'American analyst' who claimed on Russian TV that US has lost arms race turns out to be a fake
The “American analyst” who said on Russian TV that the US has lost the arms race turned out to be a “singing poet” and soap vendor, The Insider news outlet reports.
In a program on the Russian TV channel NTV, one of the stories was devoted to the “violent reaction in the West” elicited by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address to the Federal Assembly. According to NTV, the reason for the fuss is that “the US was absolutely convinced that it was ahead of the rest of the planet in the military sphere, but now it turns out that the situation has changed somewhat”.
This point of view was expressed by Daniel Patrick Welsh, who was introduced as an American political analyst: “This hysteria is related to the fact that the US sincerely believed that it was surpassing Russia in the military sphere. For those who stand at the helm of America, it was unthinkable that Russia and China could catch up to us and become a real threat. This was even before the States wanted to destroy the USSR and spent vast amounts of money to do so. But now it’s another matter entirely – the trillions of dollars which the Americans have been pouring into defense have been thrown down the drain. It’s simply a complete failure.”
Welsh did not explain where he had seen the “hysteria”. The world’s reaction to Putin’s address was rather weak, The Insider notes.
“Who is this analyst who is drawing such audacious conclusions? Daniel Patrick Welsh, who lives in town of Salem near Boston and runs a private school with his wife. On his website, where he refers to himself as a “writer, singer, translator, activist, singing poet”, Welsh sells CDs with his own songs, books written by other people which criticize US foreign policy, and greeting cards with soap,” The Insider writes.
As the article points out, this writer has evidently not written any of his own books, but he publishes articles on politics from time to time on little-known websites such as Truth Out, Consortium News, and Third World Travel. He primarily criticizes US policy, which he considers militarized and expansionist. Welsh sympathizes with the “separatists” in eastern Ukraine, and he considers Ukraine’s government a “junta controlled by Washington”.
This “American analyst” his been widely cited by the Russian media, The Insider notes.