{"id":192902,"date":"2019-08-09T07:39:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T07:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192902"},"modified":"2019-08-11T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:28:53","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192902","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>It is unfortunate that Tulsi Gabbard succumbed to the Israel Lobby.\u00a0\u00a0The forces of the Empire saw it as a sign of weakness and have set about destroying her.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ruling elite see Gabbard as a threat just as they saw Trump as a threat.\u00a0\u00a0A threat is an attractive political candidate who questions the Empire\u2019s agenda.\u00a0\u00a0Trump questioned the hostility toward Russia orchestrated by the military\/security complex.\u00a0\u00a0Gabbard questions the Empire\u2019s wars in the Middle East. This is questioning that encroaches on the agendas of the military\/security complex and Israel Lobby.\u00a0\u00a0If fear of Israel is what caused Gabbard to vote the AIPAC line on the bill forbidding criticism of Israel, she won\u2019t be able to stick to her line against Washington\u2019s aggression in the Middle East.\u00a0\u00a0Israel is behind that aggression as it serves Israeli interests.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the Empire is taking no chances.\u00a0\u00a0The Empire has sicced its Presstitute Battalion on her. Josh Rogin (Washington Post), Joy Reid (MSNBC), Wajahat Ali (New York Times and CNN), and, of course the Twitter trolls paid to slander and misrepresent public figures that the Empire targets.\u00a0\u00a0Google added its weight to the obfuscation of Gabbard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gabbard, who in the second \u201cdebate\u201d between Democratic Party candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, took down the despicable Kamala Harris with ease, was promptly labeled \u201can Assad apologist\u201d and a conspiracist with Russia<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to put herself as a Putin agent in the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wars in the Middle East against Israel\u2019s enemies and preparation for major wars against Iran, Russia, and China are the bread and butter for the powerful US military\/security complex lobby.\u00a0\u00a0All that is important to the military\/security complex is their profits, not whether they get all of us killed.\u00a0\u00a0In other words, their propaganda about protecting America\u00a0is a lie.\u00a0\u00a0They endanger us all in order to have enemies in order to justify their massive budget and power.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those of us who actually know, such as myself and Stephen Cohen, have been warning for years that the orchestrated hostility against Russia is producing a far more dangerous Cold War than the original one.\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, beginning with the criminal George W. Bush regime, the arms control treaties achieved at great political expense by US and Soviet leaders have been abandoned by Washington.\u00a0\u00a0The latest treaty to be discarded by Washington in service to the military\/security lobby is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) negotiated by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. This treaty banned missiles that Washington could place in Europe on Russia\u2019s border with which to attack Russia with little or no reaction time, and Russian missiles that could be used to attack Washington\u2019s NATO puppet states in Europe and UK.\u00a0\u00a0The treaty resulted in the elimination of 2,692 missiles and a decade of verification inspections that satisfied both parties to the agreement.\u00a0\u00a0But suddenly Washington has pulled out of the treaty. The main purpose of pulling out of the treaty is to enable the military\/security complex to develop and produce new missiles at the taxpayers\u2019 expense, but Washington also sees a military advantage in withdrawing from the INF treaty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington, of course, blames the US withdrawal on Russia, just as Washington blames every country that Washington intends to attack. But it is completely obvious even to a moron that Russia has no interest whatsoever in abandoning the treaty.\u00a0Russian intermediate-range missiles cannot reach the United States<\/em>.\u00a0Russia has no reason to attack Europe, which has no military forces of any consequence.\u00a0\u00a0It is the American nuclear missiles on European soil that are the problem<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington, however,\u00a0does gain by tearing up the INF treaty<\/em>.\u00a0At Europe\u2019s risk, not America\u2019s, Washington\u2019s intermediate-range nuclear missiles stationed in Europe on Russia\u2019s borders permit a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia.\u00a0\u00a0Because of proximity, the warning time is only a couple of minutes.\u00a0\u00a0Washington\u2019s crazed war planners believe that so much of the Russian retaliatory capacity would be destroyed, that Russia would surrender rather than retaliate with diminished forces and risk a second attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Putin stresses this danger as does the Russian military.\u00a0\u00a0US missiles on Russia\u2019s border puts the world on a hair trigger. Aside from the fact that a nuclear attack on Russia is the likely intent of the criminal neoconservatives, nuclear warning systems are notorious for false alarms.\u00a0\u00a0During Cold War I, both sides worked to build trust, but since the criminal Clinton regime, Washington has worked to destroy all trust between the two dominant nuclear powers.\u00a0\u00a0All that is required to obliterate life on earth, thanks entirely to the crazed fools in Washington, is one false alarm received by the Russians.\u00a0\u00a0Unlike past false alarms, next time the Russians will have no choice but to believe it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Intermediate-range nuclear missiles leave no time for a phone call between Putin and Trump.\u00a0\u00a0The Russian leader who has suffered hundreds of diplomatic insults, demonization of his person and his country, illegal sanctions, endless false accusations, and endless threats cannot assume that the warning is false.<\/span><\/p>\n

The idiots in Washington and the presstitutes have programmed the end of the world. When the alarm goes off, the Russian leader has no choice but to push the button.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any remaining doubt in the Russian government of Washington\u2019s hostile intentions toward Russia has been dispelled by Trump\u2019s National Security Adviser, the neocon warmonger John Bolton.\u00a0\u00a0Bolton recently announced that the last remaining arms control agreement, START, will not be renewed by Washington in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thus, the trust built between the nuclear powers that began with President John F. Kennedy and reached its greatest success with Reagan and Gorbachev has been erased. It will\u00a0be lucky if the world survives the destruction of trust between the two major nuclear powers.<\/span><\/p>\n

The American government in Washington has been made so utterly stupid by its arrogant hubris that it has no comprehension of the dangerous situation that it, and it alone, has created.\u00a0\u00a0We are all at risk every minute of our lives because of the power, of which President Eisenhower warned us more than a half-century ago to no avail, of the US military\/security complex, an organized powerful force determined and able to destroy any American president who would threaten their budget and power by making peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump is a strong personality, but he has been cowed by the Israel Lobby and the military\/security complex.\u00a0\u00a0As reigning president, Trump sat there Twittering while an attack orchestrated by the military\/security complex and the Democratic Party, with 100% cooperation from the American media, tried to portray him as a Russian agent as grounds for his impeachment.<\/span><\/p>\n

A strong personality in what is allegedly the most powerful office in the world who allows his entire first term to be wasted by his opponents in an attempt to frame him and drive him from office is all we need to know about the likely fate of Tulsi Gabbard.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The ruling elite view Gabbard as a threat just as they once did Trump, and we\u2019ve seen what has happened with him. Is Tulsi Gabbard going the same way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":183849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192902"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192940,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192902\/revisions\/192940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}