Better
Relations Between the US and Russia Are Not In
the Cards
By Paul
Craig Roberts
October
25, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
-By now Russians must wonder if
the better relations they desire with the US are
ever to be.US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat from
Hawaii is the latest peacemaker to be declared
“a Russian asset” by Hillary, the DNC, and the
presstitutes.
The way
the Democrats, the presstitutes, and their
Puppet Master—the military/security complex—have
it rigged, unless you want to bomb Russia into
the stone age, you are a Russian asset.
How,
then, can any American leader advocate bringing
the dangerous tensions with Russia to an end?
Look
what happened to Trump when he declared his
intention of “normalizing relations with
Russia.”There is nothing more desperate that
needs doing, but it cannot happen.
Two
immovable mountains stand in the way.
One is
the military/security complex’s need for an
enemy in order to justify the military/security
complex’s $1,000 billion dollar annual budget
and the power that comes with it. Fifty-eight
years ago in his last address to the American
people, President Dwight Eisenhower warned that
“we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist.We must never let the weight of this
combination endanger our liberties or democratic
processes. We should take nothing for granted
only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can
compel the proper meshing of huge industrial and
military machinery of defense with our peaceful
methods and goals, so that security and liberty
may prosper together.”
Ike’s
warning went unheeded, and today, more than a
half century later, the military/security
complex rules America.
The other immovable mountain is the US world
hegemonic ideology of the neoconservatives who
have controlled US foreign policy since the
Clinton regime.The neoconservatives declare the US to be
the “indispensible, exceptional” country with
the right to impose its will and agendas on the
rest of the world.
The
collapse of the Soviet Union removed all
constraints on Washington’s unilateralism.There was no longer another global power
to get in Washington’s way.To keep it this way, neoconservative
Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz set
out the Wolfowitz Doctrine.The doctrine states that it is the “first
objective” of US foreign and military policy to
prevent the rise of Russia or any country
capable of serving as a check on US unilateral
action.Caught offguard by Vladimir Putin, who
restored Russian sovereignty from Russia’s
status as an American vassal under Yeltsin, the
neoconservatives and their Western media whores
have launched massive propaganda attacks on
Russia in order to demonize, isolate,
marginalize, and perhaps overthrow with
American-financed NGOs, as happened to Ukraine
in theMaidan Revolution and as the US is
currently attempting in Hong Kong against China.
The hegemonic ideology of the neoconservatives
and the military/security complex’s need for an
enemy preclude any normalization of relations
with Russia.
As I
and Stephen Cohn have emphasized, the current
tensions between the two nuclear superpowers are
far more dangerous than during the Cold War.During the Cold War every American
president worked with his Soviet counterpart to
reduce tensions.John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev defused
the Cuban missile crisis and removed the US
missiles from Turkey.JFK’s reward was to be assassinated by
the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff who
concluded that JFK was soft on communism and a
threat to the national security of the United
States.
President Richard Nixon opened to China and
negotiated the SALT I Treaty and the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Leonid
Brezhnev. Nixon’s reward was to be politically
assassinated with the Watergate orchestration
and forced to resign.
President Carter and Brezhnev signed the SALT II
Treaty, and Carter was rewarded by the
military/security complex throwing its money
behind anti-communist Reagan.
President Reagan outmaneuvered the
military/security complex,and he and Gorbachev ended the Cold War.
The George H.W. Bush administration gave
assurances to Gorbachev that if the Soviet Union
permitted the reunification of Germany, the US
would neither incorporate the former Warsaw Pact
into NATO nor move NATO one inch to the East.
The
Clinton regime reneged on the word of the US
Government and moved NATO to Russia’s borders.
Subsequent US regimes—George W. Bush, Obama,
Trump—have pulled out of the remaining treaties
and agreements and, thereby, elevated the
tensions between the nuclear superpowers to the
pre-Kennedy era.
The danger of this development is not
appreciated.Nuclear warning systems of incoming ICBMs
are notorious for false warnings.During the Cold War both sides received
false alarms of incoming attacks, but neither
the Amerians nor the Soviets ever pushed the
button in response to the warnings.
Why?The reason is that both sides understood
that they were working to reduce tensions and to
build trust.Both sides understood that in this
atmosphere the alarms had to be false.
Today
the situation is very different.Russia and its leadership have been
demonized and excoriated by Western politicians
and media.Americans and their vassals in Europe
have been taught to hate and fear Russians.The Russian government has experienced
false accusations never before experienced in
diplomatic affairs.Neither side can possibly trust the
other.Add to this the fact that response times
are now in the minutes, and you should be able
to comprehend that the world can be blown up due
to nothing more than a false alarm.
For the
ideological neoconservatives and the
greed-ridden corrupt American military/security
complex to put life on Earth under this kind of
risk indicates that neither neoconservatives nor
armaments industries are capable of subordining
their self-interests to life itself.
Normally, the restrained, non-confrontational
responses of Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov to American insults and
provocative actions would be admirable.But with the US playing the role of the
bully, passive Russian responses to bullying
encourage more bullying.As kids of my generation learned, when
confronted with a bully you immediately stand up
to him.Otherwise, he sees you as lacking
self-respect and resolve and ups the bullying.
The only way to avoid the fight is to stand up
to him immediately.
The Russian government’s failure to stand up to
Washington’s bullying guarantees more bullying.Sooner or later the bullying will cross a
line, and Russia will have to fight.
A less
passive Russian government could do a lot for
peace.
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