{"id":248231,"date":"2022-01-12T09:17:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248231"},"modified":"2022-01-13T06:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T06:53:31","slug":"americans-are-a-non-serious-people-playing-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248231","title":{"rendered":"Americans Are a Non-serious People \u201cplaying with Fire\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org Jan 10, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Americans, wallowing in hubris and delusions of omnipotence, have blown the meeting with the Russians, as I expected them to do.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov expressed the Kremlin\u2019s loss of patience:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not trust the other side. It\u2019s over, enough is enough.\u201d The Americans \u201cunderestimate the gravity of the situation,\u201d and failed to show an understanding of how key issues need to be resolved. \u201cWe are fed up with loose talk, half-promises, misrepresentations. It is absolutely mandatory to make sure that Ukraine never ever becomes a member of NATO.\u201d<br \/>\nRyabkov said he will make a decision on January 13 whether to continue the meeting.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/545616-ryabkov-geneva-talks-nato\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/545616-ryabkov-geneva-talks-nato\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ryabkov said if the militarization of Russia\u2019s border by Washington did not cease, the Russian military will respond in a way that \u201cwill inevitably and unavoidably damage the security of the US and its European allies.\u201d \u201cWe are calling on the US to demonstrate a maximum of responsibility at this moment. Risks related to a possible increase of confrontation should not be underestimated,\u201d Ryabkov said, adding that \u201csignificant\u201d effort has been made to persuade the Americans that \u201cplaying with fire\u201d is not in their interests.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/545624-moscow-warns-washington-confrontation\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/545624-moscow-warns-washington-confrontation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The insouciant State Department replied that NATO won\u2019t stop expanding.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"D0BYqfyxbW\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/\">Donate<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Donate&#8221; &#8212; PaulCraigRoberts.org\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/pages\/donate\/embed\/#?secret=D0BYqfyxbW\" data-secret=\"D0BYqfyxbW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/01\/10\/americans-are-a-non-serious-people-playing-with-fire\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With NATO\u2019s continuing military build-up on Russia\u2019s borders, the Biden administration seems to be heading inexorably toward military confrontation with Russia<\/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":[61,58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248231","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=248231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248232,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248231\/revisions\/248232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}