Pozor Rossii and Western anti-Russian sentiments

[Anyse Joslin]

Alina, you force me to write!

At a time when the US sees itself as the "policeman" of the word,  
shoving "democracy" down the throats of those who have their own  
"form" of democracy that the US is unable to accept. This chauvinist  
attitude has come to the point of breaking international law by  
"breaking the peace" in the world with a preemptory strike on a nation  
so small that it should NEVER be seen as less than a "war crime."  
Personally, in the current state of our democracy, I would not want a  
"mini-ME" democracy modeled after it anywhere in the world. THe US  
uses its apologies to continue its own gunboat diplomacy that has  
grown worse and even more worse since the US involvement in the  
Philippines in the very early twentieth century under the Presidency  
of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1901). We have taken no lessons from ANY  
act tas an agressor in which this country has participated since.  
Also, to make matters worse, the "efficiency" of US weapons has risen  
so "high" that the actual collateral damage in terms of civilian  
casualties as the result of US attacks has gone from only 5% in WWI to  
95% today. So, for every civilian killed in WWI, 19 soldiers died.  
Today, for every 19 civilian casualties in Iraq, one soldier has died.  
How can anyone find ANY preference of this to any other set of  
behaviors? Now, the US is actually a WAR ECONOMY and no longer  
concentrates on producing consumer goods or any of the manufacturing  
needed to keep and to maintain any economic advantage in the world. I  
will not go any further on the US role in the "killing fields" of  
Cambodia and too many others to even mention here.

Anyse


On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Alina Israeli wrote:

The animosity towards Russia wherever and whenever it existed is based  
solely on the struggle for world domination. While China quietly grew  
its ranks and tried not to starve, Russia disregarding starvation  
waged proxy wars first in Asia, then in Africa and Latin America.  
There were organizations (maybe they still exist) that were in charge  
of the insurgent movements in the Mediterranean, Latin America,  
possibly elsewhere, I know of the those two first hand.

It's also well known now that there were training camps for  
Palestinian terrorists on the territory of Eastern block countries.  
And it was the Soviet Union that was behind the blockade of West Berlin.

While of course the Western attitude towards Russia should be studied,  
what I find most amazing is the siege mentality which is pervasive in  
Russian social discourse. Take this Leontiev series: http://kbiho.ru/load/14-1-0-3896 
  — the West has been preoccupied from early 1800 with only one thing:  
prevention of Russia's expansion in Asia and elsewhere; hindrance of  
Russian interests is the sole purpose of Western politics. When such  
historic programs are made in the West, their main point is national  
soul searching and national MEA CULPA towards the former colonies.  
This is not the case with Leontiev films (and he is not alone). The  
underlying leitmotif is "the Russians are coming and it's a good thing  
but the West is holding us back".


On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Francoise Rosset wrote:

> I agree with Anyse Joslin and Andrei Shcherbenok, if I understood  
> them correctly, that there is a special and sometimes inexplicable  
> animosity towards Russia. As a Slavist and a professor of Russian,  
> it always infuriated me that the USSR was singled out for special  
> opprobium while we turned a relatively blind eye to the Chinese  
> communists -- "inscrutable" they were/are, so I guess that absolved  
> us from looking too closely.
>


Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington DC. 20016
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