when it comes to Russia and Putin, McCoy isn’t the real McCoy… 

Alfred W. McCoy is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is the author of "In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power".

Previous books include: "Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation" (University of Wisconsin, 2012),  "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (American Empire Project)",  "Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State", and "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade".

This is an impressive list of anti-Empire works… Yet when it comes to Russia and Putin, McCoy isn’t the real McCoy… 

"We speak with historian Alfred McCoy about how the Russian invasion of Ukraine could possibly end. McCoy argues the European Union is essentially funding the war by buying energy from Russia, and says sanctions will not deter Russian President Putin from war so long as his economy continues supplying energy for the world. McCoy says the European Court of Human Rights should instead force the EU to start deducting a portion of regular natural gas payments to Russia and reroute this money to a Ukraine compensation fund. Russia’s loss of energy income could incentivize Putin to roll back the invasion, says McCoy. His latest piece for TomDispatch is headlined “How to End the War in Ukraine: A Solution Beyond Sanctions.””

This BULLSHIT comes from DemocracyNow! 

By now, we should worry. McCoy is WORKING FOR THE EMPIRE and he may not know it. This is the way the disinformation from the Empire works. IT EVENTUALLY ENSNARES YOU.

Let me explain… You have discovered that the Empire is dirty, undemocratic and pushes disinformation like a truck full of bricks. PUTIN AND RUSSIA are doing our job of keeping the EMPIRE IN CHECK. But our media, under the influence of the CIA and the other US “intelligence agencies” are building mud-houses out of these bricks.

Unfortunately, someone like McCoy should know better: most (if not all) of the atrocious “war crimes” have been committed by the Azovs — the Ukrainian battalions that are “Banderites” Nazis.

So in short, Putin is doing us a service to expose OUR dirty Empire in front of our eyes. Putin only wants three things to implement Russia’s security:

— No NATO in Ukraine

— The Donbass Republics to be autonomous IN Ukraine - as per the Minsk Agreements I and II.

— Crimea to be Russian as it was prior 1954 and by popular vote of the Crimean people.

THAT’S IT….

But the Empire has used devious means, including little shit Zelenskyyyy-y not to accept any of these demands. No even consider them.

The Empire set a trap for Putin: “the Ukrainian army was about to attack the Donbass region." Whether this information is correct or not, THIS IS WHAT RUSSIA UNDERSTOOD AND saw on their spy satellites: about 60,000 Ukrainian troops along the Donbass border.

the Empire HAS BEEN playing dirty — NOT RUSSIA.

On this subject McCoy is an idiot…. DemocracyNow! should see the McCoy rubbish…. but then, the amazing position to the question "are you with the Empire or with Russia", finds a too easy stupid answer….

So why does the Empire refuses to allow the Security of Russia and let the people of Donbass choose their future?

This is a long story and it goes back to the Heartland — a subject we already have mentioned several times for nearly the last 10 years on this site.

More on this subject:

In Current Concerns No. 5 of 1 March 2022 Eberhard Hamer analysed the background to the Ukraine conflict.

  Russia, personified by Vladimir Putin, unfortunately saw no other way out after years of systematic provocation and humiliating breaches of promise. The ongoing armament and incorporation of the Russian-murdering Azov regiments, the announcement of the conquest of Crimea and the Donbass, the massing of troops on the ceasefire line to the Donbass, the request for nuclear weapons, the covert activity of US and NATO military advisers, the existence of biological weapons laboratories, etc. left no choice from the Russian military’s point of view. They did not want to be completely encircled and defenceless and hoped for a blitzkrieg as well as a relenting of the USA and its puppets in Ukraine. Therefore, in contrast to the US-NATO wars, the Russians spared infrastructure (electricity, telecommunications, transport and water) where it was strategically responsible. They could have easily interrupted the railway connections and arrested Mr. Zelensky by means of a commando execution, but they still did not want and do not want martyrs. The question is: for how much longer?

  This strategy is being prevented by the USA and its vassals in NATO through the supply of weapons, the deployment of the hate-filled Azov regiments, reconnaissance aid and an unprecedented media campaign. The psychological warfare – above all with false-flag atrocities – in which the USA and NATO are masters, has created mass hysteria that goes as far as ostracising Russian culture. Heinrich Heine already warned: “Where books are burned, people will soon be burned.”

  The Western media campaign reminds me of Josef Göbbels’ speech of 18 February 1943 in the Sportpalast in Berlin, where he asked the 15,000 people gathered the demagogic question: “Do you want total war? Do you want it – if necessary, more total and more radical than we can even imagine today?”

  This “total war” is now being accepted by continuously intensifying the economic war against Russia (called “sanctions”) and humiliating Russia by flatly disregarding its understandable and justified proposals for peace and its security and by massively arming against Russia.

  One of the smartest military analysts, the editor-in-chief of the oldest military magazine in the world, Brigadier Mag. Dr Wolfgang Peischel, has always admonished that one should not project one’s world of thoughts into the opponent, but rather think one’s way into it in order to come to a reasonable decision.

  If we now put ourselves in the position of the Russians, then a desperate liberation strike against the ongoing encirclement and defamation is obvious. In military comparison with the other world powers, Russia has only the advantage of its highly armed nuclear forces. Do we Western Europeans, in suicidal blindness, want to provoke their use?
  Let us finally think! Sapere aude! And also understand the backgrounds.

  Sir Halford Mackinder, who is still compulsory literature in US military academies, developed the so-called Heartland Theory, in which he shows that the domination of Eastern Europe (“hub area”) and the blocking of a connection of Western Europe with Russia prevents the emergence of a power bloc rich in technology and raw materials stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Then the maritime-based world domination strategy of England and its successor, the USA, would have played out (“The geographical pivot of history”, 1904).

  This policy pervades the entire 20th century and the 21st century that has begun.

  Another source for recognising the continuous building of artificial antagonisms – especially with regard to Russia – are the two books by Thomas P. M. Barnett from 2003 and 2005 “The Pentagon’s New Map – War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century” and “The Pentagon’s New Map – Blueprint for Action”. The Pentagon’s concern that with the end of the Soviet threat (end of the Cold War) the funds for the European and North Asian bases will be cut is explained there. Therefore, new threatening scenarios and reasons for war are needed. We have allowed ourselves to be drawn into this strategy of the military-industrial and financial establishment of the USA and its military arm, NATO, which is dying without a built-up opponent, and we have gone along with the provocation of the Russians to the death instead of contributing to a balanced, fair peace. Since the USA has not been affected in its own territory by all the wars it has sparked, the warmongering elites still think that this will continue – especially that a war with Russia would occur in Europe. But this is a blatant misjudgement, because desperate strikes by the Russians would be intercontinental.

  But the main devastating damage would hit Europe.

  Do we want to allow ourselves to be drawn into this danger instead of listening to and acting on the increasingly urgent ways to peace?

  I am thinking in particular of the proposals made before the start of the war in Ukraine within the framework of the International Progress Organization headed by the experienced Professor Dr Dr hc. mult. Hans Köchler. By accepting the triad of “perpetual neutrality, non-alignment and federal structure”, all interests (except those of the warmongers) would be served; above all the Ukrainian people, who would benefit from being courted by East and West instead of being exploited unilaterally.

  There is an old English warning: Don’t drive them to despair. Let us therefore end vassalage and take the road of reason instead of staggering into a war of extermination!  •

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GusNote: many historians and journalists promoting the idea that Russia's defences are weak. This is bullshit. Russia has more firepower than NATO and the US combined. Some apparent "strategic mistakes" were made during the "Incursion" and cost the Russian Army "dearly", but these were done with a distractive element away from the Donbass region... Now the Russians control this region and they are not GOING TO LET THE SALMON GET AWAY — if you know what I mean, despite NATO and the US taking potshots at the bear....

WE SHOULD THANK PUTIN FOR EXPOSING THE HYPOCRISY AND THE CORRUPTION OF THE EMPIRE.

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