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John McCain Wants a New Cold War With Russia Over Snowden
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
August 3, 2013
Infowars.com
August 3, 2013
Russian oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
On Thursday, Arizona Senator John McCain released a statement criticizing Russia for granting whistleblower Edward Snowden a one-year asylum and preventing the United States government from subjecting the former NSA analyst to the Bradley Manning treatment.
“Russia’s action today is a disgrace and a deliberate effort to embarrass the United States,” said McCain. “It is a slap in the face of all Americans. Now is the time to fundamentally rethink our relationship with Putin’s Russia. We need to deal with the Russia that is, not the Russia we might wish for. We cannot allow today’s action by Putin to stand without serious repercussions.”
And what might those “serious repercussions” be? In addition to meddling in Russia’s internal affairs, McCain wants to rekindle the Cold War by aggressively pushing a “missile defense system” on Russia’s borders. “We should push for the completion of all phases of our missile defense programs in Europe, and move expeditiously on another round of NATO expansion, including the Republic of Georgia,” he said.
In 2011, Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), James Risch (R-ID), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and James Inhofe (R-OK) sent a letter to then Defense Secretary Robert Gates demanding the Obama administration move to place a missile defense-related radar site in Georgia instead of Turkey. “We believe that the Republic of Georgia’s geographic location would make it an ideal site for a missile defense radar aimed at Iran, and would offer clear advantages for the protection of the United States from a long range missile as compared to Turkey,” the senators wrote.
Iran, however, is obviously a red herring. Studies produced by the Pentagon “questioned the capability of the U.S. missile defense system to be deployed in Europe to protect the country from Iranian ballistic missiles,” writes Vladimir Kozin, a member of an interagency working group attached to the Russian government discussing missile defense issues with NATO. “Moscow and Washington should agree once and for all not to use nuclear weapons first against each other and not to deploy their missile defense systems near the borders of the other country.”
McCain’s statement also calls for interfering in Russian politics and punishing the country for imprisoning Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the oil oligarch who “was a key part of a Western intelligence operation to dismantle and destroy what remains of Russia as a functioning state,” according to F. William Engdahl.
Khodorkovsky was also in the “middle of making a US-backed coup d’etat to capture the Russian presidency in planned 2004 Russian Duma elections. Khodorkovsky was in the process of using his enormous wealth to buy enough seats in the coming Duma elections that he could change Russian laws regarding ownership of oil in the ground and of pipelines transporting same. In addition he planned to directly challenge Putin and become Russian President,” according to Engdahl.
McCain, of course, services the financial elite, so it is natural he’d use the Khodorkovsky case to attack Russia. Khodorkovsky is connected to Henry Kissinger and Jacob Lord Rothschild and his Open Russia Foundation was based on George Soros’ Open Society, a tool used to foment color revolutions in former Soviet republics (Uzbekistan, for example, shut down the Soros operation, while Tajikistan has accused Open Society’s operation in the country of corruption and nepotism).
McCain also exploits Alexei Navalny, described by the corporate media as “Russia’s Erin Brockovich,” who was sentenced to five years in jail for embezzlement. “The charismatic Navalny however is… or has been on the payroll of Washington’s regime-destabilizing National Endowment for Democracy (NED). According to a posting on Navalny’s own blog, LiveJournal, he was supported in 2007-2008 by the NED,” writes Engdahl. Boston banksters also “paid for Nemtsov’s trips to the very expensive Davos World Economic Forum,” thus revealing his allegiance.
McCain’s grandstanding is merely another chapter in a resurgent effort to create tension with Russia. At Bilderberg 2012, we learned that the elite have the Russian Federation squarely in its sights. “Present at Bilderberg 2012 were Anatoly Chubais and Garry Kasparov, leading anti-Putin Russian politicians,”Wayne Madsen wrote last June.
Chubais is reviled among a majority of Russians for shepherding the wholesale privatization of Soviet and Russian Federation state enterprises under the administration of President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. The chief benefactors of the privatization were a handful of Russian entrepreneurs who soon became billionaire oligarchs. Many of these oligarchs soon found themselves in prison in Russia or in exile in Britain and Israel to avoid prosecution in Russia. Today, Chubais is the head of Rusnano, a leading Russian nanotechnology firm.At the [Bilderberg] Chantilly conclave, Chubais rubbed shoulders with the robber barons of Wall Street, including former Goldman Sachs and Citigroup senior executive and Bill Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, Goldman Sachs International Chairman Peter Sutherland, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company co-chairman Henry Kravis and former Obama Office of Management and Budget director and current Citigroup vice chairman Peter Orszag.
In an effort to round out his obvious call for renewed military tension with Russia and demands that Putin release oligarchs colluding with Wall Street and the financial elite – the political class McCain, naturally, answers to – the congressional fixture from Arizona praised the Russian people:
And perhaps most importantly, we should speak out on behalf of the many people in Russia who increasingly are finding the courage to peacefully demand greater freedom, accountability, and rule of law in Russia.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-08-03/obama-may-snub-g20-summit
Now that Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia and he has been allowed to leave the airport, things are starting to hot up between the US and Russia. Washington has expressed that they are ‘disappointed’ by the reaction of Moscow and there have been allusions to the fact that President Obama may even go as far as to snub President Vladimir Putin and refuse to meet with him in September 2013.
Russia agreed yesterday to grant Edward Snowden asylum but as a consequence this has put a strain on the relations between Russia and the USA, despite the fact that Putin said that he wanted in no way to jeopardize the relations with the US. Although, sometimes, unbelievably in politics what a politician states is neither firstly necessarily what he thinks nor secondly necessarily what he does; or neither at the same time in the majority of the cases.
But, certainly Putin is probably thinking of himself rather than Obama at the present time. Sheltering Snowden means that he will be able to publically slap Obama in the face and send a strong message of propaganda to his own citizens, telling them that he is not the only one in the world not to respect human rights. If the US does it, then anyone can do it. Secondly, there are 90% of Russians that believe that Snowden’s actions are positive, rekindling the great East-West divide of old, or at least keeping that ideological fire burning bright. There is also the added bonus of it being now possible for Putin to rally up some support in the wake of criticism for arresting opposition leader Alexey Navalny and slapping a five-year prison sentence on him. Putin also has to wage war upon the detractors of his economic policies and face criticism of the slowing down in the Russian economy, with a 30% possibility that the country will enter a recession in 2014 (up from a 20% risk last month), according to a survey by Bloomberg. This affair will help Putin rally support, but it will also galvanize his status in world affairs. He will be empowered to declare that Russia is still a force to be reckoned with and a role to play in geopolitical affairs taking place.
In a recent poll in Russia (Levada Center) there were 43% of Russians that supported Russia’s granting of asylum to Snowden towards the end of July. Only 29% were against it.
But, Putin had very little choice, didn’t he? Snowden was almost barred from leaving the country and flying elsewhere. Either Putin took the decision to hand over Snowden to the US authorities or to provide a safe haven for him in Russia. The first solution would have destroyed his public image and made it look as if he were obsequiously obeying Uncle Sam. The second was the only one that would boost the troops at home.
Now, Washington has hinted that Obama may snub a private meeting with Putin when Obama makes his first public visit to Russia since Putin was reelected in March last year, when Moscow hosts the G20 summit. According to sources at the White House, Obama is presently weighing up the “utility” of the meeting and may even cancel going all together to the summit.
Putin may have gained the backing of his people, but the Snowden affair has come along at a very bad moment in the political and geopolitical agenda. Will this now create further problems on already thorny issues such as Iran, Syria and relations with China?
According to a former adviser on Russia to President Clinton, Andrew Weiss, “The political climate in Washington on Russia is poisonous. There was already plenty of anger toward Russia brewing in the political establishment. Snowden is an accelerant."
However, it is the Syrian conflict that will cause the most problems and it is the Syrian people that will be used as an exchanging currency, traded off between the US and Russia as Bashar al-Assad is allowed to carry on impuniously killing his people.
Coming to any sort of compromise was already difficult regarding Syria at the last G8 meeting, now this time round after Snowden’s asylum it looks almost impossible. Peace talks certainly will not be on the agenda. It is also feared now that Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, who expressed willingness to discuss Iran’s nuclear program, will also be left out in the cold as Russia may decide to pose a problem regarding imposing sanctions on the country by the West in the event of not complying with wishes.
It is very doubtful that Washington will sit back and allow Putin to chide and belittle the US. At some point, there will be some form of retaliation that will occur, whatever that may be. At the moment, there are many possibilities open to Obama regarding how to react. But, they have to be weighed up very carefully. The US needs Russia to agree on Syria and it needs to be able to control Iran’s race for nuclear power. It is also very needy of Russian territory to withdraw from Afghanistan at the moment.
It seems highly unlikely that Obama will go as far as to snub the G20 summit on5-6 September 2013. There has been suggestion of boycotting the Winter Olympics in February 2014 in Sochi, but that too would bring things to a head. Neither the US nor Russia would be prepared to return to antagonistic international relations of the past, would they?
If we are to believe the tactics of Washington, then the hinting that the US will boycott the G20 summit is more than likely to be a game. A white House spokesman said that Russia should hand Snowden back immediately if the bilateral meeting just before the G20 is not going to be put on the line. Snowden has taken with him, according to the White House, thousands of classified documents.
In a statement issued yesterday by Snowden he said: “Over the past eight weeks we have seen the Obama administration show no respect for international or domestic law, but in the end the law is winning. I thank the Russian Federation for granting me asylum in accordance with its laws and international obligations."
Russia never informed the US in advance in another move perhaps to show the Obama administration that they were going it alone and in no way needed the authorization of anybody else to do exactly as the choose. Recently Russia has hidden behind the fact that Snowden was not legally on Russian soil while he was in the transit zone in the airport and so their jurisdiction never allowed them to go as far as to hand him over to the US authorities. Now, a decision will have to be made; but it looks as if it already has.
But, today people are focusing more upon the single man that is being used as a pawn between two nations that are opposed on certain points rather than focusing on the fact that privacy laws have been violated throughout the world by the National Security Agency in the name of national security. It’s the surveillance programs that are the crux of the matter and not one man.
We shall await the decision of Obama and see what will be the line of action of the Obama Doctrine on this one.
Should we start building fall-out shelters or will it not get to that stage?
Meanwhile , Putin plays it cool , Snowden photos released as he starts new life in Russia - how long before Ann Chapman makes a visit ?
http://lifenews.ru/news/117231
Published the first photo Snowden in Moscow
Edward Snowden away from Sheremetyevo
On Thursday, the prominent dissident Edward Snowden left the transit area of the airport Sheremetyevo "hostage" which was little more than a month.
At the disposal of the portal Life News was shot organizer of the largest leaks of information in the history of U.S. intelligence, which is accompanied by a staff member Wikileaks Sarah Harrison and lawyer Anatoly Kucherena is the hall of the airport.
Leaving the airport, Snowden did not hide his joy
The photo shows that Edward was happy to leave the transit area, where he had lived for almost a month. Over the shoulders of a young man hanging backpack and in his hand he carries a large light-brown bag, apparently with things.
Yesterday the Russian Federal Migration Service has issued a former CIA officer Edward Snowden help, through which he was able to travel outside the capital's Sheremetyevo Airport.
Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told how a former CIA agent left the airport transit zone
According to the lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, a former CIA agent in the evening left the transit area of the airport and went to Moscow for a taxi.
- Edward I planted in a taxi, and he went to Moscow, - the Life News coachmen. - He presented me with a certificate by which he can stay in Russia for one year. At this point, exactly where it can be, I can not tell - it's a safety issue. I can say that while Snowden plans to remain in Russia.
Recall the scandal surrounding former CIA and National Security Agency, U.S. Edward Snowden broke in early June of this year. Snowden then handed the newspapers "Washington Post" and "The Guardian" about the NSA spying mass of citizens of the United States.
Snowden some time hiding from U.S. authorities in Hong Kong, from June 23 arrived at Sheremetyevo. According to information available, nearly three weeks agent was in the transit area of the airport of Russia, but all attempts by journalists to find the ex-CIA agent failed.
July 12 exposer of U.S. intelligence asked the Russian Foreign Ministry political asylum . The intention to Edward Snowden told a closed-door meeting with Russian human rights activists.
Later it became known that the Russian government supported the request of the former U.S. intelligence agent.
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