L. Reichard White
©August 17, 2023 (21:55p),
The bureaucrats in charge after
WWII, fearing a return to the banker/government-caused Great Depression,
made a fatal decision. Since it had apparently finally gotten the U.S. out of
that disaster, enshrined in National Security Council Report 68 (NSC-68),
signed by president Harry S Truman on September 30, 1950, they decided
to continue using the manufacture of military materials to pump the economy.
Ten years later, President and
Five-star General Dwight Eisenhower caught a glimpse of the result and
warned us like this - - -
"In
the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial-congressional complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will
persist.
"We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for
granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper
meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our
peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper
together." --Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address 1961, Public Papers of the Presidents, Dwight
D. Eisenhower, 1960, p. 1035- 1040
Called "Military
Keynesianism," political scientist and ex-CIA consultant Chalmers Johnson was among those who solidly nailed the long-term dangers
and consequences of using war production to stimulate the economy.
It was clear that the Military
Industrial Complex (MIC) required an enemy, a dastardly villain, as an excuse. They managed to create North Korea, Vietnam,
Iraq, Afghanistan and a few lesser excuses into that needed commodity but these
all eventually fell short and fizzled out.
You can find a list of seven
potential replacements HERE.
And how about that old stand-by, the
Soviet Union? But it had broken up. On the other hand, public opinion
polls showed that most Americans hadn't separated modern Russia from that
intimidating image of the old Soviet Union as our evil enemy. All those decades
of propaganda were still in place, especially in the minds of us Baby
Boomers. Especially Hollywood propaganda. You know, James Bond and all.
So, a ready-made villain on the
cheap!
The Main-Stream Media (MSM) had completely failed to notice that the
Russians had learned the hard way that socialism/communism "promised
workers paradise but delivered the other place instead." They'd also
learned -- the hard way -- that voluntary market exchange kicks booty.
So, under the guidance of Vladmir
Putin and his cronies, they'd been promoting trade with other folks in
other countries, including selling massive amounts of natural gas to Europe
through their twin billion-dollar under-sea pipelines, Nord Stream I and soon, II.
They'd been promoting Sochi as a resort town and host to major international events.
Etc.
The Russians were making money hand
over fist and loving it. And Putin was regularly referring to "Our
friends and partners in the West." Meaning us.
But That Thing That Lives in
Washington D.C. and its minions (the U.K. for
example) needed that Essential Villain and guess who they chose?
The C.I.A. has a lot of experience
assassinating folks, overturning governments, fomenting violence and
revolution, that sort of thing. President Harry S. Truman, who created
the C.I.A., described things this way
- - -
"Now,
as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don't just report on wars
and the like, they go out and make their own, and there's nobody to keep track
of what they're up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so
they'll have something to report on. They've become ... it's become a
government all of its own and all secret. They don't have to account to
anybody." --Pres. Harry S. Truman
And so they got to work, first by
refurbishing the narrative.
Exactly what you'd expect since,
exposed by the Sen. Frank Church
Committee, most savvy folks know that Western Main Stream Media (MSM) is a fully owned and
integrated subsidiary of the C.I.A.
By this time I was finally beginning
to get it. SOMEBODY was setting up Putin and the Russians for SOMETHING.
"SOMEBODY" was
likely the CIA and I started looking for signs.
A big one was the 2014
CIA-engineered Ukrainian Maidan coup, spearheaded by U.S.
operative Victoria Nuland
and abetted by Hilary
Clinton. It ousted Russia-friendly Viktor
Yanukovych in favor of several U.S. puppets, ending up with former comedian
Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The CIA also planned to get Ukraine into NATO.
I started listening to Putin's
speeches whenever I could. I heard things like this (notice the date) - - -
- "We must get back to the international law instead of
might makes right. ... U.S. approach, one step forward, one step back gets
nowhere. ...There has to be a dialog, I don't think there is any other
way." --Vladimir Putin Thursday, April 25, 2019 5:25 AM, media event
during Kim Jon Un/Putin summit in Vladivistok
It gradually became clear that Putin
and the Russians were as paranoid of NATO as we Baby Boomers had been of
the old Soviet Union.
I was a teen during the Cuban
Missile Crisis. That was when U.S. President J.F. Kennedy prepared
to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union didn't remove its missiles.
We were planning to hang out in
neighboring quarry tunnels to outlast the nuclear fallout. That wouldn't work,
but it was better than the school instructions, "Hide under your desk,
and put your head between your knees." We added the realistic part:
"... and kiss your butt goodby."
Even though those missiles were only
90 miles from our shores, Cuba was a sovereign nation and so Kennedy did not
have the right to make that demand. Regardless, the Soviets listened, and
luckily for the human race, removed their missiles.
Whether Russian or American, you
can't argue with that kind of deep-seated fear and that goes for the Russians
today. And this isn't just Putin -- he has plenty of company.
But even worse than the Cuban
Crisis, Ukraine in NATO would put NATO missiles directly on Russia's border
-- and only 5 minutes travel time to Moscow.
That would automatically put Russian
nuclear forces in " launch on warn"
mode, meaning no time to straighten out any mistakes or glitches. That means no
brakes on Russia's retaliation nukes and any mistake or glitch pretty much the
end of the world.
That made Ukraine joining NATO a national
security red-line for the Russians. And, if the rest of the world had any
sense at all, a red-line for all of us.
Of course, Putin had no more right
to demand Ukraine pledge not to join NATO than J. F. Kennedy had for demanding
Soviet missiles be removed from Cuba.
So Putin sent very short and clear
warnings to the U.S., NATO, the UN, UK, etc. They ignored him entirely, so he
tried again. And again.
Apparently, he thought putting
100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine's border and leaving them there would finally
"send a message" they couldn't ignore.
As Anatol Lieven wrote in the
January 25, 2022 TIME, Russia Has Been Warning the West About Ukraine
for Decades. The West Should Have Listened.
The Russian troops were there for
three months -- December 2021 until Feb. 24, 2022 -- before what Putin called
the "special military operation" (SMO) began.
The Russians claimed during that
three months on the border that they did not intend to invade. Indeed, what
military in its right mind would telegraph an invasion, giving the enemy three
months to prepare?
It seems Putin was just attempting
to emulate U.S. officials who are always sending (often rude) messages
to everyone, lately using so-called "sanctions" which,
incidentally, are endangering the U.S.
dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.
But now it's Feb. 25, 2022 and
what's done is done. Putin had to call his own bluff. So the "Special
Military Operation" has begun. Now what?
Here's what the Russians had in mind
according to Olexii Arestovich, Zelensky's former 'spin doctor' and
adviser. He described the circumstance of the Russian SMO first entry into Ukraine like this:
It was conceived as a bloodless mission and should have
passed without casualties, he says. "They tried to wage a smart war… Such
an elegant, beautiful, lightning-fast special operation, where polite people,
without causing any damage to either a kitten or a child, eliminated the few
who resisted. They didn't want to kill anyone: Just sign the
renunciation".... Alastair Crooke,
Strategic Culture, February 14, 2023
That from the top of, not Russian,
but Ukraine, public relations. It also perfectly jibes with the presentation
Putin gave just before he triggered the "SMO."
Clearly Mr. Putin miscalculated. Or
perhaps the C.I.A. threw sand in the gears again.
It's clear this whole MIC/C.I.A. concocted mess could have been quite easily avoided
in the first place. And, while not nearly as easily, probably still wound-down
even now.
Respected weapons inspector Scott
Ritter put it something like this: "To avoid the whole Ukraine
Fiasco, all Ukraine had to do was to agree not to join NATO."
Once you know the facts, it's hard
not to reach that same rational, logical, conclusion. These folks did - - - Ron Paul, and Prof. John Mearsheimer, and Jimmy Dore with Matt Tiabbi.
And Elon Musk joined the rational crowd.
You may not be aware because others
who reached the same conclusion were disappeared, censored and otherwise dissed
and cancelled for undermining the C.I.A. narrative. Remember, the MSM , now including GOOGLE, Facebook,
before-Musk-twitter, etc. are fully owned C.I.A.
subsidiaries.
For example, GOOGLE SEARCH
disappeared all direct links to "Tips on How to Start the Final World
War," the original publication of
this piece, and took the added precaution of heading any search for it with the mis-direction below -
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In fact, the logical, rational,
solution was so obvious that Turkey's president Erdogan and Israel's
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, both offered to negotiate peace, and
initially Putin and Zelenskyy both agreed to talk. Until SOMEBODY got
word to The Comedian that peace wasn't the goal and he backed out.
Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire, Says US Must Build Up
Ukraine's Military, The Secretary of State called for Washington to continue to
put militarism before diplomacy
And SOMEBODY blew up the
Russian's Nord Stream pipelines.
The Thing Living In D.C. is warning China not to supply Russia with "lethal
weapons" because it will "prolong the war and cause more
misery and death." But, of course, the "lethal weapons"
supplied by the U.S. will have no such effect. Right?
In an interview (Feb 19, 2023), General
Mille, echoing the back-room consensus, observed that the Ukrainians aren't likely to make anymore
battlefield gains and it was time for them to move to the negotiating table.
The MIC pulled
strings somewhere and the negotiating table suggestion disappeared.
The MIC needs its essential villain. So, as the
quip goes, "it's determined to fight the Russians down to the last Ukranian."
Putin and company have repeatedly
warned that if Russia believes it faces an "existential threat,"
they will use nukes.
Keeping in mind that when push came
to shove, when nailed to the wall, Putin called his own Ukraine border bluff,
what do you make of the 8 Russian fighter jets on Alaska's border two days in a
row?
US intercepts 8 Russian
fighter jets near Alaska in 2 days
US Air Force fighter jets conduct back-to-back intercepts of
Russian aircraft near Alaska
And prequels like this - - -
F-16s intercept Russian bombers flying near Alaska | Stars and
Stripes
On Feb. 27, 2022, just three days after he pulled the
Ukraine invasion trigger (Feb. 24) Russia's Putin puts
nuclear forces on high alert | Reuters
And more recently, directly out of
"Games Theory" basic strategy, a Moscow foreign policy
magazine suggested limited tactical nuclear strikes on Europe to convince "The West" Russia was nuclear
serious.
In addition to recently placing
tactical nukes on Belarusian territory - - -
Russia Puts Its Longest Range Nuke-Capable Missile On Combat Duty,
Nicknamed 'Satan II', Saturday, Sep 02, 2023 - 12:45 AM
It was NATO that christened it with
the apt nic, "Satan II."
Via a huge Wikileaks dump, we know the U.S. and NATO both
knew Ukraine in NATO was Russia's Bright
Red Line. Even Biden specifically recognized that, just as in the Cuban
Missile Crisis, this was Armageddon time - - -
Biden Says Risk of
Nuclear 'Armageddon' Is Highest Since 1962 [Cuban Missile] Crisis --The New
York Times
Clearly they don't need my tips,
they've already aced How to Start the Final World War.
So the burning question: "Is That
Thing Living in Washington D.C. suicidal?"
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L. Reichard White [send him mail] taught
physics and the philosophy of science, designed and built a house, ran for
Nevada State Senate, served two terms on the Libertarian National Committee,
managed a theater company, etc. For the next few decades, he supported his
writing habit by beating casinos at their own games. His hobby, though, is
explaining things he wishes someone had explained to him. You can find a
few of his other explanations listed here.
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