Why Is The West Preparing For War?

July 13, 2024 by Paul Craig Roberts

One result of the just concluded NATO Summit is Germany’s decision to host US intermediate-range missiles. Prior to 2019 when Washington cancelled the INF Treaty, the treaty prevented such deployment.

The INF Treaty was signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev on December 8,1987, and the treaty was ratified on June 1, 1988. The treaty was part and parcel of ending the cold war. Reagan called the treaty a “step toward a safer world.”

“The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty required the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate and permanently forswear all of their nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. The treaty marked the first time the superpowers had agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals, eliminate an entire category of nuclear weapons, and employ extensive on-site inspections for verification. As a result of the INF Treaty, the United States and the Soviet Union destroyed a total of 2,692 short-, medium-, and intermediate-range missiles by the treaty’s implementation deadline of June 1, 1991.”

Blaming Russia the Trump administration pulled out of the treaty. The consequence was to kill the nuclear disarmament that the INF Treaty began and to renew the arms race. If I had to bet I would say Washington’s withdrawal was a consequence of the US nuclear industry needing the source of profits that the arms race provided and the neoconservatives’ determination to revive US hegemony through the buildup of force. If Russia was truly out of compliance, Trump’s focus should have been to work to bring Russia into compliance, not terminate the treaty. The efforts of several American presidents and Soviet leaders in the 20th century to defuse tensions and to build trust were squandered by Washington in the 21st century.

Regardless, what is clear is that Washington is pushing both Europe and Russia into preparing for war, and is itself preparing. The US Senate has joined the House of Representatives in creating a draft registration system from which to field a conscripted army. The Senate’s version includes women in the draft, as equal treatment requires. Clearly, Washington sees the need for a larger army than a volunteer army can provide.

Now that the Biden regime is supplying F-16s and long-range missiles to Ukraine, weapon systems that Biden said would never be given to the Ukrainians, along with targeting information, clearly Washington’s intent is to further widen the war by carrying it deep into civilian areas of Russia. Simultaneously, Washington is using its NGOs in Georgia to orchestrate a color revolution there in order to open a second front against Russia. Putin’s slow forever war in Ukraine has played directly into Washington’s hands.

China is the main focus of Washington’s strategy of isolating Russia. At the recent NATO Summit China was accused of being a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s conflict with Ukraine. By allegedly supplying armaments to Russia, China is accused of challenging “our interests, security and values.”

I would have expected a different Chinese reply than was made. China should have said to Washington/NATO: “You started the conflict and your weapons systems and French troops are supporting and widening the conflict. You have blocked all efforts to end the conflict; yet you dare accuse us of responsibility for it.”

Instead, the Chinese disavowed supplying Russia with any military support.

This is an extremely weak response. It suggests that all the Russian-Chinese assurance of a “no-limits partnership” is just words. An appropriate response from China would have been: “We are considering sending 500,000 of our best soldiers to serve under Russian command in Ukraine and have called up another million men for military training.

A response such as this is what would end the conflict before the dumbshit hegemonic West puts us all in a war of annihilation.

In recorded history one can find very few competent civilian and military leaders. Alexander the Great, Constantine, Charles Martel, Charlemagne, the Duke of Marlborough, Robert E. Lee. No such men exist today, but the weapons are far more terrible. Moreover, modern war targets civilians and civilian infrastructure, as the Israelis are doing in Gaza. The goal is less to defeat an opposing army than it is to foreclose an opponent’s ability to conduct war.

In Europe a warrior class no longer exists. European male ethnicities are so oppressed by their own governments and by immigrant-invaders favored by European governments, that the defense ministers of Europe are women. What does a white ethnic European male have to fight for?

In the US the fighting force has always come from the southern states. But what have these traditional Americans, these military families, witnessed? They have seen all southern names struck from military bases. They have experienced their promotions on hold while homosexuals, black females, and transgendered people confused about their own gender are promoted. Taking orders from such people is not a southern man’s idea of the military. So recruitment has collapsed.

There are so few people willing to fight for America that Congress entertains proposals to enroll immigrant-invaders, paid with citizenship for fighting for American hegemony.

America has reached the point that Rome reached. Once the Roman military was German, the Germans became the emperors. The Germans did a fairly decent job compared to the decadent Romans, but the Empire was exhausted by its internal conflicts and collapsed.

Perhaps it is the collapse of the West that Putin and XI are banking on. Why bother to fight people busy destroying themselves.

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This is extremely short sighted. Arms Control Agreements are designed to limit the West’s arms, not those of the East.

Remember that INF treaty that Reagan got Gorbachev to sign? Yep, the Russians broke that one too, before the ink was dry!

From my earlier article of April 14, 2022, “Nuclear Weapons.”

“The Soviets secretly deployed the SS-23s in East Germany, Czechoslovakia
and Bulgaria in 1986. In the event of war in Europe between NATO and the
Warsaw Pact, they would have given the Soviets a clear military advantage by
allowing them to launch a surprise nuclear strike at the heart of NATO
forces in Germany.”

“Under the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Agreement signed in
Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987, President Reagan and General Secretary
Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to destroy all existing theater nuclear missiles in
Europe, including all SS-23s.”

“While the Soviets allowed U.S. inspectors to witness the destruction of
the longer-range SS-20 missiles, which constituted the bulk of their force,
they secretly rushed several batteries of the shorter-range SS-23s to East
Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria just prior to signing the Treaty, and
never declared them or destroyed them.” -Worldnetdaily

‘Now, a short comment on where we are.

My concern is that enough of this "talk" about how Putin is going to resort to nukes is liable to get a whole lot of support for a western "Pre-Emptive Strike" going.
And maybe, just maybe, this is exactly what Putin wants, because with his good friends the Marxist Democrats in power, he gets what he wants.
So, we have one pre-emptive strike to prevent another, yes, World War III and every one gets their wish, except for us plebes, who don't get a "vote."

And Putin even has his excuse, “We had no choice, I have the documents and recordings that they were planning a ‘decapitation strike’ against Moscow.”

Now that wouldn’t be too difficult for him, because going back through history, I doubt that there is a single country we don’t have a decapitation plan for.

“Build Back Better”

But they won’t, they will build more nukes, the Russians and the Chinese never stopped, and aren’t ever going to stop, that much must be obvious at least, by now!’

This is what I mean, “Arms Control Agreements” with your primary enemy are less than worthless. We now have a single warhead Miniteman III from the 70’s as our primary Nuclear ICBM and our only ICBM. They used to be loaded with 3 warheads, but we downloaded them to single warhead configuration and destroyed the 3 warhead “busses” so we can’t go back, at least not without redeveloping the parts, impractical for a nation that is planning on replacing them with a new single warhead ICBM anyway. We dug up the 50 10 warhead “Peacekeeper” ICBMs Reagan had added for these “Arms Control Agreements” under Bush Jr.

I have a saying, you don’t send your new Ferrari to the crusher because you neighbor can’t afford a used Corvette. We did, and not just one of them.

Don’t even get me started on the Navy, where they have destroyed whole classes of weapons so that our Carrier Battle Groups are outgunned by a couple of frigates.