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War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It? — Paul Craig Roberts
December 7, 2015 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter
War Is On The Horizon: Is It Too Late To Stop It?
Paul Craig Roberts
One lesson from military history is that once mobilization for war
begins, it takes on a momentum of its own and is uncontrollable.
This might be what is occurring unrecognized before our eyes.
In his September 28 speech at the 70th Anniversary of the United
Nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia can no
longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world. Two days later at the
invitation of the Syrian government Russia began war against ISIS.
Russia was quickly successful in destroying ISIS arms depots and
helping the Syrian army to roll back ISIS gains. Russia also destroyed
thousands of oil tankers, the contents of which were financing ISIS by
transporting stolen Syrian oil to Turkey where it is sold to the family
of the current gangster who rules Turkey.
Washington was caught off guard by Russia’s decisiveness. Fearful
that the quick success of such decisive action by Russia would
discourage Washington’s NATO vassals from continuing to support
Washington’s war against Assad and Washington’s use of its puppet
government in Kiev to pressure Russia, Washington arranged for Turkey to
shoot down a Russian fighter-bomber despite the agreement between
Russia and NATO that there would be no air-to-air encounters in Russia’s
area of air operation in Syria.
Although denying all responsibility, Washington used Russia’s low key
response to the attack, for which Turkey did not apologize, to reassure
Europe that Russia is a paper tiger. The Western presstitutes
trumpeted: “Russia A Paper Tiger.” http://www.wsj.com/articles/turkey-shoots-down-a-paper-tiger-1448406008
The Russian government’s low key response to the provocation was used
by Washington to reassure Europe that there is no risk in continuing to
pressure Russia in the Middle East, Ukraine, Georgia, Montenegro, and
elsewhere. Washington’s attack on Assad’s military is being used to
reinforce the belief that is being inculcated in European governments
that Russia’s responsible behavior to avoid war is a sign of fear and
weakness.
It is unclear to what extent the Russian and Chinese governments
understand that their independent policies, reaffirmed by the Russian
and Chinese presidents On September 28, are regarded by Washington as
“existential threats” to US hegemony.
The basis of US foreign policy is the commitment to prevent the rise
of powers capable of constraining Washington’s unilateral action. The
ability of Russia and China to do this makes them both a target.
Washington is not opposed to terrorism. Washington has been
purposely creating terrorism for many years. Terrorism is a weapon that
Washington intends to use to destabilize Russia and China by exporting
it to the Muslim populations in Russia and China.
Washington is using Syria, as it used Ukraine, to demonstrate
Russia’s impotence to Europe— and to China, as an impotent Russia is
less attractive to China as an ally.
For Russia, responsible response to provocation has become a liability, because it encourages more provocation.
In other words, Washington and the gullibility of its European
vassals have put humanity in a very dangerous situation, as the only
choices left to Russia and China are to accept American vassalage or to
prepare for war.
Putin must be respected for putting more value on human life than do
Washington and its European vassals and avoiding military responses to
provocations. However, Russia must do something to make the NATO
countries aware that there are serious costs of their accommodation of
Washington’s aggression against Russia. For example, the Russian
government could decide that it makes no sense to sell energy to
European countries that are in a de facto state of war against Russia.
With winter upon us, the Russian government could announce that Russia
does not sell energy to NATO member countries. Russia would lose the
money, but that is cheaper than losing one’s sovereignty or a war.
To end the conflict in Ukraine, or to escalate it to a level beyond
Europe’s willingness to participate, Russia could accept the requests of
the breakaway provinces to be reunited with Russia. For Kiev to
continue the conflict, Ukraine would have to attack Russia herself.
The Russian government has relied on responsible, non-provocative
responses. Russia has taken the diplomatic approach, relying on
European governments coming to their senses, realizing that their
national interests diverge from Washington’s, and ceasing to enable
Washington’s hegemonic policy. Russia’s policy has failed. To repeat,
Russia’s low key, responsible responses have been used by Washington to
paint Russia as a paper tiger that no one needs to fear.
We are left with the paradox that Russia’s determination to avoid war is leading directly to war.
Whether or not the Russian media, Russian people, and the entirety of
the Russian government understand this, it must be obvious to the
Russian military. All that Russian military leaders need to do is to
look at the composition of the forces sent by NATO to “combat ISIS.” As
George Abert notes, the American, French, and British aircraft that
have been deployed are jet fighters whose purpose is air-to-air combat,
not ground attack. The jet fighters are not deployed to attack ISIS on
the ground, but to threaten the Russian fighter-bombers that are
attacking ISIS ground targets.
There is no doubt that Washington is driving the world toward
Armageddon, and Europe is the enabler. Washington’s
bought-and-paid-for-puppets in Germany, France, and UK are either
stupid, unconcerned, or powerless to escape from Washington’s grip.
Unless Russia can wake up Europe, war is inevitable.
Have the totally evil, dumbshit neocon warmongers who control the US government taught Putin that war is inevitable? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QxWYIAtCMU#action=share
The Cowardly and Despicable American Presstitutes
February 5, 2015 | Original Here Go here to sign up to receive email notice of this news letter
The Cowardly and Despicable American Presstitutes
Paul Craig Roberts
February 5, 2015. There is a brouhaha underway about an American
journalist who told a story about being in a helicopter in a war zone.
The helicopter was hit and had to land. Which war zone and when I don’t
know. The US has created so many war zones that it is difficult to
keep up with them all, and as you will see, I am not interested in the
story for its own sake.
It turns out that the journalist has remembered incorrectly. He was
in a helicopter in a war zone, but it wasn’t hit and didn’t have to
land. The journalist has been accused of lying in order to make himself
seem to be “a more seasoned war correspondent than he is.”
The journalist’s presstitute colleagues are all over him with
accusations. He has even had to apologize to the troops. Which troops
and why is unclear. The American requirement that everyone apologize for
every word reminds me of the old Soviet practice, real or alleged by
anti-communists, that required Soviet citizens to self-criticize.
National Public Radio (2-5-15) thought this story of the American
journalist was so important that the program played a recording of the
journalist telling his story. It sounded like a good story to me. The
audience enjoyed it and was laughing. The journalist telling the story
did not claim any heroism on his part or any failure on the part of the
helicopter crew. It is normal for helicopters to take hits in war
zones.
Having established that the journalist had actually stated that the
helicopter was hit when in fact it wasn’t, NPR brought on the program a
psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, an expert on
“false memory.” The psychologist explained various reasons a person
might have false memories, making the point that it is far from uncommon
and that the journalist is most likely just another example. But the
NPR presstitute still wanted to know if the journalist had intentionally
lied in order to make himself look good. It was never explained why it
made a journalist look good to be in a helicopter forced to land. But
few presstitutes get to this depth of questioning.
Now to get to the real point. I was listening to this while driving
as it was less depressing to listen to NPR’s propaganda than to listen
to the Christian-Zionist preachers. In the previous hour NPR had
presented listeners with three reports about civilian deaths in the
break-away provinces in eastern and southern Ukraine. The first time I
heard the report, the NPR presstitute recounted how explosives had hit a
hospital killing 5 people in the break-away Donetsk Republic. The
presstitute did not report that this was done by Ukrainian forces,
instead suggesting that it could have been done by the
“Russian-supported rebels.” He didn’t offer any explanation why the
rebels would attack their own hospital. The impression left for that
small percentage of informed Americans capable of thought is that
presstitutes are not allowed to say that the Washington-backed
Ukrainians attacked a hospital.
In all three reports, Secretary of State John Kerry was broadcast
saying that the US wanted a diplomatic, peaceful solution, but that the
Russians were blocking a peaceful solution by sending tank columns and
troops into Ukraine. On my return trip, I heard over NPR Kerry twice
more repeating the unsupported claim that Russian tanks and troops are
pouring into Ukraine. Obviously, NPR was serving as a propaganda voice
that Russia was invading Ukraine.
Think about this for a minute. We have been hearing from high US
government officials, including the president himself, for months and
months about Russian tank columns and troops entering Ukraine. The
Russian government denies this steadfastly, but, of course, we cannot
trust the now-demonized Russians. We are not allowed to believe them,
because they are positioned as the Enemy, and good patriotic Americans
never believe the Enemy.
But how can we help but believe the Russians? If all these Russian
tank columns and troops that have allegedly been pouring into Ukraine
were real, Washington’s puppet government in Kiev would have fallen
sometime last year, and the conflict would be over. Anyone with a brain
knows this.
So, we arrive at my point. A journalist told a harmless story and
has been roasted alive and forced to apologize to the troops for lying.
In the middle of this brouhaha, the US Secretary of State, the
President of the United States, innumerable senators, executive branch
officials, and presstitutes have repeatedly reported month after month
Russian tank
columns and troops entering Ukraine. Yet, despite all
these Russian forces, the civilians in the break-away provinces of
eastern and southern Ukraine are still being slaughtered by Washington’s
puppet state in Kiev.
If Russian tanks and troops are this ineffective, why are NATO
commanders and neoconservative warmongers warning of the dire danger
that Russia poses to the Baltics, Poland, and Eastern Europe?
It doesn’t make any sense, does it?
So the question is: Why are the presstitutes all over some hapless
journalist rather than holding accountable the Great Liars, John Kerry
and Barak Obama?
The answer is: It is costless to the presstitutes to try to destroy,
for totally insignificant reasons–perhaps just for the pleasure of it,
like “American Sniper” killing people for fun–one of their own, but they
would be fired if they hold Kerry and Obama accountable, and they know
it. But they have to get someone, so they eat their own.
A democracy without an honest media cannot exist. In America
democracy is a facade behind which operates every evil inclination of
mankind. During the past 14 years the American people have supported
governments that have invaded, bombed, or droned seven countries,
killing, maiming, and displacing millions of people for no reason other
than profit and hegemonic power. There is scant sign that this has
caused very many Americans sleepless nights or a bad conscience.
When Washington is not bombing and killing, it is plotting to
overthrow reformist governments, such as the Honduran government Obama
overthrew, and the Venezuelan, Bolivian, Ecuadoran, and Argentine
governments that the Obama regime is current trying to overthrow. And,
also, of course the democratically elected government in Ukraine that
has been supplanted by Washington’s coup.
The new Greek government is in the crosshairs, and so is Putin himself.
Washington and its fawning presstitutes branded the elected Ukrainian
government that was a victim of Washington’s coup, “a corrupt
dictatorship.” The replacement government consists of a combination of
Washington puppets and neo-nazis with their own military forces sporting
Nazi insignias. The American presstitutes have been careful not to
notice the Nazi insignias.
Ask yourself why a journalist’s false memory episode of an
insignificant event is so important to the American presstitutes, while
John Kerry’s and Barak Obama’s extraordinary, blatant, blockbuster, and
dangerous lies are ignored.
In the event you have forgotten the efficiency of the Russian
military, remember the fate of the American and Israeli trained and
equipped Georgian Army that Washington sicced on South Ossetia. The
Georgian invasion of South Ossetia resulted in the deaths of Russian
peace-keeping soldiers and Russian citizens. The Russian military
intervened, and the American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian
Army collapsed in five hours. All of Georgia was back in Russian hands,
but the Russians withdrew and left the former province of Russia
independent, despite the lies from Washington that Putin intends to
restore the Soviet Empire.
The only correct conclusion that any American can make is that every
statement of the US government and its presstitute media is a blatant
lie designed to serve a secret agenda that the American people would not
support if they knew of its existence.
Whenever Washington and its whore media speak, they lie.
