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for six decades. British prime ministers, German chancellors, and French
presidents have to salute and say “yes sir.” "
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Undone Its Empire? — Paul Craig Roberts
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Has Washington’s Arrogance Undone Its Empire?
Paul Craig Roberts
No one likes a bully, and Washington’s NATO puppets have been bullied for six
decades. British prime ministers, German chancellors, and French presidents
have to salute and say “yes sir.”
They all hate it, but they love Washington’s money; so they prostitute
themselves and their countries for Washington’s money. Even a person of Winston
Churchill’s stature had to suck up to Washington in order to get his bills and
his country’s bills paid.
But what the bought European leaders are finding is that Washington doesn’t pay
enough for the prostitution required. One year out of office Tony Blair was
worth $35 million dollars. But that’s not enough to get Blair on the waiting
list for $50 million 200 foot yachts, to have a chalet in Gstaad, $50 million
penthouses in Paris and New York, and a private plane to fly between them, or
to wear a $736,000 Franck Muller watch on his wrist, sign his name with a
$700,000 Mont Blanc jewel-encrusted pen, and drink $10,000 “martinis on a rock”
(gin or vodka poured over a diamond) at New York’s Algonquin Hotel.
In a world in which every member of the Forbes Four Hundred is a billionaire
plus or multi-billionaire, $35,000,000 just doesn’t cut it. In 2006 the manager
of one hedge fund was paid $1,700,000,000 for one year’s thieving. Another 25
were paid $575,000,000 for their skills in front-running trades. $35 million is
probably the annual budget for their household servants.
The British seem content in their role as Washington’s favorite lackey, but
France and Germany have not enjoyed that role. France’s last real leader,
General DeGaul, would have nothing to do with it and refused to join NATO.
Germany, dismembered with East Germany occupied by the Soviets, had no choice.
Germans’ gratitude to President Reagan for their unification resulted in
re-unified Germany falling under Washington’s hegemony.
However, if news reports from Berlin are true, Germany has had enough. The
catalyst was Edward Snowden’s revelations that Washington spies on everyone
including its allies, both Germany and the EU in particular. Moreover,
Washington uses Britain as the Trojan Horse within the EU as a backup spy in
case NSA misses something.
According to news reports, the German, French, and EU governments are upset to
find out that their extreme subservience to Washington has not protected them
and their citizens from being spied upon. Here they are, fighting Washington’s
wars in far distant Afghanistan, the fate of which is completely unrelated to
their own, and what does Washington do but embarrass them by spying on the
personal lives of their citizens.
Who does the Merkel government represent, Germans are asking, Germans or the
NSA? Why does the Merkel government kowtow to Washington? The next question
will be: “what does Washington’s spies have on Merkel?”
With the German government put on the spot by Washington’s betrayal, news
headlines are: “Germany Ready to Charge UK and US Intelligence Over Bugging
Operations.”
Little wonder Washington and its media whores hate Edward Snowden. “A spokesman
for the [German] Federal Prosecutor said the office was preparing to bring
charges against” the UK and US intelligence services. In light of the Snowden
affair, it will be wonderful if Germany issues arrest warrants and Washington
and London refuse to extradite its NSA and UK spy operatives who have violated
every law and every trust.
The German Justice Minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenburger, demanded an
“immediate explanation” why Washington was applying to Germany policies
“reminiscent of the actions against enemies during the Cold War.”
The president of France has said that France will not again cooperate with
Washington on any issue until France receives “full assurances” that Washington
will cease spying on France.
The president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, and the EU
Commissioner for Justice, Viviane Reding, demand Washington’s answer to
Snowden’s revelations that Washington has betrayed its own allies.
The question that must be asked is: do any of these protests from politicians
who are
almost certain to be on Washington’s payroll mean anything, or are they just
make-believe protests to quiet the domestic European populations who have been
betrayed by their elected leaders? Why would the French president and the
German justice minister think any reassurance from Washington meant anything?
When in human memory has Washington told the truth about anything? When has
Washington’s reassurance meant anything?
The Tonkin Gulf? Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Iranian nukes? Assad’s
sarin gas attack? FBI orchestrated “terror attacks”? It is a proven fact that
the US government lies every time it opens its mouth. Compared to Washington,
Stalin, Hitler, Tojo, Mao, Castro, Chavez, and Pol Pot were truthful.
Washington’s reply to Europe’s demands for explanation is: “We will discuss
these issues bilaterally with EU member states,” but “we are not going to
comment publicly on specific alleged intelligence activities.”
You know what that means. Bilateral means that Washington is going to talk with
each EU country separately, using the information NSA has obtained to blackmail
each complainant into silence. Whereas the EU together could stand up to
Washington, separately the countries can be browbeat and offered more money or
threats that illicit love affairs will be revealed to shut them up. Washington
is betting on its power to intimidate individual countries with the threat of
isolation and being cut off from money. If the EU countries agree to the secret
bilateral explanations from Washington, the affair will end and the spying on
Europe will continue while Washington and the EU politicians deny that the
spying continues.
By now the entire world must know that Washington is not merely lawless, but
also totally out of control, reveling in arrogance and hubris, driven by
desires for hegemony over the entire world. Washington is so paranoid and
distrustful that it doesn’t even trust its own citizens or the European puppet
governments that it has bought and paid for.
Washington is the only government that has ever used nuclear weapons, and
Washington used them against a defeated government that was trying to
surrender. Today the craziness in Washington is much worse. Decision-making
councils are full of crazed neoconservative war-mongers, such as National
Security Advisor Susan Rice, a threat to humanity. Washington think tanks and
media are over-represented by neoconservatives such as William Kristol who
wants to know “what good are nuclear weapons if you can’t use them?”
The sleazy European politicians and media who took Washington’s money provided
for their own economic security, but they betrayed the security of the entire
world. By enabling Washington’s hegemony, they unleashed Washington’s
arrogance. This arrogance now threatens not merely the independence of every
country but life on earth.
Instead of meeting unilaterally alone with Washington, the European countries
should
stand together. After all, supposedly there is an EU. If there is an EU,
Washington should meet with the EU, not with its constituent parts
individually, no one of which can stand up to Washington’s intimidation and
bribes.
If thermo-nuclear war is to be avoided and life is to continue on earth, Europe
must disband NATO. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in the
aftermath of World War II. Its purpose was to prevent the powerful Red Army,
which defeated Nazi Germany, from overrunning all of Western Europe.
The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, 22 years ago. Yet, NATO still exists.
Moreover, against President Reagan’s intentions, NATO has grown. NATO now
includes former constituent parts of the Soviet Empire, such as Eastern Europe,
and former constituent parts of the Soviet Union itself, such as Georgia, the
government of which is bought and paid for by Washington. The NGOs that
Washington funds might even deliver Ukraine into Washington’s fold.
Egged on by Washington, Georgia initiated a war with present day Russia, which
superior Russian forces quickly ended. In the opinion of many, the Russian
government showed far too much tolerance for its defeated enemy, which is being
rearmed by Washington and encouraged into new military adventures. Washington
is working to make Georgia, located in Asia between the Black and Caspian seas,
a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO membership would make
Georgia a treaty protectorate of Washington and its NATO puppets. Washington
thinks that this elevation of Georgia would result in Russia acquiescing to
Georgian aggression in order to avoid war with the US and NATO.
China, also, has been amazingly abused by Washington, and instead of replying
in kind, has taken it in stride. This magnanimity on the part of the Chinese
has been misinterpreted by Washington as fear. The fear that Washington
imagines is causing China to quake in its boots has encouraged Washington to
surround China with new naval, air, and troop bases. The fact that however
numerous are Washington’s bases in the Pacific and South China Sea, Washington
itself is an ICBM away has not registered on the ignorant scum that rules
Amerika. Overwhelmed by its hubris, Washington threatens all life on earth.
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