Afrasianet - by Dr. Bahij Skakini - The recent Western-led US-led assault on Russia prompted the United Kingdom to form the spearhead of the European Union following the attempt to "kill" the Russian agent who worked for British intelligence, who was brought to Britain in an exchange of agents for both. Two years ago. Russia has been indicted from the start even before any inquiries into the operation against the client and his daughter in a rural British city. The British government has not provided any concrete evidence on the matter and has rejected Russian calls for cooperation to uncover the circumstances of the assassination attempt, which is believed to be eight times more effective than deadly nerve gas. So far, the United States, Britain and the rest of NATO have expelled more than 130 Russian diplomats working in Russian embassies and the diplomatic corps in these countries, and the crisis is still developing significantly. The danger here lies not only in the return of the cold war environment, which was "overcome" after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of its republics, many of which became members of or on the way to NATO, with the aim of besieging the Russian Federation. And violate all the legal standards and diplomatic norms and the usual recourse in international transactions, the policy of charges, which are absolutely unfounded and which has become the rule of international relations against Russia and other countries. This in itself is much more dangerous than the Cold War because even at that stage there were certain legal and diplomatic controls that formed the brakes that ensured that the friction that could generate the explosion could not be reached. Now, the consequences of eroding the legal and diplomatic standards led by the United States and NATO in dealing with the Russian Federation in particular and escalating the attack in different ways may generate unpredictable, unrestrained and unmanageable consequences, especially with a White House crew of the most aggressive crews. Diplomatic and military standards.
It is clear that the series of accusations without providing physical evidence that is directed to the Russian Federation did not end and has accused Russia of killing a Russian agent on British soil in 2006, although at that time NATO did not go to the threat of activating the article that allows him to defend any of his countries if Its strong security is threatened or attacked by another country as is now alleged.
Russia has also been falsely accused of interfering in the US election and helping Trump reach the White House. She has also been accused of interfering in the German and French presidential elections and again without giving any clues, and it is ironic that they should be forced to "say so," which Britain recently did "take my words" without providing any evidence or asking questions. Russia also accused the plane of Malaysia Airlines of flying over Ukrainian territory in 2014 without the results of the investigation. And so on and the list goes on. The latest accusation by the British government is consistent with these media campaigns to incite the Western world to Russia, especially to President Putin, who has restored the prestige of the Russian state on the international scene. A normal person like us has the right to wonder why all this media coverage and why this escalating attack in recent years on the Russian Federation and its President Putin, which has accelerated recently?
This new Western campaign against the Russian Federation comes in an attempt to pressure it and mobilize Western countries to impose more economic sanctions on Russia, which in my humble opinion amounts to aggression by all standards. There is no doubt that the improvement of the economic situation of Russia, especially in the period when the price of a barrel of oil to about $ 140 before falling to low degrees has played an important role in the escalation of Russia's role in the international arena until it reached the extent to which it managed to curb the American obnoxiousness and indignity The international arena it has enjoyed since the early 1990s and perhaps even the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
It may be worthwhile to point out that the deterioration in global oil prices was deliberate by the US and Saudi Arabia in order to pressure the Russian economy and force Russia to abandon its role in the region, especially with regard to the attitude towards Syria and Ukraine. The United States was on the road to building a cosmopolitan US empire uncontested by one or even its closest allies. In the meantime, other global forces began to grow, especially in the economic aspects, and to build and develop their military capabilities and capabilities, especially Russia and China.
This growth has reached the stage of political and diplomatic influence on the international scene, especially in the Security Council, whose decisions clearly reflect this growing influence, which has caused a clear alarm to successive US administrations.
The United States continues to insist on the right to govern it in the international arena as a "will of God" for the "extraordinary people" and that others should obey this myth and stay working as tools or at least not to stumble in the way of the implementation of the US strategy of cosmic and this is rejected by both Russia and China. In this regard, Russia has become the leading political and, to a certain extent, the military confrontation with the United States. Here lies the Persians, these media campaigns and the imposition of further economic sanctions on the Russian Federation, which was liberated from American hegemony over its economy, which accompanied the arrival of President Yeltsin after Korbachev and the so-called perestroika. It was he who gave the US-dominated World Bank the opportunity to dominate and dictate Russia's economy, which led to the privatization of the Russian state's public sector and the emergence of a parasitic Russian cooperative class that was expected to take power in Russia and join Western countries.
The winds have not been going as the ships have longed for since Putin came to the presidency, which has managed to reach Russia as it is now.
Putin's information on developing the strategic military capabilities of the Russian Federation has stunned the Western powers and their intelligence agencies, which did not expect such capabilities to reach the very advanced level of many strategic weapons on Western countries.
These declared strategic weapons have become a clear challenge to the West, and this in itself will play a bigger role in curbing American interference and global terrorism and may put pressure on European countries, which would be the first to be harmed in the event of any military friction between NATO and the Russian Federation.
The observer for the regional and international arena clearly sees the Russian influence in curbing the American anarchy in our region as regards the situation in Syria, where Russia played a key role in supporting the steadfastness of the Syrian state, its government and its legitimate leadership and providing all military, diplomatic and political support to the leadership and the Syrian Arab army. Through this continuous support, Russia managed to thwart what was planning for the Syrian homeland to topple the Syrian regime and to tear Syria into sectarian cantons and serve as a service to the Zionist-American plans.
This is clear if we compare the weak Russian position in the United Nations during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent disruption of Iraq and the establishment of a sectarian system, which is still the Iraqi people suffer from it.
Russia has also backed Iran in its talks with major powers to reach agreement on its nuclear program and has stood against the United States and the Trump administration, which is trying to re-negotiate some points in the program signed and agreed upon previously.
On the international scene, Russia has developed and developed relations with Latin American countries, for example Venezuela, which has been subjected to American pressure and is seeking to change the regime there by arming and training the opposition in neighboring countries and supporting the activities of NGOs and encouraging opposition parties to Street to spread chaos in the hope of a colorful revolution similar to what happened in Ukraine and Georgia.
Latin America, which has been the backyard of the United States for decades and a supporter of the world's most powerful dictatorships.
What should be said that the Russian Federation has become one of the elements of power in the current stage, which qualifies it to address the US tyranny and strongly and has won Russian diplomacy, especially in the area of commitment to international conventions and resolutions and not to follow the policy of double standards in dealing with international conflicts and ways to solve them peacefully at the level of wide respect at the level International.
This respect has been demonstrated by the frequent visits of many US allies and tools in the region that have come to recognize them and to underscore the outstanding role that can not be overcome or neglected in finding solutions to existing conflicts in the region as well as in the world.
This is just some of what has to be mentioned about Russia's advanced and growing role in the regional and international arena. There is no doubt that the Russian and Chinese ascendancy has eroded the unipolar world order that the United States has reached for more than a quarter of a century without any deterrent or challenge from any other world power.
This situation has ended irreversibly and this is not what the United States is pleased with. This is the real reason behind all these rabid campaigns against Russia and its president in particular. America is no longer the country that can take over the world without confronting and deterring its barbarism, as it did during its invasion of Iraq or its invasion of Afghanistan and the destruction of the country in 2001.