Having served Washington’s propaganda purposes, the downed Malaysian airliner and the alleged Russian armored column that entered Ukraine and was allegedly destroyed have dropped out of the news, even though both stories remain completely and totally unresolved.
Washington’s stooge government in Ukraine has not released the records of communications between Ukrainian air traffic control and Malaysian flight 17, and Washington has not released the photos from its satellite which was directly overhead at the time of the airliner’s demise.
We can safely and conclusively conclude from this purposeful withholding of evidence that the evidence does not support Washington’s and Kiev’s propaganda.
We can also safely and conclusively conclude that the Western media’s sudden disinterest in the unresolved story and failure to demand the evidence kept secret by Washington and Kiev is in keeping with the Western media’s role as a Ministry of Propaganda.
In other words, Washington and its presstitutes are protecting the lie that Washington and its media vassals successfully spread around the world and have used as the basis for further sanctions that escalate the conflict with Russia. Washington could not possibly make it clearer that Washington intends to escalate, not defuse, the conflict that Washington alone orchestrated.
Ditto for the alleged Russian armored column. The Russian government has labeled the story a fantasy, which it clearly is, but nevertheless Washington and its media vassals have left the story in place.
As English is the world language and as the European press follows the lead of the American presstitutes, the propaganda war is stacked against Russia (and China). Russian and Chinese are not world languages. Indeed, these languages are difficult for others to learn and are not well known outside the countries themselves. The Western media follows Washington’s lead, not Moscow’s or Beijing’s.
As facts are not relevant to the outcome, Moscow and Beijing are in a losing situation in the propaganda war.
The same holds for diplomacy. Washington does not engage in diplomacy. The exceptional country uses bribes, threats, and coercion. The Russian government’s diplomatic efforts come to naught. As Russian President Putin has complained, “Washington doesn’t listen, the West doesn’t hear us.”
And yet the Russian government continues to try to deal with the Ukrainian situation with facts and diplomacy. This approach is proving to be very costly to the residents of the former Russian territories in eastern and southern Ukraine. These people are being killed by air and artillery strikes against their homes and infrastructure. Large numbers of these people have been displaced by the Ukrainian attacks and are refugees in Russia. The Western media does not report the violence that Washington’s stooge government in Kiev is inflicting on these people. The Western media speaks only with Washington’s voice: “It is all Russia’s fault.”
The crisis would have been prevented if the Russian government had accepted the provinces request to be reunited with Russia as in the case of Crimea. However, the Russian government decided to avoid any decision that Washington could misrepresent as “invasion and annexation,” thinking that Europe would see Russia’s unprovocative behavior as reassuring and resist Washington’s pressure to enter into conflict with Russia.
In my opinion, the Russian government over-estimated the power of diplomacy in the West. Washington is interested in fomenting crises, not in resolving them.
In the 23 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many Russians have been of the opinion that Washington, not the Soviet government, was the party to be trusted in the Cold War. What the Russian government has learned recently is that Washington cannot be trusted and that the Soviet government’s suspicions of the West were very well founded.
Kiev’s military assault on eastern and southern Ukraine is not going to stop because Europeans finally see the light and object. Europeans not only stood aside for 13 years while Washington bombed civilians in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, and organized outside forces to attack Syrians, while isolating Iran for military attack, but also actively participated in the attacks. Europe has stood aside while Israel has massacred Palestinians on numerous occasions. For Russia to rely on Europe’s moral conscience is to rely on something that does not exist.
The continued slaughter and destruction of the Russian populations in eastern and southern Ukraine will eventually demoralize the Russian people and undermine their support of Putin’s government for failing to halt it. The Russian government’s acceptance of the slaughter makes Russia look weak and encourages more aggression against Russia.
If the Russian government intends to resolve its problems in Ukraine and to forestall Washington’s ability to further erode Russia’s political and economic relationships with Europe with more sanctions, the Russian government will have to turn to more forceful measures.
In Ukraine the Russian government has two alternatives. One is to announce that the ongoing slaughter and the unresponsiveness of Kiev and its Western backers to Russia’s efforts to end the killing with a diplomatic settlement has caused Russia to reconsider the provinces’ requests to be reunited with Russia and that any further attacks on these territories will be regarded as attacks on Russia and be met with a devastating military response.
The other alternative is for Putin to meet privately with Washington’s stooge and convey to the corrupt oligarch that enough is enough and that if the attacks continue Russia will accept the requests for reunification and protect the provinces. Putin would explain to Washington’s stooge that if he wants to retain the former Russian territories as part of Ukraine, he will have to work out satisfactory arrangements with the provinces. In other words, Putin would deliver an ultimatum, one that required an immediate answer so that the stooge couldn’t run to Washington and Washington would not have time to create new propaganda.
Karl Marx regarded morality as a rationale for class interests. As each class created a morality to justify its interests, there was no basis for good will between people. With reform impossible, violence becomes the only effective method of change. Washington has its own version of Marx’s doctrine. As the exceptional country, history has chosen the US to prevail over other countries’ interests. Prevailing rules out diplomacy which requires compromise. Therefore, Washington, like Marx, relies on violence.
The Russian government cannot rely on diplomacy and good will if the West is relying on violence.
Perhaps s solution could be found by President Putin meeting separately with Merkel and Hollande and explaining that Russia cannot indefinitely accept sanctions based on lies and propaganda without taking more determined steps than Russian sanctions against European agricultural products. Putin could make it clear that if Europe continues to accommodate Washington’s assault on Russia, the flow of energy could be restricted or be turned off.
Additionally, President Putin might explain to the European leaders that the dynamics of Washington’s campaign to demonize Russia can escape control and result in war that would devastate Europe. Putin could tell Europeans that by disassociating from Washington’s foreign policy and adopting foreign policies that serve their own interests instead of Washington’s, Europeans have nothing to lose but their chains of vassalage.
Putin could explain to Europeans that Russia is prepared to guarantee Europe’s security and, therefore, that Europe does not need Washington’s guarantee against a nonexistent Russian threat.
If this very reasonable and diplomatic approach to Europe fails, then Russia and China know that they must prepare for war.
Well what to say about that, Russia guarantee’s Europe’s security ? come on Paul really ? Russia would manipulate Europe like a poppet on a string. From Europe’s position look at the new boss same as the old boss maybe worse. I agree the West did start this mess as they did others my question is why with defense cuts a weak president and economy ready for collapse a nation that obviously is in decline why would we get into a war with a nuclear power over Ukraine?
Who let this moron out of Lew Rockwell’s cage? There seems to be a class of “intellectuals” stemming from the Libertarian sect which is going extremist in their views to the point, in this case. of becoming Russian. These guys are certainly intelligent, but in their crazed obsession with US hegemony, they are actually throwing their support to governments which make US hegemony look like a picnic in the park.
Can anyone imagine, how much fear and timidity these guys must feel over US foreign policy, that would cause them to actually support Russia and China as viable alternatives? Russia and China, the two empires who murdered, starved, tortured, imprisoned and isolated MILLLLLLIONS of human beings over the past century in order to OWN individual destiny and liberty, are getting “advice” and support from these whacked out Libertarians who apparently only value their OWN liberty but not the liberty of Ukrainians or Russians for that matter?
Is there such a thing as being half intelligent? I can see that the logical side of the brain is working ok in these so called journalists or writers or bloggers or whatever the hell you’d call them. As far as the right side of their brains, it is in full blown emotional meltdown.
Paul Craig Roberts needs to stay on Lew Rockwell Dot Com where he has good company. We know that the US is out of control, but for this guy to suggest that Putin is some sort of diplomat or victim in absolutely moronic. Putin is a mafia boss who has no qualms about having someone thrown from an apartment balcony or poisoned for opposing views.
My next question would be… how are Lew Rockwell, PCR, etc, maintaining their websites financially? I’d like to see their donation records. I think Russia Today might be in their pockets.
Dr. Roberts is not libertarian, but that’s irrelevant.
You must be joking to try to compare Russia with the US’s global hegemony.
Dr. Roberts doesn’t view the situation as a choice between US, Russian, or Chinese “hegemony”. You are projecting your own confined paradigm.
Speaking of confined paradigms, Jeremy, the entire EU would grow a defined or “confined” paradigm if guys like Putin were able to run the show the way he wants to run the show. Defined as controlled, dictated to, coerced, forced, manipulated. “influenced”.
Are you paying any attention? Are you watching Russia and China spread their own influence globally? WERE you paying any attention to how much force and influence the USSR was spreading throughout Africa, and other continents? You gotta be kidding me that you don’t see the appetite for this behavior in Vladimir Putin.
I love theorists and intellectuals. There’s very little actual practice involved, but a whole hell of a lot of theory. The EU seems to be loaded with theorists who sit around being shocked and displeased over Putin’s ACTIONS. As much as PCR would like to portray Putin and Russia as some type of victim of US “hegemony”, he forgets that the rest of the world has already exercised its hegemony. We’re just the latest version of it.
How many sovereign nations have been colonized, victimized, enslaved, extorted, ransacked, cleansed, by the former “hegemonizers” including Russia? How many more MILLION Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Tatar, Kazbek, Uzbek, Polish, etc etc etc etc etc… deaths would it take to earn freedom Jeremy, from the great Russian ally? Do you seriously think that Vlad wouldn’t like to go down in the history books as the new Russian Napoleon who revitalized the USSR??? Come on man, wake up.
What’s up with this Pollyanna syndrome on Russia? You need those rose colored glasses cleaned, or do you need to put them back in the drawer?
If Paul Craig Roberts isn’t a Libertarian, then he needs to stop plugging his propaganda in Lew Rockwell and the other Lib sites. He hanging his shingle there so he’s got the label.
If “Dr” Roberts doesn’t view the choice as between the US, Russian or Chinese hegemony, then he’s talking in the wind. Hegemony seems to be a flaw in humanity. It’s naive to think there will be none, and when PCR goes on RT complaining about US hegemony like Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul etc, do, it does nothing but feed the fire of Chinese and Russian co-oped hegemony. Which is happening as we speak.
If the intellectuals in America got in the car and put some rubber on the road rather than scrutinizing the US road map from their laptops, perhaps their brainpower could actually help curb our “hegemony”. AYYY???
No one needs to continually hear that the sky is falling in. Why aren’t these guys running for office (at least Ron Paul has done so) or finding more productive ways to contribute?
When one reads PCR’s articles, it reads like support for Russia. Go back and read more of his articles. Same for Lew Rockwell, Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, etc. It all comes off as support for Russia and demonizing of the US. Try to read them without your own biases.
And finally, I’m afraid you’re ignoring Russian and European history. You know what they say about ignoring history..
Yes, I’m paying attention, which is why I say “You must be joking to try to compare Russia with the US’s global hegemony” so as to actually assert that the US’s pales in comparison.
As for your opinion that we must view the world through a paradigm in which we must choose between US, Russian, or Chinese global hegemony and hence must support one or the other, I certainly cannot agree.
Don’t rewrite what I said. Hegemony in THIS world is a fact of life. Until people change, governments won’t change either, since governments are made up of people.. corrupt people. Every empire has its useful idiots, who believe what they hear, allow their egos and nationalism to be inflated with fancy political pep rallies, and this whole modern day conflict amounts to a world full of better dressed tribes than existed 100 years ago. Tribes wearing suits, driving Volvos, with Ipads.
Putin is successful enough stirring his tribe into a frenzy, do we really need our tribesmen contributing to that frenzy on RT? How is that contributing to the remediation of hegemony on a global scale? Are these guys looking to switch tribes?
“OUR TRIBE SUCKS, but your tribe isn’t so bad”. That’s what Moscow hears every time RT does an interview with our unhappy tribesmen. It does no good, it only encourages more potential hegemony… which is something which Putin craves.
A better solution? Try cleaning up our own dirty laundry rather than hanging it in the neighbor’s front yard.. very tacky and very distasteful, not to mention demeaning to your own society, who by the way are the people you are trying to help. Take that energy, that passion, that disgust, and put it into something more productive. If living in the US is bugging these guys so much, get a visa, go to another country and try to do foreign policy the right way, person to person. Chip in, don’t spend your time telling everyone the sky’s falling in!! We already know that.
PCR is getting so frenzied about all this, he’s going to stroke out. I had to unsubscribe. I could not stand reading twice daily frantic articles. Come on, man, go do something that will actually help someone. You’ll be more effective in the long run, even if we all go down the toilet eventually. Deeds, not words.
Where did I do that? You said that Russia “make[s] US hegemony look like a picnic in the park.”
Hence my repeating, now for the third time, that you must be joking to try to compare Russia with the US’s global hegemony so as to actually assert that the US’s pales in comparison.
As for the rest, the suggestion that the time and energy some individuals put into educating themselves and writing articles to help inform others is somehow not helpful is perfect nonsense.
The rule of the capitalist market is “expand or die.” Wall Street’s influence is contracting, and its profits are shrinking. As the price of oil and natural gas declines, and more markets slip away toward China and Russia, the Wall Street monopolists are running out of options. In their desperation to stay on top, and keep their profits flowing in, they are doing their best to destroy economic rivals.
Clearing the Market with Chaos
Libya was once the top oil exporting country in Africa. It was led by Col. Moammar Gaddafi, who had taken power in a nationalist revolution. Gaddafi was far more sympathetic to China and Russia, and had a history of supporting armed revolts against the United States. Gaddafi had the used the proceeds of Libya’s oil exports to develop a strong domestic economy, with free healthcare and education for the population, as well as subsidized food and housing.
This was all changed in 2011, when NATO bombs and US backed terrorist insurgents ripped the country to shreds. Oil exports in Libya are a mere 11% of what they once were. By removing Libya from the oil markets, a measure of temporary relief was created for the US oil capitalists. But it was only temporary.
With the price of oil declining again, Syria is beginning targeted. Syria, another nationalist government that has been friendly to Russia and China, is facing a violent civil war by US backed insurgents. The talk of an oil pipeline from Iran to the Mediterranean is something Wall Street and London cannot tolerate. Hundreds of thousands of deaths, a refugees crisis, and other horrors are being unleashed to prevent a major blow to the profiteers.
Now the US is once again engaged in Iraq. The US backed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia funnels money to ISIS terrorists, and now the US is bombing the country, supposedly to fight them. Iraq was beginning to re-emerge with record oil exports in June, the highest since the US toppled Saddam Hussein.
The overthrow of the elected government of Ukraine, and the replacing of it with a fascist junta, was a direct attack, not just on Ukraine, but on Russia. The elected Ukrainian government was becoming friendlier to Russia. It was removed. Now, Ukraine’s natural gas is under the control of entities directly linked the family of Vice President Joe Biden. Ukraine, like Libya, Syria, and Iraq, is the scene of an intense civil war. Violence and chaos tend to halt economic activity.
Despite Milton Friedman’s rhetoric about “market solutions”, Wall Street cannot allow any competitors. It does not try to defeat its competition by making better products or lowering its prices. Rather, it defeats is economic rivals with bullets, drones, cruise missiles, foreign backed insurgencies, and other forms of outright violence.
vanyam, Paul C. Roberts is not alone about his arguments, maybe the only moron over here are you…
“Comrade Wolf knows who to eat, and he eats without listening to anyone.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin referring to the United States.
The Ukraine crisis has its roots in a policy that dates back nearly 20 years. The origins of the policy can be traced to a 1997 article in Foreign Policy magazine by Zbigniew Brzezinski, titled “A Geostrategy for Eurasia.” The article makes the case that the United States needs to forcefully establish itself in Central Asia in order to maintain its position as the world’s only superpower. While many readers may be familiar with Brzezinski’s thinking on these matters, they might not know what he has to say about Russia, which is particularly illuminating given that the recent uptick in violence has less to do with Ukraine than it does with Washington’s proxy-war on Russia. Here’s what Brzezinski says:
“Russia’s longer-term role in Eurasia will depend largely on its self-definition…Russia’s first priority should be to modernize itself rather than to engage in a futile effort to regain its status as a global power. Given the country’s size and diversity, a decentralized political system and free-market economics would be most likely to unleash the creative potential of the Russian people and Russia’s vast natural resources. A loosely confederated Russia — composed of a European Russia, a Siberian Republic, and a Far Eastern Republic — would also find it easier to cultivate closer economic relations with its neighbors. Each of the confederated entitles would be able to tap its local creative potential, stifled for centuries by Moscow’s heavy bureaucratic hand. In turn, a decentralized Russia would be less susceptible to imperial mobilization.” Zbigniew Brzezinski, A Geostrategy for Eurasia, Foreign Affairs, 76:5, September/October 1997.
So is this the goal of US policy, to create “A loosely confederated Russia” whose economy can be subsumed into America’s market-based system?
Очень интересная статья, в которой кажется, из-за проблем с переводм неверно истолковывется роль президента Украины Петра Порошенко. на саом деле, он объявил о приватизации и хочет продать свой бизнес сладкий изделий Roshen.
В настоящее время в Украине столкнулись две ситуации, когда в Киев прибыла канцлер Германии Ангела Меркель, а перед этим за один день раньше Россия введа гуманитарный конвой в восточные области, где повстанцы.
Надо сказать, что US State Department & RU осудили действия России. Эти действия объективно првокационные, но Россия считает не столько гуманитарной акций, а внешнеполитическим козырем-тузом.
Украина целую неделю не пропускала конвой на свою территорию. может ли США послать 280 грузовиков в Мексику или Канаду без согласия разрешения правительств этих стран ?
Надо добавить, что грузовики загружены не полностью, они везут генераторы электрической энергии, спальние мешки и воду. Вода доставляется за 1,5 тысяч километров (700 морских миль), а для генераторов необходимо топливо. Где повстанцы купят топливо ?
Как сообщает BBC & Euronews часть грузовиков после разгрузочных работ уже вернулось в Россию, куда вывезли какое-то оборудование.
поэтому, конвой – это демонстрация силы междунродному и украинскому обществу.
Владмир Путин пригласил Петра порошенко в Минск 26 июля и ему будет трудно разговаривать с президентом Украины. Это особенно важно, что встреча состоится после окончания визита госпожи Меркель в Киев.
Tirso, it’s very easy for us all to sit in our cozy chairs with coffee and decide the fate of countries like Ukraine with our keyboards, analyze global policy and evaluate someone else’s future.
No matter what is happening in America, no matter who is gaining more influence in eastern Europe, RU or US, Ukraine has had its long history with Moscow, and it’s been nothing short of genocidal. Perhaps you should spend some time looking at that fratricide. For writers who are damned cozy and able to sit in their chairs collecting a check, it’s not ethical, moral or responsible to project Russia as a warm and fuzzy neighbor to Ukraine.. REGARDLESS of what’s going on currently between the US and RU.
Ukraine has no good options at the moment because the parasites are gathering, hoping for a carcass to pick. Ukraine could actually teach us cozy people what freedom really is, to fight for their liberty from a brotherly neighbor who has already murdered, starved and incarcerated many millions of her ancestors within the past century.
You guys are comical. All worried about US financial “hegemony” but forgetting about the blood baths and genocides by maniacal dictators who decapitate, destroy and decimate societies. There’s something very wrong with that.
Have you looked at a world atlas recently? What the hell is Putin doing with his nine time zones? He can’t manage to develop Russian success inside his own borders? Maybe if he were less paranoid, criminal, greedy, manipulative and more of a leader, he’d not be in the mess he has on his hands right now. Good god, man, you don’t see that?
A very worrying analysis from one of our best experts. The comment on the role of English is very poignant. It is precisely this that is behind the attempt by the British and the US governments to make English the
first language of the world. With the language goes the propaganda. Around 1960 the British Council and the NSA held confidential meetings on bringing about
this language hegemony. This was reported by Professor Robert Phillipson in his book ‘Linguistic Imperialism’. He was allowed to read the papers of the British Council before they were shredded.
Such secrecy implies subversive methods. Vladimir Putin took action against subversion by the British Council in Russia, probably because it was infiltrated by MI6. Shortly before that I had come to a similar suspicion because of research I had carried out into the collapse of the Esperanto movement in Britain since the end of the Cold War. When I found that the claim by the treasurer of Esperanto Association of Britain that they were eating up their capital had been falsified, I was set upon by their President, a lifelong
(false) friend and colleague of mine, and demonised just as President Putin is being now. Only then did I see the obvious: as a professor of Phonetics and
Linguistics, the Esperanto president had worked with the British Council for many years.
It wasn’t just Esperanto. Language learning in English
schools started collapsing in 2002 as a result of the government’s New Strategy for Languages in England, pushed through by Baroness Catherine Ashton, under
Tony Blair. They want everyone to speak just English.
It wouldn’t solve the problem for Russia and China to try to do the same thing with their languages. The French must now be regretting that they obstructed Esperanto in its early days, as they tried to maintain French as the international language. But if the BRICS countries were to push Esperanto as a SECOND language, the rest of the world would have to follow.
Within one year they could be producing their first generation of Esperanto-speaking school leavers. But as Mikhael Gorbachev said: “First perestroika, then
Esperanto”. Vladimir Putin will have to sort out NATO first.