Russian General: LaRouche Is Right, Financial
Oligarchy Behind the War Posted: 2006/08/16 From: Mathaba
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By Rachel Douglas
General Colonel Leonid G.
Ivashov, the outspoken former head of the International Military
Cooperation Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, has published a
strategic assessment of the current fighting in Southwest Asia, which
coincides in many points with the assessment issued on July 23 by Lyndon
LaRouche ("Stop Being a Dupe! Know Your Actual Enemy"), whom Ivashov cited
in the article. The commentary was published Aug. 7 by the Russian online
Marketing and Consulting Information and Analysis Agency (www.iamik.ru),
and is available in English translation at http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2006/3333ivashov.html
The most dramatic point, made by Gen. Ivashov in his evaluation,
is that the driving force behind the Israeli operation against Hezbollah
and Lebanon is not provocations by Syria or Iran, not Hezbollah, and not
Israel itself, nor the United States, or Great Britain. Rather, writes
Ivashov, "In our view, the primary player is the politically shadowy world
financial oligarchy, which is working steadily and persistently to change
the political, economic, and social organization of the global community,
in its own interest. The well-known American economist Lyndon LaRouche
calls this force 'the world financial bankers' dictatorship.' "
The
motives of this "financial oligarchy," Ivashov elaborated, would include
the final destruction of the Westphalian nation-state system, in favor of
global dictatorship; setting the stage for attacks on Iran, as part of a
resource grab as a component of such a dictatorship; and redrawing the map
of the Greater Middle East.
Ivashov drew attention particularly to
the existence of schemes to ensnare Syria, and then Iran, in a spreading
conflict. In an interview in Izvestia of July 31, Russia's senior
Southwest Asia expert, former Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov, made a
similar point. Primakov said that his greatest concern about the fighting
in Lebanon, was that circles in the USA intended it as a cover for an
Israeli strike on Iran. In a lengthy discussion, drawing on his personal
involvement in diplomacy in the region since the 1960s, Primakov said that
he saw the introduction of a large peace-keeping force, brought in with an
"intelligent compromise peace plan," worked out by the quartet (Russia,
U.S.A., E.U., UN), as a pathway out of the crisis, but that he feared some
of the forces involved have a different agenda.
Primakov said he
did not think that Iran or Syria were behind the attacks on Israeli
soldiers, as is "fashionable" to say about the crisis-precipitating
incidents. He developed how the escalation was not at all in Iran's
interests, commenting that "Iran's leaders are not so brainless, as to
think they could divert attention from their nuclear program by using
Hezbollah." As for Syria, he recalled that it is the ABC of Syrian
interests, to avoid a direct confrontation with Israel. But, continued
Primakov, "What I find especially disappointing now is the behavior of the
Americans," said Primakov. "Why aren't they calling for an immediate
ceasefire? Sure, there is the traditional U.S. posture of no toleration
for terrorists, but there may be something else behind it. Perhaps their
design is to drag Syria in? Perhaps they are calculating, that if Syria is
dragged in, then Iran will intervene in the war? And then they want Israel
to hit Iran? I am not briefed on the secret plans of the Americans, but I
don't think their premise is that the destruction of Lebanon will make
Hezbollah disappear."
Primakov and Ivashov are widely recognized as
co-authors of the concept of a Eurasian strategic triangle of
China-India-Russia, as the basis for global stability. That idea goes back
to 1998-1999, when Primakov was premier for eight months, after the
collapse of Russian state finances. Gen. Ivashov, who is now
vice-president of the Academy of Geopolitical Studies, left his Defense
Ministry job in 2001, after making a series of high-profile statements
that the United States, under the Bush administration, was attempting to
achieve world strategic superiority.
In another of his large number
of interviews in the Russian media in the recent period, Ivashov
characterized the world today as "standing on the brink of a big, world
civil war.... There are simultaneously destabilizations in the Caucasus,
and armed aggression in the Middle East. Overall, it may be said that a
conflict-provocation scheme is in operation in the Balkans, the Caucasus,
the Middle East, and Central Asia.... And that gives us the basis for
saying that the world is on the brink of some very unpleasant
events."
Ivashov told another interviewer, that Russia should
respond to U.S. sanctions, imposed Aug. 4 against its arms-exporting
companies, by terminating pending contracts with the Boeing Corporation.
That State Department action, in which the companies Rosoboronexport and
Sukhoy Aviation were accused of illegal arms sales to Iran, brought
vigorous denials from the companies involved, as well as official
complaints by the Russian Foreign Ministry and Kremlin spokesmen, and
indications that retaliation against American aircraft and oil companies
is very possible.
This article appears in the August 18, 2006
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