What
Can Be Done?
Washington Enters War With Ease
By Paul Craig Roberts
May 01,
2018 "Information
Clearing House"
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It is up
to Europe whether or not the Earth dies in
nuclear Armageddon.
European governments do not realize their
potential to save the world from Washington’s
aggression, because the western Europeans are
accustomed to being Washington’s vassal states
since the end of World War 2, and the eastern
and central Europeans have accepted Washington’s
vassalage since the collapse of the Soviet
Union. Vassalage pays well if all the costs are
not counted.
By
joining NATO, the eastern and central Europeans
permitted Washington to move US military
presence to Russia’s borders. This military
presence on Russia’s borders gave Washington
undue confidence that Russia also could be
coerced into a vassal state existence. Despite
the dire fate of the two finest armies ever
assembled—Napoleon’s Grand Army and that of
Germany’s Wehrmacht—Washington hasn’t learned
that the two rules of warfare are: (1) Don’t
march on Russia. (2) Don’t march on Russia.
Because
of Europe’s subservience to Washington,
Washington is unlikely to learn this lesson
before Washington marches on Russia.
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Washington in
its hubristic idiocy has already begun this
march piecemeal with the coup in Ukraine and
with its attacks on Syrian military
positions. As I wrote earlier today
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/04/30/syrian-cisis-escalates/
Washington is escalating the crisis in
Syria.
What
can stop this before it explodes into war is
eastern and central Europe’s decision to
disengage as enablers of Washington’s
aggression.
There
are no benefits to Europe of being in NATO.
Europeans are not threatened by Russian
aggression, but they are threatened by
Washington’s aggression against Russia. If the
American neoconservatives and their Israeli
allies succeed in provoking a war, all of Europe
would be destroyed. Forever.
What is
wrong with European politicians that they take
this risk with the peoples that they govern?
Europe
is still a place of beauty constructed by humans
over the ages—architecturally, artistically, and
intellectually—and the museum should not be
destroyed. Once free of Washington’s vassalage,
Europe could even be brought back to creative
life.
Europe
is already suffering economically from
Washington’s illegal sanctions against Russia
forced upon Europeans by Washington and from the
millions of non-Eurpopean refugees flooding the
European countries fleeing from Washington’s
illegal wars against Muslim peoples, wars that
Americans are forced to fight for the benefit of
Israel.
What do
Europeans get for the extreme penalties imposed
on them as Washington’s vassals? They get
nothing but the threat of Armageddon. A small
handful of European “leaders” get enormous
subsidies from Washington for enabling
Washington’s illegal agendas. Just take a look
at Tony Blair’s enormous fortune, which is not
the normal reward for a British prime minister.
Europeans, including the “leaders,” have much
more to gain from being connected to the
Russia/China Silk Road project. It is the East
that is rising, not the West. The Silk Road
would connect Europe to the rising East. Russia
has undeveloped territory full of
resources—Siberia—that is larger then the United
States. On a purchasing power parity basis,
China is already the world’s largest economy.
Militarily the Russian/Chinese alliance is much
more than a match for Washington.
If
Europe had any sense, any leadership, it would
tell Washington good-bye.
What is
the value to Europe of Washington’s hegemony
over the world? How do Europeans, as opposed to
a handful of politicians receiving bags full of
money from Washington, benefit from their
vassalage to Washington? Not one benefit can be
identified. Washington’s apologists say that
Europe is afraid of being dominated by Russia.
So why aren’t Europeans afraid of their 73 years
of domination by Washington, especially a
domination that is leading them into military
conflict with Russia?
Unlike
Europeans and Russians, Americans have scant
experience with wartime casualties. Just one
World War 1 battle, the Battle of Verdun,
produced more casualties than the battle deaths
that US has experienced in all the wars of its
existence beginning with the Revolutionary War
for independence from Brittain.
The
World War 1 Battle of Verdun,which took place
prior to the US entry into the war, was the
longest and most costly battle in human history.
An estimate in 2000 found a total of 714,231
casualties, 377,231 French and 337,000 German,
for an average of 70,000 casualties a month;
other recent estimates increase the number of
casualties to 976,000 during the battle, with
1,250,000 suffered at Verdun during the war.
In
contrast, US casualties for World War 1 after US
entry were 53,402 battle deaths and 200,000
nonmortal woundings.
Here is
the list of US battle deaths from the War of
Revolution through the “global war on terror” as
of August 2017:
American Revolution: 4,435
War of 1812: 2,260
Wars against native Americans (1817-1898) 1,000
Mexican War 1,733
War of Northern Aggression :
North: 104,414
South: 74,524
Spanish-American War 385
World War 2 291,557
Korean War 33,739
Vietnam War 47,434
Gulf War 148
This
comes to 561,629 battle deaths
If we
add the battle deaths of the global war on
terror as of Aug. 2017—6,930—we have 568,559 US
battle deaths in all US wars. See:
https://www.infoplease.com/us/american-wars/americas-wars-us-casualties-and-veterans
That
compares to 714,231 casualties, from which I am
unable at this time to seperate battle deaths
from nonmortal wounds and maining from a single
World War 1 battle that did not involve US
soldiers.
In
other words, except for the Confederate States
and native Americans, who endured enormous Union
war crimes, the US has no experience of war. So
Washington enters war with ease. The next time,
however, will be Armageddon, and Washington will
no longer exist. And neither will the rest of
us.
US
deaths in World War 1 were low because the US
did not enter the war until the last year.
Similarly in World War 2. Japan was defeated by
the loss of her navy and air force and by the
firebombing of Tokoyo and other Japanese cities,
which required few US battle deaths. The nuclear
attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaka were
gratuitous and took place when Japan was asking
to surrender. Approximately 200,000 Japanese
civilians died in the nuclear attacks and no
Americans except prisoners of war held in those
cities. In Europe, as in World War 1, the US did
not enter the war against Germany until the last
year when the Wehrmacht had already been broken
and defeated by the Soviet Red Army. The
Normandy invasion faced scant opposition as all
German forces were on the Russian front.
If
there is a World War 3 the US and all of the
Western world would be immediately destroyed as
nothing stands between the West and the
extraordinary nuclear capability of Russia
except the likelyhood of complete and total
destruction. If China enters on Russia’s side,
as is expected, the destruction of the entirety
of the Western World will be for all time.
Why
does Europe enable this scenario? Is there no
humanity, no intelligence left anywhere in
Europe? Is Europe nothing but a collection of
cattle awaiting slaughter from the machinations
of the crazed American neocons? Are there no
European political leaders with one ounce of
common sense, one once of integrity?
If not,
doom is upon us as there is no humanity or
intelligence in Washington.
Europe
must take the lead, expecially the central
Europeans. These are peoples who were liberated
from the Nazis by the Russians and who have in
the 21st century experienced far more aggression
from Washington’s pursuit of its hegemony they
they have experienced from Moscow.
If
Europe breaks away from Washington’s control,
there is hope for life. If not, we are as good
as dead.
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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