Next Revolution: The Second American Revolution

This offer of Obama's not to put missiles on Russia's border in exchange for their helping us to isolate Iran is fucking hilarious, if you think about it.
 
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the US started beating the Russians with political, economic, and military sticks. That worked well for our selfish interests then, but now things have changed. Now the Russian Bear has risen out of the ashes of the Soviet Collapse, and the US empire is tottering, in its turn.
 
Obama's offer is an insult considering our actions in the Balkans, the Baltic, and the Black Sea regions for the last 17 years.
 
Presently, the nations in the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Baltic regions are on the verge of economic and political collapse. And now we've found jesus, and want to be friends with the Russians. Too bad we've been beating them with sticks for last 17 years. The Russians have little incentive to cooperate. Our influence is diminishing in all the regions along their borders where we intruded.
 
The other problems with our new "friendly" approach is first, that it's way out of character for us, and second, our offer does not fit the "facts on the ground," as we like to say. The operative fact controlling the situations in the post-Soviet states and the Middle-East is that we've acted the role of a predatory Corporate Empire since the fall of the Soviet Union.
 
Western Interventions
Domestically, after the fall of the Soviet Union, we intervened in the internal affairs of Russia by backing the oliarch's rip-off of the totality of Russia's industrial base and its natural resources. Putin was Russia's responce to the reign of American-style robber barons in Russia.
 
In the Black Sea Region, we ran a series of American Funded "color revolutions" that pushed Western Backed Regimes into power, right under the soft underbelly of Russia.
 
Then we put troops into Afganistan, destabilizing both Afghanistan and Pakistan, while spreading our political influence and military presence into the now independent "stans" along Russia's Southern border.
 
Then we began to move NATO military forces and treaties across the post-Soviet states right up to the Russian border. Finally, to perfectly combine insult with injury, we began the work to install anti-missile systems right on Russia's borders.
 
Despite Russia's serious responces to our aggressions, we decided to add insult to injury by recognizing Kosovo. Finally, we armed Georgia and encouraged them to settle their dispute with Russia by military means. Shortly thereafter, our Georgian ally invaded Russia's pet breakaway states, South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
 
Since the the fall of the Soviet Union we have used concerted political, economic, and military pressure to pull these now floundering post-Soviet States into our sphere of control. Now these regions are suffering terribly from the brutal economic effects of their Western alliance.
 
And now that our relationships in the post-Soviet states are floundering, our wars failing, and with our economy in full collapse, we are offering Russia worthless concessions from our weakening regional and global position in exchange for abandoning their increasingly advantagous position in Middle-Eastern diplomacy that Russia's relationship with Iran has created.
 
The American Answer
Our "solution" to the rise of a rapidly rearming Russia, a problem we ourselves created, is to ask them to weaken themselves by ending their deep nuclear, regional, political, and strategic relationship with Iran in exchange for us not acting stupid, and putting missiles on their borders.
 
 
We are making this offer at the very moment when Western economic and political relationships with the Balkans, the Baltic, and the Black Sea nations within the sphere of influence of the American Corporate Empire is on the point of complete collapse. The post-Soviet nations are posing a significant threat of defaulting and seriously damaging the European, if not the global banking system. The situation is not much different for the US In the Middle-East.
 
Iran has risen as the #1 native, independent power in the Middle-East, and is leading the charge to remove American influence from the region. In essence, we are asking Russia to abandon their deep relationship with Iran, just as the balance of power in the Middle-East is shifting away from Western-backed dictatorships and "kings" and "emirs" towards locally-controlled independent nations.
 
 
The Real Situation
In the present situation there seem to be a number of things that Russia would want the US to begin unwinding before they even stopped laughing about Obama's lame offer, and made a counter offer. let's consider the relatitive position of Russia and the American Corporate Empire in the Balkans.
 
 
The Balkans have not become an independent, neutral area between Europe and Russia, as promised by Bush I. Bush I promised the Soviets a neutral zone in the Balkans and the Black Sea nations to forestall an ugly military responce by the crumbling Soviet Union as their empire imploded. Bush I, and every president since has broken that promise.
 
Rather than a peaceful, neutral breakup of the Balkans, the US encouraged a free for all that ended up in a series of brutal regional wars that have deeply polarized the region. The Balkans are still deeply unbalanced in the wake of our irresponsibility following the Soviet breakup. Now these unbalances are being pressurized by the economic collapse of the American Corporate Empire.
 
The American Corporate Empire's economic and political relationship with the Balkans, the Baltic, and the Black Sea nations is on the point of complete collapse, along with their "free-market" economies. Going along with the "liberal" system (that's what Europeans call rule by the rich) has proven to be quite disastrous for the post-Soviet states. Added to that is the fact that a large majority of the people in Czechoslovakia, and 56% in conservative Poland, oppose American missiles in their country.
 
 
The Russian Responce I
Russia responded to these encroachments by the West in the post-Soviet states with a tool of the West: Capitalism. Russia forced all of these Westernizing countries to pay market prices for previously subsidized energy. For some reason the Western Capitalist states freaked out when Russia stopped subsidizing the energy costs of the Westen takeover of the post-Soviet states. In any case, Russia already had significant economic leverage through controlling the region's energy supply, and now the American Economic meltdown is enhancing Russia's economic clout in the region. Russia has no incentive whatsoever to save Eastern Europe for Western Capitalism, no matter where we put our missiles.
 
The Russian Responce II
In the meantime Russia has been working to slowly reestablish and deepen its relationship with Serbia, and further extend Russia's influence across the Balkans and into Europe through energy deals. We could try to  counter this with another offer not to extend our political and military influence into the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Baltic, but our previous lies may have spoiled that option. Russia can now exercise superior economic, political, and military influence in all of the post-Soviet states than the US.
 
The American offer not to deploy missiles also conveniently forgets that Russia has already made a "negative" offer to the US. Russia offered not to move mobile nuclear weapons targeted on European capitols up to its Western borders, if the US does not install missile bases on Russia's borders. Russia already countered the US's "negative" offer not to put missles on their borders with a "negative" offer of their own. But the expansion of America's corporate empire up to Russia's border has not gone unanswered. Russia has significantly expanded their efforts to project military and diplomatic power in the post-Soviet states, the Middle-East, and the world.
New Global Balance of Power Rising
Russia is broadly rearming in response to our provocations. Russia has taken up new regional and global relationships and policies in responce to our Empire's widespread aggressions.
 
Regionally, in the post-Soviet regions and Europe, Russia has suspended compliance with the treaty limiting ground forces in Europe, has deployed new sophisticated missiles in Western Russia targeted on European capitols, and announced a pre-emptive nuclear strike policy to match ours. In their South, Russia has just paid Kyrgyzstan to remove our airbase there that is vital to supplying our failed war in Afghanistan, and has denied NATO allies use of the facilities as well.
 
In the Middle-East, Russia has provided Iran with a strategic mutual-defense treaty, serious political support, nuclear technology, and their most advanced anti-aircraft weapons. Russia has reestablished a strong diplomatic beach head in the Middle-East through their strong relationship with Iran. Russia will not abandon this position.
 
Globally, Russia has provocativly restarted strategic nuclear bomber flights and global and regional blue-water naval patrols. Russia has established deep economic relationships with China, based on long-term energy deals that diffused their traditional border conflicts. Russia is arming and equiping Venesuela and is once again supporting Cuba. In other words, Russia has responded very strongly, and very successfully, to the expansion of America's Corporate Empire in their backyard, the Middle-East, and the world.
 
Now we are experiencing the fun of watching the Empiric Contest beween the declining West and the Newly-Rising Russians once again emerge in the Balkans, the Black Sea, and the Baltics.
 
Fri 3-6-09: This is still a working draft