http://vocidallestero.it/ di Paul Craig Roberts (FORMER US GOVERNMENT MEMBER OF DONALD REAGAN)

In a recent article Paul Craig Roberts returns to talk about World War III, accusing Russia of being too cowardly towards aggressive US policy: in the desire to be recognized as part of the West, According to Roberts, Russia never gets the job done, but it always leaves a window open to the USA, hoping to curry favor with them, while effectively giving Washington another round to prevail in the conflict that Washington has started. This is what happened in Syria, where the war risks rekindling, and in Ukraine. And in the meantime, the escalation of propaganda continues in the West: not a day goes by without Russia being accused of cyber-attacks, interference in the elections of Western countries, even subversion of democracy. And with the Skripal case a new leap in quality has been made, coming close to accusing her of state terrorism. In short, what seems like a preparation by Western public opinion for the Third World War that Roberts fears.
Of Paul Craig Roberts, 13 March 2018
“In a nuclear conflict, the 'collateral damage' would be the end of all humanity” – Fidel Castro
The Russians, eager to show the West how friendly they are, they let Washington get a foot in the door in Syria, and Washington is using it to restart the war. Russian failure to finish the job has left Washington as foreign mercenaries, whom the American paid press passes off as "freedom fighters", in the Syrian enclave. For the war to start again, Washington must find a way to help its mercenaries.

The Trump regime has found it, or so he thinks, his justification for returning to the Obama regime's false accusation of Syria's use of chemical weapons. This lie, invented from scratch by the Obama regime, was silenced by Russia's intervention, who assured that there were no Syrian chemical weapons. Indeed, if memory serves us, Russia handed over chemical weapons to the US to be destroyed. There is little doubt that Washington still has them and will use some of them, with their Syrian markings, in what appears to be an imminent false flag attack for which Assad may be blamed. In other words, Washington will create a 'critical moment', he will blame Assad and Putin, and – with or without the authorization of Congress – the American intervention will begin on behalf of its mercenaries.
If we can believe James Mattis, the retired US Marine general who is Secretary of Defense, Syria, a country without chemical weapons and which does not need them in its combing operations against Washington's mercenaries, is using chlorine gas “against his own people”, exactly the same phrase used by the Obama regime when it attempted to orchestrate a justification for the attack in Syria. Mattis said he is receiving reports of Assad's use of chlorine gas, while at the same time claiming that there is no evidence of the use of gas, even less by the Syrian army.
The Secretary of Defense actually accused Syria of “targeting hospitals” with chlorine gas, although he admits there is no evidence. Mattis went on to accuse Russia of complicity in the killing of civilians, a feat at which the US excels.
Stephen Lendman riferisce that CIA Director Pompeo “suggested that a U.S. attack on Syrian forces may be imminent, saying Trump will not tolerate chemical weapons attacks, adding that he has not yet made a decision regarding the latest report on the use of chlorine gas”.
Secretary of State Tillerson joined the charges, although he admits there is no evidence.
Naturally there was no use of chlorine gas, if not by Washington-backed mercenaries. But the facts are not important to Washington. What is important is Israel's demand that Washington destroy Syria and Iran to get rid of Hezbollah supporters, so that Israel can take over southern Lebanon.
No doubt that there are other interests in the plot. Oil companies that want control of oil and gas pipeline locations, the crazy neocons married to their ideology of American World Hegemony, the military/security complex that needs enemies and conflicts to justify its enormous budget. But it is Israel's determination to expand its borders and water resources that sets all the Middle East's conflicts in motion.

Russia understands this, or the Russian government is too absorbed in gaining Western acceptance sooner or later to be part of the West? In the second case, the world is heading towards a nuclear war. The Russian government does not seem to understand that its cowardly responses are encouraging Washington's aggression and thus leading the world into final war.
Whenever Russia fails to finish the job, as in Syria and Ukraine, you don't win Washington's friendship, but it gives Washington another round to prevail in the conflict Washington has started. Washington will not slow down until its plans are stopped, what Russia does not seem willing to do. Consequentially, Washington continues to lead the world towards nuclear war.
When will the Russians realize that literally everyone in the Trump regime is threatening them? Mattis, Tillerson, Nikki Haley, the government spokeswoman, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom. Yet Russians still talk about their "partners" and how much they want to have good relations with the West.
There is no chance of the British going to war against Russia. The whole of the United Kingdom would be immediately wiped out, nevertheless British Prime Minister gives ultimatum to Russia.
Whati what Finian Cunningham has to say about the British Prime Minister threatening Russia:
Given their entrenched anti-Russian agenda, The British authorities have much more interest in seeing Skripal poisoned than the Kremlin ever had.
And while we are in “who did it” mode?”, another possible important trace is this: if he Venomous Agent X (VX) had been used to harm the former Russian spy, the executors would have had a convenient reservoir with which to carry out their actions.
Britain's top secret chemical weapons laboratory at Porton Down is just six miles away from Salisbury, where Skripal and his daughter were apparently attacked last Sunday afternoon. Porton Down is the laboratory where VX was originally synthesized in the 1950s. It remains one of the deadliest chemical weapons ever invented. And it's as English as five o'clock tea.
These are the motive and the means. Ma, cow, who needs logic when the name of the game is Russophobia?

[Note from VdE: according to what Theresa May declared in her speech to Parliament on Monday 13 March, the nerve agent identified in the Skripal case is not VX but Novichok, first developed by the Soviets between the 1970s and 1990s; the apparent anomaly can be explained by the fact that the article cited by PCR is from Thursday 8 March, when still the authorities, from what the English press reports, they had not made the nature of the nerve agent official. The PCR article is also from 13 March: it is therefore plausible that PCR had not yet become aware of May's statement. Clarified this, it is worth adding that the Novichok formula, as reported in Wall Street Journal da Ralf Trapp, one of the leading international experts on chemical weapons, it was the subject of a leak in the 1990s, and other countries may have since begun programs to produce it.] The entire Western world has gone mad. Come dice Michel Chossudovsky, Western politicians and the paid press that serves them are driving the world to extinction.
Use: it appears the military/security complex is tightening its grip on the Trump regime. Secretary of State Tillerson has been fired and is being replaced by CIA Director Pompeo. Gina Haspel, the new director of the CIA, he is the person who oversaw the secret torture prisons in Thailand.
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