By Gene Ogorodov
At this moment
Pro-Russian Paramilitary Forces have massed in American State of
Nevada. This might come as a shock to most Americans including the
several hundred armed militia members at the Bundy Ranch to whom I am
referring. Most of them would probably be insulted by an insinuation
that they are in the pay of a "Communist" country like the
Russian Federation, which there is no evidence to support. However,
the fact remains that they and the Kremlin share a common interest in
a weaker American Government.
As NATO masses its
forces on the borders of Russia and the Global Banking cartel
engages in unrestrained economic warfare against Moscow, the hawks in
Washington should remember that the nascent beginning of internal
unrest have gathered in Clark County Nevada.
Half crazed and
armed to the teeth several hundred men and women from every part of
the United States have untied in a desperate struggle that they
cannot win against the Federal Government. Spurred on by an insane
belief in a global conspiracy to abolish "liberty and
freedom"and the hero worship of America's revolutionary
ancestors they have accepted the necessity to fight and die in battle
against forces they view as the embodiment of absolute tyranny. Their
conviction reinforced by thirty years of a declining standard of
living and a Government obsessed with "security" and
illegal foreign wars.
Like the defenders
of the Alamo, the armed defenders of the Bundy Ranch have very
publicly placed themselves in the cross-hairs of an Empire
unaccustomed to not getting its own way to fight for a principle. It
is too easy to look at these forlorn men and women and see a small
and anomalous element of the lunatic fringe. Delusional, perhaps, but
they are by no means an anomaly in the United States. Far from being
a fringe they are a vanguard of a violent insurrection.
These people may be
more courageous, radicalized, or foolhardy than most Americans that
identify with the political right. Like it or not, the values that
they are willing to die for are the values of the majority of the
rural white population.
Those of us on the
outside, looking in, may question the worthiness of their cause. Tax
evasion is tax evasion, and cattle rustling is cattle rustling, plain
and simple. The Bureau of Land Management should give back the cattle
and Cliven Bundy should pay his fees. But this fight isn't about
cattle rustling or land use fees, or even the survival of a rare
tortoise. This confrontation is about a way of life that is dying
out, and the right to survive of the people that still cling on to
that way of life.
One would have to
be blind not to see that due process and tradition life have been
sacrificed for the power of a small elite in a distant Capital. Men
like Cliven Bundy which one typified the Western American have become
rare, squeezed into extinction by rapacious corporations and a
complicit Government. Maybe the United States would be better off
without men and women with Bundy's view of the world. Racism and
intellectual ludditism have caused unspeakable harm in the last
century, and they should be given no place in the future. However,
starving a man and driving him and his family into penury are
actions worthy of only a Fascist Tyranny.
The Federal
Government drove Cliven Bundy into a wall and gave him the choice to
fight or die--the same choice it gave 90 Million Americans when it
allowed the Wall Street Banker to expel them from their homes. Bundy
decided to fight.
Neither side can
back down. If the Feds give up, they have demonstrated that they will
give in to the threat of force; if Bundy gives up, he is destroyed.
There are two outcomes, the defenders of the Bundy ranch become the
first group of domestic terrorists arrested under the NDAA 2012 or
they die, out manned and out gunned. The latter is more heroic than
the former, but both have the same result. Bundy and his several
hundred armed civilians become martyrs for their cause.
In the fallout of
this impending tragedy tens of thousands of militia men and women
will invariably rise in revolt. They would be insane not to. To
remain isolated and semi-peaceful would give the Government the time
and the freedom to pick them off piecemeal. Success is remote and
survival uncertain, but for the radical right wing not to go to the
proverbial barricades would mean certain death.
The groups that
take up arms in the near future in the United States may be mostly
far less radicalized than the defenders of the Bundy Ranch, but
important narrative have a way of forgetting details. How many people
really remember that the defenders of the Alamo were mostly criminals
and adventurers? Likewise the Bundy Ranch will be remembered by the
right, when it is most convenient, as pure, pious, and ordinary
defenders of liberty.
Where does Russia
come into this? The Crisis in Ukraine has already developed into a
low intensity proxy war between the Russia and the US between
Pro-Russia Militias in the East and the Pro-American Neo-Nazis in
Power in Kiev. It has also sparked a full scale Western attack on the
Russian Economy. If the US issues another round of sanctions against
Russia and the American Rating Agencies drop Russia's debt to junk
status, it is game on, either the Russian economy will die or the
American backed Global Financial industry will be restructured,
without the US.
It is still early
days, but there may already be too much at stake. A major recession
in the Russian Stock Market would threaten to fracture the Russian
Federation. If the US fails to punish Russia for thwarting its
political machinations US hegemony is dead. No longer will Presidents
Obama and Putin just play a 21st Century version of the
dance that the Emperors Napoleon and Alexander played in 1812.
China, India, and Germany would take advantage of the power void at
the expense of the US. Furthermore, other countries that we harmed
would use a new found era of American weakness to settle old scores
with the US.
I believe there is
too much military ordinance in Eastern Europe to avoid exchanging
shots once the final round of sanctions are in place, but the real
geopolitical decisions will be made outside of the battlefields of
Ukraine. Ultimately in a financial war the real deciding factor is
confidence. A major armed insurrection in the US would destroy global
confidence in the stability of the American Government.
Of all the
countries in the world the United States should recognize the effects
that regular pay, explosives, anti-aircraft weaponry, and a free flow
of small arms and ammunition can have upon a insurgency. This is a
policy that Washington has frequently and unabashedly used as a means
of covertly supporting its empire since the Second World War. In
every case it turned an anemic opposition into a major military
threat to their government. In fact, if we are to believe recent
leaks that is exactly what the US did in Ukraine.
This is not to say
that the Militia Movement and the radical right threaten to drag the
United States into a major Civil War, even though that has become a
far too common meme among their talking-heads. Several thousand
people under arms in a country of 310 Million people and 3.9 Million
square miles hardly has any hope other than to arrive at the
negotiation table in a decade or two with enough strength to bargain
for their own heads. However, a domestic insurgency would destroy the
current picture of American security and with it any confidence in
the US Economy.
Thus, inadvertently
Cliven Bundy has opened a back door for Vladimir Putin to save the
Russian Federation from American aggression and drive a stake into
the heart of American Hyperpower. If these shadows remain unchanged,
Neo-Liberal Globalization headed by American Multi-Nationals will
give way to a new era of state sovereignty and command economies run
on a Chinese (Keynesian) model as the Global Community restructures
the role of the United States to the outskirts of international
finance.
However, there is
one way for the United States to avoid ushering in a multi-polar
world lead by the interests of China, Germany, India, and Russia. If
the United States immediately backs down on both fronts and seriously
consider the legitimate needs and rights of its people and the
Russian Federation, Washington could prepare for a more gentle
transition out of the Pax Americana. The Bush and Obama
Administrations have failed to maintain America's absolute sway over
the World. The United States Government needs to recognize this and
frame its policies with the assumption that the United States is a
great power and not the great power.
