By Paul Craig Roberts – An edited version of this article, with pictures and captions by Lasha Darkmoon

The morons who rule the American sheeple are not only dumb and blind, they are deaf as well. The ears of the American “superpower” only work when Israeli prime minister — the crazed Netanyahu — speaks. Then Washington hears everything and rushes to comply.
Israel is a tiny insignificant state, created by the careless British and the stupid Americans. It has no power except what its American protector provides. Yet, despite Israel’s insignificance, it rules Washington.
When a resolution introduced by the Israel Lobby is delivered to Congress, it passes unanimously. If Israel wants war, Israel gets its wish. When Israel commits war crimes against Palestinians and Lebanon and is damned by the hundred plus UN resolutions passed against Israel’s criminal actions, the US bails Israel out of trouble with its veto.
The power that tiny Israel exercises over the “world’s only superpower” is unique in history. Tens of millions of “Christians” bow down to this power, reinforcing it, moved by the exhortations of their “Christian” ministers.
Netanyahu lusts for war against Iran.
He strikes out against all who oppose his war lust.
Recently, he called Israel’s top generals “pussies” for warning against a war with Iran. He regards former Israeli prime ministers and former heads of the Israeli intelligence service as traitors for opposing his determination to attack Iran. He has denounced America’s servile president Obama and America’s top military leader for being “soft on Iran.”
The latest poll in Israel shows that a solid majority of the Israelis are opposed to an Israeli attack on Iran. But Netanyahu is uninterested in the opinion of Israeli citizens. He has Washington watching his back, so he is war mad.

“It is a mystery why Israelis put Netanyahu in public office instead of in an insane asylum.” — Paul Craig Roberts

Netanyahu is not alone. He has the American neoconservatives in his corner. The American neoconservatives are as crazed as Netanyahu.
They believe in nuclear war and are itching to nuke some Muslim country and then get on to nuking Russia and China.
It is amazing that no more than two or three dozen people have the fate of the entire world in their hands.
The Democratic Party is helpless before them. The Republican Party is their vehicle. The Russians, watching Netanyahu push Washington toward dangerous confrontations, keep raising their voices about the danger of nuclear war.
On May 17 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned the West against launching “hasty wars,” which could result in “the use of a nuclear weapon.”
On November 30 of last year the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia warned of nuclear war with NATO. General Nikolai Makarov said that NATO’s eastward expansion meant that the risk of Russia coming into conflict with NATO had “risen sharply.” General Makarov said, “I do not rule out local and regional armed conflicts developing into a large-scale war, including using nuclear weapons.”
Russian president Medvedev — currently serving as prime minister — outlined five steps toward nuclear war that Russia had been forced to take as a result of Washington’s hubristic foreign policy — a policy cooked up by mentally deranged Israel Firsters who had taken control of America.

“I don’t wish to scare anyone… ” Medvedev noted soberly, and then went on to hint that nuclear weapons might have to be used as a last resort against the crazed warmongers of Washington.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has said, as politely as possible, that the US seeks to enslave the world. That the US seeks vassals, not allies. That the US seeks to rule the world, and that it is a parasite on the world economy.
It would be difficult for any well-informed person to take exception to Putin’s statements.
Putin told the politicians in Washington and Western and Eastern European capitals that surrounding Russia with anti-ballistic missiles “raises the specter of nuclear war in Europe.” Putin said that the Russian response is to point nuclear armed cruise missiles, which cannot be intercepted by anti-ballistic missiles, at US missile bases and European capitals. The American move, Putin said, “could trigger nuclear war.”
Putin has been trying to wake up the American puppet states in Europe at least since February 13, 2007. At the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy, Putin said that the unipolar world that Washington was striving to achieve under its banner, “is a world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And at the end of the day this is pernicious not only for all those within this system, but also for the sovereign itself because it destroys itself from within.”
That has certainly happened to the US which now has a police state as thorough-going as Nazi Germany.
Putin went on to tell his European audience that in Russia, “we are constantly being taught about democracy. But for some reason those who teach us do not want to learn themselves!”
Instead, Putin said, “we are seeing a greater and greater disdain for the basic principles of international law. The United States has overstepped its national borders in every way. Who is happy about this?”
People are not happy, Putin said, because they don’t feel safe. Not to feel safe, Putin added, “is extremely dangerous. It results in the fact that no one feels safe. I want to emphasize this: NO ONE FEELS SAFE!”
Putin politely unbraided the Italian defense minister, a person owned by Washington, for suggesting that NATO or the EU could take the place of the UN in justifying the use of force against sovereign countries. Putin took exception to the idea that Washington could use its puppet organization or its puppet states to legitimize an act of US aggression. “The use of force,” he stated flatly, “can only be considered legitimate if the decision is sanctioned by the UN.”
Putin clearly has Washington’s number. He knows that Washington is the “Great Pretender”, pretending to respect human rights while it slaughters Muslims in seven different countries on the basis of lies and fabricated intelligence.
Awash in hubris like Napoleon and Hitler before they marched off into Russia, Washington has turned a deaf ear to Putin during the entirety of the 21st century.
Speaking on May 10, 2006, Putin said: “We are aware of what is going on in the world. Comrade Wolf [the US] knows whom to devour. He devours without listening. And he’s clearly not going to listen to anyone.”
“Where,” Putin asked, “is Washington’s compassion for human rights or for protecting  democracy — when it comes to the need to pursue its own interests?”
For Washington, “EVERYTHING IS ALLOWED — THERE ARE NO LIMITS!”

“Comrade Wolf knows whom to devour.” — Vladimir Putin

China also has caught on. Now the hubris that drives Washington toward world hegemony confronts two massive nuclear powers. Will the criminal gang in Washington drive the world to nuclear extinction?
Washington, thinking that it owns the world, has imposed more unilateral sanctions on Iran without any basis in any recognized law. The imposed sanctions are nothing but Washington’s assertion that its might is right.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Washington could stick its sanctions up its ass.
“We consider efforts to impose internal American legislation on the entire world completely unacceptable,” it said.
Washington will do what it can to assassinate Putin.
It will try and effect regime change through the Russian “opposition” that Washington funds.
Failing that, Washington’s pursuit of world hegemony has run up against a brick wall.
If the fools in Washington with their hubris-inflated egos don’t back off, that mushroom cloud they have been warning about will indeed blossom — perhaps over Washington itself.

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