Journaliste britannique: la propagande antirusse de l'Otan à son comble

La propagande antirusse de l'Otan dépasse toutes les limites, alors que le comportement de la Russie est dicté par les intérêts de sa sécurité nationale, selon Seumas Milne, du Guardian britannique.
La diabolisation de la Russie et de son leader est soutenue par tous ceux qui ont intérêt à ce que la tension monte dans les relations avec Moscou et que l'escalade du conflit en Ukraine se poursuive, écrit le journaliste britannique Seumas Milne dans les pages du Guardian.

"La propagande antirusse est à son comble et ne vise pas tellement le pays dans son ensemble, mais plutôt une seule personne – son leader — Vladimir Poutine. Or, cette campagne de diabolisation de la Russie et de son leader est même beaucoup plus intense que la campagne antisoviétique du siècle passé", estime l'auteur.

Le journaliste est persuadé que le comportement de la Russie est dicté par les intérêts de sa propre sécurité, car malgré toutes les ententes enregistrées, après l'éclatement de l'URSS, l'Otan ne cesse de s'élargir à l'est; en "dévorant" les pays membres de l'ancien Traité de Varsovie et certaines ex-républiques soviétiques.

Politicians and the media are using Vladimir Putin and Ukraine to justify military expansionism. It’s dangerous folly

A quarter of a century after the end of the cold war, the “Russian threat” is unmistakably back. Vladimir Putin, Britain’s defence secretary Michael Fallon declares, is as great a danger to Europe as “Islamic State”. There may be no ideological confrontation, and Russia may be a shadow of its Soviet predecessor, but the anti-Russian drumbeat has now reached fever pitch.

And much more than in Soviet times, the campaign is personal. It’s all about Putin. The Russian president is an expansionist dictator who has launched a “shameless aggression”. He is the epitome of “political depravity”, “carving up” his neighbours as he crushes dissent at home, and routinely is compared to Hitler. Putin has now become a cartoon villain and Russia the target of almost uniformly belligerent propaganda across the western media. Anyone who questions the dominant narrative on Ukraine – from last year’s overthrow of the elected president and the role of Ukrainian far right to war crimes carried out by Kiev’s forces – is dismissed as a Kremlin dupe.
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But it’s certainly grist to the mill of those pushing military confrontation with Russia. Hundreds of US troops are arriving in Ukraine this week to bolster the Kiev regime’s war with Russian-backed rebels in the east. Not to be outdone, Britain is sending 75 military advisers of its own. As 20th-century history shows, the dispatch of military advisers is often how disastrous escalations start. They are also a direct violation of last month’s Minsk agreement, negotiated with France and Germany, that has at least achieved a temporary ceasefire and some pull-back of heavy weapons. Article 10 requires the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Ukraine.
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The alternative is a negotiated settlement which guarantees Ukraine’s neutrality, pluralism and regional autonomy. It may well be too late for that. But there is certainly no military solution. Instead of escalating the war and fuelling nationalist extremism, western powers should be using their leverage to wind it down. If they don’t, the consequences could be disastrous – far beyond Ukraine.