{"id":195986,"date":"2019-10-08T06:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T06:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195986"},"modified":"2019-10-11T07:26:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T07:26:04","slug":"will-the-russians-ever-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195986","title":{"rendered":"Will the Russians Ever Learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.prg Oct 7, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Insult after insult after insult, and the pathetic Russian Foreign Ministry still asks, \u201cdo the American authorities have no wish to normalize the dialogue?\u201d\u00a0 https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/470312-fbi-questioning-russian-mp\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Of course they don\u2019t.\u00a0 How much evidence does the Russian Foreign Ministry need?\u00a0 The Americans arrest the son of a Russian lawmaker abroad far outside any legal US jurisdiction\u2014they kidnapped him\u2014and brought him to Washington for a Kangaroo Court trial.\u00a0 The Americans\u00a0arrested a Russian woman in the US, Maria Butina, falsely accused her of spying and sentened her to prison.\u00a0 It goes on and on.\u00a0 Now the Americans have detained for questioning Inga Yumasheva, a member of the Russian Parliament, who was invited to the US to participat in the Fort Ross Dialogue forum, an annual event in which Americans and Russians can talk directly to one another.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is the Russian government capable of understanding that it is dangerous for Russians, even for members of the Russian government, to come to the US or to go anywhere outside Russia where they can be kidnapped by Washington\u2019s thugs?<\/span><\/p>\n

After Washington violated diplomatic immunity and seized control of the Russian consulate in San Francisco and trade offices in New York and Washington, how can the Russians not know that the US is a gangster state?\u00a0 How does Russia have normal relations with the US gangster state? Is the Russian government incapable of recognizing obvious facts?<\/span><\/p>\n

The great humiliations that the Russian government so willingly accepts only encourages more humiliations.\u00a0 The humiliations will worsen. Will the Russians again meekly complain when Putin himself is detained and interrogated on his entry into the United States? Indeed, he could be arrested for interferring in US presidential elections.\u00a0 Will the Russian government again grovel before Washington?\u00a0 When will the groveling stop?\u00a0 The humiliations will worsen until the Russian government replies in kind elevated by a factor of 5 or 10. The humiliation and abuse of Russia will not stop until Russia kicks Washington\u2019s teeth down its throat.\u00a0 Time is of the essence.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no reason whatsoever for Russia to be so afraid of the United States, a bankrupt, socially degenerating country that after two decades has proved unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan, just as the cowardly Israeli army, good only for killing women and children, has been chased out of Lebanon twice by a small Hezbollah militia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why does the Russian government invite scathing adverse publicity everywhere in the world by enabling US and US vassal provinces in Europe to finance NGOs that are subversive organizations run by the CIA inside Russia to cause protests and disruptions such as the recent Moscow protests that undermined the performance of the ruling parties in the Moscow elections?\u00a0 The drop in the vote that supports Russian independence, rather than accommodation to Washington, was not from the success of the American propaganda.\u00a0 It resulted from disgust of patriotic Russians that their government will not protect Russia from American interferrence in Russian elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hasn\u2019t the Russian government noticed in the Hong Kong violence the consequences of the Chinese government\u2019s nonchalance toward the activities of American-financed NGOs?\u00a0 Why does the Russian government invite the same experience?\u00a0 Have as many Russian officials been paid off by Washington as Chinese officials have?\u00a0 How rife is treason in Russia and China?<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia, China, and Iran seem unable to come to grips with the fact that Washington is a dangerous adversary that intends to exercise hegemony.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Washington violated diplomatic immunity and seized control of the Russian consulate in San Francisco and trade offices in New York and Washington, how can the Russians not know that the US is a gangster state? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"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":[61,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195986","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=195986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195988,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195986\/revisions\/195988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}