From the Desert to the Steppe: The Zionist Background to the Russo-Ukrainian War
Vladimir Putin, when he assumed Russia’s presidency in
2000, was acknowledged as an unknown quantity in the American press, with
Knight-Ridder newspapers running a story on him titled “The President Nobody
Knows”. Deeming him a “puzzle”, the article also noted that the former KGB agent
had been dubbed “Mr. Nobody” and the “Gray Cardinal”. Despite Putin’s “brutal
campaign to seize and occupy Chechnya”, the piece quoted an analyst who
suggested that the new president was “not necessarily dangerous for the world.”
He had, for instance, expressed an interest in Russia joining NATO, and Bill
Clinton had given him a “man-we-can-do-business-with endorsement” [1]. As
Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg in 1992, Putin met with a World Economic Forum
delegation [2], and he purports to have participated in the WEF’s “Global
Leaders for Tomorrow” or “Young Global Leaders” program, though information on
this is murky [3]. The Guardian’s Jennifer Rankin also relates:
George Robertson, a
former Labour defence secretary who led NATO between 1999 and 2003, said Putin
made it clear at their first meeting that he wanted Russia to be part of
western Europe. “They wanted to be part of that secure, stable prosperous west
that Russia was out of at the time,” he said. […]
The account chimes with
what Putin told the late David Frost in a BBC interview shortly
before he was first inaugurated as Russian president […] Putin told Frost he
would not rule out joining NATO “if and when Russia’s views are taken into
account as those of an equal partner”.
He told Frost it was hard
for him to visualise NATO as an enemy. “Russia is part of the European culture.
And I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what
we often call the civilised world.” [4]
Even then, however, Clinton’s Jewish secretary of
state, Madeleine Albright, expressed misgivings that Russia under Putin might
not adhere to its pro-“democracy” stance:
[…] Albright warned in a
speech to the World Economic Forum that “economic anxieties” in countries with
democratically elected governments were prompting the people to turn to
authoritarianism and other failed remedies.
She said life in parts of
the former Soviet Union often is tougher for ordinary people than when Communists
ruled.
“A majority of citizens
in these countries have come to equate democracy with inequality, insecurity
and the unraveling of the social fabric,” she said. “We are concerned that in
many countries, the arrival of electoral democracy has been accompanied by
economic expectations that are, as yet, unfulfilled.” [5]
“He was looking for some kind of strategic
relationship with the United States,” Condoleezza Rice recalls of Putin’s
attitude toward America early during the George W. Bush administration [8], but
subsequent events would convince her that Putin is “a megalomaniac” [9].
Notwithstanding his willingness to work with the United States, Putin’s
resistance to problematic Jewish interests and Israeli geopolitical projects
would lead to worsening relations during the years of the neocon-dominated Bush
White House. Already, in November of 2000 – late in Clinton’s presidency but
after Bush’s election – the US State Department threatened sanctions against
Russia for its announcement of withdrawal from a 1995 agreement not to sell
tanks and other battlefield weapons to Israel’s archenemy Iran [10]. In March
of 2002, in the midst of the incipient “War on Terror”, the Pentagon escalated by
publicizing its consideration of “options for nuclear strikes on countries that
threaten the United States with weapons of mass destruction.” Iraq and North
Korea figured prominently in the announcement, but this grouping of targets
could be expanded to “also include China, Russia, Iran, Libya and Syria.” Sarah
Karush of the Associated Press reported:
Dmitry Rogozin, a leading
Russian lawmaker with close ties to the Kremlin, accused Washington of
deliberately organizing the leak in order to intimidate Russia at a time of
increasing strain in US-Russian ties. Relations, which had improved
dramatically after Sept. 11, have recently been marred by trade disputes over a
US decision to introduce new steel tariffs and a Russian ban on US poultry.
“They’ve brought out a big stick – a nuclear stick that is supposed to scare us
and put us in our place,” Rogozin said.
Political analyst
Vyacheslav Nikonov suggested the report came at an inauspicious time for
Washington, which has recently involved itself in Georgia, Russia’s neighbor to
the south. US troops are to arrive there this month to train an anti-terrorist
force. Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his approval to the US plans,
despite initial strong protests from top officials and lawmakers. [11]
“When the US decided to attack Iraq again in 2003
based upon even more flimsy pretexts, Russia under Vladimir Putin would not go
along with this second war, and that appears to be one of Putin’s unforgiveable
sins,” suggests Dan Kovalik [12]. Putin’s moves against key Jewish oligarchs in
Russia during this period further intensified neoconservative hostility. Dutch
observer Chris Kaspar de Ploeg points out that “it is notable how much outrage
followed the imprisonment of the pro-Western [Jewish] oligarch Khodorkovsky in
2003 – although many argued that it was a selective prosecution, no-one
actually doubted the criminal origins of his wealth – compared to the
[comparatively mild criticism of the] havoc wreaked on the people of Chechnya.”
He continues:
Condemnation of
Khodorkovsky’s trial was universal in the West – from the White House, to the
president of the European parliament and the German head of state. To prevent a
similar fate for Russian [Jewish] oligarch Boris Berezovsky, the UK even
granted him political asylum from 2003 onwards. However, before Russia started
prosecuting oligarchs, opposed the invasion of Iraq and backed the Syrian
regime of Assad – relations had been much warmer. [13]
In 2004-2005, Iran and Russia finalized a deal for the
Russians to assist the Islamic Republic with its first nuclear reactor,
incurring the expected Bush administration protestations about weapons of mass
destruction [14]. This same period, interestingly, witnessed an acceleration of
NATO expansion eastward as well as US-fostered subversion in countries
neighboring Russia. “Ukraine, traditionally passive in its politics, has been
mobilised by the young democracy activists and will never be the same again,”
Ian Traynor wrote for The Guardian in November of 2004, acknowledging
the heaviness of the American hand in the Orange Revolution:
But while the gains of
the orange-bedecked “chestnut revolution” are Ukraine’s, the campaign is an
American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in
western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has
been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.
Funded and organised by
the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two
big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was
first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the
ballot box.
Richard Miles, the US
ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador
in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in
how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze.
Ten months after the
success in Belgrade, the US ambassador in Minsk, Michael Kozak, a veteran of
similar operations in central America, notably in Nicaragua, organised a near
identical campaign to try to defeat the Belarus hardman, Alexander Lukashenko.
That one failed. “There
will be no Kostunica in Belarus,” the Belarus president declared, referring to
the victory in Belgrade.
But experience gained in
Serbia, Georgia and Belarus has been invaluable in plotting to beat the regime
of Leonid Kuchma in Kiev.
The operation – engineering
democracy through the ballot box and civil disobedience – is now so slick that
the methods have matured into a template for winning other people’s elections.
[15]
Jennifer Rankin writes in The Guardian:
After the Orange
Revolution street protests in Ukraine in 2004, Putin became increasingly
suspicious of the west, which he blamed for funding pro-democracy NGOs. He was
further angered by NATO’s continuing expansion into central and eastern Europe:
Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania chose to
join the alliance in 2004; Croatia and Albania followed in 2009. Georgia and
Ukraine were promised membership in 2008 but have remained outside. [16]
In July of 2006, in the context of Israel’s war with
Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Russian government published a list of entities
officially recognized as terrorist organizations – notably excluding Hamas and
Hezbollah, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov opining that “Hezbollah must
have a say in any agreements in the Middle East crisis” [17]. Hezbollah was
aided in that conflict, moreover, by its purchases of Russian anti-tank
missiles [18]. The previous year, Israel had protested a proposed deal for
Russian provision of Igla SA-18 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, fearing that
these, too, might end up in the hands of Hezbollah [19]. “The only way you can
come into contact with these missiles would be to attack Syria,” Putin reassured
the Israelis: “Do you want to do that?” [20] In 2005, Russia had declined to
veto threatened UN sanctions for Syria if Syrian troops were not withdrawn from
Lebanon [21], but events of the following years would draw Putin and Assad
closer together.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov acknowledged in
2007 that his nation was providing air defense missile systems to Iran [22],
with geopolitical developments that year underscoring the interconnectedness of
escalations in Europe and the Middle East, as Jonathan Landay and Warren
Strobel reported:
Opposition led by Russia
forced the Bush administration […] to slow its drive for tighter United Nations
sanctions against Iran […]
In another measure of
Russia’s increased influence over US foreign policy […] Bush is sending his
secretaries of state and defense on a rare joint mission to Moscow to try to
persuade the Kremlin to drop its opposition to the deployment of US missile
defenses in Europe […]
Russia is vowing to
withdraw from the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty partly because of what
experts say is the Kremlin’s anger over Bush’s missile defense plans. […]
The rare joint mission by
Bush’s top national security aides underscores the growing clout that Russia
now wields as it reaps windfall profits from rising oil prices and US power
ebbs because of the war in Iraq, America’s frayed alliances and domestic
financial turmoil.
The administration’s
drive to deploy missile defenses in two countries that were long allied with
Moscow, meanwhile, has helped plunge US-Russian relations to their lowest point
since the end of the Cold War and called into question Bush’s assessment of
Russian President Vladimir Putin as a soul mate and strategic ally.
Bush wants to position a
battery of up to 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a tracking radar in the
Czech Republic to foil ballistic missile attacks from Iran. Russia charges that
the system could be used against its missiles, upending the strategic nuclear
balance with the United States, a contention that some US scientists endorse. [23]
Georgia, where 81% of the population of the breakaway
republic of South Ossetia sought to unite with Russia [24], furnished an
additional fault line between the US and Russia in 2008, with Russia conducting
a brief war against Georgia. “It seems that Russia wanted to send a message –
especially since Georgia had applied for NATO membership shortly before its
aggression against South Ossetia,” writes Chris Kaspar de Ploeg. “In addition,
[Georgian President Mikheil] Saakashvili received extensive military aid from
the United States, including about 150 military advisers whose role in the
conflict remains unexamined.” [25]
“The Russian move into Georgia has begun a tectonic
shift in the [Mideast] region,” Syria expert Joshua Landis observed at the
time: “It has emboldened Syria, Hezbollah and Iran to push harder against
Israel and the US.” [26] “Syria’s President Bashar Assad has publicly stepped
up his outreach to old ally Russia,” Sam Ghattas reported for the Associated
Press, “seeking aid to build up Syrian military forces and offering Moscow help
in return – in an apparent effort to exploit a new Russian-American rift.” [27]
In September of that year, Russia announced its renovation of the Syrian port
of Tartus, indicating its intention to establish a long-term naval presence
there and occasioning further kvetching “that Moscow might start reaching out
to US [and Israeli] rivals around the world to beef up military alliances.”
[28] In 2007, Russia and Syria had signed a $944 million contract for provision
of Pantsyr anti-aircraft missile systems. “The idea is that by helping to
strengthen the defences of countries like Syria and Iran, Russia creates
conditions where the US has fewer chances to resort to force,” explained Ivan
Safranchuk of the World Security Institute [29].
Another Israeli enemy targeted for regime change, and
ahead of Syria on the neoconservatives’ itinerary, was Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya,
also an Arab government seeking collaboration with Putin’s Russia. As early as
2001, CIA Director George Tenet was accusing Putin of selling ballistic missile
technology to Gaddafi [30]. “Libya emerged as a promising market for Russia
when the United Nations suspended its 7-year-old sanctions on the North African
nation,” explain Dave Montgomery and Jonathan Landay:
Russian Vice Premier Ilya
Klebanov, who oversees arms sales, flew to Libya to promote Russian weaponry
shortly after the sanctions were suspended in April 1999. His discussions
focused on deliveries of new air-defense systems and modern warplanes,
including long-range MiG-31 interceptors and MiG-29 fighters. [31]
In 2008, Russia “moved significantly to rebuild ties
that withered after the 1991 Soviet collapse,” Mike Eckel reported:
During a visit in April,
then-President Vladimir Putin agreed to write off $4.5 billion in Libyan debt
in exchange for lucrative deals in energy and arms. In return, Russia landed a
$2.8 billion contract for state-owned Russian Railways, and Russia’s gas
monopoly Gazprom signed a deal to develop six prospective oil and gas fields in
Libya.
The Interfax news agency
said […] that prospective deals under discussion include the Libyan purchase of
S-300, Tor-M1 and Buk-M1 air defense missile systems, two squadrons of Su-30
and MiG-29 fighter jets, several dozen combat helicopters, tanks, rocket
launchers and a diesel submarine.
Interfax said Russia also
plans to sign contracts to modernize aging Soviet-era weapons in Libyan
arsenals which lack spare parts.
A Kremlin official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks, said
[…] that Russia and Libya could even cooperate in the peaceful use of nuclear
energy but wouldn’t give details. [32]
Also of concern to US neocons was the 2008
establishment of Gazprom Libya and the accompanying Russian offer “to buy all
oil and gas available for export from Libya, threatening to grab greater
control of Europe’s energy supplies”, with discussions also underway on the
possibility of Russo-Libyan collaboration on a gas pipeline to Europe [33].
Russian investments in Libya would be dealt a major blow with NATO’s overthrow
of the Jamahiriya in 2011, with Libyan weapons stockpiles subsequently being
smuggled into Syria to arm Washington-backed jihadists in the next major
Zionist regime-change operation against a Russian partner [34].
Russia’s growing clout in the energy sector gave rise
to a significant US domestic political debate with the emergence of the
American fracking industry. The relevance of the utility of the controversial
extraction practice has been borne out by the current Russo-Ukrainian war, with
Bloomberg openly proclaiming that “Fracking Is a Powerful Weapon Against
Russia” [35] as more expensive and environmentally damaging US-fracked “freedom
gas” has now forcibly displaced Russian gas in the European market [36]. In
addition, Ukraine itself furnishes potentially lucrative fields for fracking –
banned in most of Europe – as Robert Parry explained in 2014:
The fracking could mean
both a financial bonanza to investors and an end to Russia’s dominance of the
natural gas supplies feeding central and eastern Europe. So the economic and
geopolitical payoff could be substantial.
According to the US
Energy Information Administration, Ukraine has Europe’s third-largest shale gas
reserves at 42 trillion cubic feet, an inviting target especially since other
European nations, such as Britain, Poland, France and Bulgaria, have resisted
fracking technology because of environmental concerns. An economically supine
Ukraine would presumably be less able to say no. […]
Further supporting the
“natural gas motive” is the fact that […] Ukraine’s largest private gas firm,
Burisma Holdings, appointed Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, to its board
of directors. [37]
The controlling share in Burisma is held by “the
‘patriotic’ [Jewish] oligarch, Ihor Kolomoyskyi” [38], who also launched the
political career of Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelensky [39]. A banker and media
mogul, Kolomoyskyi has strong ties to Israel and is a benefactor of Yad Vashem
[40] – one instance of a striking pattern of connections linking the fracking
industry to the Zionist cause. Indicative of “a rift among Democrats”, New York
Senator Chuck Schumer – a committed Zionist who supported Trump’s transfer of
the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem [41] – broke with many of
his allies in proclaiming, “Overall, the Democrats throughout the country have
supported fracking” [42]. Texas Senator Ted Cruz, one of Israel’s most
obsequious advocates in Congress, has been a major recipient of fracking
industry campaign contributions [43] in addition to AIPAC bribes [44], and
fracking billionaire brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, who were raised “believing
that Yahweh is the only god”, are also partners in prominent Zio-conservative
ventures like Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire and Dennis Prager’s PragerU
[45]. Mitt Romney, who devoted much of his 2012 presidential campaign to
demonstrating his slavish devotion to Israel and vowed to double the permits
issued for fracking on federal lands [46], also deemed Russia to be America’s
“number-one geopolitical foe” [47]. His specific complaints were that Russia
“has supported the Assad regime” in Syria and “has been slow to move to the
kinds of sanctions that have been called for in [i.e., against] Iran.” [48]
A similar pattern of Zionist connections prevails
among the most strident promoters of Russophobic narratives in the US media
establishment. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, for example, is a former AIPAC lobbyist [49],
and Fox News host Sean Hannity, a reliable Zio-toady, has bombastically denounced
Putin as “an evil, murdering, maniacal, megalomaniac dictator” [50]. Bill
Kristol, former Weekly Standard editor and co-founder along with Robert
Kagan of the infamous neoconservative thinktank the Project for the New
American Century, exhibited a similarly cartoonish bias in lending credibility
to the risible “Russiagate” hoax of the Trump years [51]. Another telling case
of Russophobic-Zionist confluence is historian Anne Applebaum, who has devoted
her career as a commentator to vilifying the Soviet Union and Putin’s Russia,
but also made no secret of her Israeli sympathies when she designated
Palestinian journalists a “legitimate target” of the IDF in 2002 [52]. It was
presumably with such figures in mind that Russia Today’s
editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, suggested that the West would do better
“to find normal advisers on Russia. Sack all those parasites.” [53]
It was during Barack Obama’s second term, when Russia
increased its assistance to the government of Bashar Al-Assad, supplying its
Pantsyr S1 radar-guided missile and artillery system, BUK-M2 anti-aircraft
missiles, and Bastion anti-ship missiles [54], and established the Khmeimim Air
Base in Syria to counter the US-backed fighters of the “Islamic State”, with an
S-400 missile defense system subsequently installed, “allowing Russia to defend
the air space from Southern Turkey to Northern Israel” [55] – bringing a halt
to the neoconservatives’ regime-change project – that the new Cold War with
Russia came to the fore as a US “national security” concern and “the neocons’
most dramatic and potentially most dangerous counter-move” played out in
Ukraine, “where they have lent their political and financial support to
opposition forces who sought to break Ukraine away from its Russian neighbor,”
Robert Parry wrote in 2014:
[…] neocon operatives,
with financing from the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other US
sources, played key roles in destabilizing and overthrowing the
democratically elected president.
NED, a $100
million-a-year agency created by the Reagan administration in 1983 to promote
political action and psychological warfare against targeted states, lists 65
projects that it supports financially inside Ukraine, including training
activists, supporting “journalists” and promoting business groups, effectively
creating a full-service structure primed and ready to destabilize a government
in the name of promoting “democracy”. […]
State Department neocons
also put their shoulders into shoving Ukraine away from Russia. Assistant
Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, the wife of prominent
neocon Robert Kagan and the sister-in-law of the Gates-Petraeus adviser
Frederick Kagan, advocated strenuously for Ukraine’s reorientation toward
Europe. [56]
Another figure whose involvement underscores the continuity
between the destabilization of Ukraine and the activities of the Iraq war
cheerleaders of the Bush years is Elissa Slotkin, currently a Michigan
Congresswoman, who “was the leader of a CIA assessment team
in Iraq from 2006 to 2007, and the National Security Council staff’s
director for Iraq policy from 2007 to 2009.” The Jewish Virtual Library
continues:
From 2009 to 2011, Slotkin was a senior advisor on Iraq policy at the US State Department and, in 2011, she joined the staff of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy as an advisor on Middle East policy. In 2012, Slotkin became chief of staff for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and, later that year, was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy. Slotkin was appointed Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in 2013 and, in 2014, she was appointed as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. From 2015 to 2017, Slotkin was acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs where she oversaw policy related to Russia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. [57]
Inauspiciously, Slotkin in 2015 “stated that the Ukrainian army will be interoperable with NATO forces by 2020.” [58] “Notably, Europe’s Eastern Partnership initiative – which led to the association agreement with Ukraine […] – was designed and proposed by the Polish and Swedish ministers of foreign affairs in 2008, [Sweden’s] Carl Bildt and [Poland’s] Radoslaw Sikorski,” points out Chris Kaspar de Ploeg:
Both are fiercely
anti-Russian, going so far as to make comparisons between Russia and Nazi
Germany, which were then echoed by several senior US and British politicians,
such as Hillary Clinton and David Cameron. In fact, Carl Bildt was one of the
founding members of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, advocating for
the 2003 invasion alongside senior US neocons. Sikorski, on the other hand, has
lived for years in the United States and the United Kingdom. [59]
The husband of the aforementioned Anne Applebaum,
Sikorski notoriously tweeted “Thank you, USA” in the wake of the terror bombing
of Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline in 2022 [60]. “They needed Russia out of the
way ‘cause Russia has foiled Israel’s ambitions in the Middle East,” explains
geopolitical analyst Ryan Dawson:
They can’t get Syria
until Russia gets removed, so what do they do? […] They wanted NATO to be a
proxy army against Russia, because if Russia gets crippled economically or
defeated militarily, Israel can roll into Syria. But as long as Russia’s their
[i.e., Syria’s] ally and continues to feed them anti-air defense, Israel can’t
do it, because they can’t stomach the casualties going in on the ground, so if
you knock out their air [power], they’re done.” [61]
Publicly, Israel prefers to appear to have little to
do with the conflict in Ukraine, though Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael
Brodsky has made frequent shows of solidarity with the Ukrainian side. “Israel
has supported pro-Ukraine measures in the UN, including a nonbinding resolution on
the first anniversary of the war that calls for Russia to end hostilities in
Ukraine and withdraw its forces,” writes Lazar Berman for The Times of
Israel:
However, unlike its
Western allies, it has stopped short of providing military aid to Ukraine
despite the latter’s repeated requests. While providing humanitarian assistance
to Ukraine, Israel has maintained a strict policy of not providing military
aid, including systems that could help it intercept Russian missile and drone
attacks.
The reasoning behind the
decision appears to be Israel’s strategic need to maintain freedom of operation
in Syria, where the airspace is largely controlled by Russia. Israeli
officials have also expressed fear that advanced military technology could fall
into enemy hands and cited production and supply limitations.
Israel’s government no doubt is also wary of the
likelihood that direct military support for Ukraine might lead Russia to upgrade
its support to Israel’s enemies in Iran, Syria, or among the Palestinian
resistance. Relations between Ukraine and the Jewish state appear to be
fraying, and Ambassador Brodsky has recently complained that Ukraine, perhaps out
of resentment, “supports anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations ‘in 90%
of cases’” [62]. In May of this year, Brodsky made propaganda hay out of the “first
Ukrainian-Israeli Rehabilitation Summit” in Lviv, “bringing Israel’s experience
in physical and psychological recovery to Ukraine as it continues to fight
Russian forces.” [63] What Brodsky and his Israeli humanitarians carefully omit,
of course, is that, if not for Israel and its partisans in the Zionist diaspora,
Ukrainians would not have been obliterated or mutilated in their thousands and
in need of physical and psychological recovery in the first place.
Rainer Chlodwig von K.
Rainer is the author of Drugs, Jungles, and Jingoism.
Endnotes
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[3] “The Young Global Leaders of the Davos World
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[4] Rankin, Jennifer. “Ex-NATO Head Says Putin Wanted
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[5] “Putin under Microscope”. Springfield (Ohio)
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[6] “US Keeping an Eye on What Order Putin Brings”. The
Times (March 27, 2000), p. A8.
[7] “Milosevic Turns Down Electoral Mediation Offer”. Pensacola
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[8] Zakharia, Fareed. “When Condoleezza Rice First Met
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[9] Murray, Douglas. “Not Peter the Great, He’s Vlad
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[11] Karush, Sarah. “News of US Nuclear Plan Received
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[12] Kovalik, Dan. The Plot to Scapegoat Russia:
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[13] De Ploeg, Chris Kaspar. Ukraine in the
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[14] Holley, David. “Russia, Iran Agree on Nuclear
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[15] Traynor, Ian. “US Campaign Behind the Turmoil in
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[16] Rankin, Jennifer. “Ex-NATO Head Says Putin Wanted
to Join Alliance Early On in His Rule”. The Guardian (November 4, 2021):
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[17] Meyer, Henry. “Russia’s List of Terrorist
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[18] Ghattas, Sam F. “US Enemies Warm to Russia in
Midst of Rift”. The Kingston Whig-Standard (August 27, 2008), p. 11.
[19] “Israel Seeks to Stop Russia-Syria Missile Deal”.
Tyler Morning Telegraph (January 13, 2005), p. 3A.
[20] “Putin Defends Russia-Syria Missile Deal”. The
Roanoke Times (April 29, 2005), p. A7.
[21] “Report: Syria OKs Full Troop Pullout”. The
[Northeastern Pennsylvania] Sunday Times (March 13, 2005), p. 1.
[22] “Russia Admits Iran Purchased Missiles”. The [Scranton]
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[23] Landay, Jonathan S.; and Warren P. Strobel.
“Relations with Russia Chill over Missiles, Iran”. The Olympian
(September 29, 2007), p. A6.
[24] De Ploeg, Chris Kaspar. Ukraine in the
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[25] Ibid., p. 261.
[26] Ghattas, Sam F. “US Enemies Warm to Russia in
Midst of Rift”. The Kingston Whig-Standard (August 27, 2008), p. 11.
[27] Ibid.
[28] Ghattas, Sam F. “Russia Overhauls Naval Base in
Syria”. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (September 13, 2008), p. 3.
[29] Weir, Fred. “Russia Sends Missiles to Syria”. Calgary
Herald ( August 21, 2007), p. A11.
[30] Montomery, Dave; and Jonathan S. Landay. “Russia
Selling Armaments to Rogue Nations”. Fort Worth Star-Telegram (March 11,
2001), p. 29A.
[31] Ibid.
[32] Eckel, Mike. “Gadhafi Seeks Russian Weapons”. The
Sacramento Bee (November 1, 2008), p. A8.
[33] “Gazprom to Seek Libya’s ‘Extra’ Oil, Gas”. Calgary
Herald (July 10, 2008), p. E5.
[34] Donati, Jessica, et al. “The Adventures of a
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