West v Russia: Reaching The Point Of No Return

Economist, academic, author and former Reagan administration official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts shares his views

By Adriel Kasonta:

Adriel Kasonta: It’s already more than a month since Russia started its military operation (or, as we say in the West, “invasion”) in Ukraine, which many observers believe could have been prevented if Moscow’s security guarantees proposals had been seriously addressed. Is that a valid point or just a repetition of “Kremlin propaganda”? And if it holds some merit, why was nothing done to stop the war from occurring?

Paul Craig Roberts: Ukraine is a multi-problem for Russia, partly because that is Washington’s intention and partly because of Russian strategic blunders.

Russia became a problem for Washington in 2007 when President Vladimir Putin announced at the Munich Security Conference the end of American unipolarity. The return of Russia as a constraint on US unilateralism infuriated the neo-con-artists.

Kremlin Again Warns US-NATO Weapons Transports Into Ukraine Will Be Attacked

"...will be considered by us as legal military targets."

By Tyler Durden: At a moment the Pentagon has vowed to "speed up" weapons deliveries to Ukraine forces, and after Slovakia announced early this week it is in discussion with NATO allies to provide Kiev with MiG-29 fighter jets, the Kremlin has repeated its warning that any weapons shipments entering the country will be viewed as "legitimate military targets". 

The renewed warning was issued Wednesday by Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who told TASS news agency that the military stands ready to attack any US or NATO vehicles caught transporting weapons into the conflict. 

"We are warning that US-NATO weapons transports across Ukrainian territory will be considered by us as legal military targets," said Ryabkov, after last month the Kremlin issued a similar warning. But this time the language has been narrowed to specifically put the US and NATO on notice, whereas previously this was left somewhat ambiguous.

He warned further that these attempts to inflict damage on Russian forces will be "harshly suppressed", explaining that...

Some Recent Victims Of The Genocidal Anti-Gentile Jews

For genocidal colonialist Jews armed to the teeth, “not being Jewish”, or “having a house whilst not being Jewish”, or “looking suspicious” can be reason enough for them to shoot you dead and steal your property.

Compiled by If Americans Knew: It is very rare to see a period of time in which more Zio-Jews are killed than idigenous Gentiles of Jew occupied Palestine, but this is one of those moments, as tensions are growing in the region and a few are taking Palestinian resistance to a new, lethal level.

According to IAK‘s Israel-Palestine timeline, in the last 247 months, there have been only three months in which more Jews were killed than Palestinians (28 vs 13 in June 2001, 4 vs 0 in August 2008, 1 vs 0 in April 2014), and one month in which equal numbers of Israelis and Palestinians were killed (June 2002).

A total of 14 Jews have been killed in four incidents of Palestinian resistance since March 22.

During the same period, at least 13 Palestinians have been killed. Below are some of the most recent stories.

US Suddenly Pretends To Care About Rights Abuses In India

'This empire truly believes it has a right to rule the world, and that no nation has a right to refuse it. The re-emergence of a true multipolar world is crashing headlong into an imperial doctrine that demands securing unipolar domination at all cost, and it’s getting very ugly very fast.'

By Caitlin Johnstone: The United States is suddenly very concerned about human rights violations in India, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken telling the press on Monday that “we are monitoring some recent concerning developments in India including a rise in human rights abuses by some government, police and prison officials.”

While it is true that India’s right-wing government is guilty of human rights abuses and has been for years, it is also true that the US State Department does not actually care about human rights abuses.

A leaked State Department memo from the early days of the Trump administration showed neo-con-artist empire manager Brian Hook teaching a previously uninitiated Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that for the US government, “human rights” are only a weapon to be used for keeping other nations in line.

Straight Out Of Dr. Strangelove

More and more, we're told by Neo-Con-Artist Jews that outright war isn't just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve America's existential problems...

Authored by Matt Taibbi: Robert Kagan, Jewish neo-con-artist husband to Deputy Undersecretary of State Victoria "Fuck The EU" Nuland, wrote a piece called “The Price of Hegemony” in Foreign Affairs last week that was fascinating. If I’d written his opening, people would denounce me as a Putin-concubine:

Although it is obscene to blame the United States for Putin’s inhumane attack on Ukraine, to insist that the invasion was entirely unprovoked is misleading. ... Just as Pearl Harbor was the consequence of U.S. efforts to blunt Japanese expansion on the Asian mainland, and just as the 9/11 attacks were partly a response to the United States’ dominant presence in the Middle East after the first Gulf War, so Russian decisions have been a response to the expanding post–Cold War hegemony of the United States and its allies in Europe.

Kagan went on to make an argument straight out of Dr. Strangelove. Instead of doing what some critics want and focusing on “improving the well-being of Americans,” the U.S. government is instead properly recognizing the responsibility that comes with being a superpower. So, while Russia’s invasion may indeed have been a foreseeable consequence of a decision to expand our hegemonic reach, now that we’re here, there’s only one option left. Total commitment:

The Inflation Crisis Of 2022 Is Now Worse Than Anything That We Experienced During The 1970s

'We have entered a full-blown inflationary nightmare, and the Biden administration is trying to blame Vladimir Putin for it. Needless to say, that is extremely disingenuous of Biden, because prices were already skyrocketing even before the war in Ukraine started. ...We are so vulnerable right now, and it wouldn’t take much at all to push us over the edge and into an unprecedented worldwide crisis of epic proportions.'

By Michael Snyder: Most Americans don’t realize this, but we truly have entered historic territory.  As you will see below, the inflation crisis of 2022 has now escalated to a level that is beyond anything that we experienced during the horrible Jimmy Carter era of the 1970s.  If you are old enough to have been alive back then, you probably remember the constant headlines about inflation.  And you also probably remember that it seemed like the impotent administration in power in Washington was powerless to do anything about it.  In other words, it was a lot like what we are going through today.  Unfortunately for us, this new economic crisis is still only in the very early chapters.

Putin Breaks Silence, Says Russia Will Triumph In Ukraine

“The main goal is to help the people of Donbass [region in eastern Ukraine], whose independence we recognized."

By Jack Phillips: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that Russia would triumph in its conflict with Ukraine, delivering his first remarks in several days about the weekslong war.

“That Blitzkrieg on which our foes were counting on did not work,” Putin claimed of the West’s crippling sanctions imposed after Putin’s Feb. 24 order to invade the country, according to state-run media outlet TASS. Putin made those comments alongside Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, an ally, at Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region.

Russia’s economy is on track to contract by more than 10 percent in 2022, the biggest fall in gross domestic product since the years following the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday, reported Reuters. Russia is facing soaring inflation and capital flight while grappling with a possible debt default following the sanctions.

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