The document announces a shift in focus from
terrorists to “state actors” that “are challenging international
norms.” It is important to understand what these words mean.
Governments that challenge international norms are sovereign
countries that pursue policies independently of Washington’s
policies. These “revisionist states” are threats, not because
they plan to attack the US, which the Pentagon admits neither
Russia nor China intend, but because they are independent.
Be sure to grasp the point: The threat is the
existence of sovereign states, whose independence of action
makes them “revisionist states.” In other words, their
independence is out of step with the neoconservative Uni-Power
doctrine that declares independent action to be the right of
Washington alone. Washington’s History-given hegemony precludes
any other country being independent in its actions. By
definition, a country with a foreign policy independent of
Washington is a threat.
The Pentagon’s report defines the foremost
“revisionist states” as Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
The focus is primarily on Russia. Washington hopes to co-op
China, despite the “tension to the Asia-Pacific region” that
China’s defense of its sphere of influence causes, a defense
“inconsistent with international law” (this from Washington, the
great violator of international law), by turning over what
remains of the American consumer market to China. It is not yet
certain that Iran has escaped the fate that Washington imposed
on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan,
Ukraine, and by complicity Palestine.
The Pentagon report is sufficiently audacious in
its hypocrisy, as all statements from Washington are, to declare
that Washington and its vassals “support the established
institutions and processes dedicated to preventing conflict,
respecting sovereignty, and furthering human rights.” This from
the military of a government that has invaded, bombed, and
overthrown 11 governments, murdering and displacing millions of
peoples, since the Clinton regime and is currently working to
overthrow governments in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ecuador,
Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, and Argentina.
In the Pentagon document, Russia is under fire
for not acting “in accordance with international norms,” which
means Russia is not following Washington’s leadership and
behaving as a vassal, which is the behavior to which the Uni-Power
is entitled.
In other words, this is a bullshit report written
by neocons in order to foment war with Russia.
Nothing else can be said about the Pentagon
report, which justifies war and more war until no one exists.
Without war and conquests, Americans are not safe. This path to
nuclear Armageddon is being drilled every day into the heads of
Americans and Washington’s vassals in Europe by the Western
presstitute media. “War makes us safe!”
Washington’s view toward Russia is the same as
Cato the Elder’s view toward Carthage. Cato the Elder finished
his every speech on any subject in the Roman Senate with the
statement “Carthage must be destroyed.”
This Pentagon report tells us that war with
Russia is our future unless Russia agrees to become a vassal
state like every country in Europe, and Canada, Australia,
Ukraine, and Japan. Otherwise, the neoconservatives have
decided that it is impossible for Americans to tolerate living
in a world in which countries make decisions independently of
Washington. If America cannot be The Uni-Power dictating to the
world, better that we are all dead. At least that will show the
Russians.
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.
