{"id":5982,"date":"2014-06-26T00:24:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T00:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2014-06-26T00:26:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T00:26:35","slug":"putin-doing-everything-possible-to-prevent-wwiii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=5982","title":{"rendered":"Putin Doing Everything Possible To Prevent WWIII"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Can Putin\u2019s Diplomacy Prevail Over Washington\u2019s Coercion?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"imgMain\" style=\"padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20140625\/368636_Vladimir-Putin.jpg\" width=\"650px\" height=\"365px\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 24px;\">Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"divBobComment\"><strong>By Paul Craig Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Related Interviews:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20140624\/368397_Barack-Obama.jpg\" width=\"60px\" height=\"40px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/06\/24\/368397\/us-syria-policy-will-not-change\/\">\u2018US Syria policy will not change\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20140623\/368288_Ukraine-President-%20Poroshenko.jpg\" width=\"60px\" height=\"40px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/06\/23\/368288\/poroshenko-doing-us-eu-bidding\/\">\u2018Poroshenko doing US, EU bidding\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<div id=\"divLead2\">\n<p><strong>Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin is trying to save the world from war. We should all help him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On June 24, Putin\u2019s presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov reported that President Putin had asked the Russian legislature to repeal the authorization to use force that was granted in order to protect residents of former Russian territories that are currently part of Ukraine from the rabid Russophobic violence that characterizes Washington\u2019s stooge government in Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s neoconservatives are jubilant. They regard Putin\u2019s diplomacy as a sign of weakness and fear, and urge stronger steps that will force Russia to give back Crimea and the Black Sea naval base.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Russia, Washington is encouraging its NGO fifth columns to undercut Putin\u2019s support with propaganda that Putin is afraid to stand up for Russians and has sold out Ukraine\u2019s Russian population. If this propaganda gains traction, Putin will be distracted by street protests. The appearance of Putin\u2019s domestic weakness would embolden Washington. Many members of Russia\u2019s young professional class are swayed by Washington\u2019s propaganda. Essentially, these Russians, brainwashed by US propaganda, are aligned with Washington, not with the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>Putin has placed his future and that of his country on a bet that Russian diplomacy can prevail over Washington\u2019s bribes, threats, blackmail, and coercion. Putin is appealing to Western Europeans. Putin is saying, \u201cI am not the problem. Russia is not the problem. We are reasonable. We are ignoring Washington\u2019s provocations. We want to work things out and to find a peaceful solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington is saying: \u201cRussia is a threat. Putin is the new Hitler. Russia is the enemy. NATO and the US must begin a military buildup against the Russian Threat, rush troops and jet fighters to Eastern European NATO bases on Russia\u2019s frontier. G-8 meetings must be held without Russia. Economic sanctions must be put on Russia regardless of the damage the sanctions do to Europe.\u201d And so forth.<\/p>\n<p>Putin says: \u201cI\u2019m here for you. Let\u2019s work this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington says: \u201cRussia is the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin knows that the UK is a complete vassal puppet state, that Cameron is just as bought-and-paid-for as Blair before him.\u00a0Putin\u2019s hope for diplomacy over force rests on Germany and France. Both countries face Europe\u2019s budget and employment woes, and both countries have significant economic relations with Russia. German business interests are a counterweight to the weak Merkel government\u2019s subservience to Washington. Washington has stupidly angered the French by trying to steal $10 billion from France\u2019s largest bank. This theft, if successful, will destroy France\u2019s largest bank and deliver France to Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>If desire for national sovereignty still exists in the German or French governments, one or both could brush off Washington and publicly declare that they are unwilling for their country to be drawn into conflict with Russia for the sake of Washington\u2019s Empire and the financial hegemony of American banks.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is betting on this outcome. If his bet is a bad one and Europe fails not only Russia but itself and the rest of the world by accommodating Washington\u2019s drive for world hegemony, Russia and China will have to submit to Washington\u2019s hegemony or be prepared for war.<\/p>\n<p>As neither side can afford to lose the war, the war would be nuclear. As scientists have made clear, life on earth would cease, regardless of whether Washington\u2019s ABM shield works.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I oppose Washington\u2019s policies and speak out against the arrogance and hubris that define Washington today. The most likely outcome of Washington\u2019s pursuit of world hegemony is the extinction of life on earth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can Putin\u2019s Diplomacy Prevail Over Washington\u2019s Coercion? Russian President Vladimir Putin By Paul Craig Roberts Related Interviews: \u2018US Syria policy will not change\u2019 \u2018Poroshenko doing US, EU bidding\u2019 Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin is trying to save the world from war. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=5982\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}