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March 05, 2015 — http://russia-insider.com/en/2015/03/05/4119

A Warning to Poroshenko: US Is Infamous for Dumping Its Allies
Sadam Hussein, Mobuto Sese Seko, Manuael Noriega and Muammar al-Ghadafi are just some of the examples
By Michael PESEK

Now that you, Pjotr Oleksijowytsch, are about to become a close ally of the US and a dictator at the same time, you should be advised that this might not be the beginning of a long-living love affair that inevitably ends with an account full of dollars, an army equipped with the finest stuff ever produced to kill your enemies, with the warm feeling of security because your American advisers taught your people how to get rid of your opponents, and with standing ovations at the UN Security Council for whatever you will say against Russian and other foes.

This is a little history lesson to remind you that the weather in Washington is much more capricious than the continental climate of Eurasia.

The US certainly won Cold War, but necessarily their Allies. One of the first to experience that fine difference was Sadam Hussein, Washington’s close ally in the Middle East for much of the 1980s. Hussein was a CIA asset to overthrow the Qassim-Regime, which was for the Americans too close to Soviet Union. In 1963, he successfully organized a coup and rewarded his American supporters by killing hundreds of Iraqi communists and with oilfields for American companies. But only in 1979, after another coup in Iraq and one in Iran that Hussein became chosen as “ our bad guy” of the US in the region When the Mullahs in Iran blow away the Shah, he became a useful idiot to take revenge for one of the biggest failures of American policy in the Cold War. Whatever he wished from the US to wage a war against Iran, he got it. Americans can be very generously, no question about it. They even provided him with chemical weapons to kill whoever he liked to kill.

However, it took not a long time after the Soviet Union collapsed, that the Americans changed their attitude towards Sadam Hussein. For their new grand gamble to rebuilt the Middle East, he was now more useful as an enemy than as an ally. Hussein was trapped to invade Kuwait to provide a pretext for the First Gulf War, followed by years of the sanctions, the no-fly-zone, and it ended with another gulf war, and a hole as the last refuge for Sadam and a not so nice execution in the dark of the night.

Lesson learned? You can kill as much as enemies of the US, you can sell your natural resources, but it will not shield you, when the storm from Washington takes another direction.

Do you remember Mobuto Sese Seko, the long-standing ally of Americans in the heart of Africa? You should, Ukrainian peacekeepers went there to tame the chaos that was left by his downfall in 1997. With the help of the CIA, Mobuto took over the Congo by a coup d’etat in 1965, and since then he was their most willing ally in Africa. He was their man to deliver weapons for the UNITA in the Angolan civil war and for the RENAMO in Mozambique, and of course, he was to ensure the unhindered plunder of the Congo by American companies, most notably the plutonium for American atom bombs. But then in the 1990s, Americans lost their interest in Africa, and Mobuto with all his eccentricities, his corruption and incompetence became a burden for President Clinton, who was propagating a new world order free from such oriental despots. If Mobuto had lived long enough to read the leaked telegrams of the US Embassy in Kinshasa, he would have learned that despite all the services he did for the US, he wasn’t in such high regard by his American allies.

Lesson learned? You can shake as many hands of American presidents and politicians as you want, you will never know what they really think of you. (…)

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