Rogue State Behavior + The Concept of Truth

Paul Craig Roberts | PaulCraigRoberts.org

Is Trump committing political suicide?

Gilbert Doctorow has given up on Donald Trump, a convincing illustration that Trump is losing the support of the few intelligent people who thought there might be some hope in him. I also have found my hopes that Trump would repair at least some of America’s crumbling foundation disappointed.

By all appearances, Trump places pleasing Netanyahu above all other considerations. To accommodate the Israel Lobby, Trump sacrificed the support of his two strongest supporters in the House of Representatives – Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massey. Greene resigned from Congress and Massey faces a Trump-Israel Lobby effort to defeat his reelection.

When I was young, and the United States and Europe had a semi-independent media, concern for truth resided only in the Western world. The rest of the world was accustomed to the rule by power and to governments lying for their own convenience. Respect for truth was a Western thing. In the last 30 or 40 years I have watched the Western media take on the attribute of lying for the convenience of advertisers, monied  interests, and governments in exchange for “scoops,” that is, planted stories serving hidden agendas.

As far as I can tell, Western education has succeeded in discrediting the concept of truth. Educators, as they are called, teach that truth is just an expression of self-interest, or one’s preferences, or in the case of white gentiles expression of racism and antisemitism. With truth, discredited, appeals to its authority are weak. Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuelan president Maduro and his wife and Trump’s cooperation with Netanyahu in destabilizing Iran in preparation to attacking the country are based on lies and orchestrated events. Few in the United States or Europe, have the intelligence and knowledge to see what is happening, and those few who do are dismissed as “conspiracy theorists.”

In other words, truth is impotent because people are unable to recognize it. This leads me, and no doubt others who try to deliver truth or something closer to truth than official narratives, to wonder why I attempt to bring truth to people who cannot recognize truth or even acknowledge that truth exists.

It is doubtful that many can recognize the seriousness of a situation in which the bulk of mankind have no alternative to official narratives. Controlled media sets out the truth, and those who disagree are terrorists, conspiracy theorists, racists, antisemites, Nazis, white supremacists, religious bigots, and whatever words are used for demonization at the current time.

At the very time that Trump is allegedly supporting a peaceful agreement that not only ends the conflict in Ukraine, but also the conflict between the West and Russia–negotiation that requires more Russian trust in the word of the West then can be justified–Trump has unleashed the United States as the principal rogue nation in the world.

As a Doctorow put it:

“Let us remember that ‘rogue state behavior’ was precisely what one of the chief popularizers of Neocon ideology, Robert Kagan, husband of the notorious Victoria Nuland, urged upon the United States in books and speeches. That is to say, scorn for all legal constraints on how foreign policy is conducted for the sake of maintaining U.S. global domination.”

Zionist neoconservatives who have controlled American foreign policy since the Clinton regime believe, as did Karl Marx, that violence is the only effective force in history and that violence committed by the United States in the interest of Israel is completely justified.

Doctorow says that Trump’s behavior sends a message to President Vladimir Putin that he does not have, and cannot have, a partner in Donald Trump. Putin’s dream of achieving a mutual security agreement between Russia and the West is nothing but the dream of a 19th century Western liberal. Trump has shown Putin that Putin’s dream is an impossible one. Will Putin wake up before it is too late for Russia? Or will Putin also, with US organized protest in Moscow’s Streets, be snatched from Russia and delivered to Washington for trial as a war criminal? If Putin has any intelligence, he will realize that Russia’s demise is the dream of the Jewish neoconservatives that control Donald Trump’s foreign policy.

As evil as the world is, is the world prepared for the evil that resides in Washington and Israel?

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