Has Washington’s Arrogance Undone Its Empire?
“Overwhelmed
by its hubris, Washington threatens all life on earth.”
Paul
Craig Roberts
4
July, 2013
No one likes a
bully, and Washington’s NATO puppets have been bullied for six
decades. British prime ministers, German chancellors, and French
presidents have to salute and say “yes sir.”
They
all hate it, but they love Washington’s money; so they prostitute
themselves and their countries for Washington’s money. Even a
person of Winston Churchill’s stature had to suck up to Washington
in order to get his bills and his country’s bills paid.
But what the
bought European leaders are finding is that Washington doesn’t pay
enough for the prostitution required. One year out of office Tony
Blair was worth $35 million dollars. But that’s not enough to get
Blair on the waiting list for $50 million 200 foot yachts, to have a
chalet in Gstaad, $50 million penthouses in Paris and New York, and a
private plane to fly between them, or to wear a $736,000 Franck
Muller watch on his wrist, sign his name with a $700,000 Mont Blanc
jewel-encrusted pen, and drink $10,000 “martinis on a rock” (gin
or vodka poured over a diamond) at New York’s Algonquin Hotel.
In
a world in which every member of the Forbes Four Hundred is a
billionaire plus or multi-billionaire, $35,000,000 just doesn’t cut
it. In 2006 the manager of one hedge fund was paid $1,700,000,000 for
one year’s thieving. Another 25 were paid $575,000,000 for their
skills in front-running trades. $35 million is probably the annual
budget for their household servants.
The
British seem content in their role as Washington’s favorite lackey,
but France and Germany have not enjoyed that role. France’s last
real leader, General de Gaulle, would have nothing to do with it and
refused to join NATO. Germany, dismembered with East Germany occupied
by the Soviets, had no choice. Germans’ gratitude to President
Reagan for their unification resulted in re-unified Germany falling
under Washington’s hegemony.
However,
if news reports from Berlin are true, Germany has had enough. The
catalyst was Edward Snowden’s revelations that Washington spies on
everyone including its allies, both Germany and the EU in particular.
Moreover, Washington uses Britain as the Trojan Horse within the EU
as a backup spy in case NSA misses something.
According
to news reports, the German, French, and EU governments are upset to
find out that their extreme subservience to Washington has not
protected them and their citizens from being spied upon. Here they
are, fighting Washington’s wars in far distant Afghanistan, the
fate of which is completely unrelated to their own, and what does
Washington do but embarrass them by spying on the personal lives of
their citizens.
Who
does the Merkel government represent, Germans are asking, Germans or
the NSA? Why does the Merkel government kowtow to Washington? The
next question will be: “what does Washington’s spies have on
Merkel?”
With
the German government put on the spot by Washington’s betrayal,
news headlines are: “Germany Ready to Charge UK and US Intelligence
Over Bugging Operations.”
Little
wonder Washington and its media whores hate Edward Snowden. “A
spokesman for the [German] Federal Prosecutor said the office was
preparing to bring charges against” the UK and US intelligence
services. In light of the Snowden affair, it will be wonderful if
Germany issues arrest warrants and Washington and London refuse to
extradite its NSA and UK spy operatives who have violated every law
and every trust.
The
German Justice Minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenburger, demanded
an “immediate explanation” why Washington was applying to Germany
policies “reminiscent of the actions against enemies during the
Cold War.”
The
president of France has said that France will not again cooperate
with Washington on any issue until France receives “full
assurances” that Washington will cease spying on France.
The
president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, and the EU
Commissioner for Justice, Viviane Reding, demand Washington’s
answer to Snowden’s revelations that Washington has betrayed its
own allies.
The
question that must be asked is: do any of these protests from
politicians who are
almost
certain to be on Washington’s payroll mean anything, or are they
just make-believe protests to quiet the domestic European populations
who have been betrayed by their elected leaders? Why would the French
president and the German justice minister think any reassurance from
Washington meant anything? When in human memory has Washington told
the truth about anything? When has Washington’s reassurance meant
anything?
The
Tonkin Gulf? Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iranian nukes?
Assad’s sarin gas attack? FBI orchestrated “terror attacks”? It
is a proven fact that the US government lies every time it opens its
mouth. Compared to Washington, Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Mao, Castro,
Chavez, and Pol Pot were truthful.
Washington’s
reply to Europe’s demands for explanation is: “We will discuss
these issues bilaterally with EU member states,” but “we are not
going to comment publicly on specific alleged intelligence
activities.”
You
know what that means. Bilateral means that Washington is going to
talk with each EU country separately, using the information NSA has
obtained to blackmail each complainant into silence. Whereas the EU
together could stand up to Washington, separately the countries can
be browbeat and offered more money or threats that illicit love
affairs will be revealed to shut them up. Washington is betting on
its power to intimidate individual countries with the threat of
isolation and being cut off from money. If the EU countries agree to
the secret bilateral explanations from Washington, the affair will
end and the spying on Europe will continue while Washington and the
EU politicians deny that the spying continues.
By
now the entire world must know that Washington is not merely lawless,
but also totally out of control, reveling in arrogance and hubris,
driven by desires for hegemony over the entire world. Washington is
so paranoid and distrustful that it doesn’t even trust its own
citizens or the European puppet governments that it has bought and
paid for.
Washington
is the only government that has ever used nuclear weapons, and
Washington used them against a defeated government that was trying to
surrender. Today the craziness in Washington is much worse.
Decision-making councils are full of crazed neoconservative
war-mongers, such as National Security Advisor Susan Rice, a threat
to humanity. Washington think tanks and media are over-represented by
neoconservatives such as William Kristol who wants to know “what
good are nuclear weapons if you can’t use them?”
The
sleazy European politicians and media who took Washington’s money
provided for their own economic security, but they betrayed the
security of the entire world. By enabling Washington’s hegemony,
they unleashed Washington’s arrogance. This arrogance now threatens
not merely the independence of every country but life on earth.
Instead
of meeting unilaterally alone with Washington, the European countries
should
stand
together. After all, supposedly there is an EU. If there is an EU,
Washington should meet with the EU, not with its constituent parts
individually, no one of which can stand up to Washington’s
intimidation and bribes.
If
thermo-nuclear war is to be avoided and life is to continue on earth,
Europe must disband NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was
formed in the aftermath of World War II. Its purpose was to prevent
the powerful Red Army, which defeated Nazi Germany, from overrunning
all of Western Europe.
The
Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, 22 years ago. Yet, NATO still exists.
Moreover, against President Reagan’s intentions, NATO has grown.
NATO now includes former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire, such
as Eastern Europe, and former constituent parts of the Soviet Union
itself, such as Georgia, the government of which is bought and paid
for by Washington. The NGOs that Washington funds might even deliver
Ukraine into Washington’s fold.
Egged
on by Washington, Georgia initiated a war with present day Russia,
which superior Russian forces quickly ended. In the opinion of many,
the Russian government showed far too much tolerance for its defeated
enemy, which is being rearmed by Washington and encouraged into new
military adventures. Washington is working to make Georgia, located
in Asia between the Black and Caspian seas, a member of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO membership would make Georgia a
treaty protectorate of Washington and its NATO puppets. Washington
thinks that this elevation of Georgia would result in Russia
acquiescing to Georgian aggression in order to avoid war with the US
and NATO.
China,
also, has been amazingly abused by Washington, and instead of
replying in kind, has taken it in stride. This magnanimity on the
part of the Chinese has been misinterpreted by Washington as fear.
The fear that Washington imagines is causing China to quake in its
boots has encouraged Washington to surround China with new naval,
air, and troop bases. The fact that however numerous are Washington’s
bases in the Pacific and South China Sea, Washington itself is an
ICBM away has not registered on the ignorant scum that rules Amerika.
Overwhelmed by its hubris, Washington threatens all life on earth
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