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Image: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave birth to a
dangerous American ideology called neoconservativism. The Soviet Union
had served as a constraint on US unilateral action. With the removal of
this constraint on Washington, neoconservatives declared their agenda of
US world hegemony. America was now the “sole superpower,” the
“unipower,” that could act without restraint anywhere in the world.
The Washington Post neoconservative journalist Charles Krauthammer summed up the “new reality” as follows:
“We have overwhelming global power. We are history’s
designated custodians of the international system. When the Soviet Union
fell, something new was born, something utterly new–a unipolar world
dominated by a single superpower unchecked by any rival and with
decisive reach in every corner of the globe. This is a stagering new
development in history, not seen since the fall of Rome. Even Rome was
no model for what America is today.”
The staggering unipolar power that history has given to Washington
has to be protected at all costs. In 1992 top Pentagon official
Undersecretary Paul Wolfowitz penned the Wolfowitz Doctrine, which
became the basis for Washington’s foreign policy.
Paul Wolfowitz
The Wolfowitz Doctrine states that the “first objective” of American
foreign and military policy is “to prevent the re-emergence of a new
rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere,
that poses a threat [to US unilateral action] on the order of that posed
formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration
underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we
endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose
resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate
global power.” (A “hostile power” is a country sufficiently strong to
have a foreign policy independent from Washington’s.)
The unilateral assertion of American power begin in ernest during the
Clinton regime with the interventions in Yugoslavia, Serbia, Kosovo,
and the no-fly zone imposed on Iraq. In 1997 the neoconservatives
penned their “Project for a New American Century.” In 1998, three years
prior to 9/11, the neoconservatives sent a letter to President Clinton
calling for regime change in Iraq and “the removal of Saddam Hussein
from power.” Neoconservatives set out their program for removing seven
governments in five years.
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The events of September 11, 2001, are regarded by informed people as
“the new Pearl harbor” that the neoconservatives said was necessary in
order to begin their wars of conquest in the Middle East. Paul O’Neil,
President George W. Bush’s first Treasury Secretary, has stated publicly
that the agenda of President Bush’s first meeting with his cabinet was
the invasion of Iraq. This invasion was planned prior to 9/11. Since
9/11 Washington has destroyed in whole or part eight countries and now
confronts Russia both in Syria and Ukraine.
Russia cannot allow a jihadist
Caliphate to be established in an area comprising Syria/Iraq, because it
would be a base for exporting destabilization into Muslim parts of the
Russian Federation. Henry Kissinger himself has stated this fact, and it
is clear enough to any person with a brain. However, the power-crazed
fanatical neoconservatives, who have controlled the Clinton, Bush, and
Obama regimes, are so absorbed in their own hubris and arrogance that
they are prepared to push Russia to the point of having their Turkish
puppet shoot down a Russian airplane and to overthrow the
democratically-elected government in Ukraine that was on good terms with
Russia, substituting in its place an American puppet government.
With this background, we can
understand that the dangerous situation facing the world is the product
of the neoconservative’s arrogant policy of US world hegemony. The
failures of judgment and the dangers in the Syrian and Ukrainian
conflicts are themselves the consequences of the neoconservative
ideology.
To perpetuate American hegemony,
the neoconservatives threw away the guarantees that Washington gave
Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch to the East. The
neoconservatives pulled the US out of the ABM Treaty, which specified
that neither the US nor Russia would develop and deploy anti-ballistic
missiles. The neoconservatives re-wrote US war doctrine and elevated
nuclear weapons from their role as a retaliatory force to a pre-emptive
first strike force. The neoconservatives began putting ABM bases on
Russia’s borders, claiming that the bases were for the purpose of
protecting Europe from non-existent Iranian nuclear ICBMs.
Russia and Russia’s president,
Vladimir Putin, have been demonized by neoconservatives and their
puppets in the US government and media. For example, Hillary Clinton, a
candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, declared Putin
to be “the new Hitler.” A former CIA official called for Putin’s
assassination. Presidential candidates in both parties are competing in
terms of who can be the most aggressive toward Russia and the most
insulting toward Russia’s president.
The effect has been to destroy
the trust between nuclear powers. The Russian government has learned
that Washington does not respect Washington’s own laws, much less
international law, and that Washington cannot be trusted to keep any
agreement. This lack of trust, together with the aggression toward
Russia spewing from Washington and the presstitute media and echoing in
the idiotic European capitals, has established the ground for nuclear
war. As NATO (essentially the US) has no prospect of defeating Russia in
conventional war, much less defeating an alliance of Russia and China,
war will be nuclear.
To avoid war, Putin is
non-provocative and low-key in his responses to Western
provocations. Putin’s responsible behavior, however, is misinterpreted
by neoconservatives as a sign of weakness and fear. The
neoconservatives tell President Obama to keep the pressure on Russia,
and Russia will give in. However, Putin has made it clear that Russia
will not give in. Putin has sent this message on many occasions. For
example, on September 28, 2015, at the 70th anniversary of the United
Nations, Putin said that Russia can no longer tolerate the state of
affairs in the world. Two days later Putin took command of the war
against ISIS in Syria.
The European governments,
especially Germany and the UK, are complicit in the move toward nuclear
war. These two American vassal states enable Washington’s reckless
aggression toward Russia by repeating Washington’s propaganda and
supporting Washington’s sanctions and interventions against other
countries. As long as Europe remains nothing but an extension of
Washington, the prospect of Armegeddon will continue to rise.
At this point in time, nuclear war can only be avoided in two ways.
One way is for Russia and China to surrender and accept Washington’s hegemony.
The other way is for an independent leader in Germany, the UK, or France to rise to office and withdraw from NATO.
That would begin a stampede to leave NATO, which is Washington’s
prime tool for causing conflict with Russia and, thereby, is the most
dangerous force on earth to every European country and to the entire
world. If NATO continues to exist, NATO together with the
neoconservative ideology of American hegemony will make nuclear war
inevitable.
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