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Russia should ignore Washington's 'new Cold War'
Published time: May 13, 2014 02:05
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Washington desperately needs a new Cold War with Russia to ensure a
healthy Military-Security Complex and to maintain global hegemony,
former Reagan administration official Paul Craig Roberts told RT in an
interview.
"The best thing the Russian government could do is just
ignore [Washington's rhetoric] and go on making its relations
with China, India, Brazil, and South America, and go on about its
business and leave the dollar system, and simply quit trying to
be accepted by Washington," said Roberts, also an economist
and columnist on global affairs.
RT: The way that some US officials are
speaking, it seems that NATO seriously believes that Russia is
set to invade the Baltic states.
PCR: What this is all about is that Washington
had hoped to grab Ukraine, especially the Russian naval base in
Crimea, in order to cut Russia off from the port and access to
the Mediterranean. Now, Washington lost that game. They're trying
to retrieve it by starting a new Cold War, and that's what all
this talk is about.
They're pretending that Russia is going to invade the Baltics or
Eastern Europe. This is absurd.
RT: NATO is building up its forces in the
Baltic region. Isn't this a dangerously provocative step in terms
of a new Cold War?
PCR: Washington wants a Cold War, they need it.
They've been defeated in Afghanistan, they were blocked from
attacking Syria and Iran, so they've got to keep the
military-security complex funded, because that's where an
important part of their campaign contributions comes from. When
Washington gives the taxpayers' money to the military sector, it
is cycled back in campaign contributions to keep them in office.
They have to have conflict. With the wars in the Middle East
winding down, apparently, they have to start new conflict, and
since they lost their plan to take over Ukraine - which has
defected, much of it, back to Russia - they're going to start a
new Cold War.That's what this means. Now they haven't put enough
troops or aircraft in these countries to make any difference, but
they want to.
So what Russia is faced with is a new Cold War, and the best
thing the Russian government could do is just ignore it and go on
making its relations with China, India, Brazil, and South
America, and go on about its business and leave the dollar
system, and simply quit trying to be accepted by Washington.
Washington is not going to accept - let me read you the [former
US Defense Department Deputy Secretary Paul] Wolfowitz Doctrine:
"Our first objective is to prevent the reemergence of a new
rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or
elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed
formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration
underlying the new Defense strategy, and requires that we
endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region
whose resources would, under their control, be sufficient to
generate global power." By "hostile power,"
Wolfowitz means any country that is not under Washington's thumb
- any independent country.
So that's the doctrine here, and I think the best thing the
Russian government can do is acknowledge that that is the
doctrine. They can't work anything out with this doctrine because
Russia - being a rising, powerful state, like China - is by
definition a "hostile power."
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