JORGE MAJFUD Russia and NATO: the world's most dangerous game

Jorge Majfud, 5/4/2022

Translated by Lena Bloch

 While with one hand, the world's major media are constantly reproducing the horrifying images of hundreds of corpses scattered in Bucha, Ukraine - with the other hand they are stoking the fires of an escalation of war that could lead us to a nuclear holocaust in a course of months.

 

Tasos Anastasiou, Greece

Whoever committed the massacre (it seems most likely to have been Russian soldiers), it will go down in the annals of history as an unforgivable crime. But I think the smoke is obscuring the horizon. We can't see where we come from and worse, we can't see where we are going. Although I have repeated it in different media since long before the war, wrong or not, I will focus on these two sides of the road that the fire does not let you see.

Let's start with a simple and more immediate question: instead of continuing the endless, dangerous, and notoriously useless game of arbitral sanctions, why not impose the obligation to negotiate a resolution to the conflict between Russia and NATO once and for all and before innocent people continue to die?

A reasonable solution would be the dissolution of NATO in exchange for Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine, but that would be labeled radical. The owners of the business do not negotiate.

There are many other options, such as the most obvious and pragmatic one, i.e. Ukraine's neutral status (with provincial autonomy of the Donbas), which is where it should start instead of provoking Russia by integrating Ukraine into NATO and deploying missiles four minutes away from Moscow.

The neutrality or non-membership of NATO has always been the case of Austria, Finland, Sweden and other neighboring countries, some of which have just expressed the possibility of joining NATO, showing where the business of the old war merchants is going and demonstrating, once again, that the fight against communism - and not only in Latin America - has been nothing more than the perfect excuse to maintain geopolitical dominance and protect corporate, class and capital interests.

What do they intend, apart from expanding militarization more and more in a world, now that they have run out of the excuse of communism and, more recently, of Islamic terrorism, which in Afghanistan alone left eight trillion dollars in profits to the big companies specialized in "security"?

Do they think that having Russia surrounded by that anachronistic and mafia-like NATO organization would make Europe and the world a safer place?

You have to be under the influence of alcohol to forget that we are talking about one of the two atomic superpowers and imagine such stupidity. Or such wickedness of organized crime. If it were really about "security", if they were really sincere about "the right to defend themselves" that countries have, they would never have tried to break this order which, judging by the ongoing war, has not made the world, much less Ukraine. safer, but quite the opposite.

Of course, those who have that bargaining power are not being splashed with the blood of Russians and Ukrainians but, on the contrary, are doing their business, so it may take a few weeks, if not months, for them to stop shedding crocodile tears over the whiskey and get down to serious negotiations.

KHAZA MOKHAMMEDThe west and creation of nazism

Khaza Mokhammed, 11/3/2022

 Khaza Mokhammed (1989) is a Russian linguist, PhD in Classics Romance philology from Moscow Region State University, author of many articles in Russian language on middle french Grammar and Latin language.

“History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history”- Hegel 

 A brief  Marxist Leninist analysis of western imperialism  

To understand the Marxist approach to the question of imperialism, unfortunately, it is not enough to read Lenin's work ‘Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism’. For all the importance of this book, it actually has a rather narrow subject matter. Lenin's goal, as can be seen from the text of this book, was to analyse from a Marxist standpoint how imperialism differs from the pre-imperialist stage in the development of capitalism, to show the decadent, reactionary character of imperialism as a stage in the decay of capitalism, and to criticize opportunist tendencies in the analysis of imperialism (in particular, Kautsky's theory). But there is no complete description of imperialism as a world system from the point of view of Marxist political economy in the book, although Lenin, of course, proceeds from the fact that imperialism is a world system. And if you pay attention to some of his later texts and speeches, it becomes clear that Lenin still had a much deeper and more holistic understanding of imperialism than he presented in this book.

An attempt to give a large-scale analysis of world imperialism as a whole with its internal laws was made by Rosa Luxemburg in her book ‘The Accumulation of Capital’, but this attempt was unsuccessful, and Rosa's theory turned out to be completely false.

The western imperialism would invade a sovereign nation, overthrow its legitimate government under the pretext of democracy, turn  great civilizations into rubble as in the case of Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yugoslavia.

Western Imperialism and  Nazism

In 1934, the Poles signed a non-aggression pact with the Germans. The Declaration was Hitler's first foreign policy success, which secured the eastern borders and allowed him to focus on expanding the western ones.

Polish leader Jozef Pilsudski and German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels

The Polish leadership hoped to make friends with an aggressive neighbour and found common interests in the division of Czechoslovakia. However, neither the non-aggression pact nor the alliance with England and France helped the Poles: on April 28, 1939, Germany broke the agreement, and on September 1, Great Britain declared war. The Anglo-German Naval Agreement, signed in 1935, allowed Germany to acquire a navy. Prior to that, it was banned due to defeat in the First World War. As a result of the negotiations, the British allowed Hitler to build 5 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers, 21 cruisers and 64 destroyers. These forces equalized the Nazi state with Italy and France, and also gave an advantage over the naval forces of the USSR.

The Modern Nazism

The fact that Ukraine, in the three and a half years after the Maidan, has turned into a country of victorious surrealism, where the level of lawlessness has been elevated to the rank of state madness, is clear today, probably, to any sane person.

In fact, Ukraine today is a country where people are in power who preach this disgusting misanthropic ideology quite openly. Moreover, they even seem to take credit for it.

 Europe does not care about the “reincarnation” modern  Neo Nazis in Ukraine. Doesn’t condemn torchlight processions under banners with swastikas… State terror Desecration of graves and monuments doesn’t  hold the Neo  Nazis accountable  – for burning people in the Odessa House of Trade Unions shelling of Donbass and political assassinations.

Former U.S. senator John McCain With the Ukrainian Neo Nazis