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Chalmers Johnson: "We have to back down unless we are looking for real confrontation with Russia". Part 3

Chalmers Johnson: "It's amazing that we have gone this far pushing the Russians around ... They are the only people on earth who could literally destroy us."

Chalmers Johnson taught from 1962 to 1992 at the Berkeley and San Diego campuses of the University of California. From 1968 until 1972 he was a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency. He has written 17 books. His most recent releases are “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire” (Metropolitan Books, 2000) and “The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic” (Metropolitan, 2004) and his newest book, “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic" (Metropolitan, 2007). Chalmers has been a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, and The Nation among others, he appears in the 2005 prize-winning documentary film "Why We Fight".

See Part 1 at: http://current.com/items/89370666_massive_us_military_budget_passed

See Part 2 at: http://current.com/items/89373406_last_days_of_the_american_republic

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13 responses // The encirclement of Russia

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    i mean i guess you could have a printed from a more bias source... but really you did a good job. he may have some points in the first part but he has gone off the deep end with his books.

    outtheinside
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    Complete bollocks. I really don't think anyone is that damn stupid to nuke each other off the face of the earth. I have more faith in humankind than that. Moreover, The U.S. has been at the Russians throat and vice versa for years (Cold War). What's happened in all that?

    Nothing (serious).

    Hollow_Eyes
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    During the Cold War, the US wasn't encircling Russia. Today, that is what it is doing. Big mistake.

    Vierotchka
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    So much for the Reagan cold-war victory!

    Another short lived hallow victory for the conservative party- that is no longer even a glimpse of true conservatism!

    They are the war mongering, fear peddling, capitalistic-socialistic party for the elite society that has run our nation into the Imperialistic ditch!

    rubykey
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    The more you stir shit the worse it stinks.

    bigred5
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    During the cold war era, the military hawks from both sides were in cohoots for the sake of the world military industrial budget fraud business and a monopoly in politics. How did Reagan get to be President? CIA overthrow of it's ex-puppet the Shah and the capture of Americans in the Embassy was not enough. If it were not for thier old Comrade Brezjnev, invading Afghanistan a year before US elections, Reagan would not have gotten that 1-2% edge over Carter in most States.

    Now, the Russians are not willing to play ball with the US elite and it's military budget and politics. Instead the US elite is trying to foprce and manipulate the Russians into a military politics scenario through provocation. Never has there been more of a chance of real confrontation than now.

    US Bozo's will keep a pushing and pushing and what will be if the Russians have some different kind of new type of advanced weapons that make all missles obsolete and can liquidate all US military installations surgically in about 3 seconds, from the other side of the world?

    Do you think that the powers that be in the US are adequate enough to be trusted to not organize a first strike against Russia in the future? The US powers that be and there strategy seem to be proving themselves to be deep in belligerence and delerium. I have to agree with Chalmers! Thanks for coming forward!

    liberate_America
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    Russia has no need to attack us militarily. They have all the resources we lack, everything we had that once made us "great."

    We are a beached whale, and all Russia needs to do is watch as we die.

    Walks_in_Storms
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    haha Sarah Putin

    Big_Black
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    Well, the good thing that the people of the US have going for them in regards to Russia is that Russia, its people and powers all feel for the American people's plight. America was the symbol of freedom that most people in Russia believed in(until Yugoslavia was bombed by Clinton).

    What does that mean? Russia will try to avoid being provocated if at all possible, do you know what the US had to do to get Russia to send troops into Georgia? It was the attempted genocide of 100,000+ civillians in Southern Ossetia. Massive Georgian carpet bombing of the city with tens of thousands of shells and rockets in just a few hours before coming in with 100 tanks to finish leveling the city and wiping out civillians.

    Even if the insane American powers that be, the very twisted elite themselves will try to restore world power through world destruction and launch a first strike just to make a big power play, I'm sure the Russians will try to be as careful as they can in regards to cities and such places where civillians live. Military installations especially strategic ones and bunkers for the elite and those dreaded FEMA concentration camp infrastructures will be more likely targets. In the worst case scenario. The Russians would want to help the American people restore constitutional order and resist the neocon scum dictatorship. At any rate the Russians would never want to have to actually enter US soil, even if attacked by the US military first. They have enough territory problems and would really just prefer to live peacefully.

    That's my opinion, and I hope competent spy structures from both sides are reading this and taking advice. The brave new world will need officers that are ready to do the right thing! Please pay attention!

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    liberate_America

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