Comment by the Information and Press Department on an anti-Russian campaign in the United States
628-03-04-2015
We are witnessing with dismay and indignation an unrestrained anti-Russian campaign, which is unfolding in the United States. The US national media and leading political research centres splash, as if at a command, russophobic pasquinades, diligently portraying Russia as an enemy and instilling hatred towards all things Russian in ordinary people.
Veteran “knights of the Cold War”, like Robert Scales, a retired general, who in March openly called for “killing Russians”, or Wesley Clark, the former top commander of NATO forces in Europe, are straining at the leash. Back in 1999, Mr Clark all but provoked a large-scale conflict when he ordered an attack on Russian airborne assault troops who arrived at the Pristina airport in Kosovo before the Americans. Addressing the Atlantic Council in Washington a couple of days ago, he again blew the whistle about the so-called “Russian threat”, demanding immediate supplies of weapons to Kiev to be used against Donbass and openly lauding Bandera supporters.
It should be said, however, that statements made by those odious characters are only slightly more offensive than what we hear from US officials. Echoing the retired US-NATO general’s odes to Hitler’s collaborators, US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that attempts to defend the right to speak Russian were “Russia’s linguistic nationalism”. To put it differently, Russians and Russian-speakers in other countries, including in Ukraine, are to blame just because they speak Russian and think in Russian.
In a word, those are propanganda-spewing loudspeakers working hard on Washington’s political assignment.
April 3, 2015
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