Lithuanians Under Police State Attack: and the world under Washington’s attack — Paul Craig Roberts
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Lithuanians Under Police State Attack
and the world under Washington’s attack
Paul Craig Roberts
According to news reports
https://ltnacionalistas.wordpress.com/angliskai/lithuanian-government-intensifies-persecutions-against-anti-imperialist-activists/ and to this appeal by Kristoferis Voishka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6MDj2uvyLk
the pro-American government installed in Lithuania is persecuting
Lithuanians who dissent from the anti-Russian propaganda that is driving
Washington’s NATO puppets to war with Russia. Unlike their puppet
government, Lithuanians understand that war with Russia means that
Lithuania on the front line will be utterly destroyed, a result that
would not bother Washington in the least, just as Washington is
undisturbed when its forces obliterate weddings, funerals, and
children’s soccer games.
What is Lithuania? To Washington it is a nothing.
Kristoferis Voiska runs an alternative Internet news site in
LIthuania. Not long ago he interviewed me, and the interview appeared in
both LIthuanian newspapers and on his Internet news program in video
form. I found him to be sincere and well informed. I advised him that
interviewing me would bring trouble for him, and he already was aware of
that.
As I have said so many times, Americans are the worst informed people on the planet. They are unaware of the growing momentum toward war with Russia. The
presstitute media throughout Europe, especially in the Baltic states and
Poland, is hard at work creating in people’s minds the fear of a
Russian invasion. The orchestrated fear then provides the basis for the
American puppet governments to beg troops and tanks and missiles from
Washington, and the US military/security complex, counting its profits,
is pleased to comply.
But what Russia sees is a threat, not a money-making opportunity for
the US military/security complex and payoffs to the corrupt Lithuanian
and Polish governments, which are increasingly perceived as neo-nazi
like the government that Washington bestowed on Ukraine.
The situation is dangerous, as I keep telling you, a message that some are too weak to accept.
If you care to show support for Kristoferis and the independent media
in Lithuania, send emails to him at: tautiniai.socialistai@yandex.ru
In about one week I will be 76 years old. I was born in 1939 as
World War II was unfolding as the direct consequence of the Versailles
Treaty that broke every promise President Woodrow Wilson made to Germany
in exchange for the end of World War I.
I remember as a child Cold War nuclear attack drills in elementary
school during which we would cower under our school desks. We were
issued dog tags with our blood type just like the dog tags ripped by
their comrades off US soldiers killed in the war movies by Germans or
Japs (no longer a permissible word) and sent home to the dead GI’s
family.
To us it was more romantic than scary. We loved wearing the dog
tags. I have no idea what happened to mine. They must be collectors’
items by now.
I have seen a lot. As kids playing war–in those days you could have
toy guns without being shot down by the police who are protecting us–we
reveled in America’s World War victories. We understood, thanks to our
parents and grandparents, that the Red Army won the war against Germany,
but we Americans beat the heartless Japs.
That was enough. We knew that the US was tough.
I was 14 when the Korean War broke out. We expected to win, of
course, and our expectations, we thought, were proven correct when
General MacArthur’s amphibious landings rolled up the North Korean
army. But what MacArthur and Washington had overlooked is that China
and the Soviet Union were not about to accept a US victory.
Before Americans could cheer, the Third World Chinese Army rolled in
and pushed the conqueror of Japan back town to the tip of South Korea.
It was a humiliating defeat for American arms. In his dispute with
President Truman about the conduct of the war, MacArthur, America’s most
famous general, was removed from command.
Washington accepted defeat in Korea and again in Viet Nam where a
500,000 US force consisting of US Army, Marines, and Special Forces was
defeated by a Third World guerrilla army.
To these defeats we can add Afghanistan and Iraq. After 14 years of
killing, the Taliban controls most of the country. Jihadist have carved
a new state out of parts of Syria and Iraq. The Middle East reeks of
American defeat. Just like Korea. Just like Viet Nam.
Despite these facts insouciant Americans and their crazed rulers in
Washington imagine that the US is a Uni-Power, the world’s only
superpower against whom no country can stand. Arrogance, ignorance, and
hubris are leading the US into conflict with Russia and China, either
of which can destroy the US with ease. And Europe as well. And the
stupid bought-and-paid-for Japanese government, a total non-entity, a
disgrace to the Japanese people, a collection of well-paid American
puppets.
As Andrew Cockburn has documented, the US military is lost in
abstractions and is no longer capable of conducting conventional
warfare. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/03/24/us-government-us-military-became-murder-inc-paul-craig-roberts/
Any American or NATO army sent to attack Russia will be destroyed
almost instantly. Washington cannot accept the loss of prestige from
defeat and would take the war nuclear. Life on earth would end.
The only conclusion that informed analysis supports is that
Washington is the greatest threat to life on earth. Washington is a
greater threat than global warming. Washington is a greater threat than
the exhaustion of mineral energy sources. Washington is a greater
threat than the rise in world and US poverty from Washington’s policy to
enrich the few at the expense of the many.
The only possible conclusion is that unless Washington collapses from
its economic house of cards or is abandoned by its NATO puppet states,
Washington will destroy life on earth.
Washington is the greatest evil that the world has ever faced. There is no good in
Washington. Only evil.
Washington Is Destroying The World — Paul Craig Roberts
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Washington Is Destroying The World
Paul Craig Roberts
The aggressive and mindless stance that Washington’s warmongers have taken toward Russia and China have shattered the accomplishment of Reagan and Gorbachev.
Reagan and Gorbachev ended the cold war and removed the threat of nuclear armageddon. Now the neocons, the US budget-dependent (taxpayer dependent) US military/security complex, and the US politicians dependent on campaign funds from the military/security complex have resurrected the nuclear threat.
The corrupt and duplicitous Clinton regime broke the agreement that the George H.W. Bush administration gave Moscow in 1990. In exchange for Moscow permitting a reunified Germany to be a NATO member, Washington agreed that there would be no expansion of NATO to the east. Gorbachev, US Secretary of State James Baker, US ambassador to Moscow Jack Matlock, and declassified documents all testify to the fact that Moscow was assured that there would be no expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe.
In 1999 President Bill Clinton made a liar of the administration of President George H.W. Bush. The corrupt Clinton brought Poland, Hungary, and the newly formed Czech Republic into NATO.
President George W. Bush also made a liar out of his father, George H.W. Bush, and his father’s trusted Secretary of State, James Baker. “Dubya,” as the fool and drunkard is known, brought Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania into NATO in 2004. The corrupt and hopeless Obama regime added Albania and Croatia in 2009.
In other words, over the past 21 years three two-term US presidents have taught Moscow that the word of the US government is worthless.
Today Russia is surrounded by US and NATO military bases, with more to come in Ukraine (part of Russia for centuries), Georgia (part of Russia for centuries and the birthplace of Joseph Stalin), Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and perhaps also Azerbaijan.
A large land expanse that was formerly part of the Soviet Empire is now part of Washington’s Empire. The “coming of democracy” simply meant the changing of masters.
Washington always picks the puppet who serves as Secretary General of NATO. The latest is a former Norwegian politician and prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg. On Washington’s orders, the puppet quickly antagonized Moscow with the statement that NATO has a powerful army that has a global policing role and can be deployed wherever Washington wishes. This claim is a total contradiction of NATO’s purpose and charter.
Igor Korochenko, a member of the Russian Defense Ministry Public Council replied to Washington’s puppet Stoltenberg: “Such statements run counter to the system of international security, as the NATO alliance poses a threat to Russia. Therefore, it will cause responsive measures.”
The responsive measures are what you would expect: enough nuclear capability to wipe out the United States and Europe many times over.
The arrogant fools in Washington, wallowing in their hubris as “the indispensable nation,” have provoked Moscow to the point that Russia now has more deployed nuclear weapons than the US. As a result of Washington breaking its word and putting ABM missile bases on Russia’s border, Russia has developed supersonic ICBMs that can rapidly change their trajectory and cannot be shot down by any missile defense system. Of course, the US corporations making billions of dollars selling Washington a useless ABM system will deny this.
Moreover, those countries, such as Poland, whose governments are sufficiently stupid to accept US ABM bases, would be obliterated before the bases could function. The utter stupidity of Eastern Europe’s bought-and-paid-for governments to put trust in Washington is likely to be the main cause of WW III.
The happy participant in the new Armageddon is the American military/security complex. These greedy bastards – ”private corporations” whose revenues are entirely public funds – are guaranteed more money regardless of the potential cost in human life. Their US Senate spokesperson, Jim Inhofe, a member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, has resurrected the argument from 60 years ago that America is falling behind in the arms race. Restarting the arms race is essential to the profits of the US military/security complex and to the campaign contributions of senators.
It is not only Russia’s strategic nuclear forces that the fools in Washington have revived and activated, but China’s as well. Last year China released a pictorial description of how China’s nuclear forces could destroy the US. This was China’s response to Washington’s insane plan of building new air and naval bases from the Philippines to Vietnam in order to control the flow of resources in the South China Sea. What kind of idiotic government does America have that thinks China is going to put up with this kind of interference in China’s sphere of influence?
China has now added to its nuclear arsenal a new variant of one of its mobile ICBMs. Washington does not know much about this new missile, because the CIA is too busy arranging protests in Hong Kong.
Both Russia and China were content to be part of the world economy and to improve the economic situation of their citizens by developing their economies. But along comes the neocon Unipower, a collection of arrogant psychopaths who declare that Washington will not permit any other country, not even Russia and China, to rise to a capability of exercising a foreign policy independent of Washington’s purposes.
Nuclear war is back into the picture. First Washington threatens those it perceives as rivals. When the perceived rivals don’t submit, Washington demonizes them.
In the histories written by Washington’s court historians, the greatest demons of modern times are the WW II governments of Japan and Germany along with the post-WW II Soviet government of Joseph Stalin. These American court historians ignore the facts.
Japan was forced into war by Washington, which cut off Japan’s access to resources. Japan was then nuked twice while the Japanese government was trying to surrender.
All of US president Woodrow Wilson’s promises made to Germany in order to end WW I, such as no territorial loses and no reparations, were broken. Germany was torn apart and German territory was handed over to Poland, France, and Czechoslovakia. Despite US president Woodrow Wilson’s promise to the contrary, impossible reparations were imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. The prescient John Maynard Keynes declared that the reparations would result in a second world war. If memory serves, portions of Germany were also given to Belgium, Lithuania, and Denmark.
This humiliation of an industrious and powerful people, whose armies occupied foreign territories when WW I ended, demonstrated the mendacity of the so-called “Western powers.” The French, British, and Americans paved the way for Adolph Hitler. By 1935 Hitler was sufficiently ensconced to denounce the Versailles Treaty. If Hitler had not succumbed to hubris and sent the German armies marching off into Russia where they were destroyed, he, or his successors, would still be ruling Europe today.
The true history is so different from what Washington pretends and Americans are taught. The majority of Americans are blind enablers of Washington’s war on the world. If ebola and global warming don’t destroy humanity, the ignorance of the American people and Washington’s war for world hegemony surely will.
