British journalist Neil Clark: What if Russia behaved like the US?
Famous British columnist and blogger Neil Clark in his article presented a world in which familiar and seemingly normal recent political events would be committed by other States.
Just imagine if the democratically-elected government of Canada would be overthrown in the Russian revolution, in which the important role played by far-right extremists and neo-Nazis. If the new unelected "government" Ottawa to repeal the law on the recognition of the French language official. If the oligarch with a billion-dollar state-appointed head of Ottawa and the government signed the agreement on Association with the trading bloc led by Russia. If in 2003, Russia and its closest allies would start full-scale invasion of the oil-rich middle Eastern country, arguing that the state possesses weapons of mass destruction (WMD), threatening the world, and subsequently no WMDs will not find. If about 1 million people would be killed because of the bloodshed that began after the intervention. If after 10 years, the country still remained would be in chaos. If Russian companies benefited from the reconstruction and restoration works after "regime change". Just imagine if the Pro-Russian journalists, one and all firmly that middle Eastern country that Russia had invaded in 2003 had WMDs, then not apologized and expressed remorse due to the huge number of dead citizens as a result of annexation. If they, on the contrary, retained the well-paid positions and would continue to promote the illegal war and intervention in other independent States, and would have made an attack on honest journalists who prefer not to lie. If some 40 people protesting against the Central government, would have been burned alive by Pro-government extremists in Venezuela. If after the visit of Dmitry Medvedev and the head of the Russian foreign intelligence Service in Caracas, the Venezuelan government would have spent a military operation against demonstrators demanding autonomy or federalization. If after the end of the cold war years, Russia would be surrounded by U.S. military bases and insisted on joining Canada and Mexico to the Russian military Alliance. If earlier this month, Russia held major military exercises in Mexico. If in the Internet "leaked" a telephone conversation between a senior representative of the Russian foreign Ministry and Russian Ambassador to Canada, discussing who should or should not be part of the canadian government. Then they approved the candidacy of a new Prime Minister after the "regime change", financed by Russia. And what if a senior representative of the Russian foreign Ministry during a telephone conversation in foul form spoke about the European Union, as it did in February 2014, U.S. assistant Secretary on Affairs of Europe and Eurasia Victoria Nuland in a telephone conversation with the us Ambassador in Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt. Just imagine if the leading Russian politicians called for street protests against austerity measures in Western Europe, would be distributed biscuits to the protesters and supported calls for the government to resign.
We know very well, how would react USA if another state has deployed nuclear weapons close to American territory: in 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis the world was on the brink of world war III. However, conducting NATO military exercises in Estonia, bordering Russia, is not considered provocative. The actions of the US and its allies would have caused General indignation, dare any other country to do the same. You just need to swap the names of the States to see double standards. Analytical portal RuBaltic.Ru
