Obama’s White House Press Conference
By Paul Craig Roberts
I just heard on National Public Radio two things
that have totally destroyed what tiny bit of belief
I still had in American leadership. I have concluded
that the term “intelligent American” is an oxymoron.
American elites have decided that Americans are not
sufficiently threatened by war and economic chaos,
so they are bringing the ebola virus to America.
National Public Radio reported that two people
infected with the ebola virus, which cannot be cured
and is usually deadly, are being brought to Emory
University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
All it takes is one cough, one sneeze, one drop of
saliva, and the virus is loose in one of the main
transportation centers of the US.
Pandemic anyone? Little doubt but that most of the
world would emit a great sigh of relief to be rid of
Washington.
Allegedly the ebola carriers will be quarantined in
special rooms. But we already know that American
hospitals cannot even contain staph infections.
http://rt.com/usa/177408-nightmare-bacteria-antibiotic-southeast/
What happens to the utensils, plates, cups, and
glasses with which the ebola infected persons eat
and drink? And who gets to clean the bed pans? One
slip-up by one person, one tear in a rubber glove,
and the virus is loose.
If we don’t die from ebola, we still have to dodge
nuclear war. I heard part of Obama’s press
conference. Obama accused Putin of doing everything
that only Obama is doing.
If Obama believes what he told the press, he is
utterly disinformed by his advisors. If he doesn’t
believe the crude propaganda that he speaks, he is
consciously leading the drive to war with Russia
which probably means war with China as well and the
end of us all.
Keep in mind that after eight years the US military
was unable to successfully occupy Iraq and that
after 13 years the US is unable to defeat a few
thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan.
Russia and China are not Iraq, Libya, or
Afghanistan.
War with Russia will be nuclear. Washington has
prepared for it. Washington has abandoned the ABM
treaty, created what it thinks is an ABM shield, and
changed its war doctrine to permit US nuclear first
strike. All of this is obviously directed at Russia,
and the Russian government knows it. How long will
Russia sit there waiting for Washington’s first
strike?
Russia hasn’t done anything except get in the way,
belatedly, of Washington’s lies that Washington uses
to start wars. Russia (and China) went along with
Washington’s lies about Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction. Russia (and China) went along with
Washington’s lies that Washington’s 13-year
attempted conquest and occupation of Afghanistan had
to do with finding Osama bin Laden. Russia (and
China) fell for Washington’s deception that a UN
resolution establishing a no-fly zone over Libya was
for the purpose of preventing Gaddafi’s air force
from bombing his own people, only to discover that
Washington misused the resolution to send the NATO
air force to overthrow the Libyan government.
When Washington drew a “red line” in the sand with
regard to the Syrian government’s use of chemical
weapons against the outside forces that Washington
had organized and sent into Syria to overthrow the
government, all the while pretending that these
Islamists mercenaries were the true spokesmen for
democracy in Syria, most of the world knew that
Washington was about to organize a chemical attack
and blame Assad. When the Washington orchestrated
attack happened on schedule, this time Russia and
China did not fall for it. And neither did the
British Parliament. Washington was unable to produce
any evidence for the charges that Washington made
and hoped would bring in at least the British to
support Washington’s military assault on Syria.
Russia, however, was able to produce evidence, and
the evidence foiled Washington’s plot against Syria.
Russia’s intervention angered Washington, as did
Russia’s intervention that blocked
Washington’s plot to attack Iran. Washington, devoid
of all evidence and in contradiction to the reports
from the International Atomic Energy Agency from
inspectors on the ground in Iran that there was no
diversion of uranium from the legal energy program
to a weapons program, had Iran set up for attack.
Iran was surrounded by about 40 US military bases
and two of Washington’s fleets off its coast.
But in stepped Russia and worked out a deal, which
Washington had to accept, that kept Iranian uranium
enrichment at the low level used for energy, a level
far below weapons requirements.
Two black marks agains Russia whose government
prevented wars that Washington wanted. Russia (and
China) were supposed to endorse Washington’s lies
like the puppet states of Europe, Canada, Australia,
and Japan, countries that long ago gave up their
sovereignty to Washington.
Unfortunately for Russia, Russia demonstrated that
Russia had achieved sufficient power and influence
to block Washington’s war plans and, thereby,
brought into action against Russia the Wolfowitz
Doctrine. I have cited this doctrine in recent
columns, but you can google it and read it for
yourself. The doctrine is the basis for Washington’s
foreign policy and declares that the principle goal
of Washington’s foreign policy is to prevent the
rise of any country that could serve as a check on
Washington’s hegemony over the world. (The doctrine
explicitly mentions Russia but also applies to
China.)
Washington is disturbed that Russia has twice foiled
Washington’s war intentions and that the Parliament
of the US Puppet State of Great Britain voted with
the Russians.
Washington is also concerned with the growing
economic and political relations between
Washington’s EU puppet states and Russia. EU
countries, especially Germany, have numerous and
profitable economic connections with Russia, and all
of Europe is dependent on Russian supplied energy.
Washington concluded that Washington was in danger
of losing its control over Europe.
While the Russian government was asleep at the
switch enjoying the Olympics, Washington pulled off
its coup in Kiev.
Neoconservative Victoria Nuland, appointed by Obama
as Assistant Secretary of State,
announced at a press conference last December that
Washington had spent $5 billion
purchasing fifth column Ukrainian NGOs that can be
put into street demonstrations to destabilize a
government and on grooming and purchasing Ukrainian
politicians who will serve as Washington’s stooges.
Nuland, of course, described Washington’s purchase
of Ukraine as “furthering democracy” in Ukraine.
Washington’s coup against a democratically elected
government brought to power extreme elements that
proclaimed their hatred of Jews and Russians. These
elements destroyed Russian war memorials erected to
remember Russia’s liberation of Ukraine from the
Third Reich, passed legislation outlawing Russian as
an official language, and engaged in violent
physical attacks on the Russian speaking population.
Ukraine has always been an area of changing borders.
As some have put it, “Ukraine is a country in search
of borders.” When Ukraine was a Soviet province,
Soviet leaders attached, for various reasons,
traditional Russian provinces to the Ukraine
Socialist Soviet Republic. When the Soviet Union
collapsed in 1991, pressure from Washington on a
weak Russia resulted in the separation of Ukraine
from Russia and this included Crimea, a part of
Russia since the 1700s and Russia’s warm water port.
The Russian populations in the former Russian
territories that Soviet leaders foolishly attached
to Ukraine were alarmed by the extreme Russophobia
of the government that Washington established in
Kiev. The former Russian territories voted to rejoin
their mother country and to depart the Russophobic
US puppet state established in Kiev.
The Russian government accepted the request from
Crimea, but not the requests from the other former
Russian provinces in order to demonstrate to Europe
that Russia was not provocative and not the source
of the crisis. Putin even had the Russian Duma
rescind his power to intervene militarily in Ukraine
in order to protect the secessionist provinces.
This restraint hurt rather than helped the Russian
government’s position. Washington
used its propaganda machine to label
self-determination by Crimeans as “invasion and
annexation by Russia of Crimea.”
Russia’s restraint with regard to requests to rejoin
Russia from the other former Russian provinces
resulted in a Washington encouraged military attack
by its puppet government in Kiev against the
separatist provinces that Russia refused to accept.
Washington’s propaganda then succeeded in blaming
Russia for the war that Washington launched on the
separatist provinces.
Washington is not interested in the truth, and
Russia cannot win a propaganda war with Washington
which controls the world language, which is English,
the language of Washington’s propaganda. The Western
media consists of idiots who are enabling
Washington’s drive toward war and the extermination
of life on earth.
If the Russian government had accepted the
separatist provinces request, there would be no war.
The Ukrainian government is demented and controlled
by Washington, but it is not going to attack
territories acknowledged by Russia as its territory.
By showing restraint, Russia has convinced
Washington that Russia is weak, and Washington has
increased the pressure. Russia has convinced Europe
that there is
no cost from Russia to Europe’s complying with
Washington’s sanctions. By relying on good will,
reasonableness, truth and evidence, Russia has
misread Washington and its craven European puppets.
What Obama meant in his White House Press Conference
today (August 1) when he said that Putin should use
diplomacy–which Putin has been using to no effect–is
that Putin should hand Crimea, over the objection of
Crimeans and the Russian people, to Washington’s
puppet government in Kiev so that Washington can
evict Russia from its warm weather port and access
to the Mediterranean Sea, thus making redundant
Russia’s naval base at Tartus, Syria. Obama also
wants Putin to send into the separatist areas of
Ukraine, areas that traditionally were part of
Russia, Russian military forces to subdue the
breakaway territories for Washington’s puppet
government in Kiev.
This is Washington’s “diplomatic” position. Only a
totally demented person could regard Obama’s
position as realistic.
As a person who is considered fair-minded by world
media and who arrives at reasonable conclusions
independently of Washington’s propaganda, I am often
interviewed by foreign as well as US independent
media organizations. As of late, the Russian media
has turned to me on a number of occasions. What I
have learned is that the Russian media is perplexed
by Washington’s hostility to Russia.
Russia is not operating in the old Confederate South
trying to turn the American South
against Washington for Washington’s rapine, murder,
and destruction of the Southern culture, but
Washington is operating in the Russian South trying
to turn Ukraine, long a part of Russia, against
Russia.
As Russians, except perhaps for the government, are
unaware of the Wolfowitz Doctrine, they do not know
that the main goal of Washington is to prevent the
rise of all other powers that could limit
Washington’s role as sole Unipower, Hegemon over
Earth.
Instead of realizing the real threat, Russian media
organizations ask me if the Russian budget can stand
responding to sanctions from Washington and the EU
by cutting off the energy supply to Europe.
Each time I hear this question I am astonished.
Russia can shut down much of European industry and
deprive the Europeans of heat in winter, and Russian
media ask me if Russia can afford it?
Can Russia afford to be demonized by lies, to be
driven into the ground by propagandistic sanctions
that will hurt Europe and some US corporations, to
convey the
image that Russia is so weak as to be helpless in
the face of Western sanctions as to accept the
sanctions without demonstrating the cost to Europe
and the US?
Does Washington even have Russians brainwashed?
I am concerned about the crisis that Washington has
orchestrated, because I believe it is leading to
war, which will be nuclear. Are you ready to be
destroyed over Washington’s lies about one Malaysian
airliner? I am convinced that Washington is behind
the destruction of MH-17, because Washington’s
propaganda show was already ready and was instantly
in performance. That Washington is responsible is
the reason that Washington will not release its
satellite photos of the area during the moment of
the airliner’s destruction. That Washington is
responsible is the reason that Washington replies to
Russian hard evidence with lies and propaganda. It
is Obama and Obama’s stooges in Kiev that refuse to
negotiate, not Russia.
Russia has as many nuclear warheads as Washington,
and Washington’s “ABM shield” is a farce. If the
insane American government drives a crisis, which
Washington alone created, to war, we will all die,
and for what? The answer is: for a Washington LIE.
Do you want to die for a lie? Another Washington
lie?
If you don’t, you had better let Washington know.
Russia cannot end this crisis unless it puts its
foot down. I have previously made the case that
Russia should take its case to the UN.
Alternatively, the Russian government needs to
engage Europe in two questions. One is does Europe
want its energy supplies from Russia cut off, energy
that Washington, despite its lies, cannot replace
for 3 or more years if at all.. The other is does
Europe want war with Russia and does Europe think
that those idiotic countries that host Washington’s
missiles won’t be nuked and exterminated?
The crisis in Ukraine will continue to Russia’s and
all of humanity’s cost until Russia explains to the
stupid, arrogant, hubris-filled West that the West’s
criminal and aggressive actions against Russia bear
a real cost, and that Russia is prepared to impose
the cost.
The propagandized people in the West have no idea of
the fate toward which their demented governments are
driving them. Russia needs to make it clear to the
brainwashed propagandized peoples in the West that
Russia is not going to be a puppet state of the West
or to accept gratuitous aggression from the White
House Fool.
It would help to save life on Earth if China also
made this clear.
The sooner the better.
Unless the world reins in the demented criminals in
Washington, the world has signed its own death
warrant.
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