Putin Confronts The American Dystopia
Putin Confronts The American Dystopia
Paul Craig Roberts
We have to hand it to Putin. He is
the best that there is. Note the ease with which he mopped up the floor with
that idiot Chris Wallace. https://www.rt.com/usa/433447-putin-interview-fox-wallace/
What is wrong with the US media that
it cannot produce a second competent journalist as company for Tucker Carlson?
Why are America’s remaining good journalists, such as Chris Hedges, now in the
alternate media?
All I can say, and Putin probably
already knows it, is that there is more going on than presstitutes holding the
relationship between Russia and the US hostage to an internal political
struggle between the Democratic Party and President Trump. It is not just that
the corrupt US media is serving as propagandists for the Democratic Party
against President Trump. The presstitutes are serving the interest of the
military/security complex, which has ownership interests in the highly
concentrated US media, to keep Russia positioned as the enemy that justifies
the huge $1,000 billion budget of the military/security complex. Without the
“Russian enemy,” what is the justification for such a waste of money when so
many real needs go underfunded and unfunded?
In other words, the American media
are not only stupid, they are corrupt beyond all measure.
Today at 12:40 Eastern time NPR had a
collection if Trump-bashers doing their utmost to prevent the Trump/Putin
meeting from leading to a normalizing of relations between the two governments.
For example, as every informed person knows, the US intelligence community has
most certainly not concluded that Russia interfered in the presidential
election. That conclusion was reached by a few hand-picked members of 3 of the
16 intelligence agencies and was expressed not as a proven fact but as “highly
likely.” It other words, it was nothing but an orchestrated opinion given by
cooperative agents who no doubt expect promotions in return.
Despite this known fact, the NPR
propaganda team said that Trump had believed Putin instead of an unanimous US
factual intelligence report that proved Russia interfered. The NPR
Trump-bashers said that Trump had believed the “thug Putin” and not his own
American experts. The NPR Trump-bashers went on to compare Trump’s “siding with
Putin” with Trump’s opinion that the Charlottesville violence had contributors
from both sides. The NPR Trump-bashers equated Trump’s factual statement about
violence from both sides with “siding with the neo-nazis” in Charlottesville.
NPR’s point is that Trump sides with
Nazis and Russian thugs and is against Americans.
What Trump said in fact about alleged
election interference was that whether there was or was not any election
interference, it had no effect as Comey and Rosenstein have admitted, and is
certainly not as important as two nuclear powers getting along with one another
and avoiding tensions that could result in nuclear war. One would think that
even an NPR idiot could understand that.
The Trump-bashing on NPR has gone on
all day intermixed with an occasional bashing of Russia for killing Syrian
civilians in air attacks on the Washington-supported jihadists that are, as
instructed by Washington, trying to hold on to a bit of Syria so that
Washington and Israel can restart the war. One wonders at the stupidity of
those who give money to NPR so that NPR can lie to them all day long. Like
George Orwell foresaw, people are more comfortable with Big Brother’s lies than
with the truth.
NPR was once an alternative voice,
but it was broken by the George W. Bush regime and has become completely
corrupt. NPR still pretends to be “listener-supported,” but in fact is now a
commercial station just like every commercial station. NPR tries to disguise this
fact by using “with support from” to introduce the paid advertisements from the
corporations.
“With support from” is how NPR
traditionally acknowledged its philanthropic donors. The real question is: how
does NPR hold on to its 501c3 tax-exempt status when it sells commercial
advertising? No need for NPR to worry. As long as the presstitute entity serves
the ruling elite at the expense of truth, it will retain its illegal tax-exempt
status.
It is obvious that the indictments of
the 12 Russian intelligence officers immediately prior to the Trump/Putin
meeting was intended to harm the meeting and to give the presstitutes more
opportunities for more dishonest shots at President Trump. In my day,
journalists would have been smart enough and would have had enough integrity to
understand that. But Western presstitutes have neither intelligence nor
integrity.
How much proof do you want? Here is
presstitute Michelle Goldberg writing in the New York Times that “Trump shows’s
the world he’s Putin’s lacky.” The presstitute says she is “staggered by the
American president’s slavish and toadying performance.” Apparently Goldberg
thinks Trump should have beaten up Putin.
The Washington Post, formerly a
newspaper, now a sick joke, alleged that “Trump just colluded with Russia.
Openly.”
It is not only the presstitutes. It
is the so-called experts, such as Richard Haass, President of the Council on
Foreign Relations, a self-important group, financed by the military/security
complex, that presides over American foreign policy. Haass, sticking to the
official military/security line, declared erroneously: “International order for
4 centuries has been based on non-interference in the internal affairs of
others and respect for sovereignty. Russia has violated this norm by seizing
Crimea and by interfering in the 2016 US election. We must deal with Putin’s
Russia as the rogue state it is.”
What is Haass talking about? What
respect for sovereignty does Washington have? Surely Haass is familiar with the
ruling neoconservative doctrine of US world hegemony. Surely Haass knows that
the orchestrated troubles with Iraq, Libya, Syria, North Korea, Russia, and
China are due to Washington’s resentment of their sovereignty. What is
Washington’s unilateralism about if Washington respects the sovereignty of
countries? Why does Washington want a unipolar world if Washington respects the
sovereignty of other countries? It is precisely Russia’s insistance on a
multi-polar world that has Russia in the propaganda crosshairs. If Washington
respects sovereignty, why does Washington overthrow countries that have it?
When Washington accuses Russia of being a threat to world order, Washington
means that Russia is a threat to Washington’s world order. Is Haass
demonstrating his idiocy or his corruption?
As the American media has
conclusively proven that it has no independence but is a mouthpiece for
Democrats and corporate interests, it should be nationalized. The American
media is so compromised that nationalization would be an improvement.
The armaments industry should also be
nationalized. Not only is it a power greater than the elected government, it
also is vastly inefficient. The Russian armaments industry with a tiny fraction
of the US military budget produces far superior weapons. As President Eisenhower,
a Five-Star General, said, the military-industrial complex is a threat to
American democracy. Why are the presstitute scum so worried about non-existant
Russian interference when the military/security complex is so powerful that it
can actually substitute itself for the elected government?
There was a time when the Republican
Party represented the interests of business, and the Democratic Party
represented the interests of the working class. That kept America in balance.
Today there is no balance. Since the Clinton regime, the rich one percent has
been getting vastly richer, and the 99 percent has been getting poorer. The
middle class is in serious decline.
The Democrats have abandoned the
working class, which Democrats now dismiss as “Trump deplorables,” and support
instead the divisiveness and hatreds of Identity Politics. At a time when the
American people need unity to stand up to warmongering and greed, there is no
unity. Races and genders are taught to hate one another. It is everywhere you
look.
Compared to the America I was born
into, the America of today is fragile and weak. The only effort at unity is to
create unity that Russia is the enemy. It is just like George Orwell’s 1984. In
other aspects the current American dystopia is worse than the one Orwell
described.
Try to find an American public or
private institution that is worthy of respect, that is honorable, that respects
truth, that is compassionate and strives for justice. What you find in place of
compassion and demand for justice are laws that punish if you criticize the
Israeli genocide of the Palestinians or leak information showing the felonies
committed by the US government. With all of their institutions corrupted, the
American people become corrupted as well. Corruption is what the young are born
into. They know no different. What future is that for America?
How can Russia, China, Iran, North
Korea reach a compromise with a government that does not know the meaning of
the word, a government that requires submission and when submission is not
given destruction follows as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen
learned.
Who would be so foolish as to trust
an agreement with Washington?
Instead of pursuing an agreement with
Trump, who is being set up for removal, Putin should be preparing Russia for
war.
War is definitely coming.
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