Anders Fogh “Foghorn” Rasmussen Rattles NATO's Saber Again

The Secretary General of NATO, the Danish reactionary and former prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is sabotaging the latest Russian effort at resolving the Western-created Ukraine “crisis.” [1]

Rasmussen has contemptuously brushed off Putin's call for a ceasefire and negotiated settlement in the Ukrainian civil war as not sincere. Rasmussen prefers creating a NATO “rapid reaction force” and stationing it in the Baltic states, which would do absolutely nothing to resolve the Ukraine imbroglio. In fact, it would only encourage the Kiev regime in its intransigence. Rasmussen wants Europe, in the midst of recession (and depressions in Spain and Greece, with the attendant mass misery) to direct its economic resources to increasing the militaries of the NATO states.

Both the U.S. and UK government radio propaganda networks, NPR and the BBC, treated us to Rasmussen's belligerent remarks.

Here are some of the latest bayings of the U.S.' barking dog, Rasmussen, as he opened a NATO get-together in Wales, to which nominal Ukrainian president Petro O. “Candyman Billionaire” Poroshenko was invited, even though Ukraine isn't a NATO member (yet):

“Russia has attacked Ukraine.”

Lumping Russia in with the Islamofascist “Islamic State,” Rasmussen vowed, "We will take important steps to counter these threats."

Then he demanded Russian surrender as the road to “peace,” just as “peace” is Israeli code for “Palestinian surrender and subjugation.” But he made it sound oh-so-reasonable:

"Let me stress we welcome all efforts to find a peaceful solution ... (but) what counts is what is actually happening on the ground," Rasmussen said.

"We continue to call on Russia to pull back its troops from Ukrainian borders, stop the flow of weapons and fighters into Ukraine, stop the support for armed militants in Ukraine and engage in a constructive political process.

"That would be a genuine effort to facilitate a peaceful solution," he said.

In other words, completely abandon the eastern Ukrainians, cut them off so their resistance can be crushed and the armed separatists annihilated, and then they'll be a “peaceful solution,” namely the conquest of eastern Ukraine by the Kiev cabal. Sounds like a plan, Rassy!

Recall that before Russia intervened, the “offer” the Kiev regime publicly made to the separatists was this: put down your arms, and then we'll negotiate. Literally, that's what Poroshenko “offered.” Guess what would have been “negotiated” once the rebels surrendered? Do you prefer death by firing squad or by hanging? Remember, the Kiev cabal is STILL calling the separatists “terrorists” (as one of their apparatchiks just did a couple of days ago on the BBC radio show “Hard Talk”). What do you do with terrorists? You kill them. Besides, the Kiev cabal sees themselves as the legitimate government of All Ukraine, therefore the separatists are traitors- another capital crime. And the Kiev cabal has already shown its ruthlessness in bloodily crushing opponents, not just in the systematic shelling of cities it doesn't control, killing over 2,000 civilians so far, but also in the 40 or so dissidents its street goons burned alive in a building a few months ago. (Even hear what became of the “investigation” that was promised after that?) And the Russians just found the body and burned out car of a Russian journalist who went missing in Ukraine a month ago when the column of Ukrainian refugees was was accompanying was attacked by Kiev's military forces. Don't hear any moaning and gnashing of teeth in Western media about THAT murder of a journalist! (Unlike with the “Islamic State” executions of two American hostage-reporters in recent days.)

                                                                              

                                                                       

U.S. lapdog Anders Fogh Rasmussen bares his fangs and growls at Russia.

1] To U.S.-bloc political elites, the “crisis” in Ukraine is that Russia doesn't roll over and play dead while the U.S. and its lackey-nations rip the country, with its vital Russian naval base on the Black Sea, out of the Russian sphere of influence and enlist it as a member in the anti-Russian military alliance, NATO. The real crisis in Ukraine is the killing of over 2,000 civilians by Kiev's military incursions and bombardments in the eastern part of the country, and the creation of a million “displaced people” (presumably temporary refugees, although some will turn out to be permanent). 

Some of these Ukrainians have fled across the border into Russia, creating a burden for that nation. So that is another Russian interest in settling the unrest and conflict in Ukraine. Naturally this interest goes unmentioned in Western media propaganda, which instead portrays Russia as an invading power intent on conquering Ukraine and then moving on to occupy the three Baltic states and even other states beyond.

The U.S.-bloc has consistently rejected every Russian compromise offer, including before the U.S. engineered the overthrow of the Yanukovych regime, when Russia offered to enter into a three-way economic arrangement between the EU, Ukraine, and Russia. When the EU stiff-armed Russia, Putin made clear to Yanukovych that Ukraine would face economic retaliation if it cut off Russia and entered into a sweetheart trade deal with the EU, so Yanukovych didn't go through with signing the EU treaty. For this “crime,” he was overthrown.

This demented propaganda is a baseless hoax, but it's hopeless to inform the brainwashed American and European populations of this. The only check on U.S.-EU aggressiveness is the unwillingness of their publics to support any war generally. This limits the U.S. and its NATO underlings to “special operations,” sneaky killings and so on, and to supplying and “advising” proxy forces such as the Kurds in northern Iraq (who deserve support, but that is not why the U.S. is giving it to them).