In fact it was the opposite - a fear-mongering, sword-rattling harangue that will not only raise tensions with Russia for no good reason, but sends a chilling message to dissidents at home that if they deviate from Russiagate orthodoxy by one iota, they'll be driven from the fold.
The same goes for arguments that it's actually NATO's aggressive expansion to the east that has led to a needless buildup of tensions, not Russia's drive to the west.
Recent examples include an article in the National Interest arguing that NATO has "Empowered some of the most historically anti-Russian elements in that region - Ukrainian Banderites , Polish nationalists, Balkan Islamists" - elements that, not unreasonably, have sparked Russia's worst fears - or one in the Nation stating that NATO's drang nach osten is "The primary cause for the new and very dangerous Cold War.".
Articles like those are verboten as well because they go counter to the new line that Russia is entirely to blame.
"Russia is not a threat to Eastern Europe alone. Ukraine has become the de facto proving ground for just the types of hybrid warfare that the twenty-first century will become defined by: cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, efforts to undermine the legitimacy of state institutions, whether that is voting systems or financial markets. The Kremlin showed boldly in 2016 that with the malign skills it honed in Ukraine, they would not stay in Ukraine. Instead, Russia employed them here to attack our institutions, and they will do so again."
We must all put such sentiments behind us now Russia is seeking to "Weaponize" such information, according to Schiff, and deploy it "Against Mr. Biden just like it did against Hillary Clinton in 2016 when Russia hacked and released emails from her presidential campaign." If Russia wants to weaponize it, then it's best for the rest of us not to breathe a word of it lest people think we've been weaponized as well.
Because it sees Russia as mounting a multi-pronged offensive, the clear implication is that the US must respond in kind.
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel_lazare/2020/01/23/adam-schiffs-very-scary-warmongering-speech/
The same goes for arguments that it's actually NATO's aggressive expansion to the east that has led to a needless buildup of tensions, not Russia's drive to the west.
Recent examples include an article in the National Interest arguing that NATO has "Empowered some of the most historically anti-Russian elements in that region - Ukrainian Banderites , Polish nationalists, Balkan Islamists" - elements that, not unreasonably, have sparked Russia's worst fears - or one in the Nation stating that NATO's drang nach osten is "The primary cause for the new and very dangerous Cold War.".
Articles like those are verboten as well because they go counter to the new line that Russia is entirely to blame.
"Russia is not a threat to Eastern Europe alone. Ukraine has become the de facto proving ground for just the types of hybrid warfare that the twenty-first century will become defined by: cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, efforts to undermine the legitimacy of state institutions, whether that is voting systems or financial markets. The Kremlin showed boldly in 2016 that with the malign skills it honed in Ukraine, they would not stay in Ukraine. Instead, Russia employed them here to attack our institutions, and they will do so again."
We must all put such sentiments behind us now Russia is seeking to "Weaponize" such information, according to Schiff, and deploy it "Against Mr. Biden just like it did against Hillary Clinton in 2016 when Russia hacked and released emails from her presidential campaign." If Russia wants to weaponize it, then it's best for the rest of us not to breathe a word of it lest people think we've been weaponized as well.
Because it sees Russia as mounting a multi-pronged offensive, the clear implication is that the US must respond in kind.
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel_lazare/2020/01/23/adam-schiffs-very-scary-warmongering-speech/
No comments:
Post a Comment