{"id":207793,"date":"2022-03-28T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=207793"},"modified":"2022-03-25T04:32:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T04:32:15","slug":"washington-is-driving-the-world-to-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/03\/washington-is-driving-the-world-to-nuclear-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 Aug 2022 – <\/em>Since the Russian action in Ukraine began, provoked by Washington\u2019s cold shoulder to Russian security concerns, Washington, in addition to doing all possible to keep the conflict going, has also dumped three more provocations<\/em><\/a> on the Kremlin:\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. An attempted coup or \u201ccolor revolution\u201d in the former Russian province of Kazakhstan<\/li>\n
  2. NATO military maneuvers currently under way in the former Russian province of Georgia which is not a NATO member<\/li>\n
  3. NATO maneuvers in Poland on the Border of Belarus, a former Russian province and current Russian ally
    \n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The signal Washington consistently sends to the Kremlin is aggression.\u00a0 <\/span>Why has no member of any government in the Western world, no presstitute in the Western media pointed this out?\u00a0 <\/span>It is difficult to fathom the irresponsibility of Washington adding to the Ukraine provocation three more provocations simultaneously.\u00a0 <\/span>Why provoke a country already concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?<\/p>\n

    The US Treasury is working with Congress to prevent Russia\u2019s use of her gold reserves that she kept in her own hands, with the bulk of Russian reserves having been seized, a theft made easy by the stupid fool that Putin keeps as head of the Russian central bank. \u00a0It is extraordinary that the Russian central bank kept Russia\u2019s reserves in Western hands while Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine. \u00a0The Russian central bank must have wanted Russia to lose her reserves.<\/p>\n

    Now the remaining reserves are to be targeted by Washington in this way. \u00a0Sanctions will be applied to every country that permits or facilitates Russian payments in gold or the buying and selling of gold by Russia. \u00a0This, the US senator, Angus King, said, will collapse the Russian economy, leaving Russia no means of payment.<\/p>\n

    Senator King and the US Treasury are overlooking that all acts of war are not military, and what the senator is sponsoring is an act of war. \u00a0Putin recognizes it as such. \u00a0He declared it to be \u201ca total undisguised aggression\u201d<\/em> and \u201ca war waged by economic, political, and informational means.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

    So what is Russia doing in response to the declared intent of the West to destroy her? \u00a0She is enabling her own destruction.<\/em> \u00a0She distributes her foreign exchange reserves among Western banks where they can be seized. \u00a0She keeps the economies of her enemies alive by continuing to supply them with energy and minerals\u2013all because her moronic central bank thinks Russia needs foreign exchange, which will be seized regardless. \u00a0She continues with a go-slow war that gives her enemies more time to demonize Russia and create permanent hatred of Russia in the Western populations, that gives Western idiots more time to blunder into a wider war, such as the Western plan to deploy NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine. \u00a0In short, the Kremlin\u2019s response to the sanctions is mindless. \u00a0Here for example is Germany\u2019s own assessment of the impact on Germany if Russia stops sustaining Germany\u2019s existence with Russian energy: \u201cA 2018 stress test run by the German civil defense agency, the BBK, found that all crucial services will be impacted by a gas supply shortage.The two-day crisis management exercise Lukex 18, which involved several states in southern Germany, found that the shortage of gas supply will have \u2018a drastic effect on public life,\u2019 including the closure of public and private facilities.\u00a0The disruption of supply will also lead to \u2018far-reaching, difficult-to-predict consequences for the service sector and the production of goods,\u2019 according to the BBK.\u201d<\/p>\n

    If Russia turned off the energy, Germany would force an end to the sanctions on Russia or Germany would leave NATO despite Germany\u2019s occupation by US troops. \u00a0But apparently the Kremlin would rather risk Russia\u2019s destruction than to violate a contract or forego foreign exchange earnings that it cannot use. \u00a0The Kremlin seems destined to forego the opportunity to crush the sanctions and continue selling energy to Germany until Germany has had time to locate and construct the facilities for an alternative means of supply.<\/p>\n

    The West\u2019s naked aggression and the Kremlin\u2019s insouciance guarantee a wider war ending in world destruction. \u00a0Can no one in leadership position see it coming? \u00a0Do Western politicians believe Russia will allow herself to be defeated by non-military means? \u00a0Does the Kremlin believe that resolving the Ukrainian situation will end the West\u2019s attacks on Russia? \u00a0As always in human affairs, stupidity prevails.<\/p>\n

    That Washington and its despicable puppet states parade around like goody two shoes, shouting accusations at Russia when it is Washington and its puppets who are provoking war, and everyone falls for it<\/i> tells me that Washington has the world on the road to nuclear Armageddon.<\/p>\n

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    \"\"<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>Dr. Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy, <\/em>was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1975-78) under Pres. Reagan, and associate editor of the <\/em>Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for <\/em>Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and <\/em>Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. Roberts’ latest books are <\/em>The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> and<\/em> How America Was Lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Go to Original \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    23 Aug 2022 – Washington dumped three more provocations simultaneously on the Kremlin.\u00a0The signal it consistently sends is aggression. Why has no government and no presstitute in the West pointed this out? Why provoke a country concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":116100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2009,2197,1035,1268,91,818,253,278,254,961,70,92,481],"class_list":["post-207793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-anti-war","tag-biden","tag-eastern-europe","tag-european-union","tag-nato","tag-proxy-war","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-usa","tag-violent-conflict","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}