What is the Reason for America’s Animosity Toward Russia?
In September 2005 the Russian government gifted a ten-story sculpture to the United States in memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks with the names of all 3,000 dead inscribed at the bottom. Dubbed the “teardrop” memorial for the 40-foot nickel-surfaced teardrop that hangs in the middle of a jagged opening split down a 100-foot bronze-clad tower, the memorial was quietly hidden out of site across the Hudson River in Bayonne, New Jersey. Foreign Policy magazine called it one of the world’s ugliest statues, while the New Yorker said that it looked like “a giant tea biscuit” from a distance and Pro Arts Jersey City called it “an insensitive, self-aggrandizing piece of pompousness by one of the world’s blatant self-promoters.” Apparently when it comes to memorializing thousands of lives it’s not the thought that counts. At least not when it comes from Russia, that is.
Why the intense animosity toward Russia that permeates our culture and in particular our government? One cannot seriously study Russia for any period of time without noticing it and one cannot express one’s findings and views on the subject without being subjected to it. It’s more than just “great power competition” or a spat between “adversaries”. It is a vicious, venomous hatred that cannot be explained away so simply. Of the estimated three million Russian-Americans living in the United States, nearly half have reported experiencing discrimination due to the mainstream media’s almost psychotic anti-Russian rhetoric that they have spewed for close to 5 years. Yes, in America we are vehemently opposed to racism…unless it’s toward Slavs and, increasingly, Asians. Again, why? Why this deranged level of xenophobia? It is a question I have grappled with and sought for years. Now, after almost four years and thousands of hours of study, I think the answer has become pretty apparent. What follows is my attempt to put this puzzle together into a clear picture. But I don’t merely want to show you the picture. I want you to find the means to put the picture together on your own and to keep adding to that picture as history is being written right in front of us. I STRONGLY suggest that you explore the sources I will provide at the end of this article.
While it may come as a surprise to some, Russia and the United States were not always adversaries. In 1863, during the American Civil War, Russian battleships were sent to the ports of New York and San Francisco to protect the Union from hostile actions by Britain and France. Parades were held in the streets in honor of the Russians and their assistance, a fact that has mostly been scrubbed from the history books. Unfortunately, Russia also represented not only the most formidable challenge to American industrial and financial supremacy with its incredible landmass but also a vast untapped market, something that no doubt posed a threat to certain capitalist corporations and industries. The solution: turn Russia into a puppet state, take the market captive, break the country into multiple regions and turn the country into a colony to be exploited by a few high-powered financiers and the corporations under their control.
"You must understand. The leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians.
They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a
shred of human remorse. The October Revolution was not what you call in America the 'Russian Revolution'.
It was an invasion and conquest over the Russian people. More of my countrymen suffered horrific crimes at
their bloodstained hands than any nation or people ever suffered in the entirety of human history. It cannot be
understated. Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant
of this reality is proof that the global media is itself in the hands of the perpetrators." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
author of "The Gulag Archipelago", an account of the persecutions suffered and witnessed by Solzhenitsyn in the
Gulag system.Although it may sound like elaborate conspiracy theory, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was largely financed by Wall Street and many banks, billionaires and corporations, among them J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, National City Bank, Guaranty Trust Company, American International Corporation and General Electric among others. The Red Cross mission to Russia during World War I even served as a cover for some who wanted to stoke the fires of revolution in the country. All of this is backed up by U.S. State Department File 861.00/5399 located in Record Group 59, Central Decimal Files, 1910–1929 box 9452 at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland and documented in Professor Antony C. Sutton’s book “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution” (widely available for free pdf download online). One of the primary goals was to keep Russia in the war against Germany and with the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II and his family (and their tragic murder in 1918), and the establishment of the Provisional Government (which the United States was quick to officially recognize), that goal seemed to be accomplished.
Germany itself, wanting Russia out of the war, threw a spanner in the works. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, a.k.a. Vladimir Lenin, also wanted Russia out of the war, believing that the damage the country would then suffer from German forces would stir up more civil unrest, so the German government gave Lenin funding, transportation and cover to get back into Russia and overthrow the Provisional Government.
But the West had their own agent they would soon maneuver into place. In 1916, Leon Trotsky was expelled from France, escorted across the Spanish border, arrested in Madrid, taken to Cadiz, then to Barcelona and finally placed on board a Transatlantic ship to New York City. According to Trotsky’s own autobiography, “My Life”, his only profession in New York was writing occasional articles for “Novy Mir”, the New York Russian socialist journal. Yet we know that he paid rent on his apartment three months in advance and had a private chauffeured limousine. The only funds Trotsky admits to receiving in 1916 and 1917 are $310 and he says that he distributed the $310 among five immigrants who were returning to Russia. Trotsky’s income is estimated to be about $12.00 per week, yet on his return to Russia he was arrested in Halifax, Nova Scotia and found to have $10,000 on his person. Where did the money come from? Trotsky writes of having a wealthy donor, who he identifies only as “Dr. M”.
With the U.S. State Department, in their own words, “Exercising special care in issuance of passports for Russia”, President Woodrow Wilson provided Trotsky with a new passport, complete with a Russian entry permit and British transit visa, but by the time he arrived Lenin had already taken control of the Bolsheviks, overthrew the Provisional Government and taken Russia out of the war.
This caused quite a shake up back home. George F. Kennan, former U.S Ambassador to the Soviet Union, documented these events in his books “Russia Leaves the War” and “The Decision to Intervene”. According to Kennan, Americans had long been told how their country was “exceptional”, how democracy was the greatest form of government, how free market capitalism was the best “ism” and how the “backwards” countries would automatically become free market capitalist democracies overnight when their governments fell. When this did not happen after the overthrow of the Provisional Government, the American people began asking questions, which made the US government very nervous. Although Kennan attempts to apologize for the US government’s actions in his books, they still remain some of the best works documenting the culmination of these events and all the players involved. To save face with the American people and to try to reverse this unexpected turn of events, the US government sent troops to Siberia to fight the Red Army. Dubbed the “Polar Bears”, this mission of some 5,000 American troops against Russia is largely unknown among citizens of the United States but still remembered and taught in Russia today.
The plan with this invasion — other then to cover their butts with the American people — was to assassinate Lenin and replace him with a puppet who would do the U.S.’s bidding and get Russia back into the war. Who this puppet would have been is unknown but it isn’t too much of a stretch to consider it could have been Trotsky, considering the evidence. Unfortunately for the plotters, the rise of Joseph Stalin sabotaged these plans. After the death of Lenin in 1924, Stalin seized the reigns of Bolshevik power and expelled Trotsky from the Soviet Union in 1929, eventually having him killed in 1940.
Despite what many believe, Lenin and Stalin were not two sides of the same coin. The two men did not generally like each other. Lenin considered Stalin to be rude and unstable and prior to his death he warned his fellow Bolsheviks to not allow Stalin to come to power, that he would destroy everything they had built. What did Lenin see in Stalin that disturbed him so? Was it simply the man’s personality and desire for power or was there something else that Stalin had taken great pains to conceal?
Born Joseph Djugashvili in Gori, Georgia, the man who would become known to history by one of his many aliases was said to be a brilliant poet with a beautiful singing voice. He also lived a rough life on the streets and had numerous close brushes with law enforcement before ultimately joining the revolutionary movement in Russia and slowly working his way up the ranks of the Bolsheviks. In recent years, much has become known about Stalin’s background and his youth but there is one question mark that yet hangs over his story, a question mark that some call only conspiracy theory while others claim there is evidence to support, a question mark that one cannot completely verify but cannot completely rule out: that at some point in the early 1900’s Stalin was recruited by the Tsar’s Secret Police to infiltrate the Bolshevik movement and rat out its chief agents to law enforcement. Indeed, Stalin was involved in many “coincidences” that are difficult to explain otherwise. How was he able to help fellow Bolsheviks smuggle printing presses and other illegal equipment by rail only to be the only one not apprehended by authorities? Why did he conveniently leave his comrades at their safe house one evening to go for a walk minutes before the house was raided by police? How was it that he personally got to know many civilians who were illegally providing housing and shelter for Bolshevik radicals and the only one of them to not get taken down by the police was one woman who Stalin wrote that he had more respect for than any other person he had ever known? What about the Eremin Letter, purportedly written by Colonel Eremin, a high-ranking member of the secret police, that names Stalin as one of their operatives, along with a detailed (and accurate) history of Stalin’s background that was then unknown? Many historians have written this document off as a forgery, but is that really the case? What about the fact that all of those whom Stalin later killed were either Bolsheviks, family members of Bolsheviks or Bolshevik sympathizers? Was this to avenge the murder of the Tsar and his family? Of course this is not to excuse Stalin’s brutal actions but he wasn’t incorrect by accusing the Bolsheviks of being foreign influencers who committed a crime against the people and the state. The book “The Young Stalin” by Edward Ellis Smith details a large number of these strange coincidences, to the extent that it is difficult to argue with their validity.
Stalin’s power grab and Trotsky’s failure sent ripples of concern through the ranks of those members of the U.S. government who were in the know, as documented by George Kennan, as well as Stalin’s reversal of Lenin’s centralization to a system of industrialization. Is it any wonder then that the same Wall Street banks, billionaires and corporations who financed the Bolsheviks also financed the rise of Hitler and the Third Reich? Are you experiencing cognitive dissonance yet? Again, this is not conspiracy theory and is extensively documented by Professor Antony C. Sutton in his follow-up book “Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler”, also widely available for free pdf download. Considering that one of Hitler’s main goals was to conquer the Soviet Union and overthrow Stalin, should we consider this Plan B of the financiers or just write it off as another one of those pesky “coincidences”?
Either way, the Nazi siege against the Soviet Union was a spectacular failure. At the cost of 27 million lives, Russian forces beat the Third Reich all the way across Europe and demolished them at their birthplace in Berlin.
One of the most popular concepts in so-called “conspiracy” circles is that of the New World Order, a one-world government. This is a somewhat fantastical interpretation of a not so conspiratorial idea. The notion of a one-world government is something that likely can never and will never be fully realized. There are too many countries with too much firepower who value their sovereignty too much for such a thing to be so easily accomplished. The actual reality of the New World Order is the centralization of the financial and military assets of all the nations under the control of a dominant super power government (in this case the United States) that all other nations would then be beholden to. The U.S. government has been actively attempting to construct such a world order for decades, more actively so in the last twenty years. Attempting to link Iraq with 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction, only to later backtrack those claims, for the purpose of installing a puppet government and building oil pipelines was part of that agenda. As were the attempts to install Juan Guido as president of Venezuela over the elected president Nicolas Maduro and the attempts to overthrow Assad in Syria while giving cover and funding to ISIS fighters simply because Assad chose to build a joint oil pipeline with Russia rather than selling to the United States. And Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. government had planted malware in the infrastructure of Japan. If at any point Japan no longer considers itself an ally of the United States, a push of a button and it’s lights out for the whole country. How many other “allies” does the U.S. have in such a tight spot?
After the fall of the Nazi party, the United States proposed the first official steps toward such a world order via the United Nations General Assembly as a world parliament. The Soviet Union recognized that the United States would control any such parliamentary vote and insisted that authority be vested in the Security Council with the right of veto for permanent members. Between 1946 and 1969, the Soviet Union cast 80 vetoes. As of July 2020, the USSR/Russia had cast a total of 116 against the U.S.’s 82. A second attempt at the creation of a post-war new order rested with the US proposal to internationalize atomic energy under United Nations aegis, outlined in the Baruch Plan. The USSR said no, again preventing the creation of a world state.
Ironically it was George F. Kennan, author of the two books mentioned above that heavily document American involvement in the Bolshevik movement, who crafted the idea of “containment”, essentially surrounding the Soviet Union with weapons systems and military bases. With the establishment of NATO, the true New World Order was finally born and with the Soviet Union rapidly becoming a major power, an arms race began and the Cold War that had secretly been raging since the early 1900’s became official.
We know the story after that. Increased tensions, nuclear weapons, doomsday drills in schools, the Cuban missile crisis; two superpowers duking it out, one for control and one for sovereignty from the others control. Flash forward to 1991 and the arms race had had the desired effect on the Soviet Union: the overspending, overextending and resultant collapse of America’s only true rival in the world.
With the Soviet Union gone, the West moved quickly to prop up Boris Yeltsin, a drunken clown of a president who would become America’s best friend while allowing the West to bleed Russia dry. The United States imposed “shock therapy” on the country, a financial theory that sudden, dramatic change in national economic policy can turn a state-controlled economy into a free-market one. The result in Russia’s case was disastrous. The economy crashed while Yeltsin gave cover to a number of Western-backed oligarchs who plundered and pillaged the country of its money and resources, funneling an enormous amount of wealth overseas. In 1996, despite Yeltsin’s abysmal approval ratings, the U.S. rigged the Russian elections and helped usher Yeltsin in for another term, a fact celebrated by Time Magazine and committed to film in the 2003 comedy “Spinning Boris”.
While Yeltsin became the darling of the West and the U.S. crowed about Russia’s newfound “freedom and democracy”, the country itself was actually imploding under the weight of the West’s increasing plunder. With the crash of the ruble, many employers no longer paid salaries in money but in every day items such as light bulbs and batteries that could be bartered for goods. Stores stocked rotten food and many people ate that food out of desperation. Millions were dead by the end of the 1990’s. Tanks roamed the streets. Gangs and organized crime came to power everywhere from the halls of government to the police to even the media outlets. Moscow, previously one of the safest cities in the world, was rocked by almost 2,000 homicides a year.
As the 90’s came to a close, Yeltsin’s approval rating hit rock bottom at 2%. The oligarchs backing him persuaded him to take $7 billion dollars in IMF money to refurbish the Kremlin. The funds were wired to an unknown company in Switzerland, then steered through Bank of New York. At this point, oligarch Edmond Safra, a Lebanese/Brazilian banker, instructed his bank to report to the Feds that Bank of New York had just conducted a money laundering event. The oligarchs then hung this over Yeltsin’s head, threatening to expose him of the theft of $7 billion unless he not run for president in 2000 and instead appoint notorious oligarch Boris Berezovsky as President of Russia. Apparently realizing he was set up, Yeltsin turned to the little-known Vladimir Putin, who was rising in the ranks of Moscow politics after serving as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, and appointed him successor with one request: save Russia. Putin accepted and offered Yeltsin immunity from criminal charges for what he had allowed to happen to the country.
Many of the oligarchs and politicians in the West were initially excited by Putin’s appointment, believing he could be controlled, but Putin quickly proved them wrong. He turned on them and began the long, slow process of releasing the country from their grasp. Many were imprisoned and many were exiled from Russia and banned from ever returning. Some of the less notorious were allowed to remain in Russia but with no further political involvement. Yukos Oil, which was funneling money from oil sales to Lord Jacob Rothschild, was liquidated and the money nationalized into the Russian economy. Putin had officially declared war on some of the most powerful people in the world. The Western media, which had previously been enamored with Putin as a “sober Boris Yeltsin” who would allow the plunder and pillage to continue, quickly turned to viciousness and slander. The corrupt, criminal element in Russia was so all pervasive that it forced Putin to seize control of all forms of government and society, including the media, to choke oligarchic money and control out of those areas. Ironically this prompted cries of “authoritarianism” from the West and ever since the U.S. government and media have railed about the “freedom of the Russian people from Putin’s iron grip”. Meanwhile in Russia Putin’s popularity rating has stayed consistently in the 70%-80% range. The Russian people know the reality of what Putin has done — and continues to do — and as much as some of them may tire of always having the same president, they also fear what may once again happen to them if he were gone.
In the early 90’s Mikhail Gorbachev was promised by the George H.W. Bush Administration that NATO would not expand one inch further east. Since then NATO has expanded right up to the borders of Russia and has deployed weapons and armaments in strategic locations along the Russian border that are identical to the buildup of Nazi armaments deployed by the Third Reich prior to the surprise attack on the Soviet Union. This psychological replay of the Nazi buildup is one of the dumbest and most dangerous strategies in history: Russians do not view war as something “cool” or patriotic or a video game as it’s often viewed in the United States but as hell on earth and something that must be avoided at all costs and fought, if need be, to the last man. If NATO — the current iteration of the New World Order — thinks they stand a chance against a nuclear-armed Russia then they are every bit as insane as they appear.
Attempts to suck Georgia and then Ukraine into NATO were catastrophic failures. In 2008, Western-backed Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili made a move to recapture the separatist region of South Ossetia, resulting in the deaths of Russian peacekeepers and a subsequent military response from Russia. The Bucharest Summit that same year, in which NATO promised that Georgia and Ukraine would become members of the alliance did not help the situation and relations between the United States and Russia, which had seemed to be on the mend in the wake of 9/11, began to collapse, particularly with the U.S. media blaming the war on a Russian invasion of Georgia.
The war in Ukraine in 2014 was a much more complicated affair. With the birth of Ukraine as an independent country in 1991, the peninsula of Crimea, which had long been considered Russian in origin, petitioned multiple times to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia. Each time it was denied. When the government of Ukraine removed the “Hero of Ukraine” title from nationalist and Nazi sympathizer Stepan Bandera, ultra right-wing neo-Nazi groups plunged the country into violence and overthrew the government. Part of this violence was the “purging” of ethnic Russians, including the crucifixion and burning alive of a twelve-year-old Russian girl. The United States and NATO saw a strategic opportunity and took it. John McCain, Joe Biden, and Secretary of State Victoria Nuland were all there and are all on video handing out supplies to the neo-Nazi groups, which included Right Sector and Svoboda and Trident, and delivering stirring speeches letting them know they were backed by the United States of America.
Really paints the Hunter Biden Ukraine scandal in a new light, doesn’t it?
With the neo-Nazis closing in on Crimea, which was over 90% ethnic Russian, and the violence toward ethnic Russians increasing, the people of Crimea voted in a referendum with over 90% support to leave Ukraine and rejoin the Russian Federation. President Putin accepted and the rest is history. Considering the presence of a Russian naval base in Sevastopol by treaty, one can see how this could not only be a sensitive issue for Russia but why the absorption of Ukraine and the seizure of that base would be so tempting a prospect for NATO. Of course, the spin in the Western media was that Russia started the war in Ukraine and also invaded and conquered Crimea. This in spite of the fact of the recorded Nuland/Pyatt phone call and the video of U.S. politicians on the ground in Ukraine offering support for the neo-Nazis. Hence why I’m fond of calling Americans the most propagandized, brainwashed people in the world.
If all of that were not enough, in the spring of 2018 the upper echelons of the U.S. Military released over 200 documents to the public proving the existence of “Operation Beluga”, a joint U.S./U.K. operation to demonize Vladimir Putin and destabilize the Russian Federation. This demonization can take many forms, including the assassinations of critics and political rivals, which should make us re-evaluate the murders of Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko and Boris Nemtsov as well as cast further pall on the ludicrous “Russiagate” 2016 hacking allegations. It was only a matter of days
before this story began to spread to multiple media outlets but was swept quickly off the internet with the convenient Skripal poisoning in the U.K. and the allegations of Russia’s involvement.
The existence of this operation should give us pause whenever we hear more anti-Russian propaganda on the news media and should make us wonder about the role played by certain figures such as Pussy Riot, Alexei Navalny and of course Bill Browder. Browder himself was one of the earliest oligarchs who entered Russia in the 1990’s. Initially a fan of Putin’s, Browder’s attitude changed once he found himself targeted for laundering billions of dollars. An American businessman, Browder renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to London to avoid unpaid taxes in the United States, yet he still holds power over the U.S. Congress and helped them create the Magnitsky Act, the means by which the United States imposes a neverending packtrain of sanctions on Russia. Sergei Magnitsky was Browder’s accountant under investigation for tax fraud who later died of natural causes in prison. Browder twisted the story to claim that Magnitsky was actually his lawyer and had been beaten to death for investigating corruption, the story that gave him the fuel for the creation of the Magnitsky Act. A Russian filmmaker, seeking to document these events as a true story, soon found himself making a documentary as his investigation of the events slowly unraveled the lie. The resulting film “The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes” has been heavily suppressed and every theater that dares pick it up sued out of business by Browder’s people. It still turns up occasionally online but very infrequently before disappearing again. Right now the film is currently available here: https://swprs.org/the-magnitsky-act/
With Russia’s more recent moves to curb U.S. globalist meddling in Venezuela and Syria, it should be quite apparent that the reason for the West’s war with and hatred of Russia is that Russia has been consistently blocking the West’s attempts to construct their New World Order and establish global control. For decades, Russia and its leaders have stood up for their own sovereignty and considering their power on the global stage and Putin’s habit of openly calling out the New World Order and its draconian aims, it’s pretty apparent why he and Russia have such a large target drawn on their backs.
If one is of a religious persuasion, then one could argue that there is also a spiritual component to this war. Many believe the United States was founded on Christian principles and has been a defender of those principles around the world, but now with the U.S. abandoning those principles left and right and even recognizing the Church of Satan as a legitimate religion, the stance the U.S. is taking in the world must be questioned. Meanwhile, just this past summer, the Russian people voted over 70% in favor of new additions to the Constitution, including adding God to the Constitution, not banning gay marriage but not legalizing it either and not legalizing abortion except under extreme measures. The U.S. is building more military bases while Russia is tearing down Communist monuments to build more churches. It’s almost as if the two countries have completely switched their former ideologies. This, too, could go a long way in explaining the animosity of Russia being fomented by the U.S. government and media.
Now with the tearing down of all the missile defense treaties preventing both countries from engaging in a new arms race, the U.S. has sent a very clear and ominous message to Russia, one they can only interpret as open hostility. For all of Donald Trump’s talk of wanting a better relationship with Russia, he has taken our already very sour relations and pushed them to the brink. Now with warmonger Joe Biden entering the presidency, stocking his cabinet with Bush-era neocons, taking foreign policy advice from Dick Cheney and eyeing Hillary Clinton for a role as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., the drums of war are pounding again and the future is looking very bleak indeed.
Sources and further reading:
- “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Struggle_Against_World_Terrorism
- “Almost half of Russians in US have experienced discrimination alongside ‘unfair’ portrayal of country in media — survey” — https://www.rt.com/russia/506028-discrimination-russophobia-presidential-election/
- “Russia Leaves the War: The Americans in Petrograd and the Bolshevik Revolution” by George F. Kennan — Princeton University Press, 1956
- “The Decision to Intervene: The Prelude to Allied Intervention in the Bolshevik Revolution” by George F. Kennan — Princeton University Press, 1958
- “The Lenin Plot: The Unknown Story of America’s War Against Russia” by Barnes Carr — Pegasus Books, 2020
- “Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists” by Antony C. Sutton — Clairview Books, 1974
- “Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler” by Antony C. Sutton — G S G & Associates, 1976
- “The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia” by James Carl Nelson — William Morrow, 2019
- “The Great Conspiracy Against Russia” by Michael Sayes & Albert Kahn — Proletarian Publishers, 1946
- “The Young Stalin: The Early Years of an Elusive Revolutionary” by Edward Ellis Smith — Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967
- “Stalin’s Great Secret” by Isaac Don Levine — Coward-McCann, 1956
- The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life” by Roman Brackman — Routledge, 2000
- “Report: Stalin was a secret police agent in czarist era” — https://apnews.com/article/a8ac08b41cd72d9d500b7e1629d7a6ef
- “Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia” by Stephen F. Cohen — W.W. Norton & Company, 2001
- “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” by Naomi Klein — Picador, 2008
- “The Great Conspiracy Against Russia: What is Really Behind the Campaign Against Putin?” by Dr. Kerry Bolton — https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-great-conspiracy-against-russia-what-is-really-behind-the-campaign-against-putin
- “Putin Expels the Families” by The Ist for The Saker Blog — http://thesaker.is/putin-expels-the-families/
- “How the U.S. Caused the Breakup of the Soviet Union” Sean Gervasi 1992 Lecture — https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-how-the-u-s-caused-the-breakup-of-the-soviet-union/5619579
- “So Who Really Tried to Blackmail Yeltsin & Takeover Russia — NSA-CIA-or Investment Bankers?” by Martin Armstrong — https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/so-who-really-tried-to-blackmail-yeltsin-takeover-russia-nsa-cia-or-investment-bankers/
- “The Plot to Scapegoat Russia” by Dan Kovalik — Skyhorse, 2017
- “Russia Against the Rest: The Post-Cold War Crisis of World Order” by Richard Sakwa — Cambridge University Press, 2017
- “Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands” by Richard Sakwa — I.B. Tauris, 2016
- “The Russian Peace Threat: Pentagon on Alert” by Ron Ridenour — Punto Press, LLC, 2018
- “The View From Moscow: Understanding Russia & U.S.-Russia Relations” by Natylie Baldwin — Double Eagle Publishing, 2020
- “Putin’s Praetorians: Confessions of the Top Kremlin Trolls” by Phil Butler — Pamil Visions, 2017
- “Operation Beluga: A US-UK Plot to Discredit Putin and Destabilize the Russian Federation” by William Dunkerley — https://www.opednews.com/articles/Operation-Beluga-A-US-UK-by-William-Dunkerley-Antiterrorism-Database_France_Litvinenko_Putin-160327-385.html
- “War With Russia?: From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate” by Stephen F. Cohen — Hot Books, 2019
- “Army document: US strategy to ‘dethrone’ Putin for oil pipelines might provoke WW3” by Nafeez Ahmed — https://off-guardian.org/2018/03/11/army-document-us-strategy-to-dethrone-putin-for-oil-pipelines-might-provoke-ww3/
