Is It
Russian Surrender that Is on the Agenda or World
War 3?
By Paul
Craig Roberts
April
15, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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“As US
President Donald Trump is
said to be considering a full scale ground
assault
against the Syrian administration of President
Bashar al-Assad, the top UN official has decried
the onset of a new global Cold War and warned
against “full-blown military escalation” in the
war-torn region.”
If this
report of a US ground invasion of Syria is true,
which I doubt, it will be a consequence of
Russian passivity in the face of Washington’s
aggression.
Is the
Russian government too humane to comprehend the
evil that Russia confronts?
If
Russia and China do not take steps to defeat the
US before Washington forces nuclear war on the
world, we are all doomed.
The
American people are denied information, are
uninformed, and helpless. The same is true for
Europe and Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan.
Even if
the peoples knew, they are impotent.
Putin
often relies on non-existent or impotent common
sense in the West, but does Russia have enough
common sense to realize that there is no common
sense in the West that can be effective?
The
Russian government does not understand that the
“rule of law” constructed by Washington is not a
rule of law. It is a rule of Washington’s
rule. Washington owns Europe, Canada,
Australia, Japan, the Atlanticist
Integrationists inside Russia,
and the UN.
This is why Russia’s appeal to the UN is
pointless, as Russia just again learned:
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To
restate the point once again, the passivity of
the Putin government in the face of Washington’s
aggressiveness is leading directly to nuclear
war and the end of life on earth.
Russia’s Humanity and Moral Conscience Are
Leading to War
By
Paul Craig Roberts
April
15, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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It speaks to the humanity and moral greatness of
the Russian government led by Vladimir Putin
that Russia consented to a pretend attack in
order that Donald Trump could save face.
Unfortunately for us all, the consequences of
Russia’s generosity will not be the thanks that
the Russians deserve. Russia and Putin will get
no credit for saving Trump from having to back
down or have his naval flotilla sunk and his
bombers shot down.
Russia
is intent on avoiding a conflict, not because
Russia is scared of the US military, but because
Russia understands it is dealing with a
government of psychopaths that are willing to
destroy not only seven Muslim countries in whole
or part within the past 17 years, but also the
entirety of humanity. Therefore, Putin sidesteps
each orchestrated confrontation and stands on
international law and legal norms.
The
result, however, is not what a humane person
would expect. The result of Russian humaneness
is to provoke more provocations from the evil
that is the West.
This
morning I visited a friend who had the TV on. I
could not believe the lies that Trump, members
of his government, and the presstitutes were
telling Americans and the world. It was
astonishing.
Here is Stephen Lendman’s report
on some of the lies.
Only
readers of my website and a few others will ever
know that the only reason thousands of US
sailors and dozens of US pilots are still alive
is that Russia spared their lives.
Although the Russian government has every good
intention, Russia’s moral conscience and
consideration for others is leading the world to
Armageddon. The reason is that the
neoconservatives who control US foreign policy
are not going to stop orchestrating events that
they blame on Russia. The longer Russia waits
before it finally puts its foot down, the
stronger the provocations will become. The
successive provocations will narrow down
Russia’s response to surrender or nuclear war.
The
Syrian provocation was an ideal one for Russia
to put its foot down. Russia held the military
cards. Russia could easily have destroyed every
ship and every airplane. Having made the
consequences clear in advance to the world, the
US would have backed off. The defeat of America
without a shot fired would have undermined the
crazed neoconservatives who intend US world
hegemony.
Under
such a clear statement from Russia that the
American force would be completely and utterly
destroyed, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff would
have prevented the attack.
As long
as Russia accommodates Washington’s
aggressiveness, the agressiveness will continue
to increase.
At
times I think that Russia is relying on the
Western peoples to wake up to the gratuitous
dangerous confrontations that are being provoked
in their name. In fact, the Western peoples are
helpless. Neither Washington nor the governments
of Washington’s British and French vassals
consulted the people or the people’s elected
representatives about launching a military
attack on another country. This fact shows
conclusively that neither the US, UK, or France
have any respect for law and their own alleged
democracies and that the counries have
governments that are unaccountable to the
peoples. The British and French governments are
accountable to Washington, and Washington is
accountable to the military/security complex and
Israel, which history shows can unseat any US
Senator and Representative.
If the
Russian government had watched today the US TV
media, it would understand the futility of
sidestepping Washington’s provocations. Not only
would the Russian government observe the lies
from Washington about the great success of a
non-event, the Russian government would have
observed that, on the one hand, there was
proclamation of a great American victory, but,
on the other hand, John Bolton’s allies among
the neoconservaives, were saying that the attack
was insufficient to bring Syria and Russia to
heel.
The
victory and its insuficiency combine to lead to
worse provocations. The next provocation will be
orchestrated in a situation more favorable to US
than to Russian arms. Washington will not again
risk a confrontation, as it did in Syria, where
it clearly would have lost. What this means is
that Russia’s humanity and moral conscience will
result in a confrontation far more dangerous to
Russia and to all of us.
As I wrote earlier today,
“It would be a mistake to conclude that
diplomacy has prevailed and common sense has
returned to Washington. Nothing could be further
from the truth. The issue is not resolved. War
remains on the horizon.”
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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