3/28/2019, “Why There’ll Be No US-Russia Reset Post-Mueller," Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture
“The fundamental issue for Washington is that Russia is not a vassal for American imperialism. That’s why there will be no reset. There will only be reset when American imperialism is replaced by a law-abiding, genuinely democratic US government. Until then, expect more US hostility, confrontation and even war towards Russia.”…
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Added: “Why the West loved Yeltsin and hates Putin," TheHindu.com, Vladimir Radyuhin, 3/20/2008, updated 10/9/2016
[Image: 10/171994, Moscow, The Queen with Yeltsin at the Kremlin, getty]
“The Western agenda for Russia is of “a superpower-turned economic and military weakling, a subservient client state and a source of cheap energy and minerals….In sticking labels on Russian leaders, the West outrageously ignores the opinion of the Russian people.”..
“One reason why Yeltsin was the West’s darling — while Mr. Putin is the target of virulent attacks — was that his policies perfectly suited the Western agenda for Russia, a superpower-turned economic and military weakling, a subservient client state and a source of cheap energy and minerals. By contrast, Russia’s resurgence under Mr. Putin is seen as upsetting the global balance of power and threatening the U.S. unipolar model….
The West has denied Mr. Putin’s Russia any democratic credential because it “challenges the prerogative of the dominant democratic powers, in practice the U.S., to judge what is and what is not democratic,” says Russia expert Vlad Sobell of the Daiwa Institute of Research….
The rise of new Russia has undermined America’s self-arrogated right to decide what is good and what is evil, to award marks for good or bad behaviour, and to impose “democratic transformation” on other nations, either by war as in Iraq, or through “colour revolutions” as in Georgia and Ukraine.
If Mr. Putin’s Russia is accepted as an emerging democracy, rather than as a successor to the “evil empire,” it will be difficult to justify the new containment policy the U.S. has set in train, surrounding Russia with a ring of military bases and missile interceptors. Nor would one be able to easily dismiss Moscow’s [accurate and much needed] criticism of the aggressive and arrogant U.S. behaviour across the world.
As Mr. Putin asked in his famous Munich speech, if Russia could carry out a peaceful transition from the Soviet regime to democracy, why should other countries be bombed [by the US] at every opportunity for want of democracy? Hence the Herculean effort of Western opinion-makers to paint everything Mr. Putin does in evil colours.
The U.S. State Department’s annual report on human rights in 2007 mounted the harshest attack yet on the state of freedom in Russia, while the U.S. Freedom House [a vicious US neocon group that tag-teams with NED] listed it as one of the several “energy-rich dictatorships.” [Blood-drenched warmonger] [and pretend] Republican presidential candidate John McCain has accused Mr. Putin of “trying to restore the old Russian empire,” and “perpetuating himself in power” by installing his “puppet” Dmitry Medvedev in the Kremlin.
In sticking labels on Russian leaders, the West outrageously ignores the opinion of the Russian people. Russians showed what they thought of Yeltsin’s legacy when they voted out of Parliament twice in recent years the liberal parties that had supported his policies in the 1990s. They demonstrated their support for Mr. Putin’s policies when they triumphantly re-elected him for a second term in 2004 and when they overwhelmingly voted for Mr. Medvedev in March 2008.
Mr. Putin bluntly told the West that its criticism of his policies would not induce his successor to strike a softer posture in foreign policy. “I am long accustomed to the label by which it is difficult to work with a former KGB agent,” Mr. Putin said at a recent press conference. “Dmitry Medvedev will be free from having to prove his liberal views. But he is no less a Russian nationalist than me, in the good sense of the word, and I do not think our partners will find it easier to deal with him.”
For his part, Mr. Medvedev, while pledging that “freedom in all its manifestations — personal freedom, economic freedom and, finally, freedom of expression” — would be “at the core of our politics,” said democratic values would be adopted in line with Russia’s “national tradition.”
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Added: 1992, The Kremlin, “Russian President Boris Yeltsin and American financier George Soros, Moscow, Russia. Alexander Sentsov/TASS,” getty…In the 1990s newly independent Russia was a US “vassal state.” For example, currency speculator George Soros was at the Kremlin to “help:”
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Above, 1992, Moscow, meeting in newly independent Russia, President Yeltsin is seated across from American currency speculator George Soros, Tass
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Added: The millions Soros said he’d be spending to “help” Russia would all be channeled through his Open Society Institute-Russia which as of 1996 had undergone three reorganizations due to much of its cash being diverted to “Swiss bank accounts and luxury cars:”
Oct. 20, 1997, “Soros to Donate Millions More to Help Russia,” The New York Times, Judith Miller, print ed., Section A, Page 1
“Mr. Soros said that the details of the new programs for Russia were still being worked out, but that all of the money, which will total a minimum of $300 million and as much as $500 million in the next three years, would be channeled through his Open Society Institute–Russia. He was forced to restructure the foundation and to replace its leaders last year [1996] after discovering that employees were diverting foundation funds into Swiss bank accounts and using them to buy luxury cars.
”The foundation is now operating very efficiently,” Mr. Soros said….He began his philanthropy in Russia in 1987, before the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
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“His Russian foundation…has undergone three reorganizations.”
12/17/1996, “With Big Money and Brash Ideas, A Billionaire Redefines Charity,” NY Times, Judith Miller
“His Russian foundation, for example, has undergone three reorganizations since Mr. Soros learned that much of its budget was diverted into Swiss bank accounts and luxury cars."….(Subhead, “The Personality,” scroll down)
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Added: Soros is a convicted felon for insider trading involving a French bank in 1988. His conviction was upheld in three appeals: 2002 in France, 2011 in European Court of Human Rights, and 2012, when the Grand Chamber of the Human Rights Court declined to hear his appeal.
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Left, US puppet Yeltsin: 7/15/1996, Boris Yeltsin Time cover, “Yanks to the Rescue.”…Article, “Rescuing Boris,” Time, Michael Kramer, Moscow, 6/24/2001, originally published 7/15/1996
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9/21/1993, “Yeltsin reached for a cup of tea to show Russians he was not drunk," says English speaking announcer.
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