The Drums of War Beat Louder by Paul Craig Roberts!
(2022-05-13 at 03:58:21 )

The Drums of War Beat Louder by Paul Craig Roberts!

My forebodings-predictions about the Kremlins limited go-slow war in Ukraine are proving correct.

President Putin and Russia are demonized.

Unprecedented sanctions amounting to piracy and theft have been imposed on Russia.

The United States and Europe are joining the war as de facto combatants.

More countries are joining NATO with the result being the prospect of more United States missile bases on Russias borders.

The Western media controls the narrative, which is Russia is losing and can be defeated with more many billions of dollars from the United States and more weapons that enrich the United States military-security complex.

Why any Russian government would expose itself to this and so many chances for miscalculation that ends in WW III is a mystery.

What did the Kremlin imagine it was achieving by creating a situation that exposed Rusaia to many months of war propaganda, punishment, and Western preparations for wider war??

What peace needed was a quick decisive Russian victory that demonstrated extraordinary military power that completely stopped any further Western provocations of Russia. But the Kremlin was too liberal-minded to do what was neccessary. Consequently the Kremlin made a strategic error, dropped the ball and has failed to protect Russia from provocations that are leading to WW III.

Instead, the Kremlin filled with liberal delusions long discarded in the West decided to show a good side by limiting itself to the rescue of the Donbass Russians.

This gave the West all it needed to present Russia as a military incompetent upstart. Among the Kremlins errors, the Kremlin overlooked that Ukraines distress from the limited Russian intervention created an opportunity for Poland to claim former Polish territories in western Ukraine where there are no Russian troops engaged.

It is possible that the Polish government, disinformed by Western medi’s picture of Russian military failure in Ukraine, will occupy western Ukraine as preparation to reclaiming it as Russia did Crimea and now Donbass. As Russia will have eastern and southern Ukraine, the country could simply disappear as Poland resurrects greater Poland. In its history, Ukraine has either been part of Polands empire or part of Russia.

If Poland moves into western Ukraine as it is tempted to do, opportunities for Polish-Russian conflict arise. As Poland is a NATO member, Washington,D.C. has given Poland, as the British government did with World War IIs "Polish Guarantee," the power to start a world war.

The Polish government has a penchant for emotional decisons, not responsible decisions. Just as the Polish military dictatorship thought the "British Guarantee" protected them, causing them to spurn Hitlers demand for the return of German territory stripped from Germany in the Versailles Treaty despite President Wilsons "guarantee" of no territorial losses, the Polish government thinks today that NATO membership protects Poland from Russian retaliation.

The government in Warsaw does not comprehand that the "NATO Guarantee" is worth no more than the British Governments guarantee that launched WW II.

The governments that comprise the Western World have given Poland, once again, the decision whether there is to be a World War.

This deplorable and unsettling fact stares us in the face, but no Western media, not even online media, acknowledges it.

The situation that exists today is that either Russia and China must accept United States hegemony or the neoconservaties will push Russia and China into war with the West. The hegemonic ambition of the neoconservatives is inconsistent with a peaceful world.

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