{"id":834157,"date":"2022-10-10T19:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=134250"},"modified":"2022-10-10T19:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T19:08:09","slug":"the-u-s-is-leading-the-world-into-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/10\/the-u-s-is-leading-the-world-into-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Is Leading the World Into the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years after WW I, the poet T.S. Eliot opened his famous poem \u201cThe Wasteland\u201d with these words: \u201cApril is the cruelest month \u2026 \u201c\u00a0 I think he may be wrong, for this October may be the cruelest month of all, followed by November.\u00a0 Unprecedented.\u00a0 You can hear the clicking and grating of spades if your antennae are attuned.<\/p>\n

We are on the brink of ominous events created by the U.S. war against Russia.\u00a0 Yet so many people prefer to turn away and swallow the lies that the U.S. wants peace and not war and is the aggrieved party in the crisis.<\/p>\n

A friend of mine, who is constantly charging me with having turned right-wing because of my writing that accuses many traditional liberal\/leftists of buying the national security state\u2019s propaganda on the JFK assassination, \u201c9\/11,\u201d Syria, Ukraine, Covid-19, censorship, the \u201cNew\u201d Cold War, etc., and whose go-to news sources are The Guardian, CNN, The New York Times, NPR, ABC, <\/em>seems oblivious to the fact that right and left have become useless terms and that these media are all mouthpieces for the CIA and their intelligence allies in the new Cold War; that the so-called right and left are joined at the hip with their obsession with Pax Americana.<\/p>\n

There are no right and left anymore; there are only free and independent voices or those of the caged parrots repeating what they have been taught to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cPolly wants a war!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cPolly wants a war.\u201d<\/p>\n

I am afraid that I will never convince this dear friend otherwise and I find that depressing.\u00a0 Yet I know such views are shared by millions of others and that even if nuclear war breaks out their minds will not change.\u00a0 Propaganda runs very, very deep into their psyches, and they desperately want to believe.\u00a0 Hitler said it clearly in Mein Kampf<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The masses \u2026 are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hitler learned so much about \u201cmanufacturing consent\u201d from his American teachers Edward Bernays, Walter Lippmann, et al<\/em>., who accomplished so much brainwashing of the American people.\u00a0 They were all masters of the lie and millions continue to believe their followers.<\/p>\n

If nuclear weapons are again used (and everyone knows the only country to have used them), these believers will blame their use on Russia, even though Russia has made it very clear that it would only resort to such weapons if the country\u2019s existence were threatened, while the U.S. continues affirming its right to preemptively use nuclear weapons when it so chooses.<\/p>\n

And even if nuclear weapons are not used, the recent sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines and the bombing of the Crimean Bridge, both clearly the work of U.S.\/NATO\/Ukrainian forces, have raised the ante considerably.\u00a0 The door to hell has just been opened wider, and I suspect not by accident, as the U.S. elections approach.<\/p>\n

In his recent television talk, Vladimir Putin made Russia\u2019s nuclear position very clear, mentioning nuclear weapons only in the context of Western threats of using them, as Moon of Alabama<\/em> reported<\/a>.\u00a0 Putin said:<\/p>\n

They [the U.S.\/NATO\/Ukraine] have even resorted to the nuclear blackmail. I am referring not only to the Western-encouraged shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which poses a threat of a nuclear disaster, but also to the statements made by some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries on the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction \u2013 nuclear weapons \u2013 against Russia.<\/p>\n

I would like to remind those who make such statements regarding Russia that our country has different types of weapons<\/strong> as well, and some of them are more modern<\/strong> than the weapons NATO countries have. In the event of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country and to defend Russia and our people, we will certainly make use of all weapon systems available to us. This is not a bluff.<\/p>\n

The citizens of Russia can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended \u2013 I repeat \u2013 by all the systems available to us. Those who are using nuclear blackmail against us should know that the wind rose can turn around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the long-planned U.S. war against Russia<\/a>, so obvious to anyone who sees past the propagandist headlines and studies the matter, soon explodes into full-scale open war for all to see in horror, as it will, these true believers will dig in their heels even more.\u00a0 They will find new reasons to justify their faith, and it is akin to religious faith.\u00a0 The infamous Rand Corporation\u2019s 2019 report cited above, \u201cOverextending and Unbalancing Russia<\/a>,\u201d cites the following as part of the war process, as summarized in the Strategic Culture<\/em> article, but it will have no impact on the faithful believers:<\/p>\n