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Washington Intends Russia's Demise
By Paul Craig Roberts
May 02, 2014 "ICH " - Washington
has no intention of allowing the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved. Having
failed to seize the country and evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base,
Washington sees new opportunities in the crisis.
One is to restart the Cold War by forcing the Russian government to occupy
the Russian-speaking areas of present day Ukraine where protesters are
objecting to the stooge anti-Russian government installed in Kiev by the
American coup. These areas of Ukraine are former constituent parts of
Russia herself. They were attached to Ukraine by Soviet leaders in the 20th
century when both Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country, the
USSR.
Essentially, the protesters have established independent governments in the
cities. The police and military units sent to suppress the protesters,
called `terrorists' in the American fashion, for the most part have until
now defected to the protesters.
With Obama's incompetent White House and State Department having botched
Washington's takeover of Ukraine, Washington has been at work shifting the
blame to Russia. According to Washington and its presstitute media, the
protests are orchestrated by the Russian government and have no sincere
basis. If Russia sends in military units to protect the Russian citizens in
the former Russian territories, the act will be used by Washington to
confirm Washington's propaganda of a Russian invasion (as in the case of
Georgia), and Russia will be further demonized.
The Russian government is in a predicament. Moscow does not want financial
responsibility for these territories but cannot stand aside and permit
Russians to be put down by force. The Russian government has attempted to
keep Ukraine intact, relying on the forthcoming elections in Ukraine to
bring to office more realistic leaders than the stooges installed by
Washington.
However, Washington does not want an election that might replace its
stooges and return to cooperating with Russia to resolve the situation.
There is a good chance that Washington will tell its stooges in Kiev to
declare that the crisis brought to Ukraine by Russia prevents an election.
Washington's NATO puppet states would back up this claim.
It is almost certain that despite the Russian government's hopes, the
Russian government is faced with the continuation of both the crisis and
the Washington puppet government in Ukraine.
On May 1 Washington's former ambassador to Russia, now NATO's
`second-in-command' but the person who, being American, calls the shots,
has declared Russia to no longer be a partner but an enemy. The American,
Alexander Vershbow, told journalists that NATO has given up on `drawing
Moscow closer' and soon will deploy a large number of combat forces in
Eastern Europe. Vershbow called this aggressive policy deployment of
`defensive assets to the region.'
In other words, here we have again the lie that the Russian government is
going to forget all about its difficulties in Ukraine and launch attacks on
Poland, the Baltic States, Romania., Moldova, and on the central Asian
states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The dissembler Vershbow wants
to modernize the militaries of these American puppet states and `seize the
opportunity to create the reality on the ground by accepting membership of
aspirant countries into NATO.'
What Vershbow has told the Russian government is that you just keep on
relying on Western good will and reasonableness while we set up sufficient
military forces to prevent Russia from coming to the aid of its oppressed
citizens in Ukraine. Our demonization of Russia is working. It has made you
hesitant to act during the short period when you could preempt us and seize
your former territories. By waiting you give us time to mass forces on your
borders from the Baltic Sea to Central Asia. That will distract you and
keep you from the Ukraine. The oppression we will inflict on your Russians
in Ukraine will discredit you, and the NGOs we finance in the Russian
Federation will appeal to nationalist sentiments and overthrow your
government for failing to come to the aid of Russians and failing to
protect Russia's strategic interests.
Washington is licking its chops, seeing an opportunity to gain Russia as a
puppet state.
Will Putin sit there with his hopes awaiting the West's good will to work
out a solution while Washington attempts to engineer his fall?
The time is approaching when Russia will either have to act to terminate
the crisis or accept an ongoing crisis and distraction in its backyard.
Kiev has launched military airstrikes on protesters in Slavyansk. On May 2
Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Kiev's resort
to
violence had destroyed the hope for the Geneva agreement on de-escalating
the crisis. Yet, the Russian government spokesman again expressed the hope
of the Russian government that European governments and Washington will put
a stop to the military strikes and pressure the Kiev government to
accommodate the protesters in a way that keeps Ukraine together and
restores friendly relations with Russia.
This is a false hope. It assumes that the Wolfowitz doctrine is just words,
but it is not. The Wolfowitz doctrine is the basis of US policy toward
Russia (and China). The doctrine regards any power sufficiently strong to
remain independent of Washington's influence to be `hostile.' The doctrine
states:
`Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either
on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a
threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a
dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and
requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a
region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to
generate global power.'
The Wolfowitz doctrine justifies Washington's dominance of all regions. It
is consistent with the neoconservative ideology of the US as the
`indispensable' and `exceptional' country entitled to world hegemony.
Russia and China are in the way of US world hegemony. Unless the Wolfowitz
doctrine is abandoned, nuclear war is the likely outcome.
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. His latest books are, The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and How America Was Lost. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/
From: A. Papazian
By Paul Craig Roberts
May 02, 2014 "ICH " - Washington
has no intention of allowing the crisis in Ukraine to be resolved. Having
failed to seize the country and evict Russia from its Black Sea naval base,
Washington sees new opportunities in the crisis.
One is to restart the Cold War by forcing the Russian government to occupy
the Russian-speaking areas of present day Ukraine where protesters are
objecting to the stooge anti-Russian government installed in Kiev by the
American coup. These areas of Ukraine are former constituent parts of
Russia herself. They were attached to Ukraine by Soviet leaders in the 20th
century when both Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country, the
USSR.
Essentially, the protesters have established independent governments in the
cities. The police and military units sent to suppress the protesters,
called `terrorists' in the American fashion, for the most part have until
now defected to the protesters.
With Obama's incompetent White House and State Department having botched
Washington's takeover of Ukraine, Washington has been at work shifting the
blame to Russia. According to Washington and its presstitute media, the
protests are orchestrated by the Russian government and have no sincere
basis. If Russia sends in military units to protect the Russian citizens in
the former Russian territories, the act will be used by Washington to
confirm Washington's propaganda of a Russian invasion (as in the case of
Georgia), and Russia will be further demonized.
The Russian government is in a predicament. Moscow does not want financial
responsibility for these territories but cannot stand aside and permit
Russians to be put down by force. The Russian government has attempted to
keep Ukraine intact, relying on the forthcoming elections in Ukraine to
bring to office more realistic leaders than the stooges installed by
Washington.
However, Washington does not want an election that might replace its
stooges and return to cooperating with Russia to resolve the situation.
There is a good chance that Washington will tell its stooges in Kiev to
declare that the crisis brought to Ukraine by Russia prevents an election.
Washington's NATO puppet states would back up this claim.
It is almost certain that despite the Russian government's hopes, the
Russian government is faced with the continuation of both the crisis and
the Washington puppet government in Ukraine.
On May 1 Washington's former ambassador to Russia, now NATO's
`second-in-command' but the person who, being American, calls the shots,
has declared Russia to no longer be a partner but an enemy. The American,
Alexander Vershbow, told journalists that NATO has given up on `drawing
Moscow closer' and soon will deploy a large number of combat forces in
Eastern Europe. Vershbow called this aggressive policy deployment of
`defensive assets to the region.'
In other words, here we have again the lie that the Russian government is
going to forget all about its difficulties in Ukraine and launch attacks on
Poland, the Baltic States, Romania., Moldova, and on the central Asian
states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The dissembler Vershbow wants
to modernize the militaries of these American puppet states and `seize the
opportunity to create the reality on the ground by accepting membership of
aspirant countries into NATO.'
What Vershbow has told the Russian government is that you just keep on
relying on Western good will and reasonableness while we set up sufficient
military forces to prevent Russia from coming to the aid of its oppressed
citizens in Ukraine. Our demonization of Russia is working. It has made you
hesitant to act during the short period when you could preempt us and seize
your former territories. By waiting you give us time to mass forces on your
borders from the Baltic Sea to Central Asia. That will distract you and
keep you from the Ukraine. The oppression we will inflict on your Russians
in Ukraine will discredit you, and the NGOs we finance in the Russian
Federation will appeal to nationalist sentiments and overthrow your
government for failing to come to the aid of Russians and failing to
protect Russia's strategic interests.
Washington is licking its chops, seeing an opportunity to gain Russia as a
puppet state.
Will Putin sit there with his hopes awaiting the West's good will to work
out a solution while Washington attempts to engineer his fall?
The time is approaching when Russia will either have to act to terminate
the crisis or accept an ongoing crisis and distraction in its backyard.
Kiev has launched military airstrikes on protesters in Slavyansk. On May 2
Russian government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Kiev's resort
to
violence had destroyed the hope for the Geneva agreement on de-escalating
the crisis. Yet, the Russian government spokesman again expressed the hope
of the Russian government that European governments and Washington will put
a stop to the military strikes and pressure the Kiev government to
accommodate the protesters in a way that keeps Ukraine together and
restores friendly relations with Russia.
This is a false hope. It assumes that the Wolfowitz doctrine is just words,
but it is not. The Wolfowitz doctrine is the basis of US policy toward
Russia (and China). The doctrine regards any power sufficiently strong to
remain independent of Washington's influence to be `hostile.' The doctrine
states:
`Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either
on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a
threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a
dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and
requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a
region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to
generate global power.'
The Wolfowitz doctrine justifies Washington's dominance of all regions. It
is consistent with the neoconservative ideology of the US as the
`indispensable' and `exceptional' country entitled to world hegemony.
Russia and China are in the way of US world hegemony. Unless the Wolfowitz
doctrine is abandoned, nuclear war is the likely outcome.
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. His latest books are, The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and How America Was Lost. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/
From: A. Papazian