{"id":558,"date":"2017-08-25T16:16:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/?p=558"},"modified":"2018-11-10T15:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T13:49:55","slug":"washington-pushes-harder-against-russia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Washington Pushes Harder Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2017\/07\/31\/washington-pushes-harder-russia-paul-craig-roberts\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Craig Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some historians believe that the cause of WW2 was UK prime minister Chamberlain\u2019s appeasement of Hitler\u2019s recovery of German territory given to other countries via the Versailles Treaty in contravention of US President Woodrow Wilson\u2019s promise to Germany that there would be no reparations and no loss of territory if Germany agreed to an armistance ending WW1.<\/p>\n

I do not agree. The facts seem clear. The cause of WW2 was the gratuitous and unenforceable guarantee to the Polish military government given by Chamberlain that if Poland refused to hand German lands and populations back to Germany, Great Britain would be there to support Poland. When Germany and the Soviet Union made the deal to split Poland between them and attacked, Britain due to its stupid \u201cguarantee\u201d declared war on Germany, but not on the Soviet Union. As France was aligned by treaty with Britain, France, too, had to declare war. Because of the reign of propaganda in the West, hardly anyone knows this, but WW2 was started by the British and French declaration of war on Germany. Yet, it was the surviving members of the German regime who were put on trial by the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in Nuremberg for initiating aggressive war.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, as the general opinion is that Chamberlain encouraged Hitler to ever more aggressive actions by the British failure to respond, why has no one pointed out that the Russian government\u2019s lack of response to Washington\u2019s aggressive actions toward Russia encourages Washington to become more aggressive. This also is leading to war.<\/p>\n

The Russian government, like Chamberlain\u2019s, has not responded to provocations far more dangerous than Chamberlain faced, because, like Chamberlain, the Russian government prefers peace to war.<\/p>\n

The question is whether the Russian government is avoiding or encourging war by its non-response to illegal sanctions and propagandistic accusations and demonizations. Russia has even allowed Washington to put ABM bases on its borders with Poland and Romania. This is like the US permitting Russia to put missile bases in Cuba.<\/p>\n

Russia is disadvantaged because, unlike the United States, Russia is an open society, not a police state like the US where dissent is controlled and suppressed. The Russian government is handicapped by its decision to permit foreign ownership of some of its media. It is disadvantaged by its decision to accept hundreds of American and European financed NGOs that organize protests and constantly level false charges at the Russian government. The Russian government permits this because it mistakenly believes Washington and its vassals will see Russia as a tolerant democracy and welcome it into the Western Family of Nations.<\/p>\n

Russia is also disadvantaged by its educated upper class, professors and businessmen who are Western oriented. The professors want to be invited to conferences at Harvard University. The businessmen want to be integrated into the Western business community. These people are known as \u201cAtlanticist Integrationists.\u201d They believe Russia\u2019s future depends on acceptance by the West and are willing to sell out Russia in order to gain this acceptance. Even some of Russian youth think everything is great in America where the streets are paved with gold, and some of the Russian media take their cue from the Western presstitutes.<\/p>\n

It is a difficult situation for the Russian government. The Russians mistakenly believed that the demise of the Soviet Union made us all friends. It seems only Gorbachev understands that the Soviet collapse removed all constraint on Washington\u2019s hegemonic behavior. Few in Russia seem to understand that the enormous budget and power of the US military\/security complex, about which President Eisenhower, warned in 1961, needs an enemy for its justification, and that the Soviet collapse had removed the enemy. The very minute that Russia stood up for its national interest, Washington filled the desperately needed category of \u201cThe Enemy\u201d with Putin\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n

The Russian government and upper class have been extremely slow in realizing this. Indeed, only a few are beginning to see the light.<\/p>\n

Despite the writing on the wall, Russia\u2019s new UN envoy, Vasily Nabenzya declared on July 29 that Russia has no alternative to \u201cbuilding bridges under any circumstances. We will cooperate. Americans cannot go without us, and us without them. This is an objective reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a statement of Russian surrender.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Sergay Ryabkov also refuses to read the writing on the wall. He thinks Washington and Moscow must \u201cbreak the vicious circle of retaliation and start anew.\u201d<\/p>\n

On July 30 Russian President Putin finally responded to the Obama regime\u2019s orchestrated expulsion of Russian diplomats from Washington last Christmas and illegal seizure of Russian government properties in the Washington area by evicting 750 \u201cAmerican diplomats,\u201d in reality agents working to undermine the Russian government. Putin could just as well have arrested them. It only took 7 months for Russia to respond to Washington\u2019s hostile actions against Russian diplomats.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the Russian government shows some awareness that it is permanently designated as Washington\u2019s Number One Enemy. Putin explained the belated expulsion of US \u201cdiplomats\u201d as follows: \u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for quite a long time that maybe something would change for the better, we had hopes that the situation would change. But it looks like, it\u2019s not going to change in the near future\u2026 I decided that it is time for us to show that we will not leave anything unanswered.\u201d<\/p>\n

After saying this, Putin took it all back: \u201cThe main thing is, that we have a multi-faceted cooperation in many fields. Of course, Moscow has a lot to say and there is a number of spheres of cooperation that we could potentially cut and it would be sensitive for the US side. But I think we shouldn\u2019t do it. It would harm development of international relations. I hope it won\u2019t get to that point. As of today, I\u2019m against it.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/398019-putin-us-diplomats-sanctions\/<\/a><\/p>\n

A more realistic response than President Putin\u2019s comes from Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and program director of Putin\u2019s Valdai Discussion Club. Suslov understands that the new illegal sanctions against Russia, in addition to their advantage for US energy corporations, are an act of aggression toward Russia, the purpose of which is to make impossible the improvement of bilateral relations between the US and Russia. \u201cToday,\u201d Suslov said, \u201cit is already clear that the US is our enemy, and will remain our enemy for a long time. Russia needs to adjust its state arms program, reflecting the inevitable military-political confrontation with the US. There must be investments in stratgic deterrance, in maintaining the system of guaranteed mutual destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suslov adds: \u201cPerhaps, it is worthwhile to turn off cooperation with the United States on those issues which are necessary first of all for the US itself. For example, the US depends on Russia in the field of space cooperation. Perhaps there is a need to make adjustments and give up part of the programs of cooperation. It is worthwhile to think about increasing military cooperation between Russia on the American continent \u2014 I mean primarily to build up cooperation with Venezuela,\u201d Suslov said.<\/p>\n

In Washington, anyone who departed as far as Suslov has from the delusions that hinder Russian decision-making would be fired. It will be interesting to see if Suslov has introduced more reality than is acceptible into Russian awareness of the threat that Russia faces from Washington.<\/p>\n

Is Russia a country so desperate to be part of the West that it is ruled by delusions and illusions? If so, war is a certainty.<\/p>\n

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Comments from DiEM25<\/h3>\n

Alexander<\/strong>: <\/em><\/p>\n

I doubt that anyone who has something like a clear mind in Germany would support Roberts \u201canalysis\u201d. So yes what he is saying would be very typical for hardcore right-wing excuses. Even the AfD wouldnt say something like this.
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Also I think<\/em> it is totally false on an analytical level. What Roberts is doing is trying to find the reason for WW2 in Britain because he is arguing the mistake was to support Poland.
\nFirst of all, everyone who knew Hitler\u2019s ideology, which he published in \u201cMein Kampf\u201d in 1923, would have known that he wouldn\u2019t stop after getting Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia.<\/em><\/p>\n

Secondly, I think it strange to argue that helping the country which got attacked means causing WW2. Hitler knew that Poland had a guarantee from the UK and still he attacked.
\nI could go further on, but that could take hours. I\u2019m usually a person who is listening if somebody tries to find an alternative narrative for specific phenomena, but what Roberts tries to do there is anything but smart, in my opinion.<\/em><\/p>\n

WH<\/strong>: <\/em><\/p>\n

I think that what Roberts is trying to do is gather arguments that will help to prevent the next war, rather than give encouragement to the losers of the last one. It is worth being familiar with viewpoints like this if one is trying to develop policies adequate to solving Europe’s present-day problems. But it is not worth allowing them to become a bone of contention.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2017\/07\/31\/washington-pushes-harder-russia-paul-craig-roberts\/ Paul Craig Roberts Some historians believe that the cause of WW2 was UK prime minister Chamberlain\u2019s appeasement of Hitler\u2019s recovery of German territory given to other countries via the Versailles Treaty in contravention of US President Woodrow Wilson\u2019s promise to Germany that there would be no reparations and no loss of territory if Germany agreed to an armistance ending WW1. I do not agree. The facts seem clear. The cause of WW2 was the gratuitous and unenforceable guarantee to the Polish military government given by Chamberlain that if Poland refused to hand German lands and populations back to Germany, Great Britain would be there to support Poland. When Germany and the Soviet Union made the deal to split Poland between them and attacked, Britain due to its stupid \u201cguarantee\u201d declared war on Germany, but not on the Soviet Union. As France was aligned by treaty with Britain, France, too, had to declare war. Because of the reign of propaganda in the West, hardly anyone knows this, but WW2 was started by the British and French declaration of war on Germany. Yet, it was the surviving members of the German regime who were put on trial by the US, UK, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.cse-initiative.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}