This sounds like a preposterous suggestion, but this article has me wondering. It's quite a stretch and a gamble if Moscow really initiated many of these things. But the proof is in the pudding, so to speak, or in the current administration. Here's a gist of how it works out:
It starts like that school-boy prank of everyone promising to jump from the bridge at the same time, but all the boys (except one) know not to jump, leaving the one kid the sole leaper, and the only one with the full-frontal red skin burn from the belly flop to prove it. So this is what Russia did with Germany in WWII according to a new book by Soviet GRU defector Viktor Suvorov titled The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II. Well, it's a short leap from WWII to the War on Terror:
It starts like that school-boy prank of everyone promising to jump from the bridge at the same time, but all the boys (except one) know not to jump, leaving the one kid the sole leaper, and the only one with the full-frontal red skin burn from the belly flop to prove it. So this is what Russia did with Germany in WWII according to a new book by Soviet GRU defector Viktor Suvorov titled The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design to Start World War II. Well, it's a short leap from WWII to the War on Terror:
"After the war Hitler’s foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, was arrested and put on trial at Nuremberg. What war crimes did this diplomat commit? He had direct knowledge of Stalin’s secret treaty with Hitler. During the Nuremberg trials the Russians warned Ribbentrop to keep his mouth shut. But under cross examination the Nazi diplomat was forced to admit that Stalin and Hitler had worked together. A copy of the secret Hitler-Stalin pact was produced during Deputy Fuhrer Hess’s trial. This created a sensation in the court room, until a Soviet judge demanded the suppression of “this anonymous document.” The Allied judges supported their Soviet colleague.The article concludes its review of Suvorov's book, saying:
The West is always slow to understand Russian strategic thinking. The Hitler-Stalin pact was about dividing and conquering. It was aimed at the West. And today, the bosses in the Kremlin continue to aim at the West. By giving nuclear and missile technology to Iran, the Russians prepare a new “icebreaker.” But today, there are many strategies on many continents: there is Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, the North Koreans, and the rapidly arming Chinese.
Strategy is not always about fighting. It is about long-range consequences. If you unloose X, then you unleash Y. Therefore, strategy is psychological and sociological. Consider the strategic outcome of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. Thousands of Americans were killed and the U.S. president responded by invading two Islamic countries – Afghanistan and Iraq. These invasions exposed the U.S. administration to withering criticisms from the Left. As long wars invariably prove unpopular, the discrediting of Bush and the Republican Party became a foregone conclusion. In this case, the “icebreaker” of the revolution was al Qaeda. The result of Bush’s overreaction spelled defeat for the Republican Party and victory for the American Left. And now the Americans have elected a president who wants to get rid of 80 percent of America’s nuclear arsenal."
"Suvorov’s methodology is to look at facts that haven’t been properly analyzed. When asked by a journalist why so many historians missed the role that Stalin played in starting World War II, Suvorov responded: “Are you asking why they are all so brilliant?” If someone asks today why the CIA and FBI haven’t grasped Moscow’s role in 9/11, I must give Suvorov’s answer. It is an amazing truth, that most events aren’t properly examined after the fact. Myths are propagated and false interpretations become set in stone. This is because normal people don’t question first impressions. They are superficial in their analysis. That is the way the world works. To question a myth, one has to have a questioning mind. Facts speak truth only to the few. As Suvorov points out, “Poland was divided not in the Imperial Chancellery, but in the Kremlin.” We might also recall that modern terrorism wasn’t invented in Baghdad or Kabul, but in Moscow."