This writing is in response to this article, “Russia Europe USA and Fundamental Geopolitics” By F. William Engdahl, of September 4, 2008 mailed to me by a friend as a result of an email I had previously mailed.
He wrote: “In light of Kennedy's speech, which I reviewed, what do you think of this revelation?”
The American University speech of John Kennedy fell on deaf ears.
There is no desire on the part of Americans or the world to seek peace. There is not significant profit in peace, whereas with war all the elements for significant profit are in place. Capitalist, in cahoots with government, are warmongers, they are in control; they breed on corruption, chaos, waste, and destruction, creating for themselves huge profits. In order for this oligarchy to work it is necessary to create a culture of war; so they sell Americans a bill of goods that war is necessary to protect their freedom, which America buys hook, line, and sinker. Americans are the ultimate suckers in all of this.
Georgia
According to Jack Beady, senior editor of Atlantic Monthly, who on a NPR On Point Week in the News broadcast stated that John McCain received $800,000 in contributions from Georgia (1). If this is fact, no wonder McCain is hot on Georgia, and this relationship in consideration of the effort of the U.S. for Ukrainian and Georgian membership in NATO should be a concern. The Philosophy of NATO is that an attack against one member is considered to be an attack on all.
Just follow the Yellow Brick Road and you will find the reason for the high geopolitical interest in the small country of Georgia. Just look at its Eurasian geopolitical position, and location just outside of the Middle East hotspots, separated only by Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea, and let us not forget the oil line it hosts from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea.
“The West is vitally interested in the Caspian Basin and its neighboring territories, which Western experts and politicians expect to be the next century's most productive oil producing area. It goes without saying that the West (the United States being no exception) is searching for secure transportation routes for Caspian oil. It is also worth noting that this issue touches on Western policy toward Russia and Turkey as well as Iran and the Gulf area.” - The Caspian Sea By William Ascher, Natalia Mirovitskaya, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Scientific Affairs Division
Russia
Russia’s axial, its international border as well as its heartland, strategically is really something to behold. There is not a military in the world that would not have this strategic position on their wish list. As Engdahl quoted Mackinder, “The Heartland [Russian] is the greatest natural fortress on earth.”
Russia’s concern of missile defense system in Poland cannot be factually criticized; it is legitimate. I certainly am as concerned, as well. After all, Poland is right next door to Ukraine and with Georgia in favor with U.S. policy, therefore securing U.S. support, Russia is certainly at risk. Ukraine, Georgia and Belarus (who does not have favorable relations with the U.S.) comprise Mackinder’s heartland. As Russia realized there is a lot more to this than meets the eye.
In 1963 JFK said, “… let us reexamine our attitude towards the Soviet Union. It is discouraging to think that their leaders may actually believe what their propagandists write. It is discouraging to read a recent, authoritative Soviet text on military strategy and find, on page after page, wholly baseless and incredible claims, such as the allegation that American imperialist circles are preparing to unleash different types of war, that there is a very real threat of a preventive war being unleashed by American imperialists against the Soviet Union, and that the political aims -- and I quote -- "of the American imperialists are to enslave economically and politically the European and other capitalist countries and to achieve world domination by means of aggressive war."
America, under the Bush Doctrine, embraces the concept of “preventive war.” And, there are significant facts today that: “that the political aims -- and I quote – ‘of the American imperialists are to enslave economically and politically the European and other capitalist countries and to achieve world domination by means of aggressive war.’" As it turns out, the U.S.S.R. [Russia] in 1963 were ostensibly correct.
We are in trouble because no one has bothered to heed John Kennedy’s caveat, and sadly America does not seem to care.
These are ominous threats to world peace.
Rach
(1)
Top McCain adviser got money from Georgia
By Pete YostAssociated Press
Article Launched: 08/14/2008 01:30:54 AM PDT
WASHINGTON - John McCain's chief foreign policy adviser and his business partner lobbied the senator or his staff on 49 occasions in a 3 1/2-year span while being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
The payments raise ethical questions about the intersection of Randy Scheunemann's personal financial interests and his advice to the Republican presidential candidate who is seizing on Russian aggression in Georgia as a campaign issue.
McCain warned Russian leaders Tuesday that their assault in Georgia risks "the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world."
April 17, a month and a half after Scheunemann stopped working for Georgia, his partner signed a $200,000 agreement with the Georgian government. The deal added to an arrangement that brought in more than $800,000 to the two-man firm from 2004 to mid-2007. For the duration of the campaign, Scheunemann is taking a leave of absence from the firm.
"Scheunemann's work as a lobbyist poses valid questions about McCain's judgment in choosing someone who - and whose firm - are paid to promote the interests of other nations," said New York University law Professor Stephen Gillers. "So one must ask whether McCain is getting disinterested advice, at least when the issues concern those nations."
McCain has been to Georgia three times since 1997 and "this is an issue that he has been involved with for well over a decade," said McCain campaign spokesman Brian Rogers.
