Whose
Bright Idea Was RussiaGate?
By Paul
Craig Roberts
October
03, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- The answer to the question in the title of
this article is that Russiagate was created by
CIA director John Brennan. The CIA started what
is called Russiagate in order to prevent Trump
from being able to normalize relations with
Russia. The CIA and the military/security
complex need an enemy in order to justify their
huge budgets and unaccountable power. Russia has
been assigned that role. The Democrats joined in
as a way of attacking Trump. They hoped to have
him tarnished as cooperating with Russia to
steal the presidential election from Hillary and
to have him impeached. I don’t think the
Democrats have considered the consequence of
further worsening the relations between the US
and Russia.
Public
Russia bashing pre-dates Trump. It has been
going on privately in neoconservative circles
for years, but appeared publicly during the
Obama regime when Russia blocked Washington’s
plans to invade Syria and to bomb Iran.
Russia
bashing became more intense when Washington’s
coup in Ukraine failed to deliver Crimea.
Washington had intended for the new Ukrainian
regime to evict the Russians from their naval
base on the Black Sea. This goal was frustrated
when Crimea voted to rejoin Russia.
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The
neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony
requires the principal goal of US foreign policy
to be to prevent the rise of other countries
that can serve as a restraint on US
unilateralism. This is the main basis for the
hostility of US foreign policy toward Russia,
and of course there also is the material
interests of the military/security complex.
Russia
bashing is much larger than merely Russiagate.
The danger lies in Washington convincing Russia
that Washington is planning a surprise attack on
Russia. With US and NATO bases on Russia’s
borders, efforts to arm Ukraine and to include
Ukraine and Georgia in NATO provide more
evidence that Washington is surrounding Russia
for attack. There is nothing more reckless and
irresponsible than convincing a nuclear power
that you are going to attack.
Washington is fully aware that there was no
Russian interference in the presidential
election or in the state elections. The
military/security complex, the neoconservatives,
and the Democratic Party are merely using the
accusations to serve their own agendas.
These
selfish agendas are a dire threat to life on
earth.
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 Information Clearing House.
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