Paul Craig Roberts, “The Empire of Lies”

Paul Craig Roberts [Editor’s note: Paul Craig Roberts, whom I admire, missed the boat when he asserts that Putin is a globalist. My take would be that, while he may have been a member of the World Economic Forum years ago, he has long since recognized it’s aspirations are inconsistent with nation-states and democratic republics. Those who doubt must read his “Empire of Lies” speech, which lays out explicitly why he had to conduct this “special military operation” into Ukraine. I regard Putin as the only true statesman astride the…