The purpose of this analysis is to place the past week’s Zelensky-Zaluzhny drama into context in light of Nuland’s previously unannounced trip to Kiev and Hersh’s latest bombshell about the real reason why Zelensky wants to sack Zaluzhny.
Thank you Andrew for your as-always thoughtful commentary. I think it is correct to view the struggle within Ukrainian power centers as a reflection of the US internal dialectic.
Where I differ from this analysis is the thesis that US policy is based on a desire to harm Russia. My reading of US policy is that the overarching aim of US policy in Europe is to prevent Russo-German cooperation. A German-Russian condominium is the uber nightmare for Anglo-Saxon elites. This has been true since before the USA even existed.
American policy is to weaken both Russia and Germany so as to discourage elites in either country form exploring closer ties. There is no non-transient reason for the USA not to befriend Russia. This should be obvious as we recall the close friendly relations between the Roosevelt administration and Stalin. Roosevelt's apparent Russophilia served only to implement permanent US foreign policy which as I alluded to above is always to prevent the emergence of a military and economic hegemon in Europe.
It would be more correct to view the current American hate object in Europe as Germany rather than Russia since proxy war plus sanctions only strengthens the conservative nationalist Russian establishment, and while it is true that both the German and Russian economies suffer under war and sanctions to some degree, importantly the Russian establishment has solidified its prestige while the opposite can be said of Germany.
If one was to fairly evaluate the "forward policy" of the USA regarding Europe and specifically Germany it seems obvious that Germany is a target and not an ally of the USA. Russia is viewed essentially as collateral damage from the US policy of divide and rule to prevent a European hegemon from emerging.
Under changed future conditions the USA and Russia could become allies again as quickly as they went from allies to enemies after 1945.
Thank you Andrew for your as-always thoughtful commentary. I think it is correct to view the struggle within Ukrainian power centers as a reflection of the US internal dialectic.
Where I differ from this analysis is the thesis that US policy is based on a desire to harm Russia. My reading of US policy is that the overarching aim of US policy in Europe is to prevent Russo-German cooperation. A German-Russian condominium is the uber nightmare for Anglo-Saxon elites. This has been true since before the USA even existed.
American policy is to weaken both Russia and Germany so as to discourage elites in either country form exploring closer ties. There is no non-transient reason for the USA not to befriend Russia. This should be obvious as we recall the close friendly relations between the Roosevelt administration and Stalin. Roosevelt's apparent Russophilia served only to implement permanent US foreign policy which as I alluded to above is always to prevent the emergence of a military and economic hegemon in Europe.
It would be more correct to view the current American hate object in Europe as Germany rather than Russia since proxy war plus sanctions only strengthens the conservative nationalist Russian establishment, and while it is true that both the German and Russian economies suffer under war and sanctions to some degree, importantly the Russian establishment has solidified its prestige while the opposite can be said of Germany.
If one was to fairly evaluate the "forward policy" of the USA regarding Europe and specifically Germany it seems obvious that Germany is a target and not an ally of the USA. Russia is viewed essentially as collateral damage from the US policy of divide and rule to prevent a European hegemon from emerging.
Under changed future conditions the USA and Russia could become allies again as quickly as they went from allies to enemies after 1945.
Zaluzhny, the peacemaker per Hersh ... poses with Team Nazi Revival ...
https://nitter.unixfox.eu/KhersonFrom/status/1753478979258892615#m
Speaking of the ‘Progressives’, they effectively ‘redefined’ US decades ago. https://dianekern.substack.com/p/the-transatlantic-partnership.