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“Noah” Promotes The Luciferian Gnostic Belief That The Creator Of This World Is Evil

In the new Hollywood blockbuster “Noah”, the Creator of this world is portrayed as an evil homicidal maniac that utterly hates humanity, and the Serpent is portrayed as the one holding the secret that will restore the “divine spark” to humanity.  Unfortunately, most Christians (even those that have reviewed this film negatively) have totally missed the Luciferian Gnostic themes that are being openly promoted by this film.  I have previously written about how “Noah” turns the fallen angels into good guys that actually help Noah build the Ark, but the occult themes in this movie go much deeper than that.  Director Darren Aronofsky has expertly woven elements of Luciferianism, Gnosticism and even from the Kabbalah throughout the film.  Over the years, hundreds of millions of people all over the world that watch this movie will be exposed to the Luciferian gospel without even realizing it.

There are many different strands of Gnosticism, but in the version that I call “Luciferian Gnosticism”, the Creator of this world is an evil being known as “the Demiurge” and the Serpent is a good being that possesses the secret knowledge (“gnosis”) that will help humanity rediscover the “divine spark” that already resides inside of them.  The following is how Wikipedia describes how the Gnostics tend to view God…

Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God and the demiurgic “creator” of the material. Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: his act of creation occurs in unconscious semblance of the divine model, and thus is fundamentally flawed, or else is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality. Thus, in such systems, the Demiurge acts as a solution to (or, at least possibly, the problem or cause that gives rise to) the problem of evil.

In the most radical form of Christian Gnosticism, the Demiurge is the “jealous God” of the Old Testament.

And this is precisely how the God of the Bible is portrayed in “Noah” as Dr. Brian Mattson recently pointed out…

Except that when Gnostics speak about “The Creator” they are not talking about God. Oh, here in an affluent world living off the fruits of Christendom the term “Creator” generally denotes the true and living God. But here’s a little “Gnosticism 101” for you: the Creator of the material world is an ignorant, arrogant, jealous, exclusive, violent, low-level, bastard son of a low level deity. He’s responsible for creating the “unspiritual” world of flesh and matter, and he himself is so ignorant of the spiritual world he fancies himself the “only God” and demands absolute obedience. They generally call him “Yahweh.” Or other names, too (Ialdabaoth, for example).

This Creator tries to keep Adam and Eve from the true knowledge of the divine and, when they disobey, flies into a rage and boots them from the garden.

In other words, in case you’re losing the plot here: The serpent was right all along. This “god,” “The Creator,” whom they are worshiping is withholding something from them that the serpent will provide: divinity itself.

In “Noah”, essentially the Creator is the bad guy and the serpent is the good guy, just like in hardcore Gnosticism.

Another way that Gnosticism manifests itself in the film is that Adam and Eve are portrayed as bright, shiny, luminescent beings before the Fall.  It is only after the Fall that they take on flesh and bone.

This is also pure Gnosticism.  In the second century AD, Irenaeus of Lyon wrote the following regarding what one particular group of Gnostics believed…

“Adam and Eve formerly had light, luminous, and so to speak spiritual bodies, as they had been fashioned. But when they came here, the bodies became dark, fat, and idle.”

We can also find this doctrine in Kabbalism according to Dr. Mattson…

It occurred to me that a mystical tradition more closely related to Judaism, called Kabbalah (which the singer Madonna made popular a decade ago or so), surely would have held a similar view, since it is essentially a form of Jewish Gnosticism. I dusted off (No, really: I had to dust it) my copy of Adolphe Franck’s 19th century work, The Kabbalah, and quickly confirmed my suspicions:

“Before they were beguiled by the subtleness of the serpent, Adam and Eve were not only exempt from the need of a body, but did not even have a body—that is to say, they were not of the earth.”

And guess what?  Dr. Mattson also pointed out that Aronofsky’s very first feature film was all about the Kabbalah…

I discovered what Darren Aronofsky’s first feature film was: Pi. Want to know its subject matter? Do you? Are you sure?

Kabbalah.

If you think that’s a coincidence, you may want a loved one to schedule you a brain scan.

Wow.

When I first read that, I was absolutely stunned.

A movie that is openly promoting Gnosticism and Kabbalism has been pawned off to Christians as a “Biblical movie”, and millions of them are falling for it hook, line and sinker.

In Gnosticism, humanity has a dual nature.  The physical part comes from the evil Creator, but there is also a good part that comes from the “true God”.  According to Gnostic belief, the evil Creator is constantly trying to keep humanity from discovering the “divine spark” that supposedly resides within us all.  The following is a brief summary of how the Gnostics view humanity…

Human nature mirrors the duality found in the world: in part it was made by the false creator God and in part it consists of the light of the True God. Humankind contains a perishable physical and psychic component, as well as a spiritual component which is a fragment of the divine essence. This latter part is often symbolically referred to as the “divine spark”. The recognition of this dual nature of the world and of the human being has earned the Gnostic tradition the epithet of “dualist”.

Humans are generally ignorant of the divine spark resident within them. This ignorance is fostered in human nature by the influence of the false creator and his Archons, who together are intent upon keeping men and women ignorant of their true nature and destiny. Anything that causes us to remain attached to earthly things serves to keep us in enslavement to these lower cosmic rulers. Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, but if there has not been a substantial work of Gnosis undertaken by the soul prior to death, it becomes likely that the divine spark will be hurled back into, and then re-embodied within, the pangs and slavery of the physical world.

Not all humans are spiritual (pneumatics) and thus ready for Gnosis and liberation. Some are earthbound and materialistic beings (hyletics), who recognize only the physical reality. Others live largely in their psyche (psychics). Such people usually mistake the Demiurge for the True God and have little or no awareness of the spiritual world beyond matter and mind.

In Gnosticism, secret knowledge (“gnosis”) is the key to “liberation” and “enlightenment”.

And who provides that secret knowledge?

It comes from the Serpent.  He was trying to provide that secret knowledge about the divine spark to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and he has supposedly been doing that ever since.

In “Noah”, this secret knowledge is represented by the serpent skin that shows up throughout the film.  In the movie, this serpent skin was supposedly shed by the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.  Here is another excerpt from Dr. Brian Mattson’s recent article…

The action opens when Lamech is about to bless his son, Noah. Lamech, rather strangely for a patriarch of a family that follows God, takes out a sacred relic, the skin of the serpent from the Garden of Eden. He wraps it around his arm, stretches out his hand to touch his son—except, just then, a band of marauders interrupts them and the ceremony isn’t completed. Lamech gets killed, and the “villain” of the film, Tubal-Cain, steals the snakeskin. Noah, in other words, doesn’t get whatever benefit the serpent’s skin was to bestow.

This movie is Luciferian to the core.

It is just another step in the massive ongoing propaganda campaign to convince the world that the Creator God of the Bible is evil, and that Lucifer (“the Light-bearer”) is good and is trying to bring “enlightenment” to humanity.

About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled “The Beginning Of The End” is now available on Amazon.com.

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George Bush: My World Leader Portraits Will Wow

Former US President George Bush has said world leaders will be shocked by his artistic skills when they see his portraits of them.

The artworks include a stern-looking Russian President Vladimir Putin Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert features in the exhibition

The 67-year-old, who took up painting after leaving the White House five years ago, put his collection on display at the George W Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas.

One of the most striking works is a stern-faced portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which hangs alongside paintings of many other famous faces, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi and the Dalai Lama.

Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian PM, appears alongside other leaders Mr Bush also painted Afghan President Hamid Karzai

In an interview with NBC’s Today show, Mr Bush said: “I think they’re going to be (like), ‘Wow, George Bush is a painter’.

“I’m sure when they heard I was painting … they (would have said), ‘Wow, I look forward to seeing a stick figure’.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s face features in the exhibition Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama was also painted

“I hope they take it in the spirit in which these (portraits) were painted in … the spirit of friendship.”

Mr Bush, who once painted himself taking a shower, is reported to have been inspired by one of British wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill’s books.

Paintings of George Bush and his father welcome visitors to the gallery A portrait of German Chancellor Angela Merkel also hangs in the library

He painted himself and his father George H W Bush for the exhibition, entitled The Art of Leadership: A President’s Personal Diplomacy.

But he admits a portrait of his wife, Laura, “needs some work”, while his mother, Barbara, has said she will “absolutely not” pose for her son.

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World Vision’s Secular Myopia

Even better than having ‘Vision’ in your name is having it in your brain.

Maybe it was a Mexican divorce.

Last Monday World Vision President Richard Stearns walks hand–in–hand down the aisle pledging fealty to homosexual marriage until death do they part. This is big news, because World Vision is a Christian charity and the nation’s 10^th largest.

Then, only 48 hours later, the happy couple is fighting over who gets to keep the china as Stearns backpedals furiously.

And through all the uproar Stearns has this slightly baffled aspect, as if he’d just spent the last two days selling flowers in Terminal A for the Moonies, and now his parents have whisked him back home where he decides joining the Jaycees isn’t that bad after all.

For those who missed the controversy, in Christianity Today World Vision announced it “will no longer require its more than 1,100 employees to restrict their sexual activity to marriage between one man and one woman” — an implied endorsement of homosexual marriage.

Stearns characterized this surrender as a “very narrow policy change.” Yet AP described it as “a dramatic policy change on one of the most divisive social issues facing religious groups.”

During an interview Stearns became defensive, “We’re not caving to some kind of pressure. We’re not on some slippery slope…This is not us compromising. It is us deferring to the authority of churches and denominations on theological issues.”

Which makes one grateful World Vision didn’t have any members of Westboro Baptist on the board.

Still you can’t help but wonder what version of the Bible Stearns and the board is consulting. “This is also not about compromising the authority of Scripture. People can say, ‘Scripture is very clear on this issue,’ and my answer is, ‘Well ask all the theologians and denominations that disagree with that statement.”

This is sophistry. Bart Ehrman is James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the UNC and a best–selling author, yet he denies the divinity of Christ, which at the time this is written World Vision still supports. Evidently Stearns and the board pick–and–choose among theologians as they pick–and–choose among Bible verses.

Then demonstrating his utter cluelessness regarding fundamental issues of church doctrine and how the secular world views the faithful, Stearns remarked, “I don’t want to predict the reaction we will get. I think we’ve got a very persuasive series of reasons for why we’re doing this, and it’s my hope that all of our donors and partners will understand it, and will agree with our exhortation to unite around what unites us.”

I suppose this type of reasoning makes sense when your reading matter is limited to The New York Times and Sojourners.

But in the Evangelical Christian world his “persuasive series of reasons” produced a stunning backlash. In the ensuing 48 hours World Vision lost money, support and credibility. Approximately 5,000 individual sponsors and contributors canceled, costing the organization upwards of $ 2.1 million. 60 church partners called the office to withdraw their support. And a number of employees at headquarters resigned. Some in protest, some because of the stress of dealing with the fallout from Stearns’ colossal stupidity.

Wednesday a chastened Stearns and board chairman Jim Beré signed a contrite letter that read, “We have listened to you and want to say thank you and to humbly ask for your forgiveness.”

Later in a conference call with reporters, Stearns elaborated, “We have listened to you and want to say thank you and to humbly ask for your forgiveness” and if he “could have a do-over on one thing, I would have done much more consultation with Christian leaders.”

But he just ran out of time, what will all the meetings with The New York Times editorial board, the Human Rights Campaign and the cast of The Laramie Project.

The rapid retraction is a good first step, but the fact remains World Vision’s current leadership is unfit to run the organization.

In a post–divorce interview with Religion News Service, Stearns is taken aback by the notion he bears any responsibility. “No, there have been no serious requests for my resignation. I would certainly under- stand if the board wanted to make a decision around that. Some of the board members have asked the question about their own resignation. Right now, our feeling is we were all in this together. We made certainly, in retrospect, a bad decision, but we did it with the right motivations.”

Here we agree. Stearns and the board are all in it together and they should all take the honorable path and resign.

Here’s just a brief rundown of the unnecessary havoc these morally blind people have caused:

1. Seriously damaged a reputation in the Evangelical community it took 63 years to build.


2. Proved themselves totally unfit to manage the reputation and public relations of a billion dollar organization by demonstrating a basic failure to understand the culture and media.


3. Potentially endangered employees working in Africa where governments are passing laws criminalizing homosexual conduct.


4. Cost the organization millions of dollars.


5. Opened World Vision up to scrutiny and attack from militant homosexual organizations and a hostile Obama administration.


6. Distracted the staff from the mission of serving the world’s poor.

Any one of these offenses is enough, but all are an indictment that only resignation, reflection and repentance will answer.

Naturally many Christian leaders are welcoming World Vision’s return to the fold and urging Christians to resume financial and prayer support.  But as for me, if I want to make a contribution to an organization run by leadership that is this slippery and disingenuous, I’ll send a check to Congress.

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• These Daily Kos community posts were the most shared on Facebook March 4:
  
  

  What Would Jesus Shoot? Kentucky Baptists giving away 25 guns to attract converts, by Lefty Coaster
  

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• Hate groups thick in the South, but the largest numbers are in California:

Eleven Southern states are home to more than 500 groups that promote hate speech, according to a detailed breakdown by the Southern Poverty Law Center. But it’s California that is home to the largest number of organizations that preach hate, the center found.

The SPLC tracks 939 active groups that promote racial, ethnic or religious segregation or hate. The eight types of hate groups the center has identified include white nationalists, black separatists, neo-Confederates, Christian identity, skinheads, Ku Klux Klans and neo-Nazis, along with a handful of miscellaneous groups.

• What getting older will do to you:

At 42, I see movies differently than I did as a kid. Ferris Bueller is now the story of a hard-working principal just trying to do his job.
— @JElvisWeinstein

• Thank Warren Buffett for those exploding oil trains:

We’ve written a lot about the dangers of shipping extra-flammable oil in flimsy rail cars that are prone to puncture and explode. Turns out you can blame a fair bit of the problem on billionaire investor Warren Buffett. As the Sightline Institute’s blog reports, “Arguably, he is the single most important person in the world of oil-by-rail.”

It doesn’t take much scrutiny to see that oil trains get special treatment. After all, if a jet plane has a battery fire problem, regulators immediately pull it from service and will ground the entire fleet until the manufacturer makes modifications to reduce the risk of fire. If an auto regularly bursts into flame upon impact, the feds issue a recall and mandate retrofits for all the cars with the defect. Yet despite explosion after deadly explosion—and safety report after federal safety report—government regulators, at the urging of the industry groups that represent Buffett’s holdings, have allowed unsafe DOT-111s tank cars to haul crude oil and ethanol.

• 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is related to herpes:

A recent study found that many Americans are lost when it comes to tech-related terms, with 11% saying that they thought HTML — a language that is used to create websites — was a sexually transmitted disease. [...]

• 27% identified “gigabyte” as an insect commonly found in South America. A gigabyte is a measurement unit for the storage capacity of an electronic device. [...] • 23% thought an “MP3″ was a “Star Wars” robot. It is actually an audio file.
• 18% identified “Blu-ray” as a marine animal. It is a disc format typically used to store high-definition videos.

• Steve Stockman’s “uncampaign” ends in unelection:

The Stockman campaign defied convention, often spectacularly so. He made what the Dallas Morning News called a “rare public appearance” on January 14, and then he disappeared. He wasn’t seen for days, during which time he missed 17 consecutive votes and his House office refused to say where he was. Then his staff switched gears, revealing that he had been in Russia, Egypt, and Israel and chiding American reporters for not paying attention to a press conference he’d held overseas. He came back in time for the State of the Union, only to theatrically storm out midway through.

His campaign office was literally condemned. His staff, such as it was, refused to alert reporters to upcoming public events, which may have been because there weren’t any.

• Hundreds of world cultural sites headed for Davy Jones’s Locker:

According to a new analysis published in Environmental Research Letters, roughly 136 of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s 720 World Heritage Sites, including the Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall, the Tower of London, and much of Riga, Naples, Venice, and St. Petersburg, will be underwater within the next 2000 years. That’s assuming just a 3-degree Celsius temperature increase over that time period (a full list of the sites is available in the paper).

• $ 30 million worth of buried gold coins not a mint heist says agent for finders. Here is a comment from a mint representative saying the same. Here is a newspaper story about the robbery. Check out the date.

“We’ve got a crack team of lawyers, and trust me, if this was U.S. government property we’d be going after it.” Richard Kelly, who wrote a book on the San Francisco Mint, sees a further issue with the dates of the uncovered coins—they’re stamped 1847 to 1894, and he thinks ones taken from the mint would be dated nearer to 1901.

“We assume from the times and all the records that they were new coins [taken]. Back then, once coins were printed they flew out of the mint.”

• On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, it’s Joan McCarter day! Topics: Bachmann haz a sad about Jews; CIA watches their watchers; GunFAIL “Where Are They Now?”; AMA, minimum wage, immigration roundup; Reid vs Koch & Lindsey Graham’s Benghazi freakout.

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Turmoil in Ukraine hits world markets

The escalating volatility in Ukraine hit markets around the globe. | AP Photo

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to deploy military forces in Ukraine rattled world financial markets on Monday, as investors warily eyed the increased instability in the region.

Russian markets took the biggest hit with the Moscow Exchange tumbling nearly 11 percent over the course of the day, while the country’s official currency, the ruble, also plunged against the U.S. dollar.

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The escalating volatility in Ukraine hit markets around the globe.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down around 200 points, or 1.2 percent, in early afternoon trading. European markets also opened the week lower— Germany’s DAX index is down close to 3.5 percent, while Britain’s FTSE has fallen about 1.5 percent.

(Also on POLITICO: Why Russia no longer fears the West)

Market analysts said the Ukrainian situation would likely have limited impact on the U.S. economy and markets unless the conflict deepened into full-scale war or spread to other areas such as Lithuania or Estonia.

“Markets reacting as they are, especially given the big advance last year, is rational because the risks are high,” said David Kotok, chief investment officer at Cumberland Advisors. “This is the worst tension between the West and Russia since the end of the Cold War and it shows there is real weakness in the West’s ability to respond. But as long as this stays in Ukraine the U.S. is very insulated.”

Ukraine represents a very small slice of the global economy and its default, should it occur, would probably not cause more than a temporary ripple in bond and equity markets. The United States is also much less reliant on foreign oil than in the past. And the rise in oil prices impacting European economies should be limited given the current ample global supply, experts said.

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“Of course you are going to have an immediate reaction but markets right now are much more driven by what the Federal Reserve is doing than by what is going on in eastern and central Europe,” said James Rickards, an expert on geopolitical market risk at merchant bank Tangent Capital. “Ukraine is a tiny economy. It’s not like distress in Spain or Italy that we saw in recent years,” Rickards said. “Where it gets tricky is spillover. Does the [European debt crisis] come back to haunt us now? We really have no way to know.”

Russia acted quickly on Monday to try and blunt the damage to its economy resulting form its move into the Ukraine with its central bank increasing its key lending rate to 7 percent from 5.5 percent.

“The decision is aimed at preventing the risks for inflation and financial stability arising from the recent increase in financial market volatility,” the Russian central bank’s board of directors said.

As world powers weigh how to respond to Russia seizing Crimea, a peninsula in Ukraine where Moscow has a naval base, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew over the weekend discussed potentially imposing economic sanctions on Russia.

Russia’s economy is hugely dependent on oil and natural gas, and some market watchers warn that economic sanctions could lead to an increase in certain commodity prices.

“If the West agrees on any economic sanctions, it has the potential to significantly drive up the price of oil (especially Brent) and natural gas as well as wheat and potash,” Robbert Van-Batenburg, director of market strategy at the brokerage firm Newedge, said in a research note.

Rickards and others noted that it made sense for the United States. to let Germany take the lead on pressuring Russia because the Germans have oil production technology the Russian’s need. And the two are now partners in the Nord Stream gas pipeline that runs through the Baltic to Germany.

Also, the United States and other leading economies are considering how to boost the struggling Ukrainian economy to help the country’s new government.

Lew said that the centerpiece of any aid package should come from the International Monetary Fund, which is sending officials to Ukraine this week on a “fact-finding” trip.

Some market analysts wondered whether the situation in Ukraine could lead Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to pause the central bank’s current policy of cutting back, or “tapering,” asset purchases at each policy setting meeting. The Fed has been reducing the purchases, initially begun as an effort to stimulate the economy during the last recession, by $ 10 billion at each meeting.

The general consensus on Wall Street is that the unless the situation in Ukraine worsens, the Fed will continue to taper following its next meeting that concludes March 19th. “It will take more bad U.S. employment reports,” to get a pause in the taper, Rickards said.

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If we had anything resembling a functioning media in this country, this one segment should have demanded that Candy Crowley follow up with minimally a “Are you serious, Sen. Graham? Does the name Iraq mean anything to you?” if not flat out laughing in Huckleberry Graham’s face:

CROWLEY: What do you make of that position, that a Russian view of this [the turmoil in the Crimea] is not totally understood or taken into account?

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In response to the revolution in Ukraine, Moscow has ordered a 150,000-troop Russian military exercise in the semi-autonomous region of Crimea, right on Ukraine’s border. Amid the commotion, pro and anti- Russian residents residents of Crimea have protested.

Dmitri Trenin and Andrew S. Weiss at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace give a brief primer on the Crimea situation:

Crimea is a very special—and delicate—case. It is Ukraine’s only autonomous republic, though its autonomy was sharply curtailed in the mid-1990s. Its population of nearly 2 million is about 60 percent Russian, many of whom are retired Russian military personnel. Russia’s naval base in Sevastopol is home to some 15,000 active-duty servicemen, and much of the city essentially lives off of the base. About 12 percent of Crimeans are Tatars, who are generally loyal to Kyiv due to their tragic history. (They were persecuted and repatriated by Stalin for alleged disloyalty at the end of World War II and were only able to return to Crimea at the very end of the Soviet period.) Throughout independent Ukraine’s twenty-plus-year history, Crimea’s residents, only 24 percent of whom are ethnic Ukrainians, have seen themselves as a breed apart from the Ukrainian mainstream.

They explain that Russia’s military exercise could be a dangerous move:

It would be a surprise if Russia moved to annex the region outright. Although Putin has maintained his silence on the situation in Ukraine since this past weekend, events on the ground are challenging Ukraine’s territorial integrity and raising the possibility that Russian troops will become directly involved in pulling the country apart.

Putin’s hand could be forced (and conflict could come to the region inadvertently) depending on how the new authorities in Kyiv respond to recent moves by the local population. One can easily imagine a harsh Russian response if Kyiv takes rash steps to reassert its authority in Crimea either by sending in troops or by allowing revolutionary paramilitaries to launch a “people’s march” on Crimea.

Today, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel warned Russia not to intervene, failing to mention that (1) Washington has been intervening in Ukraine from the start, and (2) it’s really none of our business what Russia does.

“We expect other nations to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and avoid provocative action,” Mr. Hagel said. “That’s why I’m closely watching Russia’s military exercises along the Ukrainian border…”

In any case, telling Russia to behave itself has about zero chance of helping the situation. “Russian leaders believe, rightly or wrongly, that the West drove events in Ukraine to the brink of collapse to secure geopolitical advantage over Moscow,” Trenin and Weiss say. “Thus, Western appeals for Russian restraint in the event of a crisis over Crimea are unlikely to resonate.”

But the eagerness in Washington to steer events in Ukraine and beat out Russia in some pointless geopolitical game has not yielded. In this Daily Beast report, Republican leaders Buck McKeon and James Inhofe berate Obama for being too soft on Russia; they both express a deep longing for the Cold War era when it was easier to justify any reckless military action abroad on the grounds of opposing Soviet designs.

David Rhodes, a Reuters columnist, quoted former Romney adviser Nile Gardiner as reiterating Romney’s 2012 line that Russia is America’s greatest geo-political foe and arguing that “an ‘ideological war’ was underway and Putin is winning.”

Gardiner then worries that Washington’s inability to force Russia to lay prostrate at the feet of American power is encouraging other countries to defy their American master: “Putin is viewed by American adversaries and competitors as someone who has stood up to American influence and gotten away with outflanking the United States. Adversaries take note of this and they sense weakness and that’s dangerous. Dissidents also take note.”

Obama’s State Department, which as we know has quietly tried to pull off regime change in Ukraine (only to be outed by a leaked phone conversation), prefers to apply the Republican bellicosity, just to do it quietly:

“What we’re trying to do is work through diplomatic channels with the Russians,” a senior State Department official told Rhodes. “That doesn’t mean going public with some tough rhetoric that might please some domestic constituencies. This is not an era where tough talk gets the job done.”

Tough talk is so 1980. Secrecy is now the American way.

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