WHO’S SCARIER, US OR RUSSIA?
May 4, 2014
Russia has Putin, a former KGB
agent, as president. The US has had Bush
I, a former CIA Director under Nixon and Ford, as president. Either way, one can scarcely explain the
firefights between Ukrainian westerners and easterners as the working of a
single leader.
It bothers me that US media
concentrate so heavily on personifying Putin as the aggressor. From 1917 through the Cold War, to drone
strikes killing innocent women and children on the other side of the planet,
and contesting Russian influence in Syria and support for Iran, who has the
greater global reach, who has become allied with its WWII enemy, Germany in
pushing for Ukrainian integration into the European neo-liberal political
economy? Who has troops on the other’s
border?
Now that it is US Supreme Court
law that soulless for-profit corporations with global private investments, the
connection between US-based global corporate aggrandizement and global US
military occupation and bombardment is formal US government policy.
My parents drummed into me that
“aggression begets aggression.” Those
who vilify others create resistance.
Living as I do in the primary, bigger aggressor, I wish US journalists
and commentators would take a closer look at how scary we are ourselves. Love and peace,
hal
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