Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n
Just as everything you were told about Covid by the media and health and government officials was false, so is everything you have been told by the same propagandistic liars about Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n Americans have had nothing but lies since the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, of his brother, US Senator Robert Kennedy President-in-Waiting, Martin Luther King, the Vietnam war, 9\/11, Saddam Hussian\u2019s nonexistent \u201cweapons of mass destruction,\u201d Assad\u2019s \u201cuse of chemical weapons,\u201d Iranian nukes, the extraordinary lies about Kaddafi, Covid pandemic, Russian invasions.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The entire Western World lives in The Mattrix, a world created by propaganda. The vast majority of people in the West have no idea of the reality in which they live. This makes them impotent and completely unable to protect their freedom. They are sitting ducks for tyranny which is fast enclosing around them.<\/p>\n Take the Ukraine narrative, for example. The story as presented to the public by the Western media has no relationship to reality.\u00a0\u00a0The Ukraine narrative has collapsed as completely as the Covid narrative.\u00a0\u00a0There will be no going back to it.\u00a0\u00a0The narrative will simply be dropped as the next crisis\u2013inflation perhaps or a newly released pathogen\u2013takes the front page.<\/p>\n There was never a Russian invasion of Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0Russian military focus was on the Donbass region in east and south Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0Inhabited by Russians and part of Russia herself until Soviet leaders transferred it, like Crimea, into Ukraine for their reasons.\u00a0\u00a0When the US overthrew the democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014 and took control over Ukraine, the Crimean and Donbass Russians voted overwhelmingly to be reunited with Russia.\u00a0\u00a0The Kremlin accepted Crimea but not Donbass.<\/p>\n This was a strategic blunder demonstrating a lack of awareness on the part of the Russian government.\u00a0\u00a0Immediately the neo-Nazi remnants in west Ukraine, whose forebears had fought for Hitler against Russia in WW II, began abusing the Russian population in the Donbass region in the east. The American puppet government in Kiev followed up by banning the use of the Russian language.<\/p>\n To protect themselves, the Donbass Russians declared their independence in the form of two republics, the Donetsk and Luhansk Republics.\u00a0\u00a0Ukrainian troops and neo-Nazi militias began attacking these \u201cbreakaway republics.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0They have been shelling with artillery Donbass villages, towns, and cities for 8 years, killing thousands of civilians, and the Ukrainian forces, although twice defeated\u00a0\u00a0by hastily assembled forces in the Donbass, managed to gain control over large areas of the breakaway republics.<\/p>\n It was the deployment of a 100,000 or more Ukrainian force on the shrunken borders of Donbass for an invasion to reconquer the territory that provoked the Russian intervention. Washington\u2019s refusal to give the Kremlin a security guarantee was a second reason for the Russian military intervention.\u00a0\u00a0Russia told Washington in completely clear language that Russia would not permit Ukraine to be a member of NATO.\u00a0\u00a0Nevertheless, Washington persisted in its provocation.<\/p>\n Most of Russia\u2019s military intervention in Ukraine is focused on clearing Ukrainian and neo-Nazi forces out of Donbass.\u00a0\u00a0This is the reason for Putin\u2019s go-slow war that rules out heavy weapons use on civilian areas.<\/p>\n The civilians are Russians, and, as Putin said, \u201cwe went in to liberate these people, not to kill them.\u201d<\/p>\n The West\u2019s media whores and government officials misrepresent the Russians\u2019 intention of avoiding the death of Russian civilians as a sign of a \u201cstalled Russian invasion,\u201d as CNN and the NPR whores proclaim.\u00a0\u00a0Some of the Western media whores go even further and say it is a \u201cRussian defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n If there is a Russian defeat, it will happen in negotiations, not on the battlefield.\u00a0\u00a0Russians are too trusting to be negotiators and never do well.<\/p>\n The battlefield has a higher standard of performance.\u00a0\u00a0Before any Russian troops entered Donbass, the Ukrainian military infrastructure, air force, and navy were completely destroyed.\u00a0\u00a0The Ukrainian army is incapable of action. It has no communication, no air cover, and is cut off from supplies.<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s reason for the peace negotiations is to avoid destroying the Ukrainian troops that the neo-Nazi commissars require to fight to the last man.\u00a0\u00a0Russia doesn\u2019t seem to understand that they are negotiating with a \u201cgovernment\u201d that is not in control of anything.<\/p>\n The Russians have deployed 200,000 troops against Ukraine\u2019s 600,000 soldiers trained and armed by the US and UK.\u00a0\u00a0The Ukrainian army, which outnumbered the Russians 3 to 1, was destroyed as a fighting force even quicker than the Russians destroyed the US and Israeli armed and trained Georgian army that invaded South Ossetia in August, 2008.<\/p>\n The only reason that any building, any Ukrainian exists in Ukraine is Russian restraint.<\/p>\n The Kremlin is confident that Russia can achieve its objectives without destroying Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0This is true militarily, but I do believe that the Russian government is too gullible to be successful in negotiation.\u00a0\u00a0Russia still has a moral fiber and mistakenly inputs one to the West. The West does not have any moral fiber.\u00a0\u00a0Russians do not know how to negotiate with Satan.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0Remember Hugo Chavez\u2019s speech at the UN.\u00a0\u00a0Remember the Jewish-American Secretary of State saying on national TV that America\u2019s murder of 500,000 Iraqi children \u201cwas worth it.\u201d Yes, worth it for Israel\u2019s dominance of the Middle East.<\/p>\n Americans, British, French, Germans, Japan, all of the US empire do not understand how they have been betrayed, how they have been implicated in monstrous crimes, how they have been brainwashed by lies from a media that they stupidly trusted, how Washington has destroyed the reputation of the United States, or why most of the world hates America.<\/p>\n Neither do the dumbshit fools understand that the American Empire is at its end. What the sanctions have done is to destroy the dollar-based world that allowed the Americans to impose the financing of their huge trade deficit, due largely to US corporations offshoring their production for the US market, on the rest of the world. Russia, China, central and east Asia will now create their own methods of payment separate from the West. This will destroy dollar hegemony and American power.<\/p>\n We come full circle. The American hubris created an arrogance that could not prevail over Russian, Chinese, and \u00a0Indian determination to exist as sovereign nations.\u00a0\u00a0American globalism, Washington\u2019s method of exercising hegemony, is collapsing.\u00a0\u00a0The idiots in Washington have themselves collapsed their ruling system by mindless sanctions that are driving the East out of the dollar system.<\/p>\n Russia has only one problem.\u00a0\u00a0Russia\u2019s problem is internal.\u00a0\u00a0The problem consists of \u00a0elements of the intellectual and upper class and financial system who see their interests allied with the West. These traitors, tolerated by the Kremlin, are de facto Western agents created during the Yeltsin regime by the American overlords.<\/p>\n In the Russian government their most powerful person is the head of the Russian central bank whose policies serve the West and not Russia.\u00a0\u00a0Putin, despite the warnings from Russia\u2019s only economist, Sergey Glazyev, trusts the pro-American head of the Russian central bank with Russia\u2019s future. The Russian central bank, which has never served Russia, is Washington\u2019s greatest asset in its hopes to defeat Russia.\u00a0 It is Putin\u2019s blindness to this threat that is the dagger at Russia\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n