Behind the Escalation of Attacks on President Putin

May 27 (LPAC)--In response to the successful visits of former President Bill Clinton, and Democratic leader Lyndon LaRouche to Moscow over the last two months, the British Fabian establishment and its tools in the United States are escalating their campaign against the Putin government. Apparently unsatisfied with the ongoing wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, and the threatened confrontation with Iran, these forces, led by Britain, are now looking for a war with Russia, and China.

The Anglo-American establishment was clearly unhappy about President Clinton's private discussions with President Vladimir Putin, on the occasion of Boris Yeltsin's funeral in April. With the mid-May visit of LaRouche to Moscow, and the prominent press coverage of LaRouche's discussions on a revival of FDR-style cooperation between the U.S., Russia, China, and India, the reaction has turned into a freakout. Just as the British don't want to see a new FDR in the United States, they are determined to prevent Russia from orienting to a new partnership with an FDR-oriented America, as Putin has indicated he is prepared to do.

As of the week of May 14, the Blair government escalated its anti-Putin campaign with the indictment of former KGB agent Andrei Lukovoi for the alleged murder of KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko in London, and a demand for his extradition from Russia. Given that Britain has refused Russia's extradition requests for terrorist Chechen leader Akhmed Zakayev, and avowed anti-Putin coup plotter Boris Berezovsky, there is little chance that Russia would comply. But the anti-Russian climate was heated up, right on the eve of the Samara EU-Russian summit.

The same drumbeat for confrontation was reflected in the major U.S. Establishment press May 27. The New York Times shows it with a major frontpage analysis in its Week-in-Review section, relying heavily on innuendo about Russia's alleged return to "Soviet-style cynicism about the law." More direct was senior Washington Post editor Jim Hoagland, who let loose with a diatribe against Putin in his column. Hoagland praises not only Blair's demand for extradition, but also Merkel's "dressing-down" of Putin at the G-8 Summit, and Sarkozy's hard line toward Russia. "This presents an opportunity to close the transatlantic gap and for Europe and North America to deal with Russia on a new, more realistic basis," Hoagland concludes.

Hoagland's arguments are bunk, of course. Such a confrontation course, as he recommends, is not only not going to get anywhere with the Russians, but it will become an issue in the 2008 U.S. election campaign, especially as the leading moneybags for "Project Democracy" assault on Russia, George Soros, is also a major funder of the Democratic Presidential campaigns.

More to the point, this assault on the Putin government effectively brands those carrying it out, as enemies of the only solution to the world's existential crisis: Lyndon LaRouche's proposed "Four-Power" Alliance between the U.S., Russia, China, and India, to reorganize the world monetary system, and launch the full development of the Eurasian Land-Bridge. And that makes the assaulters, as LaRouche put it, "enemies of the human race."