Putin’s Failure as a World Leader has Cleared the Path to WW III
Paul Craig Roberts
Igor Girkin regrets that Putin’s pusillanimous behavior has humiliated Russia before the world.
“We — as an entire country — have been humiliated before the whole world by our astonishing inability not only to defend our status as a Great Power (something that had remained unquestioned for Russia for centuries), but even to uphold ordinary national interests. We allow ‘neutral’ states to seize our ships and cargo without the slightest response; we supply (at a discount) oil, gas, and other essential resources to states openly producing missiles and drones that rain down daily on Russian soldiers and civilians; we are ‘passionately friendly’ with neighbors openly laying claim to Russian territory; and in the end, amid triumphant shouting, endless boasting, and equally endless lies from state media, we are unable to defeat an enemy that 10 years ago was pitiful both militarily and socioeconomically — but which we ourselves allowed to grow stronger through our own insane (downright idiotic) actions and inaction.
“And there is much more besides…
“We tolerate these idiots in power in the hope that they will ‘come to their senses’ and finally (if only out of self-preservation) defend Russia from external enemies — but the further things go, the more these idiots behave like cowards, while continuing to profit shamelessly from the difficult and unsuccessful war they themselves are losing.
“So why should anyone respect us as a country? Who would genuinely ally themselves with obvious losers?”
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In 2007 when Russian President Putin spoke at the Munich Security Conference it looked as if the fear of the American Zionist neoconservatives had been realized that a country sufficiently strong to stand as a barrier to Washington’s hegemony had appeared on the scene. Putin declared that Russia did not accept Washington’s unilateralism. Not long after he drove the American trained and equipped Georgian Army out of South Ossetia. Next he threw down the gauntlet with his unequivocal statement that “Russia will never again fight a war on its own territory.” Putin presented Russia to the world as a barrier to US imperialism and looting of the world.
The Israeli-American Zionist neoconservatives decided to fight back. They saw Russia’s weakness in Putin’s desire for peace and good relations. The Zionists correctly read this weakness as an opportunity to seize Ukraine, which Washington had already broken out of Russia and created as an independent state when the Soviet Union collapsed politically. The American Zionists reasoned correctly that Putin would regard Russia’s intervention against their coup as a propaganda advantage for Washington to portray Russia as a revanchist state bent on recovering the Soviet empire and then adding all of Europe. As Putin’s goal was mutual trust and beneficial business relationships, he stood aside, not understanding that the Zionist intent was to use Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia in the expectation of destabilizing Russia.
The American Zionists are achieving their goal. Increasingly, Russians are expressing discontent with Putin’s prevention of the Russian military from winning the conflict initiated by Washington. More and more Russians are speaking out strongly. Drones and missiles supplied by Washington and NATO now hit deep into Russia. They hit Russian energy production facilities, reducing the energy flow. They hit Russian energy export facilities, reducing the ability to export energy. They hit civilian residential housing killing Russian civilians. EU countries of zero military potential seize Russian oil tankers on the high seas. The humiliations go on and on, and Putin accepts them to the disgrace of Russia.
Putin has given new meaning to pusillanimous. Putin refused to acknowledge the Ukrainian attack enabled by the US and UK on Russia’s strategic bombing force as an act of war. As an act of war it required a devastating response from Russia, but Putin said it was merely a terrorist act for which Russian war doctrine required no response. When Putin’s home was attacked with US and UK targeting information, Putin again declared it a “terrorist action” and nothing was done about it.
Putin’s extraordinary denial of obvious reality demonstrates that he is a man who will not defend Russia. Unlike Iran, Putin simply will not fight.
Putin has turned Russia’s future over to Kirill Dimitriev, an American raised and educated Russian-American who represents the globalist Russian oligarchs whose only interest is in reviving their profitable relationships with the West. They will pay any price. Russia’s central bank director, hated throughout Russia, is a Putin protege. She helps the oligarch’s agenda with an interest rate policy that destroys smaller Russian businesses, thus enabling the oligarchs monopolization of the Russian economy.
Looking at this, we see the Russian Establishment and its Kremlin lapdog selling out Russia for access to Western business relationships. The deals that Dmitriev is making with Witkoff and Kushner are business deals unrelated to the original Russian reasons for intervening in Donbas. For Putin, the war is not important. For Putin and his monied colleagues the agenda is access to monied relationships with the West.
There is zero comprehension of anything resembling traditional foreign policy in the Kremlin. Putin does not understand the problem in the Middle East, a problem more important to Russia than the limited intelligence in the Kremlin can comprehend. Putin reaffirmed that Russia believes in the two-state solution. But, of course, the Palestinian state is gone, and Putin is an ally with Donald Trump in turning Gaza into a resort. Putin has already paid the money for admission. There never was possible a two state solution as the Zionist agenda is Greater Israel, so why did Putin believe in it?
Putin, his advisers, and the Russian government are so uninformed that they do not comprehend that the Israeli-US-Zionist agenda of Greater Israel means there can be no two-state solution. It means much more. It means that there cannot be an Arab and a Muslin Middle East. Greater Israel–Israeli hegemony– now extends “from the Nile to Pakistan.” The Trump regime supports this agenda. The Iranian government shows no awareness of comprehending what the Zionist agenda means for Iran. Iran should demand that the Zionist agenda be subjected to negotiation, not Iran’s rights.
The Israeli Zionists who comprise the Netanyahu government themselves have been completely open about their agenda of hegemony over the entire Middle East, Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia included. Former Israeli prime minister Bennet explained to the US Israel Lobby last February that “Turkey is the next Iran.”
The Kremlin studiously ignores this information as do the ostriches in Iran. The Zionist agenda demands the organized resistance of the Muslim world, and the agenda is not even a topic of discussion.
Imagine, we have before us two countries–Russia and Iran–threatened with regime change who are incapable of understanding the threat that they face.
As I have previously explained, there is only one thing worthy of negotiation with regard to the Middle East, and it is the Zionist Israeli agenda of Greater Israel.
If Iran, Russia, Washington, the EU, Israel, the Muslim states ever put the Zionist agenda of Greater Israel on the agenda for discussion, perhaps humanity will have a chance to survive before local wars become regional wars and regional wars become world nuclear wars.