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Last week, the Kremlin told some U.S. Embassy staffers to leave the country by the end of January just a day before diplomats were supposed to meet as tensions between Washington and Moscow continue to escalate, a report said.
Washington said the diplomats were not expelled, but instead reached their three-year limit to work in the country. Reuters reported that Moscow will essentially enforce the same rule that the U.S. put into place over a year ago.
“Our American partners have forced us to play that way,” Maria Zakharova, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said, according to The Wall Street Journal. “We have long and persistently tried to reason with them and still direct them to some kind of constructive solution to the issue, but they made their choice.” (See “BIDEN HITS RUSSIA WITH SANCTIONS,” “RUSSIA’S PUTIN WON’T BEND TO U.S. TENSIONS. WHAT NEXT?” and “BIDEN MEETS WITH PUTIN: COLD WAR TO CONTINUE.”)
The Trends Journal has reported for months about the strained relations between Washington and Moscow, even before President Biden, who called President Putin a killer, was in the White House. (See “PUTIN ACKNOWLEDGES BIDEN’S ANTI-RUSSIAN RHETORIC” and “BIDEN HITS RUSSIA WITH SANCTIONS.”)
Zakharova accused the U.S. of violating international diplomatic norms by enforcing such a rule. The U.S. diplomatic staff in the country is down to 120 from 1,200 in early 2017. The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is the only operational facility in the country after the ones in Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg closed due to staffing restraints.
Russia said the move to expel the diplomats was in retaliation for the U.S. move to expel 50 Russian diplomats by June 2022 because Washington will not extend their visas.
Yuri Ryabkov, the Russian deputy foreign minister, accused the U.S. of just going “head-on, continuing attempts to exert pressure.”
“That language of ultimatums that the Americans also use in other spheres of our relations is unacceptable for us,” he said. “We will respond in kind.”
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Rumor (history?) has it that the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia, which began in 1947, ended in 1991. But rather than seeking Peace on Earth and keeping relationships respectful, most of America’s politicians and all of the military-industrial complex—and their western counterparts (i.e., “allies”)—have not stopped waging the Cold War.
As we have been reporting since the end of the Cold War—from America’s Gulf War, Kosovo War, Afghan War, Iraq War… to its military interventions in Somalia, Libya, etc., plus its 800 military bases in 70 countries—Russia is a minor war-mongering nation compared to the U.S. track record of killing millions and stealing trillions from its taxpayers to wage these wars.
And, as we have reported in detail since the so-called “Russiagate” was launched by the Democratic Party and its media Presstitutes immediately following Trump’s win of the 2016 election, there has not been one shred of hard evidence proving Russia interfered with the election.
Yet, the drama continues, and most people buy it, just as most have swallowed other lies sold to them by their governments over the centuries. “Remember the Main”?
Indeed, America was an ally of Russia in World War II and would not have achieved victory when it did without them. Yet, following World War II, Russia became its enemy, while Japan and Germany—for which over 400,000 Americans died fighting—became U.S. allies and business partners.
Cold War Continues
Earlier this year, President Biden reversed former President Trump’s decision to withdraw 12,500 troops from Germany. Trump called on the withdrawal after Berlin failed to spend two percent of its GDP on defense. The review said the U.S. should strengthen the U.S. presence there to keep Russia at bay.
TRENDPOST: The same lunacy and war hypocrisy is evident with America’s war against Vietnam.
The United States, as they have with Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, etc., launched a deadly war against Vietnam in 1964 based on lies…The Gulf of Tonkin lie, which Gerald Celente wrote about in his best selling book “Trends 2000” (Warner Books, 1997).
Aside from poisoning the nation by dropping some 20 million gallons of herbicides, including agent-orange on its people and bombing much of the nation into devastation, the American people were taught to hate those Vietnamese “commies.”
Washington warned that if Vietnam fell to the communists, like falling dominoes, one nation after another in East Asia would fall into communism… and those falling dominoes would hit the shores of California.
According to Vietnam, as many as two million civilians were killed and 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers died in the war. The U.S. estimates between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese fighters died in the war that took the lives of some 58,000 American young men… wounding physically and mentally hundreds of thousands more.
But now, with the same communist party in charge following America’s defeat, Vietnam is now a great country to do business with; a place where manufacturers can get products made cheaply and mark up the selling prices to make greater profit margins. In fact, Vietnam is the second largest exporter of clothing and shoes to America.
Hate those Chinese Commies
The same propaganda was sold to the Americans to hate those Chinese commies who hid behind the bamboo curtain… until it was time to do business.
We note this to not only express our disdain for wars based on lies that are launched by psychopaths but to illustrate how the bottom line, not morality, is the true meaning of America’s political system.