The Future of the West is Downfall – The Burning Platform

Guest post by Paul Craig Roberts

As I said, Putin’s refusal to win the conflict with Ukraine quickly caused the conflict to escalate into the beginning of World War III.

Putin himself now acknowledges this fact. In response to a journalist’s question about the implications of what appears to be a U.S.-British decision to allow missile strikes from Ukraine deep into Russia, Putin said:

“The Ukrainian military is not capable of using sophisticated, highly accurate, long-range systems supplied by the West. They cannot. These weapons are impossible to deploy without intelligence data from satellites that Ukraine does not have. This can only be done with the help of European Union satellites, or American satellites – generally NATO satellites. This is the first point.

“The second point – perhaps the most important, the most important point even – is that only NATO military can assign flight missions to these missile systems. Ukrainian military cannot.

“So the issue is not whether the Ukrainian regime is allowed to attack Russia with these weapons or not. The issue is whether NATO countries are directly involved in the military conflict or not.

“If this decision is taken, it means nothing less than direct involvement – ​​it means that NATO countries, the United States and European countries are parties to the war in Ukraine. This means their direct involvement in the conflict, and it will clearly drastically change the essence, the nature of the conflict.

“This means that NATO countries – the United States and European countries – are at war with Russia. And if this is the case, then, taking into account the change in the essence of the conflict, we will take appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will arise for us.”

My comment is as follows:

Putin has been at war with NATO since the Munich Security Conference in 2007, when Putin announced that a multipolar world would replace Washington’s unipolar order. In other words, he threw down the gauntlet to the neoconservatives and their agenda of Washington hegemony.

Putin may not have understood how determined neoconservatives are about hegemony, since a hegemonic agenda certainly seems unrealistic to Putin. He did not foresee that his challenge would lead directly to Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government and a move to bring Ukraine into NATO.

When Washington had Ukraine, Washington began building a large Ukrainian army to embarrass Putin by suppressing the Russians in the Donbas. Putin was like a baby in the forest. For eight years, while Washington built a Ukrainian army, Putin relied on the Minsk agreement and remained unprepared for the easily predictable war looming on the horizon.

When Putin was finally forced to intervene, he did so in a foolish way that guaranteed increased Western involvement, and by never enforcing any of his red lines, he now has his back against the wall and cannot ignore the NATO/US missile attacks on Russia. He is finally forced to admit the truth: “the United States and European countries are at war with Russia.” If Putin had been realistic instead of lost in liberal delusions, the war that is about to erupt could have been avoided.

As the cautious Gilbert Doctorow wrote four days ago, “World War III, fought at least initially with conventional weapons, is now only days, if not weeks, away.” And this is just the situation in Ukraine. A major war is still brewing in the Middle East. Whether war is that close or not, Doctorow’s point is valid. War cannot be far away when the US and UK governments are discussing firing missiles into Russia.

As I wrote two or three days ago, “because talk is forbidden, war is now a certainty.” Unlike the Cold War, the West no longer has independent foreign policy experts. With a few exceptions, such as Scott Ritter, Mearsheimer, Doctorow, and myself, the Western “foreign policy community” speaks with one voice: “US good, Russia bad.” That’s about it. Those few of us who are independent of think tanks and university departments funded by the military/security complex and neoconservative foundations are being labeled “Russian agents/dupes” and worse. We are being gradually criminalized. Scott Ritter was pulled off a plane in Washington by the Gestapo on his way to a conference in Russia. His passport was confiscated and his home was raided. Charges are currently being brought against Americans accused of contributing to “Russian disinformation,” meaning reporting a fact or expressing an opinion that does not conform to the official narrative.

As someone who knows the 20th century Cold War inside and out, I know that talking between Americans and Russians was the solution, not the problem. When talking is defined as the problem, as Washington defines it today, war is the result.

And that’s where we’re headed. Even the cautious and restrained Doctorow sees in Washington a “mad recklessness” that threatens life on Earth. What’s the point? Ukraine’s fraudulent borders while our own remain undefended?

Americans, Europeans, Russians, yes the whole world needs to understand that there is not an ounce of intelligence or integrity in the government in Washington. The American President is senile. The National Security Council is a collection of idiots. Not one of them has achieved any distinction except as a mouthpiece for the military/security complex. The ranks of military officers have been purged to make room for sexual perverts, women and “racial minorities”. The idea among conservatives that the American military is going to save us is laughable. The military has been tamed with pulled teeth and forced to accept zero promotions for white Americans until the military achieves “parity” in the officer ranks for sexual perverts, women and “racial minorities”.

The ruling elite is determined to install their puppet Kamala in the White House. She has always prostituted herself to get ahead, and now is her big chance. Unless the Democrats are surprised by Trump’s victory in the blue states, the 2024 election will be stolen in the swing states, just as it was in 2020. As local news reports have made clear, many of the mechanisms of theft used in 2020 have been legalized. It is now legal for Democrats to steal the election in swing states.

If the election is stolen, what will Americans do about it? Nothing. They will accept tyranny before they fight.

Fighting takes faith, but Americans’ faith has been destroyed by decades of liberal/leftist “education” that has undermined Western civilization by presenting it as a racist, misogynist scheme to exploit women and “minorities” by white supremacists. White children go to taxpayer-funded schools funded by their parents to be taught that they were born in the wrong body and that they, their parents and grandparents are racists who owe reparations to “oppressed minorities.” They are groomed to pay an extra round of taxes to those they have declared their victims. They are sexualized and groomed to be pedophiles at a young age.

Let’s be honest. This is an accurate representation of America and the entire West today. Every Western government is on the side of immigrant invaders against the ethnic citizens who make up the countries.

Now tell me, how can a social, political, belief system that is so weak, wage war on real people like Russians, Chinese, Iranians? They can’t.

The only future the Western world has is fate.