In the 1950s and 1960s the United States was a vibrant society.
Upward mobility was strong, and the middle class expanded. During the 1970s the
internal contradiction in Keynesian demand management resulted in stagflation.
Reagan’s supply-side economic policy cured that. With a sound economy under him, Reagan was able to
pressure the Soviet government, which was unable to solve its economic problem,
to negotiate the end of the cold war.
This happy development was not welcomed by
powerful forces, both in the US and Soviet Union. In the US the powerful
military/security complex was unhappy about losing the Soviet Threat, under the
auspices of which its budget and power had soared. Right-wing superpatriot
conservatives accused Reagan of selling out America by trusting the Soviets.
The American rightwing portrayed President Reagan as the grade-two movie actor
dupe of “cunning communists.”
In the
Soviet government Gorbachev faced a larger problem. With trust established
between the two nuclear powers, Gorbachev released the Soviet hold on Eastern
Europe. Hardline elements in the Soviet Communist Party saw too much change too
rapidly and concluded that Gorbachev had sold out the Soviet Union to
Washington. This conclusion resulted in Gorbachev’s arrest, and the consequence
of his arrest was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party.
With
communism departed, the Russians forgot all of Marx’s lessons about capitalism
and naively concluded that we were all now friends. The Yeltsin government
opened to American advice and, by naively accepting American advice, Russia was
looted and reduced to penury. Russia under Yeltsin became an American puppet
state, and the Russian people paid for it with a great reduction in their
living standard.
The
collapse of the Soviet Union is usually attributed to Reagan and represented as
one of his victories. This is a fabrication. I was in Reagan’s government, both
as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and afterward as a member of a secret
Presidential Committee with subpeona power over the CIA. Reagan told us many times that
his purpose was not to win the Cold War but to end it.
He
told everyone involved that all respect had to be shown to the Soviets as the
purpose was to end the threat of nuclear war, not to have an insulting
triumphal victory.
Unfortunately, the trust Reagan established
with the Russians was betrayed by the corrupt and criminal Clinton, George W.
Bush, and Obama regimes. Because of these utterly corrupt regimes, today the
distrust between the US and Russia is far higher than ever existed during the
long decades of the Cold War. What the criminal Clinton, Bush, and Obama
regimes did was to resurrect the possibility of nuclear war that Reagan and
Gorbachev had terminated.
As I have
explained at length and as all available evidence supports, the attack on Trump
rests on an orchestration called “Russiagate,” for which no evidence exists. It is an orchestration
concocted by John Brennan, James Comey, Clapper, Rod Rosenstein, Mueller, and
the Democratic National Committee. The transparent lies on which “Russiagate”
is based are repeated continually by the presstitute media in an effort to
create in the public mind a case for the removal of Trump from the Oval Office.
See for example: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/08/23/the-brennan-rosenstein-mueller-comey-presstitute-witch-hunt/
Mueller is
part of the plot against Trump as is Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general
who appointed Mueller special prosecutor. Both are guilty of sedition as they
are active participants in an organized coup to overthrow the President of the
United States. But Trump is too powerless to have them arrested and put on
trial for the conspiracy against democracy that they are conducting. President Trump is making a
terminable mistake in trusting to facts and truth, neither of which is
respected in the scant remains of Western Civilization.
Once there was
hope that information available on the Internet would serve as a countervailing
power to the lies told by the Western print, TV, and NPR presstitutes. But this
was a vain hope. There are some good and reliable websites, increasingly being
closed down by the ruling elite. The ruling elites have most of the money and
can finance most of the online voices, all of which are employed for the purpose of
contradicting truth.
I received today an email from RootsAction urging
me to donate money to speed Trump’s impeachment. The website has even prepared
the Articles of Impeachment and proclaims that “Trump’s Fixer Says the
President Engaged in a Criminal Conspiracy to Sway the 2016 Election.”
This accusation comes from one of Trump’s former
lawyers, Michael Cohen. They are allegations that most defense attorneys
understand is Michael Cohen’s effort to gain a light sentence for his income
tax evasion by “composing,” to use the term of Harvard Law Professor Alan
Dershowitz, evidence against the man Mueller really wants—President Trump.
I will be unequivocal. RootsAction, as is the NY
Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NPR and the rest of the media whores, is
lying. To pay off two women, who might have been paid by the military/security
complex, or Hillary & Bill Clinton, or the Democratic National Committee,
to bring such charges or who simply saw an opportunity to collect a bunch of
dollars from Donald Trump, is most certainly, most definitely not, as
RootsAction claims, “the high crime and misdemeanor of attempting to
fraudulently influence the outcome of a US presidential election. This is an
impeahable offense warranting removal from office.”
Whoever advises RootsAction is a totally
incompetent attorney. Moreover, to show the utter stupidity of RootsAction’s
ignorant assertion, a “misdemeanor” cannot be a “high crime.” A “high crime” is
a “felony.”
I have posted on my website statements from legal
experts that there is nothing unlawful about paying off claimants. Corporations
do it continually. It is much cheaper to pay off a false claim than to finance
a court case to refute it. There is no reason whatsoever for a political
candidate competing for a party’s nomination for the presidency to be
distracted by fighting court cases brought to extort money from him.
Moreover, considering the dire straits in which
the American population between the two coasts has been left by decades of jobs
offshoring, the government’s inability to provide assistance to those millions
of Americans whose living standard is dissolving because the military/security
complex appropriates $1,000 billion annually from America’s resources, and the
Trump public’s awareness that provoking Russia into war is in no one’s
interest, RootsAction and the rest of the imbeciles have to be crazy beyond all
belief to think that that anyone who voted for Trump cared if he had sexual
encounters with two women. Considering the dire straits of Americans, the last
thing they would do is to vote against their champion because he had sex with
two women, assuming that he did.
Yet, an unsubstantiated claim by a lawyer who did
not pay his income tax, a claim made for the purpose of a light sentence in
exchange for providing false evidence against the President of the United
States, is now, according to RootsAction, the New York Times, Washington Post,
NPR, CNN, MSNBC, etc., and so on, grounds for impeaching the President of the
United States who hopes to defuse the extremely dangerous tensions between
Washington and Russia.
The military/security complex wants to impeach Trump because he wants
peace with Russia, thus taking away the essential enemy that justifies their
budget and power.
Are Americans too stupid to notice that there is not a shred of
evidence of the “Russiagate” accusations? What we have in their place is income
tax evasion charges, not against Trump, but against an attorney and a Republian
campaign manager. More convincing charges could be brought against Democrats,
but have not. The Hillary crowd of criminals has proven immune to prosecution.
No one has to approve of Trump in order to have the intelligence
to see that Trump’s intention to normalize relations with Russia is the world’s
main hope of continued existence. Once nuclear weapons go off, global warming
will take on new meaning.
After three eight-year terms of
US presidents, relations between the US and Russia stand at a far more
dangerous level than ever existed during the Cold War. I know this for a fact,
as I was directly involved in the Cold War.
The security that insouciant Americans find in the belief that
only the US is a superpower is ignorant beyond all belief. A new book by Andrei
Martyanov published by Clarity Press proves that, at best, the US is a second
rate military power that can be utterly destroyed at will by Russia along with
the entirety of the stupid NATO countries, every one of which is militarily
impotent. In the present correlation of forces, nothing whatsoever can be done
to save a square inch of the Western world if Russia ever has enough of the
absurd accusations, absurd threats, absurd postering of a totally inferior
military power drunk on its own ignorant hubris.
Americans are too insouciant to know it, but they are living day by day
only at the mercy of Russia.
