From: David Swanson via WarIsACrime.org <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2018 10:01 AM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Russia Is Our Friend
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Russia Is Our Friend
By David Swanson
http://davidswanson.org/russia-is-our-friend/
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Last May I was in Russia when fascists held a rally in my hometown of
Charlottesville, not to be confused with their larger rally which followed in
August. At the May rally, people shouted “Russia is our friend.” I was on a
Russian TV show called Crosstalk the next day and
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discussed this. I also discussed it with other Russians, actual friends in the
human sense. Some of them were completely
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bewildered, arguing that Russia never had slavery and couldn’t be the friend
of Confederate-flag-waving people whom they saw as advocates for slavery.
(Anti-Russian Ukrainians have also waved Confederate flags.)
I don’t think slavery or serfdom was on the minds of the people shouting
“Russia is our friend.” Rather they believed the Democratic/Liberal accusation
that the Russian government had tried to help make Donald Trump President, and
they approved. They may also have thought of Russia as a “white” ally in
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their cause of
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white supremacy.
I think there is a case to made that, in fact, in a very different sense,
“Russia is our friend.” It’s a case that could fill volumes. I don’t make this
case suffering under some delusion of the perfect saintliness of the Russian
government, neither now nor at any time in history. In 2015, the Russian
military approached me and asked if I would publish their propaganda under my
own name. I told them to go to hell
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publicly. I’ve had Russian media censor my criticisms of Russia and highlight
my criticisms of the United States (yet allow more criticism of Russia than big
U.S. media allows criticism of U.S. foreign policy).
I make the following case because I think it is overwhelming yet fervently
ignored. I’ll just note a few highlights.
While the United States and Russia were war allies during World War I, the
United States, in 1917, sent funding to one side, the anti-revolutionary side
of a Russian civil war, worked to blockade the Soviet Union, and, in 1918, sent
U.S. troops to Murmansk, Archangel, and Vladivostok in an attempt to overthrow
the new Russian government. They abandoned the effort and withdrew in April,
1920. Most people in the United States
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do not know this, but many more Russians do.
The threat of the communists, as an example, albeit a deeply flawed one, of
taking wealth away from oligarchs was a driving force in U.S. foreign affairs
from 1920 up to, all during, and long after World War II. Senator and future
president Harry Truman was far from alone in
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wishing to help the Russians if the Germans were winning, but the Germans if
the Russians were winning, so that more of both would die. Senator Robert Taft
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proclaimed an elite view, shared by some West Point generals, that a victory
for fascism would be better than a victory for communism. Wall Street had
helped to build up Nazi Germany. Without
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the help of IBM, General Motors, Ford, Standard Oil, and other U.S. businesses
right through the war, the Nazis could not have done what they did. The U.S.
government was complicit in these acts of treason, avoiding bombing U.S.
factories in Germany, and even compensating U.S. businesses for damage when hit.
The Russians had turned the tide against the Nazis outside Moscow and begun
pushing the Germans back before the United States ever entered World War II.
The Soviets implored the United States to attack Germany from the west from
that moment until the summer of 1944 — that is to say, for two-and-a-half
years. Wanting the Russians to do most of the killing and dying —
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which they did — the U.S. and Britain also did not want the Soviet Union
making a new deal with or taking sole control of Germany. The allies agreed
that any defeated nation would have to surrender to all of them and completely.
The Russians went along with this.
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Yet in Italy, Greece, France, etc., the U.S. and Britain cut Russia out almost
completely, banned communists, shut out leftist resisters to the Nazis, and
re-imposed rightwing governments that the Italians called “fascism without
Mussolini.” The U.S. would “
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leave behind” spies and terrorists and saboteurs in various European countries
to fend off any communist influence.
Originally scheduled for the first day of Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s meeting
with Stalin in Yalta, the U.S. and British bombed the city of Dresden flat,
destroying its buildings and its artwork and its civilian population,
apparently as a means of threatening Russia. The United States then developed
and
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used on Japanese cities nuclear bombs, a
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decision driven largely by the desire to see Japan surrender to the United
States alone, without the Soviet Union, and by the desire to
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threaten the Soviet Union.
Immediately upon German surrender, Winston Churchill proposed using Nazi troops
together with allied troops to attack the Soviet Union, the nation that had
just done the bulk of the work of defeating the Nazis. This was not an
off-the-cuff
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proposal. The U.S. and British had sought and achieved partial German
surrenders, had kept German troops armed and ready, and had debriefed German
commanders on lessons learned from their failure against the Russians.
Attacking the Russians sooner rather than later was a view advocated by General
George Patton, and by Hitler’s replacement Admiral Karl Donitz, not to mention
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Allen Dulles and the OSS. Dulles made a separate peace with Germany in Italy
to cut out the Russians, and began sabotaging democracy in Europe immediately
and empowering former Nazis in Germany, as well as
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importing them into the U.S. military to focus on war against Russia.
The war launched was a cold one. The U.S. worked to make sure that West German
companies would rebuild quickly but not pay war reparations owed to the Soviet
Union. While the Soviets were willing to withdraw from countries like Finland,
their demand for a buffer between Russia and Europe hardened as the U.S.-led
Cold War grew, in particular the oxymoronic “nuclear diplomacy.”
Lies about Soviet threats and missile gaps and Russian tanks in Korea and
global communist conspiracies became the biggest profit makers for U.S. weapons
companies, not to mention Hollywood movie studios, in history, as well as the
biggest threat to peace in various corners of the globe. The United States
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drew Russia into a war in Afghanistan and armed its opponents. Efforts at
nuclear disarmament and diplomacy, which more often than not came from the
Soviet side, were routinely thwarted by Americans. When Eisenhower and
Khrushchev seemed likely to talk peace, a U.S. spy plane was shot down, just
after an American who’d been involved with those planes
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defected to Russia. When Kennedy seemed interested in peace, he was killed,
purportedly by that very same American.
When Germany reunited, the United States and allies
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lied to the Russians that NATO would not expand. Then NATO quickly began
expanding eastward. Meanwhile the United States openly
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bragged about imposing Boris Yeltsin and corrupt crony capitalism on Russia by
interfering in a Russian election in collusion with Yeltsin. NATO developed
into a aggressive global war maker and
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expanded right up to Russia’s borders, where the United States began
installing missiles. Russian requests to join NATO or Europe were dismissed out
of hand. Russia was to remain
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a designated enemy, even without the communism, and even without constituting
any threat or engaging in any hostility.
When Russia gave the United States a memorial in sorrow for the victims of
9/11, the United States practically hid it, and reported on it so little that
most people don’t know it exists or
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believe it’s a false story.
When Russia has proposed to make treaties on weapons in space or cyber war or
nuclear missiles, the United States has regularly rejected such moves. Russia’s
advocacy for the Iran agreement meant nothing. Obama and Trump have expelled
Russian diplomats. Obama helped facilitate a coup in
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Ukraine. Trump has begun weapons shipments to the coup government, which
includes Nazis. Obama tried to facilitate an overthrow in Syria. Trump
escalated the bombings, even hitting Russian troops. Trump accuses Russia — the
one allied power not still occupying Germany — of dominating Germany, while
trying to prevent Russia from selling its fossil fuels.
Russia is accused, and found guilty prior to convincing evidence, of shooting
down an airplane, of “aggressively” flying near U.S. planes on Russia’s
borders, of “conquering” Crimea through a popular vote, of poisoning people in
England, of torturing and murdering
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a man in prison, and of course of
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“hacking” an election — an accusation which, if evidence is ever produced for
it, will amount to far less than Israel does in the United States or than the
United States does in many countries. Through all of these accusations it is
not uncommon for the Russians to be referred to as “the commies,” despite the
demise of communism.
What, you may ask, does any of this have to do with Russia being a friend?
Simply this: nobody other than a friend would put up with this shit.
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is
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WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for
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RootsAction.org. Swanson's
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books include
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War Is A Lie. He blogs at
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DavidSwanson.org and
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WarIsACrime.org. He hosts
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Talk Nation Radio. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Longer
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