On the Brink of War and Economic Collapse — Paul Craig Roberts
On
occasion a reader will ask if I can give readers some good news. The
answer is: not unless I lie to you like “your” government and the
mainstream media do. If you want faked “good news,” you need to retreat
into The Matrix. In exchange for less stress and worry, you will be led
unknowingly into financial ruin and nuclear armageddon.
If
you want to be forewarned, and possibly prepared, for what “your”
government is bringing you, and have some small chance of redirecting
the course of events, read and support this site. It is your site. I
already know these things. I write for you.
The
neoconservatives, a small group of warmongers strongly allied with the
military/industrial complex and Israel, gave us Granada and the Contras
affair in Nicaragua. President Reagan fired them, and they were
prosecuted, but subsequently pardoned by Reagan’s successor, George H.W.
Bush.
Ensconced
in think tanks and protected by Israeli and military/security complex
money, the neoconservatives reemerged in the Clinton administration and
engineered the breakup of Yugoslavia, the war against Serbia, and the
expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders.
Neoconservatives
dominated the George W. Bush regime. They controlled the Pentagon, the
National Security Council, the Office of the Vice President, and much
else. Neoconservatives gave us 9/11 and its coverup, the invasions of
Afghanistan and Iraq, the beginning of the destabilizations of Pakistan
and Yemen, the U.S. Africa Command, the invasion of South Ossetia by
Georgia, the demise of the anti-ABM Treaty, unconstitutional and illegal
spying on American citizens without warrants, loss of constitutional
protections, torture, and the unaccountability of the executive branch
to law, Congress, and the judiciary. In short, the neoconservatives laid
the foundation for dictatorship and for WW III.
The
Obama regime held no one accountable for the crimes of the Bush regime,
thus creating the precedent that the executive branch is above the law.
Instead, the Obama regime prosecuted whistleblowers who told the truth
about government crimes.
Neoconservatives
remain very influential in the Obama regime. As examples, Obama
appointed neoconservative Susan Rice as his National Security Advisor.
Obama appointed neoconservative Samantha Power as U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations. Obama appointed neoconservative Victoria Nuland as
Assistant Secretary of State. Nuland’s office, working with the CIA and
Washington-financed NGOs, organized the U.S. coup in Ukraine.
Neoconservatism
is the only extant political ideology. The ideology is “America uber
alles.” Neoconservatives believe that History has chosen the United
States to exercise hegemony over the world, thereby making the U.S.
“exceptional” and “indispensable.” Obama himself has declared as much.
This ideology gives neoconservatives tremendous confidence and drive,
just as Karl Marx’s conclusion that history had chosen the workers to be
the ruling class gave early communists confidence and drive.
This confidence and drive makes the neoconservatives reckless.
To
advance their agenda neoconservatives propagandize the populations of
the U.S. and Washington’s vassal states. The presstitutes deliver the
neoconservatives’ lies to the unsuspecting public: Russia has invaded
and annexed Ukrainian provinces; Putin intends to reconstitute the
Soviet Empire; Russia is a gangster state without democracy; Russia is a
threat to the Baltics, Poland, and all of Europe, necessitating a
U.S./NATO military buildup on Russia’s borders; China, a Russian ally,
must be militarily contained with new U.S. naval and air bases
surrounding China and controlling Chinese sea lanes.
The
neoconservatives and President Obama have made it completely clear that
the U.S. will not accept Russia and China as sovereign countries with
economic and foreign policies independent of the interests of
Washington. Russia and China are acceptable only as vassal states, like
the UK, Europe, Japan, Canada, and Australia.
Clearly, the neoconservative formula is a formula for the final war.
All of humanity is endangered by a handful of evil men and women ensconced in positions of power in Washington.
Anti-Russia propaganda has gone into high gear. Putin is the “new Hitler.”Daniel Zubov reports on a joint conference held by three U.S. think tanks.The conference blamed Russia for the failures of Washington’s foreign policy. Read this article:http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20141205/1015538604.html to
see how neoconservatives operate in order to control the explanations.
Even Henry Kissinger is under attack for stating the obvious truth that
Russia has a legitimate interest in Ukraine, a land long part of Russia
and located in Russia’s legitimate sphere of influence.
Since
the Clinton regime, Washington has been acting against Russian
interests. In his forthcoming book, The Globalization of War: America’s
Long War against Humanity, Professor Michel Chossudovsky presents a
realistic appraisal of how close Washington has brought the world to its
demise in nuclear war. This passage is from the Preface:
“The ‘globalization of war’ is a hegemonic project. Major military
and covert intelligence operations are being undertaken
simultaneously in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan
Africa, Central Asia and the Far East. The US military agenda
combines both major theater operations as well as covert actions
geared towards destabilizing sovereign states.
“Under a global military agenda, the actions undertaken by the
Western military alliance (US-NATO-Israel) in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Palestine, Ukraine, Syria and Iraq are coordinated at the highest
levels of the military hierarchy. We are not dealing with
piecemeal military and intelligence operations. The July-August
2014 attack on Gaza by Israeli forces was undertaken in close consultation
with the United States and NATO. In turn, the actions in
Ukraine and their timing coincided with the onslaught of the attack
on Gaza.
“In turn, military undertakings are closely coordinated with a
process of economic warfare which consists not only in imposing
sanctions on sovereign countries but also in deliberate acts of destabilization
of financial and currency markets, with a view to undermining
the enemies’ national economies.
“The United States and its allies have launched a military adventure
which threatens the future of humanity. As we go to press, US
and NATO forces have been deployed in Eastern Europe. US military
intervention under a humanitarian mandate is proceeding in sub-Saharan
Africa. The US and its allies are threatening China under President Obama’s
‘Pivot to Asia’.
“In turn, military maneuvers are being conducted at Russia’s
doorstep which could lead to escalation.
“The US airstrikes initiated in September 2014 directed against
Iraq and Syria under the pretext of going after the Islamic State are
part of a scenario of military escalation extending from North Africa
and the Eastern Mediterranean to Central and South Asia.
The Western military alliance is in an advanced state of readiness.
“And so is Russia.”
As
I have often remarked, Americans are an insouciant people. They are
simply unaware. Suppose they were aware, suppose that the entire
population understood the peril, could anything be done, or have the
insouciant Americans fallen under the control of the police state that
Washington has created?
I
don’t think there is much hope from the American people. The American
people cannot tell genuine from fake leadership, and the ruling private
elites will not permit real leaders to emerge. Moreover, there is no
organized movement in opposition to the neoconservatives.
The
hope comes from outside the political system. The hope is that the
House of Cards and rigged markets erected by policymakers for the
benefit of the One Percent collapses. David Stockman regards this
outcome as a highly likely one. The collapse that Stockman sees as being
on its way is the same collapse about which I have warned. Moreover,
the number of Black Swans which can originate collapse are even more
numerous than the ones Stockman correctly identifies. Some financial
organizations are worried about a lack of liquidity in the fixed income
(bonds) and derivatives markets. Barbara Novack, co-chair of Black Rock,
is lobbying hard for a derivatives bailout mechanism.
Many
will ask: If the wealth of the One Percent is vulnerable to economic
collapse, will war be initiated to protect this wealth and to blame the
Russians or Chinese for the hardships that engulf the American
population? My answer is that the kind of collapse that I expect, and
that David Stockman and no doubt others expect, presents government with
such social, political, and economic insecurity that organizing for a
major war becomes impossible.
Whereas
the political impotence of the American people and the vassalage of the
Western World impose no constraints on Washington, economic collapse
brings revolutions and the demise of the existing order.
As hard as collapse would make it for people to survive, the chances for survival are higher than in the event of nuclear war
