The Anti-Russia Animus by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2022-04-07 at 04:24:11 )

The Anti-Russia Animus by Jacob G. Hornberger!

As we look retrospectively at the crisis in Ukraine, one thing becomes crystal clear: the Cold War never ended, at least not for the United States national-security establishment. After what most everyone believed was the end of the Cold War, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency immediately went on the offensive by using NATO, an old Cold War dinosaur that should have gone out of existence, to absorb former Warsaw Pact countries, which enabled United States officials to station their nuclear missiles, military bases, weaponry, and tanks ever closer to Russias border.

Once the Pentagon and the CIA threatened to have NATO absorb Ukraine, there is no doubt that they knew that their threat would induce Russia to invade Ukraine and kill thousands of people in the process. Driven by their extreme anti-Russia animus that they have never lost, they were obviously willing to sacrifice an untold number of lives for the sake of Ukraines entry into NATO.

How can we be so certain that they knew that their threat to absorb Ukraine into NATO would induce Russia to invade Ukraine???

Because for the last 25 years, Russia has been telling them that that is precisely what Russia would do, in order to prevent United States nuclear missiles, bases, weaponry, and tanks from being installed on Russias border.

We also know for certain that that is precisely what the Pentagon and the CIA would do if Russia, China, or North Korea threatened to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. There is no doubt that the Pentagon and the CIA would invade Cuba to prevent that from happening, just as Russia has invaded Ukraine.

For many years, some people have asked me about the relevance of the Kennedy assassination to our lives today here in the United States of America. In the concluding section of my new book An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, I explain the relevance. The John F. Kennedy assassination is a critically important part of our history, one that not only explains what happened to our nation and why it happened but also provides us with the way out of the deadly, destructive, and highly dangerous (i.e., nuclear) morass in which our nation has been plunged.

As I explain in my new book, at the end of World War II, American statists decreed that although Americans had just won the war, they could not rest. That is because, the statists said, America now faced a foe that was supposedly more dangerous than Hitler and Nazi Germany. That foe was "godless communism" and the communist nations, especially the Soviet Union. United States officials steadfastly maintained that there was an international communist conspiracy based in Moscow that was hell-bent on taking over the United States and the rest of the world.

Thus began the extreme anti-Russia (and anti-Soviet and anti-China) animus that gripped the hearts and minds of the American people for the 45 years of the Cold War. At the same time, the animus generated ever-increasing budgets, power, and influence for the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, all of which were brought into existence when the federal government was converted to a national-security state to fight its Cold War and wage its anti-communist crusade.

Woe to anyone who expressed any signs of sympathy, empathy, or friendship toward the Soviets, Red China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Cuba, or any other communist regime or, heaven forbid, with the communist philosophy or the Communist Party. He would be dealt with severely, including through character assassination or even state-sponsored assassination.

Look at this op-ed in yesterdays Washington Post by noted right-wing columnist Max Boot. It castigates anyone who is just perceived to express any favorable comment toward Russia or Russias president Vladimir Putin. Anyone who does so is condemned as an anti-American Putin-lover or Russia-lover.

Now, take a look at this advertisement in the November 22, 1963, issue of the Dallas Morning News and this flier that was circulating in Dallas on that day. Note what right-wingers at that time were saying about Kennedy - that he was commie-lover and a Russia-lover, even a traitor to his country.

There is something important to note about that ad and about that flier: The sentiments in those two documents reflected perfectly the mindset of the United States military-intelligence establishment, which, not surprisingly, was extreme right-wing.

Why did the Pentagon, the CIA, and right-wingers hate Kennedy so much??

Because Kennedy was committing the cardinal sin: He was befriending Russia, just like other leaders were who were targeted with assassination by the CIA, such as Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the Congo, Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba, and Jacobo Arbenz, the president of Guatemala (who escaped before they could assassinate him), and, later, Salvador Allende, the president of Chile, not to mention all the people who were assassinated as part of Operation Condor, the top-secret international right-wing kidnapping, torture, and assassination ring in which the CIA was a partner.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy saw that the Cold War was nothing but a great big racket that was enriching and empowering the national-security establishment while, at the same time, destroying our nation. He was bringing the Americas official anti-Russia animus to an end. He was bringing the Cold War racket to an end. They hated him and feared him because he was threatening to permanently upend their never-ending animus and racket.

In other words, in the long 77-year history of Americas anti-Russia animus, there has been one rupture in that campaign. That rupture was by President John F. Kennedy. The rupture lasted only a short period, but its significance is that it has pointed the way as to how we can extricate ourselves from the deadly, destructive, and highly dangerous (i.e., nuclear) morass into which our nation has been plunged.

That is why the Kennedy assassination is relevant. That is why we need to come to terms with it. We need to understand why he was assassinated. Once we understand the why, we can easily see the way to get our nation back on the right track - toward liberty, peace, prosperity, and harmony with the people of the world.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!