By Paul Craig Roberts
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46222.htm
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46222.htm
January 14, 2017 "Information
Clearing House" - Reuters reports that 2,700 US troops
accompanied by tanks are moving across Poland toward the Russian border. Col.
Christopher Norrie, commander of the 3rd Armoured Brigade Combat Team,
declared: “The main goal of our mission is deterrence and prevention of
threats.” Apparently, the colonel is not sufficiently bright to realize that
far from preventing threats, the force he is leading presents as a threat. And
to no less a military power than Russia.
What is the point of this miniscule
force? It would not constitute a threat to Russia if it were 100 times larger,
perhaps even one thousand times larger. Remember, Hitler invaded Russia against
an unprepared Stalin with the largest and best military force the world had
ever seen in the largest military operation in human history. The German
invasion force was comprised of 3,800,000 troops, 600,000 motorized vehicles,
3,350 tanks, 7,200 artillery pieces, and 2,770 aircraft. The Red Army, despite
its officer corps having been purged by Stalin, ate up this magnificient force
and won the war against Germany.
Compared to Stalin’s Russia,
Putin’s Russia is prepared. NATO is not capable of assembling a large enough
force to invade Russia. So what is the point of the 2,700 US troops moving
across Poland toward Russia?
The answer is to keep alive the
Western propaganda that Russia is a threat and to make it as difficult as
possible for Trump to normalize relations with Russia. It is extraordinary that
the US military is conducting this provocative exercise that contradicts the
policy of the incoming president. The US military, the CIA, and their whores in
the US media are undemocratically pursuing their own agenda independently of
the policy of the president-elect. According to the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz,
US intelligence officials have even warned the Israeli government not to share
intelligence information with the Trump administration, because Putin has
“leverages of pressure” over Trump and Trump will leak the information to
Russia and Iran. http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.764711
We can see how the
military/security complex’s sabotage of Trump’s policy works. Constant
accusations have forced Trump to say that possibly the Russians were involved
in a hacking that never occured, neither by Russia nor anyone else. Trump’s
nominee for Secretary of State, Tillerson, has to declare Russia to be a threat
in his confirmation hearing in order to be confirmed. Trump’s nominee for
Secretary of Defense, Mattis, has had to say in his confirmation hearing that
the US needs to be prepared to confront Russia militarily, adding that there
are few areas in which the US can cooperate with Russia which he says is trying
to break NATO.
We could dismiss Trump’s admission
as throwing a bone to the CIA so they can feel vindicated and get off his back,
and the statements by Tillerson and Mattis could be dismissed as what has to be
said in order to be confirmed. Nevertheless, these statements from Trump’s top
appointments are being used as confirmations that everyone except Trump, even
Trump’s own government, realize that Russia is a threat. The propaganda picture
of Russia that the Obama regime worked so hard to create now has the luster of
acceptance by Trump’s nominees for State and Defense. Whether Tillerson and
Mattis mean it or not, clearly the US Congress in thrall to the campaign
donations from the military/security complex is determined that Russia be
regarded as a threat.
The Russians watching all this must
quickly be losing their hopes for normalized relations. The US ruling
establishment is causing hope to fade and suspicion to rise in the Russian
government, thus raising barriers within Russia herself to Trump’s policy of
better relations.
Nothing speaks more clearly of the
unbridled evil of the US Establishment than its willingness to risk conflict
with Russia for the sake of its hold on power and profit.
Where is the liberal-left’s moral
conscience? Why is the liberal-left helping the military/security complex
delegitimize Trump and box him in so that his agenda is dead on arrival and
thermo-nuclear war remains an option?
Is Trump Already Finished?
By Paul Craig Roberts
It did not take long before we knew
there was no hope of change from President Obama. But at least he went into his
inauguration with an unprecedented number of Americans on the Mall showing
their support for the President of Change. Hope was abundant.
But with Trump, we are already
losing faith, if not yet with him, at least with his choice of those who
comprise his government even before Trump is inaugurated.
Trump’s choice for Secretary of
State not only sounds like the neoconservatives in declaring Russia to be a
threat to the United States and all of Europe, but also sounds like Hillary
Clinton in declaring the South China Sea to be an area of US dominance. One
would think that the chaiman of Exxon was not an idiot, but I am no longer
sure. In his confirmation hearing, Rex Tillerson said that China’s access to
its own South China Sea is “not going to be allowed.”
Here is Tillerson’s statement:
“We’re going to have to send China a clear signal that first, the
island-building stops, and second, your access to those islands also not going
to be allowed.”
I mean, really, what is Tillerson
going to do about it except get the world blown up. China’s response was as
pointed as a response can be:
Tillerson “should not be misled
into thinking that Beijing will be fearful of threats. If Trump’s diplomatic
team shapes future Sino-US ties as it is doing now, the two sides had better
prepare for a military clash. Tillerson had better bone up on nuclear power
stategies if he wants to force a big nuclear power to withdraw from its own
territories.”
So Trump is not even inaugurated
and his idiot nominee for Secretary of State has already created an animosity
relationship with two nuclear powers capable of completely destroying all of
the West for eternity. And this makes the US Senate comfortable with Tillerson.
The imbeciles should be scared out of their wits, assuming they have any.
One of the reasons that Russia
rescued Syria from Washington’s overthrow is that Russia understood that
Washington’s next target would be Iran and from a destroyed Iran terrorism
would be exported into the Russian Federation. There is an axis of countries
threatened by US supported terrorism—Syria, Iran, Russia, China.
Trump says he wants to normalize
relations with Russia and to open up business opportunities in the place of
conflict. But to normalize relations with Russia requires also normalizing
relations with Iran and China.
Judging from their public
statements, Trump’s announced government has targeted Iran for destabilization.
Trump’s appointees as National Security Advisor, Secretary of Defense, and
Director of the CIA all regard Iran incorrectly as a terrorist state that must
be overthrown.
But Russia cannot allow Washington
to ovethrow the stable government in Iran and will not allow it. China’s
investments in Iranian oil imply that China also will not permit Washington’s
overthrow of Iran. China has already suffered from its lost investments in
Libyan oil as the result of the Obama regimes overthrow of the Libyan
government.
Realistically speaking, it looks
like the Trump Presidency is already defeated by his own appointees
independently of the ridiculous and completely unbelievable propaganda put out
by the CIA and broadcast by the presstitute media in the US, UK, and Europe.
The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and BBC have lowered themselves below
the National Enquirer.
Possibly, as I wrote earlier today
(http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/01/13/the-establishment-is-trying-to-steal-the-presidency-from-trump-paul-craig-roberts/),
these statements from Trump’s appointees are nothing but what is required to be
confirmed and are not operational in any sense. However, it is possible to
stand up to the bastards in confirmation hearings. I stood up in my confirming
hearing, and the embarrassed Democrats requested that the entire hearing be
deleted from the record.
If the Chairman of Exxon and a Lt.
General are not capable of standing up to the imbecilic Congress, they are
unfit for office. That they did not stand up is an indication that they lack
the strength that Trump needs if he is to bring change from the top.
If Trump is unable to change US
foreign policy, thermo-nuclear war and the destruction of Earth are inevitable.
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, How America Was Lost, and The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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