|
Pentagon Alarmed Russia Is Gaining
'Sympathy' Among US Troops
By
Tyler Durden
December 09, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- An alarmist headline out of
US state-funded media arm Voice
of America:
"Pentagon Concerned Russia Cultivating
Sympathy Among US Troops". The story begins
as follows:
Russian efforts to weaken the West
through a relentless campaign of
information warfare may be starting to
pay off, cracking a key bastion of the
U.S. line of defense: the military.
While most Americans still see Moscow as
a key U.S. adversary, new
polling suggests that view is changing,
most notably among the households of
military members.
Remember when Russia bombed Belgrade back to
the middle ages, invaded and occupied Iraq,
started an eighteen-year long quagmire in
Afghanistan, created anarchy in Libya,
funded and armed al-Qaeda in Syria, and
expanded its bases right up to US borders?
Neither do we.
Perhaps American soldiers are simply sick
and tired of the US military and
intelligence machine's
legacy of ashes across
the globe and recognize the inconvenient
fact that Russia most often has been
on the complete opposite side of
Washington's disastrous regime change wars.
|
Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
|
Nothing to see here...
The second annual Reagan National
Defense Survey, completed in late
October, found nearly half of
armed services households questioned,
46%, said they viewed Russia as ally.
Overall, the survey found 28% of
Americans identified Russia as an ally,
up from 19% the previous year.
...While a majority, 71% of all
Americans and 53% of military
households, still views Russia as an
enemy, the spike in pro-Russian
sentiment has defense officials
concerned.
—VOA
Perhaps US military households are also
smart enough to know the Cold War is long
over, and only bad things can come from a
direct confrontation with Russia, not to
mention that involvement in proxy war in
Ukraine has nothing to do with America's
national defense or to "protect and
defend the Constitution".
To
be expected, the VOA's presentation of the
new poll which finds more service members
are 'sympathetic' to Russia is heavy on the
supposed 'Trump-Russia nexus' narrative and
emphasizes an uptick in Kremlin propaganda,
while failing to acknowledge a failed legacy
of 'endless wars' and destabilizing US
influence across the globe.
The
poll itself
claimed
the changing numbers were “predominantly
driven by Republicans who have responded to
positive cues from [U.S.] President [Donald]
Trump about Russia.”
“There is an effort, on the part of Russia,
to flood the media with disinformation
to sow doubt and confusion,”
DoD spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Carla
Gleason was cited in the VOA report as
saying. Ah yes, a few Kremlin-sponsored
Facebook posts and Trump's expressed desire
for better relations with Putin, and
suddenly the military too is
'pro-Putin'! apparently.
Perhaps the "doubt and confusion" comes via
trillion dollar endless wars of regime
change and pointless occupations which cost
American lives? In other words, this is not
a 'Russia problem' at all, but lies too
close to home for Washington pundits and
pollsters to admit.
Finally, we should ask, would US military
members see in today's foreign policy
adventurism anything remotely
resembling John Quincy Adams' famous 1821
admonition?
"But
she goes not abroad, in search of monsters
to destroy. She is the well-wisher
to the freedom and independence of all. She
is the champion and vindicator only of her
own. She will commend the general cause by
the countenance of her voice, and the
benignant sympathy of her example. She well
knows that by once enlisting under other
banners than her own, were they even the
banners of foreign independence, she would
involve herself beyond the power of
extrication, in all the wars of interest and
intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and
ambition, which assume the colors and usurp
the standard of freedom. The
fundamental maxims of her policy would
insensibly change from liberty to force....
She might become the dictatress of the
world. She would be no longer the
ruler of her own spirit..."
This article was originally published by
"ZeroHedge"
- -
Do you agree or
disagree? Post your comment here |
