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https://stephenlendman.org/2021/04/biden-regime-recklessness/

Biden Regime Recklessness

Hardliners in charge of the Biden regime’s geopolitical agenda showed they have no intention of missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity for peace, stability, and cooperative relations with the world community of nations.

Just the opposite!

From day one one after replacing Trump by brazen election rigging, they’ve gone the other way across the board.

Their extremism risks global conflict in pursuit of their unattainable hegemonic aims.

They risk rupturing relations with China by pushing the envelope for possible conflict with a nation able to hit back hard in self-defense if attacked.

On Tuesday, Russia’s Sputnik News reported that “US and Chinese navies are holding aircraft carrier drills in the waters off China’s coast as Washington postures as standing up to Beijing’s ‘aggression (sic).’ ”

US forces provocatively operate this way worldwide — where they don’t belong.

Last week, interventionist Blinken  falsely accused Beijing of “undermining” the “rules-based international order…violating human rights and other commitments (sic).”

The above is how belligerent USA operates at home and abroad worldwide — not China, Russia, or other countries free from its hegemonic control.

The Biden regime continues all-out war on Iran by other means — while pretending to want the landmark JCPOA nuclear deal revived that requires lifting all illegally imposed sanctions its hardliners won’t do.

In short order, they drove a stake through the heart of Russia/US relations — taking them to a new low by recklessly pushing the envelope for possible unthinkable conflict.

Along with its other active war theaters, it elevated Ukraine to perhaps the world’s top hot spot.

Escalated war in Donbass along Russia’s border — orchestrated and pushed by the US — risks drawing its forces into conflict with Ukraine in Europe’s heartland.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned US-dominated NATO against “provocati(vely)” deploying troops to Ukraine, adding:

“There is no doubt such a scenario would lead to a further increase in tensions close to Russia’s borders.” 

“Of course, this would call for additional measures from the Russian side to ensure its security.” 

“Russia is not threatening anyone. It has never threatened anyone.”

“Russia is not a participant” in escalated US-orchestrated war by Kiev against Donbass.

Ukrainian forces are responsible for “multiple” provocations along Russia border.

“(N)obody cancelled the principle of reciprocity. Of course, the Russian side will react in such a way and in a way that best suits our own interests.”

In stark contrast to US-orchestrated belligerence by Ukrainian proxy forces near its border, Moscow is trying to defuse tensions and conflict in Donbass. 

In response to provocative US/UK plans to deploy ground-based short-and intermediate-range missiles near Russia’s borders — the latter banned by the INF Treaty the Trump regime destroyed — Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the following:

The aim of these missiles will be all-about “render(ing) (Russian) air defenses ineffective” if US launched aggression on the country occurs.

Colonized Britain partners in Washington’s military adventurism against invented enemies.

According to a Boris Johnson regime press release, it’ll deploy US-made M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) to fire US precision strike missiles.

These weapons will have “global deep fires capability,” to neutralize Russia’s long-range air defense systems.

Zakharova explained that Moscow “ha(s) taken note of the Anglo-Saxon military commanders’ focus on targeting purely defensive systems that are protecting Russia from potential armed attacks.”

Deployed US/UK missiles will be able to strike targets up to 800 km away.

What’s planned “reduc(es) the area for a political and diplomatic solution to the post-INF problem and for preventing a serious escalation in the missile sphere.”

“We do not see any constructive response to the Russian initiatives based on a practical proposal to settle the sides’ concerns by adopting mutual moratoriums on the deployment of land-based intermediate- and shorter-range missiles and coordinating mutual measures to verify compliance with them.”

“Russia will have to shift (its) focus increasingly more towards taking military-technical response measures against the arising missile threats.”

Are Biden and Boris Johnson regime hardliners pushing the envelope for conflict with Moscow — on the phony pretext of self-defense against nonexistent Russian aggression?

Are they plotting a similar scenario against China, Iran and other nations free from imperial control.

Will US-orchestrated Kiev aggression on Donbass along Russia’s border spark global conflict?

China earlier warned the US against deploying intermediate-range missiles near its borders.

If this action is taken, its military will “take necessary countermeasures to firmly safeguard its security interests,” a Foreign Ministry statement said.

Before Biden regime hardliners replaced Trump in January, I said the following in an earlier article:

The worst of times ahead may make most Americans yearn for the good old days under Trump compared to the Biden/Harris horror show — now unfolding domestically and abroad.

In January, former congressman Ron Paul slammed what he called “the incoming Biden (regime that’s) chock full of actual purveyors of violent coups” and wars on humanity.

If Biden regime-orchestrated aggression along Russia’s borders threatens its security enough to demand a defensive response, all bets are off about how events may unfold.

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Sowing The Seeds of War. China and Russia’s Lack of Trust. “Washington’s Hegemonic Aspirations Could Result in a Devastating War”

China Is Losing Patience with Washington. “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry,” China tells Washington, and China is getting angry.

Beijing warns US and its UK, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand puppets to give up pretending they constitute “world opinion.” See this.

This rebuke to the “Five Eyes” follows a strong dressing down delivered by Yang Jiechi, a ruling member of the Chinese government to the Biden regime at the Alaska talks.  Yang Jiechi told the US delegation that “the United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.”  In other words, who do you think you are?  Where did you get the idea that your self-serving position constitutes international public opinion and that you can lean on us to comply with your position?

In their most recent public statements President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have stopped pleading with the West to be nice.  Putin acknowledged that Washington only wants a hegemonic relationship with Russia, a relationship inconsistent with Russian sovereignty, and Lavrov said that the EU’s hostility to Russia could result in Russia breaking off relations with Europe. 

Washington is probably too arrogant to hear what it is being told.  This is why I am concerned that Washington’s hegemonic aspiration can result in a devastating war.  It is easy to rouse Americans, especially patriotic Trump supporters, against Russia and China.  The American Establishment did not allow Trump to improve relations with Russia, but it did permit him to worsen relations with China.  But what sense does it make for Trump supporters, defined by the Biden regime as “Trump insurrectionists,” “enemies of democracy,” and “America’s greatest threat,” to support the Biden’s regime’s propaganda against Russia and China? 

Washington and its presstitutes sound like a broken record with their complaints about human rights violations in China and Russia’s alleged poisoning of Navalny, Washington’s man with whom to replace Putin. Washington’s hypocrisy does not impress China and Russia.  Washington’s puppet states go along with it, but most of the world regards the US as the human rights abuser with its 20 years of destrution of Muslim countries and its evil, inhuman, and illegal treatment of Julian Assange.  Whatever human rights violations China and Russia might have committed, they pale in comparison with Washington’s enormous crimes against humanity, crimes that include protection of Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.

The long years of Washington’s hypocrisy has, I fear, destroyed world respect for Washington’s veracity and integrity.  I am afraid that China and Russia have concluded that it is impossible to come to terms with a government whose words are limited to propaganda. The resulting Russian and Chinese lack of trust in Washington, together with Washington’s quest for hegemony, makes the danger of war high.

There doesn’t seem anything to do about this risk from within the US.  Judging from the content of most articles on Johnson’s List, a daily collection of articles about Russia, Russian studies in the US are no longer serious and consist largely of accusatory propaganda that presents Russia as Washington wants Russia presented. 

Americans do not understand the risks that Washington is taking with China and Russia, because the media do not explain the facts and the risks to them. Stephen Cohen, recently deceased, was perhaps America’s last academic Russian expert.  He and I shared the concern that Washington’s intent to damage Russia was sowing the seeds of war. For our efforts, we were labeled “Russian dupes.”  For intelligent commentary on Russia, a person turns to The Saker and Andrei Martyanov, not to university departments of Russian studies. Unfortunately for understanding, all who put truth in the way of Washington’s propaganda are dismissed as “pro-Kremlin.”

Silencing the voices of sanity is how wars come about.