Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
“We can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world.” President Vladimir Putin
Last Wednesday (28 Sept 2015) the world saw the difference between Russia and Washington. Putin’s approach is truth-based; Obama’s is vain boasts and lies, and Obama is running out of lies.
By telling the truth at a time of universal deceit, Putin committed a revolutionary act. Referring to the slaughter, destruction, and chaos that Washington has brought to the Middle East, North Africa, and Ukraine, and the extreme jihadist forces that have been unleashed, Putin asked Washington: “Do you realize what you have done?”
Putin’s question reminds me of the question Joseph Welch asked witch-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency?” Welch’s question is attributed with initiating the decline of McCarthy’s career.
Perhaps Putin’s question will have the same impact and bring the reign of “American Exceptionalism” to an end.
If so, Putin has launched a revolution that will overthrow the world’s subservience to Washington.
Putin stresses the legality of Russia’s intervention in Syria, which is at the request of the Syrian government. He contrasts Russia’s respect for international law with the intervention in Syria of Washington and France, governments that are violating Syria’s sovereignty with unrequested and illegal military action.
The world sees that it is Washington and its vassals who “violate international norms” and not Russia.
The sanctimonious self-righteousness, behind which hides Washington’s self-serving unilateral actions, is revealed for all to see.
Washington relies on its arsenal of lies. Washington’s media-based disinformation apparatus was too hot to trot. Just as the BBC’s TV reporter announced the premature destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 with the building clearly still standing in the background, Washington’s lie service announced the first civilian casualties of Russian air strikes “even before our planes got in the air,” noted President Putin in his comments on Washington’s disinformation warfare.
As a consequence of their subservience to Washington, the puppet states of Europe are being overrun by refugees from Washington’s wars that Europe so mindlessly enabled. As the cost of being Washington’s vassals comes home to Europeans, the standings of European political parties will be affected. New parties and ruling coalitions are likely to follow more independent paths in order to protect themselves from the costs of the enormous mistakes that flow from Washington’s arrogance and hubris.
The breakup of the Empire is on the horizon.
As an eleven year old I watched the first moon landing live on TV in the middle of the night in England. I was one of a 4 kid delegation representing England at a Children’s International Summer Village, with a dozen different countries attending, including the USA, whose kids wore shirts printed with ‘the moon is made of American cheese’. The rest of us from France, Korea, Japan, Norway, Philippines, Sweden were all quite openly jealous, the USA was the dog’s bollocks.
I have been an international expat businessmen for a chunk of time since then, lived in 5 countries, visited 50+, most on business. It is really sad and quite shocking to see how the image of the USA since ‘Armstrong’s step’ has declined. Something like from superhero to untrustworthy associate.
I foolishly thought Obama was a ray of hope, until he took the oath of office. Good luck America, you are going to need it.
After working and living overseas for many years, I can say America is exceptional. However, our Bankster controlled government is completely criminal. The FED, ECB, BIS, Bank of England and other NWO Bilderberg entities have been wrecking sovereign nations to take control over humanity…I guess Putin just got fed up with the complete mess that the NWO chaos is creating…
Obama’s gettin ready to teach Putin a lesson!
You just wait and see!
Or something like that.
Obama trying to deal with Putin…;-)
@Thaisleeze
50+ countries for business purposes? What kind of businessman needs to visit that many countries? Have you helped American business or hurt it throughout the course of your career? Do any offshoring? Maybe you are a government contractor? I do not consider government contractors or consultants businessman. I call them part of the machine.
Maybe I’m wrong?
wip – Shooting the messenger and ignoring the message?
The USA is NO longer a democracy. It has become an OLIGARCHIC PLUTOCRACY.
Controlled and run by a select group of elites, who happen to be the richest.
Since the demise of the Soviet Empire, the American Empire has run amok throughout the world.
Instead of building bridges, fostering good will, cementing friendships with acts of constructive good works and acting as a beacon of hope, has instead carried a big stick and whacked anyone and everything within reach.
America is a global Bully. Bringing nothing but death, destruction, mayhem and chaos.
To run amok: go mad, go wild, turn violent, go berserk, lose control, go insane,
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“Putin asked Washington: ‘Do you realize what you have done?'”
The power, to some extent the genius, of this simple question is that it reduces to nearly pristine perfection what any rational mind in this country would ask of Fearless Leader regarding everything his administration has touched in America these last eight years.
The facts are irrefutable.
Complete. Epic. Fail
He set the agenda. He promised the extraordinary. He said he’d stand and delivery. And instead, he’s failed miserably on every count. He’s been Bartleby the Scrivener of our politics: He “prefers not to…”
From day one everything out of his mouth has been mendacious bullshit – if it were possible to submit one, his evaluation report would read, “Sets impossibly low standards…and consistently fails to meet them.”
An utter joke.
And now this question, asked from someone about as far removed from American politics as one can get, and from which the American public can now turn, and ask,
“Yeah. What about that?”
Good luck getting a response from an empty suit
Not to be outdone, Obama appeared on TV a few days later to deliver a rousing speech on the dangers of guns. The nation cheered. Finally, a strong response to Putin’s UN grandstanding.
Let’s hope Putin doesn’t come back to address Congress.
Obama created the refugee crisis purposely as a weapon to US and EU countries.When that movie portrayed him as the devil was not far from the truth.Obama likes to create chaos divide.Hope the world tries him like A POL POT