In an act of insane escalation of provocations against Russia,
Washington has produced a list of 210 top Russian government officials and
important business executives who are “gangsters,” “members of Putin’s gang,”
“threats,” “people deserving to be sanctioned,” or however the Western
presstitutes care to explain the list. The absurd list includes the Prime
Minister of Russia, the Foreign Minister, the Defense Minister, and executives
of Gazprom, Rosneft, and Bank Rossiya. In other words, the suggestion is that
the entirety of Russian political and business leadership is corrupt.
The
Russians do not seem to understand the purpose of the list. Presidential
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the government sees the list as an attempt to
interfere in the Russian presidential election. There is no doubt that
Washington would like to reduce Putin’s public support so that Washington can
use the Western-funded NGOs operating in Russia to present American stooges as
Russia’s true voices. However, it is unlikely that the Russian people are
stupid enough to fall for such a trick.
Washington’s
list has three purposes:
1) To
undercut Russian diplomacy by presenting the top echelons of Russia as
gangsters.
2) To present Russia as a military threat as per the ridiculous announcement by British defense minister Gavin Williamson on January 26 that Russia intends to rip British “infrastructure apart, actually cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths,” and create “total chaos within the country.”
3) To shift American and European attention away from the coming release of the House Intelligence Committee’s report that proves Russiagate is a conspiracy between the FBI, the Obama Department of Justice and the Democratic National Committee against President Trump. Washington’s Russian list will give the presstitutes something else to talk about instead of the act of treason committed against the President of the United States. Expect to hear nothing from the presstitutes except that the House Intelligence Committee report is only a political effort to shield Trump from accountability.
2) To present Russia as a military threat as per the ridiculous announcement by British defense minister Gavin Williamson on January 26 that Russia intends to rip British “infrastructure apart, actually cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths,” and create “total chaos within the country.”
3) To shift American and European attention away from the coming release of the House Intelligence Committee’s report that proves Russiagate is a conspiracy between the FBI, the Obama Department of Justice and the Democratic National Committee against President Trump. Washington’s Russian list will give the presstitutes something else to talk about instead of the act of treason committed against the President of the United States. Expect to hear nothing from the presstitutes except that the House Intelligence Committee report is only a political effort to shield Trump from accountability.
There is
likely a fourth reason for the list. Israel wants Washington’s pressure on
Russia, because Russia has so far prevented Israel’s use of the US military to
create the same chaos in Syria and Iran as has been created in Iraq and Libya.
Israel wants Syria and Iran destabilized because they support Hezbollah, which
prevents Israel from occupying the water resources of southern Lebanon.
The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, which requires
the list, passed the House and Senate by a vote of 517-5. Normally, such
unanimous foreign policy votes are associated with demands from the Israel
Lobby.
The Russian government and the Russian people need to understand that Washington considers Russia to be a threat because Russia is not under Washington’s thumb. The Zionist neoconservatives control US foreign policy. Their ideology is world hegemony. They do not use diplomacy. They rely on disinformation, threats, and violence. Therefore, there is no American diplomacy with which Putin and Lavrov can engage.
The Russian government and the Russian people need to understand that Washington considers Russia to be a threat because Russia is not under Washington’s thumb. The Zionist neoconservatives control US foreign policy. Their ideology is world hegemony. They do not use diplomacy. They rely on disinformation, threats, and violence. Therefore, there is no American diplomacy with which Putin and Lavrov can engage.
Putin,
being a responsible political leader of a great power, does not respond to
provocation with provocation. He ignores the insults and continues to wait for
the West to come to its senses. But what if the West does not come to its
senses?
For the
West to come to its senses requires the complete overthrow of the Zionist
neoconservatives and/or the breakup of NATO. The overthrow of the
neoconservatives would require a rival foreign policy voice, and that voice is
very weak as it is shut off from the media, the think tanks, and the
universities. The breakup of NATO would require European political figures to
give up their Washington subsidies and the career advancement that Washington
provides.
As I
write the Atlantic Council is holding a members and press call in for a
discussion with Atlantic Council members Amb. Daniel Fried and Anders Aslund.
The Atlantic Council is a neoconservative propaganda agency. The purpose of the
“discussion” is to further undermine US-Russian relations.
The
Russian government faces a difficult situation. The foreign policy of the US,
and thereby of the Western world, is controlled by neoconservatives who are
determined to present Russia in the most threatening light. Russian diplomacy
can do nothing to change this. The non-provocative and responsible Russian
response has the effect of encouraging more provocations from Washington. At
some point Russian passivity might convince the neoconservatives that they can
successfully attack Russia. Alternatively, the continual provocations might
convince Russia that the country is targeted for attack, thereby causing a
Russian pre-emptive action.
Everyone
in the world should realize the threat of nuclear war that is inherrent in
Washington’s policy toward Russia, and everyone in the world should understand
that the only threat that Russia poses is to Washington’s unilateralism.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/01/30/washington-reaches-new-heights-insanity-kremlin-report/