RT Interview with William Enghdal
Source: Russia Today
http://rt.com/op-edge/us-russia-proxy-war-364/
Edward Snowden is
a ‘red herring’ and the ‘childish’ cancelation by Obama of a meeting with Putin
in September is of little significance as the US president has little to offer
Russia, William Engdahl a geopolitical analyst, told RT.
The real issues
of missile defense, Syria and Iran will remain unresolved because of a policy
pursued by Washington of full spectrum dominance, where the sole super power
the US seeks to dictate military, economic and financial terms to the entire world,
Engdahl added.
RT: The Russian deputy foreign minister
didn’t have a particularly productive discussion with the US Secretary of State
in Brussels. Are there any indications that the same talks that are happening
today will be any different?
William Enghdal: I doubt it rather seriously. The decision
by President Obama to cancel the meeting with Putin before the G20 meeting is
really an indication of a lack of strategy on the part of Obama rather than the
putting down of Russia. The background to that is the fact that there are not
only fundamental differences between the two sides, the United States
government in Washington has been trying since the end of the Cold War to
dismantle Russia, quite simply, with missile defense, with the plundering of their
economy through using the IMF and shock therapy in the ’90s.
Now that Obama is
back in the presidency they are finding a far more difficult negotiating
partner over questions like Syria, over issues like the missile defense and
others. Snowden, I think is a red herring, simply an excuse that is very
convenient to use at this point.
RT: You are saying that if a consensus is
reached on some of the issues that will be discussed that might off set the
brewing tension over Edward Snowden?
WE: No, I am not saying that at all. I don’t
think there will be any consensus reached between Russia and Washington on the
issue of missile defense, because Washington is determined to encircle Russia
with its missile defense, which is an offensive strategy, not a defensive one,
by the way. It is a nuclear first strike preparation strategy. That is
something that Russia understandably is not exactly overjoyed about. The issue
of Syria is nonnegotiable; in terms of what the US is trying to put into power
in Syria, similar to what they tried in Egypt and failed, that is a Muslim
Brotherhood controlled regime that would allow Qatar to control pipeline flows
into Europe and not Iran among other things.
There is not a
basis of agreement on these fundamental questions. Snowden is not, as I say,
the issue. The issue is this fundamental disagreement and Washington is not
prepared to change its agenda and openly and honestly negotiate and resolve
these differences, therefore Obama is using this childish maneuver of
cancelling the meeting because of Snowden.
RT: OK I want to go back to Syria. About
Syria, the peace conference keeps getting postponed. We know that the Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wanted it to come up as soon as possible. Is he
likely to achieve a breakthrough at this meeting on that subject?
WE: I don’t see it, unless Washington is
prepared to literally pullback all of its attack dogs inside Syria that they
have run through Turkey using Al-Qaeda and these other groups; that they
pertain to not want to allow to get any weapons, but of course they know
they’re getting the weapons. Until that is done and all sides’ foreign elements
pull out of Syria and allow the Syrians to resolve their own issues by
themselves in the elections next year don’t think any peace conference is going
to take place. The Syrian ‘opposition’ is a Muslim Brotherhood externally
controlled opposition that has no roots inside the Syrian society in terms of a
majority.
RT: Obama said that Russia sometimes has
this Cold War mentality, but isn’t he also perpetuating and provoking that by
not wanting to sit down with Putin and have that one-on-one with him when he
comes in September?
WE: That is the laughable irony about this.
If I were president Putin I would break open a nice bottle of champagne and celebrate
the fact that he doesn’t have to go through this ordeal of another photo opp
with Obama who has nothing to offer Russia in any serious way. Obama’s
statement on the Tonight Show about the Russians somehow occasionally reverting
to the Cold War mentality as if they were cured alcoholics who would go on a
drinking binge from time to time is really not only insulting, it reflects the
mentality in Washington.
This is not
serious statesmanship. The point is Washington has an agenda, which I talk
about in my book Full Spectrum Dominance to extend NATO across the globe and
use that as a global police force for the sole superpower and the Cold War
didn’t end in 1991, when the Soviet Union and the Warsaw pact dissolved.
Washington for its side has continued the Cold War. In fact you can say it’s a
Hot War right now. The battle is being fought by proxies, by surrogates.
The battle over
Syria is part of the Hot War between a coalition of countries of which Russia
and China are critical factors that are resisting that one country dictates the
term in military and other senses - economic and financial - to the entire
world. I think that is a very unhealthy, one-sided or lop-sided state of
affairs. That’s what the real issue is between Washington and the Putin administration.
About: William Engdahl
William Engdahl
is an award-winning geopolitical analyst and strategic risk consultant whose
internationally best-selling books have been translated into thirteen foreign
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