{"id":98107,"date":"2014-05-25T09:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T09:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=98107"},"modified":"2014-05-30T06:35:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T06:35:56","slug":"putins-threat-just-stunned-u-s-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=98107","title":{"rendered":"Putin’s Threat Just Stunned U.S. and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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King World News — May 23, 2014<\/h1>\n

Today former US Treasury official, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, warned King World News that the threat made by Putin today just stunned the United States and Europe.\u00a0 Dr. Roberts also discussed how the threat unfolded today at the International Economic Forum in Russia.\u00a0 Below is what Dr. Roberts had to say in this powerful interview.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Eric King:\u00a0 \u201cDr. Roberts, there is this International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg (Russia).\u00a0 I know the U.S. has pulled out, but does the high level of attendance, despite Washington\u2019s pressure, indicate fading U.S. influence?\u201d<\/h5>\n
Dr. Roberts:\u00a0 \u201cYes.\u00a0 One of the advisors to Putin had publicly complained that Washington had put unprecedented pressure on American and European countries not to attend.\u00a0 But it turns out that present at this forum, which began yesterday and continues today and tomorrow, there are official delegations from 62 countries, and the CEOs of 146 of the major companies in the world….<\/span><\/h5>\n
\u201cLast year trade deals were made that totaled $263 billion — more than a quarter of a trillion dollars.\u00a0 And I suspect that there will be an equal success in trade deals this year.\u00a0 For example, the heads of BP, Total (SA), Shell, Exxon, Phillips, Caterpillar, they\u2019ve all gone to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, despite Washington\u2019s pressure.<\/span><\/h5>\n
So what we are seeing is that it\u2019s OK to cooperate with Washington\u2019s absurd foreign policy, until it starts to effect the bottom line.\u00a0 (Laughter ensues).\u00a0 If it affects the bottom line, the Germans (as an example) aren\u2019t so interested.\u00a0 You may have seen that the French have said they are going to continue their military sales to Russia, regardless of Washington.<\/span><\/h5>\n
And so I think this is an indication that the world thinks Washington is overreaching, trying to control the affairs of too many countries and too many companies, and I don\u2019t think this is going to be tolerated.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n
Eric King:\u00a0 \u201cWhat about the implications for U.S. financial hegemony?\u00a0 We have this St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, where everybody basically blew off the United States, and Asia showed up en masse as well as a bunch of other countries and companies.\u00a0 And now we have this move away from the U.S. dollar.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Dr. Roberts:\u00a0 \u201cWell, I think the most interesting part of this forum so far was President Putin\u2019s speech today at the forum.\u00a0 He explicitly criticized the United States for bringing such a strategic threat to Russia.\u00a0 He spoke very diplomatically, but the implication is there that he\u2019s simply not going to tolerate the Ukraine as a member of NATO, with American missile bases on Russia\u2019s border.<\/span><\/h5>\n
He doesn\u2019t say it in so many words, but (it was) the way he emphasized the fact that Washington thinks they can just ignore Russia.\u00a0 And he also explicitly criticized the Europeans for being Washington\u2019s puppets.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t use the word \u2018puppet,\u2019 but he criticized them for being unresponsive to Russian efforts to resolve the crisis, and for telling Russia that it was none of Russia\u2019s business.<\/span><\/h5>\n
And he accused the Europeans for being snobs, thinking that they are too good to talk to Russians.\u00a0 So whatever hopes Russia had for the for the deals at the economic summit, the most important thing for Putin was to send this message to the powerful American firms and to the powerful European firms that if this continues, if their governments ignore legitimate Russian protests about policies and continue to disregard the aspect of the Ukrainian crisis, and the meaning of it for Russia itself, that there was going to be further trouble.<\/span><\/h5>\n
So I think that message will go back to the idiots in Washington and to Washington\u2019s vassals in the Merkel, Cameron, and Hollande governments.\u00a0 And then they will have to decide who\u2019s interests are really on the line.\u00a0 Is it in Germany\u2019s, France\u2019s, and the UK\u2019s interests, to create a situation for Russia that does not benefit Germany, France, or the U.K., but merely serves the purpose of American hegemony over the world?<\/span><\/h5>\n
So I think that this was a strategic move by Putin at this conference.\u00a0 And that\u2019s probably the most important aspect of the conference, not that so many firms from 62 countries appeared ready to do business with the Russians, despite Washington\u2019s threat of sanctions.\u00a0 Instead, that the occasion was used by President Putin to send a message.<\/span><\/h5>\n
Of course Washington is full of hubris and arrogance and will ignore the message, but I think it\u2019s going to be harder for Merkel and Hollande.\u00a0 They have too many jobs and too much of their industry dependent on economic relations with Russia.\u00a0 And they won\u2019t want to sacrifice that just so Washington can continue to be the sole superpower and prevent other countries from rising.<\/span><\/h5>\n
So that\u2019s the most important thing.\u00a0 And if I\u2019m correct in this judgment, it does mean that the dollar will be more vulnerable because the exercise of the United States, publicly, by its power, has been diminished by the response of other countries.\u201d<\/span><\/h5>\n
IMPORTANT – The piece above is just a small portion of Dr. Roberts\u2019 remarkable audio interview.\u00a0 This is truly one of PCR\u2019s most important interviews ever.\u00a0 It is <\/span>available now and you can listen to it by <\/span>CLICKING <\/span>HERE<\/span>.<\/a><\/h5>\n

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