![]() Stand With Ukraine Against Russia and China By Cliff Kincaid One of the silliest defenses of Russia during the crisis with Ukraine is Pat Buchanan’s column, “Putin Wants His Own Monroe Doctrine,” suggesting Putin is only exercising authority over Europe that the United States has claimed for the Western hemisphere. Buchanan knows better. He was communications director for President Reagan when the Soviet Union and its client state, Cuba, were massively interfering in the Western hemisphere and sponsoring terrorism on American soil. What Buchanan also ignores is that Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum, guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, in exchange for taking back control of Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal. Another Democratic President, Bill Clinton, arranged that sell-out. I went back into my library to find the 1985 booklet, “The Soviet-Cuban Connection in Central America and the Caribbean,” which explains how the Soviets (and now the Russians) had set a process in motion to take over country by country south of our border. In response, President Ronald Reagan launched the “Reagan Doctrine” of supporting anti-communist freedom fighters to put pressure on the communists in their own back yard. One great success for our side was the defeat of Soviet-Cuban forces in Grenada, when Reagan ordered the island liberated from the communists. The 1982 hearing, “Role of Cuba in International Terrorism and Subversion,” also examines Soviet/Russian violation of the Monroe Doctrine. Our book, Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire, looks at massive communist interference in the Western hemisphere, including on America soil, when a KGB-trained assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, carried out the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Communists killed Kennedy because Kennedy, an anti-communist liberal, confronted the Soviets in Cuba and authorized the overthrow of the Castro regime. The Soviets had installed missiles in Cuba. Herman O. Bly, a retired FBI special agent, who wrote the 1998 book, Communism, the Cold War, and the FBI Connection, said, “…I believe the heads of the FBI, CIA, and President Johnson wanted the Oswald case brought to a conclusion as fast as possible as they did not want another crisis with the Soviet Union so soon after the Cuban missile crisis.” Another violation of the Monroe Doctrine was communist use of terrorist organizations such as the Weather Underground and the Puerto Rican FALN. Both groups had connections to the Cuban intelligence service, the DGI, a subsidiary of the Soviet KGB, and conducted bombings and murders on American soil. I think that even Pat Buchanan would have to agree that communist sponsorship of terrorism and assassinations on American soil should be construed as violations of the Monroe Doctrine. In response, since the end of World War II, the United States has maintained a defensive alliance, NATO. The exception to this was the illegal use of NATO as an offensive force against Yugoslavia. That was done by President Bill Clinton. Because Ukraine is not a member of NATO, it is naked in the face of Russian aggression. Under no circumstances can it be considered a threat to Russia. But it’s a threat to Putin in the sense that a democratic nation on his border offers hope to those seeking democracy in Russia. That’s why Putin rules through murder and kills his political opponents with KGB poisons. The same analysis applies to the Republic of China on Taiwan, a country with a democratic form of government, thus representing a threat to the legitimacy of the communist Chinese dictatorship. America has a flawed democracy, to be sure, but at least we have enough freedom left to challenge the U.S. Government and organize a peaceful overthrow of Biden’s illegitimate regime. The polls indicate the people want regime change in America. As we fight for our freedom, don’t forget the fight for freedom by the people of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Ukraine. The endless apologies for Russian aggression coming from the likes of Pat Buchanan and Tucker Carlson are evidence that the conservative movement has been divided and misled by Soviet/Russian disinformation. It’s a terrible shame that a former Reagan communications director and a number one-rated host on a “conservative” channel have fallen into the Russian camp. This development comes at the worst possible time, as Russia and China have openly combined forces against the West. These so-called conservatives keep saying that the U.S. should rule out Ukraine as a member of NATO to mollify Russia. Nothing of that nature will appease Putin. He is a stone-cold killer who murders his enemies and came out of the same intelligence apparatus that spawned Lee Harvey Oswald as well as Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried to kill Pope John Paul II. The Soviets saw the Polish-born Pope as a threat to the survival of the Soviet empire. As a former KGB spy, he also knows the value of disinformation. Trevor Loudon did a great video, “Pro-Russian National Bolsheviks Spread Mayhem in the West,” that people need to watch and comprehend, in order to understand why some “conservatives” are embracing Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. Trevor describes how a Russian fascist-communist hybrid movement known as National Bolshevism has been infiltrating the conservative movement for the purpose of discrediting genuine conservatives and patriots in the United States and other Western nations in order to undermine the West. There is evidence that certain personalities with a pro-Russian bent have emerged as key figures in the “America First” movement. One individual who goes by the name “Baked Alaska” was reported to be part of the “Unite the Right” Charlottesville group and is considered a strong supporter of Russia. He is advertised as being involved in the upcoming America First Political Action Conference in Florida. Russian influence and infiltration help explain why figures like Tucker Carlson have turned their backs on the millions of young men and women in Ukraine who dared to dream of freedom and independence for their country. It was under the Administration of Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden that Russia originally invaded Ukraine in February, 2014, taking Crimea, and then it seized Eastern Ukraine. At the time, Obama played into Putin’s hands by refusing to even describe the invasion of Ukraine as an invasion. Today, Biden, as president, encourages another invasion, saying a “minor incursion” might be perfectly fine. Equally significant, Biden encouraged Russian aggression by giving Germany final approval to complete a gas pipeline from Russia to Europe. Now, in a flip-flop, Biden insists that he can cancel it. He is not taken seriously. The Russian aggression has taken the lives of 14,000 soldiers and civilians who have died in the eight-year ongoing war in eastern Ukraine. The good news is that Ukrainian communities and friends of Ukraine around the world have held actions and rallies as part of the international #StandWithUkraine campaign. Demonstrations target Putin as a war criminal, equate him with Hitler’s march across Europe, and supporters of Ukraine’s independence wear T-shirts that send the clever message, “Puck Futin.” What the people need are weapons, not clever phrases. What we all have to support is a policy of regime change in Moscow and Beijing, the seats of power for America’s enemies. We also need regime change in Washington, D.C. to get an anti-communist government in place like the one that Pat Buchanan once served. The people of Ukraine have torn down the Lenin statues that once populated their country by the hundreds and now march under the flags of Ukraine and the United States. But the Biden Administration sent too little too late in terms of defensive arms, and now waits and watches, while some prominent conservatives cheer for the killers. It is a sad day for the future of freedom when these “conservatives” abandon freedom-loving people. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org
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![]() The Freedom Convoy Backfires By Cliff Kincaid “We Are All Truckers Now” says a writer for the conservative American Thinker. Count me out. This movement is a disgrace. Using the word “freedom,” as in “Freedom Convoy,” has duped a lot of people, many of them conservatives. The “Freedom Convoy” of truckers has been blocking public roadways, highways, and bridges. It’s one of the most unproductive -- even counterproductive -- protests I have ever seen. Nothing of substance has been accomplished. It has only made people posing as patriots look bad. It has hurt conservative Canadians through business losses. It has pitted people against police. I don’t understand why disrupting public access to highways and commerce at the border is a patriotic or conservative cause, in Canada or America. They are protesting a bilateral mandate introduced by the Governments of Canada and the United States that requires all essential workers, including truck drivers, to be vaccinated. Yet, we are told that 90 percent of the truckers are vaccinated anyway and that their cause is greater freedom of choice. Sorry, but that’s a loser when you have a China virus that has killed more than 5.75 million people worldwide. We are blessed that we have access to vaccines that work, unlike the Chinese and Russian versions. It’s true that some mask mandates are being terminated, mostly because liberals realize they don’t work and are political losers, but you still must be vaccinated to lead a “normal life.” This will never change. These protests make opponents of vaccines and mandates look bad by disrupting the lives of ordinary people. In political terms, the Freedom Convoy in Canada is hurting, not helping, the conservative cause. That’s evident in the actions and statements of Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a Conservative Party leader who is trying to evict the truckers because they are disrupting the city. “I call it a siege because that's what it is, it’s an illegal occupation,” he says. The blockades are causing massive economic losses to the workers and others supposedly leading the convoys. One estimate is that financial losses already amount to $1 billion because goods can’t flow across the border. To me, the convoy looks like the work of those who want to provoke and stoke conflict and controversy. That doesn’t benefit ordinary people. The Canadian Trucking Alliance says, “While a number of Canadians are in Ottawa to voice their displeasure over this mandate, it also appears that a great number of these protestors have no connection to the trucking industry and have a separate agenda beyond a disagreement over cross border vaccine requirements. As these protests unfold over the weekend, we ask the Canadian public to be aware that many of the people you see and hear in media reports do not have a connection to the trucking industry.” One sympathetic journalist writes that the Freedom Convoy is a challenge to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and “the liberal-elite establishment.” Instead, these protests play into his hands. Trudeau has reacted in a heavy-handed way, through name-calling and threats, but true conservatives are tired of the protests, too. First, to repeat, the mandates are going, but the requirements for vaccinations remain. Second, while peaceful protests are legal and defensible, the disruptions of access to public highways and bridges cannot be defended. The blockades are illegal. Vaccines, the kind developed under former President Trump’s Warp Speed project, not only work but are incredibly popular. These vaccines are even more popular in Canada. One poll found the following:
Consider that, in the most recent Canadian elections, the anti-vax conservative People’s Party of Canada received only about 5 percent of the vote and no seats in government. The campaign by its leader, “Mad Max" Bernier, was a big loser and he divided conservatives, helping to keep Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in power. Canadian activist Luigi Grimaldi gave an interview to The New American magazine’s Alex Newman in an episode of “Conversations That Matter” and declared that the Canadian people “love the Freedom Convoy truckers and strongly support their efforts to liberate Canada from the totalitarian COVID policies.” But that’s not what the evidence shows. In fact, the new poll finds that the People’s Party of Canada is still recording a scant 3-4 percent support. Bernier issued a statement that said, in part: “Over the past years, the Prime Minister [Trudeau] has shown understanding and support for protest by various groups, including indigenous opponents of pipelines, Black Lives Matter, and even farmers in India.” He went on, “The BLM organization is run by self-described communists, and BLM demonstrations in the summer of 2020 led to rioting, arson, destruction, and physical injuries in many North American cities. And yet, Mr. Trudeau went to kneel at one such demonstration here in Ottawa. And the media covered it as a legitimate protest. In contrast, Mr. Trudeau has been nothing but vicious and vindictive in his attacks against opponents of covid mandates and restrictions in general, and the truckers’ convoy in particular. Even though they have been entirely peaceful and non-violent.” He's correct about the latter, but disrupting the lives of other peaceful people through blockades of pubic highways and bridges is not legal and is not morally right. That’s why the Freedom Convoy is so unpopular. The latest news is that the police have cleared most Freedom Convoy protesters from the U.S.-Canada Ambassador Bridge. They will be remembered for disrupting local, national and international businesses, and accomplishing nothing. In retrospect, the cry of “We Are All Truckers Now” has been silly, even politically suicidal. I am proud to have stood with law and order over anarchy in the streets, whether it has been spawned by BLM or a so-called “Freedom Convoy.” *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org ![]() Dopers, Doping, and the Dopes in Charge of Our Lives By Cliff Kincaid We live in a world of pretense, where we pretend that our enemies don’t exist, and that our government will protect us from them anyway. We are surrounded by liars, cheats, and thieves – minds clouded by dope and doping. As American athletes compete for medals in Communist China’s Olympics, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administrator Anne Milgram has confirmed what we already know – that Communist China is working with Mexican criminal organizations to flood the United States with deadly drugs, killing tens of thousands of our people. One of the highlights of her interview on CNN was a warning to potheads and stoners that marijuana is now being laced with the deadly drug fentanyl. She should take a tour of the DEA Museum and its exhibit on Harry Anslinger, who ran the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) for more than 30 years and was a major critic of Red China’s role in drug trafficking. Sadly, the exhibit plays down the threat, saying, “After the war [World War II] America’s attention turned toward the Cold War and the spread of Communism. China, a source country for opiates, became a target for a so-called Communist narcotics offensive. The McCarthy scare reinforced Anslinger’s worries that Communists were ‘flooding the world with dope to corrupt the youth of America.’” It looks like DEA administrator Milgram is now beginning to understand the “so-called” communist source of the problem. But China was more than a “source country.” Anslinger’s article, “The Opium of the Peoples’ Government,” describes in detail how the Chinese Communists pushed drugs on the Free World to demoralize the “bourgeoisie.” We have known this for decades. It still continues. This is a deliberate policy on their part. The Russian communists push drugs as well, even on their own people, as evident in the case of the 15-year-old Russian figure skater, Kamila Valieva, who has tested positive for a banned substance. It’s being called the new Russia-gate scandal. This one is for real. Many don’t realize the official Russian team has been banned, and Valieva is a member of the ROC, the Russian Olympic Committee, a substitute. It’s how the Russians managed to get into the Olympics anyway, after a major doping scandal was exposed, implicating the top officials of the Putin regime. Like most things in Russia, it is state-sponsored. Despite this, Putin showed up at the Olympic games, dozing off in the bleachers before issuing a joint statement with the Chinese communist dictator calling for a New World Order free of United States influence. As much as this appeals to an American population disgusted with the China Joe regime, America is still our country, and we have been blessed by God and the work of our ancestors. We have a duty to save it. We have got to make sure it survives so that our families can have a future. We have got to think of the Biden Administration as pretenders, working in tandem with the enemies that want to destroy us, and figure out ways to evict them from power while making sure the country does not go down the drain. Our enemies at home and abroad are real. We have to stay focused. One who is literally out of his mind is Tucker Carlson, who pretends that Russia is not an aggressor and that Ukraine’s 40 million people should just get out of the way, to make sure Russia’s borders are secure and that Putin can remain a peaceful world leader. This is what passes for modern conservatism. It’s not Ronald Reagan conservatism. Equally significant and bizarre, Biden says “There will no longer be" a Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia to Germany if Russia invades Ukraine. But Biden already approved it. He has no interest in saving Ukraine, except as a cash cow for his family. Tucker likes to talk about corruption in Ukraine, a real concern. But nobody wants to talk about Russian ownership of major German politicians, a process underway for decades and which claimed Angela Merkel and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz as alleged Putin puppets. No matter what happens with Ukraine, most of the rest of Europe seems lost. To understand our future, consider the “new” communist man (or woman) promised by the Russians, designed to make this morally corrupt and bankrupt country look great at the Olympic Games. That was the genesis of the notorious Russian doping scandal. That first Russia-gate doping scandal involved a man named Grigory Rodchenkov, the former director of Moscow’s anti-doping laboratory, who revealed how the Moscow regime drugged their athletes. The case was featured in the Oscar-winning documentary film “Icarus.” The Russian regime reportedly sent an assassination squad to kill him after he escaped to the U.S. This, too, was state-sponsored. Such plots can be traced back to Putin himself, who holds Ukraine and the world hostage while he makes threats. Biden negotiates with this criminal, making Biden complicit in Putin’s crimes, because Russian nukes can obliterate and incinerate our nation. The Russians stole our nukes, and so did the Chinese. KGB poisons are still in the Russian arsenal. So are banned substances to make Russian athletes win competitions. If you don’t serve the state, in Russia, you will die, one way or another. Even if you do serve the state, you may die, after your usefulness is over. In China, if you criticize a top official for sexual harassment, you disappear, only to remerge with a government monitor and change your story. In the U.S., at least, most enemies of the state are allowed to live. Thank goodness for small favors. There is still a measure of freedom left in this country. But was the Russian skater aware she was being drugged? Dan Wetzel of Yahoo! Sports writes that “it would be par for the course for Russia to drug a child athlete only to have her stay eligible because, as a child athlete, she is too young and naive to know she was drugged.” The Russians may get their gold medals anyway. Let’s just pretend the doping didn’t take place, officially. But we are not much better than the Russians or the Chinese in the matter of dope. Many of our state governments encourage drug use, through legalization of dope, because of the tax revenue. Conservative hero Joe Rogan once called marijuana a performance enhancer and supported Bernie Sanders for president. That makes sense. An excellent treatment of this problem, demonstrating the interconnections, was on the Fox News “Lawrence Jones Cross Country” show, where a drug addict discussed how smoking marijuana as a teenager eventually led her down the dangerous path of pills and fentanyl. But it’s not prim and proper to refer to marijuana as a gateway drug. It’s too lucrative to legalize the dope and create more potheads. In a major reversal, it turns out that the Biden Administration will NOT be giving out crack pipes to addicts, to get high at taxpayer expense when they are given “safe drug use” kits. They will have to get their own pipes and needles. We need more people like Harry Anslinger – and Joe McCarthy. They wouldn’t tolerate communists killing our people with drugs. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org ![]() DEA Chief On New Plan To Combat Drugs And Violent Crime Source: CNN Aired February 08, 2022 - 11:30 ET THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. [11:30:00] (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANNE MILGRAM, ADMINISTRATOR, DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION: It's in the world. And so we have an ability to sort of, use resources across the country and across the world. When we did that, we identified a little over 70 locations that we found were hotspots, we then looked at what we could target as phase one, the places that are seeing the most devastating problems and communities, overdose deaths, and drug- related violence. And as you know, those are linked, they're intertwined and so we stepped back to look at this and to go into those communities. And what the men and women of DEA have done is they have mapped the threats, meaning, it's not enough just to understand that there are 34 places across the country that are really suffering right now, we need to understand what criminal drug networks are operating there, what they're doing. And so we've done that, and we've identified the locations in those cities, the criminal drug networks, and also the drugs that are being -- that are being sold and that are killing people. KATE BOLDUAN, CNN HOST: Why haven't existing strategies been working to tackle this problem already? MILGRAM: So this problem, starting in 2015, every single year, the United States has seen exponential increases in fentanyl, which is, the most deadly drug, 64,000 of those 100,000 deaths. The overdose deaths are attributable to fentanyl. So the problem has gotten worse. And what we've seen is that there's a number -- there are a number of things that are happening. COVID, of course, is one of them and I think we can ignore that. The other piece is that fentanyl is now in all 50 states. It's lacing every other drug whether that's methamphetamine, heroin, marijuana, every other drug, and it's also being sold in new forms, like fake prescription pills so people think they're buying a Xanax or an Adderall or oxycodone. And they're getting fentanyl and they're dying at record rates. BOLDUAN: On the strategy, on this operation new approach, how long do you give this before, you know, this is working, or it's not, and we need to readjust? MILGRAM: So we know that we have targeted networks that are engaged in violence, we didn't check that until after we had sort of done this threat work. But so we now know today that the vast majority are already engaged in gun violence, a majority are selling fentanyl or meth and of that majority selling fentanyl and meth, almost every single one of them is involved in gun violence today, or in gun sales, gun trafficking. So we already know that we've identified a lot of the correct networks. Now, the operations will take place across the country in partnership with the state and locals. And again, if we get new information or new data, we find out it's not working or we see overdoses or violence increasing, we'll have to pivot and look at what's happening. But I feel a lot of confidence now, based in many ways on the work I did in Camden, New Jersey, that you start up front, you identify and understand the threats then you do the enforcement operations to target those networks. BOLDUAN: You've called fentanyl one of the most deadly substances on the planet and we talk about what it is doing, how it is getting here, and why it is such a problem. There are two places, China and Mexico. In China, the chemicals for these poisons come from China. MILGRAM: That's right. BOLDUAN: Why isn't China stopping? MILGRAM: So that's the right question to ask. And China needs to do more, there is no question. Right now, China has a largely unregulated chemical industry and those chemicals are being shipped on a daily basis to Mexico and to other countries in Latin America, where they're being brought to Mexico. So, the first question is exactly the right question. We know this is happening, China knows it's happening and it has to be stopped. And it's a critical point because as I said if those chemicals can't get to Mexico, the criminal drug cartels in Mexico won't be able to make fentanyl and meth. And so it is a critical upstream part of our work. BOLDUAN: How important is the southern border then to cutting off the supply chain? MILGRAM: The criminal drug cartels have their whole model is relentless expansion. What they want are more consumers, they want more people buying their drugs. And what we've seen is that methamphetamine used to be on the West Coast of the United States, they've expanded it to the East. Fentanyl and opioids used to only be on the East Coast, they've expanded it to the west. It is -- it is -- they will stop at nothing, in my view, to make money, and making money means getting more customers. And fentanyl is so addictive that if they can get fentanyl into someone's body, knowingly or unknowingly because we think in many instances, people do not know -- BOLDUAN: Right. MILGRAM: -- They're not seeking fentanyl, they're purchasing cocaine or they think they're purchasing Xanax and then they're becoming addicted to fentanyl. BOLDUAN: And that's where social media comes in. You can't talk about this without talking about social media from TikTok to Snapchat, just the access that drug dealers now have in places that they never would have had before. Are you -- are they -- are you getting what you need from them? Are you sitting down with them? MILGRAM: My position on social media is this. The social media companies. They know exactly what the drug traffickers are doing. They know exactly what is happening. They track every single piece of data, every single, you know, direct message, everything that happens on their sites, they know. When it came to child exploitation, they put an end to that on their sites. [11:35:00] MILGRAM: They could do the exact same thing here if they choose to do so and we have not seen them willing to take those steps to really look at their platforms to really say OK, we cannot allow this to happen. We simply have not seen them do that yet. BOLDUAN: Look, because these stories are heartbreaking. That one child, 13 years old, seventh-grader out of Hartford, Connecticut last month died from a fentanyl overdose. MILGRAM: Yes. BOLDUAN: He was at school when he collapsed. When they looked, there were 100 bags of fentanyl in this boy's bedroom. I'm -- setting aside policy for a second, how does it feel as the head of the DEA to hear these stories over and over again, happening to just young kids in America? MILGRAM: My first reaction when I get those calls is, you know, how do we make sure that that life is not -- is not in vain, that someone's -- that someone who's an overdose that we prevent the next person from overdosing and dying? And so we immediately go into sort of DEA investigation mode, how do we support the state and locals. But beneath all of that is just this incredible sadness and pain that there's not a day that goes by where I don't talk to a parent, a child, a loved one, a friend of someone who's been lost during what is just a devastating milestone of 100,000 American deaths. (END VIDEOTAPE) BOLDUAN: Many thanks to the DEA Administrator Anne Milgram for that, who also made the point to me off-camera that she believes that many families, parents, all of us underestimate just how deadly and dangerous fentanyl really is and can reach all of us even unknowingly. Thanks for that. Coming up still for us, this just into CNN, the White House has begun reaching out to potential Supreme Court nominees. Details are in a live report next. ![]() (above graphic from Fox News) Tucker Carlson is More Offensive Than Joe Rogan By Cliff Kincaid Forget about the foul-mouthed Joe Rogan, the rich former host of “Fear Factor” who, desperate to save his podcast, has collapsed in fear in the face of liberal pressure over his COVID podcasts. More serious is the case of Tucker Carlson, the number one-rated Fox News host, who has been acting indifferent to the fate of 40 million people in Ukraine. His public posture, which has a major influence on conservatives and Republicans, is that Russia’s military mobilization on the border of Ukraine is designed to protect Russia. As Rogan gets “conservative” support, despite his numerous instances of using racist N-word language, Tucker’s disdain for the people of Ukraine actually gets some support from the same people. Strange. In a related development, the Russian propaganda organ RT quotes their leader, former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, as saying that the friendship between Russia and China has become an example of how two nations can develop together and support each other “in almost all areas.” That means killing independence for Ukraine -- and then Taiwan. Incredibly, Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was on a Sunday show downplaying the relationship, saying that Xi and Putin, in their lengthy declaration, didn’t actually use the word “alliance.” Tucker Carlson, another dummy on geopolitics who has become a favorite of RT, has made the equally astounding claim that NATO has been pushing Russia into the arms of China. Of course, this had happened years ago – more than 20 years ago, in fact, and before that, when a Russian agent by the name of Grigori Voitinsky actually created and became the founder of Maoist China. Russia established a strategic partnership or alliance with Communist China from the very beginning of the Chinese communist regime and formalized this in writing in 2001. It was called the “Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between.” Tucker, a conservative who leans on the far-left for foreign policy advice and is admittedly under NSA surveillance, seems to be unfamiliar with this. On July 7, 2021 (that was last year, Tucker), Chinese Communist official State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended and addressed the Reception Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Signing of the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation in Beijing. The new China-Russia announcement, unveiled as the “Genocide Games” were launched in China, was headlined in the communist People’s World, “Russia and China issue joint call for an end to NATO expansion.” NATO expansion is the new bogeyman. Tucker has bought into Moscow’s line. But nobody seriously believes NATO is poised to march into Moscow or Beijing. It’s just an excuse for Russia to seize more of Ukraine. Only Tucker Carlson and his lackeys believe the propaganda spewing from the KGB mouth of Vladimir Putin. However, Xi and Putin are somewhat honest about their own intentions, offering in their joint statement various proposals, treaties, and agreements that will advance their own interests. These include:
China’s cooperation with Russia takes place through BRICS, the SCO, and the Eurasian Economic Union. Here are the facts which have escaped Tucker’s attention:
Regarding the other initiatives, here are some of the most significant:
Meanwhile, the American people are saddled with China Joe Biden, as he prepared to meet at the White House with the pro-Russia chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz. Equally significant, it turns out that Germany’s new far left interior minister, Nancy Faeser, wrote for a communist-run Antifa Magazine. Who lost Germany? That’s on Biden’s watch. He gave Germany the OK to get more Russian oil and gas through Nord Stream 2 and the Germans promptly turned their backs on Ukraine. We are facing what the late Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky called the development of the EUSSR – a Europe dominated by Russia, in alliance with Germany and China. The United States is increasingly isolated. But so is Israel, which figures to be increasingly under assault by a nuclear-armed Iran, backed by Russia and China, which is being promised a new appeasement deal by the Biden Administration. At this critical point in history, we can’t afford having a nincompoop on foreign affairs hosting the number one-rated program on Fox. He’s more of an embarrassment than Joe Rogan. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development February 4, 2022 At the invitation of President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin visited China on 4 February 2022. The Heads of State held talks in Beijing and took part in the opening ceremony of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games. The Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, hereinafter referred to as the sides, state as follows. Today, the world is going through momentous changes, and humanity is entering a new era of rapid development and profound transformation. It sees the development of such processes and phenomena as multipolarity, economic globalization, the advent of information society, cultural diversity, transformation of the global governance architecture and world order; there is increasing interrelation and interdependence between the States; a trend has emerged towards redistribution of power in the world; and the international community is showing a growing demand for the leadership aiming at peaceful and gradual development. At the same time, as the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection continues, the international and regional security situation is complicating and the number of global challenges and threats is growing from day to day. Some actors representing but the minority on the international scale continue to advocate unilateral approaches to addressing international issues and resort to force; they interfere in the internal affairs of other states, infringing their legitimate rights and interests, and incite contradictions, differences and confrontation, thus hampering the development and progress of mankind, against the opposition from the international community. The sides call on all States to pursue well-being for all and, with these ends, to build dialogue and mutual trust, strengthen mutual understanding, champion such universal human values as peace, development, equality, justice, democracy and freedom, respect the rights of peoples to independently determine the development paths of their countries and the sovereignty and the security and development interests of States, to protect the United Nations-driven international architecture and the international law-based world order, seek genuine multipolarity with the United Nations and its Security Council playing a central and coordinating role, promote more democratic international relations, and ensure peace, stability and sustainable development across the world. I The sides share the understanding that democracy is a universal human value, rather than a privilege of a limited number of States, and that its promotion and protection is a common responsibility of the entire world community. The sides believe that democracy is a means of citizens' participation in the government of their country with the view to improving the well-being of population and implementing the principle of popular government. Democracy is exercised in all spheres of public life as part of a nation-wide process and reflects the interests of all the people, its will, guarantees its rights, meets its needs and protects its interests. There is no one-size-fits-all template to guide countries in establishing democracy. A nation can choose such forms and methods of implementing democracy that would best suit its particular state, based on its social and political system, its historical background, traditions and unique cultural characteristics. It is only up to the people of the country to decide whether their State is a democratic one. The sides note that Russia and China as world powers with rich cultural and historical heritage have long-standing traditions of democracy, which rely on thousand-years of experience of development, broad popular support and consideration of the needs and interests of citizens. Russia and China guarantee their people the right to take part through various means and in various forms in the administration of the State and public life in accordance with the law. The people of both countries are certain of the way they have chosen and respect the democratic systems and traditions of other States. The sides note that democratic principles are implemented at the global level, as well as in administration of State. Certain States' attempts to impose their own “democratic standards“ on other countries, to monopolize the right to assess the level of compliance with democratic criteria, to draw dividing lines based on the grounds of ideology, including by establishing exclusive blocs and alliances of convenience, prove to be nothing but flouting of democracy and go against the spirit and true values of democracy. Such attempts at hegemony pose serious threats to global and regional peace and stability and undermine the stability of the world order. The sides believe that the advocacy of democracy and human rights must not be used to put pressure on other countries. They oppose the abuse of democratic values and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states under the pretext of protecting democracy and human rights, and any attempts to incite divisions and confrontation in the world. The sides call on the international community to respect cultural and civilizational diversity and the rights of peoples of different countries to self-determination. They stand ready to work together with all the interested partners to promote genuine democracy. The sides note that the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set noble goals in the area of universal human rights, set forth fundamental principles, which all the States must comply with and observe in deeds. At the same time, as every nation has its own unique national features, history, culture, social system and level of social and economic development, universal nature of human rights should be seen through the prism of the real situation in every particular country, and human rights should be protected in accordance with the specific situation in each country and the needs of its population. Promotion and protection of human rights is a shared responsibility of the international community. The states should equally prioritize all categories of human rights and promote them in a systemic manner. The international human rights cooperation should be carried out as a dialogue between the equals involving all countries. All States must have equal access to the right to development. Interaction and cooperation on human rights matters should be based on the principle of equality of all countries and mutual respect for the sake of strengthening the international human rights architecture. II The sides believe that peace, development and cooperation lie at the core of the modern international system. Development is a key driver in ensuring the prosperity of the nations. The ongoing pandemic of the new coronavirus infection poses a serious challenge to the fulfilment of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is vital to enhance partnership relations for the sake of global development and make sure that the new stage of global development is defined by balance, harmony and inclusiveness. The sides are seeking to advance their work to link the development plans for the Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road Initiative with a view to intensifying practical cooperation between the EAEU and China in various areas and promoting greater interconnectedness between the Asia Pacific and Eurasian regions. The sides reaffirm their focus on building the Greater Eurasian Partnership in parallel and in coordination with the Belt and Road construction to foster the development of regional associations as well as bilateral and multilateral integration processes for the benefit of the peoples on the Eurasian continent. The sides agreed to continue consistently intensifying practical cooperation for the sustainable development of the Arctic. The sides will strengthen cooperation within multilateral mechanisms, including the United Nations, and encourage the international community to prioritize development issues in the global macro-policy coordination. They call on the developed countries to implement in good faith their formal commitments on development assistance, provide more resources to developing countries, address the uneven development of States, work to offset such imbalances within States, and advance global and international development cooperation. The Russian side confirms its readiness to continue working on the China-proposed Global Development Initiative, including participation in the activities of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative under the UN auspices. In order to accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the sides call on the international community to take practical steps in key areas of cooperation such as poverty reduction, food security, vaccines and epidemics control, financing for development, climate change, sustainable development, including green development, industrialization, digital economy, and infrastructure connectivity. The sides call on the international community to create open, equal, fair and non-discriminatory conditions for scientific and technological development, to step up practical implementation of scientific and technological advances in order to identify new drivers of economic growth. The sides call upon all countries to strengthen cooperation in sustainable transport, actively build contacts and share knowledge in the construction of transport facilities, including smart transport and sustainable transport, development and use of Arctic routes, as well as to develop other areas to support global post-epidemic recovery. The sides are taking serious action and making an important contribution to the fight against climate change. Jointly celebrating the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, they reaffirm their commitment to this Convention as well as to the goals, principles and provisions of the Paris Agreement, including the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. The sides work together to ensure the full and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement, remain committed to fulfilling the obligations they have undertaken and expect that developed countries will actually ensure the annual provision of $100 billion of climate finance to developing states. The sides oppose setting up new barriers in international trade under the pretext of fighting climate change. The sides strongly support the development of international cooperation and exchanges in the field of biological diversity, actively participating in the relevant global governance process, and intend to jointly promote the harmonious development of humankind and nature as well as green transformation to ensure sustainable global development. The Heads of State positively assess the effective interaction between Russia and China in the bilateral and multilateral formats focusing on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, protection of life and health of the population of the two countries and the peoples of the world. They will further increase cooperation in the development and manufacture of vaccines against the new coronavirus infection, as well as medical drugs for its treatment, and enhance collaboration in public health and modern medicine. The sides plan to strengthen coordination on epidemiological measures to ensure strong protection of health, safety and order in contacts between citizens of the two countries. The sides have commended the work of the competent authorities and regions of the two countries on implementing quarantine measures in the border areas and ensuring the stable operation of the border crossing points, and intend to consider establishing a joint mechanism for epidemic control and prevention in the border areas to jointly plan anti-epidemic measures to be taken at the border checkpoints, share information, build infrastructure and improve the efficiency of customs clearance of goods. The sides emphasize that ascertaining the origin of the new coronavirus infection is a matter of science. Research on this topic must be based on global knowledge, and that requires cooperation among scientists from all over the world. The sides oppose politicization of this issue. The Russian side welcomes the work carried out jointly by China and WHO to identify the source of the new coronavirus infection and supports the China – WHO joint report on the matter. The sides call on the global community to jointly promote a serious scientific approach to the study of the coronavirus origin. The Russian side supports a successful hosting by the Chinese side of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2022. The sides highly appreciate the level of bilateral cooperation in sports and the Olympic movement and express their readiness to contribute to its further progressive development. III The sides are gravely concerned about serious international security challenges and believe that the fates of all nations are interconnected. No State can or should ensure its own security separately from the security of the rest of the world and at the expense of the security of other States. The international community should actively engage in global governance to ensure universal, comprehensive, indivisible and lasting security. The sides reaffirm their strong mutual support for the protection of their core interests, state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and oppose interference by external forces in their internal affairs. The Russian side reaffirms its support for the One-China principle, confirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and opposes any forms of independence of Taiwan. Russia and China stand against attempts by external forces to undermine security and stability in their common adjacent regions, intend to counter interference by outside forces in the internal affairs of sovereign countries under any pretext, oppose colour revolutions, and will increase cooperation in the aforementioned areas. The sides condemn terrorism in all its manifestations, promote the idea of creating a single global anti-terrorism front, with the United Nations playing a central role, advocate stronger political coordination and constructive engagement in multilateral counterterrorism efforts. The sides oppose politicization of the issues of combating terrorism and their use as instruments of policy of double standards, condemn the practice of interference in the internal affairs of other States for geopolitical purposes through the use of terrorist and extremist groups as well as under the guise of combating international terrorism and extremism. The sides believe that certain States, military and political alliances and coalitions seek to obtain, directly or indirectly, unilateral military advantages to the detriment of the security of others, including by employing unfair competition practices, intensify geopolitical rivalry, fuel antagonism and confrontation, and seriously undermine the international security order and global strategic stability. The sides oppose further enlargement of NATO and call on the North Atlantic Alliance to abandon its ideologized cold war approaches, to respect the sovereignty, security and interests of other countries, the diversity of their civilizational, cultural and historical backgrounds, and to exercise a fair and objective attitude towards the peaceful development of other States. The sides stand against the formation of closed bloc structures and opposing camps in the Asia-Pacific region and remain highly vigilant about the negative impact of the United States' Indo-Pacific strategy on peace and stability in the region. Russia and China have made consistent efforts to build an equitable, open and inclusive security system in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR) that is not directed against third countries and that promotes peace, stability and prosperity. The sides welcome the Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapons States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races and believe that all nuclear-weapons States should abandon the cold war mentality and zero-sum games, reduce the role of nuclear weapons in their national security policies, withdraw nuclear weapons deployed abroad, eliminate the unrestricted development of global anti-ballistic missile defense (ABM) system, and take effective steps to reduce the risks of nuclear wars and any armed conflicts between countries with military nuclear capabilities. The sides reaffirm that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is the cornerstone of the international disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation system, an important part of the post-war international security system, and plays an indispensable role in world peace and development. The international community should promote the balanced implementation of the three pillars of the Treaty and work together to protect the credibility, effectiveness and the universal nature of the instrument. The sides are seriously concerned about the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom (AUKUS), which provides for deeper cooperation between its members in areas involving strategic stability, in particular their decision to initiate cooperation in the field of nuclear-powered submarines. Russia and China believe that such actions are contrary to the objectives of security and sustainable development of the Asia-Pacific region, increase the danger of an arms race in the region, and pose serious risks of nuclear proliferation. The sides strongly condemn such moves and call on AUKUS participants to fulfil their nuclear and missile non-proliferation commitments in good faith and to work together to safeguard peace, stability, and development in the region. Japan's plans to release nuclear contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean and the potential environmental impact of such actions are of deep concern to the sides. The sides emphasize that the disposal of nuclear contaminated water should be handled with responsibility and carried out in a proper manner based on arrangements between the Japanese side and neighbouring States, other interested parties, and relevant international agencies while ensuring transparency, scientific reasoning, and in accordance with international law. The sides believe that the U.S. withdrawal from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, the acceleration of research and the development of intermediate-range and shorter-range ground-based missiles and the desire to deploy them in the Asia-Pacific and European regions, as well as their transfer to the allies, entail an increase in tension and distrust, increase risks to international and regional security, lead to the weakening of international non-proliferation and arms control system, undermining global strategic stability. The sided call on the United States to respond positively to the Russian initiative and abandon its plans to deploy intermediate-range and shorter-range ground-based missiles in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. The sides will continue to maintain contacts and strengthen coordination on this issue. The Chinese side is sympathetic to and supports the proposals put forward by the Russian Federation to create long-term legally binding security guarantees in Europe. The sides note that the denunciation by the United States of a number of important international arms control agreements has an extremely negative impact on international and regional security and stability. The sides express concern over the advancement of U.S. plans to develop global missile defence and deploy its elements in various regions of the world, combined with capacity building of high-precision non-nuclear weapons for disarming strikes and other strategic objectives. The sides stress the importance of the peaceful uses of outer space, strongly support the central role of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in promoting international cooperation, maintaining and developing international space law and regulation in the field of space activities. Russia and China will continue to increase cooperation on such matters of mutual interest as the long-term sustainability of space activities and the development and use of space resources. The sides oppose attempts by some States to turn outer space into an arena of armed confrontation and reiterate their intention to make all necessary efforts to prevent the weaponization of space and an arms race in outer space. They will counteract activities aimed at achieving military superiority in space and using it for combat operations. The sides affirm the need for the early launch of negotiations to conclude a legally binding multilateral instrument based on the Russian-Chinese draft treaty on the prevention of placement of weapons in outer space and the use or threat of force against space objects that would provide fundamental and reliable guarantees against an arms race and the weaponization of outer space. Russia and China emphasize that appropriate transparency and confidence-building measures, including an international initiative/political commitment not to be the first to place weapons in space, can also contribute to the goal of preventing an arms race in outer space, but such measures should complement and not substitute the effective legally binding regime governing space activities. The sides reaffirm their belief that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) is an essential pillar of international peace and security. Russia and China underscore their determination to preserve the credibility and effectiveness of the Convention. The sides affirm the need to fully respect and further strengthen the BWC, including by institutionalizing it, strengthening its mechanisms, and adopting a legally binding Protocol to the Convention with an effective verification mechanism, as well as through regular consultation and cooperation in addressing any issues related to the implementation of the Convention. The sides emphasize that domestic and foreign bioweapons activities by the United States and its allies raise serious concerns and questions for the international community regarding their compliance with the BWC. The sides share the view that such activities pose a serious threat to the national security of the Russian Federation and China and are detrimental to the security of the respective regions. The sides call on the U.S. and its allies to act in an open, transparent, and responsible manner by properly reporting on their military biological activities conducted overseas and on their national territory, and by supporting the resumption of negotiations on a legally binding BWC Protocol with an effective verification mechanism. The sides, reaffirming their commitment to the goal of a world free of chemical weapons, call upon all parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention to work together to uphold its credibility and effectiveness. Russia and China are deeply concerned about the politicization of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and call on all of its members to strengthen solidarity and cooperation and protect the tradition of consensual decision-making. Russia and China insist that the United States, as the sole State Party to the Convention that has not yet completed the process of eliminating chemical weapons, accelerate the elimination of its stockpiles of chemical weapons. The sides emphasize the importance of balancing the non-proliferation obligations of states with the interests of legitimate international cooperation in the use of advanced technology and related materials and equipment for peaceful purposes. The sides note the resolution entitled ”Promoting international Cooperation on Peaceful Uses in the Context of International Security“ adopted at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on the initiative of China and co‑sponsored by Russia, and look forward to its consistent implementation in accordance with the goals set forth therein. The sides attach great importance to the issues of governance in the field of artificial intelligence. The sides are ready to strengthen dialogue and contacts on artificial intelligence. The sides reiterate their readiness to deepen cooperation in the field of international information security and to contribute to building an open, secure, sustainable and accessible ICT environment. The sides emphasize that the principles of the non-use of force, respect for national sovereignty and fundamental human rights and freedoms, and non-interference in the internal affairs of other States, as enshrined in the UN Charter, are applicable to the information space. Russia and China reaffirm the key role of the UN in responding to threats to international information security and express their support for the Organization in developing new norms of conduct of states in this area. The sides welcome the implementation of the global negotiation process on international information security within a single mechanism and support in this context the work of the UN Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) 2021–2025 (OEWG) and express their willingness to speak with one voice within it. The sides consider it necessary to consolidate the efforts of the international community to develop new norms of responsible behaviour of States, including legal ones, as well as a universal international legal instrument regulating the activities of States in the field of ICT. The sides believe that the Global Initiative on Data Security, proposed by the Chinese side and supported, in principle, by the Russian side, provides a basis for the Working Group to discuss and elaborate responses to data security threats and other threats to international information security. The sides reiterate their support of United Nations General Assembly resolutions 74/247 and 75/282, support the work of the relevant Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental Experts, facilitate the negotiations within the United Nations for the elaboration of an international convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes. The sides encourage constructive participation of all sides in the negotiations in order to agree as soon as possible on a credible, universal, and comprehensive convention and provide it to the United Nations General Assembly at its 78th session in strict compliance with resolution 75/282. For these purposes, Russia and China have presented a joint draft convention as a basis for negotiations. The sides support the internationalization of Internet governance, advocate equal rights to its governance, believe that any attempts to limit their sovereign right to regulate national segments of the Internet and ensure their security are unacceptable, are interested in greater participation of the International Telecommunication Union in addressing these issues. The sides intend to deepen bilateral cooperation in international information security on the basis of the relevant 2015 intergovernmental agreement. To this end, the sides have agreed to adopt in the near future a plan for cooperation between Russia and China in this area. IV The sides underline that Russia and China, as world powers and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, intend to firmly adhere to moral principles and accept their responsibility, strongly advocate the international system with the central coordinating role of the United Nations in international affairs, defend the world order based on international law, including the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, advance multipolarity and promote the democratization of international relations, together create an even more prospering, stable, and just world, jointly build international relations of a new type. The Russian side notes the significance of the concept of constructing a ”community of common destiny for mankind“ proposed by the Chinese side to ensure greater solidarity of the international community and consolidation of efforts in responding to common challenges. The Chinese side notes the significance of the efforts taken by the Russian side to establish a just multipolar system of international relations. The sides intend to strongly uphold the outcomes of the Second World War and the existing post-war world order, defend the authority of the United Nations and justice in international relations, resist attempts to deny, distort, and falsify the history of the Second World War. In order to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy of the world war, the sides will strongly condemn actions aimed at denying the responsibility for atrocities of Nazi aggressors, militarist invaders, and their accomplices, besmirch and tarnish the honour of the victorious countries. The sides call for the establishment of a new kind of relationships between world powers on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation. They reaffirm that the new inter-State relations between Russia and China are superior to political and military alliances of the Cold War era. Friendship between the two States has no limits, there are no ”forbidden“ areas of cooperation, strengthening of bilateral strategic cooperation is neither aimed against third countries nor affected by the changing international environment and circumstantial changes in third countries. The sides reiterate the need for consolidation, not division of the international community, the need for cooperation, not confrontation. The sides oppose the return of international relations to the state of confrontation between major powers, when the weak fall prey to the strong. The sides intend to resist attempts to substitute universally recognized formats and mechanisms that are consistent with international law for rules elaborated in private by certain nations or blocs of nations, and are against addressing international problems indirectly and without consensus, oppose power politics, bullying, unilateral sanctions, and extraterritorial application of jurisdiction, as well as the abuse of export control policies, and support trade facilitation in line with the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The sides reaffirmed their intention to strengthen foreign policy coordination, pursue true multilateralism, strengthen cooperation on multilateral platforms, defend common interests, support the international and regional balance of power, and improve global governance. The sides support and defend the multilateral trade system based on the central role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), take an active part in the WTO reform, opposing unilateral approaches and protectionism. The sides are ready to strengthen dialogue between partners and coordinate positions on trade and economic issues of common concern, contribute to ensuring the sustainable and stable operation of global and regional value chains, promote a more open, inclusive, transparent, non-discriminatory system of international trade and economic rules. The sides support the G20 format as an important forum for discussing international economic cooperation issues and anti-crisis response measures, jointly promote the invigorated spirit of solidarity and cooperation within the G20, support the leading role of the association in such areas as the international fight against epidemics, world economic recovery, inclusive sustainable development, improving the global economic governance system in a fair and rational manner to collectively address global challenges. The sides support the deepened strategic partnership within BRICS, promote the expanded cooperation in three main areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and humanitarian exchanges. In particular, Russia and China intend to encourage interaction in the fields of public health, digital economy, science, innovation and technology, including artificial intelligence technologies, as well as the increased coordination between BRICS countries on international platforms. The sides strive to further strengthen the BRICS Plus/Outreach format as an effective mechanism of dialogue with regional integration associations and organizations of developing countries and States with emerging markets. The Russian side will fully support the Chinese side chairing the association in 2022, and assist in the fruitful holding of the XIV BRICS summit. Russia and China aim to comprehensively strengthen the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and further enhance its role in shaping a polycentric world order based on the universally recognized principles of international law, multilateralism, equal, joint, indivisible, comprehensive and sustainable security. They consider it important to consistently implement the agreements on improved mechanisms to counter challenges and threats to the security of SCO member states and, in the context of addressing this task, advocate expanded functionality of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure. The sides will contribute to imparting a new quality and dynamics to the economic interaction between the SCO member States in the fields of trade, manufacturing, transport, energy, finance, investment, agriculture, customs, telecommunications, innovation and other areas of mutual interest, including through the use of advanced, resource-saving, energy efficient and ”green“ technologies. The sides note the fruitful interaction within the SCO under the 2009 Agreement between the Governments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member States on cooperation in the field of international information security, as well as within the specialized Group of Experts. In this context, they welcome the adoption of the SCO Joint Action Plan on Ensuring International Information Security for 2022–2023 by the Council of Heads of State of SCO Member States on September 17, 2021 in Dushanbe. Russia and China proceed from the ever-increasing importance of cultural and humanitarian cooperation for the progressive development of the SCO. In order to strengthen mutual understanding between the people of the SCO member States, they will continue to effectively foster interaction in such areas as cultural ties, education, science and technology, healthcare, environmental protection, tourism, people-to-people contacts, sports. Russia and China will continue to work to strengthen the role of APEC as the leading platform for multilateral dialogue on economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The sides intend to step up coordinated action to successfully implement the ”Putrajaya guidelines for the development of APEC until 2040“ with a focus on creating a free, open, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent and predictable trade and investment environment in the region. Particular emphasis will be placed on the fight against the novel coronavirus infection pandemic and economic recovery, digitalization of a wide range of different spheres of life, economic growth in remote territories and the establishment of interaction between APEC and other regional multilateral associations with a similar agenda. The sides intend to develop cooperation within the ”Russia-India-China“ format, as well as to strengthen interaction on such venues as the East Asia Summit, ASEAN Regional Forum on Security, Meeting of Defense Ministers of the ASEAN Member States and Dialogue Partners. Russia and China support ASEAN's central role in developing cooperation in East Asia, continue to increase coordination on deepened cooperation with ASEAN, and jointly promote cooperation in the areas of public health, sustainable development, combating terrorism and countering transnational crime. The sides intend to continue to work in the interest of a strengthened role of ASEAN as a key element of the regional architecture. ![]() Tucker’s Valentine’s Day Message to Vladimir By Cliff Kincaid The headline, “U.S. and NATO tighten military ring around Russia,” sounded like something from a Tucker Carlson show on Russia. But it came from the People’s World, the newspaper of the once-Moscow-funded and now pro-China and pro-Russia Communist Party USA. Tucker and the communists agree that NATO has to stay out of Russia’s business in Europe. Living in a world of his own, under Russian influence and under surveillance by the NSA, Tucker thinks Putin’s only concerned about Russia’s borders. The real story is that Moscow is threatening another invasion of a free, independent, and sovereign state in Europe. Ukraine is in the midst of an anti-communist revolution, where communist statues of such Soviet luminaries as Lenin have been pulled down by the dozens and reduced to rubble. Russia’s president, former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, doesn’t like that. His puppet in Ukraine was run out of office and Putin thinks that, if Ukraine succeeds, the same thing could happen to him. This should actually be our stated policy – regime change in Moscow and Beijing. If you are just beginning to realize that Tucker, the number one-rated host on Fox News, is in bed with Vladimir Putin, consider yourself a victim of conservative “woke” censorship. Many conservatives are afraid to label him what he is -- a dupe of the Russians -- because they fear his power and influence. For whatever reason, and we fear the worst, since Tucker says he has been under NSA surveillance, this number one Fox News host has to have some very strange relationships with those on the Russian side. That’s a story worth telling. Carlson says the NSA has been “monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.” How damaging are these communications? What’s also interesting about the People’s World article is that the author, one Victor Grossman, defected to the communist world in the 1950s during the Cold War. Tucker hasn’t defected to Russia, but his broadcasts on Ukraine have made observers wonder what has happened to him -- and Fox News. Equally significant, one of Tucker’s favorite guests on this and other topics, Glenn Greenwald, is a leftist who helped NSA/CIA defector Edward Snowden reveal classified information on his way to Chinese Hong Kong and Russia, where he now lives. Tucker’s relationship with Greenwald is alarming. In defense of Putin, Grossman quotes Germany’s highest naval official, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, as saying, “Is Russia really interested in adding a tiny little strip of Ukraine to its territory? No, that is nonsense…Russia is an ancient country; Russia is an important country. Even we, Germany, and India, need Russia; we need Russia against China.” In fact, Russia already seized Crimea from Ukraine and has troops or surrogates on “a tiny strip of Ukraine” known as eastern Ukraine. Indeed, a Russian BUK missile destroyed Malaysian flight MH17, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board, in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine. In regard to respect, Putin deserves none. He is a killer who uses assassins against KGB dissidents and political opponents. The KGB’s use of poisons is legendary and so common place that they were featured in an episode of the show “Law & Order.” My group, America’s Survival, Inc recorded a program with legal analyst Jeffrey Scott Shapiro about the verdict against Russia in the case of the assassination of former Russian FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, whose “crime” was spilling the beans on Moscow’s role in Islamic terrorism. But the Biden Administration reacted by giving Russia economic control over Europe by approving the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. That has backfired in a big way, typical of how Biden conducts foreign policy. To oppose Russian aggression is not the same thing as defending Biden’s unilateral mishandling of this crisis. Another important point that has escaped the attention of many conservatives is that Russia is an important country but it was rotted out from the inside because of the communist revolution in 1917. As some observers have noted, today it’s a gas station with nuclear weapons. These facts still make it a great danger. Realizing the communist revolution had destroyed the moral fabric of Russia, Putin was smart enough to switch gears on domestic policy, sounding Christian and conservative on family values. That was a clever ploy and the rhetoric has taken in many conservatives. At the same time, Putin appeals to Western conservatives with pro-family rhetoric while pursuing a variation of the old Soviet foreign policy, now called Eurasianism, which envisions a revival of the Russian empire by taking back Ukraine, or at least most of it. Former KGB officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky says Eurasianism was actually developed by Soviet intelligence in the 1920s, and later popularized by Alexander Dugin after the Soviet collapse. In the 1990s, he said, Dugin held seminars which were attended by high-positioned Russian intelligence officers, such as Sergei Ivanov, who became the Russian Minister of Defense and chief of staff to President Putin. Arguing in favor of Russian interests, like Tucker does, Grossman Germany’s highest naval official, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, said, “we need Russia against China.” This German vice-admiral has been fooled, like so many others in Germany today. A 1965 communist Chinese publication, “The Polemic on the General Line of the International Communist Movement,” makes it clear that the perceived “differences” between the Chinese and Soviet Communist parties were irrelevant in terms of their ultimate goal. This is why former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev would still, in the midst of glasnost and perestroika, declare his goal to be the ultimate triumph of world communism. Our 2015 book, The Sword of Revolution and the Communist Apocalypse, features an interview with a former U.S. intelligence agency official who explained how the Sino-Soviet split was a development in the strategy known as Marxist dialectics and deceived U.S. policymakers and weakened the Free World. That has made us vulnerable to both China and Russia. Vice Admiral Schönbach resigned over his pro-Russian remarks on the Russia-Ukraine crisis. On the other hand, Tucker continues to spread disinformation that benefits Putin. Even more astounding, the usually reliable conservative Republican Senator, Josh Hawley of Missouri, has recommended meeting one of Putin’s key demands, ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. In his letter to Biden Secretary of State Blinken, Hawley buys into the Tucker Carlson argument that challenging Russia takes our attention away from China. He clearly has no understanding of global communism and how China and Russia are working together. Hawley is not ready for prime time. We have seen the rise of Tucker Carlson, the number one-rated cable host in prime time, and now we are seeing his fall. Ronald Reagan-style conservatives don’t buy into his pro-Russian propaganda and are concerned about why the NSA is so interested in his networks of influence. This could be a bigger scandal than Jeff Zucker’s resignation from CNN. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Russian Infiltration of the Conservative Movement
By Cliff Kincaid Before Tucker Carlson became known as an advocate for Moscow’s interests in Europe, there was Alex Jones, the loud mouth who appeared on Russia Today (RT), the Moscow-funded English-language channel, to defend the Russian invasion of the independent country of Georgia, a former Soviet republic, back in 2008. Tucker is the new Alex Jones. Jones, who pretended no children died at Sandy Hook and that it was a “hoax,” a position that earned him several lawsuits over the pain and suffering he has caused the families of the victims, is widely known as a buffoon. Carlson figures to follow in Jones’ footsteps. Many forget Jones also advertised himself as a foreign policy and terrorism expert. The Boston Bombings America’s Survival distributed a case study, with screen shots and images, of how Jones linked to several Russian propaganda and disinformation outlets in connection with various international incidents. For example, Jones distributed a Voice of Russia story about the Boston bombings on April 15, 2013 being a “false flag” attack with pictures and footage of fake blood, make-up artists and smiling “victims.” The bombers turned out to be Islamic terrorists with Russian ties. But Russian media, including RT, had insisted that the U.S. is to blame for the Boston bombings because vague “warnings” from Moscow were ignored about bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamic connections. If the Russian intelligence agencies were suspicious of the brother’s terror ties, stemming from a Muslim region of Russia, why did they not arrest and imprison him? Apologizing for Moscow’s foreign policy in general began in 2008, when Jones, described as “the U.S. investigative journalist,” was on RT insisting that the U.S. “private international military industrial complex” had “launched a sneak attack” on the “Russian enclaves” in Georgia in order to support the “U.S.-backed Georgians [and] the Israeli- and NATO-backed Georgians.” Jones said the U.S. was guilty of “unprecedented crimes” and urged Russia to continue to occupy the regions it had invaded. “I apologize as an American that we have let our government be taken over like this,” said Jones, who went on to blame “the neo-cons in NATO, in the U.S. and Israel” who “want to have a new Cold War.” Russia Today’s New Hero RT now asks, in regard to Tucker Carlson, “How did Fox News become the voice of reason?” The word "reason” means accommodating Moscow, as RT’s approval of the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” broadcast on the channel may be as significant as Biden’s approval of the Russian pipeline to Germany, which got us into the current crisis and encouraged more Russian threats against Ukraine. In this case, however, the Russians have snagged a major conservative, the host of the Fox News Channel’s number one show. “Why is it disloyal to side with Russia” Tucker asks, “but loyal to side with Ukraine?” He says former KGB spy and Russian ruler Vladimir Putin only wants his Western borders “secure.” As a result of Carlson’s influence, Axios reports that “Republicans running in high-profile primary races aren't racing to defend Ukraine against a possible Russian invasion.” It’s a tragedy for a political party that once adopted Ronald Reagan’s anti-communist approach to protecting freedom and national sovereignty through a strong national defense. Victor Rud, past chairman of the board of governors of the Ukrainian American Bar Association and current chairman of its Committee on Foreign Affairs, points out, “Ukraine is our best chance to have a counterweight to Russia, forcing it to turn inward so that we can address China.” Figures like Carlson and Steve Bannon of Real America’s Voice and the Mike Lindell “Frank Speech” networks say they want to counter China but argue there is no reason to defend Ukraine against Russia, or else that Biden is responsible for the crisis and exercising a “wag the dog” operation in Europe to distract from his own disasters. It is a major strategic error on their part. Disarming Ukraine Keep in mind that if Ukraine had kept and modernized the nuclear weapons it had inherited from the old Soviet Union, Russia would never have invaded in 2014. Those weapons could have been transformed into a deterrent to Russian aggression. But President Bill Clinton signed an agreement to send the weapons to Russia. This agreement obligated America, Russia and Britain to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and borders. Despite this betrayal, Ukraine is not asking for American boots on the ground today. Viewed in retrospect, Tucker’s pro-Russian posturing is a replay of many things that happened in 2014, when Russia invaded Ukraine under Obama/Biden and Russia Today ran a Ron Paul column, “Leave Ukraine Alone,” urging the U.S. to stay out of the conflict. Ron Paul is the former Republican Congressman and presidential candidate as well as the father of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. Ron Paul’s RT articles at the time also included:
Direct attacks on the anti-communist freedom fighters in Ukraine continued to come from the Alex Jones’ Infowars.com website, which supported the Russians against Georgia back in 2008 and then sided with the Russians against the Ukrainians. Active Measures During the Cold War, the Soviets had their own version of Tokyo Rose, the English-speaking broadcaster of Japanese propaganda. They would cite American and Western sources of information in an effort to convince the world that U.S. foreign policy was imperialist and corrupt. These “active measures,” a campaign of deliberate lies and distortions emanating from Moscow, attempt to control the narrative over what is happening on the ground. In response, President Reagan launched an information counter-offensive, exposing communist disinformation and propaganda. The rest is history. Soviet lies were exposed, and the Soviets lost the Cold War. During the Cold War the Russian apologists were mostly left-wing “progressives.” Today, they’re conservatives like Tucker Carlson. However, Tucker has been using left-wing “progressives” on his show, too. One of them was Stephen F. Cohen, who claimed the U.S. had been “provoking” Russian leader Vladimir Putin and was therefore responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Cohen was a columnist for the far-left Nation magazine and a frequent guest on Tucker’s show. Tucker paid tribute to him after his passing. With another invasion looming, the Russians, led by President Putin, a former KGB spy, are once again using their state-owned media to besmirch the reputation of America. What has changed is how the Russian media use “conservative” Americans to make their propaganda points, such as Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a favorite of Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, who showed up on RT. Macgregor was used to argue the Russian propaganda point that part of Ukraine belongs to Russia. In the January 19 RT article praising Tucker Carlson for opposing a “war over Ukraine,” the writer said that such a conflict would be “incredibly destructive” and noted that Carlson’s guest, identified as “analyst Clint Ehrlich,” stated “that bringing Ukraine into NATO – the plan that triggered the current descent toward war – would not serve US strategic interests, or those of NATO itself.” Ehrlich turned out to be an American living in Moscow affiliated with a Russian university, hardly an objective analyst. RT declared, “Once considered a sewer pipe of neoconservative jingoism, Fox News is now anti-war – or at least its top-rated host is.” In using people like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson, the Kremlin’s purpose is to create the impression that the United States wants to start wars for nefarious reasons. With Jones’ “credibility” in tatters, largely as a result of his lies about Sandy Hook and 9/11 and other matters, generating lawsuits against his business, Tucker Carlson and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon have assumed prominence and are now leading the charge over war in Ukraine. But the term some of them use, “neo-conservatives,” to demonize supporters of Ukraine, is deliberately confusing. If neo-con is supposed to mean a desire to extend U.S.-style democracy around the world, then this is a philosophy that dates back to the time of America’s founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson was a firm believer in an American “empire of liberty” and envisioned the young nation expanding into the entire continent of North America. The founders clearly wanted to avoid involvement in European affairs at the time because France and England were formidable powers. But they also saw the American experiment as something to be promoted and spread around the world. In contrast to Russia, Ukraine has a democratic government. Victor Rud, past chairman of the board of governors of the Ukrainian American Bar Association and current chairman of its Committee on Foreign Affairs, comments: “Ukraine has one of Europe’s oldest democratic traditions, and is the home to Europe’s first constitution for a representative democracy, establishing checks and balance among branches of government and drawing on principles of natural law. This was 77 earlier than the U.S. constitution and almost a generation before Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws.” The Neo-Cons The purpose in using Jones and Tucker is to suggest to the world that Americans oppose this mysterious neo-con group, sometimes linked in anti-Semitic propaganda to Jewish interests, and instead support Russia’s foreign policy, disguised as “nationalism.” Back in 2005, David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, identified these forces by name as “Zionist-driven Globalism and its collaborators” and said they were “the greatest enemies of mankind.” He wrote of traveling to Moscow “to interview Russian leaders in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the real policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” disclosing that he met with “some leaders of the Russian anti-globalist, nationalist community.” One has to wonder if Tucker believes any of this nonsense. Duke subsequently wrote a book, The Secret Behind Communism, claiming that Jews brought Soviet communism to Russia, and was photographed with Putin adviser Alexander Dugin, a “scholar” who is shaping Russian geopolitical strategy. Dugin’s theory of “geopolitical Eurasianism” involves a revival of the Russian empire that includes Communist China and various Islamic elements such as a nuclear Iran. Dugin, who also figures prominently in our book, Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire, as a result of his connections to Soviet intelligence, has praised the “American conservative intellectual Steve Bannon,” the former Trump adviser fired and later pardoned by the former president. Russian Dupes Then and Now Recognizing growing Russian influence in the conservative movement, this journalist filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in 2014, arguing that an RT host, Adam Kokesh, was illegally raising money for Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign because the channel was a foreign entity. The FEC dismissed the complaint, saying RT was a legitimate press organ. U.S. Broadcaster Jerry Kenney filed a complaint in 2011 with the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that both RT and the Al-Jazeera propaganda channel were violating the law by not disclosing in their propaganda broadcasts that they are agents of foreign powers. No action was taken on this complaint. In 2017, however, in response to pressure, RT did register as a foreign agent for Russia. RT published two articles critical of this journalist, here and here, after I had been exposing how various characters in American politics and the media had given RT credibility by appearing on the propaganda channel. Today, Tucker has emerged as Russia’s most important apologist, with figures like Ron Paul relegated to the sidelines. Most conservatives are afraid of exposing his controversial statements and actions, except for analysts like J.R. Nyquist, who said it seems as if Tucker has a love for Russia. But Tucker’s Russian connection doesn’t end with his rhetoric. Who is Glenn Greenwald? Another one of Tucker’s favorite guests, Glenn Greenwald, has joined the chorus, referring to the neo-cons as “fanatical” and “war-hungry” over Ukraine. He promoted a Tucker Carlson monologue titled, “Who Will Benefit from War with Russia?” What conservatives may not know is that Greenwald, a former gay porn lawyer, once accepted an award named in honor of Soviet agent and left-wing journalist I.F. Stone and regularly attended international communist conferences co-sponsored by the International Socialist Organization. Greenwald assisted CIA/NSA defector Edward Snowden in spilling state secrets to the Chinese and the Russians. Snowden is currently being guarded in Moscow by the FSB, the security service of the Vladimir Putin regime. I wrote about all of this in my book, Blood on His Hands: The True Story of Edward Snowden. Greenwald spoke publicly in favor of “weakening” America, saying that al-Qaeda’s 9/11 terrorist attacks on America were “very minimal in scope compared to the level of deaths that the United States has been bringing to the world for decades—from Vietnam to illegal wars in Central America…” Greenwald has also encouraged people to donate money to WikiLeaks, the organization started by Julian Assange that disclosed classified information about U.S. counter-terrorism programs. Assange himself worked for Russia Today, where he interviewed such figures as Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah and U.S. Marxist professor Noam Chomsky. Not surprisingly, apologists for Assange and Assange family members have appeared on Tucker’s show to call for his release. These included such intellectual heavyweights as actress Pamela Anderson (a Playboy model who formerly appeared on the show “Bay Watch”) and Roger Waters of the rock band Pink Floyd. Tucker Attacks Vets While serving as a mouthpiece for Assange, Tucker attacks Senator Joni Ernst, a veteran of the Global War on Terrorism, as “totally ignorant” on Ukraine. Ernst has referred to the Biden “Doctrine of Appeasement,” a term that could apply to Tucker’s treatment of Moscow. Rather than hold Biden responsible for his weakness and defend the anti-communist revolution in Ukraine, Tucker echoes the Russians and blames “neo-cons” for the crisis in Europe. Such rants are not anti-war but unhinged anti-Americanism, directed against patriotic Senators who have served their country. Tucker Carlson is the new Alex Jones, but with a bigger audience. It’s no wonder he once complained about the NSA monitoring his efforts to seek an interview with the Russian president. Such a “back channel” to Russia raises serious questions about the highest-rated Fox News host and those who are influencing him. The Freedom of Information Act doesn’t apply to Fox so we don’t have copies of Tucker’s phone calls and/or email exchanges. However, it’s easy to guess why he was under surveillance. Once burned once by now Moscow-based Edward Snowden, the NSA is the one “Deep State” agency that has remained true to its mission. Indeed, one of Greenwald’s old media ventures, The Intercept, with whom he had a falling out years later, ran a report alleging that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been unfairly targeted by the NSA. Monitoring Merkel was entirely proper. Agent of Influence Analyst J.R. Nyquist said at the time that Merkel was known to be suspiciously pro-Russian when she ran for high office in Germany but that her political party, the Christian Democrats, nominated her anyway, “and now Germany is more dependent on Russian natural gas than ever before.” Germany’s so-called “unique relationship with Russia” meant that the country got 36 percent of its natural gas imports and 39 percent of its oil imports from Russia. This was back in 2014, when the first Russian invasion of Ukraine took place. Some 14,000 have been killed as a result, with close to 1.5 million internally displaced refugees. The increasing dependence on Russia was related to Merkel’s decision, after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, to phase out Germany’s nuclear energy program, in response to Green Party pressure. German dependence on Russia is even worse today, thanks in part to the Nord Stream 2 Russian pipeline to Europe, which was approved by Biden after the alleged “Russian agent” Donald J. Trump had stymied its final competition. Now, we see that the fact that the Russians supplied the phony dossier used to investigate Trump makes sense. They got a patsy in the White House named Biden, who seems determine to make a mess in Europe comparable to or worse than the collapse of the NATO effort in Afghanistan. He seems willing to accept a “minor incursion” into Ukraine, giving at least half the country to Putin. What compounds the problem is that the freedom fighters in Ukraine, so outgunned they have to practice military drills with wooden rifles, are unable to count on support from American conservatives, with the number one-rated “conservative” cable news host perceived to be siding with the aggressors. With such a stance, depending on the causalities from another war, Tucker may go down in history like the notorious Walter Duranty of the New York Times, who covered up Stalin’s mass murder of seven to 10 million Ukrainians during the period of 1932 to 1933. The New York Times had a deal with Stalin only to report the party news. His dispatches were cleared by Soviet officials and were thus sanitized of the purges and artificial famines that would kill millions. Victor Rud, past chairman of the board of governors of the Ukrainian American Bar Association and current chairman of its Committee on Foreign Affairs, comments: “President Reagan was castigated by the foreign policy establishment for daring to identify the Soviet Union as the ‘Evil Empire.’ Ukraine’s renewal of its independence in 1991 drove a nail into the coffin of that Empire. It’s beyond bizarre that by lauding Putin and Russia Mr. Carlson advocates a reversal, which would monumentally compromise America’s national security. He endorses Putin’s lament about the passing of that Empire, his celebration of Stalin and his executioners, and his drive to extinguish Ukraine which was Stalin’s goal as well. Breaking Ukrainian resistance is the core of Russia’s 1997 blueprint against the West. In my opinion Mr. Carlson has breached his public trust by, at the very least, being grossly and persistently misinformed given that the reality is so easily determined. I cannot but help reflecting on the role played by Walter Duranty.” We marveled in 2014 at how the Russian government was pumping propaganda directly into American living rooms through Russia Today. It continues to do so, through such outlets as DIRECTV and the Dish Networks. Now we marvel at how Fox News has become the Russians’ preferred outlet. It’s a major low point for America’s conservative media. Yet many conservatives, eager to appear on his show, are silent about his betrayal of a freedom-loving people in Ukraine. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org ![]() Secure Borders for Ukraine and America By Cliff Kincaid Pete Hegseth of Fox News questions why Biden is worried about the borders of Ukraine and not those of the United States. The correct answer is that we should support secure borders for both countries and oppose Russian aggression. Hegseth, a true patriot, served in the Middle East, and we thank him for his service. The difference between his wars and Ukraine is that the anti-communists running this former Soviet republic are not asking for American troops, only American arms. Why can’t we demand security for America and Ukraine? There is no reason we can’t do both. As we demand security on our southern border, we should also affirm sovereignty for the U.S. and Ukraine while objecting to Russian aggression. Why is this position so difficult to understand and adopt? We are not nation building in Ukraine. The country is already independent of Russia. Some conservatives are frustrated that Biden won’t protect our own border and they take out their anger on Ukraine. Another factor is corruption in Ukraine and financial ties to the Biden family. But Russia is even worse. It supplied the dossier the Democrats used to investigate and impeach Trump. Too much faulty logic is being displayed by personalities like Tucker Carlson that seems intended to benefit Russia and consign the fate of 40 million people to Vladimir Putin’s dreams of a new Russian empire. On the surface, Biden is doing and saying some things that are correct about Ukraine. But we all know that he can’t be taken seriously. What conservatives should be doing is drawing attention to how the Bill Clinton and Obama/Biden Administrations disarmed Ukraine, putting that country at the mercy of Russian aggression today. Everything that is happening in Europe is the result of pro-Russian appeasement policies set in motion by Democratic presidents. To understand this bizarre state of affairs, consider the fact that Ukraine once had some 1,900 strategic nuclear weapons, the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. My column, “How Clinton and Obama Disarmed and Abandoned Ukraine,” explains all of this. In exchange for Ukraine removing its strategic nuclear weapons and sending them to Russia, the Budapest Memorandum confirmed that the United States, Britain and Russia “reaffirm their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine, and that none of their weapons will ever be used against Ukraine except in self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations…” Clinton/Obama/Biden have created the conditions for the Russian attacks on Ukraine. Unbelievable but true. Now, Biden postures as a friend of freedom, while “conservatives” like Tucker Carlson of Fox News act indifferent to the fate of Ukraine and seem willing to turn the country over to Russia. In effect, Tucker is adopting the old Biden position. In the face of the Biden betrayals, and his too-little-too-late approach, conservatives should not excuse Russian aggression. We should support border security for Ukraine and the United States. That’s the consistent and principled position. That’s the conservative position. A country without borders is not a country. That applies to the U.S. and Ukraine. Remember that an anti-communist revolution is still underway in Ukraine and that we need something like that here, in the United States. We have to support the people of Ukraine and encourage anti-Russian resistance. Tucker Carlson isn't the only prominent pro-Russia “conservative” indifferent to the fate of Ukraine. I just got an email message from Ilana Mercer, a contributor to the conservative Townhall website, saying, “With central and eastern Europe being swallowed up progressively by the NATO alliance, Russia has legitimate security concerns. Abutting its border, Russia will soon have to endure all NATO members carrying out military maneuvers." Among other things, she seems ignorant of the fact that Russia is attempting to swallow up Ukraine, despite signing an agreement, the Budapest Memorandum, guaranteeing Ukraine's independence. This is the kind of pro-Russian disinformation conservatives are getting from the likes of Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and others of their ilk. We are faced today with the prospect of a Russian war on Ukraine that is made possible because the Obama/Biden Administration failed to provide Ukraine the weapons the country needed while draining financial resources away from a major Ukrainian gas company to the Biden family. As president, Trump, under assault as an alleged Russian agent, demanded that Ukrainian authorities investigate the corruption that was making the country weak in the face of the Russian threat. For this, Trump was impeached. Even so, Trump helped Ukraine far more than Obama/Biden. As noted by Senator Tom Cotton, “For four years, Democrats maligned President Trump as weak on Russia. In reality, Mr. Trump put pressure on the Kremlin by killing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, increasing NATO defense spending, and providing lethal aid to Ukraine, among other actions. This effectively deterred a renewed invasion or any big brinkmanship along the Ukrainian border. Mr. Biden’s feeble foreign policy has invited his aggression.” As Cotton indicates, the situation has change dramatically under Biden. His family took money from Ukraine while failing to help the country defend itself -- until it now seems too late. This is not the time for conservatives to go wobbly. To be sure, the use of American troops in Ukraine cannot be justified without Congressional approval, and there is no reason for Congress to approve such a deployment, with the U.S. Armed Forces in disarray over political correctness and unreasonable vaccine mandates. Conservatives can oppose American troops in Ukraine while supporting the country’s independence and sovereignty. There is nothing contradictory in this position. It is the right thing to do. What they should be worried about is Russia-China collaboration, at a time when the China virus continues to claim American lives, and seek ways to undermine both of these dangerous adversaries. If we ignore the fate of Ukraine and sacrifice this country to Russia, we will be jeopardizing the future of freedom around the world. This surrender will send a strong message to other enemies as well. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Sen. Tom Cotton official release
NOVEMBER 05, 2021 RUSSIA IS BIDEN’S NEXT FOREIGN-POLICY TEST While President Biden has been distracted by a climate-change conference and sagging approval at home, President Vladimir Putin is building up Russian forces along the Ukrainian border. The Biden administration must respond to this provocation and do what President Obama didn’t—deter Russian aggression against its Western neighbor—before it’s too late. Russia’s war against Ukraine started in 2014, when Russian forces invaded, seized the Crimean Peninsula, and occupied the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Since then, Russian forces have carried out sporadic attacks against the Ukrainian military—using artillery barrages, drone strikes and infantry incursions. Mr. Putin’s war has claimed the lives of more than 14,000 Ukrainians. Mr. Putin has only become more aggressive since Mr. Biden took office. In April, the Kremlin deployed more than 100,000 troops to the Ukrainian border—the most since the 2014 invasion. In his April 2021 State of the Nation address, Mr. Putin broadened Russia’s “red lines” and threatened a “swift response” if the North Atlantic Treaty Organization increased its activity in Ukraine. Last summer, Mr. Putin repeated his claim that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people—a single whole” and warned those who try to use “our historical territories . . . against Russia” that they “will destroy their own country.” Last month Mr. Putin asserted that Western support for Ukraine’s military “really poses a threat to Russia.” Mr. Putin is backing up his words with action. Satellite images and videos appear to show Russian armored vehicles and troop convoys massing near the Ukrainian border, where 80,000 to 90,000 Russian troops already sit. These troop movements may be a prelude to a renewed invasion of Ukraine or an attempt to extract concessions from the Ukrainians, the European Union or the Biden administration. In either case, Mr. Putin has leverage. Russia supplies 40% of Europe’s natural gas and could shut off heat to millions of European homes during the winter. He has wielded this threat since July and has a long record of using Russia’s energy supply as a weapon. It’s an open question whether countries like Germany and France would support Ukraine if it meant crippling energy shortages. Unless Mr. Biden wants another geopolitical disaster to follow Afghanistan, he should take several immediate steps to deter Russia and put Mr. Putin on the defensive. First, increase and expedite shipments of lethal defensive weapons to Ukrainian allies. In 2015, I visited Ukrainian troops in Dnipro, not far from the eastern front. One officer pleaded for Javelin antitank missiles, observing that “we don’t need to destroy every Russian tank, we only need to destroy one Russian tank.” Mr. Putin should be made to understand that the Ukrainians can inflict severe costs on Russia if he invades again; we can help Ukraine inflict those costs. Second, impose sanctions against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 natural-gas pipeline. Mr. Biden waived sanctions as a gesture of goodwill to Russia. It hasn’t been reciprocated. Third, expel enough Russian diplomats to establish parity between the bloated Russian delegation in the U.S. and the American delegation in Russia, which Mr. Putin shrank earlier this year. The administration has tolerated an unfair and unequal arrangement in hopes that the Russians would moderate their behavior. The Russians only became more provocative. Fourth, pressure European allies to share more of the burden of deterring Russia. In particular, France and Germany should join the U.S. and U.K. to threaten sanctions against the Russian energy industry, including its state-controlled giants Gazprom and Rosneft, should Russia invade Ukraine. We should also threaten to cut Russia off entirely from international financial networks. Because the French and German economies are most tangled up with Russia, their threats would carry particular weight. For four years, Democrats maligned President Trump as weak on Russia. In reality, Mr. Trump put pressure on the Kremlin by killing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, increasing NATO defense spending, and providing lethal aid to Ukraine, among other actions. This effectively deterred a renewed invasion or any big brinkmanship along the Ukrainian border. Mr. Biden’s feeble foreign policy has invited his aggression. Mr. Biden served in the Senate for much of the Cold War and should have learned that KGB officers like Mr. Putin respect only power and strength, ruthlessly exploiting generosity and weakness. Mr. Putin won’t stop his aggression until he is forced into a defensive posture by united Western pressure. ### |