When I look at news reports from whichever country, I see no
awareness of the two most ominous developments in US history. One is the
conspiracy between US security agencies, the US Department of Justice, the
Democratic Party and the American print and TV media to overthrow the
democratically elected president of the United States. With “Russiagate” we
have been experiencing a coup against President Trump and American democracy.
Although the Democrats’ Identity Politics cannot conceive of it, it is possible
to be opposed to President Trump without believing that a police state coup
against him is desirable.
The other
ominous development is the just released US Nuclear Posture Review, which calls
nuclear weapons “usable,” legitimizes their first use, and sets the stage for
spending trillions of dollars acquiring more nuclear weapons when massive
public needs go unmet and 10 percent of the existing US arsenal is sufficient
to destroy all life on earth.
I have
written about these extraordinary developments. See, for example, https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/05/will-conspiracy-trump-american-democracy-go-unpunished/ and https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/02/02/nuclear-posture-review/
As for
the effect it has had, I might as well not have bothered. No government and no
news organization of which I am aware has sounded the alarm that the CIA, FBI,
DOJ, Democratic Party, and the entirety of the American print and TV media have
been caught red-handed in a coup to overthrow the President of the United
States, and nothing is being done about
it. The coup cannot even be exposed, because the security
agencies, media, and Democrats shout down the hard evidence. Saddam Hussein and
Gaddafi were murdered on the basis of total lies, and now the President of the
United States faces the same fate.
If the
coup against Trump succeeds, the US will have made the full transition into a
Gestapo Police State. America will have become the Fourth Reich.
As
horrible as this prospect—courtesy of the CIA, FBI, Obama Department of
Justice, Democratic Party, and presstitute media—is, the nuclear posture review
is many times worse. During the long decades of the Cold War, no US government
would have released a nuclear posture review that legitimized the first use of
nuclear weapons against any opponent. The US did have some crazed generals,
such as Lemnitzer and Curtis LeMay who were Dr. Strangelove figures, and there
was a James Bond movie about an equally crazed, but fictional,
Soviet general.
Even 55
years ago crazed generals such as Lemnitzer were too powerful to be fired.
President John F. Kennedy was limited to reassigning Lemnitzer, who pressed JFK
to adopt a 9/11-type false flag operation known as Operation Northwoods (look
it up online) and to launch a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It
unnerved President Kennedy when he realized that he had an insane Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but Kennedy stood up to him. President Trump failed
to stand up to the neoconized Dr. Strangeloves of our time when Trump endorsed
the Pentagon’s new nuclear posture review. Compared to JFK, Trump is milktoast.
The new
American nuclear posture review is a neoconservative document that has within
it the destruction of all life on earth. The insane people responsible for this
document are those in the policy positions to implement it. It gives us the
paradox that an American president elected in part by his professed intent to
normalize relations with Russia has signed off on a posture review that tells
Russia and China that Washington has a policy that permits a first strike
against them. Clearly, this is not normalizing relations.
Already
Russia has experienced a quarter century of American deceit and duplicity.
President Gorbachev was promised in exchange for Soviet agreement to the
unification of Germany that Washington would not move NATO one inch to the
East. But the Clinton Regime moved NATO to Russia’s very border. The George W.
Bush Regime withdrew from the anti-ballistic missile treaty. The Obama Regime
placed ABM missiles on Russia’s border. And now the Trump Regime tells Russia
and China that they are subject to surprise nuclear attack.
Never in
the history of mankind has a more reckless, irresponsible, destabilizing act,
one that threatens the entirely of humanity, been committed. It is difficult to
imagine a government, even one as criminally insane as the US government,
telling nuclear powers such as Russia and China that they are subject to US
surprise nuclear attack.
Yet the
American media is cheering. USA Today declares: “Trump’s plan for nuclear weapons
makes sense.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/02/06/trumps-plan-nuclear-weapons-makes-sense-ohanlon-column/305390002/
The Hill,
a Washington publication, thinks that threatening Russia and China with a first
strike is a reasonable step: http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/372301-trump-nuclear-posture-sets-forth-reasoned-steps-to-ensure
Presstitute
CNBC, completely ignoring Washington’s provocative nuclear posture and
provocative pursuit of even more nuclear weapons and delivery capabilities,
focuses attention on North Korea as the real threat. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/06/us-warns-on-growing-nuclear-arsenals-of-china-russia-north-korea.html
When a
country intent on world hegemony, as the US clearly is, has a media so
compliant with its war intention, the rest of the world had better be on guard.
There is no internal check whatsoever on Washington’s aggression toward the
world.
Where are
the protest voices of the Europeans, the Canadians, the British, the
Australians, the Japanese, the South Americans, the Africans, India and Asia?
Where are even the voices of Russia and China? If they exist at all they are
hidden behind Russian pretensions of “our Western partners,” and Chinese greed
for more profits.
The
voices do not exist.
Truth is
not good news. It doesn’t reassure people or make them feel good. People who
don’t feel safe don’t go into debt in order to be able to spend money and make
profits for the capitalists who own the news and the governments and the
businesses.
Armageddon
will bring debt forgiveness, thus reviving an economy that will no longer
exist, as no one will be here to pay or to collect the debts.
