Veterans Today’s Jim Fetzer: Any US Attempt To Encircle Russia Is Destined To Fail

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Any US attempt to encircle Russia is destined to fail: James Fetzer (PressTV, April 20, 2014):

An American political commentator says any attempt to encircle the Russian Federation by the US is destined to fail and that future belongs to Russia, China and Iran, not to the West.

James H. Fetzer, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Sunday.

He was commenting on a recent New York Times report which says that US President Barack Obama and his national security team are looking beyond the crisis in Ukraine to adopt an updated version of the Cold War strategy of containment against Russia.

“The latest report of Obama adopting the strategy to encircle Russia is simply one more manifestation of the incompetence of American foreign policy in this day and age,” Fetzer said.

“We have the approach towards Iran in based upon the false assumption that Iran is keen to develop nuclear weapons, which our own intelligence agencies refuted in 2007 and reaffirmed it in 2011. We have an approach towards Syria that’s predicated on the assumption that the Assad government launched the sarin gas attacks when in fact there’s overwhelming evidence that it was in fact done by the rebels and not by Assad,” he added.

“And that we have an attitude and an approach towards Ukraine that involves encircling Russia, but in fact the unrest in Ukraine was the result of Western powers putting five billion dollars into the country some by George Soros,” Fetzer noted.

“And now we have a new article from Strategic Culture that the West is about to perpetrate false flag attacks in Ukraine in order to justify the intervention by the Pentagon,” he said.

“In my opinion any attempt to encircle Russia is destined to failure. The future appears to be one in which Russia, China and Iran together emerge as a mighty power in the world, and where the US efforts to staunch the flow of history are misconceived…and will not make a significant difference to the way events are going to play out,” Fetzer emphasized.

3 thoughts on “Veterans Today’s Jim Fetzer: Any US Attempt To Encircle Russia Is Destined To Fail”

  1. The US is the Sick Man of the Americas…..even Israel is silent on this subject. The US doesn’t have a prayer against Russia, they have no allies, cannot build a coalition and have no credibility. Their currency is also collapsing as less nations use it at all.

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  2. Whilst I accept the US had implemented many emplacemts of missile bases encircling Russia, I cannot believe that Vlad hasn’t set up a Blitzkreig rapid destruction attack force to totally take the lot out in 2 hours if things got too wobbly.

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  3. To Squodgy: You are spot on. Putin is not only brilliant, a master chess player with 20 years experience running the KGB, he is the single power in Russia, and can act at will. Obama can’t get a jobs bill passed, the US is frozen in corruption and greed, nothing works here.
    When it comes to fighting those opposing him, there is nobody on this planet who can beat him. He has the strategy, the will, intelligence and power. He answers only to himself.
    Vlad is an excellent example of why history is made by men, not groups. He is the closest to a Napoleon I have seen thus far.

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