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Sweden - A Victim of Russophobic propaganda
It is
frightening to see how the Swedish government, which, I suppose,
considers itself more open than the center-right government we had before
2014, nevertheless seems to be the vassals of the U.S. The ever-increasing
realization in Europe that the Western Empire poses a threat to life all over
the world has apparently escaped the Swedes. One after the other EU countries
are now seeing that it is not Russia that is a threat to a possible future
world peace. This possibility has now been torpedoed by Washington's aggressive
stance towards Russia and Putin.
What advantages does the Swedish government see in inciting the entire Swedish
population to a completely unfounded Russophobia? Do our ministers really think
Sweden will get a better deal in the world when nuclear war has devastated vast
areas of our planet and the survivors are struggling for air in the radioactive
atmosphere? The priority now must surely be to avoid a third world war. How
could this possibly be avoided? Of course, by giving up on groveling before the
empire and instead realize that the huge multinational companies that now
unscrupulously control the world must be deprived of their power over the US
and European governments. They are in full swing to destroy our planet without
the slightest thought of what the earth will look like tomorrow — what we are
leaving to future generations.
Do for once take off your black-tinted glasses and look at Putin. He clearly
had decided to lie low at the beginning of the empire's aggressive installation
of military bases that now surround Russia in the west and south [1] until
Washington definitely went too far in their aggression by staging the coup in
Ukraine and by bandying about the totally false accusation that Moscow had invaded
Crimea to force people at gunpoint to vote for Russia in its referendum in
March 2014. An invasion never took place. The Crimean referendum took place
under very calm conditions. There are countless testimonies as to how the
voting was going on. If there were any disturbing incidents, they clearly came
from the Crimean Tatar indigenous population [2] who now want their own
referendum. The majority of Crimean Tatars boycotted the referendum. There is
also a minority of Ukrainians in Crimea, and it is obvious that a referendum of
this kind must create frictions between the different ethnic communities in
Crimea.
After clear
evidence had been established (satellite photos, radar observations, etc.) that
Kiev, clearly with Washington's approval - or even on their initiative - was
the culprit in the downing of the Malaysian passenger plane, MH17, in the area
near the independent Donbass region, Putin summoned an international press
conference and spoke calmly and objectively about all the aggressions that had
led to the coup in Ukraine in February 2014 and about the downing of the MH17
in July 2014. The plane was on its way to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam.
Eric Zuesse in OffGuardian writes in the article "Obama
Requests Military Support for Possible War Against Russia"
“The West keeps asserting that Russia is
somehow in the wrong here. However, since even the head of Stratfor [3] has
called what Obama did in Ukraine “the most blatant coup in history”, and since
the fact that it was a U.S. coup has been documented extensively on cellphone
and other videos, and in the most thorough academic investigation that has been
performed of the matter — and was even acknowledged by Ukraine’s Petro
Poroshenko, a participant in the coup, to have been a coup — and since evidence
survives on the Internet of the U.S. Embassy’s preparations as early as 1 March
2013 for the February 2014 coup; and since even the U.S. government’s hired
polls showed that Crimeans rejected overwhelmingly the U.S. coup and supported
rejoining Russia; the question still needs to be answered: What is the basis of
the West’s aggressive actions threatening Russia’s national security other than
its own imperialist ambitions towards Russia camouflaged with the lies about an
aggressive Russia and an aggressive President Putin, [which] the Western mass media
have been bombarding the public with? And, that’s a very worrisome basis —
worrisome regarding, essentially, a type of dictatorship in the West, rather
than any dictatorship outside it. The aggression and the threat here seem
clearly to be coming from the West, against the East.” Crimea's
reunification with Russia (or, as the Empire calls it "Russia's illegal
annexation of Crimea") was, as we all know, the signal for the sanctions
from Europe and the U.S. against Russia. Europe more and more sees these
sanctions as a compulsion that Washington imposed on them, and they are
definitely not in their own best interest. The EU countries' economies have
suffered from the sanctions – and of course among them is Sweden. But Swedish
ministers still make a loud fuss about the need for Russia to give back Crimea
to Ukraine [4] before the sanctions can be suspended.
However, they miss the most important and definitely illegal event about the
Kiev coup in February 2014, which of course made Putin's support of Crimeans
even more urgent. Because of the Russian naval base in Crimea, there has always
been a military presence there, but talking about a Russian invasion is pure
propaganda. The Russian population in Crimea definitely did not want to belong
to Ukraine, especially after the neo-Nazi coup that was supported and financed
by Washington. Talk about 'illegality'! The U.S. has been the culprit in one
coup after the other, not to mention the total destruction of one country after
the other, because they were seen as being in the way of total American
domination of oil and gas —
and of the world.
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Does the Swedish people know that Russia is encircled by numerous US military
bases? Is there anyone in an official position after Olof Palme, who has
understood where the threat to peace is coming from? Does the Swedish people
know that Sweden was one of the 13 countries that participated in the American
war games that took place in June in Poland right on the Russian border. (Are
NATO's Massive War Games on Russia's border a pretext to World War III?)
The Swedish government is playing a scary double game. They do not join NATO
for fear of getting the Swedish people up in arms. However, while boasting
their false neutrality (as they did during World War II) they allow US / NATO
to install military bases in Sweden. Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist assures
that no nuclear weapons will be installed in Sweden. Sure, you have to believe
what the defense minister himself is saying. No, the truth is that the Swedish
people must not know how this double game has been staged. (Sweden
Joins NATO's Emerging War against Russia)
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US/NATO’s deafening and aggressive political and military propaganda and
actions are in stark contrast to Putin's low-key, both political and military
defensive response. What is now needed is a clear vision for the different
populations in the West. President Hollande in France, who is generally a completely
mediocre head of government, has surprisingly enough said in a public statement
that we Europeans must realize that Russia is part of Europe and that we must
create peaceful relations with Russia, not the U.S., and support Putin. I have
very rarely any good words to say about the French politicians, but in this
case it seems to open up some hope for a turn in the general Russophobia. Also,
several German politicians (but not, however, Frau Merkel — yet) have
spoken publicly for the resumption of trade and peaceful relations with Russia.
These sanctions are not based on any reality. They are based solely on American
propaganda and outright lies. But NATO and the EU are probably in a state of
dissolution, and we must hope that the world one day very soon, before the time
runs out, realizes what must be done to save our planet. Putin wants peace, no
aggression, no expansionism. Putin is not Stalin and Russia is not the USSR.
This simple truth seems, however, to have escaped most Swedes and their
government.
Notes:
[1]The Empire
also has 400 military bases encircling China. Besides aggression in the South
China Sea.
[2]The Tatars
are a Turkic people who mainly live in Tatarstan in Russia where they represent
a slight majority. (There are also Tatars in various parts of the former Soviet
Union, including the Baltic countries.) Tatars constitute 12% of the Crimean
population and they now want their independence. This is a problem that must be
treated without aggressive methods, but it has nothing to do with either Russia
or the Western empire, although Erdogan in Turkey is trying to spread unrest in
Crimea by supporting the Tartar rebellious mood and use them as a weapon
against Russia. Putin, Erdogan's arch-enemy, even if ultimately he has been
forced to apologize in public for his attacks on Russia - primarily the
shooting down by the Russian fighter aircraft Su-24 in November 2015 in the
area on the Turkish-Syrian border.
[3] Strategic Forecasting, Inc. — known
as Stratfor — is an American publisher and global intelligence company founded
in 1996 in Austin, Texas. Dave Sikora is president and chief executive officer.
Fred Burton is Stratfor's vice president of intelligence.
[4] Crimea has been
part of Russia since the 17 hundreds, but in 1954
Khrushchev gave Crimea to
Ukraine.
Translated from essay in Swedish by the author.
"Skrämmande svensk Rysslandspolitik – brev frånFrankrike"
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