Another
Step Toward Armageddon
By Paul
Craig Roberts
January
12, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- The US military/security complex has taken
another step toward Armageddon. The Pentagon has
prepared a nuclear posture review (NPR) that
gives the OK to development of smaller “useable”
nuclear weapons and permits their use in
response to a non-nuclear attack.
As
Reagan and Gorbachev understood, but the
warmongers who have taken over America do not,
there are far too many nuclear weapons already.
Some scientists have concluded that even the use
of 10 percent of either the US or Russian
arsenal would suffice to destroy life on earth.
It is
reckless and irresponsible for Washington to
make such a decision in the wake of years of
aggressive actions taken against Russia. The
Clinton criminal regime broke Washington’s
promise that NATO would not move one each to the
East. The George W. Bush criminal regime pulled
out of the ABM Treaty and changed US war
doctrine to elevate the use of nuclear weapons
from retaliation to first strike. The Obama
criminal regime launched a frontal propaganda
attack on Russia with crazed Hillary’s
denunciation of President Putin as “the new
Hitler.” In an effort to evict Russia from its
naval base in Crimea, the criminal Obama regime
overthrew the Ukrainian government during the
Sochi Olympics and installed a Washington
puppet. US missile bases have been established
on Russia’s border, and NATO conducts war games
against Russia on Russian borders.
This is
insanity. These and other gratuitous
provocations have convinced the Russian
military’s Operation Command that Washington is
planning a surprise nuclear attack on Russia.
The Russian government has replied to these
provocations with the statement that Russia will
never again fight a war on its own territory.
Those such as myself and Stephen Cohen, who
point out that Washington’s reckless and
irresponsible behavior has created an enemy
out of a country that very much wanted to be
friends, do not get much attention from the
presstitute media. The US military/security
complex needs an enemy sufficient to justify
its vast budget and power, and the Western
media has accommodated that selfish and
dangerous need.
Russia
today is far stronger and better armed than the
Soviet Union ever was. Russia also has an
alliance with China, an economic and military
power. This alliance was created by Washington’s
threats against both countries.
Europe
and Japan need to understand that they have
responsibility for the resurrection of the Cold
War in a far more dangerous form than existed in
the 20th century. Europe and Japan, whose
political leaders are owned by Washington, have
taken money from Washington and sold out their
peoples along with the rest of humanity.
The
entirety of the Western World is devoid of
intelligent political leadership. This leaves
countries such as Russia, China and Iran with
the challenge of preserving life on earth as the
Western World pushes humanity toward Armageddon.
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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