When Intervention Fails | [Essay Part 1]

Introduction:

Within the forthcoming essay I aim to explain foreign policy decisions made by governments -namely by the United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation, and The Communist People's Republic of China (CPROC) mostly with a focus in the 21st century- and how they are interconnected. I will also attempt to analyse and critique such decisions, as I believe most of these geopolitical actions largely caused by governments are detrimental to the security, prosperity and freedom of humanity in an increasingly ever-changing world.

The crises of war can be exacerbated by NGO’s (Non Governmental Organisations) such as white helmets in Syria, who have been in collusion with terrorist factions [1], whose 2nd in command called for the shelling of civilians in Damascus [2], whom claim unequivocally to have saved over 75,000 lives saved [3](despite no evidence to back this up), and whom have ties to British Intelligence while receiving $150 million per year. [4]

Expansionism itself includes ‘hard power’ play politics such as military invasions and overthrow of regimes, and ‘soft power’ which includes less military inclined yet just as effective forms such as financial warfare and cyber-hacking, diplomacy in drawing up bilateral agreements (e.g. Syrian ceasefire[5]), and blackmail (for example U.S. congresspeople Dennis Hastert[6], and Janis Schwokosky[7]) as the new battlegrounds of state confrontation this century.

CIA Involvement

Cyber-hacking is an increasingly growing geopolitical tool used by governments as a method of warfare. Hacking is the instance of exposing a network using penetration-testing and numerous other attacks to identify and monitor documents such as emails, calls and texts; for later distribution for a number of purposes -power by blackmail and withholding of info, leakages of information to foreign entities or for whistle-blowing, or simply for military purposes.

This occurrence was identified by the U.S. in its comprehensive evidence in late 2016 that Russia hacked the U.S. election, and referenced to how 17 agencies including the CIA, The State Department, among others circulated a document; referenced for news grabbing headlines that produces no concrete evidence to corroborate the claims[8][9]; despite that the U.S. has interfered in Russian elections[10][11].

The CIA has the capability with its UMBRAGE group of changing the forensics of a hack it has carried out to another nation, such as Russia.[12][13] Such is an example of soft power by shaping public opinion, a technique used throughout history.

This occurs in a world where the CIA’s (Central Intelligence Agency) Centre for Cyber Intelligence[14] can remotely hack and control popular mobile phones (over 1.15 billion for Android[15]) and smart TV’s[16] on a worldwide scale, to obtain the users geolocation, audio and text communications, and to activate a phone's camera and microphone.[17]

The CIA can hack phones to collect audio and message traffic before encryption is applied (e.g. WhatsApp), which include political candidates and parties[18], can use 24 ‘zero day’ exploits for Android phones in collusion with GCHQ[19], whose hackers are given diplomatic ‘black’ passports[20][21]and may be able to infect vehicle control systems in cars and trucks (as of 2014), which would allow for undetectable assassinations.[22] This extent of surveillance and hacking (where blackmail of foreign leaders appears inevitable) includes to monitor and silence anyone worldwide.

Ukraine-Crimea-Chechyna

It is important to link these new frontiers in warfare to a historically relevant published work in 2003 by Zbigniew Brzezinski; (a long standing advisor to U.S. presidents[23]): Second Chance, a Collection of Three Exceptional Presidents; illustrates the nature of how U.S. foreign policy has deteriorated its standing within the years 1984 -2008, under George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Brzezinski notes the U.S. role by the CIA to support violent independence movements in numerous countries.[24][25][26]

This same formula of fermenting an opposition was applied to Ukraine in 2013, through support for the neo-nazi Right Sector movement, leading to the ‘most blatant coup in history’[27], of which involved an infamous phone call involving former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland’s role discussing to replace the elected president Yanukovych with Yatsenyuk ‘he’s the guy’, with concerns made to ‘how to midwife this thing’.[28]

There is extensive evidence that Yatsenesuk was pre-selected 22 days before being appointed to parliament[29]by a U.S. planned coup[30]whose foundations began decades earlier through CIA affiliated ‘nonprofit’ NGO’s that allowed for the coup to occur[31]and whose previous attempts for Ukrainian revolution are documented.[32]

These plans, whom EU investigators reported as a coup[33], involved the U.S. embassy in Kiev almost a year before the coup itself.[34] The overthrow itself grew extremely violent,[35][36][37], culminating to a point where snipers on rooftops controlled by Right Sector and other protest groups were shooting protesters -whom the red star movement had fermented- and government security forces, killing at least 50 protesters and 15 police.[38]

As a result Yanokovich had to flee as the Ukrainian Parliament had been stormed and he would likely have been killed, and the new government itself was immediately recognized as legitimate by the U.K., U.S. and EU.[39][40] As the Russian Federation’s bordering neighbour, Ukraine’s growing body count would contribute to destabilizing relationship between the two, whose populations East of Kiev are much more Russia friendly.

Therefore, Chechyna (90% natively Russian speaking) declared independence from Ukraine to Russia, in what may have been a dubious election[41], however in a peaceful transition via resolution to the growing discontent in comparison to the solutions justified by NATO in Eastern European countries such as Kosovo and Bosnia.[42]

This is despite Western public opinion has been told by ‘mainstream media’ sources that Russia had annexed Crimea in a conquest[43][44] as it routinely ignores information that goes against the current anti-Russian hysteria[45], and whose U.K. government serves D notices if any print media publishes information would jeopardize national security[46], although this information is known from alternative sources.

Mainstream sources largely look at the Crimean situation as the first point in a timeline while forgetting that some areas of Southern and Eastern Ukraine were former Soviet territories that were formally given away in (Lenin in first years of the Soviet Union, Crimea in 1954 later on by Khrushchev) although in reality were still part of the Soviet Union, ever since Ukraine was incorporated in the Soviet Union after WW2 from Germany[47]; hence the vote to join Russia.

However, the Russian government will have seized the opportunity of the Crimean vote, and that they are obviously acting based on economic and geopolitical interest to expand influence on the Baltic region (and did not do so primarily because of wanting to truly help the Crimean people as some Russian sources may portray), although Russia is not an exception in its capacity for violence. It is important for extensive true facts on the ground to be established that will scrutinize any governments actions in any coup or military acts of aggression.

Two other Russian speaking regions, Donetsk also Luhansk declared independence from Ukraine[48] which produced the conflict between these regions and Ukraine, causing almost 10,000 deaths.[49] Russia has not accepted their claim to join the motherland, contradicting the allegations of Russian annexation, but also suggesting blame can fall on both sides for the conflict.

It must be noted when evaluating a news source is that everything is a perspective, not the truth; and each media organisation is subjective with a specific viewpoint on what they want the reader to know. I attempt not to be biased in any specific way, to create a more holistic narrative, particularly as the aggression is more aimed at the Russian side from NATO, although the Russian secret services and government interventions are not innocent by any means in the furthering of expansionist policies internally in Chechyna.

Within second chance Brzezinski states in the case of Chechyna 'A small non Russian nation located in the central Caucasus, Chechyna was long repressed but had persistently sought its freedom... shortly after the Soviet union dissolved in 1991, the Chechens declared national independence... [Vladimir Putin] resumed the war with greater ferocity for the next several years. In the process, upward of 25 percent of the Chechen population perished, with both sides resorting to terror tactics'.[50] This piece is critically important to understand that governments throughout history have attempted to brutally suppress populations declaring independence, often with the conflict not concluding definitively, and violence caused by both sides.

The pretext for Putin to carry out further atrocities appear to be from apartment bombings in 1999, which appear to have been set up by the Russian intelligence agency, the FSB.[51]Putin’s Russia also has its domestic issues[52], like the West.

Notwithstanding NATO has expanded towards Russia in particular, deploying thousands of troops to border nations with Russia, and violating previous promises[53], which is increasing tensions.

A pragmatic approach would be to contest NATO expansion through keeping a ‘neutral belt in the heart of Europe’[54],removing the Right To Protect[55] clause which guarantees future warfare, and disband NATO itself, which acts in opposition to peace.[56][57]

You have reached the end of the first part of my critique of modern interventionist foreign policy! Leave a comment below on any insights you learned or want to impart! I originally wrote this in Spring this year, which took me months, to write [and now to markdown onto Steemit!]

References

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2. Patrick Henningsen, 21st Century Wire, Published 10.12.2016, http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/10/exclusive-president-raed-salehs-terrorist-connections-within-white-helmet-leadership/

3. The White Helmets Official Website, http://www.whitehelmets.org/

4. Robert Perry, Consortium News, published 24.02.17 & 03.03.17, https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/24/syrian-war-propaganda-at-the-oscars/ https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/03/an-oscar-for-a-propaganda-flick/

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8. The Daily Beast, Published 06.01.17, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/06/u-s-spy-report-blames-putin-for-hacks-but-doesn-t-back-it-up.html

9. NewYorker, ‘the declassified report provides more assertion than evidence’ http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/world-war-three-by-mistake

10. National Endowment for Democracy Funding of NGO’s in Russia, http://www.ned.org/region/eurasia/russia-2011/

11. Time Magazine Cover 1996: Yanks to the Rescue, The Secret Story of how American Advisers Helped Yeltsin Win, https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html

12. Quotes ‘[The U.S.] took warranted criticism for trying to pin a high-profile 2014 cyberattack on North Korea,’; “WikiLeaks said there’s an entire department within the CIA whose job it is to ‘misdirect attribution by leaving behind the fingerprints’ of others, such as hackers in Russia,” https://theintercept.com/2017/03/08/wikileaks-files-show-the-cia-repurposing-foreign-hacking-code-to-save-time-not-to-frame-russia/

13. Kaspersky lab has demonstrated the capability that hackers can have of leaving traces of software to implicate another party http://usa.kaspersky.com/about-us/press-center/press-releases/2016/Threat-Actors-Master-False-Flags-Tactics-to-Deceive-Victims-and-Security-Teams

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24. Jason Burke, The Guardian, Frankenstein The CIA Created, published 17.01.1999, ‘12,500 foreigners were trained in bomb-making, sabotage and urban guerrilla warfare in Afghan camps the CIA helped to set up.’ ‘$500 million the CIA poured into Afghanistan reached [the Egyptian Al-Jihad terrorist] group.’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jan/17/yemen.islam

25. Bergen, Peter, Holy War Inc., Free Press, (2001), p.68, (Operation Cyclone)

26. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. ‘The US role was to provide logistics and technological support as well as money.’ https://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/10/ghost_wars_how_reagan_armed_the

27. Wahingtons Blog, published 2014, http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/12/head-stratfor-private-cia-says-overthrow-yanukovych-blatant-coup-history.html

31. Sott.net article, http://www.sott.net/article/292842-Euromaidan-Anatomy-of-a-Washington-backed-coup-d-etat

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39. Mark Grant, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 4th March 2014, "Government in Kiev is legitimate and has been overwhelmingly endorsed by the Ukrainian parliament" https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/government-in-kiev-is-legitimate-and-has-been-overwhelmingly-endorsed-by-the-ukrainian-parliament

40. # Barack Obama, published 06.03.14, ‘Any discussion about the future of Ukraine must include the legitimate government of Ukraine. In 2014, we are well beyond the days when borders can be redrawn over the heads of democratic leaders.’ https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/06/statement-president-ukraine

41. Venice Commission Declaration, published 21.03.14, http://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/default.aspx?pdffile=CDL-AD%282014%29002-e

42. NATO Bombing in Kosovo, published 20.01.2012, https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2000/nato/Natbm200-01.htm

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44. The New York Times, published 16.04.14, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/world/europe/in-ukraine-russia-plays-a-weighted-word-game.html?_r=0

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46. Standing DSMA notices http://www.dsma.uk/danotices/index.htm

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54. Brzezinski, Zbigniew, Second Chance a Collection of Three Exceptional Presidents, page 105, published 2003, ‘It [NATO expansion] was increasingly contested by a cluster of former U.S. diplomats, scholars, and pundits who [make up] some sort of neutral belt in the heart of Europe'.

55. NATO Charter, Article 5, Right to Protect, http://web.archive.org/20001023175050/www.nato.int/docu/basictxt/bt-a1.htm#Art02

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57. Human Rights Watch, Over 500 Civilians Killed in Kosovo by NATO Bombing, published 2000, https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/2000/nato/Natbm200-01.htm