[Peace-discuss] 'Is Putin being lured into a trap?' in Counterpunch

[Stuart Levy]

We should have some copies of this for Saturday's AWARE table.

David Swanson commented on it - "Those who say Washington's not moving 
this crisis toward war because that wouldn't be wise should reply to 
this article (and the past 2 centuries and more of behavior)."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/15/is-putin-being-lured-into-a-trap/

e.g.

[...]
Retired German Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jochen Scholz summed up US 
policy in an open letter which appeared on the Neue Rheinilche Zeitung 
news-site last week. Scholz said the Washington's objective was "to deny 
Ukraine a role as a bridge between Eurasian Union and European 
Union....They want to bring Ukraine under the NATO control" and sabotage 
the prospects for "a common economic zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok."

Bingo. That's US policy in a nutshell. It has nothing to do with 
democracy, sovereignty, or human rights. It's about money and power. Who 
are the big players going to be in the world's biggest growth center, 
that's all that matters. Unfortunately for Obama and Co., the US has 
fallen behind Russia in acquiring the essential resources and pipeline 
infrastructure to succeed in such a competition. They've been beaten by 
Putin and Gazprom at every turn. While Putin has strengthened diplomatic 
and economic relations, expanded vital pipeline corridors and transit 
lines, and hurtled the many obstacles laid out for him by 
American-stooges in the EC; the US has dragged itself from one quagmire 
to the next laying entire countries to waste while achieving none of its 
economic objectives.

So now the US has jettisoned its business strategy altogether and moved 
on to Plan B, regime change. Washington couldn't beat Putin in a fair 
fight, so now they've taken off the gloves. Isn't that what's really 
going on? Isn't that why the US NGOs, and the Intel agencies, and the 
State Dept were deployed to launch their sloppily-engineered Nazi-coup 
that's left the country in chaos?

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