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What Is Henry Kissinger up To? — Paul Craig Roberts

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December 28, 2016

The English language Russian news agency, Sputnik, reports that former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is advising US president-elect Donald Trump how to “bring the United States and Russia closer together to offset China’s military buildup.” https://sputniknews.com/politics/201612271049024500-kissinger-trump-russia/

If we take this report at face value, it tells us that Kissinger, an old cold warrior, is working to use Trump’s commitment to better relations with Russia in order to separate Russia from its strategic alliance with China.

China’s military buildup is a response to US provocations against China and US claims to the South China Sea as an area of US national interests. China does not intend to attack the US and certainly not Russia.

Kissinger, who was my colleague at the Center for Strategic and International studies for a dozen years, is aware of the pro-American elites inside Russia, and he is at work creating for them a “China threat” that they can use in their effort to lead Russia into the arms of the West. If this effort is successful, Russia’s sovereignty will be eroded exactly as has the sovereignty of every other country allied with the US.

At President Putin’s last press conference ( http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46100.htm ), journalist Marat Sagadatov asked if Russia wasn’t already subject to forms of foreign semi-domination: “Our economy, industry, ministries and agencies often follow the rules laid down by international organizations and are managed by consulting companies. Even our defense enterprises have foreign consulting firms auditing them.” The journalist asked, “if it is not time to do some import substitution in this area too?”

Every Russian needs to understand that being part of the West means living by Washington’s rules. The only country in the Western Alliance that has an independent foreign and economic policy is the US.

All of us need to understand that although Trump has been elected president, the neoconservatives remain dominant in US foreign policy, and their commitment to the hegemony of the US as the uni-power remains as strong as ever. The neoconservative ideology has been institutionalized in parts of the CIA, State Department and Pentagon. The neoconservatives retain their influence in media, think tanks, university faculties, foundations, and in the Council on Foreign Relations.

We also need to understand that Trump revels in the role of tough guy and will say things that can be misinterpreted as my friend, Finian Cunningham, whose columns I read, usually with appreciation, might have done ( http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46103.htm ).

I do not know that Trump will prevail over the vast neoconservative conspiracy. However, it seems clear enough that he is serious about reducing the tensions with Russia that have been building since President Clinton violated the George H. W. Bush administration’s promise that NATO would not expand one inch to the East. Unless Trump were serious, there is no reason for him to announce Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as his choice for Secretary of State. In 2013 Mr. Tillerson was awarded Russia’s Order of Friendship.

As Professor Michel Chossudovsky has pointed out, a global corporation such as Exxon has interests different from those of the US military/security complex. The military/security complex needs a powerful threat, such as the former “Soviet threat” which has been transformed into the “Russian threat,” in order to justify its hold on an annual budget of approximately one trillion dollars. In contrast, Exxon wants to be part of the Russian energy business. Therefore, as Secretary of State, Tillerson is motivated to achieve good relations between the US and Russia, whereas for the military/security complex good relations undermine the orchestrated fear on which the military/security budget rests.

Clearly, the military/security complex and the neoconservatives see Trump and Tillerson as threats, which is why the neoconservatives and the armaments tycoons so strongly opposed Trump and why CIA Director John Brennan made wild and unsupported accusations of Russian interference in the US presidential election.

The lines are drawn. The next test will be whether Trump can obtain Senate confirmation of his choice of Tillerson as Secretary of State.

The myth is widespread that President Reagan won the cold war by breaking the Soviet Union financially with an arms race. As one who was involved in Reagan’s effort to end the cold war, I find myself yet again correcting the record.

Reagan never spoke of winning the cold war. He spoke of ending it. Other officials in his government have said the same thing, and Pat Buchanan can verify it.

Reagan wanted to end the Cold War, not win it. He spoke of those “godawful” nuclear weapons. He thought the Soviet economy was in too much difficulty to compete in an arms race. He thought that if he could first cure the stagflation that afflicted the US economy, he could force the Soviets to the negotiating table by going through the motion of launching an arms race. “Star wars” was mainly hype. (Whether or nor the Soviets believed the arms race threat, the American leftwing clearly did and has never got over it.)

Reagan had no intention of dominating the Soviet Union or collapsing it. Unlike Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama, he was not controlled by neoconservatives. Reagan fired and prosecuted the neoconservatives in his administration when they operated behind his back and broke the law.

The Soviet Union did not collapse because of Reagan’s determination to end the Cold War. The Soviet collapse was the work of hardline communists, who believed that Gorbachev was loosening the Communist Party’s hold so quickly that Gorbachev was a threat to the existence of the Soviet Union and placed him under house arrest. It was the hardline communist coup against Gorbachev that led to the rise of Yeltsin. No one expected the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The US military/security complex did not want Reagan to end the Cold War, as the Cold War was the foundation of profit and power for the complex. The CIA told Reagan that if he renewed the arms race, the Soviets would win, because the Soviets controlled investment and could allocate a larger share of the economy to the military than Reagan could.

Reagan did not believe the CIA’s claim that the Soviet Union could prevail in an arms race. He formed a secret committee and gave the committee the power to investigate the CIA’s claim that the US would lose an arms race with the Soviet Union. The committee concluded that the CIA was protecting its prerogatives. I know this because I was a member of the committee.

American capitalism and the social safety net would function much better without the drain on the budget of the military/security complex. It is more correct to say that the military/security complex wants a major threat, not an actual arms race. Stateless Muslim terrorists are not a sufficient threat for such a massive US military, and the trouble with an actual arms race as opposed to a threat is that the US armaments corporations would have to produce weapons that work instead of cost overruns that boost profits.

The latest US missile ship has twice broken down and had to be towed into port. The F-35 has cost endless money, has a variety of problems ( http://www.stopthef35.com/pentagon-f-35-wont-have-a-chance-in-real-combat/ ) and is already outclassed. The Russian missiles are hypersonic. The Russian tanks are superior. The explosive power of the Russian Satan II ICBM is terrifying. The morale of the Russian forces is high. They have not been exhausted from 15 years of fighting without much success pointless wars against women and children.

Washington, given the corrupt nature of the US military/security complex, can arms race all it wants without being a danger to Russia or China, much less to the strategic alliance between the two powers.

The neoconservatives are discredited, but they are still a powerful influence on US foreign policy. Until Trump relegates them to the ideological backwaters, Russia and China had best hold on to their strategic alliance. Anyone attempting to break this alliance is a threat to both Russia and China, and to America and to life on earth.

Source: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/12/28/what-is-henry-kissinger-up-to-paul-craig-roberts/


Source: http://tapnewswire.com/2016/12/what-is-henry-kissinger-up-to-paul-craig-roberts/


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    • SuperNiceGuy

      “As Professor Michel Chossudovsky has pointed out, a global corporation such as Exxon has interests different from those of the US military/security complex. The military/security complex needs a powerful threat, such as the former “Soviet threat” which has been transformed into the “Russian threat,” in order to justify its hold on an annual budget of approximately one trillion dollars.”

      That is interestingly deceptive, because supposed Soviet and American opposition, with proxy wars has also relatively often involved the energy complex. Middle East, Angola, Middle East, South America?

      • SuperNiceGuy

        Middle East, Angola, Ukraine, South America?

        Sorry. Not quite sober. But perhaps sobering.

        • maxwell

          …The U.S., seems to be the biggest threat to civilization’s survival…We’re freaking crazy. The depths of abomination…Its because we are totally controlled, lock, stock and barrel, by elite, sexual deviants and thieves. Heretofore “Untouchable”. The “revealing” is exposing everything.
          …Let’s get ”INTIMATE” with these devils…REAL damn intimate. What we don’t get even with…The LORD will.
          …I’m so incensed, deep in my soul, at what these people do with our precious children…I could strangle every one of them myself. I’m tearing up in RAGE, at this minute.

      • Wretched Infidel

        VERY interesting, thank you

        http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message3404772/pg1

        may be useful to some as well (re: yesterday’s speech by Kerry for us from the State Dept) re: the AMBUSH treachery by the Jihadi-In-Chief of America on Friday, Dec 23

    • unidentified

      he is always asked for his advice when banking is a concern, where to invest, who to invest with, how to make an investment, who the power brokers favor, who can be trusted who cant, etc :arrow:

    • Equalizer

      Henry Kissinger – POS Architect of The New World Order and mass murder!
      http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/america-keeps-honoring-one-its-worst-mass-murderers-henry-kissinger

      • Wity

        Thanx 4 that 100% True…. This old demonseed just wont croak and give up his satanic Ghost !

    • 2QIK4U

      Kissinger has always been covert globalist scum. He gets the kneepads out for Obama the last eight years behind the scenes… Dont tr7st him.

    • truthseeker4809

      It has already been prophesized by many prophets that America will be divided by the new Madrid fault line. It is not caused by the division of Israel, it was geological phenomenon that was bound to happen. The timing has become coincidence when BO decides to agree to the UN resolution. This is the repeating pattern of biblical mumbo jumbo that attach vengeful meaning to the natural disaster. I think it is a fundamental human nature that they have to find fault with someone or find the meaning of redemption or vengeance when some disaster happens.

      I think it is a psychological trap contrived by some evil entity who knew human nature too well. It could well be the human eating reptilians as David Icke keeps explaining.

      • SuperNiceGuy

        “I think it is a psychological trap contrived by some evil entity who knew human nature too well. It could well be the human eating reptilians as David Icke keeps explaining.”

        Hey, call me crazy, but I don’t think they’re really reptilian. I think they are just socio/psychopathic mammals with monkey brains.

      • Wretched Infidel

        Yes, but it is very graphically to represent ? to symbolize? that what our twice-elected Leader Obama, (and the others, previous to his administration) have been trying to get Israel to do, (sell out to their enemy) and hence, we sought to FORCE THEM TO DIVIDE THEIR LAND which was a gift given to them by Yahu

        (NetanYahu : Given by Yahu, or Gift of or by Yahu IAUE)

        and the smiting will be done to us to fulfil the prophecies, earthquakes especially, to repay us for what we (via our Dear Leader and Co-Adjustor Kerry yesterday)

        that what we sow, that also shall we reap: We will get what we sowed, and we have sown the treacherous seeds of the whirlwind and total destruction.

        Voila: Live by deceit, deceit comes back upon you even stronger. The so-called Law of Karma is Biblical btw.

    • 2QIK4U

      If you look at this paul craig roberts background thats blowing sunshine up kissingers butt youd be surprised at the feet in both camps syndrome from him also…

    • carolina4

      time to throw out the world war ii survivors and their minions. they are not thinking with a fully loaded deck.

      • SuperNiceGuy

        Some of the survivors, perhaps not. Some of the enablers and supporters, certainly.

    • VirusGuard

      Kissinger is jewish and holds real power in the USA unlike puppets like Trump or Obummer who only jump when they are told to jump and is much more dangerious than Sore-Ass the other jew, far too many jews hold powerful positions in the USA and Kissinger soon got kicked off the 9/11 investigarion on day one but we still ended up with a pack of lies in the offical story.

      Money runs the word and banker control the money and all the big players are jewish just like the are in Holly-Hoax-wood

      • b4

        trump has zero history of being anybody’s fool–he plays both sides to get what he wants–he will elevate old man kissinger and then throw him in the trash can when not needed–as a scottish rite mason his war is with the pope who has mostly been satan on earth since about 400 ad–his other battle is with the government,aka tyrants…liberty and freedom…the next 30 years will be chaos,turmoil with death for many

    • Wity

      SNG You neglect to mention South Africa ~ the 1st NWO 666 Test sample for destruction…
      22 years after Apartheid it is fast becoming a failed Comocracy under racist black dictatorial rule as planed….
      Only problem being it is now a member of B.R.I.C.S and very pro communist….

      Some thing the NWO Empire 666 did not anticipate….

      • DK

        The people got exactly what they wanted, ANC black majority rule. They were voted in, the end result is white flight which for us is end of story. South Africa is only the holy land for the Dutch Boer, British influence was due to the historical need for water and coal stops on the cape transit. As long proven, Britain never needed to invade for the Gold and Diamonds, the companies trading and extracting were international cartels which used the Empire as a mercenary occupation force.

    • Pink Slime

      This loathsome frog should NO WHERE be nerar Trump. He talked like a frog too. :twisted:

    • VirusGuard

      Pay more attention to what Kissinger says than the new puppet trump because you are looking at one of the really jewish masters who runs the USA today.

      Kissinger only lasted a day as being the head of the 9/11 investigation but he still got the results he wanted because his pockets are full of money and in the USA that will buy you anyting you want

      Greenspan, Bernank, Kissinger are all from the same tribe and silly americans think that they have a democracy when it’s ran from Israel

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