{"id":1029724,"date":"2023-03-18T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=138939"},"modified":"2023-03-18T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:58:17","slug":"u-s-and-allies-seek-regime-change-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/18\/u-s-and-allies-seek-regime-change-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 10 March, Canada\u2019s National Post<\/i> headlined “Regime change in Moscow ‘definitely’ the goal, Joly says<\/a>,” and reported that \u201cForeign Affairs Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly raises the possibility of regime change in Moscow. \u2026 \u2018The goal is definitely to do that, is to weaken Russia\u2019s ability to launch very difficult attacks against Ukraine. We want also to make sure that Putin and his enablers are held to account,\u2019 she said. \u2018I always make a difference between the regime and the people of a given country, which is fundamental.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

On 26 March 2022, Bloomberg News<\/em> bannered “Joe Biden Calls for Regime Change in Moscow as He Likens Invasion to Ww2 Horrors<\/a>,” and reported that, \u201cJoe Biden directly appealed to the Russian people with comparisons between the invasion of Ukraine and the horrors of the Second World War as he called for Vladimir Putin to go. \u2018For God’s sake this man cannot remain in power,\u2019 the US president said, calling for regime change in Moscow during a speech from Poland on Saturday. He told Russians they are not \u2018our enemy\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why were there not<\/i> calls, within the United States and its allies, for \u201cregime-change in America\u201d when U.S. President George W. Bush blatantly lied Americans into invading and destroyed a country that posed no threat to America<\/a>, Iraq (which \u2014 by contrast<\/i> \u2014 Ukraine definitely did and does constitute<\/i> to Russia)?<\/p>\n

Contrary to U.S.-and-allied propagandists, that war in Ukraine wasn\u2019t<\/i> started on 24 February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, but back in February 2014<\/a> when U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s Administration had started by no later than June of 2011<\/a> to plan<\/em>, and by no later than 1 March 2013<\/a> inside the U.S.\u2019s Ukrainian Embassy to execute the plan<\/em>, and then on 20 February 2014<\/a> to culminate<\/em> the U.S. coup<\/a> that overthrew and replaced Ukraine\u2019s democratically<\/a> elected neutralist<\/a> President, and replaced him and his Government with the U.S. selected<\/a> leaders of the new, and rabidly Russia-hating<\/a>, U.S.-controlled, Ukrainian regime<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And, now, on 17 March 2023, NBC News<\/em> headlines “International Criminal Court issues arrest warrant for Putin over alleged Ukraine war crimes<\/a>”\u00a0 and reports that the U.S.-and-allied regimes are starting a case in the International Criminal Court \u2014 which has no jurisdiction over Russia and over Ukraine and over the United States, all three of which nations<\/i> refused to ratify and therefore are not subject to that Court\u2019s jurisdiction (since it\u2019s not<\/i> a \u201cUniversal\u201d court like the U.N.\u2019s\u00a0 International Court of Justice is<\/i>) \u2014 initiating this purely propaganda<\/i> case against Russia. Why did they not do that against America and the UK, when those regimes invaded and destroyed Iraq on the basis only of lies<\/a> (which Russia certainly did not <\/i>do in the case of the now U.S.-controlled Ukraine)?<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/em> makes this elementary fact about that Court quite clear, by saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It lacks universal territorial jurisdiction and may only investigate and prosecute crimes committed within member states, crimes committed by nationals of member states, or crimes in situations referred to the Court by the United Nations Security Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The U.S. and its allies are bringing this case as a propaganda-vehicle, but the Court itself, by \u2018investigating\u2019 this case that falls outside its jurisdiction, is destroying whatever pitiful international credibility that it had. Any court that ever serves a purely-propaganda function cannot ever again be taken seriously by any serious person. It is groveling to someone. It is simply embarrassing itself. The U.S. and its allies are contemptuous not only of the public but of this Court, to do this.<\/p>\n

Furthermore: the U.S.-and-allied allegations that regime-change is being sought only against a country\u2019s leadership, and not against the country\u2019s people, is ludicrous, because those aggressor-countries’ long histories of imposed regime-changes against Governments they wanted to topple \u2014 such as Chile, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and all the rest \u2014 have always been from bad to worse against the targeted countries\u2019 publics. Moreover, the U.S. regime has repeatedly made explicitly clear that, though all of the devastation that its invasion and continued occupation and massive thefts from Syria have brought hell upon its people, the U.S. Government absolutely refuses to allow any reconstruction to occur in Syria unless the U.S. is controlling that country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although the U.S. and its allies demand regime-change in both Russia and China, the leaders of those two countries have long had far higher approval-ratings by their citizens than the leaders in U.S.-and allied countries have by theirs<\/a>; the regime-changes should rather be done in the U.S.-and-allied countries than in their targeted countries.<\/p>\n

The U.S., and its allies, lie pathologically, such as they do as NATO:<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO is not a threat to Russia<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO has tried to build a partnership with Russia, developing dialogue and practical cooperation in areas of common interest. Practical cooperation has been suspended since 2014 in response to Russia\u2019s illegal and illegitimate annexation of Crimea, Ukraine, which NATO will never recognise<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNATO is not at war with Russia<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

How can anyone respect such Governments?<\/p>The post U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.\n

This post was originally published on Dissident Voice<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 10 March, Canada\u2019s National Post headlined \u201cRegime change in Moscow \u2018definitely\u2019 the goal, Joly says,\u201d and reported that \u201cForeign Affairs Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly raises the possibility of regime change in Moscow. \u2026 \u2018The goal is definitely to do that, is to weaken Russia\u2019s ability to launch very difficult attacks against Ukraine. We want also [\u2026]<\/p>\n

The post U.S. and Allies Seek Regime-Change in Russia<\/a> first appeared on Dissident Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3049,33,583,24,376,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029725,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029724\/revisions\/1029725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}