"If Russia doesn’t get over its affection for the West, Russia will lose its independence."
Can Russia Survive Washington's Attack?
Paul Craig Roberts
22
May, 2016
It
is not only American generals who are irresponsible and declare on
the basis of no evidence whatsoever that “Russia is an existential
threat to the United States” and also to the Baltic states, Poland,
Georgia, Ukraine, and all of Europe. British generals also
participate in the warmongering. UK
retired general and former NATO commander Sir Richard
Shirreff, Deputy
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe until 2014, has just declared that
nuclear war with Russia is “entirely possible” within the year.
My
loyal readers know that I, myself, have been warning
for some time about the likelihood of nuclear war. However,
there is a vast difference between me and the Western generals.
I see the war as the consequence of the neoconservative drive for US
world hegemony. The neoconservative drive for world hegemony is
acknowledged by the neoconservatives themselves in their public
position papers, and it has a 15 year record of being implemented in
America’s many and ongoing wars in the Middle East and
Africa. Although
the Presstitute media does its best to keep our focus away from the
known facts, the facts remain known.
The
position of the Western generals is that “Russian aggression” is
driving an innocent America/NATO to nuclear war.
Here
is General Shirreff’s list of “Russian aggressions”: “He
[Putin] has invaded Georgia, he has invaded the Crimea, he has
invaded Ukraine. He has used force and got away with it. In a
period of tension, an attack on the Baltic states… is entirely
plausible.” Shirreff is talking about make-believe happenings that
even if real would be taking place inside what were until recently
Russia’s long-standing national boundaries.
General
Shirreff strikes me as either uninformed or a dissembler. It is the
United States and Israel who use force and get away with it. The
Russian invasion of the former Russian province, Georgia, was a
response to the American puppet government’s invasion of South
Ossetia in which the American and israeli trained and equipped
Georgian troops killed Russian peace-keeping troops and a large
number of South Ossetian civilians while the Russian government was
at the Beijing olympics.
It
only took a small fraction of the Russian Army a few hours to roll up
the American and Israeli trained Georgian Army. Putin had the
former Russian province in his hand. He could have hung the American
puppet president and reincorporated Georgia back into Russia, where
if probably belongs, having spent all of modern history in that
location.
But
Putin did not see Georgia as a prize, and having made his point, let
the Americans have their puppet state back. The president at
the time, a scummy scoundrel, was thrown out of the country by
Georgians and now serves the American puppet state of Ukraine, like
so many others who are not Ukrainian. Apparently, Washington can’t
find enough Ukrainians who will sell out their country for Washington
and has to bring in foreigners to help Washington rule Ukraine.
There
has been, alas, no Russian invasion of Ukraine. Putin would not
even accept the pleas of the Russian majority populations in the
breakaway provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk to be reincorporated back
into Russia where they belong. If Putin actually wanted Ukraine, he
doesn’t need to send in an army. He can take back the eastern
and southern parts just by accepting the pleas of the people to again
be a part of Russia.
The
only plea that Putin accepted was that of the Crimeans, who with an
extremely high turnout never experienced in “western democracies”
voted 97.6 percent to rejoin Russia, where Crimea resided for longer
than the US has existed, until Khrushchev, a Ukrainian, transferred
Crimea from the Russian Soviet Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet
Republic when both were provinces of the Soviet Union.
Little
doubt that Putin accepted Crimea’s plea because Russia’s only
warm water port and entrance into the Mediterranean Sea is Russia’s
naval base in Crimea, and little doubt that Putin refused Donetsk and
Luhansk in order to deflect Washington’s propagandistic charges,
such as those of former general Shirreff.
Putin reasoned, mistakenly
in my view, that his refusal to accept Donetsk and Luhansk would
reassure Washington’s NATO puppet states and lessen Washington’s
influence over Europe. For
the corrupt Europeans, facts are of no consequence. Washington’s
money prevails.
Putin
doesn’t understand the power of Washington’s money. In
the entire West only money counts. There is no such thing as
Washington’s word, government integrity, truth, or even empirical
facts. There are only well-propagated lies. The entire
West is a lie. The West exists for one reason only–corporate
profits.
The retired general Shirreff claims, without any evidence, which is typical, that Putin “used force and got away with it.”
What
force is the general talking about? Can he identify the force?
The independent international observers of the Crimean voting report
that it was completely fair, that there was no intimidation, no
troops or any Russian intimidation present.
The
former NATO general Shirreff believes that a Russian attack “on the
Baltic states is entirely possible.” For what reason? The
Baltic states, former provinces of the Soviet Union, comprise no
threat whatsoever to Russia. The Russians have no reason
whatsoever to attack the Baltic states. It was Russia that gave the
Baltic states their independence. Just as it was Russia that
gave Ukraine and Georgia their independence.
Imperial
Washington is leveraging the reasonableness of the Russian government
to put Russia in a propagandistic light. The
Russian government has permitted itself to be put on the defensive
and has given the attack to Washington.
Russia has not attacked anyone except the terrorist group ISIS. Allegedly, Washington is opposed to terrorism, but Washington has been using ISIS in an effort to overthrow the Syrian government with terrorism. Russia has put a halt to that. The question before us is whether the Russian government so desires to be accepted by the West that Putin sells out Syria to Washington/Israeli dismemberment in order to show that Russia is a good partner for the West.
If
Russia doesn’t get over its affection for the West, Russia will
lose its independence.
My
understanding is that Russia has been resurrected as a Christian,
morally principally country, perhaps the only one on earth. The
question that the Russian people and their Russian government need,
desperately, to ask themselves is: Do we want to be associated with
the War Criminal West that disobeys not only its own laws, but also
international laws?
The
vast majority of the evil in the world resides in the West. It is the
west with its lies and greed that has devastated millions of people
in 7 countries during the new 21st century. This is the most
threatening beginning of a new millennium in modern times.
Unsatisfied
with its looting of the Third World, South America, Greece, Portugal,
Latvia, Argentina, and now Brazil and Ukraine, the Western
Capitalists have their sights set on Russia, China, India, and South
Africa.
What
a prize it would be to get Russia with all that vast expanse of
Siberia that can be environmentally brutalized and destroyed for
capitalist profits. The Russian government’s offering of free land
in Siberia had better be limited to Russian citizens Otherwise, the
land is likely to be bought up by the West, which will use its
ownership of Russia to destroy the country.
The
Russians and the Chinese are blinded by the fact that they lived for
decades under oppressive and failed regimes.
They look to the West as success. Their misreading of the West
endangers their independence.
Neither
Russia nor China seek conflict. It is a gratuitous and reckless act
for Washington to send the message to Russia
and China that they must choose vassalage or war.
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