Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The New York Times reports that Biden is going to forestall Russian aggression against Ukraine by deploying between 1,000 and 5,000 US troops on Russia’s border and is prepared to increase the number of troops tenfold to 10,000 to 50,000 soldiers. A Russian army would eat this small number for a snack in 5 minutes. Clearly the purpose of the deployment is not military. The purpose is to heighten the “Russian threat” in the minds of the people in advance of a false flag event that will be blamed on the Kremlin.
If Biden wants to deter Russia all he needs to do is to give Russia the security guarantee she says she needs. Why does Biden want Russia to be insecure?
The cause of the problem is obvious. In 2014 the US in an attempt to deprive Russia of her Black Sea naval base overthrew a Russian-friendly and democratically elected Ukrainian government and installed a neo-Nazi regime that began war against the Russian inhabitants of the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, formerly parts of Russia that had been transferred during the Soviet era into the the Soviet Union’s Ukrainian province.
To stabilize the situation, Russia hammered out the Minsk Agreement but neither Ukraine nor the Western signatories kept the agreement.
Russia does not want the broke and troublesome Ukraine. Russia just wants Ukraine not to become a place for US missile bases.
It is a simple demand easy to accept in the interest of peace.
But peace is unprofitable and is the last thing the US military/security complex wants. Therefore Washington is responding to the Russian/US/NATO security talks by deploying troops on Russia’s borders. The stupid British are stirring the pot of “Russian aggression” by withdrawing the embassy staff from Kiev. https://www.rt.com/russia/546916-uk-begins-evacuation-diplomats/
We have been hearing from US/NATO about the “growing Russian threat” for a long time. What happens to credibility that is already damaged if there is no Russian invasion? It seems that Washington and its NATO puppets are so far out on the limb that they simply must provoke a Russian invasion.
The Russians are waiting in vain for Washington’s written response to their proposal for mutual security. Washington has answered with more accusations, more provocations.
Is the Kremlin having difficulty understanding: (1) that Trump was removed from office because he said he wanted to normalize relations with Russia, (2) that Russia is the necessary enemy for the power and profit of the US military/security complex, and (3) Russia is regarded as the obstacle to US hegemony? How can it be that in the face of all evidence to the contrary the Kremlin has the delusion that Washington is interested in Russians feeling secure.
While the Kremlin wastes time, weapons pour into Ukraine and the Western media prepare their people for “Russian aggression.” Russian protests of intentions attributed to her are pointless. The Western media knows the required narrative and is not interested in any facts.
The question really is whether Russia can accept that she has an enemy.
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May the war pigs the scamdemic pigs all the pigs know the fate sang by Ozzy… Nuke DC
That day will be a great day for justice and freedom. I am done with the murderous, lying bastards that inhabit DC.
There must some competent military people left in America to shut that insanity down.
They were fired by Obama, or else they now refuse the kill shot.
The competent leaders you’re looking for aren’t at the the divisional levels of command or higher. There may be some but would they risk their careers as the Marine infantry officer risked his?
I doubt it, and that’s why I always despised careerist “lifers” when I was in the service. The most important things were their egos and pensions, sad fuckers that they are.
What we’re looking at is a possible mass sacrifice of our military people, all preventable if we had truly competent leaders.
If they would listen to you Dr. Roberts and to Tucker Carlson and any other independent journalists then they would understand. I don’t know how much longer their patience will hold out.
When ever the BIG MONEY interests are threatened with a collapse in the US due to the rape pillaging and plundering (THEFT) of The individual citizens wealth , health and general well being the real owners inflate the economic damage to the people while digging the debt hole deeper !
After every trick and tap dance thru the political mine field the next step is GO TO WAR !
False flag events will be engineered the media will fan the flames and every patriotic young American will run to enlist !
Anyone who thinks this plan played over and over is a good idea I suggest a visit to a veterans hospital followed by a walk among the stones at Arlington .
FOLLOW THE MONEY !
Do not follow the manufactured propagandized narrative !
Those in government and industry sending us to war are generally FULL OF SHIT
My feel of things is that young patriotic Americans will not being running to enlist. There will be no rally round the flag BS this time. We have seen this play so many times even the most normalcy biased civnat types aren’t going to fall for it.
God help me, I will be sympathizing with the Russians. What this country needs is a purging … and if it means a serious ass-kicking is in order as a major catalyst for America to rid itself of scum at all levels, so be it.
Don’t be to sure of that. It has happened century after century all over the world and I don’t think people are to much smarter now. All I can say is be prepared!
How about this – Don’t start a war you can not win. How about that for starters?
I see no scenario where the US military can stop Russia from doing whatever it wants along its border – none. Since it is a battle that can not be won, why start it in the first place?
I’m sure Goebbels Volkssturm felt the same way when they were marched off to the Eastern front in March of 1945.
Please, this is distraction, look at this and ignore all the other bullshite going on. Russia knows this, they are also playing to and for the home team. Keep everyone stirred up and insecure, create a boogieman and let everyone be very afraid while fueling and funding the military industrial complex, the weapons makers and….most importantly…the central banks who need their sacrificial blood money.
The Ukranian gold was stolen a long time ago, Hunter and Joe got their millions in grift and graft monies, ditto for the Pelosi and Kerry kids. Too bad so many had to die, gotta break a few eggs for that special omlette, don’t cha know?
Actual high-casualty military conflict is a necessity for all sides involved.
They ARE all playing for the same team, but scaring the shit out a civilization fast becoming numb to exaggerated fears has reached the point of diminishing return on investment.
This sucker’s going hot.
Ethnos will rise against ethnos, kingdom will rise against kingdom, and there will be seismoi* and famines in diverse places.
seismoi = plural of seismos: this broad term includes shakings, commotions, tempests, volcanic activity, AND earthquakes.
There will be war.
Bigly.
Matthew 24:6-8 KJB… “And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.”
Even in the midst of all this, the world ain’t seen nothing yet.
In some respects understanding the Bible accurately is like cheating.
A time like no other is right around the corner — so bad that it will overshadow the worst history has ever seen and so bad it will never get that bad again.
We’re sliding into it more slowly than most of us Bible guys expected, but we are most certainly sliding into it.
Here comes Hell.
(At least America’s obesity epidemic is about to be solved!!!)
There’s a real bad day coming for the world. There’s an absolutely glorious day coming for us!
Yep, it’s all been foretold by the King of Kings in the book of Matthew.
>>>Since it is a battle that can not be won, why start it in the first place?
The FUSA very much wants Russia to send its military across the Ukrainian border; there is absolutely no intent to ‘win’ the envisioned military confrontation, much less take any significant casualties. Aside from a few NATO advisors and contractors, any bleeding will be done by Ukrainians and Russians.
From the above hoped-for conflict, the FUSA expects to gain another two generations of European Russophobia, and to retain Europeans as long-term vassals and useful stooges (aka “the International Community”).
As usual, the purpose of war is not victory. That’s ‘why’.
The U.S. got whipped by Vietnam and the Afghans. To provoke the Russians and the Chinese is a death wish. To quote Klatu from The Day the Earth Stood Still “There is no security unless everyone is secure”
How can U.S. beat Russia when they just lost to Afganistan
We’re gonna beat them Russkies over the grape with bike locks and Play Stations!!!
Oh, and tampons.
No problemo.
The Virgin Mary decades ago said the West will go to WWIII with their eyes wide open. The Crimea was Russian; I think 90% of the people speak Russian and they voted to join Russia. I believe the same for the Donbas. This Ukraine build up certainly fits Virgin Mary’s Prophecy. The US State Dept first dug this hole by sending arms to Ukraine, and the idea of adding them to NATO is a violation to agreements made to Russia, and comparable to Russian missiles in Cuba. The USA has purposely dug that hole deeper at every opportunity. My concern is Russia will take a page from the USA and form a Coalition of about 100 nations, strike suddenly and Decapitate the Aggressive Nation with Weapons of Mass Destruction within one hour, then launch Shock and Awe to Neutralize the Aggressive Nation, then invade and take complete control of the Aggressive Nation’s territory and population.
Fatima was a hoax.
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OK re Fatima if that’s where the Prophecy came from, but I don’t think Dumitru Duduman and many other like Prophets who said the USA will be suddenly attacked with nuclear weapons and destroyed are a hoax; the question is when, by whom and the exact ways the many attacks will occur. I see no need for FJB to bring America’s nuclear destruction to actuality right now, especially over Ukraine’s border. Maybe to stop the 2022 elections? Maybe to put the cherry on top of our destruction for the Reset? PS: Count me as one of the Stupid SOBs who opposes FJBs cherished inflation and wonders why he says it’s good.
Mary was a Jew.
And neither of Mohammads parents were Muslims!
So Jesus was half Jew?
As always, check the source.
Galatians 4:4-5 KJB… “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.”
Kamala! Is that you?
The West is ruled by psychopaths who have no compunction against starting a war that will kill untold innocents. Their motives are not always about profits, natural resources or geostrategic position. Our overlords are psychopaths doing what psychopaths do. There is no logic, ethics or morality behind their actions. Do not think you can persuade them using logic, morality or ethics; the only thing they understand is their bottom line, their profit margins and when all else fails overt resistance and brute force. Russia knows the anguish of war on their own soil, the US doesn’t. Europe has experienced massive devastation from centuries of internecine wars, the US has limited experience with this type of bloodletting, it was usually “the indigenous other” who suffered the losses (except for the War Between the States) meted out by the settlers. Does anyone remember how the US became entangled in Viet Nam? Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to relive them.
JFK sent advisors to help Catholic South Vietnam against the Communist North Vietnamese invaders, and that kept escalating: more armed men and machines until we gave up . FJB’s Ukraine War could start that way and then immediately go tactical nuclear as we try to save our pitiful diversified asses; or it could be a Russian Nuclear WWIII First Strike wipe-out of the USA as the Russians beat US to the punch. Bear in mind, the Bear has a habit of winning and destroying their enemy.
Not exactly that simple. You see, Russia has had thousands of what they call 20 minute men in the United States for decades now; not just on our borders with Mexico and Canada or even Alaska. They are wearing civilian clothes and have civilian jobs in many cases. They have orders to be ready to change into military uniforms and attack U.S. targets at their locations within 20 minutes. Yes, The United States has surrounded Russia in many ways, but what are U.S. soldiers going to do, throw their purses at Russians? Give them a lecture on gay culture? Both sides are in far too deep to back out. Even if both sides agreed to back out one for one, the conflict must come. And both sides will have to deal with God, whom they have scorned.
I agree. The borders have been left open for years for a good reason.
While Department of Homeland inSecurity and our corrupt legal system goes after American citizens, veterans, and the parents of school age children our borders have been wide open to potentially damaging sleeper cells at all levels of society. The internal infrastructure is at serious risk.
If you don’t have guns and ammo now, you’d better damned well get it soon.
Most sickening thing my husband pointed out to me? If a hot war starts, the weapons industry stocks will shoot up and the politicians will claim they saved the US economy.
It is a death spiral this nation is undertaking.
That’s what I was thinking, war touted as good because it “saves the economy.”
… and the blood of US citizens is splashed all over Krugman’s “broken windows” economic theory.
Look for Winchester-Olin, Raytheon, LMT, and many others to make an economic “killing” if they aren’t wiped off the map with hypersonic missiles.
When all else fails, they take us to war! That ends it till the next time. This cycle is repeated over and over. Start educating yourself, you are the only one who can prepare and save yourself and your loved ones. It is always about the money and power. That is what they live for.
What’s wrong with giving Russia security assurances? Guess you’ll need to ask Blackstone or Vanguard? Next would be their puppet CCP. Then Soros and his organ-grinder pet tin cup Obama. Asking brain-necrosis Biden anything in pointless. More than likely the COVID vaccines are not killing enough people.
Not enough short-term profit, it must be taken to the next level. Greed is like that.
Russia doesn’t want to invade and absorb the whole of Ukraine. If you listen to them they will tell you why. They want a buffer between NATO states and their border. If they take over the whole of Ukraine that would put NATO on their border again. It’s why they don’t want Ukraine to enter NATO in the first place.
And is not North Korea the buffer between the West and China?
Great and intelligent article. U.S. would not stand for Russian weapons in Cuba. Now the shoe is on the other foot as they are encroaching on Russia. We drew the line and they are now drawing theirs.There is enough stress in the world now as it is without the fear of another stupid war
how would US like it if we ditched Puerto Rico and then the Russians took it over and filled its war arsenal?
Why is Putin refusing to do what he said. Remember he promised to target the leadership and the command centres. So what is his problem? Why has he broken this promise to the planet? Should be easy for him. First hit. city of london banksters. Second hit dc. Third hit vatican. Hit em when the most are there without warning. Take out the 8 city blocks with all the uber rich scum running this show. Thats gotta be the first to go. The rest would be gravy for Putin. The planet would love him too. He just has to take out a few of them and this show would collapse. They would beg for cease fire like they always have before. And because Putin granted those in 2014 we are here now.
I wouldn’t complain much if he also got Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New Orleans and Denver.
Hey, hey! This ain’t no damn Christmas list for santa!
I don’t believe Putin ever said that major NATO command centers would be attacked, merely that such centers could not consider theselves safe from attack.
Frankly if Putin were to order ‘pinpoint’ attacks on NATO military infrastructure in eastern or western Europe, I’d consider that fair game (as the man said, they were warned).
Why can’t communism save Ukraine if it’s such a great and saving philosophy? Uckfnig Poop’n is a liar just as much as Joe-sef Bitem is.
So you have to uckfheads wanting to stir up trouble and have possibly millions killed and if it goes to far BILLIONS killed.
Why don’t you a**hoes just remove these two uckfers??? Has it ever occurred to you how much a nickel worth of lead can go today??
Plenty if you do the right thing with it.
Peace is as unprofitable as good health. And since money makes the world go ’round, both are anathema to TPTB who have effectively made both off limits.
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what aggression from russia? the only aggression seen is from nato and the usa.