For the Russian Foreign Minister to believe that it is possible to reach an accommodation with Washington, other than a Russian surrender, is nonsense. Perhaps this is Lavrov\u2019s use of diplomacy to delay the US attack while Russia prepares. Or perhaps Lavrov is just a diplomat who sticks to his last, despite the facts.<\/p>\n
Much of the Russian media, both in Russian and foreign language broadcasts and websites, thinks that the Western misrepresentation of Russia is just a mistake and that that facts, once they are established, can rectify the mistake. These Russian journalists don\u2019t understand that Washington could not care less about facts. Washington desperately needs an enemy, and Russia is the enemy of choice.<\/p>\n
The Chinese government seems to think that Wall Street and US corporations are too dependent on the cheap Chinese manufacturing labor, which keeps the US system fueled with profits, to jeopardize these profits by going to war.<\/p>\n
By underplaying the risk of war, Russia and China fail to mobilize world opposition to Washington\u2019s recklessness and, thereby, enable Washington\u2019s move toward war.<\/p>\n
The presstitutes serving the National Security State continue to drive toward conflict. Consider Newsweek\u2019s May 26, 2017, cover story with Putin on the cover and the caption: \u201cThe Plot Against America: Inside Putin\u2019s Campaign to Destroy Democracy in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It is difficult to imagine such ignorant nonsense from a mainstream news magazine. Democracy in America has been destroyed by special interest groups, by a US Supreme Court decision that gave the reins of power to special interest groups, and by a hoax war on terror that has destroyed the US Constitution. And here we have the presstitutes saying that Putin is destroying American democracy. Clearly, there is no extant intelligence anywhere in the Western media. The Western presstitutes are either corrupt beyond belief or ignorant beyond belief. Nothing else can be said for them.<\/p>\n
Consider Time magazine\u2019s cover. It depicts Trump turning the White House into the foundation for the Kremlin and St. Basil\u2019s Cathedral, which rise above the White House, symbolizing America\u2019s subservience to Russia under President Trump. This extraordinary propaganda seems to be readily accepted by the bulk of the Western populations, peoples who will die as a result of their insouciance.<\/p>\n
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Even writers critical of Washington, such as Paul Street\u2019s recent article on CounterPunch and the English language Russian website, Strategic Culture Foundation, cannot bring themselves to state the truth that the US military\/security complex needs a major enemy, has elected Russia for that role, and intends to defend this orchestration to the end of humanity on earth.<\/p>\n
Street writes about \u201cHow Russia Became \u2018Our Adversary\u2019 Again.\u201d According to Street, Russia became the enemy of choice because Russia protected part of the world\u2019s population and resources from being exploited by global capital. Russia became the number one enemy of the US also because Putin stopped the American exploitation of Russia economically. Putin is in the way of Washington\u2019s exploitation of the world.<\/p>\n
Much of what Street says is correct, but he is hesitant to state it in a straightforward manner. He has to dilute his message by repeating the obligatory propaganda. Street calls Trump, who originally wanted normal relations with Russia, an \u201corange-haired brute . . . [who admires] Putin\u2019s authoritarian manliness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s problems originated in his goal of normalizing relations with Russia. Hillary is the brute who intended to worsen the relations.<\/p>\n
Putin is a democrat, not an authoritarian. The authoritarians are in Washington. Surely Paul Street and CounterPunch know this. But Street has to protect himself from speaking some politically incorrect truths about the US and Russia by throwing in some anti-Putin propaganda and denigrating President Trump.<\/p>\n
That peace with Russia and China would undermine the justification of the $1,000 billion military\/security budget, and that the military\/security complex is the American government<\/em>, is too much truth for most writers to state.<\/p>\n Truth is the most rare element in the Western world, and we will not be permitted to have much of it much longer. Increasingly, truth is difficult to find. Soak it up while it is still available.<\/p>\n