Washington Has Resurrected The Threat
Of Nuclear War
By Paul Craig Roberts
February 24, 2015 "ICH"
- Foreign Affairs is the publication of the elitist
Council on Foreign Relations, a collection of former and current government
officials, academics, and corporate and financial executives who regard
themselves as the custodian and formulator of US foreign policy. The publication
of the council carries the heavy weight of authority. One doesn’t expect to
find humor in it, but I found myself roaring with laughter while reading an
article in the February 5 online issue by Alexander J. Motyl, “Goodbye, Putin: Why the President’s Days Are Numbered.”
I assumed I was reading a clever parody
of Washington’s anti-Putin propaganda. Absurd statement followed absurd
statement. It was better than Colbert. I couldn’t stop laughing.
To my dismay I discovered that the
absolute gibberish wasn’t a parody of Washington’s propaganda. Motyl, an ardent
Ukrainian nationalist, is a professor at Rutgers University and was not joking
when he wrote that Putin had stolen $45 billion, that Putin was resurrecting
the Soviet Empire, that Putin had troops and tanks in Ukraine and had started
the war in Ukraine, that Putin is an authoritarian whose regime is “exceedingly
brittle” and subject to being overthrown at any time by the people Putin has
bought off with revenues from the former high oil price, or by “an Orange
Revolution in Moscow” in which Putin is overthrown by Washington orchestrated
demonstrations by US financed NGOs as in Ukraine, or by a coup d’etat by Putin’s
Praetorial guards. And if none of this sends Putin goodbye, the North Caucasus,
Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, and the Crimean Tarters are spinning out of
control and will do Washington’s will by unseating Putin. Only the West’s
friendly relationship with Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakstan can shield “the rest
of the world from Putin’s disastrous legacy of ruin.”
When confronted with this level of
ignorant nonsense in what is alleged to be a respectable publication, we
experience the degradation of the Western political and media elite. To argue
with nonsense is pointless.
What we see here with Motyl is the
purest expression of the blatant propagandistic lies that flow continually from
the likes of Fox “News,” Sean Hannity, the neocon warmongers, the White House,
and executive branch and congressional personnel beholden to the
military/security complex.
The lies are too much even for Henry
Kissinger.
As Stephen Lendman, who documents the
ever growing anti-Russian propaganda, honestly states: “America’s war on the
world rages. Humanity’s greatest challenge is stopping this monster before it
destroys everyone.”
The absurdity of it all! Even a moron
knows that if Russia is going to put tanks and troops into Ukraine, Russia will
put in enough to do the job. The war would be over in a few days if not in a
few hours. As Putin himself said some months ago, if the Russian military
enters Ukraine, the news will not be the fate of Donetsk or Mauriupol, but the
fall of Kiev and Lviv.
Former US Ambassador to the Soviet
Union (1987-91) Jack Matlock cautioned against the crazed propagandistic attack
against Russia in his speech at the National Press Club on February 11. Matlock
is astonished by the dismissal of Russia as merely “a regional power” of little
consequence to the powerful US military. No country, Matlock says, armed with
numerous, accurate, and mobile ICBMs is limited to regional power. This is the
kind of hubristic miscalculation that ends in world destruction.
Matlock also notes that the entirety of
Ukraine, like Crimea, has been part of Russia for centuries and that Washington
and NATO have no business being in Ukraine.
He also points out the violations of
promises made to Russia not to expand NATO eastward and how this and other acts
of US aggression toward Russia have recreated the lack of trust between the two
powers that Reagan worked successfully to overcome.
Reagan’s politeness toward the Soviet
leadership and refusal to personalize differences created an era of cooperation
that the morons who are Reagan’s successors have thrown away, thus renewing the
threat of nuclear war that Reagan and Gorbachev had ended.
Washington’s foreign policy, Matlock
says, is autistic, which he defines as impaired social interaction, failed
communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior.
Don’t bother with the utter fool Motyl: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142840/alexander-j-motyl/goodbye-putin
Dr. 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. Roberts' latest
books are The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
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