What's Putin's Take on the Sanctions and the "Tensions"?

Richard Mellor

Afscme, Local 444

Retired

GED/HEO

 

An interesting report and comments from Putin and the Russian take on the present situation between the west NATO and the US.

 

Now, I am sharing this because all we get is the western view of the situation, predominantly the US and its poodle the British government. I know what Putin is and what he was. I am not a Putin supporter. But I am interested in international relations between capitalist/imperialist states and you can be absolutely sure, leaders and influential people all across the globe watch this, so do poly sci majors and international relations majors and so on. Either way, it’s provided for them in private.  If you agree with some of the things he says it doesn’t make you unpatriotic, un-American or anything; those accusations are just a diversion, an attempt to intimidate you in to silence.

 

I think Putin is correct in raising competition and what to do about it and that the west wants to undermine and restrain Russian growth and competitiveness as a capitalist economy as it does with China. With the collapse of Stalinism, US imperialism wanted a capitalist China and a capitalist Russia and former Soviet Bloc, in the form of Vietnamese, Cambodian and Filipino capitalism, sources of cheap labor and resources for the west.

 

But all capitalist nations seek to imperialise weaker rivals, it’s ingrained in the system. Putin’s response is of course to strengthen the nation state and, if possible extend its barriers both physically and economically. But the nation state has come to the end of the road as it increasingly shatters and changes shape in the era of the world economy. It is, as Marx pointed out, a fetter, an obstacle even to capitalist progress. The competition among capitalist states is what led to the two great world wars and all the regional ones since. Workers have no side in this.

 

For working class people in the US or Russia, there is no victory in this game. There is no prize, only misery and death. But we have no say in this.

 

We have no political party through which we can participate in global affairs. We can’t reach out to Russian workers, everyday folks who want the very same things in life we do. We are forced to receive reports back from people like Joe Biden, a Dupont Chemical Co pawn and a Vladimir Putin a former KGB operator. In other issues, we rely on politicians from one of the two Wall Street parties to represent our interests. Can the reader definitively say that this is working for us.

 

The politicians we elect in the US, make policies that determine where we live, how we live, whether have schools, water and so on, have been abandoned, or their parties have been, by millions upon millions of people.  Only millionaire celebrities, parasitical Wall Street speculators, and the heads of organized labor promote them, have no problem supporting thugs, despots, outright killers and ruthless politicians and former KGB guys like Putin.  Most of our politicians in the US Congress today have presided over the slaughter, mass incarceration and torture of millions of people internationally and at home. They know about class solidarity though as you can see with Michelle Obama hugging her “partner in crime” George W Bush. What worker with any understanding of the world around them would embrace either of them?

 

These people have no principles that workers should embrace.