Members of the 113th Congress bow their heads in prayer as they convene in the Capitol in Washington January 3, 2013. In the wake of bruising fights in their own ranks over the "fiscal cliff" and aid for victims of superstorm Sandy - Republicans
IN PHOTO: Members of the 113th Congress bow their heads in prayer as they convene in the Capitol in Washington January 3, 2013. In the wake of bruising fights in their own ranks over the "fiscal cliff" and aid for victims of superstorm Sandy - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives open a new Congress on Thursday more divided than ever. Reuters/Stringer

A former United States representative has revealed that the U.S. actually has plans of restarting the cold war versus Russia. The plan is contained in the proposed House Resolution 758.

Dennis John Kucinich, former U.S. representative from Ohio from 1997 to 2013, wrote on portal globalresearch.ca he is concerned of how some members of the current 113th Congress wants the country to posture against Russia. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL-16) was the one who introduced the resolution on Nov 18. House Resolution 758 is up for debate last Wednesday. If it gets approved, it will effectively open the gates of global catastrophe.

House Resolution 758, which cited a list of "grievances, old and new, against Russia" is "tantamount to a 'Declaration of Cold War'," Kucinich said. He claimed Russia's posturings may be aggressive, but it was not done without provocations. "NATO encirclement, the US-backed coup in Ukraine, an attempt to use an agreement with the European Union to bring NATO into Ukraine at the Russian border and a U.S. nuclear first-strike policy are all policies which attempt to substitute force for diplomacy."

He likewise blasted the present 113th Congress for responding to the "distortions, not to the reality" being created about Russian aggressiveness. Worse, he said players who would benefit financially from a resumption of the Cold War are the very one fuelling the tensions between Russia and the U.S.

John J. Mearsheimer, an elder statesman of realpolitik, wrote in portal foreignaffairs.com last September that the crisis in Ukraine was one brought about by the U.S. and its European allies. Although Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement since the mid-1990s, the Orange Revolution in 2004 and the strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West were what pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin to take arms and take Crimea, Mearsheimer said. Mr Putin believes NATO will create a naval base in Crimea. "The West had been moving into Russia's backyard and threatening its core strategic interests, a point Putin made emphatically and repeatedly."

House Resolution 758, of course, didn't mention such background info. What it listed were Russia's violations of territorial integrity, international law and nuclear arms agreements.

Kucinich reminded U.S. Congress that the U.S. treasury already getting drained for military adventures of the country. "Our national debt is piling up, and we are demonstrably less safe." He said from the Cold War from 1948 to 1991 cost taxpayers $20 trillion dollars (in 2014 dollars), "an amount exceeding our $18 trillion National Debt."

The U.S. is risking far too much with the present day Cold War scenario, he said. Rather than more and expensive military expenditures, it would be best the U.S. employ diplomacy and seek to rebuild diplomatic relations with Russia and set aside the risky adventurism in the name of NATO.

"The United States and its European allies now face a choice on Ukraine. They can continue their current policy, which will exacerbate hostilities with Russia and devastate Ukraine in the process -- a scenario in which everyone would come out a loser," Mearsheimer said.

House Resolution 758 here.