The
Orchestration of Russiaphobia Is The Prelude To
War
By Paul
Craig Roberts
April
23, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- The Russian Embassy in
Washington has prepared an accurate 121-page
report,
THE
RUSSIAGATE HYSTERIA: A CASE OF SEVERE
RUSSOPHOBIA.
Everyone should read this report. It documents
the fake news, lies, violations of diplomatic
standards and international law, and gratuitous
aggressive actions taken against Russia during
the period beginning May 18, 2016 and continuing
through the issuance of the Mueller Report.
Without
explicitly saying so, the report shows that
neither the US government nor the American media
has a nanoparticle of integrity. Both are
criminal organizations that are willing to risk
war with Russia in their pursuit of narrow
politicized agendas.
This is
important information for Americans and the rest
of the world to have. Every person, every
government and every private organization that
supports Washington’s Russiaphobic policies is
contributing to the growing threat of nuclear
war.
One
hopes also that the entirety of the Russian
government, media, and population also read the
report as it has equally powerful messages for
Russia. The messages are no doubt unintended,
but they nevertheless emerge from the embassy’s
report.
The
Russian government should marvel at its naivete
in trusting Washington, US institutions such as
Citibank, and US adherence to international law.
For 121 pages the report lists transgression
against Russia followed by transgression and lie
followed by lie; yet the Russian government
continued to send diplomatic notes that are
never answered, requests for meetings that are
never answered, requests for evidence that are
never answered. One would think that month after
month of abuse would have caused the Russian
government to wonder where was the intelligence,
“cooperative spirit,” reason, and “common
interest in global security” that Russia’s
responses to Washington assumed were present in
Russia’s “partner.”
The
Russian government’s naive and gullible response
to Washington played into Washington’s hands. By
responding to Washington’s orchestrated
Russiaphobia as if it were some kind of mistake
based on bad information, the Russian government
allowed Washington to keep the process of
demonization alive and thereby contributed to
the ongoing demonization of Russia. If, instead,
the Russian government had denounced the
demonization of Russia as Washington’s act of
preparing Americans for war with Russia and had
taken a belligerent rather than a complaining
stance, the realization that Washington’s policy
had serious cost would have spread throughout
the US and Europe and voices would have arisen
against Washington’s dangerous and reckless
policy. Today in place of the uniformity of
voice against Russia, there would be dissent
opposing Washington’s irresponsible
provocations.
The
danger of Russian self-delusion is not over. The
embassy’s report expresses the hope that now
that the Mueller report has concluded that the
much heralded collusion has no basis in fact,
relations between Washington and Russia can be
normalized and cooperation achieved.
There
is no such possibility. The Democrats are
screaming “coverup” and demanding the
resignation of attorney general Barr and Trump’s
impeachment. The presstitutes are claiming that
the Mueller report vindicates their reporting.
Trump continues to use US foreign policy to
commit criminal acts. He has declared that the
president of Venezuela is the person he picked,
not the one Venezuelans elected. He has given to
Israel part of Syria as if Syrian territory is
his to give. He threatens Iran with war as
Israel requires. In other words, American
arrogance rises to ever higher heights.
At some
point the Russian government and Russian people
are going to have to accept the fact that to
reach an understanding with Washington Russia
must either surrender her sovereignty or become
as belligerent as Washington and replace
Russia’s useless refutations of Washington’s
accusations with accusations of her own.
Otherwise, Washington is going to keep pushing
until war is the only possible outcome.
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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