Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Poland as the ‘Slavic Turkey’ of NATO Destabilization

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Poland as the ‘Slavic Turkey’ of NATO Destabilization

Click here to access article by Andrew Korybko from VoltaireNet.

...the ‘Lead from Behind’ strategy has been defined as “discreet U.S. military assistance with [others] doing the trumpeting”. It is the new strategy of warfare for theaters where the US, for whatever reasons, is reluctant to directly militarily engage itself. It relies on using regional allies/’leaders’ as proxies to further US geostrategic and geopolitical goals via asymmetrical measures while Washington pivots to Asia, where it aims to present a conventional deterrent to China. Both Poland and Turkey are the US’ puppets of choice....

For more details on how this form of subversion is being implemented, read another article entitled "Neo-Nazi criminal state looming in the centre of Europe" from Oriental Review.

Of course, the problems with ruling classes in both Syria and Ukraine have provided fertile grounds for such subversive adventures on the part of the Empire.