The Impulsiveness of US Power

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Washington’s impulsive use of power is a danger to the world. Arrogant Washington politicians and crazed neocons scream that the US must shoot down Russian aircraft operating against the US-backed forces that have brought death and destruction, unleashing millions of refugees on Europe, in the US' effort to overthrow the Syrian government.

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Even my former CSIS colleague, Zbigniew Brzezinski, normally a sensible if sometimes misguided person, has written in the Financial Times that Washington should deliver an ultimatum to Russia to "cease and desist from military actions that directly affect American assets."  By "American assets," Brzezinski means the jihadist forces that Washington has sicced on Syria. 

Brzezinski's claim that "Russia must work with, not against, the US in Syria" is false. The fact of the matter is that "the US must work with, not against Russia in Syria," as Russia controls the situation, is in accordance with international law, and is doing the right thing.

Ash Carter, the US Secretary for War, repeats Brzezinski's demand.  He declared that Washington is not prepared to cooperate with Russia's "tragically flawed" and "mistaken strategy" that frustrates Washington's illegal attempt to overthrow the Syrian government with military violence.  

Washington's position is that only Washington decides and that Washington intends to unleash yet more chaos on the world in the hope that it reaches Russia.

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I guess no one in hubristic and arrogant Washington was listening when Putin said in his UN speech on September 28: "We can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world."

The intolerable state of affairs is the chaos that Washington has brought to the Middle East, chaos that threatens to expand into all countries with Muslim populations, and chaos from which millions of refugees are flooding into Europe.

Not satisfied with threatening Russia with war, Washington is preparing to send US Navy ships inside the 12-nautical-mile territorial limit of islands created by China's land reclamation project. The Navy Times reports that three Pentagon officials have said on background that "approval of the mission is imminent."

So here we have the US government gratuitously and provocatively threatening two nuclear powers.  The Washington warmongers try to pretend that land reclamation is "an act of regional aggression" and that Washington is just upholding international law by protecting "freedom of navigation."  

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By "freedom of navigation," Washington means Washington's ability to control all sea lanes. After all of Washington's violations of international law and war crimes during the last 14 years, Washington's claim to be protecting international law is hilarious.

Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's intelligence organization, said that Washington needs to understand that "Russia also has foreign policy; Russia also has a national security strategy" and stop crossing Russia's "red lines."

Gen. Flynn thus joins with Patrick J. Buchanan as two voices of sense and sensibility in Washington. Together they stand against the arrogance and hubris that will destroy us.

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of Sputnik.

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