An interview with the Voice of Russia by Joseph Zrnchik, a retired US military planner and trainer
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“[US foreign
policy] is schizophrenic because on one hand they are attacking
different various groups, and then on the other hand they start
assisting the same groups that they are attacking, and it makes no
sense and it doesn't advance US interests at all, when you attack
Al-Qaeda and then you fund Al-Qaeda. That is just the case there.
Same thing in Syria: you work to destabilize the government and then
support the CIA to attack Syria, and then the same groups that attack
Syria, you sit back and go 'Oh, my God, what were we thinking? It
looks like these Jihadists are winning, so we need to start backing
off'.”
“We have had a decade of war in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the Iraq fiasco has just been disastrous, I mean if you
are looking at it from an advantage of what the US was trying to
accomplish, it totally failed in the war. There is still war going
on, in Iraq you have Sunni-Shiites with sectarian violence, hundreds
being killed a month after all that money was spent. You've got a war
going on in Afghanistan. And now the US is trying to figure out how
to bow out without losing too much face, giving away billions of
dollars and the economy in the US is really… They all keep saying:
'We think it is going to get better' but all the experts are saying
it is about ready to crash. So, that is economically.”
“The Ukraine is probably in worse shape than a lot
of other, what they were calling; 'The PIIGS Nations', saying that
they needed all that money to be bailed out. [...] 'PIIGS Nations',
which was the nations that we were having big trouble economically
that they were having to impose austerity measures on, which was
Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain and Greece. [...] It was in
western media, it became very common because it was PIIGS, and I
guess they wanted to do that to say these countries were just pigs
and that is why they are in the mess that they are in economically
and of course to deflect any blame from the EU, and then also to
create a situation in which Americans weren't sympathetic to those
European countries who were having austerity measures forced upon
them by the EU.”
“I mean it is that kind of chaos, it is ridiculous.
And I think the same things are going to happen with the Ukraine.
They probably are going to try to dump everything on Nuland and a few
people within the State Department and Hillary was smart because she
bailed. But let's face it, that policy did not just come about in the
last two days. That was a policy that was being carried out by
Hillary Clinton for her entire time as head of State Department. I
think it is going to be an utter disaster for the US and I don't know
where they are going to go. I don't know what Ukraine is going to do.
Those are things that can't be answered at this point.”
“One of the things that I was going to mention is I
think that a lot of problems that the US is having like every empire,
what ends up happening is that the more you go out and become
belligerent on the world stage, the more people start lining up
against you, and pretty soon the empire creates so many enemies for
itself that anybody who's against its interests, it is pretty easy
for them to go ahead and oppose the US. I mean everything has been so
leveraged that once one thing collapses, everything else starts going
down.”
“Gone is the day when the US can go ahead and ship
pallets of hundred dollar bills literally by the ton to other
countries like they did in Iraq, in a ham-fisted attempt to rebuild
civil society. They hadn't done it in Iraq and they had just pallets
of hundreds tons of hundred dollar bills, there is no way that they
are going to able to do anything like that in Ukraine. So, it is just
stupid for them to be doing that.”
“In the Crimea the people have to have the ability
to be able to determine their own future and the US has said that
over and over again but as soon as it goes against whatever the US
policy is, then everything gets thrown out of the window and that is
the problem with the US because constantly it is the hypocrisy that
drives the rest of the world crazy. And that is why right now if you
look at polls that have been taken, the rest of the world considers
the US to be the greatest challenge and the greatest threat to
peace.”
“And the other thing is The Global War on Terror
has been such a disaster and it has done nothing but created more
chaos, more than the US could ever have hoped to solve. So, now I
think a lot of it is they have wanted to go back to this Cold War
mentality, it was safe for the US when the US was just opposing
Soviet Union. If you look at it now, it was actually a very stable
time and you knew what each side wanted, what their foreign policy
was, what they were going to do, now there is nothing that the US can
control anymore.”
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