Tag: Soviet Union

Paul Craig Roberts, Armageddon Is Closer Than You Think

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by Paul Craig Roberts The world is facing catastrophe, and there is no awareness.  For years I and Stephen Cohen, while he was still alive,  advised that Washington’s provocations of Russia, including those of its NATO puppet states, were misguided and counter-productive.  Even prior to the fall of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev was open for the Soviet Union to become a cooperating member of the West.  The Russian population had a favorable attitude toward the West and looked forward to Russia’s incorporation into the Western world. The Reagan administration and…

Pat Buchanan, Where US and Ukrainian War Aims Collide

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by Pat Buchanan For us, the crucial concern in this Ukraine-Russia war is not who ends up in control of Crimea and the Donbas, but that the U.S. not be sucked into a war with Russia that could escalate into a world war and a nuclear war. To President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, Crimea and the Donbas are national territories whose retrieval justifies all-out war to expel the invading armies of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Yet, who controls Crimea and the Donbas has, in the history of U.S.-Russian relations, never been an…

William de Berg, The Morgenthau Plan Reborn

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William de Berg “That mortal is a fool who destroys a city, its temples, its tombs, and the precincts of the dead, making them a waste. He will be destroyed himself.” — Euripides Even before the end of World War Two, the major allies (the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union) had agreed to force an unconditional surrender on Germany and Japan.   That was a military decision, but an even more portentous decision was the implementation of JCS 1067, which called for the de-industrialization of Germany after World War Two. …

‘NATO Has Outlived Its Usefulness & Should Go Into Dustbin of History’ – Scholar

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SputnikNews On Monday, The New York Times cited unnamed senior administration officials as saying that US President Donald Trump has ostensibly questioned US membership in NATO and expressed a wish to withdraw the country from the bloc. Radio Sputnik has discussed the report with James Fetzer, Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota. Sputnik: What are your thoughts on the report that US President Trump repeatedly expressed his wish to withdraw the country from NATO? James Fetzer: Well, Trump as a businessman has approached this from the point of view of finances and of course until very recently only four other members of NATO paid…