Last year Yugoslavia was smashed to smithereens to demonstrate that only NATO had the wherewithal to inflict so much pointless damage. This year it is the turn of the Russian Bear. Apparently he is back in the woods. So let s make sure NATO remembers to bring a gun. The media, eager as ever to make themselves useful to the US Government, daily churn out chilling tales of dastardly Russians and fiendish secret policemen.
Editorial writers splutter angrily.
The dishonesty of all of this is patently obvious. They gave up an empire, dissolved the Warsaw Pact, cut back on their armed forces and sent the Communists packing. It is hard to see how much further they could have gone to abase themselves short of inviting NATO in to take over their country. Yet according to the lunatics who run the American imperial metropolis Russia remains as dangerous as ever. Putin was a loyal KGB officer for nearly 17 years.