Washington Has Resurrected The Threat Of Nuclear War

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

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

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Stucky

Are there no countries which Washington doesn’t want to overthrow??

Also from Paul Craig Roberts — “Washington Works To Overthrow Argentine Government” …… Currently Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Argentina are on Washington’s list of governments to be overthrown.

Guest Column–Washington Works To Overthrow Argentine Government

Gawd, I HATE the “leaders” of this country. If only some rogue nation would fire a salvo of cruise missiles while the house is in full session.

Simon Jester
Simon Jester

These Washington DC assclowns can “bring it on” as far as I am concerned… Nuclear war would be the death of them and their control much more rapidly and surely than slow and sure descent into tyranny and totalitarianism. One way or another the population will be depopulated. Nuclear war privides the best way to put an end to their rule and put all of us on the same footing. Those of us who survive will eat them for lunch…

Bostonbob

“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.”

Treat Russia as a regional power at your own risk. They may not be armed to the teeth as we are, but they can inflict just as much damage to the US and Europe as we can to them and they certainly know it..

Bob.

DRUD
DRUD

@Simon – believe me, I want the “DC assclowns” to lose their power as much as anybody, but virtually no one would survive a nuclear war, and if you already counting yourself among the survivors you are a fool. The only people with a chance to survive would be those that can stay underground/underwater for YEARS maybe even DECADES.

Sensetti

Russia would be hard pressed to beat the US military in a conventional ground war. Look at the numbers.

http://www.globalfirepower.com/countries-comparison-detail.asp?form=form&country1=united-states-of-america&country2=russia&Submit=COMPARE

Sensetti

BTW – The Ruskies are #2 think how 3,4,5, 6 stack up.

Stucky

“Russia would be hard pressed to beat the US military in a conventional ground war. Look at the numbers.” ———— Sensetti

I can see why you’re a staunch Republican. We kick Russia’s ass, oh yeah!!! USA! USA! USA!

Are you that far down the rabbit hole that you believe that chart actually matters??

How about you find a chart comparing Iraq to Amurrika? How about you find a chart comparing Afghanistan to Amurrika? How did those two wars work out for #1 USA?

Our “leaders” are running around like scared rabbits …”ISIL is coming!! Oh, noes!! We in trouble!!” …. how about a map comparing them? Oh, wait … they’re not a real country. But, you say we can beat the Russkies. Fucking hilarious. You’d make a grrreat Repubican president.

AC
AC

Well, if the peasants can’t be cowed into inaction by the threat of those nasty imaginary terrorists, I guess it’s back to the old cold war standby of nuclear obliteration?

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

@Sensetti: You’re a fool and I don’t use that term lightly.

Sonic

@Simon: You meant to say “Those of us who survive will do it by eating them for lunch.” There won’t be any other fucking thing to eat you dip shit. Tell you what: leave me out of your nihlistic fantasy. Damn it takes some work to make bb look good.

Sensetti

Administrator says: Stuck : I think Sensetti is losing his marbles. He’s anxious for World War III so he can see if his preps and bug-out plan will work.

SWEET JESUS, YOU GOT ME. I’ve put a lot of money and energy in that pursuit. And I really think it will pay off. It’s kinda like building a race car, you wanna see the motherfucker run.

Sensetti

Westcoaster says: @Sensetti: You’re a fool and I don’t use that term lightly.

I’d walk through your ass like you weren’t even standing there.

Simon Jester
Simon Jester

@ Sonic,

I am sure you would prefer years of ever increasing grinding tyranny, of seeing everything you care for taken from you; of seeing your kids starved to death, your wife gang raped by their thugs to show you how powerless you are… Those who survive will be slaves and will have the attitude of the defeated or those in power will not suffer them to live. Is that the kind of life you want?

No one welcomes war. A realistic assessment shows that there are very few options for where we are headed and none of them are good. There is worse, worser, and worsest to choose from. I simply desire the option that eliminates as many of the bastards as possible. You and I and everyone you know is almost certainly fucked. On a long enough timeline the probability of survival is zero. How do you want to go? With the knowledge that the fuckers who bear the most responsibility will be waiting to enter Hell with you? Or groveling on your knees like a dog; begging for one more day of life in return for complete abasement…

Like BB indeed…

Nick A
Nick A

Whether we like it or not, there are those in power in the US who desperately want “their” war, and they WILL get what they want.

They are unconcerned with the consequences or us “Little People” – we are here just to do their bidding, and “do as we’re told”.

Think of it as a game of chess – with real people (“us” and “them” – “them” being the enemy du jour.)

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