Out of the loop that has not too many people know George Friedman, an American of Hungarian origin, parents who survived the Holocaust in the United States, founder and president of the think-tank Stratfor, “authority” on the subject of global strategic and tactical intelligence, as defined by the NYTimes.
Yet the video of a speech, soberly titled YouTube “Europe: devoted to war?”, Dubbed and translated into French and German and taken up by many blogs, has become viral.
Perhaps because our, presented with great pomp to the audience, he spoke at the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, a sort of branch of the influential Council on Foreign Relations where I also spoke on other occasions, in whose board also included Michelle Obama.
The press conference Friedman actually dates back to last February. A relaunch in network we thought the site pro-Russian The Saker, recently renovated and multilingual, warily from his point of view, the words of Friedman opposed to those of Vladimir Putin in the international press conference broadcast live on television a couple of weeks ago.
A combination instrumental? Sure. But the video of Friedman simply records, and his words weigh like stones. The analysis of current international political and geopolitical American exhibits reveals cynicism and ruthlessness unknown to the mainstream media narrative. Friedman faces no complex policy and dear to American neoconservatives, exposing Washington’s strategy to maintain global dominance, touches sensitive issues in full transparency or, if you will, with a disconcerting frankness.
Here are a large anthology, which takes its cue from the post of a French blog.
On Europe. “Europe will not be involved in major wars as before but will follow the same fate of the other countries will have their wars. There will not be hundreds of thousands of deaths but the idea of a ‘European exclusivity’ I believe will lead to wars. There will be conflict in Europe. There have already been, in Yugoslavia, and now in Ukraine.
“As for relations with the United States, we have relations with Europe. We have relationships with Romania, we have with France. There is no ‘Europe’ with which the United States would ratios. If you questioned a Pole, a Hungarian or Romanian, develop into a world totally different from a German or a Spaniard, there are commonalities in Europe “.
On the American geopolitics. “Islamic extremism is a problem for the United States but is not a threat. The primary issue for the United States, for which we do from a century of wars (World Wars I and II, the Cold War), is the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because together they represent the only force that could threaten us, and we must be careful that we do not arrive. ”
“The United States controls all the oceans, therefore we can invade any country in the world and no one can invade us, and it’s a beautiful thing”
“Maintaining control of sea and space is the basis of our power.” “The best way to defeat an enemy fleet is prevent it from being built. The British were able to ensure that no European power would have one by ensuring that destroy each other. ”
[And here, he says the French blog, Friedman dares to say what many think]
“The United States can not intervene in all of Eurasia, we have to be selective. But we can do a few things: first, to support the different rival powers, providing economic support, political, economic, even military so that they concentrate on themselves; then, as a last resort, take the measures of disorganization. ”
“The policy that I recommend is to finance both sides so that you clap with one another. And ‘cynical, is not very moral, but it works. “The goal is not to win but to destabilize the enemy.
“The destabilization is the real purpose of our actions overseas. Not establish a democracy. Once destabilized a country, we have to say ‘mission accomplished’ and go home.
(And ‘what stupidly we did now in Afghanistan)
“As the empire, we can not occupy the entire earth, and even Eurasia. We would not have the numbers.
The Romans [indeed] did not send around large armies, they have placed the governing pro-Romans “.
“The empires that directly control the territories, have been discharged, as the case of the Nazi empire. No one is able to do that, you have to show more intelligent.
” About Ukraine “General Hodges commander of the American in Europe, came to Ukraine to announce that American trainers will go now officially no longer unofficially”
“The General gave medals to Ukrainian fighters, which normally is not able to do because it is reserved for the American military, but he did it to show that it was his army.”
“We are positioning in all countries of Eastern Europe, taking advantage of their Russophobia. General Hodges went in the Baltic countries to announce that it will be deployed armored vehicles and heavy artillery in those countries and in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria.
“Obviously we act outside the NATO framework, some might object, the Turks for example. … And Russia. “For Russia the status of Ukraine is an existential fact: can not give up.
The question for the Russians is to know if they can maintain a neutral buffer zone, or if the West will penetrate so deeply to be found 100 km from Stalingrad and 500 km from Moscow ”
“For the United States the question is: where will stop the Russians? Hence the announcement of General Hodges on weapons that will be deployed from the Baltic to the Black Sea. ”
“Our aim is to create a cordon sanitaire around Russia. This is the solution for the United States. ”
“Russia knows. The United States has put their cards on the table. The question that we answer is: What will Germany?
” About Germany (and a threat Russian-German). While the United States spread their cordon and between Europe and Russia, and Russia tries to pull Ukraine on its side, we do not know the position of Germany.
“For the United States the basic fear is that financial capital and technology Germans may fuse with the natural resources and labor coaster.”
“And ‘the only alliance that is frightening to the United States, we try to prevent it for a century.”
While the United States spread their cordon and between Europe and Russia, and Russia tries to pull Ukraine on its side, we do not know the position of Germany – which with Russia has special relations (eg. The former Chancellor Schoeder to preside over the consortium Northstream is on the board of Gazprom.
“Germany is our unknown. What will you do? They do not even know them, the Germans. And ‘the eternal problem of Germany, an economic giant, fragile geopolitical. Since 1871 the European question is the German question “.
NOTE. In this Great Game Eurasian Europe rather than an ally of the USA appears a mere pawn without any weight, in fact, maybe the subject of some of the measures “destabilizing” well illustrated by Friedman (support to pro-European and anti-European parties? Infiltration / pressures / ‘blackmail’ financially? Policies and narratives that pits one country to another?) and even soon involved in a new war against our own economic interests – as well as against us were the sanctions to Russia. Or is it a not-so-veiled threat, if any country would oppose the plan? “We are not conspiracy theorists, we are simply better informed” – is the final comment of the French blog from which, among others, have drawn inspiration. The same post shows the video subtitled in French (dubbed here, here the original YouTube with the presentation).
Putin, on the other hand …. Aware of the risk of the breath at the Russian propaganda, are some of the phrases that Russian President reported by The Saker post in which there is also a video, dubbed in French, the press conference Putin.
“Russia does not attack the West, does not attack anyone, only defends its interests.
We have only two military bases outside Russia, at the border of Afghanistan, also in the interest of the US. They have over a thousand bases worldwide. And would we the aggressors?
The Pentagon budget is 10 times greater than ours, and we who lead an aggressive policy … For if we are to have bases on the borders of the United States? Who denied Missile Treaty? Who install missiles on the border of the other?
We want equal relations with the West, in accordance with our national interests.
We waited 20 years before being accepted by the WTO (World Trade Organization) making many concessions; now [with the sanctions to Russia ed] the WTO rules are violated, and also those of the UN and international law.
Economic sanctions are the price we pay for the Crimea but not for our will to exist as a free nation and civilization. After the fall of the Berlin Wall we were promised a halt to NATO today is everywhere at our borders, it is a new wall. Westerners have decided who were the winners.
We must stop building new walls, and create a common human world, prosperous and secure.
Whatever we do for relaxing, always we meet resistance from wastes and the West. The last Winter Olympics in Sochi have been slandered and ridiculed before, during and after: why?
The West wants to chain the Russian bear even if it is in his den, he wants to snatch tooth and nail, its nuclear weapons. Then will take hold of its territory.
We do not want the skin of the Russian bear is hanging on the wall. It has nothing to do with the Crimea. “
