It Is Only a Nano-second to Armageddon by Paul Craig Roberts!
(2022-07-23 at 04:12:34 )

It Is Only a Nano-second to Armageddon by Paul Craig Roberts!

The United States Governments "Nuclear Primacy" meta-strategy says that there are "acceptable" levels of destruction of America in a nuclear war against Russia and-or China, so long as America "comes out on top" globally, at the end.

Brian Berletic walks us through the Rand Corporations plan for the Pentagon to attack China during the narrow window until 2025 and perhaps 2030 (3 to 8 years from today) when the United States is assumed to still have superiority capable of winning a war that is "unlikely" (undefined and little more than a wishful assumption) to go nuclear. In other words, the assumption on which Washington,D.C.s planned military attack on China rests is that China will accept defeat rather than use nuclear weapons.

Would a sane government start a war on such a risky assumption?

There are two other highly risky assumptions in the Pentagons war plans. One is that the United States can dominate the seas from which via airplanes or missiles the United States can cause destruction to Chinese industry and social infrastructure. Apparently no attention has been paid to long-range Chinese missiles that make United States carrier fleets obsolete.

The other risky assumption is that Russia stays out of it. Considering the confusion in the Kremlin, the inability of the Russian government to give up hope of peaceful cooperation with the West, and the inability of the Kremlin to regard the neoconservative doctrine of United States hegemony over the world as anything but a fantasy, and most certainly not an operative doctrine, it is possible that the Kremlin would strand aside and watch a US-China war.

The Kremlin misses many opportunities, but it is difficult to believe that President Putin would be so stupid as to not gang up with China on the United States. In which case the United States is history.

You can read Berletics analysis here: "war plans"

As for the Pentagons concern for Americans in the event that the assumption that Washington can conquer China without nuclear weapons being used is mistaken, if such weapons are employed, "the U.S. Governments "Nuclear Primacy" meta-strategy says that there are "acceptable" levels of destruction of America in a nuclear war against Russia and-or China, so long as America "comes out on top" globally."

The Pentagons doctrine does not say how many American cities and how many millions of Americans are among the "acceptable levels of destruction." But it is enough to show that Americans are regarded as canon fodder by their rulers.

You see, the only importance in the ruling neoconservative doctrine is United States hegemony, not your life. For the neocons, as long as America rules over a wasteland devoid of life, we have won. Neocons are truly insane people, and they are in control of United States foreign and military policy.

That should scare you and wake you up. But it will not.

The young can not stop scrolling their cell phones long enough to have any idea of the reality around them. They already live in a virtual world, disconnected from all reality. Older Americans say they have heard fears of nuclear war all their lives and it is never going to happen because there can be no winners. This is a very unsophisticated understanding, especially in the face of a United States war doctrine that says Washington,D.C. can win a nuclear war as long as it does not wait beyond 2025 or 2030.

Eric Zuesse, stimulated by Berletic, writes that Washington intends to conquer both China and Russia. "game plan"

The opening battlefield of WW III is the war Washington,D.C. arranged in Ukraine. There is no doubt in my mind that the Russian military is very formidable and is capable of sweeping through NATO in an instant. The problem for Russia is in the Kremlin where hesitancy and confusion rule. The Kremlin is unable to get its mind around the fact that Washington,D.C. is insane. President Putin actually thought that Washington,D.C. would accept Russias military intervention in Ukraine as it was limited to the protection of the Donbass Russians. President Putin and his foreign minister are so insouciant that they believed Washington,D.C. would allow them to conduct a limited operation confined to cleansing Donbass of Ukrainian Nazis.

How does the worlds most predominant military power make such a mistake??

The only answer I can come up with is that the United States of Americas brainwashing of the Russian intellectual class during the Yeltsin years has made Russian leadership, deaf, dumb, and blind.

One is tempted to add stupid.

Russias leaders-Putin, Lavrov-correctly describe the situation, but they cannot bring themselves to do anything about it. Talk is plentiful but action is rare. Apparently the Kremlin is going to continue to sell the energy to NATO countries so that NATO can continue the war on Russia. To paraphrase Alain de Lille in the 11th century, not sovereignty now, but money is all. This appears to hold for Russia.

Mr. Zuesse who is as as honest as a leftlwinger can be, is not always reliable. The left have their own myths about Reagan, and here is Zuesses statement of one of them:

"I have documented that the plan by Americas Government was instead to fool Russias Government [Gorbachev] to believe that America ended the Cold War on our side at the same time when Russia ended its side of the Cold War in 1991, but that the United States Government was actually planning instead to surround Russia by increasing NATO, right up to Russias borders.

I suppose the truth of Mr. Zuesses statement depends on who is the United States government. Is it the President or the neoconservatives and the military-security complex?

If the government is the President as the representative of the people, I know for a fact that President Reagans intent was to end, not win, the cold war.

He told us this over and over. He formed a top secret presidential committee with authority over the CIA in order to have independent opinion of the CIAs assertion that the United States would lose an arms race if used to bring Russia with her broken economy to the negotiating table. Reagans plan was that once his supply-side policy had eliminated Americas stagflation, Americas restored economy would bury Russias broken and unrepairable economy in an arms race. The point of the threatened arms race was to bring Gorbachev to the negotiation table to end the Cold War, not to win an arms race.

We investigated the CIAs documents and reported to President Reagan that it was a case of the CIA protecting its budget and its power. If Reagan dismantled the Cold War, without an enemy the CIAa budget along with that of the Military Security Complexs budget would be defenseless at their high levels.

Ronald Reagan was an outsider to the Republican Establishment, represented at that time by George H. W. Bush, vice president and former director of the CIA. Reagan was seen as a challenge to the Republican Establishments control of the Republican Party. Eight years of Reagan followed by eight years of Jack Kemp meant the end of the Republican Establishment that serves organized interests. Political parties are concerned with power and control, not with the national interest. Here was Reagan, and his few supporters in his administration, challenging the power and profit of the vested interests for the sake of world peace.

The American media, whores to the CIA, started on us. But it did not fit. The narrative was not yet constructed. James Baker, the principal operative of George H. W. Bush, admitted that he promised Gorbachev no movement east of NATO. But there is no written signed document, so the story was changed by later Washington administrations.

Zuesse misses the true story, because he succumbs to ideology and is unable to understand that Reagan, like Trump, was an outsider who brought hope that the political system could be restored to the peoples control.

The American media and the American leftwing made sure that this did not happen.

Consequently, we now face nuclear Armageddon. It is only a tick away unless President Putin decides to surrender.

The United States today is much more divided than in 1860. The Democrats regard white people as racists and barriers to social justice and the rule of the oppressed blacks and sexually perverse. Throughout the media and educational systems white Americans are demonized more than Jews were in Nazi Germany. Once white Americans become a minority, which is the principle goal of the Democrat Party, their fate will be the same as the French in The Camp of the Saints.

The Republicans are helpless. Their goal is to make America great again, which plays into the neoconservatives’ agenda of United States hegemony.

To deal with the challenges America faces requires awareness of the facts, but facts are no longer politically correct. They do not fit the narratives and, therefore, are untrue and dismissed as misinformation.

In my lifetime I have watched my country descend into degeneracy, ignorance, and evil. The nation into which I was born does not exist except as a geographical location.

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