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| 2023-01-30 | ||
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets An hour-long film about the relations between Russia and the United States in the post-bipolar era and why these relations died was released on PBS. Main theses: Putin has always mimicked a “pro-Western”, but knowledgeable people in Washington got to the core of him in the early stages; - Several generations of American presidents could not find a way to deal with him: Bush was again reminded of the statement about Putin's soul; Obama - choosing sanctions over military response in 2014; Trump - "Putin's instrumentalization" against the Democrats. Only Biden did everything right.
Implicit messages: - Russia has no national interests - only Putin's Wishlist; - after the collapse of the USSR, the West had many opportunities to crush Putin (Russia?), it was not necessary to bring it to the current crisis; - neither in the West, nor in Russia, anywhere in the world, there are those who are close to Putin's position - everyone dreams of him perishing, and only then will peace, prosperity and "the end of history" come. All these arguments are diligently cultivated by: T. Blinken, J. Sullivan, B. Burns, J. Bolton, F. Hill, St. Talbott, several former American ambassadors to Ukraine and Russia, well-known journalists, inhabitants of think tanks and "correct Russians:" E. Albats, V. Kara-Murza Jr. etc. In the film there are no such "insignificant" factors of Russian-American relations as: - Russian support for the United States in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks; - US withdrawal from the ABM treaty in 2002; - Georgia's attack on South Ossetia in 2008 (this milestone begins with Russia's attack on Georgia as "Putin's response to the Bucharest NATO summit in the spring of 2008"); - the Arab Spring, Libya and Syria; - "Maidan" and the overthrow of Yanukovych (there Russia immediately "invading Crimea" simply because Putin "wants it"); - Moscow's calls for negotiations on "security guarantees" (in this part, the "Russian invasion" begins because Putin understands that he "wants all of Ukraine" and that " The West will complain, but will do nothing"). That is, in a film with a claim to a documentary, these plots do not exist as non-existent. To the question of how and by whom history is written. And speaking of the notorious "post-truth". Out of curiosity: - a remark by the chief for Russia in the NSS under Bush Jr. that that republican administration "didn't notice how Putin turned the wrong way." Bush had this feeling during the Georgian war. Those. all the signals and events before this proper feeling did not give him? - The opinion of an [African-American] Washington Post journalist that Putin did not perceive Obama as an equal because of his "racist tendencies." I had never heard this before, but the topic of racism was not so fashionable either. What's new? Nothing. But it is indicative from the point of view. gulfs in the perception of both sides of just about everything. The film is a must-see for practicing critical thinking. Reference Documentary: | ||
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Interesting. I recalled Speznatz units working with the CIA SAD teams the first couple weeks after 911 interdicting traffic going west into Iran on the ground. Then silence. Nice to see a little corroboration that my memory isn’t failing. |
| Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2023-01-30 06:47 |
| #1 the key event during the Trump Era was the Feb 2018 attack by Russian Mercenaries in Deir al-Zor in which some 300 of the Mercenaries were killed on the order of Trump This probably kept Putin from acting against Ukraine until Biden was in office and, post Afghanistan, demonstrated to be a weak, ineffective and unteachable fool. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2023-01-30 00:25 |