WESTERN EXCEPTIONALISM

WERNER RUGEMER—For NATO, the founding was not about defeating “communism”, that was only a preliminary stage. It was and is about the U.S.-led conquest and exploitation of Europe, especially Russia, that is, all of Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok (according to U.S. presidential adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski) and regardless of whether it is communist or capitalist.

NATO has been and continues to be an alliance that has principally and permanently violated the UN Charter, Article 1 “Self-Determination of Nations,” from its inception. NATO members – and also associate members such as Switzerland and Austria – joined in various ways in the numerous U.S.-led wars of the wrongly so-called “Cold War,” beginning with the Korean War and most recently, for example, for two decades in Afghanistan, leaving behind impoverished, devastated countries, with high profits for the arms, energy, supply and private military services industries.

Among the many lies circulated by the Western disinformation machine, this is particularly vile: “With his back against the wall, Putin will resort to chemical warfare, just like in Syria”
Russia did not use chemical weapons in Syria. Russia negotiated Syrian stockpiles to be destroyed or removed. The chemical attacks in Syria were done by rebels supported by Saudi Arabia and the U.S. [7] If anyone has their back against the wall, it is the Ukrainians and neo-Nazis who are trained in false-flag tactics by the CIA. Like in Syria, the U.S. media are falsely blaming the Russians with no evidence whatsoever. Like in Syria, any chemicals released in Ukraine will probably be the work of opponents of Russia to blame Russia.

Although Western media, as usual, have done a great job of simply lying to the US/EU public, and thereby keeping the fog around the Russian discoveries of dozens of bioweapon labs in Ukraine, Russia presses on relentlessly with the story, and as time goes by more and more irrefutable (and highly embarrassing) details emerge from their carefully hidden crevices. Washington realises that, despite its gigantic propaganda machine, this signifies a huge threat to its ultimate credibility and operational hypocrisy. And the entire West is caught in this ugly business.

Economist Michael Hudson discusses the decline of the US dollar, the sanctions war on Russia, his concept of “free-trade imperialism,” and financial parasitism. We talk about these concepts explored in his new book “The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism.”

As the anglo-American empire continues to sink further into various crises of its own making, its degeneracy shows up in all important quarters, especially the media and political class. A case in pint: the Murdoch-owned WSJ just ran a guest editorial (April 27th 2022) by a Neocon arguing for nuclear war with Russia. “It winnable!” says the “analyst”.