US interference in the politics of others

REGARDING your opinion piece by Martin Schram, a United States columnist, on Vladimir Putin’s ‘‘master plan’’ to undermine the US influence in the G7 countries, EU and Nato (ODT, 2.6.18).

Mr Schram writes: ‘‘But suddenly Ukraine spurned Moscow and aligned its trade future with Europe and the US — and Putin exploded.’’

Putin would indeed have been very concerned. After all, Ukraine, which borders Russia, would then join Nato, a sworn enemy of Russia, while much of Eastern Ukraine is ethnically Russian.

This ‘‘suddenly’’ was after the US undersecretary and Senator John McCain had spent $US5 billion agitating politically inside the

Ukraine.

Orchestrating a violent and deadly coup to oust thethen Russianfriendly, democratically elected president and forcibly install, with the help of a neoNazi mob, a new USfriendly president? Now that sounds like foreign interference in a sovereign country’s political system to me.

On the upcoming Helsinki summit, Mr Schram makes much of Donald Trump’s lies. But then he needs to be reminded that all US presidents have lied, not just Trump. Big lies. Lies that have led to catastrophes.

Barack Obama lied about Libya before the US and Nato destroyed it. Why? Because Libya was the richest and best country to live in Africa.

They wanted to pull out of the US dollar for oil trading and start an African system. You can’t do that to the US.

They lied about Syria, and who can forget George W. Bush’s lies about weapons of mass destruction before invading Iraq. Again, they destroyed it and executed their leader as a warning to others.

It is very clear that the US interferes in the political systems of other countries far more than anyone else interferes in theirs. Ike Nitis

Mosgiel ....................................

BIBLE READING: To get wisdom is to love oneself; to keep understanding is to prosper. — Proverbs 19:8.