Paul Craig
Roberts, un viejo conocido de este blog, escribe notas cada vez más sombrías en
su sitio web sobre la eventualidad de un
conflicto nuclear entre los EEUU y Rusia. Harían bien nuestros países en
prestarle atención al tema. Nuestra lejanía a los focos actuales de conflicto
no nos excluye automáticamente del mismo. Menos aun con un gobierno como el
actual. Pasemos a su último post, de hace apenas cuatro días (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org):
Título: Can
Russia Survive Washington’s Attack?
Texto: 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 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3596977/The-outbreak-nuclear-war-year-West-Putin-entirely-plausible-says-former-NATO-chief-promoting-novel-2017-war-Russia.html).
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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