Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
I have often expressed my concern that the lack of proactive action by Putin, Xi, and Iran was maximizing the expansion of Israeli and US aggression in the Middle East and leading to a dangerous confrontation and outbreak of nuclear war. It is the purpose of Israel and Washington to attack Iran. That is what the Israeli-Hamas-Hezbollah-Washington-Houthis conflict is about.
It is an entirely simple matter for Russia, China, and Iran to prevent any expansion of Israel’s war against Palestine. All they have to do is to announce a mutual defense treaty: An attack on one is an attack on all.
But proactive action does not seem to be in the skill set of Washington’s targeted enemies. With the single exception of Putin’s intervention in Syria to prevent Obama’s invasion, Putin has proved to be ever hesitant about taking control of the situation. It took him eight years to abandon his delusion about the Minsk Agreement. When he finally realized that he had been taken for a ride, the Russian military was not prepared for the level of violence required. Consequently a war that Russia should have won in a few days is two years old and continuing.
From my experience with the liberal Russian intelligentsia, I would say that their program is surrender to Washington. They would rather be invited as visiting professors to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, and to serve as consultants to American corporations than to be in conflict with the West. As Putin seems to believe toleration of subversion is a sign of democracy, he could have been prevented from required action by pressure to prove that he is not, as the entirety of the West proclaims, a dictator. Putin would have saved many lives by ignoring the propaganda of his enemies and being more forceful in Russia’s defense.
But now Putin is showing more awareness of what needs to be done. News reports which I saw in the Indian press, not in the American whore media, a collection of paid liars, say that, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russia and Iran are finalizing a pact stressing their commitment to fundamental principles of Russian-Iranian relations, including unconditional respect for each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In a way this is good news. It indicates that Putin has finally realized that left unprotected, Iran is vulnerable, and if Iran goes, Washington has a direct entry to send “jihadists” into the Russian Federation and the former Soviet central Asian republics.
But once again, like with the nonsensical “Minsk Agreement,” Putin has made an error. The pact has been announced before it goes into effect. It is unclear when this acknowledgement of mutual association is to be finalized. So the message to Washington and Israel is to attack Iran now before the agreement goes into effect.
There is risk that this will happen. By trying to avoid the expansion of conflict in the Middle East, when conflict is Washington’s and Israel’s intention, Putin by his non-intervention, has given a green light for the expansion of conflict.
Moreover, the Russian-Iranian pact does not seem to be, except, by implication, a mutual defense pact. You can bet that Victoria Nuland and Israel’s American neoconservative agents who control US foreign policy will try to strike Iran before the pact is is in effect or they will argue that it is not a mutual defense agreement.
It seems that Russia, China, Iran, and Israel’s Muslim enemies think that words count when nothing but action counts. In the West words are meaningless. Only actions count. And Russia’s are missing.
Now, let me back off a bit. There are other indications of progress toward an environment less able to be turned into war by Washington. China had the foresight to broker a peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This was a fundamental blow to Washington. This rapprochement, if it holds against Washington’s counter offer, has expanded Putin’s organization BRICS to include Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates. This gives new meaning to Saudi Arabia’s abandonment of the petro-dollar.
There is even a potential good sign on Russia’s part. Russia has announced air patrols over the Syrian Golan border with Israel. Putin prevented Washington’s invasion of Assad’s Syria but then went soft. Putin has left the Syrian oil fields in Washington’s hands. Putin has permitted both Israel and the US to conduct air and missile attacks on Syrian territory, apparently preventing Syria from using the Russian-supplied S-300 air defense system to protect Syrian territory.
It remains to be seen if this means anything. The Russians have been sufficiently weakened by Western influence that they now have, associated with the Defense Ministry a “Center for Reconciliation.” This center says the air patrols are just for monitoring. In other words, there will be no military intervention, so it is largely meaningless.
The failure to confront Russia’s enemies with defeats means the pressure against Russia, the ongoing provocations, and the humiliations inflicted will continue until Russia is forced into war.
There is a great deal of talk about American over-extension, outmoded weapon systems, excessive debt, inability to recruit for the military, etc., most of which is true. But the neoconservatives in control are still full of confidence, and this confidence is ever encouraged by Putin’s lack of decisive action. The war that is shaping up appears to be unavoidable.
I know that it seems arrogant, egocentric, and self-glorifying to appear to be giving advice to Putin. But that is not what I am doing. I am describing a situation. To preclude a US/Israeli attack on Iran, there needs to be a Russia-China-Iran alliance which probably should include Turkey. Right NOW Iran needs the highly effective Russian air defense systems and, if Iran doesn’t have them, the hypersonic Russian long distance offensive missiles. Putin showed a strategic side when he committed the Russian Air Force to Syria’s defense, thus blocking Syria’s invasion by Obama. But he was very late getting into the game, almost too late. The multipolar world that Putin is always talking about cannot materialize without a Russian-Chinese-Iranian mutual defense treaty. Without more strategic vision and action on the part of Russia and China, war is unavoidable.
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PCR……meh…..bloviator
Welcome to dystopia, pass the ammunition around and give a good dose of rhetoric. Everything will be fine (not)!
Been on this planet three score and two….
Until you accept the TRUTH about a certain group of peoples effect on the globe…..you will keep shooting in the dark or purposefully muddying the waters…..which is it Paul?…..
Oh and when you do accept the Truth….it will ALL make sense!
How stupid do you have to be to mistake patience for “hesitancy”?
Seriously.
“Do not mistake my appetite for apathy!” – Thor
PCR is from the retardo skool of fighting, which teaches that there is advantage in throwing the first punch. Unfortunately, Putin is a Judo practitioner, so PCR would do well to stay OUT of the ring with that guy.
Another stupid comment by The Stupidizer! Keep stupidizing!
Eat a bag of black dicks, you contentious fucktard.
“So racissss” lol . why not white dicks ?
Because I don’t want to look down and see that POS hanging from MINE!
But you don’t have one.
You might be taken more seriously if you backed up your pronouncements with something weightier than just ‘cuz I sez so.’ Until then, please do the world a favor – fuck off and shut the fuck up.
At 64, “cuz I sed so” is all the fuck I need. Stand in my face and say it, fag. You’ll be wondering how you ended up on the ground it’ll happen so fast.
If I were you, I’d start carrying around a few Tampax in your pocket for the rest of your life…because sooner or later, someone’s gonna blow a hole in your dumb ass.
PCR : ” I know that it seems arrogant , egocentric and self glorifying to appear to be giving advice to Putin ” . Boy Howdy Paul Craig Roberts , couldn’t agree more with that particular statement .
Or my kindness for weakness…..
Yep. THAT IS a big one, ain’t it? Christians run into that a lot. Always have. It’s actually a defining characteristic.
I haven’t heard anyone bring up judo in a while. You know it was jew-do, right? Like his judo club was literally run by a jewish oligarch.
The US lost to the Taliban. They’re going to take on Iran?
Iran is not Afghanistan in case you hadn’t noticed. The topography is completely different.
Now tell me it makes no difference. I’ll wait.
It makes no difference. You’re dumb.
Your father fucked goats. Exclusively.
I agree , the topography is critical , but why the fuck do we need to or even want to roll our heavy mechanized infantry into Iran ?Why the fuck do we need war with Iran ? To stop them from getting that nuke ? Figure out where they are working on it ( as if we probably dont already know ) and hit the sites . Of course Obama / Jarrett seem to have some odd love affair with Iran and really the Biden administration is Obama’s third term so we’d have to wait for any kind of action that would be that sane .
Iran hates the mullahs like we hate the US government….like Russia
WE SHOULD BE ALLIES!
Your right simplicus……
As many times as we’ve pulled the rug out from under those poor bastards? They should ALL hate our fucking guts…and I don’t blame them. But letting someone like that live and thrive is ALWAYS a mistake.
I’m all for glassing the place and moving on. Prevailing winds will carry the fallout away from Israel, so they are ideally placed for destruction. I’m sure China won’t be too happy about it though.
Destroy Mecca and 90% of this shit goes away tomorrow. There would be no Islam at all at that point.
Iran has an educated population…..thwyre probably like us,hoping the other guy takes out their leadership
PLEASE VLAD…just one hypersonic to DC…..
“Putin by his non-intervention, has given a green light for the expansion of conflict.”
There is no shortage of people who point out a number of red flags re Putin. For example, Russia’s central bank is run by a WEF flunky and owned by Chabadist oligarchs. Russian oil continues flowing to Ukraine. Etc.
Start here: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/moscow-or-kiev-who-hates-russians
I am waiting for PCR to accuse Putin of being insouciant.
Yeah, I’m shocked he missed that opportunity. lol
STFU, Paul Craig, you fucking mongoloid.
No matter, You are Still an honorable man. The sooner You realize…
The Better Off…
You will be.
Lukashenko was my only disappointment
The writer fails to notice the world is choosing sides and the Global South, the Arabs and much of Asia are not picking the US/NATO/Five Eye/Israeli axis of insanity as the side they want to play for or with. What the writer refuses to admit is Western “leaders” are psychopaths who have no scruples/morality, no consideration for the consequences of their actions, have an extremely distorted/delusional sense of their own worth and no remorse for the harm they plan to inflict on humanity. These psychopaths will do anything, anything to achieve their megalomaniacal aims and objectives which include massive global depopulation, total control over the planets’ resources and a neo-feudal rulership over the whole world.
Challenging this insanity requires a full acknowledgment of the evil one is facing, uncompromising resolve, courage, preparation and strategic partnerships. When we look at what is happening around the world today we are seeing these things developing but they take time. The question is are they a real alternative/counterweight to the axis of insanity or a reshuffling and reconfiguration of the globalists’ NWO agenda ?!
We all know ‘western’ leaders are scrupleless psychopaths. The hurdle is knowing all of them are. And I don’t mean that in a libertarian ideologue way. They generally don’t identify with their people, but if they did, ‘their people’ would be the ruler class.