World War II: The Unknown War

Written on June 13th, 2014 in politics Comments Off

Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craigh Roberts, June 12, 2014 (see Paul Craigh Roberts also on World People’s Blog).

In my column, The Lies Grow More Audacious, I mentioned that Obama and the British prime minister, whom Obama has as a lap dog, just as George Bush had Tony Blair as lap dog, had managed to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany at the 70th anniversary of the Normandy invasion without mentioning the Russians.

I pointed out the fact, well known to historians and educated people, that the Red Army defeated Nazi Germany long before the US was able to get geared up to participate in the war. The Normandy invasion most certainly did not defeat Nazi Germany. What the Normandy invasion did was to prevent the Red Army from overrunning all of Europe.  

As I have reported in a number of columns, many, if not most, Americans have beliefs that are not fact-based, but instead are emotion-based. So I knew that at least one person would go berserk, and he did. JD from Texas wrote to set me straight. No one but “our American boys” won that war. JD didn’t know that the Russians were even in the war … //

… In my article, I said, following the consensus of historians, that Nazi Germany lost the war at Stalingrad. In this article, Hitler’s Failed Blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union. The “Battle of Moscow” and Stalingrad: Turning Point of World War II, historian Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels says that Germany lost the war 14 months earlier at the Battle of Moscow in December 1941. He makes a good case. Whether one agrees or not, the facts he presents are eye openers for the “exceptional, indispensable Americans” who believe nothing happens without them.

Normandy, June 1944, is 2.5 years after Germany lost the war in the Battle of Moscow. As historians have made clear, by June 1944 Germany had little left with which to fight. Whatever was left of the German military was on the Eastern Front.

At the 70th annual Normandy landing celebration in France, Obama informed his French vassal, President Hollande, that he, Obama, the ruler of the Exceptional Country, would not sit down to dinner with the Russian Putin. Americans are too good to eat dinner with Russians. So Hollande had to have two dinners. One for Obama, and then one for Putin. As food is still good in France thanks to the banning of GMOs, probably Holland didn’t mind. I myself would have enjoyed being at both dinners for the food alone.

Like all news that is important, the dinner for Putin, and its meaning, escaped the attention of the American presstitute media, the world’s greatest collection of whores. If memory serves, normally the Russians are left out of the Normandy commemoration celebrations. If the war was won in the West, what did the Russians have to do with it? Nothing, of course. “Our boys” did it all, just as JD informed me. Russians? What Russians?

But this time France invited Putin to the Normandy celebration, and Putin was not too proud to come. Putin spoke with European politicians in the off moments, and these politicians saw a real person, unlike Obama, a total fake.

The superiority of Russian diplomacy over Washington’s is clear to all. Putin’s position is: “we are here for you, we can work things out.” Washington’s position is: “do as we say or we will bomb you into the Stone Age.”

Russia is accommodating to its client states. Washington is not. Putin says that he is willing to work things out with the billionaire corrupt oligarch imposed on Ukraine by Washington, but Washington has forced the Bulgarians to stop work on the South Stream Pipeline. This natural gas pipeline bypasses Ukraine by going under the Black Sea to Bulgaria. As Washington’s new puppet state in Ukraine has not paid its multi-billion dollar natural gas bill to Russia and threatens to disrupt the pipeline to Europe and to steal gas from it, Russia, despite Western sanctions, made preparations for a new pipeline route in order that Europeans do not suffer from winter cold and have their industries shut down and economies collapse from lack of energy.

Washington sees Putin’s commitment to Europe as a threat and has gone to work to prevent any Russian energy flows to Europe … //

… How is it possible that by now Europe doesn’t understand how Washington thinks? Those bags full of money must be very large.

As I have reported several times, the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs told me years ago that Washington purchases European politicians with bags full of money. It remains to be seen if European “leaders” are willing to sacrifice their peoples and their own reputations in order to be complicit in the war that Washington is planning with Russia, a war that could mean the end of life on earth.

It is Europe’s call. If leaders emerge who tell Washington, “no dice,” the world is saved. If instead European politicians want the money, the world is doomed.

Europe would be the first to go.

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(Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. His latest book How America Was Lost is now available).

Links:

Can trade be the game changer in Indo-Pak relations? on Russia Today RT, June 12, 2014: The SAARC aspiration for greater economic cooperation has been suffering serious jolts due to the bilateral rivalry between two of its largest nations – India and Pakistan …;
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARC is an economic and geopolitical cooperation among eight member nations that are primarily located in South Asia continent.[10] Its secretariat is headquartered in Kathmandu, Nepal … // … the first summit held in Dhaka on 8 December in 1985 led to its official establishment by the governments of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka[12][13] … (and later) Afghanistan (2007) …;

Disinflation in the Eurozone – an international, intersectoral phenomenon, on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by merijnknibbe, June 11, 2014;

Ukraine’s demand for gas price below $385 leads to deadlock – Putin, on Russia Today RT, June 11, 2014;

The return of polio in Turkey: Syrian refugees in Istanbul, on Russia Today RT, June 11, 2014: Dr. Can Erimtan is an independent scholar residing in İstanbul, with a wide interest in the politics, history and culture of the Balkans and the Greater Middle East …;

Algérie: 2 ans de prison ferme pour avoir publié des vidéos mettant en cause des policiers, dans Global Relay Network, par Achille, le 11 juin 2014;

Al Qaeda Takes Over Second Largest City in Iraq … But Al Qaeda was not even in Iraq until the U.S. Invaded, on Global Research.ca, by Washington’s Blog (other articles / first see there), June 11, 2014:

Piketty phenomena – Riding a Wave of Growth: Global Wealth 2014 (chart), on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Edward Fullbrook, June 10, 2014: The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a leading player in what is called “the global wealth-management industry” and which in effect is plutonomy’s tactical cavalry in financial markets. BCG have just “released” a report disclosing that in the year 2013 the wealth of the world’s people worth $100 million or more increased 19.7 percent. That compares, they say, to 3.7 percent for the wealth of sub-millionaires …;

Un management sain … si, si, c’est possible, dans Global Relay Network, par Achille, le 10 juin 2014: dans le cadre de nos recherches sur le hacking social au travail, nous avons exploré le monde du management, avec ses coachs, ses consultants et sa “bibliothèque” de conseils-injonctions. Il s’agissait de trouver les sources du mal, les sources de cette inclination à vouloir manipuler son prochain, à faire souffrir le subordonné ou le forcer à des actions que l’on a décidées pour lui …;

Le sabotage du gazoduc South Stream, dans Voltairenet.org, par Manlio Dinucci et Tommaso di Francesco, le 10 juin 2014: Les travaux de construction du gazoduc South Stream, qui devait approvisionner l’Union européenne en gaz russe, en 2015, ont été interrompus par la Bulgarie, sur pression des États-Unis. Cette décision, d’abord préjudiciable à l’Union (la Russie est déjà prête à vendre son gaz à la Chine), a été soutenue par le président de la Commission européenne, qui agissait ainsi à l’encontre des intérêts qu’il prétend défendre et au service inconditionnel de Washington …;

The Syrian People Have Spoken, on Voltairenet.org, by Thierry Meyssan, June 6, 2014;

GEAB N°85 is available! European leadership crisis: the Ukrainian crisis gathers all the conditions together to give a saving jolt to Europe, on Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin GEAB no 85, May 15, 2014;
GEAB Homepage (with links to GEAB in en, de, fr, es).

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