The Perils of Russophobia

By A Guy Called LULU on Fri, 12/30/2016 - 11:25am |

Anyone too young to remember HUAC and the destruction the Cold War wrought should study up. We are a few short steps away from both.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/the-perils-of-russophobia/

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I rather object to the "Russophobia" label. Russia is a competitor superpower that destroyed its breakaway province - twice, has held Ukraine and Europe under gas blackmail several times, has assassinated dissidents living abroad and at home, and has a well-documented hacking andinfiltration capability. It's not a "phobia" to assess a threat within its relative magnitude - not inflating, nor ignoring. Though in this case I did underestimate the real damage Russia might actually dare do to us. Still, I findit well within their capabilities and their desires and M.O.

Am I blaming Russia for AIDS or global warming or beehives globally producing less honey? No. Am I taking US intelligence agencies *somewhat* at their word, especially as regards *known, public, months-long leaks*? Sure. Did the Russians do it beyond absolute doubt (including doubt of US intelligence's credibility)? No, there will always be doubts in anything spook-related. Is it the most believalble theory including evidence and circumstances and motives presented so far? Sure.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 12/30/2016 - 2:07pm

LuLu... HUAC?

I watched this just yesterday...

December 29, 2016 | Democracy Now

Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Ask Obama to Exonerate Their Mother in Nuclear Spy Case

Watch here It Begins at 48:01 (10 mins)

Transcript - Snippet

ROBERT MEEROPOL: So, when Seton Hall took a look and sort of deconstructed this trial in a 26-page, very painstaking report—that we did not commission, this was independent—what they basically said was she was used as an afterthought. She was there to coerce cooperation from my father. And that’s the only reason they did it.

And what’s particularly dangerous about this—it’s not just about my personal desire to exonerate my mother, to have President Obama, before he leaves office, essentially nullify the verdict in that case against my mother, but instead to demonstrate that if the government is going to create evidence and facilitate the conviction of someone in a capital case for political purposes, this is a threat to civil society. This is the way the judiciary is used in authoritarian societies. It is incompatible with a free and open society. So we’re not just doing this for ourselves. We’re doing it to preserve, I would say, freedom in this country, in general, and the right to dissent, because the courts can be used as devastating instruments of repression, as they were during the McCarthy period. And we can fear in the coming years that this may happen again.

Watch here It Begins at 48:01

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sat, 12/31/2016 - 1:09am

Here is another voice suggesting that we quit poking the bear. Not just quit poking, but actually trying to give diplomacy a chance. Weird.

by A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 9:59am

So our message after the breakup of the Soviet Union is "but you still belong to Russia"? Ukraine hwas no right to closer membership in the EU, eternally a Russian satellite? Russia's system of exploiting its resources while failing to grow in other sectors is the model and fate for all C.I.S. countries in perpetuity?

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 10:38am