It would be an interesting exercise to list all the agreements Washington has ever made and to calculate the percentage that it kept.
The meeting that the Deep State strived to make impossible with fabricated “Russiagate” assertions and an orchestrated “investigation” by Mueller has now been set in place by no less than Deep State neocon operative John Bolton. Patrick Lang explains how this came about.
Many see benefits from the Putin/Trump meeting.
Putin himself sees benefits in the meeting, as does Trump. Putin sees hope of improving relations between the two governments. Of course, the “strained relations” are entirely due to Washington, which has demonized both Russia and Putin with false accusations and hostile acts such as illegal sanctions. It was miscalculation for Washington to expect Russia to give up its Black Sea naval base to Washington’s coup in Ukraine.
What can an agreement be based on? Bolton’s position has been opposed to making any agreement with Russia or cooperating with Russia in any way. From the neoconservative standpoint, Russia is in the way of US world hegemony. As the neoconservative foreign policy doctrine states, it is a principle US goal to prevent the rise of any country that could serve as a check on American unilateralism. Russia is a challenge to the American World Order because Russia stands in the way of the American unipolar world.
A successful summit will require Trump to reject this neoconservative doctrine. If Trump can pull this off with Bolton sitting by him, Trump’s critics will look very silly. Do Bolton and the Deep State have a way of baking failure into the summit that will ensure the continuation of Russia’s enemy status, thereby sustaining the enormous budget and power of the US military/security complex? Is Trump a superman who can overcome this powerful vested interest about which President Eisenhower warned Americans in 1961? How much stronger is this complex more than half a century later after being nourished by decades of Cold War and War on Terror?
Assad and no doubt Iran are convinced that negotiations with Washington are a waste of time. Assad has concluded that “the problem with US presidents is that they are hostage to lobbyists. They can tell you what you want to hear, but they do the opposite. That’s the problem, and it’s getting worse and worse. Trump is a stark example. That’s why when talking to the Americans, discussing something with them does not settle anything. There will not be any results. It’s a simple waste of time.”
Assad’s view has the evidence on its side. One of Trump’s first actions was to unilaterally pull out of the multi-nation Iran nuclear agreement. There is no evidence that supports the hopeful Russian view.
It would be an interesting exercise to list all the agreements Washington has made over the course of US history and to calculate the percentage that Washington kept. If Putin doesn’t want to be taken for a ride, he should contemplate the words of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce summing up his negotiations with Washington: “I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.”
This article was originally published at PaulCraigRoberts.org on June 28, 2018.
America has what is mostly a good Constitution; however it is honoured more in the breach than the observance. Furthermore, its protections are offered selectively to Americans and not offered to the citizens of any other country in the world, unless as a means of beating the drums of war.
Putin is the exceptional man in international politics at this point in time. He has mostly cleaned up Russia after the Clintons tried to destroy it. He is short on war, although he understands its very limited usefulness and has exceptional military tools available, and long on diplomacy. Diplomacy must be based on politeness and respect. Russia, Syria and Iran have these qualities in spades. America and its “five assholes” and France wouldn’t know politeness and respect if they found it in a brothel.
The Anglo-Zionists have had their chance at history and been found profoundly lacking not only in politeness and respect but also in morals. War and other means of murder are their stock in trade. It is time to give the rest of the world a chance. Russia, Syria and Iran are good role models. Even China has a place of leadership above the Anglo-Zionists in the multi-polar world. The “New World Order” is not what George Bush and his crowd thought it would be. Thank the Quantum God for that.