Did America Set the Same Trap for Russia that it used on Sadaam in 1990 and Korea in 1950
(How America practically coaxed Sadaam Hussein in 1990, and Korea in 1950, to initiate war, via Ambassador April Glaspie and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, respectively, and the parallels to today)
By
David Gottfried
Perot makes the allegation, that April Glaspie invited Sadaam to take Kuwait, at about 58 minutes and 30 seconds into the debate. More importantly, the NY Times made the same charge.
-The Russians are doing very poorly. We are living in an age in which technological innovations proceed very swiftly, and just as Russia’s cyber smarts enabled it to help put Trump in the White House, I think that now America may have surged ahead, enabling America to hobble the Russian military machine in ways that seem unfathomable.
I think America, cognizant of its bolstered cyber power, provoked Russia to initiate this war, anticipated that Russia would fail, and planned to subdue Russia, with a pliant regime, at the end of the war.
This happened before. First, consider Gulf War One. Most Americans think that Sadaam had taken over Kuwait simply because he was, in their view, a macho thug. This is to be expected as America knows very little except doctrinaire dogma about race and sex and sees almost everything through the prism of a dogmatic feminist analysis.
Sadaam justifiably thought that the royal courts of Saudia Arabia and Kuwait owed him big time.
For almost ten years, he had fought Shiite Iran. Enormous numbers of Iraqis (and Iranians) died. In fighting Iran, Sadaam believed, with ample justification, that he was also defending Saudia Arabia and Kuwait, which were Sunni, as was Sadaam, and threatened by Iranian Shiite power.
After the war was over, Sadaam wanted to rebuild. He wanted to raise oil prices to get the money to rebuild. To raise oil prices, he needed gulf states, including Saudia Arabia and Kuwait, to cut back on production; the gulf state royals refused, fearing that any cut back in production might teach Americans to conserve energy.
Negotiations between Iraq, who wanted to cut production and raise prices, and the Gulf emirates, holding fast to its position that prices must not rise, became acrimonious.
The American ambassador to Sadaam, April Glaspie, met with Sadaam. His dispute with Kuwait and Saudia Arabia was addressed. April Glaspie flatly said that the United States takes no position and will not intervene in any disputes between Arab states.
Shortly after Glaspie’s assertion, Sadaam’s forces crossed the border and invaded Kuwait.
This was reported by the New York Times. However, when Ross Perot made the charge, the fancy people in the Boston-Washington corridor became disinterested as they loathe to listen to the words of uncouth men with Southern accents.
AND THE EXACT SAME THNG HAPPENED IN KOREA: Dean Acheson, the United States Secretary of State, said that the United States security perimeter did not extend west of Japan. In other words, America would defend Japan, but it would not defend Korea, which was west of Japan. Within days, or even a couple of days, North Korea invaded South Korea.
In both wars, America was able to buttress its power by welding a coalition. By assembling partners who followed America into War, American power and prestige were augmented. Because America had a very big win in the first gulf war (Made possible because Bush was smart enough to reject the counsel of advisors who recommended that he take Iraq), America was well on its way to becoming a hyper superpower.
For reasons explained in my previous essays, the West has always harbored antipathy toward Russia. Of course, the West had an added impetus to wound Russia: After Putin got through with Trump, the Donald, and by extension America, looked like a puppet that had been used, then symbolically castrated and then thrown into a garbage dump. It was obvious that Russia had dirt on Trump, and I truly think that the Christopher Steele report discovered the reason why Putin owned Trump: Before he was elected, Trump stayed in a Russian hotel, he insisted that he be given the same room and bed that had been used by Obama, and his hosts were all too happy to oblige. After he entered the hotel room, Trump invited Prostitutes to urinate in what had been Obama’s bed. The Russians shrewdly had on tape a show of Prostitutes pissing on a bed and Trump egging them on. Obviously, America wanted to get even.
Also, Putin has been in office a long time. When one holds high office, one will always make decisions that will infuriate people. The longer one is in office, the more enemies one will make. Perhaps Putin had made key enemies and one of them passed on key military secrets to the Americans-Ukrainians. I read that on the eve of World War One, or during World War One, a key Czarist minister or general transmitted military secrets to the Germans.
Stalin feared spies and German agents, and please don’t tell me that this is Stalinist paranoia regarding moles and spies.
Actually, WINSTON CHURCHILL, IN HIS MEMOIRS ABOUT WORLD WAR TWO, SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN ADVISED BY CZECKS THAT SOME RUSSIAN GENERALS MIGHT HAVE BEEN GERMAN SPIES.
Finally, the positions of Ukraine and the United States substantiate my thesis that America wanted this war and had made advances, perhaps with computers, to win it.
President George Bush the elder made a solemn agreement with Russia: The new, united German state (created per the fall of the Berlin Wall, etc.) would be in NATO.
In return, George Bush agreed that NATO would not move any further to the East.
However, the United States went back on its word. Russia had to fight as the eastward lunge of NATO threatened Russia.
The United States went back on its word just as Hitler had gone back on his word when he demanded Bohemia-Moravia in March 1939. (At Munich, in the autumn of 38, Hitler said he would made no more demands)
In 1980, I studied under Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, at a course in Columbia. He said that actors in world politics have to be willing to be murderers. And don’t tell me that Biden’s boys are any less murderous than Putin’s.