15-02-2009, 12:09 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:...then we are in for worse than most can imagine...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvTwyODXStY [Part I - never mind the Czech subtitles]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfvekdE2prw [Part two - no subtitles]
Tarpley has an excellent handle on US elite intentions - and was, as far as I can see, the first to recognise and publicize the shift in power within the US from neo-cons to Trilats - but a very unsatisfactory one on effects. One example.
Zbigniew doubtless intended the shattering of the Russian empire via his intervention in Afghanistan. Yet all he succeeded in doing was facilitating the triumph of the Chekist heirs of Beria, who used Afghanistan to embroil the Red Army and discredit it. With the Red Army otherwise engaged, and progressively discredited, the Chekists could move against the Party relatively unimpeded.
The scale of the Cheka's triumph was considerable: Russia divested itself of its hugely uneconomic Eastern European satraps; got its energy and minerals to market in a way unthinkable under the constraints of the Cold War; and was at last able to move on creating a professional standing army.
The US elite, meanwhile, drunk on its hubristic incomprehension, deindustrialised, engaged in an orgy of unsustainable self-enrichment, and bankrupted the nation, not least through military expenditures. Can't imagine these were quite the effects Zbig sought.
Paul