Two Steps Forward, One Step Back — Paul Craig
Roberts
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Paul Craig Roberts
Washington’s plan to seize Ukraine and
to evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base has come amiss. But to turn
around Lenin’s quote, “two steps forward, one step back.”
Do you remember all the tough talk
coming from John Kerry, the White House Fool, Hilary Clinton, and the
lickspittle Merkel about the harsh sanctions that would “badly damage” the
Russian economy unless Russia prevented the referendum vote in Crimea? Well, it
was all bullshit, more hot air from the White House sock puppet and the
lickspittle German chancellor who is a disgrace to the German nation. As the
Russians kept telling John Kerry, sanctions on Russia would destroy Europe and
do little damage to Russia.
I wish the Russians
had kept this to themselves. I was looking forward to the Washington morons
destroying NATO by closing down the European economy.
Of
course, after pretending that they were macho tough guys, something that
Washington’s presstitute media could hype as sanctions had to be imposed, so
Washington came up with sanctions, not on Russia, but on eleven individuals:
the deposed Ukrainian president, an advisor to the deposed president, 2 Crimean
officials, and 7 Russians.
The
choice of the officials is an utter mystery. The seven Russians are a Putin
aid, a Putin adviser, four members of the Russian parliament (Duma) and a deputy
prime minister. What any of these people had to do with the referendum in
Crimea, no one knows.
Moreover,
the sanctions only apply to foreign bank accounts that these 11 individuals
might have outside Russia. Most likely, that means only the deposed Ukrainian
president, if we are to believe all the propaganda about him. Other reports say
that the sanctions are only for the next six months.
If
the Washington and EU criminals steal any money from these persons, the Russian
central bank can replenish their stolen accounts.
The
people who decided that Crimea would disassociate from Ukraine and return to
Russia were the people themselves. Under the wording of Obama’s stupid
sanctions, his sanctions should apply to the Crimean people who voted to
disassociate from the US stooge government in Kiev.
Additionally,
Obama’s sanctions apply to himself and to his regime and to its NATO puppets as
it was the West that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, not Russia or
Crimea. The Americans, of course, never apply law to themselves.
In
other words, the sanctions are totally meaningless. Yet, the White House Fool
declared: “If Russia continues to interfere in Ukraine, we stand ready to
impose further sanctions.”
Obama’s
hypocrisy makes a person want to puke. It is the White House Fool who is
interfering in Ukraine. It was Washington that financed and organized the
overthrow of the elected Ukraine government, using well organized and well
armed neo-nazis to intimidate the unarmed police and ruling party, thus clearing
the way for Washington to set up an unelected government of its well-paid
stooges.
What
the incompetent White House Fool overlooked is that southern and eastern
Ukraine are Russian, not Ukrainian, so the fool’s coup has caused Crimea to
depart and is causing widespread protests in eastern Ukraine against
Washington’s stooge unelected government in Kiev. Washington’s stooge Kiev
government has appointed unelected Ukrainian multibillionaire oligarchs, who
have their own private security forces, as mayors of the Russian cities to put
down the protests. If the oligarchs use violence against the Russian people,
the likely result will be that the Russian Army will take control of eastern
Ukraine, which in every essential way is Russian.
If
eastern Ukraine returns to Russia, Washington will be left with the
ultra-nationalists of western Ukraine, people who fought for Hitler during
World War 2. The EU doesn’t want ultra-nationalists as the EU is busy stamping
out nationalism and the sovereignty of European countries. Nevertheless,
Washington will have gained a strategic advantage over Moscow, as Washington
can place anti-ballistic missile and other military bases on western Ukraine’s
border with Russia, thus completing Washington’s encirclement of Russia with hostile
military and missile bases.
Russia
will neutralize the US bases by targeting them with Iskander missiles, which
cannot be intercepted by ABMs.
All
that the White House Fool will have achieved is to further make clear to
Russia, and to China, that Washington has both on its target list, because both
are in the way of Washington’s world hegemony.
One
can only wonder why Putin doesn’t preempt the coming US military attack on
Russia by destroying NATO economically without firing a shot. All Putin needs
to do is to cut Europe off from energy. It would take Washington three years to
create the capability to deliver US natural gas, achieved by fracking’s
destruction of US water supplies, to Europe. By that time NATO governments
would likely have been overthrown by mass unemployment and economic suffering.
Putin could also seize all foreign assets in Russia and rapidly complete the
arrangements with China, India, Brazil, and South Africa to abandon the use of
the US dollar in international settlements.
The
US dollar as world reserve currency is the source of American imperialism. The
five countries that comprise the BRICS have half of the world’s population.
They can conduct their economic affairs without the dollar.
The
world needs to understand that the neoconservative US government is the Third
Reich on steroids. It is a malevolent force with no sense of justice or respect
for truth, law, or human life. Just ask the residents of Iraq, Afghanistan,
Libya, Syria, Palestine, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Lebanon, Honduras,
Venezuela, Cuba, Iran. Even the deluded western Ukrainians will soon catch on.
Obama
himself declared that the US is “the exceptional nation.” This is the
neoconservatives version of Hitler’s declaration that the German nation was
exceptional and, therefore, above all others. The only difference between
Washington and National Socialist Germany is that Washington has a far more
powerful police state and nuclear weapons.
The
hubris and arrogance that arises from Washington’s belief that it is the government
of the “indispensable and exceptional nation” means Washington has no respect
for any other country, nor for law whether its own or international. Washington
can invade countries without cause, a war crime. Washington can kidnap and
torture people, a crime under US and International law. Washington can ignore
the self-determination of peoples, such as Crimeans. Who are mere Crimeans to
vote on their own future without Washington’s consent, without Washington
determining the outcome? Washington declares the Crimean people’s
self-determination “illegitimate and illegal,” and refuses to recognize
self-determination, while pretending to be the home of “freedom and democracy.”
No
government in human history can come close to the hypocrisy and malevolence of
Washington. Armed with nuclear weapons and a military doctrine of pre-emptive
nuclear first strike, Washington alone stands as the threat to life on earth.
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