Russia & The USA: Is There a Future? Notes on Dr. Ivanchenko's Address

Russia & The USA: Is There a Future? Notes on Dr. Ivanchenko's Address

By Regis Tremblay

My good friend and colleague Yaroslav Ivanchenko gave an address at the International Congress on the 80th Anniversary of the Yalta Conference, “Challenges of a Multipolar World Order,” March 28th, 2025.

His presentation of the historical context of Russian-American relations dating back to the US War of Independence through WWII was spot on.

As a historian, theologian, philosopher and documentary filmmaker, and a life-long student of US history and American foreign policy, I disagree with his optimistic conclusion, and the conclusion of many Russian academics and intellectuals that, “the historical experience of relations between our countries demonstrates the possibility of fruitful cooperation when mutual interests are respected, offering hope for further collaboration in the modern era for the benefit of our peoples and humanity.”

First of all, it is debatable whether the Americans ever really gained independence from England! The City of London and the Bank of London are completely independent of the Crown and the country of England, and are intrinsically connected to the bankers in New York City, and therefore exercise undue influence and control.

The historical account Mr. Ivanchenko detailed, i.e., Russia’s aid to the Colonies in their “war of independence,” and subsequently to the United States all the way through the War Against England and the Crimean War, created a vengeful enemy in the British Empire.

The Crown, the intellectual elite, and the bankers have never forgiven or forgotten Russia’s assistance to the United States. Churchill himself detested Stalin and the Soviet Union and, in April–May 1945, just before Germany surrendered, Churchill ordered the British Joint Planning Staff to draw up a scenario for a surprise war against the Soviet Union. It was code-named: Operation Unthinkable.

Shortly after WWII, President Truman ordered a plan called Plan Totality that purported to target some 20–30 Soviet cities for atomic bombing.

The list allegedly included major Soviet cities: Moscow, Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Kazan, and others.

As early as 1947, U.S. war planners began formally including nuclear weapons in their contingency plans against the USSR.

A 1948 policy document, NSC-30, instructed the U.S. military to be ready to use nuclear weapons in a future war with the Soviet Union.

Another plan (from this era) assumed the U.S. could use 100–200 atomic bombs. Under this assumption, one war plan called for 34 bombs to be dropped on 24 Soviet cities.

For the past 80 years, both the UK and the USA have been planning for the complete destruction of the USSR and Russia. It was never more clearly stated than during the Biden administration when it was formally declared that the US goal was to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.

I move now to who and what controls US foreign policy.

Operation Paperclip was a secret U.S. intelligence program, run from 1945 into the 1950s, to recruit German scientists, engineers, doctors, and technical specialists from Nazi Germany after World War II. Its goal was to capture advanced German scientific knowledge and prevent it from falling into Soviet hands.

About 1,600 German scientists and technicians (plus family members) were brought to the U.S. under the program, and escaped prosecution and sentencing at Nuremberg.

Many of the scientists recruited were former members of the Nazi Party or had worked for projects tied to forced labor, V-2 weapon factories, or other war crimes.

Wernher von Braun, the Nazi ballistic missile expert, became the chief architect of the NASA Apollo Moon project. Other scientists were involved in nerve agent research and other human experiments. Others were involved in biological weapons research.

The program has been fully declassified. Most details are now public, and many scientists’ personal files have been released through the US National Archives and CIA declassifications.

This begs the question: who was behind Operation Paperclip? It is all very well documented in The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government, a 2015 investigative history book by David Talbot. It focuses on Allen Dulles, his brother John Foster Dulles, and the enormous influence they exerted on U.S. foreign policy, intelligence operations, and Cold War geopolitics.

Both of these men, along with others like Prescott Bush (the father of GHW Bush), Wall Street law firms like Sullivan & Cromwell where John Foster Dulles was a senior partner, the future Secretary of State, and Allen Dulles, the future director of the CIA, was a director. Their work involved negotiating international loans and reorganizations for German industrial clients.

The Brown Brothers Harriman Union Banking Corporation were associated with Fritz Thyssen, a German industrialist who financially supported Nazism. Chase National Bank (later JPMorgan Chase) handled accounts for German financial institutions.

And then there was Standard Oil of New Jersey, a Rockefeller-controlled company that shared synthetic fuel agreements with I.G. Farben.

Ford Motor Company, its German subsidiary, Ford-Werke. General Motors’ German branch, Opel, was a major vehicle producer for the Wehrmacht.

Most of these companies had no Nazi ideological sympathies. For them, it was just business and protecting their assets in Germany.

This brings us back to Allen Dulles, one of the most consequential and controversial figures in the history of U.S. intelligence. His role in building, shaping, and expanding the CIA during the early Cold War makes him central to understanding how America’s covert power grew after WWII.

Under Dulles, the CIA became a global espionage service, a covert-action agency directing coups and paramilitary operations, a psychological warfare center, and a key policymaker of U.S. foreign affairs. (emphasis mine)

Dulles believed that the CIA should not simply gather intelligence but shape world events. (emphasis mine)

The Bay of Pigs (1961): Dulles helped design and sell the plan for a covert invasion of Cuba by CIA-trained exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion failed spectacularly, and President John F. Kennedy forced Dulles to resign later that year because he had been betrayed by Dulles, General Curtis LeMay, and other senior advisors. This is just one reason why JFK was assassinated two years later.

The CIA, under Dulles, and still does today, operates with significant autonomy as a semi-independent arm of U.S. power, with no real presidential or congressional oversight.

So, who controls US foreign policy?

At the top of the pyramid is the CIA, whose role is to independently “defend U.S. interests in every country around the world.” It does this through espionage, bribery, coups, color revolutions, extrajudicial killings, and political assassinations.

Every U.S. president not only has no oversight of the CIA, but fears the consequences of a JFK event.

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning about the Military-Industrial Complex is one of the most famous—and prophetic—farewell addresses in American history. He delivered it on January 17, 1961, three days before leaving office.

In his farewell address, Eisenhower cautioned Americans to guard against the “unwarranted influence” of a new and powerful force that had emerged during the Cold War. He defined it as the permanent alliance of: a large standing army; a massive arms industry; and government and political interests that sustained both.

All tied together in a way that could distort U.S. policy, democracy, and national priorities. Eisenhower was worried about a permanent war economy, continuous military spending, continuously expanding defense budgets, and a society and economy dependent on war industries.

He warned that the MIC could shape U.S. foreign policy, congressional votes, budgets, education, and science and technology, and the loss of civilian oversight! He believed that military planning and defense contractors could drive policy from behind the scenes—rather than elected leaders. (emphasis mine)

The international bankers on Wall Street, the Bank of London, and the heads of multinational corporations, all who have a vested interest in the permanent war economy, i.e., oligarchs of various ideologies and persuasions.

The Jewish Lobby (AIPAC) exerts undue influence over every local, state, and federal elected official. This is another extensive topic for another article. But, suffice it to say that no one can be elected to office without the financial backing of the Jewish Lobby.

Next comes the media, academia, think tanks, which together create a self-reinforcing ecosystem. Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst for 27 years, coined the term, MICIMATT, that stands for Military, Industrial, Congressional, Intelligence, Media, Academia, Think-tank Complex.

Modern U.S. foreign policy is shaped not by democratic debate, not by presidents, not by the US Congress, and surely not by the public, but by the inertia of an entrenched security apparatus.

I ask my readers to recall the meeting Donald Trump had with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. It was a veritable “love fest” when both presidents praised the “decisions” that were made and agreed to in order to restore the relationship between the two countries.

No sooner had Trump entered his plane, Air Force One, to return to the States, than he was pilloried by John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and others in the U.S. Congress who condemned him and accused him of high treason.

The major U.S. media, with cover stories, portrayed him as Putin’s poodle. The public outcry was deafening! As soon as he returned home to the Oval Office, he amazingly shifted gears 180 degrees, and from that point on, everything got worse in U.S.-Russia relations.

Trump 2.0 and the Alaska Summit – August 15, 2025

It was déjà vu all over again! Expectations were high, especially in Russia. The arrivals of the two presidents in Anchorage, the greetings, the handshakes, the smiles, the red carpets, and the military flyover seemed like a fairytale come true.

The meeting that was scheduled for three hours ended abruptly after a little more than an hour, and the “working lunch” with top representatives from both countries was cancelled. The full press conference was scrapped, and Trump and Putin just gave very short remarks.

The summit was more symbolic than substantive. It was a lot of theater and optics, but no breakthrough on ending the war in Ukraine.

In the weeks and months that have followed, Trump has flip-flopped, made disparaging statements about President Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and has tried to wipe his hands clean of the conflict in Ukraine by indirectly selling weapons to the European Union for shipment to Ukraine.

Is it not clear to anyone who is paying attention that Donald Trump is not in charge of anything? His campaign was based on ending the war in Ukraine on his first day in office! Did that happen?

Then it would be a few months and some strong-armed “deal making” with Ukraine and Russia. Did that work?

And now, Trump is increasing the War Department budget, spending trillions of dollars on upgrading America’s nuclear arsenal, billions more on creating a Golden Dome (a reincarnation of Reagan’s Star Wars boondoggle), and an attempt to catch up to Russia’s advancements in a whole variety of hypersonic missiles, drone warfare, and modern warfare that is being perfected by Russia in Ukraine.

Do more sanctions on Russia sound like a hopeful rapprochement? Do secondary sanctions up to 500% on anyone—China, India, Iran—sound like a positive step towards making peace with Russia?

Does Trump’s nuclear rhetoric and plans to move nuclear missiles closer to Russia sound hopeful?

In conclusion, I have to respectfully disagree with my friend Yaroslav Ivanchenko, and my friends and colleagues here in academia who still hope for renewed relations with the USA.

President Putin, and Sergey Lavrov, have made it clear that the USA is agreement-incapable, and that Russia has shifted from West to East in all of its dealings, while still taking the diplomatic and moral high road by insisting Russia is always open for respectful, equitable dialogue with America and the West.

Because of the actions of the USA orchestrated by the Deep State that I have described above, have been so reckless and irresponsible that we are closer today to nuclear war than during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, or any time since.

Efforts—worldwide—must be made to end this evil and insane march towards WWIII and the Unthinkable, the end of human and all life on the planet. This is the ONLY, real, existential, and imminent threat to the future of life on the planet.

Now is not the time for wishful, fanciful thinking. Now is the time for sober, realistic and pragmatic thinking and action if we, as a species, are to survive.

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