Peter Hitchens in his latest work,
The Broken Compass ( re-issued as The Cameron Delusion 2010 ), wrote scathingly of the new consensus in politics and diplomacy in Britain as regards the survival of NATO and it's expansion (
preface viii ),
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, bizarrely, continues to exist despite the complete disappearance of the Soviet opponent is was meant to deter.
When Russia recently threatened Georgia, battalions of commentators and politicians in what is still, for lack of a better term, called the West behaved as if this squalid and unimportant territorial squabble between unlovable governments was comparable to the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia forty years before.
Yet it was wholly different. Russia is no longer an ideological state, externally or internally. It no longer seeks global power and in some ways is less interested in the minds of its citizens than are 'Western' countries which demand increasing obedience to the formulas of political correctness. In Russia, you may hold what private opinions you like. Just do not challenge the state. In Britain your private opinions may be reported to the authorities and get you into trouble, even if you believe your actions are part of normal life and you have no wish to challenge the state
The paradox is one of the most alarming facts about the modern world, and is unfortunately too little understood. This is because of the growing conventional wisdom of a 'New Cold War' is taking place between tyrannical Russia and free Britain. This is untrue and pernicious. The invented threat abroad is used to justify a stronger state at home.
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Peter Hitchens in his latest work, The Broken Compass ( re-issued as The Cameron Delusion 2010 ), wrote scathingly of the new consensus in politics and diplomacy in Britain as regards the survival of NATO and it's expansion ( preface viii ),
I don't share his politics but I have a lot of time for Peter Hitchens. He's always worth reading even when you disagree with him and he is a libertarian.
ReplyDeleteThis is so true. Britain jails a man for posting videos that may "incite terrorism"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/02/25/britain.terror.videos/index.html
Russian expats in Britain protested the jailing of Boris Stomakhin who called for Russians to be killed. Classic double standard.
The New Cold War is a phoney as this “war on terrorism” or even the original Cold war and the ideological state is not Russia but Britain home to international terrorism and organized crime where MI6 created international terrorists network that fuels terrorism in the Balkans, North Caucasus and Eurasia runs through London.
ReplyDeleteThe Bosnia war and Kosovo wars was part of a phased strategy creating and terrorist pipeline and European network to support Chechen jihadists where literally same organizations and propaganda used in Bosnia is being used against the Russians in Chechnya.
Georgia and the regime there is a puppet state installed in a Soros/CIA coup who prior to Sakashvilli becoming president was the managing director of a CIA USAID sub-contractor NGO which I think was called The Liberty Institute.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is admitted that the Georgian state which comprises mainly of Israel, British and US military apparatus is facilitating and supporting Chechen and international terrorism in the North Caucasus even holding a jihad conference in Tbilisi in 2009 attended by Doku Umarov and international jihadist leaders and senior Georgian officials facilitating travel of jihadist from Mid East countries and training in Georgian military camps.
http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=2320
http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=2323
Not that it really matters as Chechen terrorist/militants since 1990/91 have been trained and supported in military camps and MI6 connected private security firms in Britain, Turkey, British installed regime in Azerbaijan, US and other countries.