Russia and the High Priesthood of the Neocon Synod

Who is pushing the United States to support Ukraine in its war against Russia? Who helped to inflame the region enough that the largest armed conflict on the continent since WWII broke out? In David Stockman’s Contra Corner, Stockman explains the involvement of a group he calls the “High Priesthood of the neocon synod.” That includes Undersecretary for State and Ukraine war instigator Victoria Nuland, and her rabidly neocon husband (did you know these two were married?) Robert Kagan. Stockman writes:

The demonization of Putin became especially urgent in late 2013 when he deftly put the kibosh on the neocon’s plan for regime change in Syria. By convincing Assad to give up his chemical weapons under international supervision, the case for military removal of the Syrian president quickly evaporated.

In short order, however, these same neocons got their revenge by fomenting a coup d’ etat on Putin’s doorstep in Ukraine. And it was led by Washington’s hand-picked proto-fascists who detested all things Russian, including the considerable populations and regions of Ukraine which were Russian-speaking.

As it happened, you don’t need a tinfoil hat to recognize the near-conspiracy on the banks of the Potomac that sent the fragile politics of the artificial state of Ukraine into a tail-spin, and which at length paved the way to the catastrophe underway there at present.

The fact is, the detestable Kagan family comprises the high preisthood of the neocon synod that has infiltrated the foreign policy establishment of both parties. And it just so happens that the very high priest of that lamentable synod, Robert Kagan, is married to Victoria Nuland, a war-mongering national security apparatchik who has served every administration since Bush the Younger, and who was the archetict of the Maidan coup on the streets of Kiev in February 2014.

From that moment on, Putin was transformed from a mere bad guy into the incarnation of evil itself in the neocon narrative. And his rational actions after the coup to reclaim Moscow’s centuries old naval bases in Russian Crimea and to offer succor to the imperiled Russian-speaking populations of the Donbas only added fuel to the fire.

But then came the deluge. In a word, the freakish election of Donald Trump in 2016 was falsely laid at Putin’s doorstep, even as Washington’s bipartisan ruling elites and their henchman in the mainstream media went berserk against the Donald.

At length, it turned into a a full-fledged mania—a Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) that pales into insignificance prior outbreaks of American political irrationality, such as the McCarthyism of the 1950s and the Red Hunts of 1919.

In a word, the TDS has utterly destroyed Washington’s foreign policy compass. The demonization of Putin has become so extreme and un-moored from reality that Washington is literally possessed by a ghost of the old Soviet Union. That is, it imagines a ferocious and powerful enemy on the “eastern front” that simply does not exist.

For crying out loud, GDP is a measure of latent capacity to make war, but the GDP of NATO is 26 times larger than that of Russia. Likewise, defense budgets are a measure of actual current military capacity, of which NATO’s war spending is 15 times larger. And that’s in the here and now.

Moreover, from the point of view of Vlad Putin leaping over the Atlantic and Pacific ocean moats to invade the American shores, the question recurs: How many aircraft carriers does he have compared to America’s 20 aircraft and heliocraft carriers?

One!

And it’s 38 years old!

In a word, the absurdity of Washington’s proxy war against Russia and this week’s meeting of the so-called Bucharest Nine is the product of a foreign policy compass that has been shattered by two decades worth of myths and lies that served the short-term interests of Washington’s career politicians and their Deep State masters.

Whatever you think of Donald Trump, those responsible for inflicting years of the Russia collusion hoax on America should be jailed before the next election, along with those Americans who worked to instigate revolutions in sovereign nations around the world for the gain of their friends in the military-industrial complex.

In case you have forgotten who Victoria Nuland is, you might remember her from a 2014 leaked phone call with then ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, where the two discuss their plans for setting up the next Ukrainian government. Nuland, who was U.S. Assistant Secretary at the time, gained the most headlines for saying “F*$# the EU” during the call, but that was a distraction from the actual meaning of the call, which was U.S. involvement in forming the next Ukrainian government. The U.S. was forced to apologize for Nuland’s vulgar EU insult.

You may also remember Nuland from when she admitted that there were biolabs in Ukraine.

Her husband, Robert Kagan, was a key advocate for the war in Iraq. He linked Iraq—erroneously—to Al Qaeda and terrorism to justify American involvement there.

The High Priesthood of the Neocon Synod is helmed by people like Nuland and Kagan.