Dear CCI Friends and Colleagues,
The exploration of why the US hates Russia is a fascinating and disturbing subject. It requires a little digging into history – the sufficiently close-up history that many of us can remember.
In the 1960’s and ‘70’s, terms like ‘détente’ and ‘rapprochement’ fell easily from the lips of many in the West, including the US, who appreciated the insanity of the arms race and any national “security” policy that depended upon the ability to destroy all life on earth in order to be “safe.” The US and Russia were in that mighty MAD standoff and, fortunately, humane people on both sides saw the madness. Serious efforts were made to develop diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations between the two adversaries and the results were so positive that we felt able to take a deep breath; maybe nuclear Armageddon wasn’t inevitable after all.
What happened? Why are we once again face-to-face with the unspeakable?
For your consideration, Alexander Mercouris gives a brief and succinct analysis of that recent history in the attached video.
Please let us know what you think.
The Center for Citizen Initiatives
US/NATO Maniacs Killed The Post-Cold War Peace On Purpose
Aug 2, 2023
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By: Pascal Lottaz
This is the second segment of the interview with Alexander Mercouris from The Duran. We talk about how and why NATO elites decided to kill the Post-Cold War peace in Europe that had set in after 1989. The poisonous idea that the US had “won” the Cold War completely distorted all decision-making, leading to some of the worst and most provocative geostrategic blunders in history. Peace was killed by those who thought they could reign with impunity and Ukraine is now paying the price of the zero-sum thinking.
FMI: [Interview with Alexander Mercouris from The Duran]