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

[Carl G. Estabrook]

I formatted it (small print) & will bring copies Saturday.

Also April's flyer & perhaps another. 


On Apr 16, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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