When I look at
news reports from whichever country, I see no awareness of the two most
ominous developments in US history. One is the conspiracy between US
security agencies, the US Department of Justice, the Democratic Party
and the American print and TV media to overthrow the democratically
elected president of the United States. With “Russiagate” we have been
experiencing a coup against President Trump and American democracy.
Although the Democrats’ Identity Politics cannot conceive of it, it is
possible to be opposed to President Trump without believing that a
police state coup against him is desirable.
The other ominous
development is the just released US Nuclear Posture Review, which calls
nuclear weapons “usable,” legitimizes their first use, and sets the
stage for spending trillions of dollars acquiring more nuclear weapons
when massive public needs go unmet and 10 percent of the existing US
arsenal is sufficient to destroy all life on earth.
As for the effect
it has had, I might as well not have bothered. No government and no news
organization of which I am aware has sounded the alarm that the CIA,
FBI, DOJ, Democratic Party, and the entirety of the American print and
TV media have been caught red-handed in a coup to overthrow the
President of the United States, and nothing is being done about it. The
coup cannot even be exposed, because the security agencies, media, and
Democrats shout down the hard evidence. Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were
murdered on the basis of total lies, and now the President of the
United States faces the same fate.
If the coup against
Trump succeeds, the US will have made the full transition into a
Gestapo Police State. America will have become the Fourth Reich.
As horrible as this
prospect—courtesy of the CIA, FBI, Obama Department of Justice,
Democratic Party, and presstitute media—is, the nuclear posture review
is many times worse. During the long decades of the Cold War, no US
government would have released a nuclear posture review that legitimized
the first use of nuclear weapons against any opponent. The US did have
some crazed generals, such as Lemnitzer and Curtis LeMay who were Dr.
Strangelove figures, and there was a James Bond movie about an equally
crazed, but fictional, Soviet general.
Even 55 years ago
crazed generals such as Lemnitzer were too powerful to be fired.
President John F. Kennedy was limited to reassigning Lemnitzer, who pressed JFK to adopt a 9/11-type false flag operation known as Operation Northwoods and
to launch a preemptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It unnerved
President Kennedy when he realized that he had an insane Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but Kennedy stood up to him. President Trump
failed to stand up to the neoconized Dr. Strangeloves of our time when
Trump endorsed the Pentagon’s new nuclear posture review. Compared to
JFK, Trump is milktoast.
The new American
nuclear posture review is a neoconservative document that has within it
the destruction of all life on earth. The insane people responsible for
this document are those in the policy positions to implement it. It
gives us the paradox that an American president elected in part by his
professed intent to normalize relations with Russia has signed off on a
posture review that tells Russia and China that Washington has a policy
that permits a first strike against them. Clearly, this is not
normalizing relations.
Already Russia has
experienced a quarter century of American deceit and duplicity.
President Gorbachev was promised in exchange for Soviet agreement to the
unification of Germany that Washington would not move NATO one inch to
the East. But the Clinton Regime moved NATO to Russia’s very border. The
George W. Bush Regime withdrew from the anti-ballistic missile treaty.
The Obama Regime placed ABM missiles on Russia’s border. And now the
Trump Regime tells Russia and China that they are subject to surprise
nuclear attack.
Never in the
history of mankind has a more reckless, irresponsible, destabilizing
act, one that threatens the entirely of humanity, been committed. It is
difficult to imagine a government, even one as criminally insane as the
US government, telling nuclear powers such as Russia and China that they
are subject to US surprise nuclear attack.
Yet the American media is cheering. USA Today declares: “Trump’s plan for nuclear weapons makes sense.”
The Hill, a Washington publication, thinks that threatening Russia and China with a first strike is a reasonable step:
Presstitute CNBC,
completely ignoring Washington’s provocative nuclear posture and
provocative pursuit of even more nuclear weapons and delivery
capabilities, focuses attention on North Korea as the real threat.
When a country
intent on world hegemony, as the US clearly is, has a media so compliant
with its war intention, the rest of the world had better be on guard. There is no internal check whatsoever on Washington’s aggression toward the world.
Where are the
protest voices of the Europeans, the Canadians, the British, the
Australians, the Japanese, the South Americans, the Africans, India and
Asia? Where are even the voices of Russia and China? If they exist at
all they are hidden behind Russian pretensions of “our Western
partners,” and Chinese greed for more profits.
The voices do not exist.
Truth is not good
news. It doesn’t reassure people or make them feel good. People who
don’t feel safe don’t go into debt in order to be able to spend money
and make profits for the capitalists who own the news and the
governments and the businesses.
Armageddon will
bring debt forgiveness, thus reviving an economy that will no longer
exist, as no one will be here to pay or to collect the debts.
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This article was originally published by Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy.
Featured image is from Netivist.
