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Not everyone likes to hear about the threat of nuclear war. Some find refuge in denial and say that nuclear war is impossible because it makes no sense. Unfortunately, humankind has a long record of doing things that make no sense.
MAIN IMAGE ABOVE: Still from the film On the Beach (1959) directed by Stanley Kramer, chronicling the aftermath of a nuclear war in which the only temporary survivors are some people in the Southern Hemisphere, especially Australia. Eventually it is expected that the radiation will reach there too, and everybody will also succumb. Gregory Peck plays the role of a nuclear sub captain ordered to investigate if there is any remaining life in the Northern Hemisphere.
In previous posts in recent years I have pointed out both written documents and changes in US war doctrine that indicate that Washington is preparing a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia and China. More recently, I have shown that Washington’s demonization of Russia and President Putin, the incessant lies about Russian deeds and intentions, and the refusal of Washington to cooperate with Russia on any issue have convinced the Russian government that Washington is preparing the Western populations for an attack on Russia. It is obvious that China has come to the same conclusion.
It is extremely dangerous to all of mankind for Washington to convince two nuclear powers that Washington is preparing a preemptive nuclear strike against them. It is impossible to imagine a more reckless and irresponsible act. Yet this is precisely what Washington has done.
Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir, Deputy Head of Operations of the Russian General Staff has concluded that Washington in pursuit of global hegemony is implementing an anti-ballistic missile system that Washington believes can prevent a Russian nuclear response to a US pre-emptive attack. http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/04/us-forces-preparing-sudden-nuclear.html
Careful studies have convinced the Russians that Washington is investing in and arranging components that have no other function than to devastate Russia and cripple the country’s retaliatory capability. In short, Washington is preparing to launch a nuclear war. https://www.rt.com/news/386276-us-missile-shield-russia-strike/
One might hope that the American and Western populations would be outraged that Washington is so power-crazed that it is subjecting all life to such risks. But there is no sign of an anti-war movement. The Western leftwing has degenerated into Identity Politics in which the only threat comes from white heterosexual males who are portrayed as misogynists, racists, and homophopes.
As I explained previously, the theory behind this insane scheme is that after America’s preemptive strike Russia will be so devastated that Russia would not retaliate with any remaining forces out of fear that Washington would launch a second major strike. Washington also plans to use agents in place to assassinate as many members as possible of the Russian government, thus leaving the government in confusion without leadership.
Yes, the insane American/Israeli neoconservatives are this determined to exercise hegemony over the world.
Yes, Washington is sufficiently criminally insane to risk the destruction of life on earth based on the supposition that Washington’s offense will work perfectly and Russia and China’s capabilities will be so degraded that no retaliatory response will occur.
One might hope that the American and Western populations would be outraged that Washington is so power-crazed that it is subjecting all life to such risks. But there is no sign of an anti-war movement. The Western leftwing has degenerated into Identity Politics in which the only threat comes from white heterosexual males who are portrayed as misogynists, racists, and homophopes. The Western leftwing is no longer war-conscious. Indeed, the leftwing has become diverted into such silly irrelevancies as transgender rights to toilets of their choice. The impotence of the Western left is so overwhelming that the left might as well not exist.
Where then is the hope? Russia and China cannot simply sit there and await America’s preemptive nuclear strike.
Possibly Washington does not intend a preemptive strike, but only to convince Russia and China that Washington’s preparations give Washington so much predominance in a conflict that Russia and China will submit to Washington’s hegemony. But this interpretation of Washington’s intention implies no less risk. Why would Russia and China wait for Washington to complete its preparations for war, preparations that permit Washington to turn Russia and China into puppet states?
The US military/security complex has clearly prevailed over Trump’s intention to normalize relations between the US and Russia, and anti-Russian venom continues to pour out of NATO and Washington’s European vassal states. The majority of the American people seem to have accepted the propaganda that Russia is the number one threat to the United States. With propaganda controlling the explanation, Washington’s aggressive actions are explained as defense against a threat and not as a policy that will end life on earth.
The chances are high that life on earth is approaching its end. The responsibility lies heavily on the American people, whose success, due to the mistakes of others, made Americans think that they are exceptional and privileged. Unaware of the inhumane threat to all life that is embodied in the neoconservative claim that Americans are exceptional and indispensable, the self-satisfied American public is unaware of the consequences of such hubris. Hubris is leading them, and the entire world, to slaughter in thermo-nuclear war.
The neoconservative claim of American exceptionalism is the identical claim made for Germans by Hitler. If Americans are indispensable, everyone else is dispensable and can be “bombed into the stone age” as one US government official put it, or nuked as Washington intends to do to Russia and China. The claim of American exceptionalism is not accepted by Russia and China. Therefore, the insane, crazed monsters who rule over the West in Washington are bringing life on earth to an end.
And there are no protests. The idiot British, the idiot Germans, the idiot French, Italians, Canadians, Australians, Belgians, Greeks, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, rally behind the insanity that is Washington.
And so apparently do the American people, a population stupid beyond all belief.
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I don’t care what credentials Paul Craig Roberts has. This sensationalist column is beyond stupid. I think he has been watching Dr. Strangelove too much. Washington has no incentive to release Nuclear bombs on anyone. If the US attacked China and Russia with nukes which would also devastate many surrounding nations either directly or indirectly with a economic depression. Exactly what economic marketplace and banking sector is left for US goods and services. A depression would ravage the US and even the elite would sustain losses that are unimaginable. And, it would ignite multiple big state/small state conventional wars. Roberts… Read more »
“…Washington has no incentive to release Nuclear bombs on anyone…” Well…Washington IS preparing war on Russia whether you like it or not….just look at the massive amounts of military equipment currently lined up right along the Russian border by Nato. And don’t say it is because of the Russian threat because Russia isn’t threatening anybody !!! The threat is the US that have military ALL OVER the globe to start and fight wars for reasons that are NONE of their business. When a war breaks out it is clear that sooner or later some country is going to push the… Read more »
I wish someone who has access to Paul Craig Roberts would make him sit down and read this excellent piece by John R. Hall … “The Peace Dividend: A Time To Take Dead Aim and Attack” https://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/04/28/the-peace-dividend-a-time-to-take-dead-aim-and-attack/ The only hope right now is to take power from the lunatics, then sanitize the government of neocon warmongers. That can only be accomplished by emptying the vault of the funds required to perpetuate military madness. Starving the beast is killing the beast. The sociopaths will not go willingly. They must be forced out using what mechanisms we have available. This means sweeping… Read more »
I doubt whether Washington is preparing a preemptive plan to attack Russia and China. The reality is I suggest, more ambiguous. They are pursuing a contingency plan to attack Russia and China, which is not the SAME thing. The danger lurks in the ambiguity. America may – or alternatively may not – proceed to attack Russia and China. The risk lays in formulating the practical plans to do so, as policy takes over and influences the decision making which takes place. In other words, the danger of nuclear war is certainly there but it is not inevitable. It then becomes… Read more »
Plans for first strike nuclear attack on Russia have been in the works for a long time. Recalling the messages of Dr. Peter D. Beter long ago, and how the NASA space shuttle program was being used to conduct surveillance of Russian targets preparatory to a pre-emptive attack. Not surprising that those plans are still “on the table.” Hardly anyone knew, and the media wasn’t reporting, how close we came to a nuclear exchange back in the ’70’s. Dr. Beter reported to his audience the Russian deployment of multiple nuclear ICBM underwater launchers (not submarines) off of both coasts and… Read more »
The Washington Plan is to move DF to any of the military bases to survive the initial counterattack.
Military laws will be imposed on allies.
With the purpose of gathering enough infantry to penetrate the heart of Eurasia to conquer it