The consequence of
Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military
interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The
various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein,
Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is
in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
The
turmoil brought into the Middle East by the Bush and Obama regimes has
meant death and displacement for millions and untold future deaths. As
I write 40,000 Iraqis are stranded on a mountain top without water
awaiting death at the hands of ISIS, a creation of US meddling.
The
reality in the Middle East stands in vast contradiction to the stage
managed landing of George W. Bush on the US aircraft carrier Abraham
Lincoln where Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” on May 1, 2003. The
mission that Washington accomplished was to wreck the Middle East and
the lives of millions of people and to destroy America’s reputation in
the process. Thanks to the demonic neoconservative Bush regime, today
America is regarded by the rest of the world as the greatest threat to
world peace.
The
Clinton regime’s attack on Serbia set the pattern. Bush upped the ante
with Washington’s naked aggression against Afghanistan, which
Washington clothed in Orwellian language–”Operation Enduring Freedom.”
Washington
brought ruin, not freedom, to Afghanistan. After 13 years of blowing up
the country, Washington is now withdrawing, the “superpower” having
been defeated by a few thousand lightly armed Taliban, but leaving a
wasteland behind for which Washington will accept no responsibility.
Another source of endless Middle East turmoil is Israel whose theft of Palestine is Washington-enabled.
In the middle of Israel’s latest attack on civilians in Gaza, the US
Congress passed resolutions in support of Israel’s war crimes and voted
hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for Israel’s ammunition. Here we
witness Great Moral America 100 percent in support of unambiguous war
crimes against essentially defenseless people.
When Israel murders women and children, Washington calls it “Israel’s
right to defend their own country”–a country that Israel stole from
Palestinians–but when Palestinians retaliate Washington calls it
“terrorism.” By supporting Israel, declared to be a terrorist state by a
few moral governments that still exist, and accused of war crimes by
the UN General Secretary, Washington is in violation of its own laws
against supporting terrorist states.
Of course, Washington itself is the leading terrorist state.
Therefore, it is illegal under US law for Washington to support itself.
Washington, however, does not accept law, neither domestic nor
international, as a constraint on its actions. Washington is
“exceptional, indispensable.” No one else counts. No law, no
Constitution, and no humane consideration has authority to constrain
Washington’s will. In its claims Washington surpasses those of the Third
Reich.
As horrific as Washington’s recklessness toward the Middle East is,
Washington’s recklessness toward Russia is many orders of magnitude
greater. Washington has convinced nuclear armed Russia that Washington
is planning a nuclear first strike.
In response Russia is
beefing up its nuclear forces and testing US air defense. reactions.
It is difficult to imagine a more irresponsible act than to convince
Russia that Washington intends to hit Russia with a preemptive first
strike. One of Putin’s advisers has explained to the Russian media
Washington’s first strike intentions, and a member of the Russian Duma
has made a documented presentation of Washington’s first strike
intentions.
http://financearmageddon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/official-warning-u-s-to-hit-russia-with.html By marshaling the evidence, I have pointed out in my columns that it is impossible for Russia to avoid this conclusion.
China is aware that China faces the same threat from Washington.
China’s response to Washington’s war plans against China was to
demonstrate how China’s nuclear forces would be used in response to
Washington’s attack on China to destroy the US.
China made this public, hoping to create opposition among Americans to Washington’s war plans against China. Like Russia, China is a rising country that does not need war in order to succeed.
The only country on earth that needs war is Washington, and that is
because Washington’s goal is the neoconservative one of exercising
hegemony over the world.
Prior to the Bush and Obama regimes, every previous US president went
to great efforts to avoid telegraphing any nuclear threat. US war
doctrine was careful to keep
nuclear weapons limited to retaliation in the event the US suffered a nuclear attack.
The purpose of nuclear forces was to prevent the use of such
weapons. The reckless George W. Bush regime elevated nuclear weapons to
preemptive first use, thus destroying the constraint placed on the use
of nuclear weapons.
The overriding purpose of the Reagan administration was to end the
cold war and, thereby, the threat of nuclear war. The George W. Bush
regime, together with the Obama regime’s demonization of Russia, have
overturned President Reagan’s unique achievement and made nuclear war
likely.
When the incompetent Obama regime decided to overthrow the
democratically elected government in Ukraine and install a puppet
government of Washington’s choosing, the Obama State Department, run by
neoconservative ideologues, forgot that the eastern and southern
portions of Ukraine consist of former Russian provinces that were
attached to the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic by Communist Party
leaders when Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country–the Soviet
Union. When the Russophobic stooges that Washington installed in Kiev
demonstrated in word and deed their hostility to Ukraine’s Russian
population, the former Russian provinces declared their desire to return
to mother Russia. This is not surprising, nor is it something that can
be blamed on Russia.
Crimea succeeded in returning to Russia, where Crimea resided since
the 1700s, but Putin, hoping to defuse the propaganda war that
Washington was mounting against him did not accept the pleas from the
other former Russian provinces. Consequently, Washington’s stooges in
Kiev felt free to attack the protesting provinces and have been
following the Israeli policy of attacking civilian populations, civilian
residences, and civilian infrastructure.
The presstitute Western media ignored the facts and accused Russia of
invading and annexing parts of Ukraine. This lie is comparable to the
lies that US Secretary of State Colin Powell told the UN about Iraqi
weapons of mass destruction in behalf of the criminal Bush regime, lies
that Colin Powell later apologized for to no avail as Iraq had been
destroyed by his lies.
When the Malaysian airliner was destroyed, before any facts were
known Russia was blamed. The British media was especially primed to
blame Russia almost the instant it was known the airliner was downed. I
heard the BBC’s gross misrepresentation and blatant lies on American
National Public Radio, and only the Daily Mail’s propagandistic account
was worse. The entire “news” event has the appearance of orchestration
prior to the event, which, of course, suggests that Washington was
behind it.
The airliner deaths became all important for Washington’s propaganda
war. The 290 casualties are unfortunate, but they are a small fraction
of the deaths that Israel was inflicting on Palestinians at the same
moment without provoking any protests from Western governments, as
distinct from Western peoples in the streets, people whose protests were
conveniently suppressed for Israel by Western security forces.
Washington used the downing of the airliner, which probably was
Washington’s responsibility, as an excuse for another round of
sanctions and to pressure its European puppets to join the sanctions
with sanctions of their own, which Washington’s EU puppets did.
Washington relies on accusations and insinuations and refuses to
release the evidence from the satellite photos, because the photos do
not support Washington’s lies. Facts
are not permitted to interfere with Washington’s demonization of
Russia any more than facts interfered with Washington’s demonization of
Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Iran.
Twenty-two
reckless and irresponsible US senators have introduced the “Russian
Aggression Prevention Act of 2014,” US Senate bill 2277, sponsored by
Senator Bob Corker, who well represents in his ignorance and stupidity
what appears to be the majority of the American population or the
majority of voters in the state of Tennessee. Corker’s bill is a
mindless piece of legislation designed to start a war that would be
likely to leave no survivors. Apparently, idiotic Americans will elect
any fool to power.
The belief that Russia is responsible for the downed Malaysian
airliner has become fact in Western capitals despite the total absence
of even a tiny scrap of evidence in behalf of the claim. Moreover, even
it the accusation were true, is one airliner worth a World War?
The UK Defense Committee has concluded that a broke and militarily
impotent UK must “focus on the defense of Europe against Russia.” The
military spending drums, if not the war drums, are beating and the
entire West has joined in. A militarily impotent Britain is going to
defend Europe from a non-existent, although much proclaimed, attack from
the Russian bear.
US and NATO military dignitaries and the Pentagon chief are issuing
Russia Threat Warnings based on alleged but non-existent Russian
troop-buildups on Ukraine’s border. According to the the Western
Ministry of Propaganda if Russia defends the Russian populations in
Ukraine from military attack from Washington’s stooge government in
Kiev, it is proof that Russia is the villain.
Washington’s propaganda campaign has succeeded in turning Russia into
a threat. Polls show that 69 percent of Americans now regard Russia as a
threat, and that the confidence of Russians in American leadership has
vanished.
Russians and their government observe the identical demonization of
their country and their leader as they observed of Iraq and Saddam
Hussein, of Libya and Gaddafi, of Syria and Assad, and of Afghanistan
and the Taliban just prior to military assaults on these countries by
the West. For a Russian, the safest conclusion from the evidence is
that Washington intends war on Russia.
It is my opinion that the irresponsibility and recklessness of the
Obama regime is without precedent. Never before has the United States
government or the government of any nuclear power gone to such great
efforts to convince another nuclear power that that power was being set
up for attack. It is difficult to imagine a more provocative act that
more endangers life on earth. Indeed, the White House Fool has doubled
up, convincing both Russia and China that Washington is planning a
preemptive first strike on both.
Republicans want to sue or to impeach Obama over relatively
inconsequential issues, such as ObamaCare. Why don’t Republicans want
to impeach Obama over such a critical issue as subjecting the world to
the risk of nuclear armageddon?
The answer is that the Republicans are as crazed as the Democrats.
Their leaders, such as John McCain and Lindsay Graham, are determined
that “we stand up to the Russians!” Wherever one looks in American
politics one sees crazed people, psychopaths and sociopaths who should
not be in political office.
Washington long ago gave up diplomacy. Washington relies on force
and intimidation. The US government is utterly devoid of judgment.
This is why polls show that the rest of the world regards the US
government as the greatest threat to world peace. Today
(August 8, 2014) Handelsblatt, Germany’s Wall Street Journal, wrote in a signed editorial by the publisher:
“The American tendency to move from verbal escalation to
military escalation–the isolation, demonization, and attacking of
enemies–has not proven effective. The last successful major military
action the US conducted was the Normandy landing [in 1944]. Everything
else – Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan – was a clear failure.
Moving NATO units towards the Polish border with Russia and thinking
about arming Ukraine is a continuation of relying on military means in
the absence of diplomacy.”
Washington’s puppet states–all of Europe, Japan, Canada, and
Australia–enable Washington’s unrivaled danger to the world by their
support of Washington’s agenda of exercising hegemony over the entire
world.
The 100th anniversary of World War I is upon us. And the folly that
caused this war is being repeated. WWI destroyed a civilized Western
world, and it was the work of a mere handful of scheming people. The
result was Lenin, the Soviet Union, Hitler, the rise of American
Imperialism, Korea, Vietnam, the military interventions that created
ISIS, and now resurrected conflict between Washington and Russia that
President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had ended.
As Stephen Starr has pointed out on my website, if merely 10% of the
nuclear weapons in the US and Russian arsenals are used, life on earth
terminates.
Dear readers, ask yourselves, when has Washington told you anything
that was not a lie? Washington’s lies have caused millions of
casualties. Do you want to be a casualty of Washington’s lies?
Do
you believe that Washington’s lies and propaganda about the Malaysian
airliner and Ukraine are worth risking life on earth? Who is so
gullible that he cannot recognize that Washington’s lies about Ukraine
are like Washington’s lies about Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction,
Iranian nukes, and Assad’s use of chemical weapons?
Do
you think that the neoconservative influence that prevails in
Washington, regardless of the political party in office, is too
dangerous to be tolerated?