Washington Has Resurrected
The Threat Of Nuclear War
By Paul Craig Roberts
February 24, 2015 "ICH"
- Foreign Affairs
is the publication of the elitist Council on
Foreign Relations, a collection of former
and current government officials, academics,
and corporate and financial executives who
regard themselves as the custodian and
formulator of US foreign policy. The
publication of the council carries the heavy
weight of authority. One doesn’t expect to
find humor in it, but I found myself roaring
with laughter while reading an article in
the February 5 online issue by Alexander J.
Motyl, “Goodbye,
Putin: Why the President’s Days Are Numbered.”
I assumed I was reading a
clever parody of Washington’s anti-Putin
propaganda. Absurd statement followed absurd
statement. It was better than Colbert. I
couldn’t stop laughing.
To my dismay I discovered
that the absolute gibberish wasn’t a parody
of Washington’s propaganda. Motyl, an ardent
Ukrainian nationalist, is a professor at
Rugers University and was not joking when he
wrote that Putin had stolen $45 billion,
that Putin was resurrecting the Soviet
Empire, that Putin had troops and tanks in
Ukraine and had started the war in Ukraine,
that Putin is an authoritarian whose regime
is “exceedingly brittle” and subject to
being overthrown at any time by the people
Putin has bought off with revenues from the
former high oil price, or by “an Orange
Revolution in Moscow” in which Putin is
overthrown by Washington orchestrated
demonstrations by US financed NGOs as in
Ukraine, or by a coup d’etat by Putin’s
Praetorial guards. And if none of this sends
Putin goodbye, the North Caucasus, Chechnya,
Ingushetia, Dagestan, and the Crimean
Tarters are spinning out of control and will
do Washington’s will by unseating Putin.
Only the West’s friendly relationship with
Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakstan can shield
“the rest of the world from Putin’s
disastrous legacy of ruin.”
When confronted with this
level of ignorant nonsense in what is
alleged to be a respectable publication, we
experience the degradation of the Western
political and media elite. To argue with
nonsense is pointless.
What we see here with
Motyl is the purest expression of the
blatant propagandistic lies that flow
continually from the likes of Fox “News,”
Sean Hannity, the neocon warmongers, the
White House, and executive branch and
congressional personnel beholden to the
military/security complex.
The lies are too much even
for Henry Kissinger.
As Stephen Lendman, who
documents the ever growing anti-Russian
propaganda, honestly states: “America’s war
on the world rages. Humanity’s greatest
challenge is stopping this monster before it
destroys everyone.”
The absurdity of it all!
Even a moron knows that if Russia is going
to put tanks and troops into Ukraine, Russia
will put in enough to do the job. The war
would be over in a few days if not in a few
hours. As Putin himself said some months
ago, if the Russian military enters Ukraine,
the news will not be the fate of Donetsk or
Mauriupol, but the fall of Kiev and Lviv.
Former US Ambassador to
the Soviet Union (1987-91) Jack Matlock
cautioned against the crazed propagandistic
attack against Russia in his speech at the
National Press Club on February 11. Matlock
is astonished by the dismissal of Russia as
merely “a regional power” of little
consequence to the powerful US military. No
country, Matlock says, armed with numerous,
accurate, and mobile ICBMs is limited to
regional power. This is the kind of
hubristic miscalculation that ends in world
destruction.
Matlock also notes that
the entirely of Ukraine, like Crimea, has
been part of Russia for centuries and that
Washington and NATO have no business being
in Ukraine.
He also points out the
violations of promises made to Russia not to
expand NATO eastward and how this and other
acts of US aggression toward Russia have
recreated the lack of trust between the two
powers that Reagan worked successfully to
overcome.
Reagan’s politeness toward
the Soviet leadership and refusal to
personalize differences created an era of
cooperation that the morons who are Reagan’s
successors have thrown away, thus renewing
the threat of nuclear war that Reagan and
Gorbachev had ended.
Washington’s foreign
policy, Matlock says, is autistic, which he
defines as impaired social interaction,
failed communication, and restricted and
repetitive behavior.
Read Matlock:
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2015/2015_1-9/2015-08/pdf/10-14_4208.pdf
Don’t bother with the
utter fool Motyl:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142840/alexander-j-motyl/goodbye-putin
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 and
How America Was Lost.