Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Oliver Stone on Facebook writes that rabid anti-Russian propaganda has set the stage for a false flag low-yield nuclear explosion in Ukraine that the world has been trained to interpret as Russia’s doing. The success of Washington’s perception war and saturation of the CNN/Fox airwaves with condemnation of Russia could lead to hopes that a false flag nuclear event would bring down Putin’s government. A new Yeltsin installed would return Russia to Washington’s control and leave China, alone, as the next target. Such an event is not a fantasy. It is an expression of Stone’s understanding of the neoconservatives commitment to Washington’s hegemony. Biden officials have made it clear that they are at war with Russia, using Ukraine as a proxy, with the goal of exhausting Russia into weakness and disposing of Putin.
A false flag event is not the only avenue to nuclear war. The expansion of NATO to Finland and Sweden is another. Washington is not only pressuring the governments to apply for NATO membership but also is bribing Swedish and Finnish government officials to do so.
Think about this expansion of NATO for a minute. One reason for Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is the stark refusal of Washington and NATO to take Russia’s security concerns seriously. Ukraine’s membership in NATO is totally unacceptable to Russia, so why was it pushed? With Western intervention in Ukraine threatening to spin the conflict out of control, why pour gasoline on the fire by bringing Sweden and Finland into NATO? Currently Scandinavia and the Baltics are nuclear free. Finland’s entry into NATO would bring more NATO to Russia’s border, a development that the Kremlin has declared as unacceptable. By piling on more provocations, Washington and NATO are intentionally widening a conflict that was deliberately provoked.
Clearly, it is irresponsible for Finland and Sweden to further destabilize the situation by joining NATO. Dmitry Medvedev has made it clear that NATO membership would mean the end of the nuclear-free Baltic. More NATO on Russia’s border creates an imbalance that Russia would have to correct with deployment of hypersonic nuclear missiles. How can it be possible for the governments of Finland and Sweden to regard NATO membership as an increase in security when the result is to have their countries targeted with nuclear weapons? Finland and Sweden are in no danger of being attacked by Russia unless they join NATO. No one in their right mind would see NATO membership for Finland and Sweden as anything but a reckless act of destabilization. Like Switzerland, Finland and Sweden have benefitted from their neutrality. It is nonsensical for them to turn themselves into nuclear targets.
Everyone needs to understand that the neoconservatives’ ideology of hegemony is an expansionist ideology like original 20th century International Communism. It is the American Empire that is expanding toward Russia, not Russia expanding into the West. It is truly amazing how opposite from the truth the anti-Russian propaganda is. Sooner or later the Kremlin will comprehend that Russia’s enemies are the American neoconservatives and that the pressure point on the neoconservatives is Israel.
As my audience knows, I have been concerned for years that Russia’s low-key response to provocations brings about more and more dangerous provocations that eventually will bring Armageddon upon us. I saw recently that the Chinese government thinks similarly when a Chinese spokesman said that China can accept no provocation from Washington as the result would be more and worse provocations.
The Kremlin’s policy of relying on reason, negotiations, and good will has not been reciprocated by the West. The Kremlin’s limited military operation in Ukraine was not of sufficient ferocity to convince the West to abandon its policy of provocation. It seems Washington will continue its provocations until the fatal line is crossed.
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Nuclear bombs aren’t real , the earth is flat, the moon landing is a hoax, and history didn’t even happen. Prove me wrong.
Prove you’re right… Chip
flash is just trolling us. lol He left off the /s on purpose. And it seems it worked.
Ok, to the Wood Shed you go. All bad kids will get their spanking.
NEXT!
Enjoy… Chip
Or illusion caused by round camera lens?
Nope. I took the picture for the very reason that I could see the curvature of the earth from that vantage point. Please try again… Chip
Sorry, not a chance.
Why do both sides expect to SEE a curvature? Especially from rather ordinary heights?
I usually ignore flat earth arguments; but I must say that, after a quick internet search, “The Science” has done a shit job of answering (cannot answer?) a very simple question, which is: “At what altitude is the curvature of the Earth visible?”
I don’t know the answer. I thought the answer would be simple and easily looked-up. But all I found was a lot of sciency-sounding bluster and math fails.
Because the Earth is a sphere, I suspect that there is, in fact, an approrpriate answer to this question. However, at least based on a quick search, “The Science” has failed to provide it. Hmmm.
Anyway, if there is a “correct” answer, it is not 200′.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23501141_Visually_discerning_the_curvature_of_the_Earth
Okay, you were there and I wasn’t. Thanks for clearing it up for me… Chip
The old warships used to hide over the horizon when preparing for war. (The curvature of the earth mad this possible.).
The Earth is indeed round; but that picture is a complete FAIL.
flash doesn’t exist. Prove me wrong.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/news/apollo-sites.html&ved=2ahUKEwiF6ZOJscj3AhW_lWoFHUwcBAgQFnoECDEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2GTTzuw4V3bwCptYXEJtSC
How do you upvote 1/2 and downvote the other 1/2???
https://theamericanreport.org/2016/12/08/sweetheart-deal-handed-port-canaverals-cargo-container-terminal-family-saddam-husseins-nuclear-mastermind/
Things will either get better , or things will get worse . I just need a 12 pack ,a small stocked pond a zebco 202 and my tackle box . And my dog .
The ol’ 202. It was the AK47 of spincast reels. Indestructible.
We’re so lucky only the Neoconservatives are doing that…
Pretty much everybody but the paleocons (all three of us) are on board with trying to destroy Russia and in denial that Russia would prefer to not be destroyed – or at least won’t go down alone.
The uniparty might be a better description rather than neocons because there doesn’t seem to be any voices countering the “Russia bad” narrative. When both sides suddenly agree you know We the People are about to get screwed.
PCR did a recent hourlong interview with Greg Hunter where he brought up the points he made in this article.
So how far out of major cities would one have to be to avoid the initial blast wave and subsequent radiation? Asking for a friend.
A subject to complicated to summarize. Once you say neo-conservatives you open a Pandora’s box. In other words the definition of that term varies every decade. Anyway way, expansionism is something we should all be aware of. It’s railed in corruption and self serving principles, it is what got us where we are today on the world stage.
The short list of American Foreign Entanglements: Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, et al
Take a look someday at the amount of foreign entanglements we have engaged in over the last 246 years. You may conclude that this is the US standard motive operandi. We will get our ass kicked sooner or later. Looking like it maybe sooner.
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1, Danger of Foreign Entanglements
2, The ‘Worst Enemy’ of Government: Loyalty to Party Over Nation
3, Importance of Unity
-Subjects of George Washington’s Farewell Address
I’ve got my SPF 2,000,000 sunscreen, so I’m all set…..
“The future’s so bright…..I gotta wear shades….” – TimBukThree