Sure looks like in my first post about the elections in Russia I missed the obvious “Russian Mousavi”: the good old Mikhail “Gorbi” Gorbachev – the man which the West loves so much for wrecking the Soviet regime and country – now is calling for new elections. Which makes me wonder if George Soros wants to be the (not quite Russian) ‘Russian’ Rafsanjani. So far, he has kept a low profile, but “Gorbi” would never make a move now without asking his bosses.
As I am sure you have heard by now, there were some protests in Moscow and riot police was deployed. This is not quite as sexy as the riots in Iran, but nonetheless a good showing for the “regime changers”.
Not everybody buys it though. Check out this piece on the Lew Rockwell blog. Instead of shedding crocodile tears about election fraud and a defeat for Putin, the folks at LRC are taking a closer look at the “Golos” “fraudbusters” and their ties to the US CIA sponsored organizations. They even offer an interesting hypothesis:
Could US criticisms of Russia on the eve of elections somehow be related to Russia’s surprisingly firm stance in favor of its ally Syria as NATO and its corrupt puppets in the Arab League prepare a Libya-style “liberation”?
Kudos for some good thinking here!
My personal feeling is that the West knows very well that there is not much it can do that stir some local protests here and there. This is just a big rehearsal for the upcoming presidential elections. Once Putin is re-elected – and it is pretty certain that he will – the West will not so much attempt to pull-off a regime change operation a la ‘Gucci Revolution’ in Iran, but paint Putin as a dictator thereby returning to the ‘good old Cold War’ (at least from the point of view of the US and British oligarchies).
It is interesting that the Western narrative presents the Russian Communist Party as the main victim from the alleged fraud. I suppose that the dismal showing of the pro-Western parties gives them no other choice. Besides, the commies having already crashed the country in 1991, they can probably be counted upon to repeat that feat again.
Still, the irony of CIA-paid organizations shedding crocodile tears over how the Russian communists were robbed of their electoral victory is truly comical for those who, like me, remember the Cold War and how the very same CIA supported the so-called ‘dissidents’ against these very same Communists.
The Saker
Gorbachev is not Russia’s Mousavi it is anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny.
LaRouche wrote a piece highlighting his background and connections.
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/20680
Gorbachev did not dismantle the Soviet Union the critical blow was done by Khrushchev and was kept afloat under 89 by organised crime in conjunction with the CIA/MI6 using the Jackson-Vanik amendment until the 70’s when they realised that European and western economies would be dependent on Caspian and Eurasian oil and gas that under Soviet control.
What Gorbachev did was far worse he engineered and laid the ground for the collapse of the post Soviet Russia.
It was under his watch that free market shock therapy economists from Russia were trained in Britain and British/Soros based economist institutions in the late 80’s in London and Vienna and a big globalist being personal friends with Margret Thatcher, population control advocate and business partner and friend of former KGB spy in London and Oligarch Alexander Lebedev who is reported to have received money from the Rothschild’s through his bank to buy up assets in Russia.
So… the administration propose to wage Cold War against both Russia and China, while it relies on Russia for LOCs to their war in Afghanistan, and while France sells LPHs, complete with NATO-standard C3 to the Russian Navy, Germany sells a fully-instrumented training range to the Rusdian Army, and Italy sells light armored vehicles to the same customer. Then there’s Germany’s increasing relaiance on natural gas due to their nuke power phase-out.
The administration are going to have trouble getting anyone but Balts/Brits/Poles to go along with it.
@rkka: The administration are going to have trouble getting anyone but Balts/Brits/Poles to go along with it.
VERY interesting point. Yes, I don’t see too much enthusiasm in the rest of Western Europe for that kind of nonsense. In Eastern Europe though I don’t see anybody saying ‘no’ to Uncle Sam, not only the Poles and the Balts.
The weird thing is that Gorbachev, up to a quite recent time, was a strong supporter of Putin. I don’t know why suddenly he changed position. Anyway, I agree with Jack: Gorbachev is not the Russian Mousavi: he is almost completely ignored in Russia, no one cares for what he says. So I guess he has absolutely no hopes of getting to power again.
I bet you this blogger guy Alexei Navalny gets Times Man of the Year.
Gorbi is the new Mousavi? The west is REALLY scraping the bottom of the barrel, now.
This latest “reset” lasted for very few time. How much, 1 year and a half? I knew it wouldn’t last much and that the US would restart its agressive policy towards Russia, but it lasted even less than I though.
First, the anti-ballistic defense in Europe, which the US is obsessed in building. Then, the full and direct support of the US to rioters and “democracy” activists. Now Georgia received “aspirant member” status in NATO (bringing it closer to full membership):
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20111208/169495062.html
(Russia had to remind the West about the 2008 war, and threaten with a repeat:
http://en.rian.ru/world/20111208/169485481.html)
And, just for laugh:
http://en.rian.ru/strange/20111209/169503240.html
Made me remember that CNN in 2008 also “mistakenly” showed ruins of South Ossetia’s capital as those of one Georgian town. Surely because it was no fun showing a Georgian town, as there was much less destruction.