{"id":126844,"date":"2022-08-01T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=126844"},"modified":"2022-08-01T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T20:03:00","slug":"the-white-house-fools-sanctions-have-only-harmed-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=126844","title":{"rendered":"The White House Fool\u2019s Sanctions Have Only Harmed the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<p>The Presstitute lie sheet\u2013The Guardian (UK)\u2013has to admit that Washington\u2019s Russian Sanctions Are a Total Failure\u2013\u201cThe rouble is soaring and Putin is stronger than ever \u2013 our sanctions have backfired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestern sanctions against Russia are the most ill-conceived and counterproductive policy in recent international history. World energy prices are rocketing, inflation is soaring, supply chains are chaotic and millions are being starved of gas, grain and fertilizer. To criticize western sanctions is close to anathema. Defence analysts are dumb on the subject. Strategy think tanks are silent. Britain\u2019s putative leaders, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, compete in belligerent rhetoric, promising ever tougher sanctions without a word of purpose. Yet, hint at skepticism on the subject and you will be excoriated as \u2018pro-Putin\u2019 and anti-Ukraine. Sanctions are the war cry of the west\u2019s crusade. The reality of sanctions on Russia is that they invite retaliation. Putin is free to freeze Europe this winter. He has slashed supply from major pipelines such as Nord Stream 1 by up to 80%. World oil prices have surged and eastern Europe\u2019s flow of wheat and other foodstuffs to Africa and Asia has been all but suspended.  [Putin has not slashed energy supply. Russia has had to curtail deliveries, because the sanctions are not permitting needed pipeline repairs to be completed.The Guardian is such a habitual liar that it lies even when it tries to tell the truth. ]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBritain\u2019s domestic gas bills face tripling inside a year. The chief beneficiary is none other than Russia, whose energy exports to Asia have soared, driving its balance of payments into unprecedented surplus. The rouble is one of the world\u2019s strongest currencies this year, having strengthened since January by nearly 50%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every Western country has been trained by its \u201ceducation,\u201d aka indoctrination, establishment to hate itself as an oppressor. Identity politics, critical race theory, and special privileges for the sexually perverse and immigrant-invaders have destroyed the allegiance of the remnants of the ethnic basis of the countries to the governments that do not represent them. Farmers in Holland and Italy now understand that their government is their worst enemy. Every Western country is a hollowed-out structure with governments that serve every interest but the ethnic people who created the country and comprise its historical basis.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, China, and Iran do not have to be concerned with the West.  The West no longer exists. <\/p>\n<p>Western liberalism has completely destroyed the West.  In the West men devoid of integrity and self respect can declare themselves to be women and on the basis of their lie compete in women\u2019s sports.  Western school systems are preparing young children for pedophiles by teaching them sexual pleasure at a young age and that it does not matter how it is attained. Once the perversity of homosexuality became normalized, pedophilia became next in line for normalization.  People no longer even know what their gender is.  Diversity requires that they can declare to be whatever they say, and the BBC tells us it is advised that there are 150 genders to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me, how is an Iranian, a Russian, a Chinese military going to look at enemies that cannot discriminate women from men, that have no sexual morality, no self-respect, and only the morality of Sodom and Gomorrah?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/07\/31\/the-white-house-fools-sanctions-have-only-harmed-the-west\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/07\/31\/the-white-house-fools-sanctions-have-only-harmed-the-west\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}