What are the consequences for Russia? (2)


Putin's earlier professional career – in the KGB and then head of the FSB - had been in the service of US. Imperialism. No two ways about it.


Путин «занимал посты директора Федеральной Службы Безопасности Российской Федерации с 1998 по 1999 год, секретаря Совета безопасности Российской Федерации в 1999 году. С 1977 года работал по линии контрразведки в следственном отделе Ленинградского управления КГБ. С 1985 по 1990 год служил в резидентуре советской внешней разведки в ГДР, работал в Дрездене под прикрытием в должности директора дрезденского Дома дружбы СССР—ГДР. 20 августа 1991 года в звании подполковника уволился из КГБ СССР. В 1991—1996 годах работал помощником ректора ЛГУ по международным вопросам, возглавлял Комитет по внешним связям мэрии Ленинграда, был советником мэра, первым заместителем председателя правительства Санкт-Петербурга. С августа 1996 года начал работать в Москве в должности заместителя управляющего делами Президента Российской Федерации. После недолгого пребывания во главе ФСБ РФ и на посту секретаря Совета безопасности Российской Федерации в августе 1999 года был назначен председателем Правительства Российской Федерации”. (Путин, Владимир Владимирович, Википедия)

One can take it for granted that Putin played no small role in the destruction of the German Democratic Republic and its absorption as a poor cousin within a united capitalist Germany. Under CIA auspices.

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The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry...

In the previous section we noted: “...the post-soviet objectives of the imperialist elite and the former “soviet,” now Russian, bourgeoisie were not identical. In short, the Americans (and some Europeans) wanted decisive control of the Russia's wealth and political domination of the country, including its foreign policy. While the great majority of the Russian ruling class, fighting for its own place in the capitalist sun, was forced to counter - however reluctantly, especially at the start - these wholly rapacious foreign strivings.”

Capitalism – based as it is on fierce exploitation – is inherently a brutal system. For the bourgeoisie of any nationality, the profits they make today are always less than the profits they want to make tomorrow. Not infrequently, exploiters of different countries can agree on common objectives (like the destruction of socialism wherever it exists), but inter-capitalist struggles are never far below the surface.

Total subservience of the Russian elite and continued imperialist colonization of the Russian people would have led to an intolerable situation in the country: foreign expropriation of the vast basic wealth of the country, break up the country into numerous smaller entities;* further mass impoverishment of the Russian people and consequent popular unrest; subordination of Russian foreign policy to the aims of the US. It goes without saying that such a turn of events would have been decidedly counter to the interests of the Russian bourgeoisie. - as well as to the vast majority of Russian people.

The basic orientation began to change. Notable events:

Чечня: The two wars in Чечня (listed by Wikipedia as 1994-1996 and 1999 – 2009) ended in the defeat of a CIA-sponsored terrorist-separatist irregular force and signified that the Russian ruling class and government were not going to tolerate the breakup of the Russian Federation – whatever US and Western imperialism wanted.

No unbridled economic sellout to the US: The conviction of МБ Ходорко́вский in 2005 for fraud and the dissolution of his company ЮКОС — at one time among the largest oil companies in Russia – as well as the exile of American swindler William Browder signified that American and other foreign financiers were not going to take control of the Russian economy. Moderate foreign investment was welcome, but on Russian terms.


Georgia: US stooge М.Саакашвили, at the time President of Georgia, attacked South Ossetia in 2008 with the aim of murdering or driving out (ethnic cleansing) all the non-ethnic Georgians. Russian peacekeepers were also killed in the attack. Had the aggression been successful, Abkhasia, another autonomous region at the time within Georgia, would have been next. A massive influx of impoverished refugees would have greatly worsened conditions in southern Russia and, no less dangerous, would have demonstrated a vulnerability of Russia to defend sympathetic peoples or even defend itself.

The Russians won the short ensuing war. That victory was - and continues to be - severely criticized by the US and NATO countries and was a decided break with US-dictated policy.

Ukraine: In 2014 the US struck in Ukraine by engineering the overthrow of a vacillating and cowardly President Янукович and installing a pro-US neofascist junta in Kiev. The new, highly unstable regime is viciously anti-Russian.

The US victory was hardly a complete one, however; the important Crimean region was lost and became part of Russia, thereby aborting the US-NATO hopes for capturing the large and strategically crucial Russian naval base in Sebastopol. Moreover, the highly industrialized Donetsk and Lugansk regions became independent. Increasing poverty and dissatisfaction with the CIA-neofascist Ukrainian government and its stridently anti-Russian invective and policies leave open the strong possibility that other mainly Russian-speaking areas of eastern Ukraine will also eventually opt for separation from the CIA-Kiev junta.

Sharply conflicting policies over Ukraine have left the United States and Russia at loggerheads, with little chance of resolution in sight as the US openly arms Poroshenko & Co. with modern weapons.

Syria: Lavish United States and ultra-reactionary Saudi Arabian support of incredibly vicious terrorists was directed at overthrowing the legitimate Syrian government headed by President Bashar al-Assad. The aim was to duplicate in Syria the US-NATO-terrorist victory in 2011 over the progressive Libyan government headed by Muammar Gaddafi.

The terrorists were close to victory in 2015, when Russia intervened, mainly with air power, in support of the Syrian people, government and army. As a result of the combined efforts of the Russian Federation, the Syrian Arab Army, the Lebanese liberation movement Hezbollah and Iranian forces, the tide has been decisively turned. It is widely expected that the main terrorist forces are on the verge of a total strategic defeat, although other, “moderate” terrorists openly supported by the US remain active and imperialist subversion and military involvement in Syria increase.

Needless to say, the still-incomplete defeat of terrorism in Syria is a direct rebuff to the merciless anti-human policies of United States imperialism.

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As a result of the above (and other) conflicts of interest, Russian-American relations have deteriorated to near-confrontational status. Even as the Putin-led government continues to exonerate US neo-fascist President Trump and strives to avoid principled opposition to the totality of reactionary American politicies.

Nonetheless, even restrained Russian resistance to vicious US imperialism was not contemplated when the CIA finally succeeded in achieving its decades-long goal of destroying the Soviet Union.

To be continued...

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* as was actively promoted by one of the most influential US imperialist ideologues Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Перед нами - коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец, псих и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ, кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».


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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!!

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...

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ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!
… и в Макспарке!