Western interventionism and the boomerang effect

The European powers, and their fledgling, the USA, spent centuries colonizing the world, invading territories, destroying societies, massacring peoples, stealing resources, then barring entry into Europe and the USA against the people they colonized; today they use terrorists to further their interest, continue to disrespect local customs and then complain when things go wrong.

This is not a time for naming and blaming because it is obvious who is to blame for the dangerous situation we find ourselves in, this is not a time for hate articles because there is enough of that in the world we wake up in every morning. It is time for reflection and action, rather than diatribes; it is time for togetherness, not division.

The Great Patriotic War (Second World War) was supposed to be the war to end all wars, after tens of millions of children, men and women lost their lives. The flash that sparked off this war, like the First World War, had as its foundations Nationalism, or the claim that one nation/people is superior to others.

And this is the same precept behind colonialism and imperialism, civilizing "natives" with the Bible and the bullet, imposing political systems based on Parliaments where such bodies never existed, signing agreements with political tails attached, in a top-down, patronizing, holier-than-thou approach which still favors ransacking resources, creating a one-way street for riches to be syphoned off without giving anything back in return.

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Ignorance and poverty are blossoming in areas which the western powers colonized centuries ago. Societies were destroyed, not developed. And we live in a world in which the same old approach is followed time and time again, leaving chaos in its wake.

Yesterday, Ukrainians and Russians were proud of their Soviet history, and considered each other as brothers and sisters. Most still do, but as I write, thousands of Ukrainian boys, conscripts, are surrounded by anti-Fascist fighters in South-East Ukraine; as I write, there are strong links to the involvement of the United States of America, not Russia, in Ukraine; as I write, the United Kingdom is on the second highest terror alert because of insinuations of imminent attack from the Islamic State.

Welcome to the boomerang effect. To every action, there is a reaction. If you put a three-year-old in a chemistry laboratory and give him a free hand, the likelihood is that he will not know what he is doing and start mixing alkali metals with water, put him in the kitchen and he will pour water into a pan of boiling fat. The results in both cases will be disastrous and if he is lucky, only his fingers will get burnt.

Why can't western policymakers mind their own business, and if they have to intervene, do so with cultural programs, with educational programs, with development projects? Why did NATO have to encroach eastwards when it promised it would not? Why is the Biden family so intrinsically linked to the modern-day Ukraine? Why did the west use terrorists to destabilize the States in Libya and Syria?

Why does the west demonize countries and leaders when they themselves have a very murky record? Who was the overlord of Abu Ghraib torture center in Iraq? Who runs the Guantanamo Bay torture and concentration camp today? Who was behind the overthrow of President Yanukovich in Ukraine? And who is today pointing the finger at Russia, when all Russia has done in the last twenty years is insist on following international law? And I repeat, why is the Biden family, not the Putin family, positioned in Ukraine to reap the benefits from fracking and shale gas?

Remember Iraq?

So while the west tries to create problems in Ukraine for Ukrainians and Russians alike (all the boys being killed and injured have families and loved ones), let us remember that the Crimea was not annexed by Russia as western media outlets claim, but returned to Russia in a democratic act called a referendum. (*)

As for the rest of Ukraine, the so-called separatists (anti-Fascist fighters) are fighting by themselves. The West has long made the mistake of stating that President Putin is playing everything in South-Eastern Ukraine, when the Russian President made it very clear from the start that Russia's only aim was to protect its interests, namely the Crimea bases which NATO wanted, and didn't get. Right from the start, Russia stated that it was not obsessed with Ukraine, that it favored a political resolution to the question, that Kiev should dialogue with the rebels, and that was it. Russia has stated many times that its foreign policy does not start and end on its Edge (Ukraine means "The Edge") but rather, in fostering closer ties with Latin America, with the BRICS block and so on.

And let us be honest. If the Russian Armed Forces were involved in Ukraine, the fight today would be two hundred kilometres West of Kiev and Poroshenko would be living in exile in the USA, or Switzerland. There is no evidence whatsoever of any direct Russian involvement in Ukraine, basically because there is none. A column of tanks and artillery from Soviet times does not a case make - Ukraine has the same equipment -a handful of soldiers crossing an unmarked border does not an invasion make - hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have crossed into Russia and those who wanted to return were allowed to do so.

So examining the West's policy, based on lies, skullduggery and intrusion, as it has been for centuries, maybe it is time for change, as someone promised but did not deliver. Maybe it is time for us all to sit down together, solve our questions in the proper forums of discussion, maybe it is time for us all to enjoy our differences, celebrate them and use them as means to bring us all together like the brothers and sisters we are, sharing our beautiful home that Mother Nature gave us and not regarding each other through night sights.

After all, you reap what you sow. It is called the boomerang effect. If the Biden family thinks it is cool to destabilize Ukraine just so that they can make millions at the expense of others, sooner or later the truth is going to come out. For those who think the USA and its poodles (my apologies to Poodles) are active in Ukraine for the good of the people, research Biden + shale gas + Ukraine.

And take a look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zykk-F3iq5A

(*) With the illegal overthrow of the duly elected President, Yanukovich, in the absence of any of the three conditions for an Impeachment, then the presiding law in force in the Republic of Crimea was the Legislative Assembly, which promoted the Referendum.

 

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)

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Chris Harris builds an E30 M3 rally car

Chris Harris is a very lucky man, this we know. He gets to test drive all the latest and greatest the automobile industry has to offer and then tell us viewers whether it’s good or not.

This time around, however, the self-confessed car junkie took a bit of a different route.

This video features Chris Harris building his very own rally car. Or rather, taking an old E30 M3 rally car and turning it into a better one. It’s really very interesting and for anyone who ever wanted to build their very own rally car, it is a must see.

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NATO, the finger of death

Iraq: Chaos! Libya: Chaos! Syria: Chaos! Whatever NATO touches, turns putrid, rots and dies. Three interventions by the Anglo-Saxon Alliance (UK and US), two by the FUKUS Axis (add France), three interventions by NATO, three destabilized States crawling with terrorists. The responsibility lies at the feet of Washington and its poodle States and the onus is on them to right the wrongs they willfully committed. You messed up, now... Pay for it!

Are dogs Vegans? Do you feed goldfish chocolate? Common sense says no in both cases. Common sense also dictates that you do not intervene in highly complex societies with thousands of years of tradition and lore intricately mixed up in a myriad of ethnic and religious mosaics cemented together by a Governing body that understands where the point of equilibrium is to be found and which is kept in its position by the players in the society which it governs.

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A company of the Portuguese Army was detailed to build a new village for a community in the interior of Angola during the Colonial War*. The company had been instructed to do so because the village had been devastated. The architect based his idea on the downtown area of the capital city of Portugal, Lisbon, reconstructed in straight parallel lines after the earthquake and ensuing tsunami in 1755, which destroyed the city. The community was transported to the village and proudly shown their new home by the Portuguese captain. They ran away. Asked why they didn't like their village, the community leader, or soba, explained: "Our village is based on the circle. We eat sitting in a circle, our homes are circular, we sit outside in a circle in the evenings telling stories, laughing and singing. We take decisions sitting in a circle, it has no head, no beginning and no end. And no dark corners."

Can women in Saudi Arabia use forks when they eat? No, because it is considered improper for a woman to put four long and hard prongs in her mouth at the same time because when a man sees this, it gives him unclean thoughts. For those western policy-makers chortling in mirth as they read this, let us now come back to the point of this article, the failed Western policy in Iraq, in Libya and in Syria.

Iraq: chaos! Libya: chaos! Syria: chaos! In all three cases, Western politicians outdid one another in sheer arrogance, claiming (so democratically) that "Saddam must go", "Gaddafy must go," and "Assad must go". What we see in these three countries today is the direct result of the criminal intervention by NATO, its two henchmen, the USA and its poodle in chief, the UK and recently, France, which spends its time subserviently crawling around the legs of its Anglo-Saxon NATO masters across the Channel and across the Ocean, when it isn't obediently obeying Germany's calls for austerity.

NATO destroyed Iraq, destroyed the State, destroyed the mechanisms of control in a highly complex society whose many ethnic and religious groups co-existed in peace until the West stepped in, after provoking Iraq by getting Kuwait to steal oil in cross-drilling operations, then demonizing the Iraqi Government, then directly interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign State by getting the Shiites in the South to rebel, before the uprising was crushed. This criminally irresponsible approach to foreign policy-making seems to be endemic in the corridors of Whitehall, London and Washington DC, one of Whitehall's most fetid and dysfunctional abortions over the years.

There ensued a decade of terrorist activity in Iraq between the First and Second Gulf Wars, in which NATO aircraft strafed fields of cereals and left the country strewn with Depleted Uranium, causing the deaths and malformations of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children, before the outrage in 2003 when the Government was overthrown in an illegal military invasion which resulted in around one million deaths (murders) and today, the total destabilization of the State by ISIL, a wonderful feather in the cap for Washington and its poodle in chief. Yesterday they were full of bravado as they marched across the border knowing Saddam Hussein (who was keeping al-Qaeda out of Iraq) had no Weapons of Mass Destruction (his mistake was not to arm himself to the hilt) and knowing the Iraqi Armed Forces would not fight back (in the event the invasion was staged, with salvoes being fired over the Iraqi's heads as they retreated to negotiated positions). Today Washington and London are quivering in fear and are too scared to fight ISIL, the monster they created.

This same criminal irresponsibility was demonstrated in Libya, where they again intervened, this time joined by that sickening wannabe Napoleon, France, this time not only creating but actively using terrorists on their own lists of proscribed groups, which Muammar al-Gaddafy (the first international leader to issue arrest warrants against al-Qaeda) was fighting. Again, military equipment was deployed against civilian structures, civilians were slaughtered by NATO aircraft, the Libyan water supply system was targeted (war crime), the electricity grid was destroyed (war crime) and the result, once again, was the wholesale destruction of a State. Under the Geneva Conventions, any military intervention must leave the area invaded functioning properly attending to the needs of its citizens.

In not managing to guarantee this, the USA and its poodles in Europe have failed miserably in their task and have shirked their responsibilities. They are also responsible for criminal acts breaching every fiber of international law. Their leaders are, in plain English, war criminals and murderers.

And now for Syria. Just a few months ago that Nobel Peace Prizewinner Obama in the USA was saying that Assad had to go, obediently parroted by Cameron and Mr. 17 per cent popularity ratings, Hollande. Now, they are considering sending military support to fight off ISIL in Syria, after these very same Western/NATO powers armed, trained and aided terrorists to fight the Government of President Assad, which has wide approval across Syrian society.

If it was not so serious, it would be hilarious. But destroying countries and societies has shocking social implications. What these NATO countries deserve is for their boomerang to come back and smack them square in the face, facing their own jihadis, to get a taste of their own medicine, except for the fact that logic dictates that one cannot attack their approach abroad and then wish the same thing on them at home. What these criminally irresponsible powers must do is man up, accept the responsibility for what they have done, and pay to sort out the problems they created, keeping their unwanted troops at home.

As those in Whitehall and Washington (let's be honest, Paris really doesn't count, does it?) claim that we live in difficult times and attack those who disagree with their criminal modus operandi, they should be reminded that the evils they face are those of their own creation. Instead of arrogantly ploughing ahead like modern-day imperialists, they would do better to respect international law for once, accept the responsibility for their actions, mind their own business and start behaving with goodwill, instead of malevolence.

For those who have been involved in the political and military processes in Iraq, Libya and Syria, they belong behind bars. The mechanisms are already in place, the wheel is turning slowly, and most of them will live long enough to cast looks of fear over their shoulders wherever they may go. Blair already does, Rumsfeld dare not step off an aircraft outside the USA, ditto Powell, Bush, Cheney and Condoleezza Rice. The head of NATO is evil, psychopathic; the hand of NATO is putrid, sociopathic and the finger of NATO is as icy as it is satanic and demonic. It is the finger of death, contaminating everything it touches.

NATO is the incarnation of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Conquest, War, Famine and Death. It is the Empire of Evil.

 

*The Colonial War was fought between Portugal and factions in its former colonies Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, from 1961 to 1974; there was no war in Portugal's other African provinces, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Principe Isles.

 

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

(timothy.hinchey@gmail.com)

 

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