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Begin forwarded message: > From: Bill Totten <[email protected]> > Date: October 8, 2015 at 8:05:22 AM EDT > To: Ugly New World <[email protected]>, a-list > <[email protected]> > Subject: [a-list] Putin Calls Out Washington > Reply-To: [email protected] > > by Paul Craig Roberts > > Institute for Political Economy (October 02 2015) > > We can no longer tolerate the state of affairs in the world. > > - President Vladimir Putin > > Last Wednesday (28 September 2015) the world saw the difference between > Russia and Washington. Putin's approach is truth-based; Obama's is vain > boasts and lies, and Obama is running out of lies. > > By telling the truth at a time of universal deceit, Putin committed a > revolutionary act. Referring to the slaughter, destruction, and chaos that > Washington has brought to the Middle East, North Africa, and Ukraine, and the > extreme jihadist forces that have been unleashed, Putin asked Washington: "Do > you realize what you have done?" > > Putin's question reminds me of the question Joseph Welch asked witch-hunting > Senator Joseph McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency?" Welch's question is > attributed with initiating the decline of McCarthy's career. > > Perhaps Putin's question will have the same impact and bring the reign of > "American Exceptionalism" to an end. > > If so, Putin has launched a revolution that will overthrow the world's > subservience to Washington. > > Putin stresses the legality of Russia's intervention in Syria, which is at > the request of the Syrian government. He contrasts Russia's respect for > international law with the intervention in Syria of Washington and France, > governments that are violating Syria's sovereignty with unrequested and > illegal military action. > > The world sees that it is Washington and its vassals who "violate > international norms" and not Russia. > > The sanctimonious self-righteousness, behind which hides Washington's > self-serving unilateral actions, is revealed for all to see. > > Washington relies on its arsenal of lies. Washington's media-based > disinformation apparatus was too hot to trot. Just as the BBC's TV reporter > announced the premature destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 with the > building clearly still standing in the background, Washington's lie service > announced the first civilian casualties of Russian air strikes "even before > our planes got in the air", noted President Putin in his comments on > Washington's disinformation warfare. > > As a consequence of their subservience to Washington, the puppet states of > Europe are being overrun by refugees from Washington's wars that Europe so > mindlessly enabled. As the cost of being Washington's vassals comes home to > Europeans, the standings of European political parties will be affected. New > parties and ruling coalitions are likely to follow more independent paths in > order to protect themselves from the costs of the enormous mistakes that flow > from Washington's arrogance and hubris. > > The breakup of the Empire is on the horizon. > > Copyright (c) 2013 PaulCraigRoberts.org. All rights reserved. > > http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/10/02/putin-calls-washington-paul-craig-roberts/ > > https://billtotten.wordpress.com/ > http://www.ashisuto.co.jp
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