Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org April 6, 2021
On August 31, 2018, I wrote:
“So, the questions for Andrei Martyanov, The Saker, and for Putin and the Russian government is: How long does turning your other cheek work? Do you turn your other cheek so long as to allow your opponent to neutralize your advantage in a confrontation? Do you turn your other cheek so long that you lose the support of the patriotic population for your failure to defend the country’s honor? Do you turn your other cheek so long that you are eventually forced into war or submission? Do you turn your other cheek so long that the result is nuclear war?
“I think that Martyanov and The Saker agree that my question is a valid one. Both emphazise in their highly informative writings that the court historians misrepresent wars in the interest of victors. Let’s give this a moment’s thought. Both Napoleon and Hitler stood at their apogee, their success unmitigated by any military defeat. Then they marched into Russia and were utterly destroyed. Why did they do this? They did it because their success had given them massive arogance and belief in their “exceptionalism,” the dangerous word that encapsulates Washington’s belief in its hegemony.
“The zionist neoconsevatives who rule in Washington are capable of the same mistake that Napoleon and Hitler made. They believe in “the end of history,” that the Soviet collapse means history has chosen America as the model for the future. Their hubris actually exceeds that of Napoleon and Hitler.
“When confronted with such deluded and ideological force, does turning the other cheek work or does it encourage more provocation?
“This is the question before the Russian government.” https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/08/31/can-war-be-avoided-and-the-planet-saved/
Andrei Martyanov answered on September 4, 2018: https://www.unz.com/article/russia-as-a-cat/ He argued that Washington is aware that its military power is limited and will not risk nuclear annihilation.
On April 5, 2021, the Saker has reached agreement with my point: “Russia cannot and will not retreat further, she won’t meekly declare that the Donbass or Crimea belong to the Nazi regime in Kiev. Russia is ready, capable and willing to fight US/NATO forces if needed, including by using tactical and even strategic nukes.” https://thesaker.is/what-will-the-empire-do-to-support-the-ukronazis-open-thread-4/
Like myself the Saker concludes that Washington’s hubris means that “The biggest danger right now is that western politicians are completely misreading not only Putin, but all of Russia.”
Martyanov believes that Washington’s guarantee to Ukraine is a temptest in a teacup as Washington will not really risk confronting Russia militarily. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com
I wonder if Martyanov is giving Washington too much credit for awareness. If Washington were reading the situation correctly, would the US Secretary of Defense have given Ukraine a guarantee against Russian intervention if Ukraine, now better armed by Washington, renews its assault on Donbass? Washington wants conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and the purpose of giving the guarantee is to produce conflict.
Martyanov might be correct that Ukraine is too wary to trust the guarantee, and that Washington would not stand behind it. But escalation can have momentum of its own. The publicized guarantee could result in extreme elements pushing the Ukrainian president into foolhardy action. Neocons and liberal interventionists could insist Washington’s word and reputation are at stake and demand that Biden go to Ukraine’s aid. I agree with Martyanov that it would be a war based on stupid nonsense, but these things do happen.
I only raise questions. Saker and Martyanov are better informed on these matters than I. Nevertheless, I think the risk is high that the American people are going to be very regretful that they permitted the military/security complex to use the dumbshit Democrats to prevent President Trump from normalizing relations with Russia.
Hitler did not attack Russia out of “Hubris”. Read “Stuka Pilot” by Hans Rudel. Stalin was massing men and material to double-cross Germany. Try getting your facts right.
Raised on a diet of cowboy movies and saccharine patriotism, few Americans have any idea of the rest of the world. None understand the East. The Zionists who control them are insane. The Ukrainian government is controlled by criminals.
Disaster is inevitable.
Who deleted my comment, and why?
The mystery of the Ukrainian Nazis is solved when you see that the Jews controlled Hitler’s party as well.
I was going to say much the same as Black Pete, but he said it first here. Napoleon suffered from hubris to a degree, but Hitler had no choice. Hitler’s attack was a preemptive move to catch the Soviets before they invaded western Europe scheduled within a month. Had Mussolini not made his foolish invasions of the Balkans and Greece, Hitler’s army would have defeated the Soviets before Winter set in. It is a tragedy for the world they failed within an ace as it was.
Empires are forged by hard men .
They pass on and soft weak well fed half men inherit . They are weakened by women and excess.
Hard men watch and wait and one day they strike. They are not fettered by stupidity and vanity.
Neither are they hindered by useless laws. They are hard and cruel and the survivors conspire with them and flush out their leaders and nobles and bring them forth to be executed.
It’s the way of the world.
The US caused the 2014 overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Ukraine. Remember the Satanist Nuland giving the Ukronazis $5 Billion to fund the revolt. The current Sec of State Blinken is
also a Satanic Khazar and was part of the effort to overthrow the Ukraine leader. The EVIL JEWS are behind this sadness in Ukraine. These Jews are Khazars and come from the lands between the Black and Caspian Seas. These Satanist Jews want to regain their homeland. Ukraine is a total basket case now economically. A war with Russia will finish off Ukraine. The Ukraine military has killed about 13,000 civilians with shelling into civilian housing areas. I hope Putin destroys the Ukraine military, and then asks the SICK LUNATIC CHILD SNIFFER Biden if he REALLY wants the US destroyed???
@ black pete
we know today that stalin made a secret agreement
with the western alliies double crossing germany.
but hitler found out. and the jewish world kongress
(sanhedrin) had all prepared in their political chess game
that hitler had to start war even as he did not want it.
and churchill said after the war, ignoring all of hitlers
peaceoffers : WE COULD HAVE STOPED THE WAR
BUT WE DID NOT WANT !
the war beginners were always the jews, already march 1933 !
@STEPHEN
Its alway in this world we have to learn .
same today : THE EVIL ALWAYS WINS !
@Antisemit
In his book “INFAMY” John Toland states that in 1936 Churchill was overheard to say “Germany is getting to strong. We’ll have to do something about that”. He also says that in 1938 American diplomats were spreading wartalk in Europe, without the knowledge of Congress, but with the approval of the President. He also says that the Dutch military Attache in East India (I can’t remember whether it was Java or Borneo) cracked the Japanese “Purple Code” and warned the American military attache of pearl Harbour six months before it happened. Currently on renegadetribune.com there is an essay on the Polish massacre of Germans in Poland, which was what got Hitler going.
@BLACK PETE
we know that USA always played the big stick challenging game like
a bully in school since 1. roosevelt to havanna, fd roosevelt with the
japanese (he had the japanese code); with germany 2. war using with
churchills help the poles , tonkin incident etc. always letting the opponent
run into the knife . adicional a jewish inciting press always helps .
@Antisemit…The press controls public opinion.