratic Party at a Congressional and State Governorship level in the history of their party, even bigger than the debacle on Capitol Hill suffered by President Bill Clinton during the autumnal mid-term Congressional elections of 1994.
Likewise, just as Obama-Biden have been consistently outsmarted, outmuscled and (forgive the pun) outgunned, by their Republican Party opponents at home, so too has Obama demonstrated what a vacuous and vain lightweight he is abroad. President Vladimir Putin of Russia has consistently outmaneuvered Obama, in particular over Syria policy. Obama's Syria policy is for all the world to see, an abject failure and a powerful paradigm in how not to conduct foreign relations and Global Geopolitics. Obama could learn a thing or two from a superior geo-political strategist like President Putin. 
President Putin has run rings around the Obama administration. If the Obama administration had listened to Russia in the United Nations Security Council at the beginning of the Syrian civil war in March 2011 and sought to partner and work with Russia, Syria might be a very different place today. Russia wisely refused to join in the American led chorus of demanding immediate regime change in Damascus while the fighting was raging on the ground in Syria, instead calling for the Assad family to step down immediately rather than adopting the Russian position of creating a framework and forum for political negotiations and political dialogue for an orderly transition and transfer of power to a future for Syria perhaps without Assad in power in the long term. Obama's policy has been all over the place on Syria and a total mess. After refusing to train and arm Syria's moderate opposition forces such as the Free Syrian Army during 2011 and 2012 and 2013 Obama reversed course.
Yet the American train and equip «programme» which has cost the US taxpayer roughly $500 million is a farce. A hundred men completed a 54-day training program in Jordan and returned to Syria in late June 2015. On 12 July 2015, the first class of 54 fighters of the New Syrian Forces trained in Turkey, crossed the border back into Syria. Despite extensive US-air support, within the first 24 hours of their deployment the majority of the recruits were either dead or missing and their leader had been captured by the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front. 
Al-Nusra Front posted photos on social media the next day showing American weapons and equipment that they had captured from the group. By September 2015, the Pentagon acknowledged that there were only «four or five» US-backed rebels left. Seventy-five Syrian rebels trained by the United States and its allies to fight Islamic State have entered northern Syria since September 2015. Reports indicated that the rebels had crossed into Syria from Turkey with 12 vehicles equipped with machine guns. Soon afterwards however, there were reports that the group handed over their brand-new trucks, weapons and ammunition to the al-Nusra Front, almost immediately after crossing the border back into Syria.
Similarly, Obama's policy on the use of Syrian Chemical Weapons has been a joke. After declaring that if the Assad regime used any of it's chemical weapons arsenal in combat, whether on civilians or rebel forces in Syria, this was a self imposed Obama «red-line» which could not be crossed. When an American President publicly declares a «red-line» normally the world pays heed, takes attention and does not cross such a «red-line». However, Obama made a mockery of himself and the United States, as well as the authority of the American Presidency by failing to follow through on his own self-imposed red line. After almost launching air strikes on the Assad regime, Obama buckled under pressure and pathetically climbed down. 
The message went out to the whole world that this man Obama is not to be taken seriously, is naive and lacking back bone to follow through on and back up his very own words. His credibility, if he ever really had any on the World Stage, was shot through and lay in tatters, particularly in the sands of the Middle East where face is everything. The American President had to rely on the foreign policy brilliance of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's genius idea to ship out and eliminate Syria's Chemical WMD arsenal to defuse the crisis and get Obama off the hook which he had pegged himself upon. Who would have thought during the heady days of 2008 and 2009 that the American President, Barack Obama, would end up taking his cues from the Russian Foreign Minister? How humiliating for Obama and the America people.
Again, Obama has had rings run around him by Russia and the master-strategist President Putin regarding Syria. As the whole world saw at the latest United Nations General Assembly in New York, it is President Putin who is setting the agenda on Syrian policy, not the Obama administration. The American President has never looked more weak and impotent in the face of an assertive, confident and muscular Russian President. Under President Putin's leadership Russia is now emerging as the key external foreign power broker in Syria and likely will hold most, if not all the cards, when it comes to sorting out the post-civil war «New Order» in Syria, whenever that day will come. 
Indeed, President Putin is successfully undoing the strategic work of Dr Henry Kissinger, who led the foreign policy removal of the Soviet Union as a major strategic player in Middle Eastern affairs in the early 1970s, when Kissinger brought Anwar Sadat's Egypt over into the American Cold War camp. Under President Putin, Russia is now on course to become a major force in the Middle East not seen since the days of the early 1970s, as exemplified by the master stroke of the anti-ISIS intelligence sharing agreement and informal coalition President Putin masterminded between Russian, Syria, Iran and Iraq. Both the Republican Party within America and the Russian President Vladimir Putin outside America have shown to the world that Obama is nothing more than an empty swank. Will history remember this period as Obama or Obambi?
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/10/08/at-home-and-abroad-obama-is-outsmarted-outmuscled-and-outgunned.html
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Sicherheitsberater Brzezinski fordert US-amerikanische Vergeltung für russische Luftschläge in Syrien

In einem Artikel in der Financial Times fordert der Ex-Präsidentenberater Zbigniew Brzezinski, bekannt für seine Russophobie, umfangreiche Vergeltungsmaßnahmen der USA gegen Russland, sollten sich die russischen Luftangriffe nicht einzig und allein auf Stellungen des „Islamischen Staates“ konzentrieren. Dabei verweist er auf die „Verletzbarkeit der russischen Luft- und Seestreitkräfte“ in Syrien. Brzezinski wird noch immer signifikantes politisches Gewicht im US-Establishment zugesprochen. 
Der ehemalige Präsidenten- und Sicherheitsberater Zbigniew Brzezinski - Quelle: Ruptly
Der ehemalige Präsidenten- und Sicherheitsberater Zbigniew Brzezinski - Quelle: Ruptly
Die Angriffe russischer Bomber auf Ziele die nicht zu den IS-Milizen gehören, sowie auf die von der CIA geführten „Rebellen“, würden im besten Falle die „militärische Inkompetenz Russlands“ bezeugen, im schlimmsten Fall einen „Beweis eines gefährlichen Wunsches die amerikanische politische Impotenz hervorzuheben“ darstellen.
Wenn Russland weiterhin Nicht-IS-Ziele angreifen sollte, müssten die USA Vergeltung übern, so Brzezinski und betont:
„In diesen sich schnell offenlegenden Umständen haben die Vereinigten Staaten nur eine echte Option, falls sie die weiteren Einsätze in der Region schützen wollen: Moskau die Aufforderung zu übermitteln, dass sie die militärischen Aktionen gegen amerikanische Posten beenden müssen. Die russische See- und Luftpräsenz in Syrien sind angreifbar und geographisch vom Heimatland isoliert. Sie können ‚entwaffnet‘ werden, wenn sie weiterhin die Vereinigten Staaten provozieren.“
Bezüglich des chinesischen Engagements geht Brzezinski davon aus, dass sich Peking eher auf der Seitenlinie aufhalten und abwarten würde, um sich dann schlussendlich die besten Stücke herauszupicken. Allerdings registrierte auch er, dass nicht nur Russland, sondern auch China möglicherweise in den Abgrund gerissen werden, wenn sich das Chaos des Nahen Ostens auf Zentral- und Nordostasien ausweiten würde.

Der Artikel erschien zunächst auf Contra-Magazin und wurde im Zuge einer Content-Partnerschaft von RT Deutsch übernommen.
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Terrorist International Takes Shape

Boris VOLKHONSKY | 07.10.2015 | 08:00

On October 1, Turkey and six other countries of the US-led coalition published a joint declarationexpressing concern over Russia Air Force strikes against the militants in Syria. The signatories include the United States of America (as expected), the monarchies of Persian Gulf (Saudi Arabia and Qatar that were also expected to join), as well as Great Britain, Germany and France.
The statement actually does not say anything extraordinary. Russia stole the initiative from the West. Instead of following the example of «anti-terrorist coalition» and delivering strikes against Syria’s government forces (which together with Kurds conduct combat actions against the militants of so-called Islamic State), Russia bombed the positions of the terrorists. It allowed the legitimate Syrian government to regroup forces, get a break and finally launch a ground offensive to clear the territory from the terrorist plague.
The expression of concern by the United States is logical and natural: Washington has spent great effort to train the «moderate» Syrian opposition (which mysteriously has turned into a source of weapons and manpower for «immoderate» groups). The start of the Russian operation may incur direct financial losses, let alone damage the image of the US.
There is nothing surprising in the fact that the monarchies of Persian Gulf – Saudi Arabia and Qatar – were eager to sign the statement. One may forget what country Osama bin Laden and the majority of terrorists, who seized the aircraft on September 11, 2001, came from. But it’s impossible to reject the fact that the Gulf monarchies (no matter all the real or imaginary contradictions and disagreements dividing them) are the main sponsors of major terrorist groups operating in the Greater Middle East – from Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and, especially, in Pakistan. In case of Saudi Arabia the overthrow of Bashar Assad is just the first step on the way to do away with Iran, its main opponent in the region.
It’s easy to explain why the declaration was initiated by Turkey. Ankara views the Islamic State as the only force able to nip in the bud the aspiration of Kurds, the divided people, for statehood. It makes pale such things of ‘little importance’ like cheap oil exported by militants from Iraq and Syria with Turkey being the main customer.
It’s worth to mention the position of Europe. The fact that London signed the declaration can be explained by the inability of the 51st US state to stop playing the role of American poodle on a leash. It obediently dances to the US tune. The participation of France and Germany seems to be a bit irrational.
So many things have happened in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Berlin and Paris could have realized that the events seemingly not interconnected meet the logic of US strategy aimed at creating an axis of instability. Its only goal is to preserve the unipolar world where West Europe plays the role of a passive satellite, not an independent actor.
The events in Ukraine occurred exactly when a Europe-Russia energy alliance started to loom and the US-led talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership got stalled. Just a coincidence, of course.
All these events let the United States to partially achieve the main goal – it has succeeded in driving a wedge between Europe and Russia, but the talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership did not make much progress. The United States had another ace up its sleeve. The civil war in Syria gave rise to the massive migrant flows threatening the very foundation of the European civilization and making European allies meekly ask the big brother overseas for help.
Russia’s resolute actions in Syria leave no chance for these plans. Supposedly, Europeans should breathe a sigh of relief. But it has not happened as yet.
What is the reason? Has the habit to snap to attention become so deeply enrooted? Have the Europeans left any thoughts about having a choice? Some analysts believe that the US National Security Agency has acquired serious compromising material to blackmail European leaders into agreement with Washington.
The hope is still looming that after some time Europe will realize where its real interests lie. The abovementioned declaration of the seven looks more like a creation of a new instrument of Washington. This time it has the form of an international alliance to support terrorists of the so-called Islamic State.
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Boris Volkhonsky is the Deputy Head of the Asia and Middle East Center at Russian Institute for Strategic Studies
 Source: http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/10/07/terrorist-international-takes-shape.html
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Russia seeks broader cooperation with U.S.-led coalition in Syria

News | 07.10.2015 | 10:58
 
Xinhua - Russian military is willing to expand cooperation with the U.S.-led coalition in Syria, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Tuesday.
 
"We are firmly convinced that no country is able to cope with the common threat of terrorism alone, no matter how strong the United States, Britain, Germany and NATO are. That is why we are in favor of broader international cooperation," Antonov said according to a Defense Ministry meeting transcript.
 
Russia is ready to share specific reconnaissance data about Islamic State (IS) positions and activities with the anti-IS coalition, he added.
 
According to Antonov, defense ministries of Russia and the U.S. were working on a document on cooperation in air operations against the IS terrorist group.
 
He said that in the next few days there would be another video conference between Russian and U.S. military, as the first was held Thursday following the start of Russian air strikes against IS facilities.
 
Earlier in the day, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed that the communication channels have been restored with the United States between defense ministries and defense agencies.
 
Antonov said the Defense Ministry was ready to establish different types of working groups with any interested country to prevent new problems similar to the Russian aircraft's violation of Turkish airspace.
 
Russian ambassador to Turkey was summoned twice as Ankara claimed Turkish airspace was violated on both Saturday and Sunday.
 
Meanwhile, Antonov denied that Russian air force carried strikes against civilian targets as pilots in Syria were using intelligence data gained through satellites and drones, not only information provided by Syrian partners.
 
"We are checking intelligence more than once. Decisions, which are then taken, are carefully balanced and meticulously calculated. And we deal a blow only when we are 100 percent sure that we do not miss the target," he said.
 
He noted that evidence showed terrorists in Syria were hiding in mosques because "they are well aware that we will under no circumstances strike non-military targets."
 
Zakharova said it is "pure propaganda" that Russia was blamed for the death of Syrian civilians, while calling on Western countries to be responsible for their words and to "solidify their words with concrete material."
 
The spokeswoman reiterated that Russia chose not to join the U.S.-led coalition because it is "inconsistent with international law."
 
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