European
Parliament Smears Russia While Bankrolling Nazi
Terrorism
Editorial
November 29,
2022:
Information Clearing House
-- "SCF"One
would think, perhaps, that with a perilous war
raging on the European continent, the European
Union’s parliament might want to show some
leadership in promoting diplomatic solutions to
end that conflict. No, not a bit of it.
The European
Parliament has shown itself again this week to
be nothing more than a giant reactionary talking
shop whose proclaimed democratic values have an
inverse relationship to its copious chamber of
705 parliamentarians.
Only three
years ago, the same parliament voted on a
resolution that shamefully distorted the origins
of the Second World War by trying to equate the
Soviet Union with Nazi Germany.
The
parliament comprising lawmakers from 27 member
nations passed a resolution this week
condemning
Russia as “a state sponsor of terrorism and a
state that uses the means of terrorism”. The
motion is legally non-binding, and so,
therefore, has no power of enforcement. It is a
highly “symbolic gesture” of censure against
Russia. In other words, it is naked political
propaganda for a political purpose – to smear
the Russian Federation and to inculcate the
public perception of Russia as a barbarian rogue
that needs to be eliminated.
Not even the
United States has gone this far. The Joe Biden
administration has balked at suggestions to
similarly designate Russia a terror state.
Washington has balked because it is a ludicrous
incendiary step, as well as blatantly false.
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The European
resolution text was a screed of rabid
Russophobia packed with anti-Russia allegations
referring to the nearly 10-month-old war in
Ukraine. Many of the claims are baseless or have
been shown to be outright fabrications contrived
to malign Russia. They were also hilarious in
their stupidity.
For example,
at one point the resolution absurdly blames
Russia for blowing up its own Nord Stream gas
pipelines under the Baltic Sea back in
September. This contradicts plenty of evidence
that the explosions were in fact carried out by
the U.S. and Britain in a covert military
operation to permanently sever European gas
trade with Russia. Yet the European
parliamentarians accused Russia of leaking its
own gas into the Baltic Sea from the sabotaged
pipes (costing the Russian state billions of
dollars worth) and thereby inflicting “an
environmental attack on the EU”. Ergo, the
Russians are not only barbarians, they must be
very stupid barbarians!
In another
head-spinning example, the European Parliament
resolution accused Russia of terrorizing the
Ukrainian population by occupying the Zaporozhye
Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and “making it a
military target”. That’s a weird sort of
admission of the reality that for months now the
Ukrainian military has been shelling Europe’s
biggest nuclear station with NATO artillery
threatening to create a radiation disaster. Yet
instead of pointing fingers at Kiev and NATO,
the European lawmakers lay the blame on Russia
for making the ZPNN a military target. Oh, those
dastardly barbarian Russians!
Lamentably,
this only shows that the European Parliament has
managed to brazenly turn reality on its head.
The NATO and EU-backed Nazi regime in Kiev is
the entity that is threatening to ignite another
world war in Europe, one that would lead to a
global conflagration.
The insanity
of the European parliamentary resolution is
beyond irony. It came only days after video
evidence emerged that Kiev’s Nazi military was
executing Russian POWs. It also came only a week
after the Ukrainian regime was caught red-handed
firing a missile at Poland killing two civilians
with the obvious intention of causing a
provocation in order to incite an all-out NATO
war against Russia.
The resolution accused Russia of committing
“aggression on Ukraine” for the past nine years.
This is another example of reality-inversion. It
was the U.S. and EU-backed coup d’état in Kiev
in 2014 that spawned a Nazi regime to embark on
terrorism against the Russian-speaking people of
the former Ukrainian southeast Donbass region
(now a part of the Russian Federation). The
weaponizing by NATO of a Russian-hating Kiev
regime that openly adulates Third Reich
collaborators led to the present war in Ukraine.
That war has
escalated because the United States and NATO
have pumped Ukraine with billions of dollars of
weapons. The
latest total
military aid from the US stands at nearly $20
billion. Washington and its European Union
allies have bankrolled the Kiev regime to the
tune of an estimated $126 billion since February
this year. Much of that taxpayer-funded largesse
has been
siphoned off
by a corrupt cabal in Kiev headed up by the
comedian-turned-president Vladimir Zelensky.
The war
started because of NATO and Europe’s refusal to
engage with Moscow in diplomatic negotiations
over its long-held strategic security
requirements. And the war has escalated because
NATO and Europe have sought every way to
militarize the conflict while spurning
diplomacy.
Russia has up
to now tried to minimize military operations in
Ukraine to neutralize the Nazi regime and its
genocidal aggression. But it has become
grievously clear that the Kiev regime and its
NATO handlers have little capacity for finding a
political settlement based on Russia’s strategic
security concerns.
The endemic
terrorism that the United States, NATO and
European Union have bankrolled and weaponized in
Ukraine shows that Russia has now no choice but
to defeat the Kiev regime through military
victory. The enemy mobilized the Ukrainian state
in a war against Russia. The enemy did not hold
punches in firing indiscriminately at Russian
cities, destroying civilian infrastructure and
waging “Total War” through economic sanctions
and sabotage. The targeting by Russia of
Ukraine’s power grid with increasing missile
barrages is a situation of military exigency
brought about by NATO’s implacable weaponizing
of Ukraine. Russia is not the terror state here.
It is the United States and European Union who
have made war inevitable.
The European
Parliament accused Russia of carrying out
massacres when it is the NATO and EU-backed Nazi
regime that has perpetrated vile atrocities
against its own people at Bucha, Mariupol,
Kramatorsk and other places of infamy in a
macabre charade to blame Russia.
With supreme
arrogance, the European Parliament touts itself
as a bastion of democracy, human rights and
international law. In reality, this bureaucratic
colossus has become a propaganda machine for
Nazi terrorism in Europe. This degeneration of
the parliament has been underway over several
years, brought about largely by the expansion of
the EU with anti-Russian states. Like NATO, the
bloc has become a reservoir of toxic Russophobia
due to similar dynamics of expansion.
Europe has
seen two world wars over the past century that
resulted in as many as 100 million deaths.
Russia has felt the suffering and loss from wars
more than any other nation. European politicians
are once again fueling war with their calumnies
against Russia and their deliberate stoking of
Nazi embers.
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