Ukraine Situation Has Brought Focus Back On America's 'Military-Industrial Complex' Prophesized by President Dwight Eisenhower in His Farewell Speech on Jan. 17, 1961

America is provoking war in Ukraine 1. Ukraine has a cultural and linguistic affinity with Russia. 2. Russia has said it did not intend to attack Ukraine. 3. Russia said the American reports of an impending Russian attack were a lie. 4. Russia wants to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO for its own security. 5. If Ukraine joins NATO, it will force Ukraine to wage war against Russia to recapture Crimea. New Age Islam Edit Desk An Ukrainian serviceman attends in a dugout on the frontline with the Russia-backed separatists near Avdiivka, Donetsk region, on February 2, 2022. PHOTO BY AFP CONTRIBUTOR#AFP /AFP via Getty Images --------- Mr Tarek Fateh’s analysis of the cold-war situation between Ukraine and Russia is only a reminder of the war-mongering of the US for making money by selling arms to the otherwise peace-loving nations. The war hysteria created by the US and NATO has pushed the two bordering nations to the brink of war. Ukraine and Russia may have some political disputes but both are trying to solve them peacefully but the US has been crying hoarse over the alleged concentration of Russian troops on its borders whereas the fact is that the Russian troops have been stationed on the border for a long time. This is not new so far as the US policy is concerned. The US was behind civil wars in many countries and behind wars between Iraq and Iran in the 80s. It used the same war hysteria and creating mutual fear and threat perception between the two bordering countries it is using in Ukraine-Russia tension. It has been selling arms and security equipment to the Arab countries by instilling fear of Iran among them though they don’t need them. It sold arms and ammunition worth billions of dollars to Pakistan by creating fear of India among the Pakistanis. The US is creating panic in Ukraine by insisting that Russia may invade Ukraine any day whereas Russia has made it clear that it has no plans to attack Ukraine and termed the US warning of an impending Russian attack a lie. To make Ukrainians believe in an impending Russian attack it has used the Russian attack and annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula Crimea but that was a different context. The real reason for American interference in Ukraine is that it wants Ukraine to join NATO so that it can play extend its political and economic influence in the region and prevent Russia’s growing influence in the region. Russia knows that as soon as Ukraine joins NATO, the US will provoke Ukraine to wage a war to reclaim and recapture Crimea and thus stir a war between Ukraine and Russia. To avoid that situation, Russia Putin has categorically said that it was mandatory for Russia to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO at any cost. Putin also accused the US of pumping weapons into Ukraine and demanded that NATO should pull its troops out of Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Putin is also worried about NATO’s military activity in Eastern Europe. Putin is also said to be of the view that Ukraine and Russia are one nation and is incensed at NATO’s attempt to set Ukrainians against Russia so that Russia’s interests can be harmed by the US and NATO. By airing the rumour that Russia was piling up weapons on the borders, NATO has started sending additional troops and weapons to Ukraine thus building up the possibility of war between the two countries. NATO countries are trying to establish military training centres in Ukraine. This would further give to military bases in the country that will give further strength to NATO countries in Ukraine even if Ukraine does not join NATO. In short, the history of the U.S. is replete with such military machinations against peace-loving nations to sell their weapons and expand their military industry. They have also provoked wars between nations who had disputes but those disputes could have been resolved diplomatically. America Is Provoking War in Ukraine By Tarek Fateh Trust the United States to create conditions for a war when none exists. Despite Ukraine insisting that it did not face an invasion by Russia, America insists that Moscow intends to do just that. It seems, after getting a bloody nose in Afghanistan after betraying U.S. allies by helping the Taliban take over Kabul. President Joe Biden needs a war to win in a theatre of his choosing where the terrain is not as harsh as Kandahar and where G.I. Joe could party on his days off duty. And then there is the business of America buying military hardware from its armament industry to keep them manufacturing armaments that enhance their bottom line and feed the stock markets. Perhaps that is the nature of America today, a “Military-Industrial Complex” prophesized by President Dwight Eisenhower in his farewell speech on Jan. 17, 1961. In a speech that lasted less than ten minutes, the celebrated hero of the American people, during and after the Second and after the Second World War raised the alarm warning Americans not to let the U.S. Government beckon to the call of the defence industry. He told a national radio audience: “A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment… [W]e have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience …. Yet we must comprehend its grave implications … In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will present.” Last years would see the American Military-Industrial Complex pushing the U.S. into wars as far apart as Vietnam and Iraq with invasions of Grenada and Cuba bringing the world to the edge of catastrophe. It did not matter whether it was JFK or LBJ, Bush Senior or Junior, proxies such as Turkey and Pakistan, Arab monarchies and African dictators, toppling Mosaddegh in Iran, eliminating Patrice Lumumba of Congo or Salvador Allende in Chile …. U.S. multinational corporations, worked hand-in-hand with the CIA while the Military-Industrial complex held any developing nation trying to get on their feet after centuries of European colonial rule. The latest U.S. venture is to edge Ukraine against Russia. Seems the simpletons in D.C. just don’t have a clue about either Crimea, its history and why in 1954 Moscow handed the peninsula from the Russian Republic to the Ukrainian Republic, considering both were part of one country. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky is currently urging the US, NATO, and other world nations to not overstate the probability of Russian invasions and explained how this can lead to destabilizing Kiev’s economy. As CNN described it: “Speaking to foreign reporters, Zelensky said he explained in phone calls to world leaders like US President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron that thought the threat from the Kremlin is “imminent and constant,” Ukrainians have “learned to live” with it since Moscow invaded in 2014.” While the US and NATO keep hammering the news that Russia has deployed over 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine, they fail to mention the fact that according to Zelensky, the Russians have had such troop concentration for a long time and that this is nothing new. “They [US and NATO] are saying tomorrow is the war. This means panic,” Zelensky said. This column is my cry in the wind. War may fatten the pockets of the people Eisenhower warned us about, but look at Afghanistan America. ... 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