US Sanctions War on Russia Escalates
by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman)
Illegal US sanctions on Russia and other nations are imposed to wage war by other means.
In 1996, the Vienna-based International Progress Organization blasted sanctions as “an illegitimate form of collective punishment of the weakest and poorest members of society, the infants, the children, the chronically ill, and the elderly.”
When unilaterally imposed, they’re a hammer in lieu of diplomacy the way it’s supposed to be.
Washington weaponized them to illegally attack nations politically and economically for failing to bend to its will – a bipartisan conspiracy against rule of law principles and responsible governance, absent in America and other Western societies, democracies in name only.
Make no mistake. US political and economic war rages on Russia, Iran and other targeted nations – at risk of turning hot.
US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs A. Wess Mitchell holds the same portfolio as the infamous Victoria Nuland in the Obama regime – both officials hostile to world peace and cooperative relations with other countries, supporting US dominance by endless aggression and other unlawful means.
On Tuesday, Mitchell addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Trump regime’s agenda toward Russia.
He called “military power…fully integrated with our allies and all of our instruments of power” Washington’s most effective tool in its “diploma(tic)” arsenal.
He lied claiming Vladimir Putin “conduct(s) aggression” – a US/NATO specialty, not Russia’s.
He highlighted US sanctions on Russia to date – targeting “217 individuals and entities…six diplomatic and consular facilities…and 60 spies (sic) removed from American soil.”
He laughably said “the door to dialogue is open” – provided that Moscow surrenders its sovereignty to America, wanting a repeat of the 1990s under US favorite Boris Yeltsin, a deplorable figure presiding over Russia’s lost decade.
He lied claiming Moscow threatens “the Western world.” It’s the other way around, he failed to explain.
He lied saying Russia “promote(s) fringe voices…advocat(ing) violence, the storming of federal buildings, and the overthrow of the US government” – a claim only fools and a brainwashed public could believe.
He lied saying Russia “foments and funds controversial causes.” They include world peace, stability, equity, justice, multi-world polarity, and mutual cooperation among all nations – notions dark forces running America abhor.
He lied claiming “Putin wants to break apart the American Republic…by systematically inflaming the fault-lines within our society.”
He lied saying “the Putinist system (seeks) international dominance.”
He lied claiming Russia aims “to destabilize (US) society and the government.”
He compared nonexistent Russian “subversive statecraft (to) Bolshev(ism) and (the) later Soviet state, updated for the digital age.”
Trump regime hardliners are waging propaganda war on Russia and other sovereign independent countries to influence and control the public mind, bipartisan congressional members willing co-conspirators, escalating political and economic war on Russia and other nations – risking hot war by accident or design.
Accusations against the Kremlin are specious. US enemy No. One is targeted for its sovereign independence, opposition to US imperial aggression, supporting world peace and stability, along with wanting a marketplace advantage for US corporate predators.
Washington is on a slippery slope toward greater aggression than already – risking humanity destroying nuclear war, the ultimate nightmarish scenario.
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