Senator McCain is trying to Ruin Russian-American Relations and start World War III in Europe, but Why?

By Scott Rohter, December 2016

Is it over Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea, or the ongoing conflict in Syria? Why does the warmongering Senator from Arizona, John McCain want to ruin Russian American relations and start World War III in Europe?

In order to understand what John McCain is doing and why we have to go back to something that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about in his Farewell Address to the Nation. He spoke about the “grave implications” posed by the “Military Industrial Complex”. President Eisenhower used this phrase to describe the dangers posed both to the Nation and to the world by the industrial and manufacturing sectors of our economy after the massive military buildup America underwent to defeat NAZI Germany and the Empire of Japan in World War II.

John McCain is an old cold war fighter circa the Vietnam War whose political views were shaped in an era of confrontation between opposing nuclear superpowers. Everything appears just as black and white to him today as it did back then in the early 1960s when the US and the USSR were political and military adversaries.. He sees the world purely in terms of good and evil. America is always good and Russia is always evil. That is how he saw the world during the Vietnam War. That is how he sees the world today, and that is how he will always see the world. His views on Russia are frozen in time somewhere between the gunboat diplomacy of Teddy Roosevelt, and the Cuban missile faced by John F. Kennedy Behind every political or military hotspot in the world John McCain sees a Russian bear. On top of this McCain is a huge supporter of the military industrial complex, the same military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about, and due to McCain’s considerable influence on Capitol Hill, Arizona which he represents in the United States Senate, is the home to much of America’s Military Industrial Complex. It is also John McCain’s power base.

John McCain believes in the old adage that the only good Communist is a dead Communist. The problem with that is he also believes Russians are still Communists and therefore they are still our enemies… John McCain often refers to Vladimir Putin in the most derogatory terms, calling him a “crook”, and the people who serve in his Administration or in the Russian Parliament (the Duma) either as “his cronies” or as “the Russian Mafia”. In one interview with Candy Crowley John McCain had the nerve to call Russia “a gas station masquerading as a country.” While this may seem funny at first, John McCain is not a standup comedian. He is a powerful United States Senator with considerable clout on Capitol Hill. His comments were completely inappropriate and condescending, entirely unprofessional, and thoroughly undiplomatic. In another more recent interview on Al-Jazeera Senator McCain referred to alleged Russian hacking of the Democrat National Committee as “an act of war.” These statements are even more provocative and more reckless than some of the tactless comments made by Barack Obama over the last eight years concerning Vladimir Putin and Russia. I am sure that comments of this nature are not winning either of them any friends inside of the Kremlin nor making restoring Russian-American relations any easier.

Here is the truth if you can handle it… Russia has been our ally during two World Wars. It has never started a war with any modern European or Western nation, nevertheless it has been invaded twice by western powers … once in the 19th century under Napoleon and once in the 20th Century under Adolph Hitler. These incursions led to the deaths of millions of Russians and they left a permanent scar on the Russian national psyche that we must also never forget. Let us always take into consideration the Russian perspective whenever America decides to do something of global significance in the world. If it wasn’t for the Russians we wouldn’t have defeated Germany in World War II and Europeans might all be speaking German today. If American foreign policy is going to be successful in the world then we must consider the Russian viewpoint. Our leaders have to stop belittling, scapegoating, sanctioning, or otherwise trying to marginalize Russia. We need to treat Russia’s leaders with the same respect that we wish them to treat our leaders.

The two most important heirs and successors to the ancient Roman world are Russia, and the United States of America… It is time that we stop fighting each other. We have far more in common than we have that divides us.

It is not necessary for twenty eight other countries in Europe which are also heirs to the Greco-Roman World and culture to surrender their national sovereignty to the E.U. They just need to learn how to get along with each other in the same way that Russians and Americans need to learn how to get along with each other. There is no need for a European Union, and there is no need for any kind of a New World Order. We simply have to stop fighting with each other, and turn our attention toward existential dangers which threaten us all. The greatest of these dangers is the existential threat posed to the West by Islam…

In the 15th century Islam defeated what was then left of the Roman Empire which was then located in modern day Turkey. If we aren’t careful today Islam is going to defeat us once again and there is no place left to retreat to. Russia and the United States need to stop wasting valuable time and resources fighting each other. Vladimir Putin knows this. That is why he didn’t particularly like the idea of Hillary Clinton becoming our next President. Putin wants to improve relations with the United States and there was no prospect of that happening if Hillary Clinton had won the election. Barack Obama and virtually every member of Congress regardless of Party affiliation wants to ramp up the rhetoric and escalate the confrontation until it leads to actual hostilities between our two countries. They don’t realize that we have to join forces with Russia and defend ourselves from the common threat posed to both countries by Islam. To do anything other than this is to be just plain stupid, and speaking of stupid…

John McCain was just retiring from the United States Navy in 1981 when Ronald Reagan was elected America’s 40th President. Back in those days the U.S. and the USSR were still on a Cold War footing, but within a few years of taking the oath of office President Reagan had re-established a cordial, friendly relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev and these two leaders solidly placed our two countries on a peaceful path of coexistence instead of blindly following down the path of confrontation like their predecessors had been doing ever since the end of World War II.

The Reagan policy of détente and peaceful coexistence with Russia was not without its detractors though even as it is now. It did not set well with many members of the Military Industrial Complex, nor with die hard Russophobes like John McCain, nor did it set well with powerful special interest groups which make America’s foreign policy like the Hoover Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. The Russian Reset which was orchestrated by Ronald Reagan definitely had its enemies on Capitol Hill.

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