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Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby Nordic » Fri Apr 28, 2017 1:28 am

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Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China
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Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Paul Craig Roberts

Not everyone likes to hear about the threat of nuclear war. Some find refuge in denial and say that nuclear war is impossible because it makes no sense. Unfortunately, humankind has a long record of doing things that make no sense.

In previous posts in recent years I have pointed out both written documents and changes in US war doctrine that indicate that Washington is preparing a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia and China. More recently, I have shown that Washington’s demonization of Russia and President Putin, the incessant lies about Russian deeds and intentions, and the refusal of Washington to cooperate with Russia on any issue have convinced the Russian government that Washington is preparing the Western populations for an attack on Russia. It is obvious that China has come to the same conclusion.

It is extremely dangerous to all of mankind for Washington to convince two nuclear powers that Washington is preparing a preemptive nuclear strike against them. It is impossible to imagine a more reckless and irresponsible act. Yet this is precisely what Washington has done.

Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir, Deputy Head of Operations of the Russian General Staff has concluded that Washington in pursuit of global hegemony is implementing an anti-ballistic missile system that Washington believes can prevent a Russian nuclear response to a US pre-emptive attack. http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/04/us-for ... clear.html

Careful studies have convinced the Russians that Washington is investing in and arranging components that have no other function than to devastate Russia and cripple the country’s retaliatory capability. In short, Washington is preparing to launch a nuclear war. https://www.rt.com/news/386276-us-missi ... ia-strike/

As I explained previously, the theory behind this insane scheme is that after America’s preemptive strike Russia will be so devastated that Russia would not retaliate with any remaining forces out of fear that Washington would launch a second major strike. Washington also plans to use agents in place to assassinate as many members as possible of the Russian government, thus leaving the government in confusion without leadership.

Yes, the insane American/Israeli neoconservatives are this determined to exercise hegemony over the world.

Yes, Washington is sufficiently criminally insane to risk the destruction of life on earth based on the supposition that Washington’s offense will work perfectly and Russia and China’s capabilities will be so degraded that no retaliatory response will occur.

One might hope that the American and Western populations would be outraged that Washington is so power-crazed that Washington is subjecting all life to such risks. But there is no sign of an anti-war movement. The Western leftwing has degenerated into Identity Politics in which the only threat comes from white heterosexual males who are portrayed as misogynists, racists, and homophopes. The Western leftwing is no longer war-conscious. Indeed, the leftwing has become diverted into such silly irrelevancies as transgender rights to toilets of their choice. The impotence of the Western left is so overwhelming that the left might as well not exist.

Where then is the hope? Russia and China cannot simply sit there and await America’s preemptive nuclear strike.

Possibly Washington does not intend a preemptive strike, but only to convince Russia and China that Washington’s preparations give Washington so much predominance in a conflict that Russia and China will submit to Washington’s hegemony. But this interpretation of Washington’s intention implies no less risk. Why would Russia and China wait for Washington to complete its preparations for war, preparations that permit Washington to turn Russia and China into puppet states?

The US military/security complex has clearly prevailed over Trump’s intention to normalize relations between the US and Russia, and anti-Russian venom continues to pour out of NATO and Washington’s European vassal states. The majority of the American people seem to have accepted the propaganda that Russia is the number one threat to the United States. With propaganda controlling the explanation, Washington’s aggressive actions are explained as defense against a threat and not as a policy that will end life on earth.

The chances are high that life on earth is approaching its end. The responsibility lies heavily on the American people, whose success, due to the mistakes of others, made Americans think that they are exceptional and privileged. Unaware of the inhumane threat to all life that is embodied in the neoconservative claim that Americans are exceptional and indispensable, the self-satisfied American public is unaware of the consequences of such hubris. Hubris is leading them, and the entire world, to slaughter in thermo-nuclear war.

The neoconservative claim of American exceptionalism is the identical claim made for Germans by Hitler. If Americans are indispensable, everyone else is dispensable and can be “bombed into the stone age” as one US government official put it, or nuked as Washington intends to do to Russia and China. The claim of American exceptionalism is not accepted by Russia and China. Therefore, the insane, crazed monsters who rule over the West in Washington are bringing life on earth to an end.

And there are no protests. The idiot British, the idiot Germans, the idiot French, Italians, Canadians, Australians, Belgians, Greeks, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, rally behind the insanity that is Washington.

And so apparently do the American people, a population stupid beyond all belief.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby mentalgongfu2 » Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:45 am

I find it difficult to take Paul Craig Roberts seriously these days, but at least this particular apocalyptic diatribe has a few good points and veers slighly from the "Trump good, Obama bad" rhetoric that has pervaded much of his output over the the last year or so.

Of course, it does include the obligatory mention of Trump vs. The system (despite all evidence that Trump is not the great white hope and swamp-drainer he has been as painted in some circles)

but the point about tbe Left's descent into identity politics and pro-war swing is valid.

Plus it has some stinging criticism of the neocons and American exceptionalism that is uncharacteristic of the PCR I've read in recent months, and that is refreshing. As a result, expect it to be the first PCR column of the last two years that doesn't get a headline link at Zerohedge.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:27 am

but who's will be left to make my shit for $62 a week?
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It is extremely dangerous to all of mankind for Washington to convince two nuclear powers that Washington is preparing a preemptive nuclear strike against them.


Now a warning?


Earth to Paul


Trump = Washington...look it up


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The only reason Trump would nuke Russia is to wipe out his debt to the Russian mob
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They could still get him out of office.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby brekin » Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:29 pm

The OP only makes sense if by Washington, he means a person named Washington who has complete power over the US.
Any other take is just the ramblings of an angry, war hating, hater of humanity.

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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby MacCruiskeen » Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:46 pm

brekin » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:29 pm wrote:the ramblings of an angry, war hating, hater of humanity.


That's a keeper.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby brekin » Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:30 pm

MacCruiskeen » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:46 pm wrote:
brekin » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:29 pm wrote:the ramblings of an angry, war hating, hater of humanity.

That's a keeper.


You can love abstractions (world peace) while hating particulars (actual people).
In fact, most misanthropes do.
Mac, you s̶h̶o̶w̶ , er, know that.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby MacCruiskeen » Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:33 pm

You're confusing yourself with all of humankind, brekin, and not for the first time. Luckily, most humans are not like you, and therefore not difficult to like.

brekin » Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:29 pm wrote:the ramblings of an angry, war hating, hater of humanity.


The carefully-considered words of a calm, war-loving lover of, er, all of humankind, or something.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby brekin » Fri Apr 28, 2017 5:47 pm

MacCruiskeen » Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:33 pm wrote:You're confusing yourself with all of humankind, brekin, and not for the first time. Luckily, most humans are not like you, and therefore not difficult to like.


Putting aside the obvious projection/displacement and inability for you to gauge any of the above, thank you Mac for pointing out my uniqueness.
And you are right, it is better to be oneself then merely likable.
Leave that to the yes gang down on Sesame Street.

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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby Elvis » Fri Apr 28, 2017 6:19 pm

Because "when we're talking about war, we're really talking about peace." — George W. Bush

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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sat Apr 29, 2017 2:26 pm

I think most of the sabre rattling is meant to grow popularity for increased military spending.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby Nordic » Sun Apr 30, 2017 1:17 am

Whistling and bickering past the graveyard.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby Iamwhomiam » Sun Apr 30, 2017 9:00 am

Back so soon?
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby JojoCivil » Mon May 01, 2017 12:30 am

The ptb have detonated thousands of atmospheric nukes... life goes on... so why not cities?

just because Moscow is beautiful and full of charming people does not mean it and NY should not be nuked?

indeed nothing but sentimentality for life and decency stops you, the pub, from nuking a city an hour worldwide for a day any day and blaming the russo/ed snowden alliance. and jill stein.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby JackRiddler » Mon May 01, 2017 1:51 am

I don't much like PCR. I have to admit I'm a bit of a misanthrope, but I also hate war (which means I'm for killing fewer people than your average human-lover). And it's okay to be angry.
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Re: Washington Plans to Nuke Russia and China

Postby kool maudit » Mon May 01, 2017 3:24 am

If anything should be uncontroversial here, it's anti-war views. It's a difficult spot, as in many Western countries we see a dialectic of right-nationalism versus neoliberal imperialism, offering progressives (I would assume most RI readers identify as such, myself excluded) little.
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