As readers know, I have emphasized for years that European governments are regarded by Washington as vassals who behave according to Washington\u2019s wishes. It has been 70 years\u2013two or three generations\u2013since former world powers, such as Great Britain and Germany had an independent foreign policy.<\/p>\n
In addition to this ignobility, European governments are also vassals to the EU, so on the sovereignty front European countries are twice damned. They simply have no sovereignty.<\/p>\n
This is why it is so easy for Washington to spin a web of lies and drive its vassals into a \u201ccrisis\u201d with Russia that does not serve the interests of Europeans. Washington\u2019s European puppets don\u2019t count. Only Washington counts.<\/p>\n
Next month is Russia\u2019s Victory Day celebration over Nazi Germany. Washington has told its puppets not to attend, and many including German chancellor Merkel have complied with their overlord\u2019s demand. But not the President of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
When the US ambassador to the Czech Republic, Andrew Schapiro, advised President Milos Zeman to cancel his participation in the Russian celebration, President Zeman threw the Obama fundraiser out of the presidential castle. The Czech people, President Zeman said, were next in line for extermination by the Nazis, and it was the Red Army that saved the Czech people.<\/p>\n
Of course Washington and its corrupt court historians are at work revising the history of World War II in order to cleanse the record of Russia\u2019s victory over Germany. Of course, everyone in Europe knows that this is just another Washington attempt to control all explanations regardless of the facts, but vassals are accustomed to vassalage and its humiliations. Proud peoples are not what Europeans any longer are.<\/p>\n
Petr Hajek, who served as an advisor to former Czech president Vaclav Klaus, said that the US ambassador thinks he is the governor of a conquered territory issuing orders to the locals and that previous ambassadors from Washington had the same idea:<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Zeman\u2019s position rejecting the advice of the US ambassador is the only possible adequate response. Our country\u2019s leader has carried himself as the President of the Czech Republic, and not as the head of a protectorate of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read more here <\/a>and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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 and How America Was Lost.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As readers know, I have emphasized for years that European governments are regarded by Washington as vassals who behave according to Washington\u2019s wishes. It has been 70 years\u2013two or three generations\u2013since former world powers, such as Great Britain and Germany had an independent foreign policy. In addition to this ignobility, European governments are also vassals … Continue reading “‘Czech Republic is not an American protectorate’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1873],"tags":[7924,12253,1058,66,1638,727],"class_list":["post-18362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-paul-craig-roberts","tag-czech-republic","tag-europe","tag-nazis","tag-russia","tag-us","tag-washington"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2958"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18363,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions\/18363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}