Billet en chantier (élaboration urgente qui peut ne pas être dans sa forme finale).
Dans le monde de l'intoxication informative occidentale la plus déchaînée, à l'égard cette fois-ci de la guerre en Ukraine, il y a même du feu ami qu'on ignore médiatiquement, car nos média sont non seulement atlantistes, mais plus atlantistes que certaines éléments de l'empire atlantiste —la fabrique de Guerre la plus impressionnante de l'Histoire, car c'est son essence géopolitique, économique, voire existentielle.
Donc, je me permets de relayer une vidéo de Democracy Now! où Amy Goodman s'entretient avec Dennis Fritz, directeur de l'Eisenhower Media Network.
Goodman évoque d'abord la publication d'une lettre ouverte adressée au président Joe Biden, à son administration et au Congrès des États-Unis par une quinzaine de personnalités étasuniennes, à l'initiative de l'Eisenhower Media Network, qui a dû se payer une page dans le New York Times le mardi 16.05.2023. Cette publication a une remarquable importance (vu l'ambiance et la flèche de ce régime) et ce qui peut encore nous sidérer (ou non, vu l'ambiance et la flèche de ce régime), c'est que personne n'en parle ici, parmi nous, en Espagne ou dans nos pro-consulats européens en général. Les réponses de M. Fritz aux questions de Mme Goodman sont claires comme de l'eau de roche...
DEMOCRACY NOW!, 17.05.2023 : “The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace”: Nat’l Security Experts Demand U.S. Push to End Ukraine War
More than a dozen former U.S. national security officials have released an open letter calling for a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war. The call for peace was published as a full-page ad Tuesday in The New York Times and organized by the Eisenhower Media Network. They called the war an “unmitigated disaster” that the U.S. should work to end before it escalates into a nuclear confrontation. We speak with Dennis Fritz, director of the Eisenhower Media Network and a retired command chief master sergeant of the U.S. Air Force. “The majority of my life has been in and out of the Pentagon, and this is probably the most fearful I’ve ever been with a nuclear escalation,” says Fritz.
Vous pouvez accéder à la transcription complète de cette interview en cliquant sur le lien de la légende de la vidéo. Dennis Fritz fait preuve d'un bon sens et d'une empathie élémentaires et dit des choses que n'importe qui pourrait très bien comprendre, par exemple :
(...) As you already have discussed about the devastation and the number of killings that have happened so far, I can only see it continuing. And as we continue to introduce more weapons, it only causes more death and destruction. And this is, you know, to be quite frank with you, in support of the Ukrainian people. You know, it really disturbs me — and I’m just going to have to be candid with you, Amy — that, you know, at the expense of the Ukrainian people, we are fighting a proxy war with Russia to weaken them. And at the same time, the death and destruction is occurring in Ukraine and its people. And that’s devastating.
And we just couldn’t sit back and allow that to happen, as you mentioned. You know, we have a former ambassador to Russia that tried to alert administrations of the past that expanding NATO, that is a security interest of Russia. You know, we have a tendency not to empathize with others’ security needs. And there could have been a lot done in the past to prevent this from actually happening. (...)
TEXTE COMPLET de la lettre ouverte produite par l'Eisenhower Media Network :
The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace in the World
Extrait :
(...) As the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended, U.S. and Western European leaders assured Soviet and then Russian leaders that NATO would not expand toward Russia’s borders. “There would be no extension of…NATO one inch to the east,” U.S. Secretary of State James Baker told Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990. Similar assurances from other U.S. leaders as well as from British, German and French leaders throughout the 1990s confirm this.
Since 2007, Russia has repeatedly warned that NATO’s armed forces on Russian borders were intolerable – just as Russian forces in Mexico or Canada would be intolerable to the U.S. now, or as Soviet missiles in Cuba were in 1962. Russia further singled out NATO expansion into Ukraine as especially provocative. (...)
En français:
(...) Alors que l'Union soviétique s'effondrait et que la guerre froide prenait fin, les dirigeants étasuniens et européens ont assuré aux dirigeants soviétiques, puis russes, que l'OTAN ne s'étendrait pas aux frontières de la Russie. "Il n'y aurait pas d'extension de… l'OTAN d'un pouce vers l'est", a déclaré le secrétaire d'État étasuniens James Baker au dirigeant soviétique Mikhaïl Gorbatchev le 9 février 1990. Des assurances similaires d'autres dirigeants étasuniens ainsi que de dirigeants britanniques, allemands et français tout au long des années 1990 le confirment.
Depuis 2007, la Russie a averti à nombreuses reprises que les forces armées de l'OTAN aux frontières russes étaient intolérables - tout comme les forces russes au Mexique ou au Canada seraient intolérables pour les États-Unis maintenant, ou comme les missiles soviétiques à Cuba l'étaient en 1962. La Russie a en outre qualifié l'expansion de l'OTAN en Ukraine de particulièrement provocatrice. (...)
Signataires:
Dennis Fritz, Director, Eisenhower Media Network; Command Chief Master Sergeant, US Air Force (retired)
Matthew Hoh, Associate Director, Eisenhower Media Network; Former Marine Corps officer, and State and Defense official.
William J. Astore, Lieutenant Colonel, US Air Force (retired)
Karen Kwiatkowski, Lieutenant Colonel, US Air Force (retired)
Dennis Laich, Major General, US Army (retired)
Jack Matlock, U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., 1987-91; author of Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended
Todd E. Pierce, Major, Judge Advocate, U.S. Army (retired)
Coleen Rowley, Special Agent, FBI (retired)
Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University
Christian Sorensen, Former Arabic linguist, US Air Force
Chuck Spinney, Retired Engineer/Analyst, Office of Secretary of Defense
Winslow Wheeler, National security adviser to four Republican and Democratic US
Lawrence B. Wilkerson, Colonel, US Army (retired)
Ann Wright, Colonel, US Army (retired) and former US diplomat
Les signataires nous rappellent certains faits historiques :
1990 – U.S. assures Russia that NATO will not expand towards its border “…there would be no extension of…NATO one inch to the east,” says US Secretary of State James Baker.
1996 – U.S. weapons manufacturers form the Committee to Expand NATO, spending over $51 million lobbying Congress.
1997 – 50 foreign policy experts including former senators, retired military officers and diplomats sign an open letter stating NATO expansion to be “a policy error of historic proportions.”
1999 – NATO admits Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic to NATO. U.S. and NATO bomb Russia’s ally, Serbia.
2001 – U.S. unilaterally withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
2004 – Seven more Eastern European nations join NATO. NATO troops are now directly on Russia’s border.
2004 – Russia’s parliament passed a resolution denouncing NATO’s expansion. Putin responded by saying that Russia would “build our defense and security policy correspondingly.”
2008 – NATO leaders announced plans to bring Ukraine and Georgia, also on Russia’s borders, into NATO.
2009 – U.S. announced plans to put missile systems into Poland and Romania.
2014 – Legally elected Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, fled violence to Moscow. Russia views ouster as a coup by U.S. and NATO nations.
2016 – U.S. begins troop buildup in Europe.
2019 – U.S. unilaterally withdraws from Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty.
2020 – U.S. unilaterally withdraws from Open Skies Treaty.
2021 – Russia submits negotiation proposals while sending more forces to the border with Ukraine. U.S. and NATO officials reject the Russian proposals immediately.
Feb 24, 2022 – Russia invades Ukraine, starting the Russia-Ukraine War.
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Mises à jour des 23.05.2023, 9.06.2023 et 17.06.2023 :
The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.
JEFFREY D. SACHS - May 23, 2023 [Cf. un entretien de Jeffrey Sachs avec le Dr. Heinz Gärtner, lors de la Conférence Internationale pour la Paix à Vienne le 16.06.2023 : US Neocons Are Warmongering Around The World]
George Orwell wrote in 1984 that "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Governments work relentlessly to distort public perceptions of the past. Regarding the Ukraine War, the Biden administration has repeatedly and falsely claimed that the Ukraine War started with an unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine on February 24, 2022. In fact, the war was provoked by the U.S. in ways that leading U.S. diplomats anticipated for decades in the lead-up to the war, meaning that the war could have been avoided and should now be stopped through negotiations.
Recognizing that the war was provoked helps us to understand how to stop it. It doesn’t justify Russia’s invasion. A far better approach for Russia might have been to step up diplomacy with Europe and with the non-Western world to explain and oppose U.S. militarism and unilateralism. In fact, the relentless U.S. push to expand NATO is widely opposed throughout the world, so Russian diplomacy rather than war would likely have been effective.
EN LIRE PLUS
This is the original draft of the letter to President Biden and the US Congress published in The New York Times on May 16 by the Eisenhower Media Network. This version, which is substantially longer than the published letter, is published here amended from its original formatting as a group letter. This version goes into much greater depth on the background of Russia’s invasion, the role of the military-industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry in US policy-making, and speaks to the toxic and dangerous diplomatic malpractice that has dominated US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. [Ceci est le projet original de la lettre au président Biden et au Congrès des États-Unis publiée dans le New York Times le 16 mai par le Eisenhower Media Network. Cette version, qui est sensiblement plus longue que la lettre publiée, est publiée ici modifiée par rapport à sa mise en forme originale en tant que lettre de groupe. Cette version approfondit beaucoup plus le contexte de l'invasion russe, le rôle du complexe militaro-industriel et de l'industrie des combustibles fossiles dans l'élaboration des politiques des États-Unis, et parle de la mauvaise pratique diplomatique toxique et dangereuse qui a dominé la politique étrangère des États-Unis depuis la fin de la Guerre Froide.]The essay is not exhaustive, for example, I don’t write of events after February 2022 or offer predictions as to what will come if ceasefire and negotiations are not begun, other than stating a general fear of unending stalemated war, a la WWI, or expressing concern for an escalation towards a nuclear WWIII. It also does not address the substantial complaints that can be made about the Russians. Repeating what is found abundantly in US media was not my intent, but rather what is omitted, particularly examining deliberate US decision-making over three decades and noting the absence of strategic empathy from the US/NATO side, hence the charge of diplomatic malpractice.
These are my views and don’t necessarily represent the views of my fellow co-signers on The New York Times letter.
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