Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: US War Against Russia is Already Underway!

• “From the standpoint of Washington’s power, losing the world currency role would be devastating, because that’s the main basis for Washington’s power. That’s why it has the financial hegemony, that’s why it can sanction. So, if you lose that role, if the dollar ceases to be the world reserve currency, we’ll see a dramatic reduction in Washington’s power.” – Quote
  –
  
• Emphasis mine:
• Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: US War Against Russia is Already Underway! 
  by http://voiceofrussia.com/ , 27 June 2014 
  How true is the spreading belief that President Obama has ruined US foreign policy, and how does it actually work? The Voice of Russia is discussing it with Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant to the US Secretary of the Treasury, currently the chairman of The Institute for Political Economy.
  ….
  Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant to the US Secretary of the Treasury, currently the chairman of The Institute for Political Economy:
  –
  Well, I think, perhaps, Americans are catching on to all of the lies. There are now other sources of information, other than the English-speaking Western media. And the account that the US gives, for example, of Ukraine is clearly a lie. And it takes a while and some people catch on. I don’t think the majority will ever catch on, but enough will.
  –
  And then, many Americans who are dissatisfied, would be for domestic economic reasons. They would want the resources allocated to needs here and not financing more wars. For example, the Iraq crisis has come back and there is so much talk about sending troops to the Baltics, eastern Europe in order to guard against the Russian threat.
  –
  So, this alarms people who’ve had no income growth, who can’t find a job, suffer from heavy debts from borrowed money to attend the universities, cut backs and unemployment compensation, the threats to the social security system, the threats to the public medical system (which is not much of a system, but still some people rely on it).
  –
  So, most Americans, when they see more trouble abroad involving more wars… I mean, the US has been in war for 13 years. It’s wasted trillions of dollars and achieved no result. And so, this is probably the main reason that people are dissatisfied, because they are suffering here for the sake of wars there, they no longer believe.
  –
  But what exactly is the rationale behind the never-ending wars?
  –
  There are several reasons that are mutually supportive. One is that the neoconservative ideology came to full power with the collapse of the Soviet Union. And this ideology says that history has chosen the US to prevail all over the world, that there is no alternative to the American political and economic system, and that this choice by history gives the US the responsibility to exercise hegemony all over the world.
  –
  So, this is a very powerful ideology, a more powerful ideology that the US has ever had before. And it comes at a time when other ideologies are gone. The communist ideology is gone, the Marxist revolutionary movements are gone. And so, it leaves the US dominating on the ideological level.
  –
  Another reason is the military-security complex. It is an amazingly large and powerful private interest group with public elements, such as all the security agencies – the CIA, the Pentagon. And it absorbs hundreds of billions of dollars, probably close to one trillion dollars annually.
  –
  And this money is very important to this interest group. Some of the money is recycled, it comes back to Congress, it comes back to presidential candidates, as a political campaign contribution, thus ensuring their elections and reelections. So, this is a second very strong force – a material interest that is very much benefited by wars and a threat of wars.
  –
  And the third very powerful interest group is the Israel lobby. Most of the neoconservatives are Jewish ethnics. Many of them are Israeli-US citizens. Almost all of them are closely tied to Israel. And so, the neoconservative ideology of American hegemony fits in very well with the 13 years of wars in the ME, because these wars also serve a subsidiary interest of disposing the Arab states that are not aligned with the US and Israel, and that could serve as a check on Israeli policy or Israeli expansion in the ME.
  –
  So, these three come together, they are all mutually supportive and in many ways it is the same people. The neoconservatives are the same as the Israel lobby. The officials in the Pentagon, in the State Department, they are also neoconservatives. So, it is a very strong three-part foundation that holds that together.
  ….
  We have witnessed this century the US withdraw from the ABM treaty with Russia. We witnessed the US construct an ABM system and began deploying it on Russia’s borders. The purpose of an ABM is to neutralize the strategic deterrent of the other country.
  –
  We’ve seen the US change its war doctrine, nuclear weapons are no longer to be used only in retaliation to an attack. They are now a preemptive first-strike force. This is clearly directed at Russia. The Ukraine is directed at Russia. So, the war is already started, it is underway. That’s what the Ukraine is about. It is the war against Russia.
  –
  And the war against China is in preparation. The US takes the side of every country that gets into a dispute with China, even over small things that have nothing whatsoever to do with the US.
  –
  So, the US is surrounding both countries with military bases. The US wants to put Georgia, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin that was part of Russia for two or three hundred years, they want to put that into NATO. They are going to put Ukraine into NATO.
  –
  They broke all the agreements that Reagan and Gorbachev had about not taking NATO into eastern Europe. NATO is now in the Baltics. It is all across eastern Europe. The former members of the Warsaw pact are now members of NATO.
  –
  So, the war is already underway, it is clear. The US has been preparing for years. And the Russians, they must be aware of this. If they are not, they are in really deep trouble.
  –
  read more!

end