While Washington works assiduously to undermine the Minsk agreement that German chancellor Merkel and French president Hollande achieved in order to halt the military conflict in Ukraine, Washington has sent Victoria Nuland to Armenia to organize a “color revolution” or coup there, has sent Richard Miles as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan to do the same there, and has sent Pamela Spratlen as ambassador to Uzbekistan to purchase that government’s allegiance away from Russia. The result would be to break up the Collective Security Treaty Organization and present Russia and China with destabilization where they can least afford it.
Thus, Russia faces the renewal of conflict in Ukraine simultaneously with three more Ukraine-type situations along its Asian border.
And this is only the beginning of the pressure that Washington is mounting on Russia.
On March 18, the secretary general of NATO denounced the peace settlement between Russia and Georgia that ended Georgia’s military assault on South Ossetia. The NATO secretary general said that NATO rejects the settlement because it “hampers ongoing efforts by the international community to strengthen security and stability in the region.” Look closely at this statement. It defines the “international community” as Washington’s NATO puppet states, and it defines strengthening security and stability as removing buffers between Russia and Georgia so that Washington can position military bases in Georgia directly on Russia’s border.
In Poland and the Baltic states Washington and NATO lies about a pending Russian invasion are being used to justify provocative war games on Russia’s borders and to build up US forces in NATO military bases on Russia’s borders.
We have crazed US generals on national television calling for “killing Russians.”
The EU leadership has agreed to launch a propaganda war against Russia, broadcasting Washington’s lies inside Russia in an effort to undermine the Russian people’s support of their government.
All of this is being done in order to coerce Russia into handing over Crimea and its Black Sea naval base to Washington and accepting vassalage under Washington’s suzerainty.
If Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, and the Taliban would not fold to Washington’s threats, why do the fools in Washington think Putin, who holds in his hands the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, will fold?
European governments, apparently, are incapable of any thought. Washington has set London and the capitals of every European country, as well as every American city, for destruction by Russian nuclear weapons. The stupid Europeans rush to destroy themselves in service to their Washington master.
Human intelligence has gone missing if after 14 years of US military aggression against eight countries; the world does not understand that Washington is lost in arrogance and hubris and imagines itself the ruler of the universe who will tolerate no dissent from its will.
We know that the American, British, and European media are whores well paid to lie for their master. We know that the NATO commander and secretary general, if not the member countries, are lusting for war. We know that the American Dr. Strangeloves in the Pentagon and armaments industry cannot wait to test their ABMs and new weapons systems in which they always place excessive confidence. We know that the prime minister of Britain is a total cipher. But are the chancellor of Germany and the president of France ready for the destruction of their countries and of Europe? If the EU is of such value, why is the very existence of its populations put at risk in order to bow down and accept leadership from an insane Washington whose megalomania will destroy life on earth?
Copyright © 2015 Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, How America Was Lost, is now available.
This article seems too extreme in its statements.’ European Govts incapable of thought,…Human intelligence has gone missing’…Its too much. Isn’t a more reasonable perspective possible? If there was a more sober realistic perspective what might it look like? A risk is being taken. The gamble is ratcheting up pressure on Russia, with the intention to wear it down over time,destabilize its leadership over months and years. Widening the gulf between Europe and Germany in the process. The possibility that this could lead to nuclear war is very small as at no point will an existential threat to Russia be posed. Only a costly economic and military one. The Americans see the current period as their best chance of determining the future world geopolitical landscape for decades to come and before China and India become strong enough to assert greater independence. So there is a logic to doing it now with great force, which could be misinterpreted as war lust but I don’t think Russia or China is expecting to go to war any time soon. They are willing to resist and to stand firmin the hope that the pressure of the internal economic contraditions in the West will undermine their alliance and fracture NATO the EU or the transatlantic alliance. It is negotiation geopolitical style which although allowing for war between great powers is calculatedly not aimed at that outcome. In my view. Arguments that require us to believe that the West is led by people who are stupid, beggars belief.
I am not so sure that nuclear war is not in the cards. The participants do not have to plan on that as an end point for it to happen. We have come very close to it many times. Instead of speaking about the West why don’t you refer consistently to the nation that calls the shots in this new Cold War and in so many other avoidable and stupid conflicts that don’t ever seem to work out as well as expected? Of course the leaders in the West are cowardly, masochistic or just plain stupid to allow the Americans to continue to call the shots even as they screw themselves by doing so and even though the Americans have nothing left except their military industrial complex and their Wall St financial criminals who wouldn’t know how to run a real economy. The Americans have nothing to offer the world other than endless wars, and parasitic financial chicanery. The priority at this point should be preserving the planet in a form that permits human survival not ramping up a New Cold War but as Roberts says the leaders in the US and Europe are incredibly stupid –stupid and morally bankrupt. By the way, Mike you have no last name so this conversation never took place.
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