by ALFREDO JALIFE-RAHME
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev (left) and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The return of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – grand energy czar – as presidential candidate marks Russia’s geostrategic toughening stance in the face of the unraveling of savage capitalism and the threats of a new world war by the Israeli-Anglo-American financial circuits.
Such tightening was to be expected after the countless affronts made against Russia and China by what still remains of the financially crippled “West”: oil conquest of Libya, installation of a NATO missile defense system in Russian’s “near abroad”, provocative sale of US arms to Taiwan; forthcoming US Africom wars for oil and gas, as was innocently expounded by Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of State [1].
The outrageous disinformation campaign by the Israeli-Anglo-American media oligopoly (eg. the Rothschild-Murdoch duo via Fox News and Sky News) contrived a fantasy narrative depicting an intractable confrontation between outgoing President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin with overtones of a civil war and a new balkanization of Russia.
The campaign went so far as to unabashedly flaunt its choice: Medvedev, the “modernist” and pro-Western lawyer willing to open the succulent oil market to NATO transnationals, against the chauvinistic and anachronistic Putin, a former KGB “spy” thirsty for autocratic power.
Resorting to a gross caricature of Russia’s domestic correlation of forces and faithful to its own oil interests, the mendacious corporate-owned media attempted to distort the reality which today explodes in their faces.
No one is claiming that the Putin-Medvedev tandem (in that order) is inevitable or that it symbolizes the Russian two-headed eagle, but it is undeniable that this country – a nuclear geostrategic superpower on a par with the United States, that miraculously arose from the 1991 geopolitical gloom in which Yeltsin-Gorbachev had engulfed it – has made its comeback since 2000 thanks to Putin’s leadership.
It is Putin who engineered Russia’s geostrategic resurrection, thanks primarily to the recovery of its hydrocarbon reserves. The great Russian nation is perfectly aware of this.
If their furious reactions are any indication, the financial circuits of Great Britain’s neoliberal oligarchical plutocracy, whose utmost mouthpiece is the triplet The Financial Times / The Economist / BBC (as acknowledged by Jeremy Browne, Cameron’s cabinet minister), reacted vehemently against the Putin’s sure return to power since it undermines their geopolitical interests in Eurasia.
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