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By Scott Rohter, December 2016<\/p>\n
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Is it over Ukraine,\u00a0the Russian annexation of\u00a0Crimea, or the\u00a0ongoing conflict in Syria? Why does the warmongering Senator from Arizona, John McCain want to\u00a0ruin Russian-American relations and start World War III in Europe?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In order to understand what John McCain is doing and why, we have to go\u00a0back to something that President Dwight\u00a0Eisenhower warned us about in his Farewell Address to the Nation. He spoke about the “grave implications” posed by\u00a0the \u201cMilitary Industrial Complex\u201d.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> President Eisenhower used this\u00a0phrase to describe\u00a0the dangers\u00a0posed to our Nation and to the whole world by\u00a0the industrial and manufacturing sectors of our economy after\u00a0the massive military buildup\u00a0America underwent to defeat NAZI Germany and the Empire of Japan\u00a0in World War II. \u00a0Listen to an excerpt from the speech by clicking on the hotlink above.<\/p>\n John McCain is an old cold war\u00a0fighter\u00a0circa the 196os\u00a0from the Vietnam War\u00a0whose political views were\u00a0shaped\u00a0in an\u00a0era of confrontation between\u00a0 nuclear superpowers. Everything\u00a0appears just as black and white to him today as it did back then in the 1960s when the US and the USSR were political and military adversaries.. He sees\u00a0the world\u00a0purely in terms of good\u00a0and evil.\u00a0America is always good and\u00a0Russia is always evil.\u00a0That is how he saw\u00a0the world\u00a0during the Vietnam War. That is how\u00a0he sees\u00a0the world\u00a0today, and that is how he will always see the world. His views on Russia are frozen in time somewhere\u00a0between the gunboat diplomacy of Teddy Roosevelt, and the Cuban missile crisis faced by John F. Kennedy\u00a0<\/p>\n Behind every political\u00a0or military hotspot in the world John McCain\u00a0imagines\u00a0a Russian bear. On top of this McCain is a huge supporter of\u00a0the\u00a0military industrial complex, the same military industrial complex\u00a0that President Eisenhower warned us about. Due to\u00a0John McCain’s \u00a0considerable influence on Capitol Hill, Arizona which he represents\u00a0in the United States Senate\u00a0is the home\u00a0to much of\u00a0America’s Military Industrial Complex. It is also the home of John McCain’s political power base.<\/p>\n In\u00a0one interview with Candy Crowley\u00a0John McCain\u00a0had the nerve to call Russia\u00a0 \u201ca gas station masquerading as a country<\/em>.\u201d<\/a> While this may seem funny at first, John McCain is not a\u00a0standup comedian. He is a powerful United States Senator with considerable\u00a0clout on Capitol Hill. His comments were completely inappropriate and condescending, entirely unprofessional, and thoroughly undiplomatic.<\/p>\n In another more recent interview\u00a0on Al-Jazeera<\/a> Senator McCain referred to alleged Russian hacking of the Democrat National Committee as “an act of war.”\u00a0\u00a0His statements are even more provocative and\u00a0more reckless \u00a0than some of the\u00a0tactless comments\u00a0made by\u00a0Barack Obama over the last eight years\u00a0concerning Vladimir Putin and Russia. I am sure that\u00a0comments of this nature are not winning\u00a0either\u00a0of them any friends inside of the Kremlin or making\u00a0restoring Russian-American relations any easier.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Here is the truth if you\u00a0can handle it…\u00a0 Russia has been our ally during two World Wars. It has never started a war with any modern European or Western\u00a0nation, nevertheless it has been\u00a0invaded twice by western powers \u2026 once in the 19th century under Napoleon and once\u00a0in the 20th Century\u00a0under\u00a0Adolph Hitler.<\/strong> These incursions led to the deaths of millions of Russians and they left a permanent scar on the\u00a0Russian national psyche that we must also never forget.\u00a0 Let us always take into consideration\u00a0the Russian perspective whenever\u00a0America decides to do something of global significance in the world. If it wasn\u2019t for the Russians we wouldn’t have defeated Germany\u00a0in World War II and Europeans might all be speaking German today. If American foreign policy is\u00a0going to be successful in the world then\u00a0we must\u00a0consider the Russian viewpoint. Our leaders\u00a0have to\u00a0stop belittling, scapegoating, sanctioning,\u00a0or otherwise trying to marginalize\u00a0Russia.\u00a0\u00a0We\u00a0need to\u00a0treat\u00a0 Russia’s leaders with the same respect that we wish them to treat our leaders.<\/p>\n The\u00a0two\u00a0most important\u00a0heirs and successors to\u00a0the\u00a0ancient Roman\u00a0Empire\u00a0are\u00a0Russia,\u00a0 and the United States of America… It is time that we stop fighting\u00a0each other lest we go the way of the Romans.\u00a0 We have\u00a0far more in common than we\u00a0have that divides us.<\/p>\n It\u00a0is not\u00a0necessary for\u00a0twenty\u00a0eight\u00a0European countries\u00a0which are\u00a0also heirs\u00a0to the Greco-Roman\u00a0World\u00a0and to the Greco-Roman culture to surrender\u00a0their\u00a0national sovereignty to the\u00a0E.U.\u00a0 They\u00a0just need to learn how to get along with each other in the same way that Russians and Americans need to learn how to get along with each other. There is no need for a European Union. There is no need for any kind of a New World Order. We simply have to stop fighting\u00a0with each other, and turn our attention toward existential\u00a0dangers which\u00a0threaten us all. The greatest of these\u00a0dangers is the existential\u00a0threat\u00a0posed to the West by Islam…<\/p>\n In the 15th century\u00a0Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.\u00a0Islam\u00a0defeated what was\u00a0left of\u00a0the\u00a0Roman Empire. Byzantium fell to Muslims… Constantinople became Istanbul and Turkey became occupied territory. If we\u00a0aren’t careful\u00a0today Islam is going to defeat us once again and there is no place left for us to retreat to. \u00a0Russia and\u00a0the United States\u00a0need to\u00a0stop wasting\u00a0valuable time and\u00a0resources fighting each other.\u00a0 Vladimir Putin knows this. He has always been aware of the Muslim problem in his country. That is why he didn’t particularly like the idea of Hillary Clinton becoming our next President.\u00a0Putin wants to improve relations with\u00a0the United States\u00a0and fight the war on terror together with the United States. There was no prospect of that ever happening if Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 Presidential Election.\u00a0Barack Obama and virtually\u00a0every member of Congress regardless of Party affiliation wants to ramp up the rhetoric against Russia and escalate the\u00a0tensions until the confrontation actually leads to\u00a0 hostilities between our two countries.\u00a0Most of our members of Congress\u00a0don’t realize that we have to join forces with Russia\u00a0and defend ourselves from the common threat posed to both our countries by Islam. To do anything other than\u00a0this\u00a0is to be just plain stupid,\u00a0and speaking of stupid…<\/p>\n The Reagan\u00a0policy of d\u00e9tente and peaceful coexistence with Russia was not without its detractors though\u00a0even as it is now. It did not set well with many members of the Military Industrial Complex, nor with die hard Russophobes like John McCain,\u00a0nor did it set well with\u00a0powerful special interest groups\u00a0which\u00a0make America’s foreign policy like the Hoover Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations. The Russian Reset\u00a0which was orchestrated by Ronald Reagan definitely had\u00a0its enemies on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n It was during the Reagan years that John McCain entered the United States House of Representatives as a freshman Congressman from the 1st Congressional District of Arizona. The year was 1983, and John McCain had just\u00a0embarked on\u00a0a new career in politics. He was not content to be\u00a0a mere Congressman from the 1st Congressional District\u00a0of Arizona. Instead John\u00a0McCain aspired to loftier goals so when\u00a0Barry Goldwater decided not to seek a fourth term\u00a0in the Senate in 1985 John McCain jumped at the opportunity to advance his career in Washington. In 1986\u00a0he decided to run for\u00a0Goldwater’s open Senate seat. He\u00a0easily defeated his Republican\u00a0rival in the primary and his Democrat opponent in the general election and John McCain has been the Senator from Arizona ever since. He\u00a0has a podium and a microphone that keeps getting bigger with each passing year. He is now in his sixth term as the senior Senator from Arizona, and with\u00a0his seniority has come important committee positions as well as\u00a0requests to appear on Sunday morning news shows, and more importantly a\u00a0growing ability to influence world affairs.<\/p>\n If there is one thing you should know about John McCain III, it is this: He has always had a rather stiff neck, a hard head, and\u00a0big political ambitions. He was\u00a0also born with a silver spoon in his mouth that was usually big enough to ensure that he got whatever he wanted in life. Much of his success stems from the fact that both his father and his grandfather were four star Navy Admirals. While “little John”\u00a0never achieved the military status or rank\u00a0of his larger than life father\u00a0or grandfather, nevertheless he has built a career for himself in Washington which has allowed him to have a much\u00a0greater impact on world affairs than either his father or his grandfather ever dreamed of.<\/p>\n In 2007\u00a0 John McCain won the Republican nomination for President. That was the year that his silver spoon finally let him down when he failed to defeat Barack Obama in the General Election. He lost\u00a0to a largely unknown Black man from Chicago who had even bigger political ambitions than he did. After his loss to Barack Obama in 2008, John McCain has become increasingly bitter and critical of American foreign policy especially as it regards Russia, the Middle East,\u00a0Ukraine, and Crimea. He has grown increasingly confrontational and\u00a0strident in his comments about Russia’s President, often criticizing Putin personally whenever Russia succeeds\u00a0in doing anything diplomatically or militarily.<\/p>\n One of McCain\u2019s\u00a0oft-stated goals<\/a> in the Senate is to end the purchase of Russian rocket engines by the United States Defense Department.<\/a> When asked why America should not purchase Russian rocket engines McCain said he doesn\u2019t want to put\u00a0 “millions of dollars into the pockets of Vladimir Putin and his cronies.\u201d<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 Its important to\u00a0remember that the Pentagon has been buying Russian T180 Rockets to launch\u00a0its military surveillance satellites for quite a long time because\u00a0of the Obama\u00a0Administration’s deep spending\u00a0cuts for NASA and the Defense Department.<\/p>\n After McCain lost the 2008 Presidential race he\u00a0went back\u00a0to doing what he does best\u2026 He ran for and won a sixth term in the Senate from the State of Arizona where he has established\u00a0a big power base. In the process of running for President and\u00a0subsequently \u00a0for\u00a0his sixth term in the United States Senate\u00a0John McCain\u00a0raised hundreds of millions of dollars from some of America\u2019s biggest corporations. General Electric, General Atomic <\/strong>and Raytheon<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 are all national defense contractors, and they have all\u00a0contributed substantially to his Senate campaigns. Much of the money that\u00a0McCain raised and did not spend\u00a0on his failed Presidential\u00a0campaign he funneled into a Foundation\u00a0which bears his name.<\/p>\n You\u00a0have to wonder\u00a0why\u00a0Senator McCain is always raising so much\u00a0more money all of the time….\u00a0 money that he\u00a0doesn’t spend on his campaigns. Why is he also trying so hard to destroy whatever is left of Ronald Reagan’s legacy\u00a0by launching\u00a0a new cold war with Russia when… his career in Washington\u00a0actually\u00a0began under Ronald Reagan during the\u00a0successful Russian reset\u00a0that was orchestrated by\u00a0President\u00a0Reagan?<\/p>\n Right now the United States doesn’t\u00a0have enough rocket engines to launch our own\u00a0military\u00a0surveillance satellites into space without Russia’s help. We can’t send American astronauts\u00a0to the International Space Station without\u00a0Russia’s help,\u00a0\u00a0yet\u00a0John McCain thinks its a\u00a0perfect time to launch\u00a0a new Cold War with Russia. He\u00a0seems hell bent on destroying everything that Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev\u00a0accomplished\u00a0in the eight years they shared the world stage.\u00a0I have to\u00a0wonder if\u00a0 McCain’s ultimate\u00a0objective is not to dismantle the nuclear disarmament treaties that were negotiated by Reagan and Gorbachev. But they form the basis\u00a0for world peace and they\u00a0are\u00a0the ultimate legacy of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. If you think that couldn’t happen then guess again…<\/p>\n In 2001 the United States under George W. Bush\u00a0\u00a0unilaterally withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Russia.<\/a> This treaty was negotiated between Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev.\u00a0 Commenting about George Bush’s decision to\u00a0withdraw from this treaty \u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0called it a mistake.\u00a0 Does John McCain also want to withdraw from SALT 1 AND SALT 2\u00a0which were\u00a0negotiated between Reagan and Gorbachev? We don\u2019t know, but judging by his strong support for\u00a0uprisings in Georgia and Ukraine and his support for\u00a0putting NATO troops armed with American weapons along Russia\u2019s\u00a0 western border\u00a0it may not be\u00a0far from the truth.\u00a0Senator McCain seems determined to provoke a\u00a0major confrontation with Russia not unlike the confrontation\u00a0which they provoked with us back in 1962 when they placed Soviet missiles in Cuba, but\u00a0of course John McCain fails to\u00a0recognize the similarities.<\/p>\n Blinded by his cold war mentality and by his personal animosity towards Vladimir Putin \u00a0John McCain is becoming a threat to world peace all by himself<\/a>. During the next four years under President Trump\u00a0John McCain\u00a0will be working hard to oppose the President\u2019s\u00a0efforts to patch up our rocky relationship with Russia. There will be no Russian reset as long as John McCain gets his way in the U.S. Senate. Together with his old sidekick Lindsey Graham<\/a> and the young Senator from Florida who would be President, Marco Rubio\u00a0 they are all together on the Senate Armed Services Committee. These three\u00a0stalwart enemies of d\u00e9tente \u00a0have been instrumental in\u00a0fueling\u00a0the new cold war with Russia over conflicts which our own State Department provoked first in Georgia, then in Ukraine, and finally in Syria. These three United States Senators\u00a0will also\u00a0play a\u00a0very critical role in confirming President Trump’s choice for Secretary of State,\u00a0Rex Tillerson.\u00a0 If all the Democrats vote against him they only need three Republicans to\u00a0 prevent his confirmation.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Russian-American rivalry\u00a0is fueled by lies which keep circulating in the mainstream media.\u00a0The new Russian-American\u00a0Cold War\u00a0is supported\u00a0by\u00a0America’s Military Industrial Complex and\u00a0it has powerful\u00a0advocates on Capitol Hill\u00a0in\u00a0Senators McCain, Graham, and Rubio.<\/p>\n As the powerful Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain is instrumental in setting the foreign policy agenda in the United States Senate. He continues to do his level best to bring us the whole world back to the\u00a01960s, and to the brink of midnight when the hands of the nuclear clock were warning us\u00a0of our own imminent destruction. What would John McCain\u00a0actually do if he\u00a0succeeds in provoking the Russians and starting World War III. You might have to ask some of his top political donors who have fueled his six Senate campaigns over the past three decades.<\/p>\n Here is a look at some of the top defense contractors that are located in Arizona who have funded all of\u00a0John McCain’s\u00a0Senate campaigns and his\u00a0one failed Presidential bid\u2026 The data is from 2010 and 2012…<\/p>\n Honeywell International<\/strong> <\/a>is located in Phoenix, Arizona. They build gas turbines and aircraft engines for the military as well as supply their avionics. They received 3,708 contracts from the United States Defense Department in 2012 amounting to over 600 million dollars in revenue.<\/p>\n Raytheon Company<\/strong><\/a> is located in Tucson, Arizona\u2026. They were awarded 1480 military contracts in 2012 worth an estimated 5.2 billion dollars according to the President\u2019s Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n Next there is the Boeing Company<\/strong><\/a> which is located in Mesa, Arizona which received 623 contracts with the Defense Department in 2012 worth an estimated 787 million dollars.<\/p>\n General Dynamics<\/strong><\/a> has a manufacturing plant in Arizona\u2026 They received defense contracts totaling almost 500 million dollars.<\/p>\n Dover Engineered Systems<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/a>is not a very well known national defense contractor, but they received 505 defense contracts in 2012. They are based in Tucson.<\/p>\n Northrop Grumman<\/strong> is also located in Arizona. In fact Arizona has many more companies which supply the Defense Department with material support. To be exact there are over 1200\u00a0aerospace and national defense contractors\u00a0 located in Arizona <\/a>in no small part due to the presence of John McCain in the United States\u00a0Senate and due to his efforts to promote the new \u201cRed Scare\u201d. This is the military and industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about in his Farewell Address <\/a>to the Nation, and Arizona Senator John McCain is right at the center of it as much at odds with Presidents Eisenhower and Reagan as he is with Russia’s President,Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Corroborating Source Material<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/John_McCain.jpg\")
John McCain believes in the old adage that the only good Communist is a dead Communist. The problem with this is that he also believes\u00a0Russians are still Communists and therefore they\u00a0are still our enemies… John McCain often refers to Vladimir Putin in the most derogatory terms, calling him a “crook”, and the people who serve in his Administration\u00a0or in the Russian Parliament\u00a0(the<\/em> Duma)<\/em> either as “his cronies” or as \u201cthe Russian Mafia\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Reagan-1.jpg\")
John McCain was just retiring from the United States\u00a0Navy in 1981\u00a0when Ronald Reagan was elected America’s 40th President. Back\u00a0in those days\u00a0the U.S. and the USSR were still on a Cold War footing, but within a few\u00a0years of taking the oath of office President Reagan had re-established a\u00a0cordial, friendly\u00a0relationship with Mikhail Gorbachev\u00a0and these two leaders solidly placed our two countries on a peaceful path of coexistence instead of blindly following\u00a0down the\u00a0path of confrontation like\u00a0their predecessors had been doing\u00a0ever since the end of World War II.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lessgovisthebestgov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Gorbachev_Reagan.jpg\")
In spite of this\u00a0it didn’t take long\u00a0for\u00a0the new spirit of\u00a0cooperation to replace\u00a0the old\u00a0spirit of confrontation which had\u00a0 prevailed between our two countries. The\u00a0idea of\u00a0 peaceful coexistence within separate spheres of influence\u00a0became firmly established both here and in Moscow. The years of Reagan and Gorbachev were a time of great optimism for the\u00a0whole world. The United States and Russia were\u00a0finally working together\u00a0instead of\u00a0being constantly at each other’s throats. There was a tacit\u00a0understanding that we wouldn’t interfere in their backyard\u00a0and they wouldn’t interfere in our backyard.\u00a0 We\u00a0promised\u00a0them after the Soviet Union was abolished that we would never position NATO troops along the Russian border, but\u00a0the United States\u00a0broke its promise. We\u00a0have placed thousands of NATO troops along Russia’s border in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Rumania, and Ukraine. Besides this we supported the overthrow of Victor Yanukovich in Ukraine and Bashar al Assad in Syria. Both of these leaders were allies of Moscow. America has not been true to its word, and we have not been a good partner in safeguarding\u00a0world peace since Ronald Reagan left office.<\/p>\n