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The cold war mercenary - David Clark of the Russia Foundation


David Clark of the Russia Foundation - cold war mercenary

I do not condone corruption and oppression in Russia, what person in their right mind would? But neither do I believe corporate capitalism should be allowed to drive a horse and coaches through Russian sovereignty and force the Russian Federation to 'open up' to exploitation. The choice we are offered by the ideological tricksters in the think-tanks and the so-called quality newspapers, between a dodgy kleptocrat like Khodorokovsky and Russia's senior elected officials, is a false choice.

For example, to listen to David Clark, that British intellectual cold war pipsqueak, pronounce on the hopes 'we' had that Medvedev would help open up Russia so that oligarchs like Khodorokovsky can continue to convert Russia into lebensraum for mittel European and United States capitalism, revolts me to the core.

For a while I couldn't believe it. The hubris of it. The implied desire to make Russia pay reparations for its Communist past and incorporate it. And what reparations the west expected after that weakling Gorbachev started the ball rolling and Yeltsin and Gaidar invited in the looters and the mafia! The reparations western corporates wanted was bestial.

That the whole infrastructure and energy resources of the continent would be handed over to western 'investors'. To BP, ExxonMobile, Chevron, Aramco and the rest. Not a lot to ask. Open wide Russia. An oligarch benefited from lawlessness and corruption in the early 90s and started to finance opposition to an elected government with billions of dollars and the support of foreign interests. He was punished for it.

People like David Clark cry blue murder. The new cold war mercenaries. Frustrated expectations behind the foreign policy agendas of the governments of US, Britain and Germany. Corporate agents before they are members of the community of nations.

And all the liberal and neo-liberal actors, amplify the mouthings of someone like David Clark, the global corporate warrior. They make me sick to my stomach. Underpinning this 'open society' of theirs the double think speak of a hundred thousand intellectual mercenaries - published and damned for their acrobatic intellectual dishonesty and ability to self deceive.
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