On Friday, August 17, 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country’s air force is once again sending nuclear-equipped bombers on regular overseas patrols.
Mr Putin said the move to resume the flights permanently is in response to security threats posed by ‘other’ military powers. We all know who these ‘other’ military powers are.
Of course, the U.S. state department is trying to down play the maneuver by belittling Russia for taking ‘some of these old aircraft out of mothballs and get them flying again’. They further attempt to downplay Russia’s action by pointing out that Russia halted its flights 15 years ago because it could no longer afford the fuel costs, while ignoring the fact that Russia’s coffers are stuffed full of oil money today and the Kremlin is determined to show it is still a military power to reckon with.
Instead of the U.S. taking this opportunity to work things out with Russia in order to prevent a return to the nuclear arms race, the U.S. chooses to puff themselves up and take a ‘superior’ attitude towards Russia. Which has become the typical arrogant response of the U.S. toward the rest of the world.
Russia is currently involved in joint military exercises with China near the Ural Mountains. Both of these former Cold War rivals are concerned over what they determine to be a heightening distrust over the United States' outsized role in global politics, and they have forged a "strategic partnership" aimed at counterbalancing Washington's policies.
NATO also is playing a role in fomenting this distrust by relocating NATO forces closer to Russia's western border.
The bottom line to all of this posturing against each other is over oil. Once again, access to resources continue to play a major role in what could lead to the end of mankind.
This incessant need to grow stronger than the other guy is a drive that needs to be curtailed. If all three of these major powers, United States, Russia and China, were to work together then there would no longer be so much money wasted on military muscle.
Washington supports plans for pipelines that would carry oil and gas to the West and bypass Russia (why does it have to bypass Russia), while Moscow has maneuvered to control exports (why do they have to ‘control’ it). China also has shown a growing appetite for energy to power its booming economy.
Why do they all need to be so selfish over this resource? We are all on this planet together like it or not. Lets work together to use it all up while spending the money saved on our oversized militaries on research into alternative fuels that would save us all?
Let’s have some faith in our scientist, from all countries, to work together and stop spending so much money on the military whose only role, it seems, is to destroy.
The military should stand only in a defensive posture. The U.S. is spreading hate and mistrust by inserting itself everywhere. This is patently wrong and backward thinking. It seems we have not evolved very far from the Neanderthals fighting Homo Sapiens for supremacy. Only the weapons have changed. And why does there have to be supremacy over each other? Why not fight for supremacy over this natural desire to kill one another?
With the U.S. aggressive actions to ‘take’ instead of ‘ask’ and ‘pay for’ we are going to end up losing all of it and strangle ourselves.
All of this terrorist activity in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in other places, is present only because of U.S. policy. We are in control of deciding whether or not that terrorism continues. We alone can stop all of it by choosing to stop being terrorist ourselves.
By the U.S. ‘forcing’ its beliefs on other countries, we are in fact using terrorist tactics. We certainly are not threatening to kill people if they don’t follow our example, but we are threatening to withhold aid to these countries if they don’t ‘become’ us. We have no moral authority to do this.
The world is fed up with the U.S. method of forcing its ideas on them. They are beginning to fight back. Russia with its threat of nuclear bombs, Iran with its threat to ‘punch’ us, Taliban with its threat to bring terror down onto all Americans, North Korea with its threat of nuclear missiles, Venezuela with its threats against anything American. There are many more examples.
The U.S. needs to read the writing on the wall and needs to start listening and learning to be a better neighbor. History has taught that being the schoolyard bully does not win friends or influence anyone but other bullies.
I am tired of living in a world full of threat and hate. I want the peaceful world that everyone outside of politics and the military wants and knows can exist.
We are at a major turning point in world history. We can change this world for the better. It will take a strong willed person to get the ball rolling and it will take a lot of faith to change thousands of years of hate, aggression, and mistrust but this alternative has got to stop.
Russia is minding its own business and now has to flex its military muscle because the U.S. and its paranoid, arrogant president is a threat to them.
China is trying to gain footing as a major industrial nation so that it can maintain its military because the U.S. and its paranoid, arrogant president is a threat to their control of the Asian continent.
Iran is trying to gain access to nuclear energy to provide a viable clean fuel resource for itself and if it is stockpiling weapons grade uranium it is only because the U.S. and its paranoid, arrogant president has become a threat to them as well.
The U.S. is flexing its military muscle around the world trying to force its ‘moral’ beliefs on everybody else and the world is fed up with it.
The U.S. is dismantling its industrial base and sending it all overseas out of greed by the corporate owners who are tired of paying high wages to its greedy workers and tired of paying high taxes, high insurance rates, and high social security to its greedy government.
The U.S. is slowly killing itself over an incessant need to have more, more, more.
If Russia, China and the U.S. were to all join together to play their little war games amongst themselves then there would be no one left to protect ourselves from. Then they could begin to scale back their militaries and re-direct all of that money toward more important issues such as feeding the world’s hungry, educating the world, and providing health care to the world. Isn’t that a nice thought?
But the world’s rich will not allow this to happen. Once again greed is the deciding factor. The rich get richer off of these wars and the only thing they gain from it is being the richest people in the graveyard.
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