Carl Boggs writes in Counterpunch:
The
monotonously endless anti-Russia crusade serves a number of political agendas
for Democrats and the Washington power structure. It rationalizes Hillary
Clinton’s stunning defeat, delegitimizes and weakens the Trump presidency, sets
momentum for impeachment, and helps drive up Pentagon (and intelligence)
spending. Often forgotten is a yet another, deeper factor: Russia has long been
targeted as an intolerable obstacle to U.S. Eurasian supremacy, years before the
Trump phenomenon was on the horizon.
A
mixture of aggressive U.S. moves – tightening economic sanctions on Russia,
increased nuclear “flexibility”, new (hardly veiled) military threats against
the Putin regime, and a much-hyped shift from counter-terrorism to expanded
confrontation with designated enemy states – is not quite the radical departure
being touted. Quite the opposite: it perfectly fits well-established neocon
agendas, nowadays pervasive at the White House (Bolton, Matteo, Mattis), as well
as within sectors of Congress (Graham, McCain, Menendez, et. al.), the
Democratic Party (Clintonites), and corporate media (CNN, New
York Times, etc.). While this same media pretends outrage
over Trump’s supposed weakening of NATO, the president and his stable of
warmongers move to upgrade the American nuclear triad in Europe and rehearse
simulated attacks on Moscow and other Russian cities. As for the economic
punishment, has been described as “sanctions from hell” by one of its senate
backers.
The
new Pentagon budget calls for expanded U.S./NATO military forces along Russian
borders, its purpose to “defeat Russian aggression”, for which nearly seven
billion dollars has been specifically earmarked.... "
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