Only Washington Knows Best<\/i><\/p>\n
The control freaks in Washington think that only the decisions that Washington makes and imposes on other sovereign countries are democratic. No other country on earth is capable of making a democratic decision.<\/p>\n
The world has witnessed this American self- righteousness for eons as Washington overthrows one democratic government after the other and imposes its puppet, as Washington did in Iran in 1953 when the CIA, as it now admits, and as Ervand Abrahamian proves in his book The Coup<\/i> (The New Press, 2013), overthrew the elected government of Mossadeq, and more recently the elected government of Honduras and many governments in between.<\/p>\n
Currently Washington is working overtime to overthrow the governments of Syria, Iran again, and Ukraine. Washington has also targeted Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Brazil, and in its wildest dreams the governments of Russia and China.<\/p>\n
On January 26 Syrian government advisor Bouthaina Shaaban asked Wolf Blitzer, a propagandist for Washington and the Israel Lobby, on US TV why the US government, speaking through Secretary of Stare John Kerry, has the right to decide who is to be the government of Syria instead of the Syrian people. [Polls show that Syrian president Assad\u2019s approval ratings exceed those of every Western leader.] Even the slimy Blitzer wasn\u2019t slimy enough to answer, \u201cbecause we are the exceptional, indispensable people.\u201d But that\u2019s what Washington thinks.<\/p>\n
Washington will soon be back at work on destabilizing the government of Iran again, a habit I suppose, but for the moment Washington is focused on destabilizing Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Ukraine has a democratically elected government, but Washington doesn\u2019t like it because Washington didn\u2019t pick it. The Ukraine or the western part of it is full of Washington funded NGOs whose purpose is to deliver Ukraine into the clutches of the EU where US and European banks can loot the country, as they looted, for example, Latvia, and simultaneously weaken Russia by stealing a large part of traditional Russia and converting it into US\/NATO military bases against Russia.<\/p>\n
Perhaps Putin, an athlete, is distracted by the Olympic Games in Russia. Otherwise, it is something of a puzzle why Russia hasn\u2019t put its nuclear missiles on high alert and occupied the western Ukraine with troops in order to prevent Ukraine\u2019s overthrow by Washington\u2019s money. Every country has citizens that will sell the country out for money, and western Ukraine is overflowing with such traitors.<\/p>\n
As we have seen for decades, Arabs and Muslims will sell out their people for Western money. So will western Ukrainians. The NGOs financed by Washington are committed to delivering Ukraine into Washington\u2019s hands where Ukrainians can become American serfs and this integral part of Russia can become a staging ground for the US military.<\/p>\n
Of all the violent protests that we have witnessed, the Ukrainian one is the most orchestrated.<\/p>\n
On February 6, Zero Hedge<\/i>, one of the intelligent and informed Internet sites, posted a leaked recording from the despicable Victoria Nuland, an Assistant Secretary of State in the Obama Regime. Nuland is caught discussing with the US envoy to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, Washington\u2019s choice for who heads the next Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n
Nuland is incensed that the European Union has not joined Washington in imposing sanctions on the Ukrainian government in order to complete Washington\u2019s takeover of Ukraine. Nuland speaks as if she is God with the God-given right to select the government of Ukraine, which she proceeds to do.<\/p>\n
The EU, as corrupt as it is by Washington\u2019s money, nevertheless understands being made rich by Washington is no protection agains Russian nuclear missiles. Nuland\u2019s response to Europe\u2019s hesitancy to risk its existence for the benefit of US hegemony is:<\/p>\n
\u201cFuck the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n
So much for Washington\u2019s attitude toward its captive allies and the peoples of the world.<\/p>\n
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Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West<\/a> is now available.<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n