Pushing Toward The Final War — Paul Craig
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Pushing Toward The Final War
Paul Craig Roberts
Does Obama realize that he is leading
the US and its puppet states to war with Russia and China, or is Obama being
manipulated into this disaster by his neoconservative speech writers and
government officials? World War 1 (and World War 2) was the result of the
ambitions and mistakes of a very small number of people. Only one head of state
was actually involved–the President of France.
In The genesis Of The World War, Harry
Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three
stand out: Raymond Poincare`, President of France, Sergei Sazonov, Russian Foreign
Minister, and Alexander Izvolski, Russian Ambassador to France. Poincare`
wanted Alsace-Lorraine from Germany, and the Russians wanted Istanbul and the
Bosphorus Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. They
realized that their ambitions required a general European war and worked to
produce the desired war.
A Franco-Russian Alliance
was formed. This alliance became the vehicle for orchestrating the war. The
British government, thanks to the incompetence, stupidity, or whatever of its
Foreign Minister, Sir Edward Grey, was pulled into the Franco-Russian Alliance.
The war was started by Russia’s mobilization. The German Kaiser, Wilhelm II,
was blamed for the war despite the fact that he did everything possible to
avoid it.
Barnes’
book was published in 1926. His reward for confronting the corrupt court
historians with the truth was to be accused of being paid by Germany to write
his history. Eighty-six years later historian Christopher Clark in his book,
The Sleepwalkers, comes to essentially the same conclusion as Barnes.
In
the history I was taught the war was blamed on Germany for challenging British
naval supremacy by building too many battleships. The court historians who gave
us this tale helped to set up World War 2.
We
are again on the road to World War. One hundred years ago the creation of a
world war by a few had to be done under the cover of deception. Germany had to
be caught off guard. The British had to be manipulated and, of course, people
in all the countries involved had to be propagandized and brainwashed.
Today
the drive to war is blatantly obvious. The lies are obvious, and the entire
West is participating, both media and governments.
The
American puppet, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, openly lied on
Canadian TV that Russian President Putin had invaded Crimea, threatened
Ukraine, and was restarting the Cold War. The host of the TV program sat and
nodded his head in agreement with these bald-faced lies. http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Stephen+Harper+accuses+Vladimir+Putin+being+stuck+back+USSR/9663692/story.html
The
script that Washington handed to its Canadian puppet has been handed to all of
Washington’s puppets, and everywhere in the West the message is the same.
“Putin invaded and annexed Crimea, Putin is determined to rebuild the Soviet
Empire, Putin must be stopped.”
I
hear from many Canadians who are outraged that their elected government
represents Washington and not Canadians, but as bad as Harper is, Obama and Fox
“News” are worse.
On
March 26 I managed to catch a bit of Fox “news.” Murdoch’s propaganda organ was
reporting that Putin was restoring the Soviet era practice of exercise. Fox
“news” made this report into a threatening and dangerous gesture toward the
West. Fox produced an “expert,” whose name I caught as Eric Steckelbeck or
something like that. The “expert” declared that Putin was creating “the Hitler
youth,” with a view toward rebuilding the Soviet empire.
The
extraordinary transparent lie that Russia sent an army into Ukraine and annexed
Crimea is now accepted as fact everywhere in the West, even among critics of US
policy toward Russia.
Obama,
whose government overthrew the democratically elected government in Ukraine and
appointed a stooge government that has threatened the Russian provinces of
Ukraine, falsely accuses Putin of “invading and annexing” Crimea.
Obama,
or his handlers and programers, are relying on the total historical ignorance
of Western peoples. The ignorance and gullibility of Western peoples allows the
American neoconservatives to fashion “news” that controls their minds.
Obama
recently declared that Washington’s destruction of Iraq–up to one million
killed, four million displaced, infrastructure in ruins, sectarian violence
exploding, a country in total ruins–is nowhere near as bad as Russia’s
acceptance of Crimean self-determination. US Secretary of State John Kerry
actually ordered Putin to prevent the referendum and stop Crimeans from
exercising self-determination.
Obama’s
speech on March 26 at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels is surreal. It is
beyond hypocrisy. Obama says that Western ideals are challenged by
self-determination in Crimea. Russia, Obama says, must be punished by the West
for permitting Crimeans to exercise self-determination. The return of a Russian
province on its own volition to its mother country where it existed for 200
years is presented by Obama as a dictatorial, anti-democratic act of tyranny. http://on.rt.com/sbzj4o
Here
was Obama, whose government has just overthrown the elected, democratic
government of Ukraine and substituted stooges chosen by Washington in the place
of the elected government, speaking of the hallowed ideal that “people in
nations can make their own decisions about their future.” That is exactly what
Crimea did, and that is exactly what the US coup in Kiev contravened. In the
twisted mind of Obama, self-determination consists of governments imposed by
Washington.
Here
was Obama, who has shredded the US Constitution, speaking of “individual rights
and rule of law.” Where is this rule of law? It is certainly not in Kiev where
an elected government was overthrown with force. It is certainly not in the
United States where the executive branch has spent the entirety of the new 21st
century establishing government above the law. Habeas corpus, due process, the
right to open trials and determination of guilt by independent jurors prior to
imprisonment and execution, the right to privacy have all been overturned by
the Bush/Obama regimes. Torture is against US and international law; yet
Washington set up torture prisons all over the globe.
How
is it possible that the representative of the war criminal US government can
stand before an European audience and speak of “rule of law,” “individual
rights,” “human dignity,” “self-determination,” “freedom,” without the audience
breaking out in laughter?
Washington
is the government that invaded and destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq on the basis
of lies. Washington is the government that financed and organized the overthrow
of the Libyan and Honduran governments and that is currently attempting to do
the same thing to Syria and Venezuela. Washington is the government that
attacks with drones and bombs populations in the sovereign countries of
Pakistan and Yemen. Washington is the government that has troops all over
Africa. Washington is the government that has surrounded Russia, China, and
Iran with military bases. It is this warmongering collection of Washington war
criminals that now asserts that it is standing up for international ideals
against Russia.
No
one applauded Obama’s nonsensical speech. But for Europe to accept such blatant
lies from a liar without protest empowers the momentum toward war that
Washington is pushing.
Obama
demands more NATO troops to be stationed in Eastern Europe to “contain Russia.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2014/03/26/obama-wants-more-nato-troops-in-eastern-europe/
Obama said that a buildup of military forces on Russia’s borders would reassure
Poland and the Baltic states that, as NATO members, they will be protected from
Russian aggression. This nonsense is voiced by Obama despite the fact that no
one expects Russia to invade Poland or the Baltic countries.
Obama
doesn’t say what effect the US/NATO military buildup and numerous war games on
Russia’s border will have on Russia. Will the Russian government conclude that
Russia is about to be attacked and strike first? The reckless carelessness of
Obama is the way wars start.
Declaring
that “freedom isn’t free,” Obama is putting pressure on Western Europe to pony
up more money for a military buildup to confront Russia. http://news.antiwar.com/2014/03/26/us-presses-eu-nations-to-hike-military-spending-to-confront-russia/
The
position of the government in Washington and its puppet states (Eastern and
Western Europe, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Georgia, Japan)
and other allies purchased with bagfuls of money is that Washington’s violation
of international law by torturing people, by invading sovereign countries on
totally false pretenses, by routinely overthrowing democratically elected governments
that do not toe the Washington line is nothing but the “indispensable and
exceptional country” bringing “freedom and democracy to the world.” But
Russia’s acceptance of the self-determination of Crimean people to return to
their home country is “a violation of international law.”
Just
what international law has Washington and its puppets not violated?
Obama,
whose government in the past few years has bullied Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Lebanon, Iran, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia, and
Venezuela and is now trying to bully Russia, actually declared that “bigger
nations can not simply bully smaller ones.” What does Obama and his speech
writers think Washington has been doing for the entirety of the 21st century?
Who
can possibly believe that Obama, whose government is responsible for the deaths
of people every day in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria,
cares a whit about democracy in Ukraine. Obama overthrew the Ukrainian
government in order to be able to stuff the country into NATO, throw Russia out
of its Black Sea naval base, and put US missile bases in Ukraine on Russia’s
border. Obama is angry that his plan didn’t pan out as intended, and he is
taking his anger and frustration out on Russia.
As
the delusion takes hold in Washington that the US represents idealism standing
firmly against Russian aggression, delusion enabled by the presstitute media,
the UN General Assembly vote, and Washington’s string of puppet states,
self-righteousness rises in Washington’s breast.
With
rising self-righteousness will come more demands for punishing Russia, more
demonization of Russia and Putin, more lies echoed by the presstitutes and
puppets. Ukrainian violence against Russian residents is likely to intensify
with the anti-Russian propaganda. Putin could be forced to send in Russian
troops to defend Russians.
Why
are people so blind that they do not see Obama driving the world to its final
war?
Just
as Obama dresses up his aggression toward Russia as idealism resisting selfish
territorial ambitions, the English, French, and Americans presented their World
War 1 “victory” as the triumph of idealism over German and Austrian imperialism
and territorial ambitions. But at the Versailles Conference the Bolsheviks (the
Tsar’s government failed to gain the Straits and instead lost the country to
Lenin) “revealed the existence of the notorious Secret Treaties embodying as
sordid a program of territorial pilfering as can be found in the history of
diplomacy. It appears that the chief actual motives of the Entente in the World
War were the seizure of Constantinople and the Straits for Russia; not only the
return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, but the securing of the west bank of the
Rhine, which would have involved the seizure of territory historically far
longer connected with Germany than Alsace-Lorraine had ever been with France;
the rewarding of Italian entry into the War by extensive territory grabbed away
from Austria and the Jugo-Slavs; and the sequestering of the German imperial
possessions, the acquisition of the German merchant marine and the destruction
of the German navy in the interest of increasing the strength of the British
Empire” (Barnes, pp. 691-692). The American share of the loot was seized German
and Austrian investments in the US.
The
secret British, Russian, and French aims of the war were hidden from the
public, which was whipped up with fabricated propaganda to support a war whose
outcomes were far different from the intentions of those who caused the war.
People seem unable to learn from history. We are now witnessing the world again
being led down the garden path by lies and propaganda, this time in behalf of
American world hegemony.
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