CounterCurrents
March 21 2015

Russia Under Attack

By Paul Craig Roberts
21 March, 2015

While Washington works assiduously to undermine the Minsk agreement
that German chancellor Merkel and French president Hollande achieved
in order to halt the military conflict in Ukraine, Washington has sent
Victoria Nuland to Armenia to organize a “color revolution” or coup
there, has sent Richard Miles as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan to do the
same there, and has sent Pamela Spratlen as ambassador to Uzbekistan
to purchase that government’s allegiance away from Russia. The result
would be to break up the Collective Security Treaty Organization and
present Russia and China with destabilization where they can least
afford it. For details go here:

Thus, Russia faces the renewal of conflict in Ukraine simultaneously
with three more Ukraine-type situations along its Asian border.

And this is only the beginning of the pressure that Washington is
mounting on Russia.

On March 18 the Secretary General of NATO denounced the peace
settlement between Russia and Georgia that ended Georgia’s military
assault on South Ossetia. The NATO Secretary General said that NATO
rejects the settlement because it “hampers ongoing efforts by the
international community to strengthen security and stability in the
region.” Look closely at this statement. It defines the “international
community” as Washington’s NATO puppet states, and it defines
strengthening security and stability as removing buffers between
Russia and Georgia so that Washington can position military bases in
Georgia directly on Russia’s border.

In Poland and the Baltic states Washington and NATO lies about a
pending Russian invasion are being used to justify provocative war
games on Russia’s borders and to build up US forces in NATO military
bases on Russia’s borders.

We have crazed US generals on national television calling for “killing
Russians.”

The EU leadership has agreed to launch a propaganda war against
Russia, broadcasting Washington’s lies inside Russia in an effort to
undermine the Russian people’s support of their government.

All of this is being done in order to coerce Russia into handing over
Crimea and its Black Sea naval base to Washington and accepting
vassalage under Washington’s suzerainty.

If Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad, and the Taliban would not fold to
Washington’s threats, why do the fools in Washington think Putin, who
holds in his hands the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, will
fold?

European governments, apparently, are incapable of any thought.
Washington has set London and the capitals of every European country,
as well as every American city, for destruction by Russian nuclear
weapons. The stupid Europeans rush to destroy themselves in service to
their Washington master.

Human intelligence has gone missing if after 14 years of US military
aggression against eight countries the world does not understand that
Washington is lost in arrogance and hubris and imagines itself the
ruler of the universe who will tolerate no dissent from its will.

We know that the American, British, and European media are whores well
paid to lie for their master. We know that the NATO commander and
secretary general, if not the member countries, are lusting for war.
We know that the American Dr. Strangeloves in the Pentagon and
armaments industry cannot wait to test their ABMs and new weapons
systems in which they always place excessive confidence. We know that
the prime minister of Britain is a total cipher. But are the
chancellor of Germany and the president of France ready for the
destruction of their countries and of Europe? If the EU is of such
value, why is the very existence of its populations put at risk in
order to bow down and accept leadership from an insane Washington
whose megalomania will destroy life on earth?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He
was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and
Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His
internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest
books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic
Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.