Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon?
April 12 2017
Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon?
Paul Craig Roberts
The insouciance of the Western world is extraordinary. It is not
only Americans who permit themselves to be brainwashed by CNN, MSNBC,
NPR, the New York Times and Washington Post, but also their counterparts
in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, who rely on the war propaganda
machine that poses as a media. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39573526
The Western “leaders,” that is, the puppets on the end of the strings
pulled by the powerful private interest groups and the Deep State, are
just as insouciant. Trump and his counterparts in the American Empire
must be unaware that they are provoking war with Russia and China, or
else they are psychopaths.
A new White House Fool has replaced the old fool. The New Fool has
sent his Secretary of State to Russia. For what? To deliver an
ultimatum? To make more false accusations? To apologize for the lies?
Consider the audacity of Secretary of State Tillerson. He has spent
the week prior to his visit to Moscow supporting incredible lies and
false allegations that Assad of Syria used chemical weapons with
Russia’s permission, which justified Washington’s unambigious war crime
of a military attack on a country with which the US has not declared
war. Less than 100 days in office, and Trump is already a war criminal
along with the rest of his warmonger government.
The entire world knows this, but no one says it. Instead, Tillerson,
who has been heavy with lies and threats has the confidence to go to
Moscow to tell the Russians that they have to hand over Assad to the
American Uni-Power.
Tillerson’s mission demonstrates the complete, total unreality of the
world in which Washington lives. Try to imagine Tillerson’s arrogance.
If you had been bad-mouthing and threatening strong, important people,
would you feel comfortable going over to their house to have dinner
with them? Does Tillerson think that now that Russia has largely freed
Syria of US-supported ISIS, Russia is going to turn Syria over to
Washington?
Is he going to tell Lavrov that he didn’t really mean all those nasty
lies he told about Russia, but the zionist neoconservatives made him do
it? That he is not really in charge, just a tool of the Anglo-Zionist
Empire?
Is Tillerson going to apologize for White House press secretary Sean
Spicer’s statement that Assad, Russia’s ally, is more evil than Hitler?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39573063
Maybe Tillerson is going to ask for asylum and get on the winning side.
Stephen Cohen, one of the few remaining Americans knowledgeable about
Russia, told the two CNN presstitutes and the warmonger Col. Leighton,
one of the “experts” that the presstitutes roll out to pronounce the
propaganda against Russia, that Russia was preparing for hot war. It
seems to have gone over the heads of the CNN presstitutes and colonel.
Whose payroll are they on? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46838.htm
The Russian leaders, who, unlike the Western liars, speak the truth,
have said clearly that Russia will never again fight a war on her own
territory. The Russians couldn’t put it more clearly. Provoke a war,
and we will destroy you on your own territory.
When you watch the president and government in Washington, the
European governments, especially the idiots in London, the Canadian and
Australian governments, you can only marvel at the total stupidity of
“Western leadership.” They are begging for the end of the world.
And the presstitutes are at work driving toward the end of life. Huge
numbers of Western peoples are being prepared for their demise, and
they are protected from the realization by their insouciance.
Washington is so arrogant and lost in its own hubris, that Washington
does not understand that the years of clear-as-crystal lies about
Russia and Russian intentions and deeds have convinced Russia that
Washington is preparing the populations of the United States and
Washington’s captive peoples in West and East Europe, Canada, Australia,
and Japan for a US pre-emptive nuclear strike against Russia. Published
US war plans against China have convinced China of the same.
If not for war, what else is the change in US war doctrine for?
George W. Bush abandoned the stabilizing role of nuclear weapons by
moving them from a retaliatory function to a nuclear first strike. Then
he pulled out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty concluded by
President Richard Nixon. Now we have US missile sites positioned on
Russia’s borders. We tell the Russians the lie that the missiles are to
prevent an Iranian nuclear ICBM strike against Europe. This lie is
told, and accepted by the puppets in Europe, despite the known,
incontestable fact that Iran has neither nukes nor ICBMs. But the
Russians do not accept it. They know it is another Washington lie.
When Russia hears these flagrant, blatant, obvious lies, Russia
understands that Washington intends a preemptive nuclear attack on
Russia.
China has reached the same conclusion.
So, here is the situation. Two countries with nuclear forces expect
that the insane fools who rule the West are going to attack them with
nuclear weapons. What are Russia and China doing? Are they begging for
mercy?
No. They are preparing to destroy the evil West, a collection of
liars and war criminals, the like of which the world has never
previously experienced.
It is the US, the washed-up joke of a “uni-power” that after 16 years
is still unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in
Afghanistan, that needs to ask for mercy.
The reckless and irresponsible war talk in the US government and
presstitute media and among NATO and Washington’s vassals must stop
immediately. Life is in the balance.
Putin has shown amazing patience with Washington’s lies and
provocations, but he cannot risk Russia by trusting Washington, whom no
one can trust. Not the American people, not the Russian people, not any
people.
By jumping on the Deep State’s propaganda wagon the liberal/progressive/left is complicit in the march toward Armageddon.
Is Peace or War at Hand? — Paul Craig Roberts
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At this time we do not know the outcome of the meeting in Moscow between Merkel, Hollande, and Putin.
The meeting with Putin was initiated by Merkel and Hollande, because
they are disturbed by the aggressive position that Washington has taken
toward Russia and are fearful that Washington is pushing Europe into a
conflict that Europe does not want. However, Merkel and Hollande cannot
resolve the NATO/EU/Ukraine situation unless Merkel and Hollande are
willing to break with Washington’s foreign policy and assert the right
as sovereign states to conduct their own foreign policy.
Unless Washington’s war-lust has finally driven Europeans to take
control over their own fate, the most likely outcome of the
Putin-Merkel-Hollande meeting will be more meetings that go nowhere. If
Merkel and Hollande are not negotiating from a position of independence,
one likely outcome after more meetings will be that Merkel and Hollande
will say, in order to appease Washington, that they tried to reason
with Putin but that Putin was unreasonable.
Based on Lavrov’s meeting in Munich with the Europeans, the hope for
any sign of intelligence and independence in Europe seems misplaced.
Russian diplomacy relied on European independence, but as Putin has
acknowledged Europe has shown no independence from Washington. Putin
has said that negotiating with vassals is pointless. Yet, Putin
continues to negotiate with vassals.
Perhaps Putin’s patience is finally paying off. There are reports
that Germany and France oppose Washington’s plan to send weapons to
Ukraine. French president Hollande now supports autonomy for the
break-away republics in Ukraine. His predecessor, Sarkozy, said that
Crimea chose Russia and we cannot blame them, and that the interests of
Americans and Europeans diverge when it comes to Russia. Germany’s
foreign minister says that Washington’s plan to arm Ukraine is risky and
reckless. And on top of it all, Cyprus has offered Russia an air base.
We will see how Washington responds to the French statements that
European interests with regard to Russia diverge from Washington’s.
Washington does not recognize any valid interest except its own.
Therefore, it has been fruitless for Russia to negotiate with
Washington and Washington’s EU vassals. To come to an agreement with
Washington has required Russia’s surrender to Washington’s terms.
Russia must hand over Crimea and Russia’s warm water port, and Moscow
must stand aside while the Russian people in eastern and southern
Ukraine, the “break-away” provinces, are slaughtered. Russia must
support the hostile regime in Kiev with loans, grants, and low gas
prices.
That is the only deal Russia has been able to get from Washington,
because the EU has supported Washington’s line. With French presidents
reportedly now saying, “We are part of a common civilization with
Russia,” Europe is on the road to independence.
Can Europe stay on this road, or can Washington bring Germany and
France back in line? A false flag attack could do it. Washington is a
control freak, and the neoconservative ideology of US hegemony has made
Washington even more of a control freak. Europe with an independent
foreign policy means a great loss of control by Washington. If
Washington retains or regains control, I see two clear options for
Russia.
One is to disengage totally from the West. The West is a morally
depraved and economically bankrupt entity. There is no reason for a
decent country like Russia to wish to be integrated with the evil that
is the West. Russia has the option of abandoning the dollar payments
system and all financial relationships with the West.
By trying to be part of the West, Russia made a strategic error that
endangered the independence of Russia. Russia found herself dependent
on Western financial systems that gave Washington power over Moscow and
allowed Washington to place economic sanctions on Russia.
It was Russia’s desire to be part of the West that made possible
Washington’s sanctions and Washington’s propaganda against Russia.
It was Russia’s desire to be accepted by the West that produced the
weak Russian response to Washington’s audacious coup in Kiev.
Washington is using Ukraine against Russia. After seizing control in
Kiev, it is unlikely that Washington will accept a peaceful solution in
which the “break-away” provinces are permitted to become autonomous
republics of Ukraine.
Is negotiation with Washington possible when Washington only wants conflict?
Russia’s other clear option is to destroy NATO by ceasing to sell
energy resources to NATO members. The countries would choose energy over
NATO membership.
Why should Russia empower its obvious enemies by meeting
their energy
needs? Russia could also encourage Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal
to default on their loans and rely on Russia, China, and the BRICS Bank
for financing. China holds a massive amount of dollars. Why not use
them to break up Washington’s European empire?
Russia could also default on its loans to the West. Why should Russia pay an enemy that is trying to destroy her?
If Europe cannot gain its independence, at some point Russia will
either have to surrender to Washington or demonstrate decisive action
that causes the Washington’s European vassal states to understand the
cost of vassalage to Washington and decide to abandon Washington in the
interest of their own survival.
Alternatively, Russia can forget about the West and integrate with
China and the East. Considering Washington’s hegemonic posture, there is
no counterparty for Russia’s diplomacy.
Predictions are difficult, because policies can have unintended
consequences and produce black swan events. For example, the Islamic
State is the unintended consequence of Washington’s wars in the Muslim
world. The Islamic State was created out of the Islamist forces that
Washington assembled against Gaddafi in Libya. These forces were then
sent to overthrow Assad in Syria. As Muslims flocked to ISIS’s banner
and its military prowess grew, ISIS realized that it was a new and
independent force consisting of radicalized Muslims.
Radicalized Muslims are tired of Western domination and control of
Muslim lands. Out of ISIS’s self-awareness, a new state has been
created, redrawing the Middle Eastern boundaries created by the British
and French.
It is curious that Iran and Russia regard the Islamic State as a more
dangerous enemy than Washington and are supporting Washington’s moves
against the Islamic State. As the Islamic State is capable of disrupting
Washington’s policy in the Middle East, Iran and Russia have an
incentive to finance and arm the Islamic State. It is in Washington, not
in the Islamic State, where Sauron resides and is gathering up the
rings in order to control them all.
In their attempts to negotiate with Europeans, Putin and Lavrov
should notice the total unwillingness of the EU to negotiate with its
own members. Right in front of our eyes we see Merkel and Hollande
driving their fellow Greek EU compatriots into the ground.
The EU has told the new Greek government that the EU doesn’t care a
whit about Greece and its people. The Europeans only care that they
don’t get stuck with the cost of the bad loans the German and Dutch
banks made to Greek governments in the past.
As I described in my book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism,
one purpose of the “sovereign debt crisis” is to establish the
principle that private lenders are not responsible for their bad
judgment. Instead, the peoples of the country who were not parties to
the loans are responsible. The EU is using the crisis not only to
protect powerful private interests, but also to establish that
over-indebted countries lose control of their fiscal affairs to the EU.
In other words, the EU is using the crisis to centralize authority in
order to destroy country sovereignty.
As Washington and the EU do not respect the sovereignty of Greece,
one of its own, why does the Russian government think that Washington
and the EU respect the sovereignty of Russia or Ukraine? Or of India,
Brazil and other South American countries, or China. Currently
Washington is trying to overthrow the governments of Cuba, Venezuela,
Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina.
Washington respects no one. Thus, talking to Washington is a waste of time. Is this a game Russia wants to play?
