{"id":190428,"date":"2019-06-25T06:09:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T06:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190428"},"modified":"2019-06-29T05:56:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T05:56:49","slug":"as-we-face-armageddon-the-western-world-is-leaderless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190428","title":{"rendered":"As We Face Armageddon the Western World Is Leaderless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org June 22, 2019<\/h1>\n

Please contribute to the success of the June quarterly appeal by donating to this website<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em>.<\/em><\/h4>\n

According to news reports, the validity of which cannot be ascertained by the general public, a crazed US government came within ten minutes of igniting a general conflagation in the Middle East, the consequences of which could have been catastrophic for all.<\/span><\/p>\n

The moronic warmongers in high office\u2014Bolton, Pompeo, and Pence\u2014and their Israel Lobby masters are determined, and they have not abandoned their campaign for war with Iran.\u00a0 Of course, the liars say that Iran will just accept its punishment for defending its territory and there will be no war.\u00a0 But this is not what Iran says.\u00a0 I believe Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the tiny percentage of people in the Western World who are still capable of thought regret that Trump called off the insane plan.\u00a0 They think the consequences would have been the destruction of the Saudi and Israeli governments\u2014two of the most evil in history\u2014and the cut-off of oil to the US and Europe, with the resulting depression causing the overthrow of the Western warmonger governments.\u00a0 They believe that catastrophic American defeat is the only way peace can be restored to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, it is not clear whether Trump calling off the attack saved us or doomed us.\u00a0 The Israel Lobby and their neoconservative agents have not been taught a lesson.\u00a0 Trump has not fired Bolton and Pompeo for almost igniting a conflagation, and he has not dressed down his moronic vice president.\u00a0 So, it can all happen again.<\/span><\/p>\n

And likely will.\u00a0 The lesson that Bolton and Israel have learned is that the fake news about an Iranian attack on a Japanese freighter, denied by the Japanese, was not sufficient to lock Trump into \u201csaving face\u201d by attacking Iran.\u00a0 So be prepared for a larger orchestrated provocation. Bolton and Israel know that the Western presstitutes will lie for them.\u00a0 Watch for a provocation that allows Trump no alternative to an attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s use of fake news and false flag attacks to launch military attacks goes back a long way.\u00a0 In the 21st century we have had a concentrated dose\u2014Saddam Hussein\u2019s weapons of mass destruction, Assad\u2019s use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russian invasions, Maduro starving his own people, the endless lies about Gaddafi.\u00a0 Yes, I know there are more.\u00a0 I am writing an article, not an encyclopedia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington has grown accustomed to attacking countries on false pretenses and getting away with it.\u00a0 Therefore, there is nothing to discourage the Israel Lobby and its Washington puppets from continuing to set-up Iran for an attack.\u00a0 Success breeds incaution.\u00a0 The attack on Iraq was stage-managed by a credible US Secretary of State before the UN.\u00a0 The attack on Libya was stage-managed by a UN resolution that a deceived Russia and China failed to block.\u00a0 In situations such as these, Washington arranged a green light for its war crimes.\u00a0 However, Washington has failed to stage-manage a green light for an attack on Iran. Moreover, Iran is a more powerful military force than Iraq and Libya, and the extent of the depth of Russian and Chinese support for Iran is unknown to Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Israel succeeds in having its Washington puppet attack Iran, Israel and its neoconservative agents will not welcome failure of their objective.\u00a0 They will fight against failure with more dangerous moves.\u00a0 I can easily imagine the fanatics having Trump \u201csave face\u201d by destroying the world and issuing some kind of ultimatums to Russia and China or resorting to the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

The insouciant American\u2014indeed, Western\u2014people are kept unaware by design.\u00a0 It is the function of the presstitutes to control the explanations given to the people.\u00a0 The US Congress is bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby, as are most important politicians in the UK and Europe.\u00a0 What I am telling you is that it is very easy for fanatics to produce Armageddon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephen Cohen and I, and a few surviving others, lived through the 20th century Cold War. In recent years we both have reported on numerous occasions that the threat of nuclear war today is far higher than during the Cold War.\u00a0 One reason is that during the Cold War US and Soviet leaders worked to defuse tensions and to build trust.\u00a0 In contrast, since the Clinton regime the US has worked consistently to build tensions.\u00a0 Both Cohen and I have listed on many occasions the tension-building activities pursued by all post-Reagan\/George H.W. Bush administrations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Russians no longer trust Washington, and neither do the Chinese.\u00a0 Washington has lied to, and about, Russia so often in the 21st century that Russian trust of Washington is exhausted.\u00a0 No matter how earnestly the Russian government wants to trust Washington, it dare not do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, it takes very little miscalculation for the morons in Washington to cause a threat-ending response from Russia as Washington has convinced the Russian government that the US intends to destroy them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The orchestration of Russiagate by the Democratic Party, military\/security complex, and their media whores has, as Stephen Cohen has emphasized, forced President Trump in an act of self-preservation to adopt the neoconservative attitude toward Russia and other \u201cnon-compliant\u201d governments.\u00a0 This attitude is dangerous enough in the best of times.\u00a0 It is extremely dangerous after trust has been destroyed by years of lies and false accusations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps there is someone in the Trump administration who has the intelligence to understand the dangerous situation and who has Trump\u2019s confidence.\u00a0 But I do not know who that person is.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have to face the fact that as we face Armageddon the Western World is leaderless.<\/span><\/p>\n

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