Rodney Martin: US tries to break up Russian Federation
Press TV has interviewed Rodney Martin, a former US Congressional staffer from Los Angeles, about the US-Russia tension over a recent Pentagon report about Russia’s military action.
Press TV: This does seem like the twilight zone where the US can militarize as much as it wants the region, but Russia can take no countermeasures to protect itself.
Martin: It is schizophrenia on the part of the West, particularly on the part of the United States, to have about 40 military installations around the Russian Federation and around former Soviet republics, such as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and to seek to build more US military installations in the Russian sphere of influence and on the Russian border, and then say that Russia is engaged in militarism and such, and then to actually plan and carry out a coup in Ukraine much like the coup that the CIA carried out in Iran in toppling former Prime Minister Mosaddeq and then to basically make the Russians into the bad guys. It is basically schizophrenia and lies, but let us understand that the United States has a much more intricate and well-founded media and PR machine than Russia does. But as a whole, I think the world understands who the good guys here are and it’s the Russians as opposed to the United States and its corporatism. It is not American imperialism; it is American corporatism going around trying to harvest resources.
Press TV: How dangerous is this current status quo that exists between the US and Russia?
Martin: It is very dangerous and it is very confrontational. There is a history with regards to Russia whether it was an imperial Russia or Soviet Union. Russia does not take it kindly to being surrounded and having enemy forces massed on its borders and history has shown that foreign countries that have tangled with Russia it does not work out well for them, and the West is foolish if they think they are going to dismember the Russian Federation, which I think is their ultimate objective. They broke up the Soviet Union and I think they want to foster internal strife in the Russian Federation and try to break up the Russian Federation even further and that is foolhardy that I think the rest of world needs to take note as to what is happening – that the United States will go in and try to break up the territorial integrity of foreign nations.
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