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Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?
Obama’s September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies while simultaneously demonstrating Washington’s double standards and belief that Washington alone, because the US is exceptional and indispensable, has the right to violate all law.
It is even more amazing that every person present did not get up and walk out of the assembly.
The diplomats of the world actually sat there and listened to blatant lies from the world’s worst terrorist. They even clapped their approval.
The rest of the speech was just utter bullshit: “We stand at a crossroads,” “signposts of progress,” “reduced chance of war between major powers,” “hundreds of millions lifted from poverty,” and while ebola ravages Africa “we’ve learned how to cure disease and harness the power of the wind and the sun.” We are now God. “We” is comprised of the “exceptional people”–Americans. No one else counts. “We” are it.
It is impossible to pick the most absurd statement in Obama’s speech or the most outrageous lie. Is it this one? “Russian aggression in Europe recalls the days when large nations trampled small ones in pursuit of territorial ambition.”
Or is it this one? “After the people of Ukraine mobilized popular protests and calls for reform, their corrupt president fled. Against the will of the government in Kiev, Crimea was annexed. Russia poured arms into eastern Ukraine, fueling violent separatists and a conflict that has killed thousands. When a civilian airliner was shot down from areas that these proxies controlled, they refused to allow access to the crash for days. When Ukraine started to reassert control over its territory, Russia gave up the pretense of merely supporting the separatists, and moved troops across the border.”
The entire world knows that Washington overthrew the elected Ukrainian government, that Washington refuses to release its satellite photos of the destruction of the Malaysian airliner, that Ukraine refuses to release its air traffic control instructions to the airliner, that Washington has prevented a real investigation of the airliner’s destruction, that European experts on the scene have testified that both sides of the airliner’s cockpit demonstrate machine gun fire, an indication that the airliner was shot down by the Ukrainian jets that were following it. Indeed, there has been no explanation why Ukrainian jets were close on the heels of an airliner directed by Ukrainian air traffic control.
The entire world knows that if Russia had territorial ambitions, when the Russian military defeated the American trained and supplied Georgian army that attacked South Ossetia, Russia would have kept Georgia and reincorporated it within Russia where it resided for centuries.
Notice that it is not aggression when Washington bombs and invades seven countries in 13 years without a declaration of war. Aggression occurs when Russia accepts the petition of Crimeans who voted 97 percent in favor of reuniting with Russia where Crimea resided for centuries before Khrushchev attached it to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine in 1954 when Ukraine and Russia were part of the same country.
And the entire world knows that, as the separatist leader of the Donetsk Republic said, “If Russian military units were fighting with us, the news would not be the fall of Mariupol but the fall of Kiev and Lviv.”
Which is “the cancer of violent extremism”–ISIS which cut off the heads of four journalists, or Washington which has bombed seven countries in the 21st century murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians and displacing millions?
Who is the worst terrorist–ISIS, a group that is redrawing the artificial boundaries created by British and French colonialists, or Washington with its Wolfowitz Doctrine, the basis of US foreign policy, which declares Washington’s dominant objective to be US hegemony over the world?
ISIS is the creation of Washington. ISIS consists of the jihadists Washington used to overthrow Gaddafi in Libya and then sent to Syria to overthrow Assad. If ISIS is a “network of death,” a “brand of evil” with which negotiation is impossible as Obama declares, it is a network of death created by the Obama regime itself. If ISIS poses the threat that Obama claims, how can the regime that created the threat be credible in leading the fight against it?
Obama never mentioned in his speech the central problem that the world faces. That problem is Washington’s inability to accept the existence of strong independent countries such as Russia and China. The neoconservative Wolfowitz Doctrine commits the United States to maintaining its status as the sole Unipower. This task requires Washington “to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.” A “hostile power” is any country that has sufficient power or influence to be able to limit Washington’s exercise of power.
The Wolfowitz Doctrine explicitly targets Russia: “Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere.” A “rival” is defined as any country capable of defending its interests or those of allies against Washington’s hegemony.
In his speech, Obama told Russia and China that they can be part of Washington’s world order on the condition that they accept Washington’s hegemony and do not interfere in any way with Washington’s control. When Obama tells Russia that the US will cooperate with Russia “if Russia changes course,” Obama means that Moscow must accept the primacy of Washington’s interest over Russia’s own interest.
Clearly, this is an inflexible and unrealistic position. If Washington keeps to it, war with Russia and China will ensue.
Obama told China that Washington intended to continue to be a Pacific power in China’s sphere of influence, “promoting peace, stability, and the free flow of commerce among nations” by building new US air and naval bases from the Philippines to Vietnam so that Washington can control the flow of resources in the South China Sea and cut off China at will.
As far as I can tell, neither the Russian nor Chinese governments understand the seriousness of the threat that Washington represents. Washington’s claim to world hegemony seems too farfetched to Russia and China to be real. But it is very real.
By refusing to take the threat seriously, Russia and China have not responded in ways that would bring an end to the threat without the necessity of war.
For example, the Russian government could most likely destroy NATO by responding to sanctions imposed by Washington and the EU by informing European governments that Russia does not sell natural gas to members of NATO. Instead of using this power, Russia has foolishly allowed the EU to accumulate record amounts of stored natural gas to see homes and industry through the coming winter.
Has Russia sold out its national interests for money?
Much of Washington’s power and financial hegemony rests on the role of the US dollar as world reserve currency. Russia and China have been slow, even negligent from the standpoint of defending their sovereignty, to take advantage of opportunities to undermine this pillar of Washington’s power. For example, the BRICS’ talk of abandoning the dollar payments system has been more talk than action. Russia doesn’t even require Washington’s European puppet states to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles.
One might think that a country such as Russia experiencing such extreme hostility and demonization from the West would at least use the gas sales to support its own currency instead of Washington’s dollar. If the Russian government is going to continue to support the economies of European countries hostile to Russia and to prevent the European peoples from freezing during the coming winter, shouldn’t Russia in exchange for this extraordinary subsidy to its enemies at least arrange to support its own currency by demanding payment in rubles? Unfortunately for Russia, Russia is infected with Western trained neoliberal economists who represent Western, not Russian, interests.
When the West sees such extraordinary weakness on the part of the Russian government, Obama knows he can go to the UN and tell the most blatant lies about Russia with no cost whatsoever to the US or Europe. Russian inaction subsidizes Russia’s demonization.
China has been no more successful than Russia in using its opportunities to destabilize Washington. For example, it is a known fact, as Dave Kranzler and I have repeatedly demonstrated, that the Federal Reserve uses its bullion bank agents to knock down the gold price in order to protect the dollar’s value from the Federal Reserve’s policies. The method used is for the bullion banks to drive down the gold price with enormous amounts of naked shorts during periods of low or nonexistent volume.
China or Russia or both could take advantage of this tactic by purchasing every naked short sold plus all covered shorts, if any, and demanding delivery instead of settling the contracts in cash. Neither New York Comex nor the London market could make delivery, and the system would implode. The consequence of the failure to deliver possibly could be catastrophic for the Western financial system, but in the least it would demonstrate the corrupt nature of Western financial institutions.
Or China could deal a more lethal blow. Choosing a time of heightened concern or disruptions in US financial markets, China could dump its trillion dollar plus holdings of US treasuries, or indeed all its holdings of US financial instruments, on the market. The Federal Reserve and the US Treasury could try to stabilize the prices of US financial instruments by creating money with which to purchase the bonds and other instruments. This money creation would increase concern about the dollar’s value, and at that point China could dump the trillion dollars plus it receives from its bond sales on the exchange market. The Federal Reserve cannot print foreign currencies with which to buy up the dollars. The dollar’s exchange value would collapse and with it the dollar’s use as world reserve currency. The US would become just another broke country unable to pay for its imports.
Possibly, Washington could get Japan and the European Central Bank to print enough yen and euros to buy up the dumped dollars. However, the likelihood is that this would bring down the yen and euro along with the dollar.
Flight would occur into the Chinese and Russian currencies, and financial hegemony would depart the West.
By their restraint, Russia and China enable Washington’s attack upon them. Last week Washington put thousands of its NGO operatives into the Moscow streets protesting “Putin’s war against Ukraine.” Foolishly, Russia has permitted foreign interests to buy up its newspapers, and these interests continually denounce Putin and the Russian government to their Russian readers.
Did Russia sell its soul and communication system for dollars? Did a few oligarchs sell out Russia for Swiss and London bank deposits?
Both Russia and China have Muslim populations among whom the CIA operates encouraging disassociation, rebellion, and violence. Washington intends to break up the Russian Federation into smaller, weaker countries that could not stand in the way of Washington’s hegemony. Russian and Chinese fear of discord among their own Muslim populations have caused both governments to make the extremely serious strategic mistake of aligning with Washington against ISIS and with Washington’s policy of protecting Washington’s status quo in the Muslim world.
If Russia and China understood the deadly threat that Washington presents, both governments would operate according to the time honored principle that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Russia and China would arm ISIS with surface to air missiles to bring down the American planes and with military intelligence in order to achieve an American defeat. With defeat would come the overthrow of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt and all of the American puppet rulers in the area. Washington would lose control over oil, and the petro-dollar would be history. It is extraordinary that instead Russia and China are working to protect Washington’s control over the Middle East and the petro-dollar.
China is subject to a variety of attacks. The Rockefeller Foundation creates American agents in Chinese universities, or so I am informed by Chinese academics. American companies that locate in China create Chinese boards on which they place the relatives of local and regional party officials. This shifts loyalty from the central government to the American money. Moreover, China has many economists educated in the US who are imbued with the neoliberal economics that represents Washington’s interests.
Both Russia and China have significant percentages of their populations who wish to be western. The failure of communism in both countries and the success of American cold war propaganda have created loyalties to America in place of their own governments. In Russia they go by the designation “Atlanticist Integrationists.” They are Russians who wish to be integrated into the West. I know less about the Chinese counterpart, but among youth Western materialism and lack of sexual restraint is appealing.
The inability of the Russian and Chinese governments to come to terms with the threat posed to their existence as sovereign countries by the neoconservative insistence on American world hegemony makes nuclear war more likely. If Russia and China catch on too late in the game, their only alternative will be war or submission to Washington’s hegemony. As there is no possibility of the US and NATO invading and occupying Russia and China, the war would be nuclear.
To avoid this war, which, as so many experts have shown, would terminate life on earth, the Russian and Chinese governments must soon become far more realistic in their assessment of the evil that resides in what Washington has turned into the world’s worst terrorist state–the US.
It is possible that Russia, China, and the rest of the world will be saved by American economic collapse. The US economy is a house of cards. Real median family incomes are in long-term decline. Universities produce graduates with degrees and heavy debts but no jobs. The bond market is rigged by the Federal Reserve which necessitates rigging the bullion markets in order to protect the dollar. The stock market is rigged by the outpouring of money from the Federal Reserve, by the Plunge Protection Team, and by corporations repurchasing their own stock. The dollar is supported by tradition, habit, and currency swaps.
The American House of Cards continues to stand only as a result of the tolerance of the world for vast corruption and disinformation and because greed is satisfied by the money made from a rigged system.
Russia and/or China could pull down this House of Cards whenever either country or both had leadership capable of it.
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. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is now available.
102 Comments on "Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?"
paulo1 on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 8:13 am
re:”Russia and/or China could pull down this House of Cards whenever either country or both had leadership capable of it.”
hah.
This is what we do in our family and what I suggest to those who ask:
Don’t practice the consumer religion for life meaning and purpose.
When you do have to buy things: buy local if possible, buy north american products if possible, look for a union made sticker on product. (Obviously this doesn’t apply to those who live elsewhere).
Use cash as much as possible so it is not replaced by easy to monitor plastic.
Don’t buy Chinese crap/products if at all possible. Ever. Need a new coffe maker? Read the box beyond the price tag.
Live below your needs and have no debt. Don’t buy anything beyond a reasonable mortgage unless you already have the cash to pay for it.
As for Russia and China pulling down the house? I hope they remember they live on the same inter-dependent foundation as the ‘consumer’. They are the consumer drug dealers of resources and plastic crap. They have to sell to someone as it stands right now.
Paulo
JuanP on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 8:37 am
“Obama’s September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life.”
This person obviously didn’t watch Ukraine’s President Poroshenko addressing the US congress. I recommend that to anyone that still believes in the US government. It was a real three ring circus show.
I am having second thoughts about staying with my wife here in the states. I think she’d be much better off in Uruguay. This country is in the hands of retarded lunatics and is going to hell in a handbasket. I am brutally dissapointed with the US government. The only reason we are still here is I don’t want to go back, but I think it would be better for us to go.
Makati1 on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 8:43 am
paulo1, most of America is so in debt that freedom from the banksters is impossible. College students owe over a trillion dollars that they will NEVER be able to pay back because there are no jobs for them and will drag that chain with them until they die. 49+ million in the soup lines. Over 20% are living off of government dole. And on and on. The US is a 3rd world country pretending to be ‘exceptional’. The UN diplomats didn’t leave because many of them are either blackmailed or in debt to the Empire. It is the few still independent that the Empire is trying to eradicate. Russia, China, and Iran.
Russia and China are trying to take down the Empire by killing the dollar. If they can succeed in that and prevent a war, they will. But, I don’t think the Empire will allow it to happen. It’s only a question of who pushes the button first.
Infowars is an ultra-conservative, radical news source. A lot of facts and some hype but basically shows the real side of America. The side everyone outside the Empire already knows.
Makati1 on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 8:46 am
JuanP, don’t wait until you cannot go. I see all kinds of controls being used to keep people and their savings from leaving the US, eventually. I wish I could get my kids to move here, but they don’t think it will get that bad, and they would have to learn to live a different lifestyle.
JuanP on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 9:09 am
PCR has been pissed for years and I can understand him. As Undersecretary of the Treasury for Political Economy under Ronald Reagan, he was instrumental in designing an implementing the economic policies that combined with lower oil prices destroyed the USSR. I deeply admire the work he did for Reagan, even if I had very different political views from them back then. From his perspective every government since Clinton has betrayed what they achieved by seeking global hegemony and expanding NATO to Russia’s borders, turning Russia into an enemy again.
I, unfortunately, have come to the conclusion that much of what he says is too close to the truth for comfort.
JuanP on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 9:15 am
Mak, With any luck your kids and you will be together. Family will become more important after collapse. But like you said, we can’t wait too long or we may not have a choice. I will probably travel to Uruguay this year and then make up my mind.
Good luck to all, we are going to need it!
herrmeier on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 9:56 am
If Uruguay is anything like mexico, I could only live there for retirement, but not for a professional career. I have family in Mexico and Italy and it is amazing how alike those countries are. I’m constantly in shock of how you have to bypass/play/bribe your way thru anything to be able to get stuff done. If you go the official way, and dont’ have any connections, you’re done, can’t even get telephone service established within a reasonable time. At least in the US the bureaucracy is reasonably efficient and bearable.
beammeup on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 10:04 am
I’m hugely disappointed that PO would post this type of partisan political opinion piece in its news section. Not only is this article devoid of any content that directly addresses PO, it’s dripping with vitriol and political partisanship. It really lowers the standards of this site to include such an article, and I would ask that the parties who control the content of this website reconsider their screening process for news stories. Let’s hear about Peak Oil, not some hateful partisan hack ranting about his particular political viewpoints.
JuanP on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 10:05 am
I never had to bribe anyone in Uruguay, but I’ve heard of people doing it at customs to sneak things in, but not with just any customs agent, but particular ones.
But I don’t think it is a good place for a working person to go. It is very nice for the rich and the comfortably retired with fat pensions.
herrmeier on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 10:09 am
The problem in those places start as soon as you want to get stuff done. You want to open a business? You want a building permit? You’re not happy with an official and want to complain? You want to get your restaurant passed by the health inspector?
That’s where you make nasty experiences and you start to realize why half to population wants to move to the US. IF you’re just a tourist and visiting for pleasure you won’t be touched must with such issues.
JuanP on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 10:19 am
What you describe is probably truth in some cases, but it is not a pervasive problem in Uruguay as far as I know. I owned property there and ran an import business for a while without problems. My family has a more than a century old business conglomerate in Uruguay and they have always systematically refused to pay bribes. Maybe if they weren’t so well connected things would be different. I don’t really know.
herrmeier on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 10:31 am
Yeah, maybe Uruguay is different, I was never there.
JuanP on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 10:45 am
Herr, There is corruption everywhere, I think, I’ve probably been lucky that I never had to bribe anyone anywhere. In my 25 years in the USA I have never been asked for a bribe. That is one of America’s virtues, IMO. I’ve been to Mexico and, by now, I consider it a failing state. The only thing Uruguay and Mexico have in common is the Spanish language. I’ve never been to Italy, and I don’t know much about bribes there.
Plantagenet on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 10:52 am
Obama went to the UN and said he was waging a “war on war”. Who could ever disagree with such noble sentiments. Of course the new war on war has messy details, such as the US bombing two new countries, and the US violating international law. But who cares when we are at war to end war.
john on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 11:18 am
Please stop publishing these awful articles. it makes this website look like a complete joke.
Northwest Resident on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 11:28 am
JuanP — I’m proud to be able to make the claim that I have bribed officials. One time in Russia, I bribed a policeman to not ticket my driver, allowing us to proceed on our merry way. Then, on another occasion, trying to get out of Russia but finding out AT the airport that my documents were not in order, I bribed the official to stamp my passport and let me through anyway. In both cases, the situation that I had to bribe my way out of was more or less “manufactured” by the official, for the sole reason of being able to collect a bribe. I think in many places in the world, receiving and paying bribes is how people do their local version of “business as usual”.
herrmeier on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 11:29 am
Plant: LOL
JuanP: Bribing is one thing, but not the only. I spent time in Italy and Mexico and the culture and approach to things is so different than what I’m used to as a northern. “Manana” (tilde missing) is simply the way of life. You call people, you set meeting times, you ask to be called back, you want stuff done and resolved. No way. You get stuck, people are late, don’t call back, don’t deliver on time, it’s breathtaking. You essentially have to have grown up there in order not to go berserk.
JuanP on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 11:50 am
Herr, I understand what you are talking about. I’d say the country in Latin America that is most like the North in that cultural sense is Chile, and Uruguay would be second.
It may have to do with the weather, both of these countries, together with Argentina, which is a world to itself, are the ones farthest South and with colder weather in Latin America.
JuanP on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 12:02 pm
If you are overheating in a tropical or Mediterranean country you take a break and go to the beach or sleep a siesta. If you live in a colder place, far North or South, you have to save food for winter and saw and chop wood or freeze and starve in winter.
It’s easy to see how the weather would influence the culture. And when you consider how easily we become habituated to things, then understanding people taking a siesta in winter, too, is not too far.
Same goes for people that chop more wood than they need, and I know a few. 😉
Plantagenet on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 12:34 pm
Bribery and corruption have nothing to do with the temperature of the country. I’ll have to agree with NWR (there’s a first!) and point out again that Russia in the big leagues on corruption. When I was doing scientific work in Kamchatka and around Magadan in Siberia the main thing my Russian colleagues did was go to various agencies, together with alarming amounts of rubles, and bribe officials and bring back the required internal visas and documents that we needed to travel and do our research program. I was never quite certain what category to expense the bribes under on my final report.
herrmeier on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 12:40 pm
Bribes should always be accounted for under “cost of doing business”. 🙂
Northwest Resident on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 1:36 pm
Plantagenet — How dare you agree with me! 🙂 Actually, I bet we agree on far more than we disagree on. And I would like to thank you for inciting me to display some of my worst ever behavior. It gives me a chance to pause and reflect on how I should respond if at all to what I view as really inappropriate and nonsensical points of view. But, come on, a “first”? I’m sure you’ve secretly agreed with me far more often than that, you just don’t want to admit it.
Perk Earl on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 1:54 pm
“I’m hugely disappointed that PO would post this type of partisan political opinion piece in its news section.”
Those were my thoughts too, beammeup.
Plantagenet on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 2:17 pm
IMHO, this isn’t a partisan” political opinion piece. It is a critique of the latest US war in the middle east. And this war, just like past wars in the Middle east, has a subtext the desire by the US and other western powers to control the energy resources of the middle east. You are welcome to accept Obama’s claims that his latest war is just a “war on war” but ask yourself why we are going to war in Iraq instead of all the other countries where Americans have been murdered in the last few years? As usual—its the oil!
paulo1 on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 2:59 pm
@Mak
I don’t always agree with what you say about the US, however, in this case I do. I will never understand this willingness to become indebted ‘for stuff’. Primary and very vivid example, the super twit Donald Trump.
My favourite customer logging contractor used to say, “It’s not what you own that’s important, it’s what you have paid for”…..meaning, (paid off and own free and clear). His company still endures even though he died 15 years ago. In fact, his company has thrived due to the foundation of responsibility he laid down and his succesor has followed.
Paulo
jjhman on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 5:13 pm
I miss the old Oil Drum where the moderators moderated, the truly crazy commenters were encouraged to leave and serious people wrote serious articles. This site is starting to look like a loony bin.
Davy on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 8:05 pm
Chill out JJ, what you are experiencing is a symptom of peak entropic decay. It is a “canary in the coal mine” illuminating the condition of instability affecting our common complexity. Not only is society flying apart physically but the mental “ether” is rapidly decaying in coherence. I recommend nightly disconnects. IOW go offline. I don’t mean turn the PC or TV off what I mean is turn everything off and light a candle. If possible go outside and look at the stars if you are in the country. If you are in the city then you are SOL.
Makati1 on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 8:41 pm
Davy, there is no real change in ‘stability’. What you read here is nothing more than a bar ‘discussion’ without the alcohol. Or so it seems to me.
That we are living in a half dozen different countries is bound to bring out different views of the world and situation. No one of us is totally correct. If you have 8 witnesses to an accident, you will get 8 variations on what happens. All true from each person’s point of view.
This article does pertain to peak oil. The collapse that ends BAU will be caused by the events as stated above. The resource wars and financial wars being fought today are the beginning of that end. Hopefully, it will all collapse before we get into another hot war between the big three.
That it brings out our disappointment with the US is also a result of learning that the ‘exceptional’ is not. That it is the problem, not the solution. And, that it will leave us all in much worse condition than necessary.
Davy on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 8:58 pm
wooff wooff…..
The expat can’t take a joke. Some people need to drink because they are so uptight or they need to pull their underwear out of their crack.
Northwest Resident on Fri, 26th Sep 2014 9:11 pm
jjhman — I agree. Moderators would be a welcome improvement to this forum. Sometimes I come here to check out the comments and find that a couple of troll-like jokers are plastering their crap and evoking responses from everybody else trying to talk sense into them — to no avail, of course. I’ve tried to drive off the lunatic trolls — believe me — but I walk away feeling dirty whenever I do it. I keep coming back because there are enough “gems” lying in the pile of garbage to make it worth my while.
dashster on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 5:18 am
I was surprised that Russia continued to sell gas to Europe as Europe put sanctions on them. They must need the money from that gas.
Makati1 on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 5:22 am
NWR, maybe those “trolls” have as much right to their views as you do. It was once called “democracy” not censorship. You do not have to read them. All you need is to see who is commenting and jump over it, if you don’t want to have your intelligence offended (challenged).
That they are only spouting what they have been brainwashed to believe is a symptom of our current situation where truth is not allowed. Naivete is as damaging as any radicalism. So is denial.
Some here may be afraid of what, deep down, they know is coming. It scares me sh–less, but I am facing that future with as much courage as I can muster. I have the advantage of age and perspective. I know I am going to die and I have accepted that fact. When and how is the only variables left.
It is difficult for a young person, with a family and decades of possible life, to face the reality that they may never see those decades. And, that they could loose their family to an early death from what is coming. They never consider that same fact when they get into their car and pull out into traffic, yet 100 people per day never come home alive from that ride, in the US. It is all relative.
No different than millions of families in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Syria, etc. They go to bed every night not knowing what the night or next day might bring. They are the ones I pity, not the US elite that are causing all of it with total subservient approval of their citizens.
It took years and a lot of outside info to change my mindset from exceptionalism to reality. I lived for 60+ years without seeing the real US, only the faux US that the elite want us to see and believe in. The one so often spouted here as being more real than my, or others, view of the world. I can only say that time will prove who is more correct and that time is fast approaching. I hope you are preparing for it.
Davy on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 6:24 am
NR, someone just spit in your eye. That is not a way to make friends. I rate people here on this board by degree of knowledge, objectivity, and balance. You are among the highest on that list. The individual that spit in your eye is at the bottom on the Noob list. These are folks that are barking propagandist dogs. They are the individuals that bring deceit and hatred to what should be an objective pursuit of the truth.
I always love crusty old farts who him-ha about how wise they are from age. What these particular old farts have is selective dementia. Old age allows them to forget or use the age excuse to ignore what does not fit into their hardwired mentality. They think because they are old they can give advice because age has given them that right. These old opinionated individuals in many cases are grasping for self-worth in their declining physical and mental state. In many cases these old farts have a failed life they are trying to cover up with self-praise. You don’t earn wisdom from just growing old. You earn wisdom from a life of falling down and pulling yourself up IOW learning from your mistakes. It also takes a life of dedicated research and knowledge and the humility to know where you are not wise. I find it distasteful and rude to unfairly criticize in an unbalanced way a whole people and class of people in a generalized way for self-aggrandizement purposes. This crusty old fart uses this as his primary modus operandi. I am all for criticizing the US culture and especially the leadership of the elites but not the propagandist pursuit of trashing the whole culture. A handful of people do not represent the people. The people’s culture and leadership may be hijacked but that does not mean the people are guilty of the same sins. Some take American actions and do not place them in a context of history and the interconnection of the rest of the world in those actions and history. Some selectively blame America while selectively leaving out other horrible actions from many other countries. These individuals further practice distortions by combining criticism with praise for their champions for ideologue purposes. The crusty old fart in question is the board leader for this type of lower level behavior. The persistent comments are of a lonely old man. I will end this small rant with a definition of the scientific process and propaganda I wonder if this self-proclaimed wise man can distinguish which is which.
principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
Davy on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 6:31 am
OR
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Synonyms – information, promotion, advertising, publicity, spin
John Dodge on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 7:18 am
The real Bulshit is this article that is written from the Propaganda aspect of a sick Nazi Russian viewpoint!
Archie Dunbar on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 7:38 am
it is no longer possible to force delivery on gold contracts.
Roberto Vasquez on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 7:40 am
thie reporter is bias from the start to finish ,if anything in the world of nation is evil ,I can honestly say USA is among the few last one evil nation ,just use common sense and you’ll know which one to believe,reporter now a days can be paid just to write and say things not true.most people don’t believe them ,no more credibility.
Eric on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 7:58 am
George “MiSSiON-ACCOMPLiSHED” BUSH BROKE the iRAQ & MiDDLE-EAST
“The Seeds of Freedom have only recently been planted in IRAQ but Democracy when it grows is not a fragile flower, its a Healthy, Sturdy, Tree.”
– Mr. FREEDOM FRiES, George “Mission-Accomplished” Bush, October 6, 2005
CENTCOM CinC (Retired) General Anthony Zinni: We get into situations we do not understand. When we went into iRAQ, we DESTABiLiZED the Middle-East MASTERFULLY! …. it was an UNNECESSARY WAR, WRONG WAR, WRONG PLACE, WRONG TiME. Our focus should have been AL QAEDA in Afghanistan. And we shouldn’t have rented an Army in Afghanistan (NORTHERN ALLiANCE). AL QAEDA got away into the tribal lands in PAKiSTAN
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Heywood Jablome on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:04 am
This is the most laughable piece of garbage I’ve wasted time reading during the past month. Now let’s see if you actually believe in the First Amendment and print it as is.
Jay on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:07 am
This has to be one of the most ignorant, inaccurate pieces of political propaganda I have ever seen. I agree with your criticism of Obama, but the criticism should be his Neville Chamberlain approach to foreign policy, which will prove dangerous to the US (the exceptional US) down the road. After reading this article I need to ask – did you actually graduate from grade school?
Daryl Lee Brown on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:21 am
First off, Russia is So Broke it Can’t Fight any Protracted Conventional War, & Ever Support it’s Logistical Supply Lines. It Would Go Nuclear, & Be Defeated Handily by the US & Nato, as would China-for Similar Reasons, & obsolete Forces/Technology. That’s Why They are Not Coming! No Practical Way to Win, Anything-but a Broken & Busted World, Devoid of Most/All Life Forms. Why Do You Entertain Such Fanciful &
Totally Idiotic Delusions of Grandeur? Is it a Lack of Education, or are You so
Morally Devoid of Any Conscience?!
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privat opinion on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:34 am
super article.Bravo!
W. Armstead, Jr. on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:41 am
This says, Thanks also to this i of Mr. Paulie R.’s said columns which asks also such a said question on whether or NOT the Chinese and the Russians WILL use that then there with their fire until it is for that this i of his said columns which asks also such a said question on whether or NOT they and they also WILL use that then there with their fire until it is now here now here STILL recounts also that it reportedly is, but then next recounts also that whenever either of these said giant neighbouring nations had leadership capable of it, the Chinese and/or the Russians live in the home nation to i of the ii places on this planet whose inhabitants also even COULD hope to stand a chance to be able to have the said House of Cards demolished for himself, for anyone whoever accepts also that this even says also, Thanks also to this i of his said columns which asks also such a said question on whether or NOT the Chinese and the Russians WILL use that then there on their fire until it is for that this i of his said columns which asks also such a said question on whether or NOT they and they also WILL use that then there with their fire until it is now here now here STILL recounts also that it reportedly is, but then next recounts also that whenever either of those said giant neighbouring nations had leadership capable of it, the Chinese and/or the Russians live in the home nation to i of the ii places on this planet whose inhabitants also even COULD hope to stand a chance to have the said House of Cards demolished him/herself for him/herself, for fans, for readers, for others also and even for us, too….
privat opinion on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:44 am
really surprised this article. Clear understanding of situation. First own point of view in media . Big Thank for autor
Makati1 on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:46 am
Davy, At least most of us can write a good rebuttal without a run-on paragraph that is difficult, if not impossible, to read. Are you too lazy to do it correctly?
Since you like to make fun of me and call me names by your barking comments, etc., I hope you enjoy it as it makes me laugh at your supposed education, and lowers you even farther on my list of intelligent debaters.
I don’t expect everyone to agree with me on everything. I would surprised if 1 in 100,000 does. After all, I am not you and you are not paulo1. We are all different and have different pictures of the world we live in. I am sharing mine with you all, as you share your picture with us. Diversity makes the world more interesting.
BTW: You should live long enough to join the “crusty old fart club. ^_^
john valentino on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:52 am
Its obvious that they will let any dick with a hatred of america post articles on yahoo.
The hatred this cocksucker spills on this article is just why we need America in this shitty world.
If its not a towel head hating America its a Communists loser talking shit and in the mean time most naive USA born idiots just keep their mouth shut and do not defend their country.
It takes folks like myself that have come to this country (USA) to recognized and defend it for what the wonderful place it is.
Yes mother fuckers I am Salvadorean and I love THE USA..
john valentino on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:52 am
Its obvious that they will let any dick with a hatred of america post articles on yahoo.
The hatred this cocksucker spills on this article is just why we need America in this shitty world.
If its not a towel head hating America its a Communists loser talking shit and in the mean time most naive USA born idiots just keep their mouth shut and do not defend their country.
It takes folks like myself that have come to this country (USA) to recognized and defend it for what the wonderful place it is.
Yes mother fuckers I am Salvadorean and I love THE USA.. The End!
Randall Fennel on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 8:57 am
What a bunch of hard-left bullshit this article is. Yeah, right, “Kyiv has a junta”, nay, a “fascist junta”. My advice to the author is to not publish his ramblings when he is High on bath salts.
PS–sorry, Comrades: I am a registered Democrat who voted for Obama, and Dem, across the board this Century. Save your Marxist rantings for your local Red Cell Soviet…
Matt on Sat, 27th Sep 2014 9:14 am
This is a well informed person. It is not only the dollar that is supported by rigging of the financial system, it is also the notion of “democracy” that is also rigged by the promise of better life which never materialises for even a modest majority in the developing wolrd. At the end of the day, it is the transnationals and businesses that are dictating to the world the cost of living, who can have a job or not, who can be a leader or not and what matters that the media must cover and indocrinate the world about. The coming struggle will be against businesses like the Houthi tribesmen are doing in Yemen by demanding reduction in petroleum product prices. The public will say no and negotiate for prices and rules that determine transactions against invicible commercial interests in the future. The struggle will be against vested normative and oppressive business interests in the future.