Paul Craig Roberts – paulcraigroberts.org June 5, 2022
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe published on April 15, 2016, more than six years ago, a report on the torture of Donbass Russians by the Ukrainian military and police forces. The report documents horrendous torture and it was done out of racial hatred of Russians. You can read the report here: https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf
Few Westerners, being so poorly educated, are aware that Western Ukraine fought for Nazi Germany during World War II. When Washington overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014, Washington installed a Nazi government. The Nazi government in Ukraine shelled the Russian residents of the two break-away Donbass republics for 8 years while Washington and NATO trained and equipped a Ukrainian army to retake the breakaway republics.
The Donbass region, always a part of Russia, was put into the Ukrainian province of the Soviet Union by the Soviet government for administrative or other reasons, as was Crimea by Khrushchev in the 1950s. When the US overthrew the Ukrainian government and installed an anti-Russian government, the residents of Crimea and Donbass, being Russians, broke away and voted overwhelmingly to be reunited with Russia. The Kremlin accepted Crimea but made the strategic blunder of rejecting Donbass, thus resulting in the extreme murder and torture of Donbass Russians for 8 years before the Kremlin was forced to intervene by Russian public opinion and by the appearance of a 150,000 American-trained Ukrainian army and Nazi militias on the Donbass border. It is this army and Nazi militias that the Russian army has been exterminating in Donbass during the last several months. The Western media reports of Ukrainian victories show the total absence of integrity and respect for truth that damns Western journalism.
The extreme torture of the Russian residents of Donbass has been supported by three US presidents, all European states, and the entirety of the whore Western media, a collection of despicable scum.
Instead of reporting the truth, the scum Western media reported fake news of rapes and looting by Russian soldiers, the most disciplined army in the world. The Ukrainians, or perhaps the CIA, have been exposed filming fake battle scenes in which allegedly Russian troops are shown fleeing from combat. The filming is so sloppy that the director’s instructions for the staged act are included and the film crew is itself filmed, indicating that it is a film production and that there is no danger in the situation.
As horrendous as it is that the “free West” underwrites and diplomatically supports torture of Russians by Ukrainians while the despicable Western media covers it up, this horror pales in significance compared to the extraordinary decision of the White House Idiot to place in Ukraine’s hands missiles capable of hitting targets in Crimea, the traditional home of Russia’s Black Sea naval base.
Washington has said that Washington won’t be operating the missiles and is relying on Ukraine’s assurance that they won’t be used to attack Russian territory. But Ukraine doesn’t regard Crimea as Russian territory. Neither does Washington’s “world community.” The “world community” doesn’t acknowledge the Crimean vote for reunification with Russia. Officially for the West, Crimea is part of Ukraine. So Ukraine can use Biden’s missiles to attack the Russian naval base in Crimea.
As Eric Zuesse, an unusual leftwinger who generally respects the truth as far as he can see it, something the left seldom does, notes, the Biden Idiot and his neoconservative controllers have turned over to Zelensky, a Jew allied with Nazis, the decision whether there will be Armageddon.
Here is Zuesse, speaking for himself:
Ukraine Says It Might Use U.S. Weapons to Invade Russia
Eric Zuesse
In order to understand this matter, some fundamental background must first be briefly presented; and it is this (the remainder of this paragraph): Ukraine’s Government has consistently promised that it will retake Crimea, which had been part of Russia during 1783-1954 when the Soviet leader Khrushchev then transferred it to Ukraine, and which subsequently broke away from Ukraine in 2014 to rejoin Russia. Russia has re-established its sovereignty there, after a 2014 referendum in Crimea showed over 90% support by voters for Russia to do so. That’s the background.
On June 1st, when the White House announced that it would be sending to Ukraine weapons that might be used for invading Russia, Jonathan Finer, deputy White House national security adviser, said Washington had asked Ukraine for assurances the missiles would not strike inside Russia. On June 3rd, Ukraine’s Government rejected that request.
At the time when Biden made that announcement on June 1st, Reuters noted that, “Biden announced the plan to give Ukraine precision HIMARS rocket systems after receiving assurances from Kyiv that it would not use them to hit targets inside Russian territory.”
Either the U.S. Government is lying, or else the Ukrainian Government is lying, about this matter. If Ukraine did give Biden “assurances” that those weapons will not be used so as to invade Russia, then Ukraine’s announcement on June 3rd proves that Ukraine was lying when it provided those “assurances.”
If Ukraine did not give Biden such “assurances,” then Biden was lying.
If Ukraine was lying on June 3rd to say that it won’t comply with Biden’s request, then that was a lie from Ukraine.
Here is the way Russia’s RT News reported, on June 3rd, Ukraine’s rejection of Biden’s request (assuming that Biden did make such a request; wasn’t lying about that):
“Ukraine dismisses its promise to US”
Kiev may strike Crimea, a Ukrainian presidential aide says, despite assurances US weapons won’t be used to hit Russian territory.
Ukraine will use US-supplied rocket systems to strike into Russian territory should it deem such attacks necessary, Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Alexey Arestovich said on Thursday. …
“Crimea is ours. It belongs to Ukraine. And they [Russia] know it.” …
Arestovich’s comment comes despite US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying on Wednesday that Kiev has given Washington “assurances” that it won’t use American rockets to attack targets in Russia. …
Arestovich’s statement echoes the claim made by another Ukrainian politician. Egor Chernev, a Ukrainian MP, said on Wednesday that Russian aircraft and military stationed on Russia’s territory are “legitimate targets.”
If Ukraine uses U.S. weapons to invade Russia, then under existing international law, the U.S. will be a participant in that invasion. Russia would have a good case that (given the facts which have just been documented here), that participation would be either intentional, or else negligent. It would not have been unintentional on America’s part. Russia would, at the very least, then ask America whether that participation was intentional, or instead negligent. If America says “negligent,” then Russia would ask what America will do to rectify that matter. If America instead says “intentional,” then there will exist, from that moment on, a hot war between Russia and America. The loser in any hot war between Russia and America will escalate the conflict to a nuclear war in order to avoid becoming conquered by the other side. That would be not only WW III but a nuclear WW III, and would destroy all of the allies of each side, and would severely contaminate even neutral countries, and end globally in a nuclear winter, which would possibly end all life as it has existed on this planet.
PCR’s comment:
I have said from the beginning that the Kremlin is reactive, not proactive, and only slowly reactive. The consequence is that the Kremlin’s red lines mean nothing to the West. Even when under extreme duress, the Kremlin only allowed itself a limited military intervention in eastern Ukraine where residents are ethnic Russian. To the neoconservatives controlling Western foreign policy, this appears as irresolution, so the West presses on. Red line after Red line is crossed, and the Kremlin does nothing. It took EIGHT YEARS for the Kremlin to react to the slaughter of Donbass Russians, and only did so after the West laughed at the Kremlin’s security concerns and dismissed them out of hand. Russia’s conduct of its foreign policy shows irresolution, and this invites more provocations. The Kremlin shows inability to comprehend the dilemma it creates for itself.
Do we assume that years of Kremlin subservience to the West under Yeltsin and years of Kremlin hesitation under Putin have convinced the West that there is no strength in Russia and that Washington can press on with the Wolfowitz Doctrine of Washington’s hegemony? Perhaps this is a safe assumption. After all Washington had three decades of Kremlin toleration of Washington-financed NGOs, media and subversive organizations operating inside Russia corrupting the youth and the disaffected. Elements of this ilk are even present in the Russian government.
In the West the Russian military is a laughing stock. The media reports that Russian forces are about to be rolled up by democratic Ukrainians using American weapons. The unreality of this fantasy means more red lines will be crossed.
Are the Atlanticist Integrationists going to depose Putin? Is Russia going to have a new leader installed who will apologize to Ukraine and pay reparations?
If not, what’s going to happen when those US missiles given to Ukraine hit targets in Crimea?
Putin’s humanity, his toleration of provocations, his reluctance to use force has encouraged the West to press harder. Sooner or later a red line is going to be crossed from which there is no recovery.
These statements from Russian leaders indicate that the Idiot West has pushed beyond the fatal Red Line:
The West Does Not Understand the Extreme Danger from Its Arming of Ukraine
The Idiot Biden Regime and Insane Neoconservatives Have the World on the Path to Armegeddon
In a TV interview with Al Jazeera Television, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, said “This is not a forecast, but what’s already in play. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse are galloping ahead, and we can only look towards God.”
On Russian television, there is constant discussion about how the conflict in Ukraine is really a proxy war between the United States and Russia.
On the state TV show 60 Minutes, host Olga Skabeeva announced: “I have some unpleasant news… Even though we are methodically destroying the weapons that are being delivered [to Ukraine], but the quantities in which the United States are sending them force us to come up with some global conclusions. Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge that maybe Russia’s special operation in Ukraine has come to an end, in a sense that a real war has started: WWIII. We’re forced to conduct the demilitarization not only of Ukraine, but of the entire NATO alliance.”
Vladimir Avatkov, from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: “You mentioned WWIII and the way Americans and Poles are acting on the territory of Ukraine—indeed, we need to remember the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, who said that anyone who tries to interfere in the special military operation will pay a heavy price.” Skabeeva interrupted: “We never forget about these words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, but a great number of people are already standing in line, trying to interfere in Russia’s special operation on the territory of Ukraine. Turns out, we have to act—but we’re yet to figure out how we can act without conducting a nuclear strike.”
Just the other day, one prominent Russian politician openly talked about destroying both coasts of the United States with Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles…
The politician, Alexie Zhuravlev, was joined on the talk show by fellow MP and Russian-state mouthpiece Yevgeny Popov, the host of the Rossiya 1 channel show.
The lawmaker claimed that two of Russia’s Sarmat missiles would destroy the entirety of America’s east coast – before adding it would take just “two missiles for the west coast” as well.
“Four missiles and there’ll be nothing left.”
I think Craig is being unfair on Russia here:
“It took EIGHT YEARS for the Kremlin to react to the slaughter of Donbass Russians, and only did so after the West laughed at the Kremlin’s security concerns and dismissed them out of hand. Russia’s conduct of its foreign policy shows irresolution, and this invites more provocations. The Kremlin shows inability to comprehend …”
The point is they were desperately hoping that with the completion of the Nordstream-II pipeline, goodwill would start to develop towards Russia. That pipeline was really the last chance of avoiding the WW3 predicament we’re now in. In January 2021 Vlad made this cri de coer to the Davos forum, for a united Europe at peace with itself:
“Humanity is at risk of losing entire civilizational and cultural continents. Our common responsibility today is to avoid such a prospect, which looks like a gloomy dystopia, and to ensure development along a different, positive, harmonious and constructive trajectory.”
Despite this looming threat, he reaffirmed his optimistic vision of Europe as a culture at peace with itself:
“If we can rise above these problems of the past and get rid of these phobias, then we will certainly enjoy a positive stage in our relations. We are ready for this, we want this, and we will strive to make this happen. But love is impossible if it is declared only by one side. It must be mutual.”
Too many people are too busy calling everything communist to realise these aren’t commies at all: commie bankers, commie billionaires, commie CIA, Wall Street, City of London, British establishment, mass media, even the BBC? All commies? Such dreadfully unsophisticated claptrap!
People are too busy reacting and not thinking to grasp politicians have taken western society in a very dangerous move to the hard right since Thatcher and Reagan. They don’t like it, but as it’s from farther to the right than even they are, and because they cannot comprehend they’re being attacked from the right, they can only blame the left for it. Maybe if their Nazi troops in Ukraine are brought west to run their labour camps people will get it in the end? I think that’s what it will take for most of them to see it.
The schizophrenic American Christians don’t mind being under something called Wolfowitz and his plans. Wolfy Jew, he’s our man!
“When Washington overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014, Washington installed a Nazi government.”
Tell the truth Mr Roberts, Washington ALWAYS installs a Nazi government! From the Philippines onward Washington has always installed a Nazi government.
Subheading states a ‘nazi government’ was installed in Ukraine in 2014…more nonsense..A clique of Jewish Oligarchs govern Ukraine via Zelensky (Jew).
Its a staged coordinated setup (between NATO/Soviet Russia) to prolong the war & slaughter Aryan Ukrainians in accordance with Judeo-Communist Russia’s ‘World Without Nazism’ operation.
The Jews & Commies fear the pro-white nationalist-fascists & masses of Ukraine (Azov/Right Sector/S14 etc). This is why the Zionist Overlords commanded anti-white Putin to invade & attempt to wipe them out–to institute Holodomor II & prevent the impending threat of white nationalists (‘Nazis’) from taking over Ukraine. Russia is a neo-Bolshevik State dominated by hundreds of Jewish Oligarchs. So they started a war to avert the ‘white fascists’ from focusing on obtaining political power/establishing a Fascist Ethnostate & deposing the internal enemy (Jews)–& instead divert/force them to fight/die to defend their nation from an external enemy (Commie Russia). Clever stratagem, but now its been exposed thanks to me.
The goal of the war is to preserve Jewish control of the Ukrainian State while disabling/debilitating the white nationalist ‘enemy’ via their reduction in war. That’s all its really about it..
> Too many people are too busy calling everything communist to realise these aren’t commies at all
People are calling it communism? Well, I don’t ‘read’ the gutter news so what would I know. Personally I’ve been calling it what it is: fascism. They tell you what to do, what to think, how to breath — and you say “sir, yes sir” — because you’re too gutless to do anything else.
Still selling the Ukraine war as real? It is a Hollywood style production. They do not need a real war when it can be staged thru war games and mainstream news hoakery. People in the Alt media like Paul Roberts and Joel Skousen have some good articles but they goes along with the fake narratives and should be exposing that.
A lot of Commies on here Rixon.
Roberts threw around the term “Nazi” quite a bit; I’d really like to see people provide their definition of “Nazi” when using the title all willy-nilly.
“I have said from the beginning that the Kremlin is reactive, not proactive, and only slowly reactive….It took EIGHT YEARS for the Kremlin to react to the slaughter of Donbass Russians, and only did so after the West laughed at the Kremlin’s security concerns”. Yeah, well, “slowly reactive” is an understatement considering maniacal Jews slaughtered tens of millions of Russians in the first several decades of the 20th century and the Russians still haven’t done jack shit about it….
In “Balance of Power”, still important although less well understood, the USA needed a counter- balance as it grew fast, in the 1700s. Russia grew fast at the same time, being not much more than Moscow at first, maybe to make sure the USA would not be a runaway power like it wants to be (they all do), but as the USA shrinks, Russia has to as well, or then this country is the runaway one. The overseers bring in inter-dependence but there is always the danger of a country escaping that, so balance is still needed. Some people say Let a power dominate, if it is good, but we would not expect it to stay good for long. The old system still operates. Further East, China and India are a pair.
Nico X
“Russia is a neo-Bolshevik State dominated by hundreds of Jewish Oligarchs”
a shill or an ignorant? the former, as it’s repeated in every comment section. it’s most likely from the army of the online paid 24/7 misled-information camp. hazbara headquarter.
purely by coincidence of course but all those countries who refused rothschild fractional reserve lending get the americans sent in to bomb the shit outa the people. then that nice mr rothschild offers the IMF to loan them the money to rebuild, and shittole ! hes got the country now
this happened all across the middle east
its called ” building back better ”
but better for whom ?
yes rothschild and israel
If the West installed so-called NZI’s in the Ukraine, then why is their Leadership mostly Jewish and ardent anti-Russian?
‘Few Westerners, being so poorly educated, are aware that Western Ukraine fought for Nazi Germany during World War II.’
Paul Craig Roberts is very far from correct here. It is true that initially, the Ukrainian public welcomed the German army. But this public welcomed them as liberators from Soviet brutality. Also, the German Army was not disposed to embrace Ukrainians as fellow Nazis; the Germans had other plans for the Slavs. And there was Stepan Bandera, who spent most of the war in German captivity: he rounded on the Ukrainians who were disposed to fraternise with the Germans, cautioning them to live Ukrainian nationalism as solely a Ukrainian movement. (I think David Irving, in Hitler’s War, who talks about this. But there is a well-documented piece in Wiki, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army. )
My own research: Axis veterans of the Eastern Front have confirmed the above, many noting that the initial warm Ukrainian welcome subsided quite soon in the piece. The Axis soldiers, the Germans especally, were too deeply steeped in the attitude that considered the Slav ‘Uttermensch’. That did not go down well with the Ukrainians! Indeed, Ukrainian guerrilla armies, fighting primarily the Poles and the Russians, also attacked Axis military units from mid-1943 onwards. Things got so bad that the Axis soldiers often found themselves under curfew after nightfall, for fear of marauding Ukrainian guerillas.
Ukrainian collaborators with the German Army, and murders of Jews: Not surprisingly, I have never come upon any Ukrainian who has admitted to either of these activitis, nor do I know anyone who has. But claims that there were such peopel abound in Holocaust literature. So also do huge lies.
@fj ….Its not my fault you’re a Commie agent or moron who lacks the intellect to comprehend the real motives behind the war in Ukraine…
@Umbra Bellator…who cares about dead anti-white Commies?
@commie on, so “they tell you what to do, what to think, when to breath and you say sir yes sir” But, of course, that isn’t communism, is it?
Perhaps you should ask some East Europeans, South Americans or Africans for their descriptions of communism.
why would CIA put up with a sloppy movie?
PCR is part of the Chicago School of Economics, a hard core socialist Bolshevik and has the same arguments as Abby Martin. PCR read Wears book and others on WWII and knows damn well who were the evil parties are.
https://www.exposetheenemy.com/networks. Chicago School of Economics is in Lockstep with Rockefeller University as Rockefeller runs them both.
Ukraine is going to get rocket and missile systems that can be used against Russia. What is not known is that Israel, which controls Jewmerika, is sending rockets that can be outfitted with W-54 warheads that Israel got from LBJ. That way USA and Israel can attack Russia with nukes, from Ukraine.
Israel has at least 2,000 nukes, it has the entire arsenal of decommissioned Davy Crockett nukes, and Mordecai Vanunu pics prove it.
http://vanunu.com/uscampaign/photos.html
compare that to
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=w-54+davy+crockett+nuclear+pits&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=images
https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2015/03/08/the-hidden-history-of-the-incredibly-evil-khazarian-mafia/3/
Biden and company do not care if USA gets nuked, the nation is bankrupt, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, all those baby boomers who are retiring need to made gone, so what better way to kill off the herd than have Russia do it. The elites will be safe in their bunkers, they will not warn you for the simple reason they want you dead.
I think they are going for all out nuclear war because the Covid death jab was NOT deadly enough. A few million dead is nothing when you are talking about hundreds of millions of breeders, on the ascending population curve that is NOT even a blip.