By Paul Craig Roberts.<\/p>\n
Herbert E. Meyer, a nutcase who was a special assistant to the CIA director for a period during the Reagan administration, has penned an article calling for Russian President Putin\u2019s assassination. If we have \u201c to get him out of the Kremlin feet-first with a bullet hole in the back of his head, that would be okay with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the crazed Meyer illiustrates, the insanity that Washington has released upon the world knows no restraint. Jose Manual Barroso, installed as Washington\u2019s puppet as European Commission President, misrepresented his recent confidential telephone conversation with Russia\u2019s President Putin by telling the media that Putin issued a threat: \u201cIf I want to, I can take Kiev in two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clearly, Putin did not issue a threat. A threat would be inconsistent with Putin\u2019s entire unprovocative approach to the strategic threat that Washington and its NATO puppets have brought to Russia in Ukraine. Russia\u2019s permanent representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, said that if Barroso\u2019s lie stands, Russia will make public the full recording of the conversation<\/p>\n
Anyone familiar with the disparity between the Ukrainian and Russian militaries knows full well that it would take the Russian military 14 hours, not 14 days, to take all of Ukraine. Just remember what happened to the American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian Army when Washington set its stupid Georgian puppets on South Ossetia. The American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian army collapsed under Russian counterattack in 5 hours.<\/p>\n
The lie that Washington\u2019s puppet Barroso told was not worthy of a serious person. But where in Europe is there a serious person in power? Nowhere. The few serious people are all out of power. Consider the NATO Secretary General, Anders Rasmussen. He was a prime minister of Denmark who saw he could rise beyond Denmark by serving as Washington\u2019s puppet. As prime minister he strongly supported Washington\u2019s illegal invasion of Iraq, declaring that \u201cwe know that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.\u201d Of course, the fool didn\u2019t know any such thing, and why would it matter if Iraq did have such weapons. Many countries have weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n
According to the rule that anyone who serves Washington is elevated, the cipher Rasmussen was elevated.<\/p>\n
The problem with elevating unprincipled fools is that they risk the world for their career. Rasmussen has now put the entirety of Eastern and Western Europe at risk of annihilation. Rasmussen has announced the creation of a blitzkrieg spearhead force capable of blitzkrieg attack on Russia. What Washington\u2019s puppet calls \u201cthe Readiness Action Plan\u201d is justified as a response to \u201cRussia\u2019s aggressive behavior in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rasmussen\u2019s \u201clightening spearhead force\u201d would be wiped out along with every European capital. What kind of idiot provokes a nuclear superpower in this way?<\/p>\n
Rasmussen asserts \u201cRussia\u2019s aggressive behavior\u201d but has no evidence of it. Russia has stood on the sidelines while Washington\u2019s puppet government in Kiev has shelled and bombed civilian housing, hospitals, schools and issued a constant stream of lies against Russia. Russia denied the requests of the now independent eastern and southern provinces of Ukraine, former Russian territories, to be reunited with Russia. As readers know, I regard Putin\u2019s decision as a mistake, but events might prove me wrong and that is OK with me. For now, the fact is that every act of aggressive behavior is the result of the US and EU support of the Kiev nazis. It is the Ukrainian nazi militias that are attacking civilians in the former Russian territories of eastern and southern Ukraine. A number of regular Ukrainian military units have defected to the independent republics.<\/p>\n
Yes, nazis. Western Ukraine is the home of the Ukrainian SS division that fought for Hitler. Today the militias organized by the Right Sector and other right-wing political organizations wear the nazi insignia of the Ukrainian SS divisions. These are the people that Washington and the EU support. If the Ukrainian nazis could win against Russia, which they cannot, they would turn on the West, just as has the Washington-funded ISIS that Washington unleashed on Libya and Syria. Now ISIS is remaking the Middle East, and Washington appears helpless.<\/p>\n
William Binney, a former high level official in the US National Security Agency, and colleagues from the CIA and military intelligence services have written to German chancellor Merkel advising her to beware of Obama\u2019s lies at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales. The US intelligence officials advise Merkel to remember Iraq\u2019s \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d and don\u2019t again be deceived, this time into conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n
The question is: who does Merkel represent? Washington or Germany? So far Merkel has represented Washington, not German business interests, not the German people, and not Germany\u2019s interests as a country. Here <\/a>is a protest in Dresden where a crowd prevents Merkel\u2019s speech with shouts of \u201ckriegstreiber\u201d (warmonger), \u201cliar, liar,\u201d and \u201cno war with Russia.\u201d <\/p>\n My Ph.D. dissertation chairman, who became a high Pentagon official assigned to wind down the Vietnam war, in answer to my question about how Washington gets Europeans to always do what Washington wants replied: \u201cMoney, we give them money.\u201d \u201cForeign aid?\u201d I asked. \u201cNo, we give the European political leaders bagfuls of money. They are for sale, We bought them. They report to us.\u201d Perhaps this explains Tony Blair\u2019s $50 million fortune one year out of office.<\/p>\n The Western media, the largest brothel on earth, is desperate for war. The editorial board of the Washington Post, now a trophy newspaper in the hands of Amazon.com\u2019s billionaire owner, ran an editorial on August 31 that projected all of Washington\u2019s (and the Post\u2019s) lies upon Putin.<\/p>\n Amazon.com\u2019s owner might know how to market products on the Internet, but he is hopeless when it comes to running a newspaper. His editors at the Washington Post have made his trophy a worldwide laughing stock.<\/p>\n Here are the mindless accusations against Putin from the editors that the billionaire put in charge of his trophy newspaper:<\/p>\n Putin, bitterly resentful at the loss of power from the Soviet collapse, has \u201cresurrected the tyranny of the Big Lie\u201d in order to reconstitute the Russian Empire.<\/p>\n \u201cRussian sponsored militias in Ukraine\u201d are responsible for the \u201cshoot-down of the Malaysian airliner in July.\u201d The \u201cRussian state-controlled media\u201d lied and misrepresented to the Russian people the party responsible for downing the airliner.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the absence of independent and free reporting, few Russians realize that Russian soldiers and armaments are in action in eastern Ukraine, albeit (as in Crimea) in uniforms and vehicles stripped of their identifying insignia and license plates. With no free media, Russians are left to fend for themselves against a firestorm of falsehoods.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Putin\u2019s Big Lie shows why it is important to support a free press where it still exists and outlets like Radio Free Europe that bring the truth to people who need it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As a former Wall Street Journal editor, I can say with complete confidence that such extraordinary propaganda posing as an editorial would have resulted in the immediate firing of all concerned. In my days on the Congressional staff, the Washington Post was regarded as a CIA asset. Today the Post has sunk far below this status.<\/p>\n I have seen much media propaganda in my day, but this Washington Post editorial takes the cake. The editorial shows that either the editorial writers are completely ignorant or they are completely corrupt and also assume that their readers are completely ignorant. If Russian military units were in action in eastern Ukraine, the situation would be precisely as Alexander Zakharchenko and Dmitry Orlov<\/a> describe. Ukraine would no longer exist. Ukraine would again be part of Russia where it was for centuries prior to Washington taking advantage of the Soviet collapse to tear Ukraine away from Russia.<\/p>\n The question before us is: how long will Russia\u2019s patience last with the West\u2019s enormous lies and provocations? No matter how restrained Russia is, Russia is accused of the worst. Therefore, Russia might as well inflict the worst.<\/p>\n At what point will the Russian government decide that Washington\u2019s mendacity, and that of its European puppets and corrupt Western media, render hopeless Russia\u2019s efforts to resolve the situation with diplomacy and unprovocative behavior? As Russia is constantly accused falsely of invading Ukraine, when will the Russian government decide that as Western propaganda has established that Russia has invaded Ukraine and has imposed sanctions and new military bases on Russia\u2019s borders because of the alleged invasion, Russia might as well go ahead and rid themselves of the problem Washington has brought to Russia and invade Ukraine?<\/p>\n There is nothing that NATO could do about it if Russia decides that Ukraine in Washington\u2019s hands is too much of a strategic threat to Russia and reincorporates Ukraine again into Russia where it has resided for centuries. Any NATO force sent would start a war that NATO can\u2019t win. The German population, remembering the consequences of war with Russia, would overthrow Washington\u2019s puppet government. NATO and the EU would collapse as Germany departed the absurd construct that serves Washington\u2019s interest at the expense of Europe.<\/p>\n Once this happens, the world will have peace. But not until.<\/p>\n For those who care to understand how the land of lies works, Washington\u2019s puppet government in Kiev attributes the defeat of its military forces by the Donetsk Republic to the presence in the Donetsk army of Russian military units. This is the propaganda that has gone out to western Ukraine and to the presstitute western media, a collection of whores that echo the propaganda without any investigation whatsoever. However, Kiev has a different story for the IMF. Kiev cannot receive IMF money with which to pay off its Western creditors if Ukraine is at war. Therefore, Ukraine tells the IMF the opposite story: Russia has not attacked Ukraine.<\/p>\n The Western media remains uninterested in any facts. Just the lies. Only the lies.<\/p>\n The Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, Fox \u201cnews,\u201d Die Welt, the French press, the British press all plead: \u201cplease Washington give us more sensational lies that we can trumpet. Our circulation needs it. Who cares about war and the human race if only we can regain financial stability.\u201d<\/p>\n Justin Raimondo warns <\/a>that Washington is planting the seeds of World War III. <\/p>\n By Paul Craig Roberts. Herbert E. Meyer, a nutcase who was a special assistant to the CIA director for a period during the Reagan administration, has penned an article calling for Russian President Putin\u2019s assassination. 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\nDr. 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 and How America Was Lost.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"