Cheney Demands Democracy For Russia And Dictatorial Rule For America

Elaine Meinel Supkis

To Russia with hate! This is the neo con motto. They got to get the Cold War on so they can run America from their nuclear bomb shelters. Meanwhile, Russia's FOREX numbers are looking great. They have more money now than the International Money Fund! Looking more and more like China, a success story, not going bankrupt America.

Reuters:

Vice President Dick Cheney, in one of the Bush administration's sharpest rebukes to Moscow, accused Russia on Thursday of backsliding on democracy and urged it to stop using energy supplies for "blackmail."

"Russia has a choice to make," Cheney told Baltic and Black Sea leaders at a summit in Vilnius, calling on Moscow to return to democratic reform at a time of increasingly chilly relations between the United States and Russia.

He said opponents of reform in Russia were "seeking to reverse the gains of the last decade" by restricting democratic rights and warned President Vladimir Putin some of Moscow's actions could hurt relations with other countries.

But Cheney told leaders of post-communist nations with a history of domination by the former Soviet Union: "None of us believes that Russia is fated to become an enemy."

Russia's sphere of influence has been these same countries since the fall of the Golden Horde, the Mongol empire's last outpost. Since Catherine the fricking Great. Britain used to fight wars of dominance over there. Like something called "the Crimean War" which they pretty much lost, by the way. Ditto the French. They went deeper and deeper into Russia's sphere of influence and then Napoleon decided to go all the way. Why not simply declare war on Russia and plunge into Moscow! A fabulous idea.

Nope.

Hitler did the exact same thing. There is something about Russia's influence that gets invaders all giddy. They think, Russia can't stop our incursions into their territory! Let's see if we can go further!

Even a dunce reading history can't help but notice there is a pattern there. It is awfully easy to enter the Great Plains of Middle Europe. It is very hard to dominate from far away. Of course, we could bribe them into being our friends and allies but this is the dumbest, stupidest thing an empire can do. Do the Poles menace us? Do the Bulgarians?

Of course not. Nor do they menace Russia. But OUR PRESENCE MENACES RUSSIA. This is a big thing. So Russia has to destroy our influence and this is going to get very nasty because the tool Russia is using is their oldest tool: trade. We don't need Poland or Bulgaria's trade. But Poland and Bulgaria needs Russia's trade because Russia is one of the greates treasure houses of natural resources on earth outside of the USA which is already getting tapped out pretty badly.

We can't cut down all our forests and pump out all our oil wells and send it to Poland and Bulgaria or anyone, actually. Russia can.

Brad Setser

In 1998, Russia was very short on cash. It went to the IMF and got a $15 billion credit line. When it didn’t hold up its end of the bargain – taking steps to collect a bit of revenue – then Treasury Secretary Rubin pulled the plug on the program after only $5 billion had been disbursed. He argued that there was no point in throwing more good money after bad.

$5b. Chump change. That is less than ½ of what Russia added to its reserves in the first three weeks of April. Russia’s reserves were $217.1b on April 21, up from $205.9b at the end of March. For the full month, Russia’s reserves will probably grow by $15 billion.

Everyone at Brad's blog has taken a tiny moment to notice that not only the Japanese and Chinese run trade surpluses, so does Russia. China's FOREX dwarfs the IMF money. And the USA's FOREX. Now Russia's is surpassing both ours and the IMF! This fatal to the USA's power because what if Poland and Bulgaria want money from the USA? We have to take our tin cup, run over to Moscow, Beijing or Tokyo and plead for more IOUs.

Gads. No empire lasts more than a bug's migrane headache if they have to beg for loans from the same countries that they are menacing. This is sheer stupidity. But then, these neo con men are stupid.

Alas, too many Americans are too which is why they got to hold power for so long. But it seems their days are numbered. Too bad the Democratic leadership isn't working for America.

This is unfortunate. We will still be at war with all Muslims and everyone else who gets in the way of lobbyists' lusts.

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Comments

[ducky]

The rulers use the power at their disposal to rob and plunder, for themselves. They perceive themselves more as brigands than beggars, who get to plunder on with their victims' looted treasure.

You are absolutely correct, that Russia and China are ultimate targets, and that the impending attack on Iran is but a stepping stone to this ultimate goal. Much like Genghis, they amass their riches on the broken bones of the world.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Only if Gengis were Goofy. And Rummy is Donald Duck. Cheney is Scrooge McDuck.

Cartoon characters all.

[ducky]

Sadly true Elaine. Revenge of the Spoiled Frats :-(

By the way, you might enjoy listening to Michel Chossudovsky on the Wednesday ep of Guns and Butter which airs on KPFA weekly. He discusses the impending war with Iran. Here's the link : http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=13922

and the link for Global Research is :

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

I read Chossudovsky. He is a good writer. Thanks for the links, ducky.

[cs]

This is also utterly irrelevant. If Walmart has debts of $5 billion it is still in a much better shape than a Guatemalan coffee shop that has $10 billion in the bank.

Economics 101.

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