From: Paul Craig Roberts
The Western pubic doesn’t know it, but Washington and its European
vassals are convincing Russia that they are preparing to attack. Eric
Zuesse reports on a German newspaper leak of a Bundeswehr decision to
declare Russia to be an enemy nation of Germany.
This is the interpretation that some Russian politicians themselves have put on the NATO military bases that Washington is establishing on Russia’s borders.
Washington might intend the military buildup as pressure on President
Putin to reduce Russian opposition to Washington’s unilateralism.
However, it reminds some outspoken Russians such as Vladimir Zhirinovsky
of Hitler’s troops on Russia’s border in 1941.
Zhirinovsky is the founder and leader of Russia’s Liberal Democratic
Party and a vice chairman of the Russian parliament. In a confrontation
with the editor of a German newspaper, Zhirinovsky tells him that
German troops again on Russia’s border will provoke a preventive strike
after which nothing will remain of German and NATO troops. “The more
NATO soldiers in your territory, the faster you are going to die. To the
last man. Remove NATO from your territory!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQm8L8d8uDc
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has expressed his frustration
with Washington’s reliance on force and coercion instead of diplomacy.
It is reckless for Washington to convince Russia that diplomacy is a
dead end without promise. When the Russians reach that conclusion,
force will confront force.
Indeed Zhirinovsky has already reached that point and perhaps
Vladimir Putin also. As I reported, Putin recently dressed down Western
presstitutes for their role in fomenting nuclear war. http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/07/08/are-you-planning-your-retirement-forget-about-it-you-wont-survive-to-experience-it/ See also: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45055.htm
Putin has made it clear that Russia will not accept US missile bases in Poland and Romania. He has informed Washington and the imbecilic Polish and Romanian governments.
However, as Putin observed, “they don’t
hear.”
The inability to hear means that Washington’s arrogance has made
Washington too stupid to take seriously Putin’s warning. If Washington
persists, it will provoke the preventive strike that Zhirinovsky told
the German editor the Merkel regime was inviting.
Americans need to wake up to the dangerous situation that Washington
has created, but I doubt they will. Most wars happen without the
public’s knowledge until they happen. The main function of the American
left-wing is to serve as a bogyman with which to scare conservatives
about the country’s loss of morals, and the main function of
conservatives is to create fear and hysteria about immigrants, Muslims,
and Russians. There is no sign that Congress is aware of approaching
Armageddon, and the media consists of propaganda.
I and a few others try to alert people to the real threats that they
face, but our voices are not loud enough. Not even Vladimir Putin’s
voice is loud enough. It looks like the West won’t hear until “there
remains nothing at all of the German and NATO troops,” and of Poland and
Romania and the rest of us.
