Will Putin
Fall for Washington’s Lies?
By Paul
Craig Roberts
April
05, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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I have
been waiting to see how long the British Prime
Minister, the British Foreign Secretary, and the
British Defense Secretary could continue to lie
through their teeth before it caught up with
them.
The
liars got away with their lies longer than would
have been possible if there was any longer any
respect for truth in Western governments and
media.
The
British Foreign Secretary announced publicly
that he was personally told by someone at the
Porton Down laboratory that it was “absolutely
categorical” that the nerve gas allegedly used
in an attack on Skripal and his daughter came
from Russia. The chief executive of the Porton
Down laboratory has now stated that the
scientists at the laboratory cannot confirm that
the nerve agent is Russian.
Unlike
NIST, which the US government forced to lie
about how the World Trade Center buildings were
destroyed, the British government was unable to
force the Porton Down scientists to lie, or to
lie enough. Consequently, the British government
deleted its postings on social media as this
one:
“Analysis by world-leading experts at the
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at
Porton Down made clear that this was a
military-grade Novichok nerve agent produced in
Russia. Porton Down is OPCW-acredited and
designated laboratory.”
https://www.rt.com/uk/423162-russia-poison-government-twitter/
There
is little doubt that the attack on the Skripals
was an orchestration by the black op departments
of the US and UK intelligence agencies. Just as
George W. Bush was given a script to read about
9/11, the British government was handed a script
to read about “the Skripal poisoning.”
This is
the Russian government’s own stated conclusion:
https://www.rt.com/uk/422911-uk-staged-skripal-poisoning-theory/
The
Russian Ambassador to the UK said, “We have very
serious suspicion that this provocation was done
by British intelligence.” Actually, the UK, a
militarily insignificant country, would not have
dared to make this level of provocation to
Russia, which is capable of wiping the British
off of the face of the earth in a few minutes at
zero cost to Russia. The British were acting as
agents of their masters in Washington. Surely,
the Russian government knows this. In “the
Western alliance,” the only country permitted to
have an independent policy is the US.
The
question before us is: what is the point of this
blatant transparent provocation of Russia? What
is the American deep state trying to achieve?
Surely not to get the world destroyed in nuclear
war, or so one would hope.
Nevertheless, war is a possibility. Pat
Buchanan, a man of intense Washington
experience, has asked, rather than asserted, if
Trump is assembling a war cabinet with his
choice of chief warmonger John Bolton as
National Security Adviser, his choice of
warmonger Pompeo as Secretary of State, his
choice of the woman who ran the secret CIA
torture prisons as CIA Director. If this is not
a war cabinet, what is? It makes Hitler’s war
cabinet look mild.
The
demonization of Russia that has been ongoing
since the Russian government blocked Obama’s
planned invasion of Syria in behalf of Israel
and Obama’s bombing of Iran in behalf of Israel
has the appearance of preparing Western peoples
for war with Russia. Before Washington destroyed
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen through its
Saudi proxy, and attempted to destroy Syria
through its “democratic rebels” proxy,
Washington demonized the leaders and the
countries that were subsequently destroyed. Why
should Russia not think that Russia is being set
up for destruction in the same way?
This
scenario, should it be the one unfolding, is too
scary. Unlike Hitler, whose secret weapons were
not ready in time, Russia’s are. The West is so
outclassed that nothing whatsoever will remain
of the West if Russia’s weapons are unleashed on
an arrogant, stupid, West drowning in
Washington’s hubris.
Another
possible answer to the question is that
Washington is playing to the Atlanticist
Integrationists in the Russian government and
business and financial elite. The message is
that you will never be accepted into the West
until you get rid of Putin and accept
Washington’s overlordship. Some of the Russian
elite find this to be a tempting proposition. In
my opinion it includes members of the Russian
Academy of Sciences who value their
relationships—free trips and paid speeches—in
Western capitals. Washington buys everyone,
Russian academics not excluded. Washington is
making clear that paid trips for Russian
academics abroad are at stake, Western financial
holdings of Russian businesses and oligarchs are
at risk of seizure along with Russian real
property abroad, and important members of the
Russian government and elite risk being
sanctioned from traveling to the West.
In
other words, Washington is telling members of
the Russian elite, get rid of Putin, or we will
get rid of you.
Just as Russian athletes were framed on false
doping charges and prohibited from participating
in the Olympics, now it seems Washington intends
to cancel or boyott the World Cup in Russia.
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/04/01/557087/Russia-UK-nerve-agent-World-Cup-Zakharova
Washington intends to use Russian athletes
against Putin, who is blamed for the expulsion
of Russian athletes from the Olympics and for
Russia’s possible loss of the World Cup.
What
should Putin make of Trump’s invitation to come
to Washington to discuss the arms race?
My
advice to Putin is not to accept. It is too
risky for Putin to put himself in Washington’s
hands where he could be arrested on any number
of false charges for which he is already set up
in the Western media. He stole an American
election — a felony. He invaded Ukraine and
stole Crimera — war crimes. He poisoned Skripal
and his daughter — attempted murder. He invaded
Syria and defeated the “democratic forces”
striving to bring democracy to Syria — more war
crimes. He covered up Iran’s nuclear weapons
program.
Considering the compete and total lawlessness of
the government in Washington, why would any sane
person as demonized as Putin go there?
Washington doesn’t even respect US law. Torture
is a US crime as well as a crime under
international law; yet President Trump has
appointed a US and international criminal to be
the Director of the CIA!!
Putin
should tell Trump that whenever, if ever, Trump
achieves control of the Deep State and can act
independently as a president of the United
States, then, and only then, he is welcome to
Moscow to discuss the conditions on which the
two countries can cooperate and mutually
benefit. God forbid that Putin, who holds all
the weapons cards, agree to any arms control
with a government that has broken every
agreement and thrown the pieces into the face of
the Russian government.
If
Putin succumbs to the Western harlot, Russia
will be destroyed.
Washington is a hostile and determined enemy of
Russia. The inability of Russia to accept this
conclusion is a direct threat to the existence
of Russia.
In the
Russian military/security sphere there is
realization that Russia now holds the balance of
power and does not need to accept any “favors”
from Washington. The director of Russia’s
Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryskin,
said today that the West is an Orwellian version
of itself in attempting to hold onto unilateral
power when in fact, Western “influence, which
used to be unchallenged, is now diminishing.”
Washington’s unjustified arrogance, Naryskin
said, “resembles the overconfident Biblical
strongman Goliath, who was slain by the young
David.”
https://www.rt.com/news/423171-moscow-challenges-west-dominance/
Washington, Naryskin said, tries “to present the
US-centered system of international relations,
which is based on coercion and even blackmail,
as an appearance of voluntary submission.” In
this way, “the US is trying to masquerade the
brutal American dictate as ‘Euroatlantic” or
“international solidarity.”
Washington attempts to cover up its crimes,
Narysin said, with “big talk about human rights
and democracy,” but instead uses “military
interventions into sovereign nations” which
“were plunged into bloody chaos that had no
place for such a fundamental right as a right to
live. Over the past two decades hundreds of
thousands [millions by my count] of innocent
people fell victim to NATO aggression in Europe,
the Middle East and Northern Africa.”
If
President Putin makes the mistake of trusting
Washington yet another time, he will destroy
Russia and the world with it.
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.
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