Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Two of America’s most populous states, Texas and Florida, are in hurricane ruins, and Washington is fomenting more wars.
The US national debt is now over $20 trillion, and Washington is fomenting more wars.
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The entire world is helping Washington foment wars—including two targeted countries themselves—Russia and China—both of which are helping Washington foment more wars. Believe it or not, both Russia and China voted with Washington on the UN Security Council to impose more and harsher sanctions on North Korea, a country guilty of nothing but a desire to have the means to protect itself from the US and not become yet another Washington victim like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Serbia, and Ukraine overthrown in a US coup and now poverty-stricken.
I once thought that Russia and China were checks on Washington’s unilateralism, but apparently not. Both governments have been knuckled under by Washington and both voted to punish North Korea for striving to be sufficiently armed to protect its sovereignty from Washington.
Why are Russia and China repeating their same mistake that they made when they supported Washington’s no-fly UN resolution for Libya, a resolution that Washington and NATO stood on its head when they launched air attacks that helped the CIA organized “jihadists” overthrow Libya’s progressive government and murder Gaddafi?
Russia knows that it is surrounded by US nuclear and military bases. So does China. The question is: have Russia and China capitulated out of fear? Or is their cooperation with Washington a ruse while they prepare their own strike on Washington, or are the two misguided governments trying to cooperate with Washington a la sanctions so as to avoid having to confront a US military attack on North Korea?
It requires much competence to confront evil, and there is probably more evil in Washington than there is competence in Russia and China, two countries interested in being rich to an extent that it might cost them their sovereignty and existence.
When you see such potentially powerful countries as Russia and China collapse under Washington’s pressure in the UN Security Council, it makes you wonder if the various analyses of Washington’s many weaknesses are real, and if they are real, if Russia and China are aware of them.
How does one go about explaining why two countries, whose sovereignty is in the way of Washington’s world hegemony, help their known enemy bully yet another small country, especially one in their orbit of influence? How can Russia complain of sanctions against Russia based on nothing but Washington’s propaganda when Russia supports sanctions against North Korea based on Washington’s propaganda?
Russia and China have nothing to fear from North Korean nuclear weapons. Indeed, no one does except a country that attacks North Korea. What is the explanation for Russia and China lining up with Washington’s foreign policy against North Korea when Russia and China know that Washington’s foreign policy is hostile to Russia and China?
Just the other day Washington announced that it was increasing its navy warships in the South China Sea to make sure China doesn’t think the South China Sea is Chinese, instead of American, territorial waters. Just the other day more election interfering charges were leveled against Russia. This time Facebook was the mechanism by which Russia stole the US presidential election.
These positions taken by Washington are absurd. Yet, they are becoming the reality. The frightening development is that the entire world, the entirely of the UN and Security Council are now captured by Washington in The Matrix. It seems that not even Russia and China can any longer see their own national interest.
Russia and China are working hand-in-hand with Washington toward their own demise.
It is becoming biblical. Washington the anti-Christ is subverting all good on earth.
Behold, a Pale Horse, and its Rider is Washington.
Good grief. The “PERCEIVED” US “INDEBTEDNESS” is said to be some 20 Trillions…
Horsecrap.
A) the imposters at the private bank have counterfeit over 1200 Trillions.
B) they are imposters and that “Insolvency” belongs to THEM, NOT US.
The “PERCEIVED” US “INDEBTEDNESS” is said to be 20 Trillions…
Horse crap.
A) The imposters in the private central bank have counterfeit over 1200 Trillions.
B) That counterfeiting violates Article One, Section Eight, paragraph six of the Constitution.
C) That indebtedness and “INSOLVENCY” therefore belongs to the criminal imposters, NOT, the American People.
It’s not exactly right to say that North Korea only wants the means to defend itself from the US – although it does and that unto itself would be perfectly reasonable. They also keep making provocative statements about raining destruction down on the US – getting my hopes up. I’d send them a contribution if they promised to hit Janesville Wisconsin. China and Russia went along with the latest sanctions because Trump got them to agree to sanctions after the H bomb test. So now they’re boxed in and on record for sanctions- even though they wish they weren’t. Trump is going to use China’s violation of the new economic sanctions as reason to tighten down on US-China trade. In order to maintain that trade, China will throw Kim Jong Un under the bus. Hopefully they’ll kill him and announce that there’d been an accident. PCR needs to stop worrying about North Korea.
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Of course, Washington has also made these same threats concerning Iran, Russia, etc. and carried such threats out in recent memory against others …
“They (The Norks) also keep making provocative statements about raining destruction down on the US…”
I ask again, for the umpteenth time. Does anyone here speak Korean and has anyone here got a secure line to the Norks where they can listen to them say this unfiltered through the Western media?
You mean like speaking Iranian and translating “Israel needs to be destroyed” as “the present government of Israel needs to be destroyed” instead, not a small exaggeration. Good question.
NK can’t be sanctioned anymore. The C’s and R’s know this. Their “vote” is a politically expedient action to pacify the morons in Washington.
Frankly, the rest of the world in its entirety also knows this.
I cannot decide if this is naivete of the highest order or just delusional reasoning. Surely the author does not understand the Chinese/Asian mindset. I am no war monger, but the proposition is that we should all just go about our business and ignore North Korea is absurd.
I cannot decide if this is naivete of the highest order or just delusional reasoning. Surely the author does not understand the Chinese/Asian mindset. I am no war monger, but the proposition is that we should all just go about our business and ignore the united states is absurd.
Seems to me that we are witness to the emergence of the global state, “led” (if that is the right word, maybe “ruled” or “lorded over is better” by all the globalists in all the nations. From Brussels to London to Washington and Ottawa to Beijing and Moscow, Zurich, and others to numerous to name. All these mutts are working together to bring the entire world to heel. And they are succeeding.
The illusion of competition and fear is convenient and must somehow be maintained. The distribution of weapons and kiling of the unmanageable must continue. The ruining of all existing currencies (which must fail simultaneously to ease the introduction of the new global currency) must continue.
Fascinating times.
TPTB think they can repeal Say’s Law, but all they’ve done is use a natural rhythm in social mood to temporarily paper over it. In the end, what matters is not debts and IOU’s and social media and selfies. All that matters is production. Increasingly, the production of goods is impaired and the production of bads (pollution, stupidity, etc.) is skyrocketing.
This will matter. We just don’t know when, and we don’t know in how deep a hole we’ll find ourselves when our neighbors wake up from their stupor.
Possibly Financial. How about R and C figuring that the U.S. getting into a war with the Norks will be the final nail in the coffin for the Dollar as the primary Reserve Currency. After all, they have been working to achieve that end by setting up Financial NGO’s for BRICS and by trading among themselves outside of the dollar.
North Korea is a peace loving nation that is showing no animosity toward anyone, and never has, that is tired of the constant infiltration and invasion by South Korean, Japanese, and American forces that are slowly decimating it’s population and economy.
It has never and will never initiate aggression against anyone.
It just wants this constant infiltration and invasion to come to a stop so it can live in peace, it is not a belligerent nation.
I no longer find PCR’s writing thought provoking nor interesting. IMHO he’s either sensationalizing or has tipped into the realm of madness. Either way, meh.
Foments more wars, and now is on its way to trying to nationalize our healthcare.
Thats another $3T a year onto the US budget each year. The same budget thats woefully in the red and unlikely to maintain its CURRENT trajectory, let alone the addition of an almost 100% increase to its workload.
Until borrowing to fund all this no longer appears to be a wealth-generating machine, no amount of additional spending will matter. They might as well propose to build a bridge to Mars, and project a budget of $8,000,000,000,000,000.
Nothing matters until this 36 year trip into collective insanity finally ends, and we’ll know that when interest rates begin to rise in earnest, signaling that the stampede toward TRUSTING all those IOU’s has done an about-face.
Trump doesn’t get to shuffle the deck, he has to play the hand he’s dealt. C and R are led by godless murderers, both formed by jew instigated revolutions resulting in the largest democide in the history of the world. Trump is also dealing with the deep state and Israel, both stooges for the globalist financiers.
The best chance freedom loving Americans, and indeed the world, is to elect Freedom Caucus supporters in the mid term congressional elections.
Everything else is vanity.
Don’t let the military be run by a guy who has earned the name Mad Dog.
Don’t let the president be controlled by an old general.
Asking a general about how to (and where to and WHETHER to) prosecute a war is like asking an orthopedic surgeon whether or not to do surgery on a sore knee.
People are morons for (among other reasons) believing that military officers are honest men/women without conflicts of interest.
Amen. I saw the corruption in the MIC leadership on all sides: bureaucrats, command-level officers and corporate underlings.
Let me add politicians.
$20 trillion in debt.
$200 trillion in on-books worldwide debt.
Open discussion about insolvent pentions, but just talk-talk-talk.
FASB-level insolvency of the USA as it stands, ignoring the 9% compounded rise in medical costs.
90+ million working age adults OUT of the workforce.
The Chamber of Commerce (who pays for congressional campaigns) supports inviting 8 million people PER YEAR to immigrate to the USA.
What have all these in common?
For 36 years (since the bond market low in 1981), owning long term debt was a wealth-making perpetual motion machine. Congress learned it could shower its members’ supporters with loot, but give tax cuts to ALL. Consumers learned they could spend, spend, spend, without seemingly having to WORK, WORK, WORK at all.
For 36 years, every dollar borrowed and spent appeared to create at least two dollars in wealth—one cascading through the GDP-economy, and a second (seemingly a Free Lunch) in the debt market, an IOU counted as an asset (a “receiveable.”)
The Chamber of Commerce (the lobbying arm of MultiNational Corporations-R-Us) exported jobs to cheap 3rd world countries but retailing is still domestic, where prices are high. The only limit to how much they can arbitrage between $-manufacturing and $$$$$-retailing is how many consumers they can stuff in the retail channel.
So INVITE THE WORLD! It’s Good For Business, because with the magic of debt creation, we can consume without having to produce (or tax, or work.) Tax cuts and welfare for ALL!
The USA has been PAWNED. Sooner or later the debt-holders will foreclose on everything down to the dirt on which we stand, on which the latest $50,000 leased 4-door pick-up truck sits next to a rented mobile home.
PS: Everything about the USA is about hiding what amounts to universal money-laundering. “Aid” to foreign countries? Recycled back to the US firms that supply what the foreigners buy with their US dollars (hey, they use pesos or whatever at home, WTF are they going to spend dollars? With US firms, of course.)
Wars? An excuse to churn money toward the industries that supply the warriors.
Medical services, Higher Ed, Refugee Resettlement Agencies and Welfare Program Administration? For all practical purposes, entirely staffed with GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. After all, the money to pay them eventually bubbled up from the US Treasury somewhere…all BORROWED MONEY, which provides the BOND BUYERS with the debt they so voraciously consume.
The whole thing is taught in econ departments as perfectly normal. If the psychology department got involved, however, they’d recognize it as the greatest illustration of a Crowd Madness in recorded history.
Barnum While I agree with you completely, I will point out that new ages have a price tag. The CW was without doubt a scheme to strip mine the wealth completely out of the south and on came the industrial age. Now the strip mining scheme that started in 1913 is almost complete and will be done when the pension plans and the stock market are looted. This will go into our next phase in the human saga of BS and entertainment.
Niggahs ain’t got nuttin on the ruling cabal when it comes to looting.
Neither the “elite” nor we can consume that which has not been produced.
Life is all about product (of goods, or of bads.) How all this shaked out is anyone’s guess. I have no clue. I just hope that smart people (my family is relatively smart) do okay, come what may.
Otherwise, what will be will be. Control is an illusion.
Barnum Bailey said “Sooner or later the debt-holders will foreclose on everything down to the dirt on which we stand, on which the latest $50,000 leased 4-door pick-up truck sits next to a rented mobile home.”
I like the image. I see a lot of those in the hills around here.
Maggie, I could buy one of those beheamoths (several, actually) without needed to borrow a dime, yet I drive a modest, rapidly aging car. Those I see driving them look to me like they haven’t $20 in their pockets.
Unfortunately, when this incredibly long idiocy inverts, I will be hurt just like everyone else. There is no escaping when your neighbors go bat-gauno crazy.
I live in a low income, small w Texas town. First I noticed were all of the new F-150s parked in front of homes that are worth less then the truck.
Insanity.
“Russia and China are working hand-in-hand with Washington toward their own demise.”
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Utterly. Clueless. Typical short-term American thinking, while the other guys play and plan for the long haul.
Russia and China are working hand-in-hand towards Washington’s demise …. is much more accurate.
Russia is doing what they have to do, look out for Russia. They’ve been an outsider forever. China wants NK to remain within their borders and a constant threat to Washington. Little Kim has Trump in a box, and he knows it. Watch that fat fuck provoke Trump knowing big brother China will defend them – as they have openly stated they will. The US is quickly becoming irrelevant and soon, when King Dollar is imminently replaced with this ledger based SDR allowing foreign central banks to convert 1:1 AND stop buying treasuries immediately…..we’re going to so up to our ass in problems, we won’t know which should be addressed first – and all without the means to address ANY of them. The elites or whatever you want to call them have a motto, ‘when we strike, we strike hard’ or some similar. In days after they pull the pin on King Dollar, trillions of worthless notes will be returned to the treasury – and you can bet you’re ass they ain’t going to buy the checks in the mail schtick. And they’ll blame it on Trump, his supporters, et al. I’m going with some bullshit line of ‘the world lost it’s confidence in the dollar based on nearly a year of Trump’s antics’ or some bullshit.
I see….. So the Nork’s want to defend themselves from the evil empire by having nuclear weapons. OK, so far so good….. I can buy that.
But on the other hand the Nork’s are lobbing missiles over other “sovereign” territories, without any advance warning, thereby putting those said territories in harms way, should a missile malfunction.
And let’s be very clear here…. the Nork’s have an excellent track record of missiles malfunctioning, even before they get off the ground! It’s only a matter time when, (not if) a malfunction occurs, and the errant projectile lands on a populated city. What then?
No I’m sorry, but if you want to test your new found toys, please do it in your own backyard, so that when you set your property on fire or worse damage it, you will have to face the wrath of your family, and not the neighbor next door. This is how real wars get started…….
“This is how real wars get started.”
True. The USA should have attacked Israel over the USS Liberty. At least, unlike the Gulf of Tonkin Incident or the sinking of the USS Maine, it actually was real and a naked attack on US servicemen by a state military force.
Speaking of that, what happens if the recent cases of US Navy ships colliding with freighters is a clear-cut case of China’s Red Army gaming the controls? Do we go to war with a NUCLEAR POWER over 17 dead sailors?
I don’t have the answer for that one.
Nothing we’re told about this “conflict” is real. We have NO IDEA what reality lies behind all the stage-management and Kabuki Theater carried in the press.
I gave up giving a sh** about all this a long time ago. I have no hope whatsoever of seeing the truth behind the lies, nor do I have any idea how to “fix” whatever it is that ails this world, this country, this state, this county, this town or this neighborhood.
I only concentrate on what I can touch, which includes those whom I love. The rest is just lies.
Paul Craig Roberts, you are a two faced lying sonofabitch. I cannot speak for Florida, but I live in Victoria, Texas and we are not in ruins. Rockport, Texas is in ruins, but that is an extremely small percentage of our landmass down here. If you had two more synapses you could probably, on a good day, have a seizure. You make me want to piss in my grits. You are too much of a modern day Christian, having nothing whatsoever to do with Christ, just another inflammatory moron doing your moronic thing. Anyone that believes one word you say, or purchases one item from your advertisers is a traitor to all things Holy. Again you are a lying sonofabitch and I sincerely hope you have not reproduced, but if you have, please raise better children than you parents did. thanks