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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: The “Self-Genocide” of the West, Preparing its Populations for War Stephen Cohen and I are branded Russian dupes and Putin agents, because we object to the highly orchestrated and false portrayal of Russia as a threat to the West, a portrayal that is leading to war. The purpose of this orchestration is to prevent President Trump or any future president from reducing the dangerous tensions between nuclear powers that have accumulated since the Clinton regime. The military/security complex has resurrected its Cold War enemy so necessary for its outsized budget and power and intends to keep Russia as The Enemy. The Democrats have an interest in the villification of Russia as Russiagate explains Hillarys loss of the 2016 Presidential election and gives Democrats hope of removing President Trump from office. The media lacks independence, knowledge, and integrity and is the tool used by the military/security complex to control explanations, a prostitution of the media that has made the term presstitutes an accurate description. As strategic and Russian studies are largely funded by the military/security complex, the universities are also complicit in the march toward nuclear war. Republicans are as dependent as Democrats on funding from the military/security complex and the Israel Lobby. All of this self-serving is driving America and its vassals to war with Russia, which might also mean with China. The war would be nuclear and be the end of the West, an act of self-genocide. The US national security establishment is so crazed that Trumps efforts to get off the war track and onto a peace track are characterized as treason and a threat to US national security. See this for example. The Russians are aware that the accusations and demonization that they experience are fabrications. They no longer see the problem as one of misunderstandings that diplomacy can overcome. What they see now is the West preparing its populations for war. It is this perception for which the West is solely responsible that makes the situation today far more dangerous than it ever was during the long Cold War. In his just published book, War With Russia? (reviewed here), Stephen Cohen documents the creation of the Russian threat that serves a few material interests at the expense of life on earth. In the article below, Cohen asks if it is more important to impeach Trump than to avoid nuclear war. *** Do Russiagate Promoters Prefer Impeaching Trump to Avoiding War With Russia? by Stephen F. Cohen The Nation, December 19, 2018 The new Cold War is not a mere replica of its 40-year predecessor, which the world survived. In vital ways, it is more dangerous, more fraught with actual war, as illustrated by events in 2018, among them: Helsinki Trump and Putin a Showdown for Summer Doldrums or a Genuine Attempt Towards Peace? The militarization of the new Cold War intensified, with direct or proxy US-Russian military confrontations in the Baltic region, Ukraine, and Syria; the onset of another nuclear arms race with both sides in quest of more usable weapons; mounting, but entirely unsubstantiated, claims by influential Cold War lobbies, such as the Atlantic Council, that Moscow is contemplating an invasion of Europe; and the growing influence of Moscows own hawks. The previous Cold War was also highly militarized, but never directly on Russias own borders, as is this one, from the small nations of Eastern Europe to Ukraine, a process that continued to unfold in 2018. Russiagateallegations that President Trump is strongly influenced by or even under the sway of the Kremlin, for which there remains no actual evidencecontinued to escalate as a dangerous and unprecedented factor in the new Cold War. What began as suggestions that the Kremlin had meddled in the 2016 US presidential election grew into mainstream insinuations, even assertions, that the Kremlin put Trump in the White House. The result has been to all but shackle Trump as a crisis-negotiator with Russian President Putin. Thus, for attending a July summit meeting with Putin in Helsinkiduring which Trump defended the legitimacy of his own presidencyhe was widely denounced by mainstream US media and politicians as having committed treason. And twice subsequently Trump was compelled to cancel scheduled meetings with Putin. Americans may reasonably ask whether the politicians, journalists, and organizations that assail Trump for the same kind of summit diplomacy practiced by every president since Eisenhower actually prefer trying to impeach Trump to avoiding war with Russia. Are You Tired Of The Lies And Non-Stop Propaganda? The same question can be asked of major mainstream media outlets that have virtually abandoned the reasonably balanced and fact-based reporting and commentary they practiced during the latter stages of the preceding Cold War. In 2018, for example, their nonfactual, surreal allegation that Putins Russia attacked American democracy in 2016 became an orthodox dogma and the pivot of their Russiagate and new Cold War narrative. Also unlike during the preceding Cold War, they continued to exclude dissenting, alternative reporting, perspectives, and opinions. Still more, these media outlets persist in relying heavily on former intelligence chiefs as sources and commentators, even though the role of these intel officials in the origins of the Russiagate narrative now seems clear. A striking example of media malpractice was coverage of the maritime conflict between Ukrainian and Russian gunboats on November 25, in the Kerch straits between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. All empirical evidence available, as well as Ukrainian President Poroshenkos desperate need to bolster his chances for reelection in March 2019, strongly indicated that this was a deliberate provocation by Kiev. But the US mainstream media portrayed it instead as yet another instance of Putins aggression. Thus was a dangerous US-Russian proxy war fundamentally misrepresented to the American public. In large part due to such media malpractice, and despite the escalating dangers in US-Russian relations, in 2018 there continued to be no significant antiCold War opposition anywhere in mainstream American political lifenot in Congress, the major political parties, think tanks, or on college campuses, only a very few individual dissenters. Accordingly, the policy of détente with Russia, or what Trump has repeatedly called cooperation with Russia, still found no significant supporters in mainstream politics, even though it was the policy of other Republican presidents, notably Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan. Trump has tried, but he has been thwarted, repeatedly again in 2018. Meanwhile, the charge that Russia attacked American democracy and continues to do so might best be applied to Russiagate promoters themselves. Their allegations have undermined the America presidency as an institution and cast doubt on US elections. By criminalizing both contacts with Russia and proposals for better relations, and by threatening to weed out a capacious and nebulous body of disinformation in US media, they have considerably diminished the vaunted American marketplace of free speech and ideas. Also under growing assault are traditional concepts of US political justice, which, at least based on what is known in regard to Russia, have been abused in the cases of Gen. Michael Flynn and, in Soviet-like fashion, of Maria Butina. At worst, this young Russian woman seems to have been an undeclared (but candidly open) advocate of better relations and an ardent proponent of her own country. For this, something long pursued by young Americans in Russia as well, she was held for months in solitary confinement until she confessedthat is, entered a plea. And this in a nation that has long officially promoted democracy abroad. Finally, while US political and media elites remained obsessed with the fictions of Russiagatewhich increasingly appears to be Russiagate without Russia and instead mostly tax-fraud-gate and sex-gatepostSoviet Russia continued its remarkable rise as a diplomatic great power, primarily, though not only, in the East, as documented recently in three highly informed publications far from and scarcely noted by the US political-media establishment. Meanwhile, Washingtons primary base of allies in world affairs, the European Union, continued its slide into self-inflicted, ever-deepening crisis. (See this) * This article was originally published on the authors blog site: Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Poster Comment: Globalists know the economy will crash and have pprepared an exit strategy: let whites fight Blacks and immigrants to the death after the Nationwide Food Riots begin. 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