Russia, China wonder when America will attack them: US journalist

Mon Sep 22, 2014

The United States’ recklessly aggressive posture towards Russia and China has put them in a position where they are wondering when Washington will attack them, an American political commentator says.

Don DeBar, an anti-war activist and radio host in New York, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Monday while commenting on a retired US Navy admiral’s assertion that the US should keep its nuclear weapons in European countries in the wake of Russian activities in Ukraine.

"Withdrawing our relatively few weapons would be the absolute wrong signal at this moment," former NATO chief James Stavridis said last week.

DeBar said that “the United States is playing a very dangerous game with Russia, and with China, by the way, but particularly with Russia.”

“Aside from the decision that was made long time ago to implement the so-called missile-defense [system] in Europe and to move NATO up to the borders of Russia, and even aside from the overthrow the Ukrainian government that took place with the backing of the United States earlier this year, and the civil war, the war that’s have been going on in Ukraine on the border of Russia now for six months or more, and even despite the obvious determination of Russia to stand up at this point and say enough and no further, the United States now is contemplating or has announced its intensions to bomb targets in Syria in the face of the Syrian government’s sovereignty basically,” he added.

“With Syria being a treaty-bound ally with Russia with a mutual defense pact, so the warning that came from foreign minister Sergei Lavrov over the past few days to the United States that the US must respect Syria’s sovereignty and international law and the United Nations’ charter,” DeBar said. “[T]hey [Russians] do say exactly what they intend to do and they generally do what they say they intend to do and they have said that this is not something that is to be permitted.”

“In a situation where the United States has been encircling steadily -- since the fall of the Soviet Union – Russia where it has been more and more aggressive in its treatment of Russia and announced simultaneously -- over the past few years -- plans to treat China in a similar way, the so-called pivot to Asia, under a condition where Russia and China now feel driven into each other’s arms both in terms of commercial, industrial relations and political relations but also a military cooperation, the continued aggressive posture of the United States towards Russia leads them essentially in a position of wondering when the attack will come,” the activist noted.

“The game the United States is playing…is extremely dangerous, and not just in terms of some possible political outcome but for the survival of humanity on this planet and most of its life. And it’s extremely reckless what’s coming out from Washington now and unfortunately the only people poised to stop it are the people in the United States and they seem preoccupied with other things,” DeBar concluded.

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