The Roads To War And Economic Collapse

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Prisonplanet.com
November 24, 2011

November 23, 2011: The day before the Thanksgiving holiday brought
three extraordinary news items. One was the report on the Republican
presidential campaign debate. One was the Russian President’s
statement about his country’s response to Washington’s missile bases
surrounding his country. And one was the failure of a German
government bond auction.

As the presstitute media will not inform us of what any of this means,
let
me try.

With the exception of Ron Paul, the only candidate in either party
qualified to be the president of the US, the rest of the Republican
candidates are even worse than Obama, a president who had the
country behind him but sold out the American people to special
interests.

No newly elected president in memory, neither John F. Kennedy nor
Ronald Reagan, had the extraordinary response to his election as
Barack Obama. A record-breaking number of people braved the cold to
witness his swearing in ceremony. The mall was filled for miles
distant
from the Capitol with Americans who could not see the ceremony except
as televised on giant screens.

Obama had convinced the electorate that he would end the wars, stop
the violation of law by the US government, end the regime of illegal
torture, close the torture prison of Guantanamo, and attend to the
real
needs of the American people rather than stuff the pockets of the
military/security complex with taxpayers’ money.

Once in office, Obama renewed and extended the
Bush/Cheney/neoconservative wars.

He validated the Bush regime’s assaults on the US Constitution. He
left
Wall Street in charge of US economic policy, he absolved the Bush
regime of its crimes, and he assigned to the American people the
financial cost necessary to preserve the economic welfare of the
mega-rich.

One would think such a totally failed president would be easy to
defeat.
Given an historic opportunity, the Republican Party has put before
the
electorate the most amazingly stupid and vile collection of
prospects,
with the exception of Ron Paul who does not have the party’s support,
that Americans have ever seen.

In the November 22 presidential “debate,” the candidates, with the
exception of Ron Paul, revealed themselves as a collection of
ignorant
warmongers who support the police state. Gingrich and Cain said that
Muslims “want to kill us all” and that “all of us will be in danger
for the
rest of out lives.”

Bachmann said that the American puppet state, Pakistan, is “more than
an existential threat.” Bachmann has no idea what is “more than an
existential threat.”

However, it sounded heavy, like an intellectual thing to say for the
candidate who previously declared the long-defunct Soviet Union to be
today’s threat to the US.

Unfortunately for Americans and the world, the US electorate lacks
the
intelligence and awareness of their plight as denizens of a police
state to
elect Ron Paul, the last defender together with Rep. Dennis Kucinich
of
the US Constitution. Nevertheless, there would be a silver lining in
one of
the Republican morons being elected president of the “world’s only
superpower.” Once the rest of the world realized that a war-crazed
idiot
had his or her finger on the nuclear button, the rest of the world
would
organize and close down the Washington horror before it destroys life
on earth.

Any sentient American who watched or read about the Republican
presidential debate must wonder what there is to be thankful for as
the
national holiday approaches.

The Russian government, which prefers to use its resources for the
economy rather than for the military, has decided that it has been
taking
too many risks in the name of peace. The day before Thanksgiving,
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, in a televised address to the
Russian people, that if Washington goes ahead with its planned
missile
bases surrounding Russia, Russia will respond with new nuclear
missiles of its own, which will target the Amerikan bases and
European
capital cities.

The President of Russia said that the Russian government has asked
Washington for legally binding guarantees that the American missile
bases are not intended as a threat to Russia, but that Washington has
refused to give such guarantees.

Medvedev’s statement is perplexing. What does he mean “if Washington
goes ahead?” The American missile and radar bases are already in
place. Russia is already surrounded. Is Medvedev just now aware of
what is already in place?

Russia’s and China’s slow response to Washington’s aggression can
only be understood in the context of the two countries experience
with
communism. The sufferings of Russians and Chinese under communism
was extreme, and the thinking part of those populations saw America
as
the ideal of political life. This delusion still controls the
mentality of
progressive thinkers in Russia and China. It might prove to be a
disaster
for Russia and China that the countries have citizens who are aligned
with the US.

Belief in Washington’s trustworthiness even pervades the Russian
government, which apparently, according to Medvedev’s statement,
would be reassured by a “legally binding guarantee” from Washington.
After the massive lies told by Washington in the 21st
century–”weapons
of mass destruction,” “al Qaeda connections,” “Iranian nukes”–why
would anyone put any credence in “a legally binding guarantee” from
Washington. The guarantee would mean nothing. How could it be
enforced? Such a guarantee would simply be another deceit in
Washington’s pursuit of world hegemony.

The day prior to Thanksgiving also brought another extraordinary
development–the failure of a German government bond auction, an
unparalleled event.

Why would Germany, the only member of the EU with financial
rectitude,
not be able to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds? Germany
has
no debt problems, and its economy is expected by EU and US
authorities to bear the lion’s share of the bailout of the EU member
countries that do lack financial rectitude.

I suspect that the answer to this question is that the failure of the
German government’s bond auction was orchestrated by the US & EU
authorities, especially the European Central Bank, and private banks
in
order to punish Germany for obstructing the purchase of EU member
countries’ sovereign debt by the European Central Bank.

The German government has been trying to defend the terms on which
Germany gave up control over its own currency and joined the EU. By
insisting on the legality of the agreements, Germany has been
standing
in the way of the ECB behaving as the US Federal Reserve and
monetizing the debt of member governments.

From the beginning the EU was a conspiracy against Germany. If
Germany remains in the EU, Germany will be destroyed. It will lose
its
political and economic sovereignty, and its economy will be bled in
behalf of the fiscally irresponsible members of the EU.

If Greeks will not submit to the tyranny, why should Germans?