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 col-
lection 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,
by 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?