by Caitlin Johnstone
This is your fault, Clinton
Democrats. You created this, and if our species is plunged into a new world war
or extinction via nuclear holocaust, it will be your fault. You
knuckle-dragging, vagina hat-wearing McCarthyite morons made this happen.
American military provocations
against the pro-Assad coalition in Syria are fast becoming a daily occurrence.
In response to the US air force’s gunning down of a Syrian military plane on
Sunday, Russia has cut off its hotline with which it was coordinating
operations with America to avoid aerial collisions, and has warned that all US aircraft west of the Euphrates river
will now be tracked and treated as potential targets. Today, 25 miles northwest
of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, a US reconnaissance plane was
intercepted by an armed Russian aircraft which came within five feet of the
plane’s wingtip. This on the same day that the US shot down yet another Iranian military drone in Syria.
Clintonists have been working
tirelessly since the election to manufacture these new Cold War tensions.
Stephen Cohen, easily America’s foremost authority on US-Russia relations, has
warned again and again
that the political pressures being placed on the Trump administration to
maintain escalations with Russia without conceding an inch has placed our
species in a situation that is in some ways even more dangerous than those we
faced at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. If Kennedy had had to
negotiate that crisis while being pressured by his entire country to keep
escalating tensions with the USSR without yielding an inch, there is no way any
terrestrial life would have existed beyond 1962. The Clintonists (along with
their neocon buddies on the other side of the aisle) are responsible for
creating those pressures.
“You know it’s easy to joke about
this, except that we’re at maybe the most dangerous moment in US-Russian
relations in my lifetime, and maybe ever. And the reason is that we’re in a new
cold war, by whatever name. We have three cold war fronts that are fraught with
the possibility of hot war, in the Baltic region where NATO is carrying out an
unprecedented military buildup on Russia’s border, in Ukraine where there is a
civil and proxy war between Russia and the west, and of course in Syria, where
Russian aircraft and American warplanes are flying in the same territory.
Anything could happen.”
~ Stephen Cohen
~ Stephen Cohen
It wasn’t enough for these Democratic neocons to try and elect a woman who had been
pushing for dangerous escalations with Russia since long before any hacking allegations and who campaigned on a promise to invade Syria and seize control
of an airspace wherein Russian military planes were conducting operations. No,
once their initial bid to start World War 3 failed, these deranged death
cultists began attacking Trump for any movement away from escalations with
Russia or regime change in Syria and showering him with praise when he launched a missile strike
against a Syrian airbase. The current administration is culpable for its own
actions and should be unequivocally condemned for bowing to these pressures
instead of honoring Trump’s campaign promises of pursuing detente with Russia
and avoiding regime change in Syria, but if Clintonists had been pushing for
peace instead of war this entire time the situation would doubtless look very,
very different.
War cannot happen without the
consent of the governed, which is why the corporate media works so very hard to
manufacture that consent. The brazen Russophobia and relentless lies about the Syrian government which have been
saturating establishment media airwaves have gone a long way toward
accomplishing this, but it wouldn’t have worked without the direct cooperation
of these idiotic vagina hat-wearing McResistance Maddow muppets. If these
idiots had learned the lesson of Iraq instead of picking up the establishment
narrative and not just running with it but holding actual parades for it, the
warmongering would have fallen flat and we’d be seeing an intensely critical
response toward any aggressive moves the Trump administration makes against
Russia, Syria and Iran. Instead, these psychotic death cultists are still
babbling about Russia collusion and attacking Jill Stein.
Meanwhile we’re on the brink
of World War Three (suggested slogan: “Just like the first two but this time
with nukes!”) and any dissent for these insane, immoral, illegal escalations
has been shamed into silence as Trump lovin’, Putin kissin’, Russian
propaganda. The anti-war movement was effectively choked off through media
psy-ops, but now that the neocons have gotten their way, the McResistance will
be permitted to have some vague semblance of anti-war sentiment as long as it
doesn’t interrupt proceedings in any real or ongoing way. Expect the vagina
hats to make some state-approved anti-war noises through their permanently
pursed-lips which will effectively buffer them against the charge that they
have been cheering for this the whole time when they totally have. But when even
Neera Tanden can’t work out who the best person to blame is as evidenced by the
collapse and eventual quiet deletion of her instinctually sub-optimal
“Good job Jill Stein” tweet, this promises to be a confusing time for the
artificially outraged. We will need at least eleven Steve Colberts to tell us
how to think and who to hate because the news churn is about to flip us on our
heads again.
It doesn’t matter though. They
got their way anyway, they Iraq’d us while Iraq is not even a generation ago.
Exact same methods, exact same bullshit psy-ops, but it all worked as planned.
Golf clap to the bastards behind the curtain; I have to give it to you, you
assholes really know how to put on a show. The xenophobic demagoguery against
Russia reaches fever-pitch, and in the same week that one of Rachel Maddow’s
biggest fans shot some politicians for some conspiracy-theory-fuelled vigilante
justice, the completely fact-free, faith-based, fake-news conspiracy theory is
about to get its biggest scalp ever — world war.
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