Russians were told yesterday morning that the true nature of the conflict in South Ossetia is this: it's a plot hatched by Vice President Dick Cheney to make sure Barack Obama isn't elected president. Is Cheney creating a Cold War 2.0?
This revelation, that the conflict is orchestrated to wing Obama, was first announced on the radio and has been getting wide play. A senior political analyst close to Putin and Medvedev says, “George Bush's Administration is promoting interests of candidate John McCain. Defeated by Barak Obama on all fronts, McCain has one last card to play yet — the creation of a virtual Cold War with Russia . . . Bush himself did not want a war in South Ossetia but his Republican Party did not leave him any choice.”
The notion has reinvigorated Cold War-era talk like this from a former ambassador to the EU:
The West has spent a lot of time, energy and money to teach Georgia the tricks of the trade . . . to make the country look like a democracy. We and many other nations see through this deceit. We understand that the seditious tactics of the so-called color revolutions are a real threat to international law and the source of global legal nihilism.
To see where this idea came from, read more.
Russia's Cold War conclusion comes in no small part from what they perceive to be a compliant US media. One woman from Moscow says, “In the old days under Soviet rule we didn't believe a word of our own propaganda but we thought that information was free in the West and we longed for it. But we have learnt since that the West has its own propaganda and in some ways it is more powerful because people believe it.”
Is there a big US propaganda machine in full effect? Is Cheney pushing the US toward another Cold War just so Obama won't win — or is this just a ridiculous conspriacy theory?
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REally?
Citizen, this is not a "revelation," it is a crazy conspiracy theory.
revelation, def:
1. the act of making known a truth which was previously secret
2. a fact newly made known
Oh, but Putin and Medvedev are honest and forthright, and have no bias in this discussion.