A Decisive Shift In The Power Balance Has Occurred — Paul Craig Roberts
A Decisive Shift In The Power Balance Has Occurred
Paul Craig Roberts
The world is beginning to realize that a seachange in
world affairs occured on September 28 when President Putin of Russia stated in
his UN speech that Russia can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid,
and failed policies that have unleashed chaos, which is engulfing the Middle
East and now Europe. Two days later, Russia took over the military situation in
Syria and began the destruction of the Islamic State forces.
Perhaps among Obama’s advisors there are a few who are
not drowning in hubris and can
understand this seachange. Sputnik news reports that some high-level security
advisors to Obama have advised him to withdraw US military forces from Syria
and give up his plan to overthrow Assad. They advised Obama to cooperate with
Russia in order to stop the refugee flow that is overwhelming Washington’s
vassals in Europe. The influx of unwanted peoples is making Europeans aware of
the high cost of enabling US foreign policy. Advisors have told Obama that the
idiocy of the neoconvatives’ policies threaten Washington’s empire in Europe.
Several commentators, such as Mike Whitney and Stephen
Lendman, have concluded, correctly, that there is nothing that Washington can
do about Russian actions against the Islamic State. The neoconservatives’ plan
for a UN no-fly zone over Syria in order to push out the Russians is a
pipedream. No such resolution will come out of the UN. Indeed, the Russians
have already established a de facto no-fly zone.
Putin, without issuing any verbal threats or engaging
in any name-calling, has decisively shifted the power balance, and the world knows it.
Washington’s response consists of name-calling,
bluster and more lies, some of which is echoed by some of Washington’s ever
more doubtful vassals. The only effect is to demonstrate Washington’s
impotence.
If Obama has any sense, he will dismiss from his
government the neoconservative morons who have squandered Washington’s power,
and he will focus instead on holding on to Europe by working with Russia to
destroy, rather than to sponsor, the terrorism in the Middle East that is
overwhelming Europe with refugees.
If Obama cannot admit a mistake, the United States
will continue to lose credibility and prestige around the world.
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