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Trump Is Being
Sabotaged by the Pentagon
By Paul Craig
Roberts
February 01,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- President Trump says he wants the US to have better
relations with Russia and to halt military operations
against Muslim countries. But he is being undermined by
the Pentagon.
The
commander of US forces in Europe, General Ben Hodges,
has lined up tanks on Poland’s border with Russia and
fired salvos that the general says are a message to
Russia, not a training exercise.
http://russia-insider.com/en/us-tanks-fire-salvos-poland-warning-against-russia/ri18767
How is Trump
going to normalize relations with Russia when the
commander of US forces in Europe is threatening Russia
with words and deeds?
The Pentagon
has also sent armored vehicles to “moderate rebels” in
Syria, according to Penagon spokesman Col. John Dorrian.
Unable to prevent Russia and Syria from winning the war
against ISIS, the Pentagon is busy at work derailing the
peace negotiations.
The
military/security complex is using its
puppets-on-a-string in the House and Senate to generate
renewed conflict with Iran and to continue threats
against China.
Clearly, Trump
is not in control of the most important part of his
agenda—peace with the thermo-nuclear powers and
cessation of interference in the affairs of other
countries.
Trump cannot
simultaneously make peace with Russia and make war on
Iran and China. The Russian government is not stupid. It
will not sell out China and Iran for a deal with the
West. Iran is a buffer against jihadism spilling into
Muslim populations in the Russian Federation. China is
Russia’s most important military and economic strategic
ally against a renewal of US hostility toward Russia by
Trump’s successor, assuming Trump succeeds in reducing
US/Russian tensions. The neoconservatives with their
agenda of US world hegemony and their alliance with the
military-security complex will outlast the Trump
administration.
Moreover, China
is rising, while the corrupt and dehumanized West is
failing. A deal with the West is worth nothing.
Countries that make deals with the West are exposed to
financial and political exploitation. They become
vassals. There are no exceptions.
Russia’s desire
to be part of the West is perplexing. Russia should
build its security on relations with China and Asia, and
let the West, desirous of participating in this success,
come to Russia to ask for a deal.
Why be a
supplicant when you can be the decider?
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,
How America Was
Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.The views
expressed in this article are solely those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of
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