Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
As I have described, we have approached a fateful moment in world history, not because of global warming, Covid, over-population, white racism, or any of the “crises” that an ignorant media hypes, but because we face nuclear war originating in the total stupidity of Western elites.
David Johnson publishes a daily Russian List, a collection of commentary by presstitutes and alleged “Russian experts.” I peruse these scribblings, and I seldom encounter anything the least bit intelligent. In the US and its European puppets, “Russian analysis” consists of Russophobic rants. Russia this, Russia that, and so on. These ignorant rants have created a frame of mind among Western decision makers that is unreal and is deceiving Washington policy makers into fatal mistakes.
I read that Russia has been defeated in Ukraine or will be. I read that 4-star General Petraeus, one of the most stupid of Washington’s political generals, has declared that Putin is desperate and in an irreversible situation and that Ukraine will become a NATO member after the victory against Russia.
I sit and ponder how a person this utterly stupid got to be a four-star US general. God help us.
Back in the days of the Cold War in which I was involved, we listened to each other and debated who was responsible for the Cold War. The Committee on the President Danger, of which I was a member, also listened to the Soviets as well as to the American left who thought that the conflict existed in order to serve the interests of the budgets and power of the US military/security complex.
Never were Soviet leaders insulted and ignored in the manner that Putin has been. President Reagan told the contingent that accompanied him to Reykjavik for his meeting with Gorbachev that anyone who took a rude or dismissal attitude toward the Soviet delegation would be fired on the spot.
In those long ago civilized days, the US government took no risks that could result in a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
In the 21st century the US government’s rude dismissals of Russian concerns is unprecedented. Washington by overthrowing the Ukraine government and forcing a war there is vastly exaggerating its war fighting capacity.
What explains the lack of Washington’s caution?
The answer is that with the Western media reduced to a compliant propaganda ministry, Washington’s decision makers have no reliable information. The presstitutes, Western politicians, and so-called “Russian experts” have created a make-believe world for decision makers that causes them to think that they still control the situation. Nothing could be further from the truth.
So, we have a situation that is comprised of arrogant Americans overflowing with hegemonic hubris, European puppets who obey instructions from Washington, and a Russian government forced to defend itself and Russian peoples.
This is an explosive situation, especially as Putin has been slow to take a firm stand. Putin’s deference to international law means nothing to the West, for whom international law is nothing but a weapon to be used against those who don’t comply. Putin’s deference to international law is read by Washington as irresolution to really defend Russian interests.
The consequence will be, as I have always said, that Washington misreads the situation and crosses too many Russian red lines. At that point, fire and brimstone take over. My concern is that we are very close to that point.
Putin’s recent public statements and his address to the Russian people clearly show that Russia’s leadership has finally and reluctantly lost all belief in reaching accommodation with the West. It is the total failure of Western diplomacy that has greased the skids for war. The Kremlin does not want war, but Washington has convinced the Kremlin that it is not possible to negotiate away war. The unreasonableness of the West in refusing a mutual security agreement with Moscow, the complete involvement of the West into what the Kremlin regarded as a police action in the Donbass region, and now Washington’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, together with incessant threats of dealing Russia devastating blows has resulted in Moscow preparing for war.
NATO is an insignificant military force, and the US has zero chance of prevailing against Russia in conventional war. The only way Washington can avoid humiliating defeat is by going nuclear. One would think the Kremlin knows this, and would not wait for a first strike.
The complete and total failure of Washington to create an ally and business partner out of a willing Russia is the worst diplomatic failure in world history. The Jewish neoconservatives demanded hegemony at Russia’s expense. The US military/industrial complex demanded Russia as an enemy to justify its power and budget. The State Department needed a Russian threat to Europe in order to keep normal relationships between Europe and Russia from loosening Washington’s hold on its European empire. An American President who intended to normalize relations with Russia was driven out of office.
All of these selfish material interests, without an honest media to expose and check them, have opened the road to World War III, a war that will forever remove the West as a force in history.
Tucker Carlson Explains the Absence of Intelligence Life Among CNN Viewers and the US Government
The total unreality that prevails in the US is driving the world to destruction.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6313215712112
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You can do your patriotic duty by making sure all the liberals you know have their COVID booster shots.
It’s not ignorance, PCR, it’s fully-conscious unapologetic criminal intent.
This article perfectly describes our current situation. The elites in the US have no idea of the hell they are trying to unleash. They are one and all, delusional narcissist’s.
They know what they’re doing.
Yes, all intentional. Gotta destroy everything we hold dear!
Yes they are narcissists and psychopaths but their handlers know exactly what the possible consequences will be, they just don’t care! In fact they want them to happen so they can reconfigure the world into their New World Order/Great Reset and all that that insane agenda entails :massive depopulation via warfare collateral damage, food shortages, economic disruption, implosions and collapse all of which have been engineered by the globalists.
As I’ve commented before, if (((they))) can’t control it, (((they))) destroy it. It’s a never-ending game of chicken with the jews, and they operate on the belief that the other driver will back off.
(((They))) can all go fuck themselves.
” At that point, fire and brimstone take over. My concern is that we are very close to that point.”
Let it burn.
Haha — the little sign even tells them where they’re headed !!
That is not someone who needs to worry about pregnancy.
OMG…..not at all!
For or against, the same is true.
Fat ugly women (and women wannabes) just want attention, any attention.
I have always found the exact opposite to be true.
>>>I sit and ponder how a person this utterly stupid got to be a four-star US general. God help us.
Some of the “stupidity” among our ruling class is genuine stupidity: if he gets the right credentials and schmoozes the right people, it’s amazing just how high an utter mediocrity can rise. Perhaps, yes, even unto the Presidency!
But a substantial part of the apparent stupidity is deliberate misinformation; they say what they say, and do what they do, to confuse, gas-light and mind-fuck any potential critic. Which is one reason I don’t listen to what any US federal government figures say; lying and phoniness are their default settings.
Whatever ones needs to know about US policy can be gleaned from out rulers’ actions.
None of this is ignorant. It’s all calculated and on purpose.
Tell’n it like it is.
Ignorance? You sure? It appears that way but it’s all planned out…
Russia will prevail in the war with Ukraine because very soon the western nations will be fighting amongst themselves. The United States crossed a line when they sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines and turned Germany into a vassal. The west will turn on itself!
Global thermo-nuclear war, it’s the newest strain of Covid!
The overlords have overplayed their hand in the sense more and more people are beginning to see the implications of their agenda. The potential for a global war was always in the cards with a warmonger, war profiteer and grifter like Biden; but now his ilk have put the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. They are the pied pipers ushering in their handlers’ Great Reset. At the very least Europe will pay a stiff price for going along with America’s poking the Bear. They will suffer from massive energy, food, fertilizer and supply shortages this winter. At the worst a regional or global war is staring them in the face thanks to a globalist cabal hellbent on total ownership and control.
The thing is, America will be gutted and hung out to dry in this process also. We see it now and this is just the early stages. The misery index is on the rise here as are: suicides, drug overdoses, economic collapse, runaway inflation and financial ruin. The US will experience the same shortages as Europe which will be exacerbated here due to the societal polarization, animus and divide that currently exists. It’s time we think for ourselves and do what we can on the micro level to ensure our survival, the government is not the solution, all too often it is the problem.