By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Washington has revised US war doctrine in order to initiate conflict with a first strike nuclear attack.
Washington has discarded the ABM treaty in order to build and deploy anti-ballistic missiles that are intended to prevent a retaliatory strike against the US. Washington is engaged in a buildup of military forces on Russia’s borders, and Washington is demonizing Russia’s government with false charges.
As the Bush/Obama regimes dismantled the safeguards put in place in order to minimize the risk of nuclear war, no protests came from the American public or the media. Washington’s European vassal states have also been silent.
Washington’s drive for hegemony has brought nuclear insanity to the world.
Moscow and Beijing understand that they are Washington’s targets. As Larchmonter explains, Russia and China are conjoining their economic and military capabilities in order to protect against Washington’s attack. Read what Larchmonter reports. Open the URL in my column below and run your cursor over the bottom of the page and click “page fit.” Choose 50% and readable text will fill your screen.
Washington’s demonization of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad were preludes to military attacks on Iraq, Libya, and Syria. In view of these precedents, it is reasonable to regard Washington’s demonization of Vladimir Putin as a prelude to military action.
Russia is not Iraq, Libya, or Syria. Russian war doctrine states that Russia can use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear or conventional attack on Russia. For the world to sit silent while Washington’s arrogance provokes armageddon telegraphs total political failure. Where are the voices in behalf of humanity?
The Outlook for the New Year
Paul Craig Roberts
Washington has shaped 2015 to be a year of conflict. The conflict could be intense.
Washington is the cause of the
conflict, which has been brewing for some time. Russia was too weak to
do anything about it when the Clinton regime pushed NATO to Russia’s
borders and illegally attacked Yugoslavia, breaking the country into
small easily controlled pieces. Russia was also too weak to do anything
about it when the George W. Bush regime withdrew from the ABM treaty and
undertook to locate anti-ballistic missile bases on Russia’s borders.
Washington lied to Moscow that the purpose of the ABM bases is to
protect Europe from non-existent Iranian nuclear ICBMs. However, Moscow
understood that the purpose of the ABM bases is to degrade Russia’s
nuclear deterrent, thereby enhancing Washington’s ability to coerce
Russia into agreements that compromise Russian sovereignty.
By summer 2008 Russian power had
returned. On Washington’s orders, the US and Israeli trained and
equipped Georgian army attacked the breakaway republic of South Ossetia
during the early hours of August 8, killing Russian peacekeepers and
civilian population. Units of the Russian military instantly responded
and within a few hours the American trained and equipped Georgian army
was routed and defeated. Georgia was in Russia’s hands again, where the
province had resided during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Putin should have hung Mikheil
Saakashvili, the American puppet installed as president of Georgia by
the Washington-instigated “Rose Revolution”, and reincorporated Georgia
into the Russian Federation. Instead, in a strategic error, Russia
withdrew its forces, leaving Washington’s puppet regime in place to
cause future trouble for Russia. Washington is pushing hard to
incorporate Georgia into NATO, thus adding more US military bases on
Russia’s border. However, at the time, Moscow thought Europe to be more
independent of Washington than it is and relied on good relations with
Europe to keep American bases out of Georgia.
Today the Russian government no
longer has any illusion that Europe is capable of an independent foreign
policy. Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated publicly that
Russia has learned that diplomacy with Europe is pointless, because
European politicians represent Washington’s interest, not Europe’s.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently acknowledged that Europe’s
Captive Nation status has made it clear to Russia that Russian goodwill
gestures are unable to produce diplomatic results.
With Moscow’s delusion shattered
that diplomacy with the West can produce peaceful solutions, reality has
set in, reinforced by the demonization of Vladimir Putin by Washington
and its vassal states. Hillary Clinton called Putin the new Hitler.
While Washington incorporates former constituent parts of the Russian
and Soviet empires into its own empire and bombs seven countries,
Washington claims that Putin is militarily aggressive and intends to
reconstitute the Soviet empire. Washington arms the neo-nazi regime
Obama established in Ukraine, while erroneously claiming that Putin has
invaded and annexed Ukrainian provinces. All of these blatant lies are
echoed repeatedly by the Western presstitutes. Not even Hitler had such a
compliant media as Washington has.
Every diplomatic effort by Russia
has been blocked by Washington and has come to naught. So now Russia has
been forced by reality to update its military doctrine. The new
doctrine approved on December 26 states that the US and NATO comprise a
major military threat to the existence of Russia as a sovereign
independent country.
The Russian document cites
Washington’s war doctrine of pre-emptive nuclear attack, deployment of
anti-ballistic missiles, buildup of NATO forces, and intent to deploy
weapons in space as clear indications that Washington is preparing to
attack Russia.
Washington is also conducting
economic and political warfare against Russia, attempting to destabilize
the economy with economic sanctions and attacks on the ruble. The
Russian document acknowledges that Russia faces Western threats of
regime change achieved through “actions aimed at violent change of the
Russian constitutional order, destabilization of the political and
social environment, and disorganization of the functioning of
governmental bodies, crucial civilian and military facilities and
informational infrastructure of Russia.” Foreign financed NGOs and
foreign owned Russian media are tools in Washington’s hands for
destabilizing Russia.
Washington’s reckless aggressive
policy against Russia has resurrected the nuclear arms race. Russia is
developing two new ICBM systems and in 2016 will deploy a weapons system
designed to negate the US anti-ballistic missile system. In short, the
evil warmongers that rule in Washington have set the world on the path
to nuclear armageddon.
The Russian and Chinese
governments both understand that their existence is threatened by
Washington’s hegemonic ambitions. Larchmonter reports that in order to
defeat Washington’s plans to marginalize both countries, the Russian and
Chinese governments have decided to unify their economies into one and
to conjoin their military commands. Henceforth, Russia and China move
together on the economic and military fronts. http://www.mediafire.com/view/08rzue8ffism94t/China-
Russia_Double_Helix.docx
Russia_Double_Helix.docx
The
unity of the Bear and the Dragon reduces the crazed neoconservatives’
dream of “an American century” to dangerous nonsense. As Larchmonter
puts it, “The US and NATO would need Michael the Archangel to defeat
China-Russia, and from all signs Michael the Archangel is aligned with
the Bear and its Orthodox culture. There is no weapon, no strategy, no
tactic conceivable in the near future to damage either of these rising
economies now that they are ‘base pairs.’”
Larchmonter
sees hope in the new geopolitics created by the conjoining of Russia
and China. I don’t dispute this, but if the arrogant neoconservatives
realize that their hegemonic policy has created a foe over which
Washington cannot prevail, they will push for a pre-emptive nuclear
strike before the Russian-Chinese unified command is fully operational.
To forestall a sneak attack, Russia and China should operate on full
nuclear alert.
The
US economy–indeed the entire Western orientated economy from Japan to
Europe–is a house of cards. Since the economic downturn began seven
years ago, the entirety of Western economic policy has been diverted to
the support of a few over-sized banks, sovereign debt, and the US
dollar. Consequently, the economies themselves and the ability of
populations to cope have deteriorated.
The
financial markets are based on manipulation, not on fundamentals. The
manipulation is untenable. With debt exploding, negative real interest
rates make no sense. With real consumer incomes, real consumer credit,
and real retail sales stagnant or falling, the stock market is a bubble.
With Russia, China, and other countries moving away from the use of the
dollar to settle international accounts, with Russia developing an
alternative to the SWIFT financial network, the BRICS developing
alternatives to the IMF and World Bank, and with other parts of the
world developing their own credit card and Internet systems, the US
dollar, along with the Japanese and European currencies that are being
printed in order to support the dollar’s exchange value, could
experience a dramatic drop in exchange value, which would make the
import-dependent Western world dysfunctional.
In
my opinion, it took the Russians and Chinese too long to comprehend the
evil that has control in Washington. Therefore, both countries risk
nuclear attack prior to the full operational capability of their
conjoined defense. As the Western economy is a house of cards, Russia
and China could collapse the Western economy before the neoconservatives
can drive the world to war. As Washington’s aggression against both
countries is crystal clear, Russia and China have every right to the
following defensive measures.
As
the US and EU are conducting economic warfare against Russia, Russia
could claim that by wrecking the Russian economy the West has deprived
Russia of the ability to repay loans to the European banks. If this does
not bring down the thinly capitalized EU banks, Russia can announce
that as NATO countries are now officially recognized by Russian war
doctrine as an enemy of the Russian state, Russia can no longer support
NATO’s aggression against Russia by selling natural gas to NATO members.
If the shutdown of much of European industry, rapidly rising rates of
unemployment, and bank failures do not result in the dissolution of NATO
and thus the end of the threat, the Chinese can act.
The
Chinese hold a very large amount of dollar-denominated financial assets.
Just as the Federal Reserve’s agents, the bullion banks, dump massive
shorts onto the bullion futures markets during periods of little
activity in order to drive down the bullion price, China can dump the
equivalent in US Treasuries of years of Quantitative Easing in a few
minutes. If the Federal Reserve quickly creates dollars with which to
purchase the enormous quantity of Treasuries so that the financial house
of cards does not implode, the Chinese can then dump the dollars that
they are paid for the bonds in the currency market. Whereas the Federal
Reserve can print dollars with which to purchase the Treasuries, the Fed
cannot print foreign currencies with which to buy the dollars.
The dollar would collapse, and with it the power of the Hegemon. The war would be over without a shot or missile fired.
In
my view, Russia and China owe it to the world to prevent the nuclear war
intended by the neoconservatives simply by replying in kind to
Washington’s economic warfare. Russia and China hold all the cards. Not
Washington.
Russia
and China should give no warning. They should just act. Indeed, instead
of step by step, Russia and China could simultaneously use the
counter-measures. With four US banks holding derivatives totaling many
times world GDP, the financial explosion would be the equivalent to a
nuclear one. The US and Europe would be finished, and the world would be
saved.
Larchmonter
possibly is correct. 2015 could be a very good year, but pre-emptive
economic moves by Moscow and Beijing could be required. Putin’s current
plan seems to be to turn away from the West, ignore the provocations,
and mesh Russia’s strategic and economic interests with those of Asia.
This is a humane and reasonable course of action, but it leaves the West
untroubled and undistracted by its economic vulnerabilities. An
untroubled West remains a grave danger not only to Russia and China but
also to Americans and the entire world.
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