{"id":230248,"date":"2021-03-26T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=230248"},"modified":"2021-03-27T06:34:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T06:34:01","slug":"sowing-seeds-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=230248","title":{"rendered":"Sowing Seeds of War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org March 24, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

China Is Losing Patience with Washington. \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t like me when I\u2019m angry,\u201d China tells Washington, and China is getting angry.<\/p>\n

Beijing warns US and its UK, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand puppets to give up pretending they constitute \u201cworld opinion.\u201d\u00a0 https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/519004-china-five-eyes-west-xinjiang\/<\/a><\/p>\n

This rebuke to the \u201cFive Eyes\u201d follows a strong dressing down delivered by Yang Jiechi, a ruling member of the Chinese government to the Biden regime at the Alaska talks.\u00a0 Yang Jiechi told the US delegation that \u201cthe United States does not have the qualification to say that it wants to speak to China from a position of strength.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, who do you think you are?\u00a0 Where did you get the idea that your self-serving position constitutes international public opinion and that you can lean on us to comply with your position?<\/p>\n

In their most recent public statements President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have stopped pleading with the West to be nice.\u00a0 Putin acknowledged that Washington only wants a hegemonic relationship with Russia, a relationship inconsistent with Russian sovereignty, and Lavrov said that the EU\u2019s hostility to Russia could result in Russia breaking off relations with Europe.<\/p>\n

Washington is probably too arrogant to hear what it is being told.\u00a0 This is why I am concerned that Washington\u2019s hegemonic aspiration can result in a devastating war.\u00a0 It is easy to rouse Americans, especially patriotic Trump supporters, against Russia and China.\u00a0 The American Establishment did not allow Trump to improve relations with Russia, but it did permit him to worsen relations with China.\u00a0 But what sense does it make for Trump supporters, defined by the Biden regime as \u201cTrump insurrectionists,\u201d \u201cenemies of democracy,\u201d and \u201cAmerica\u2019s greatest threat,\u201d to support the Biden\u2019s regime\u2019s propaganda against Russia and China?<\/p>\n

Washington and its presstitutes sound like a broken record with their complaints about human rights violations in China and Russia\u2019s alleged poisoning of Navalny, Washington\u2019s man with whom to replace Putin. Washington\u2019s hypocrisy does not impress China and Russia.\u00a0 Washington\u2019s puppet states go along with it, but most of the world regards the US as the human rights abuser with its 20 years of destrution of Muslim countries and its evil, inhuman, and illegal treatment of Julian Assange.\u00a0 Whatever human rights violations China and Russia might have committed, they pale in comparison with Washington\u2019s enormous crimes against humanity, crimes that include protection of Israel\u2019s crimes against the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

The long years of Washington\u2019s hypocrisy has, I fear, destroyed world respect for Washington\u2019s veracity and integrity.\u00a0 I am afraid that China and Russia have concluded that it is impossible to come to terms with a government whose words are limited to propaganda. The resulting Russian and Chinese lack of trust in Washington, together with Washington\u2019s quest for hegemony, makes the danger of war high.<\/p>\n

There doesn\u2019t seem anything to do about this risk from within the US.\u00a0 Judging from the content of most articles on Johnson\u2019s List, a daily collection of articles about Russia, Russian studies in the US are no longer serious and consist largely of accusatory propaganda that presents Russia as Washington wants Russia presented.<\/p>\n

Americans do not understand the risks that Washington is taking with China and Russia, because the media do not explain the facts and the risks to them. Stephen Cohen, recently deceased, was perhaps America\u2019s last academic Russian expert.\u00a0 He and I shared the concern that Washington\u2019s intent to damage Russia was sowing the seeds of war. For our efforts, we were labeled \u201cRussian dupes.\u201d\u00a0 For intelligent commentary on Russia, a person turns to The Saker and Andrei Martyanov, not to university departments of Russian studies. Unfortunately for understanding, all who put truth in the way of Washington\u2019s propaganda are dismissed as \u201cpro-Kremlin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Silencing the voices of sanity is how wars come about.<\/p>\n

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