{"id":130792,"date":"2022-12-20T18:38:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130792"},"modified":"2022-12-20T18:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T01:38:51","slug":"putin-has-misread-the-west-and-if-he-doesnt-wake-up-soon-armageddon-is-upon-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/12\/20\/putin-has-misread-the-west-and-if-he-doesnt-wake-up-soon-armageddon-is-upon-us\/","title":{"rendered":"“Putin Has Misread the West (And) if He Doesn’t Wake Up Soon, Armageddon Is Upon Us”"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIKE WHITNEY<\/a>\u00a0AND\u00a0PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS<\/a> Courtesy The Unz Review<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Question 1\u2014<\/strong>You think that Putin should have acted more forcefully from the beginning in order to end the war quickly. Is that an accurate assessment of your view on the war? And\u2014if it is\u2014then what do you think is the downside of allowing the conflict to drag on with no end in sight?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Craig Roberts\u2014<\/strong>Yes, you have correctly stated my position. But as my position can seem unAmerican\u201d to the indoctrinated and brainwashed many, those who watch CNN, listen to NPR, and read the New York Times, I am going to provide some of my background before going on with my answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was involved in the 20th century Cold War in many ways: As a Wall Street Journal editor; as an appointee to an endowed chair in the Center for Strategic and International Studies, part of Georgetown University at the time of my appointment, where my colleagues were Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor, and James Schlesinger, a Secretary of Defense and CIA director who was one of my professors in graduate school at the University of Virginia; as a member of the Cold War Committee on the Present Danger; and as a member of a secret presidential committee with power to investigate the CIA\u2019s opposition to President Reagan\u2019s plan to end the Cold War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a history such as mine, I was surprised when I took an objective position on Russian President Putin\u2019s disavowal of US hegemony, and found myself labeled a Russian dupe\/agent\u201d on a website, PropOrNot,\u201d which may have been financed by the US Department of State, the National Endowment for Democracy, or the CIA itself, still harboring old resentments against me for helping President Reagan end the Cold War, which had the potential of reducing the CIA\u2019s budget and power. I still wonder what the CIA might do to me, despite the agency inviting me to address the agency, which I did, and explain why they went wrong in their reasoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will also say that in my articles I am defending truth, not Putin, although Putin is, in my considered opinion, the most honest player, and perhaps the most naive, in the current game that could end in nuclear Armageddon. My purpose is to prevent nuclear Armageddon, not to take sides. I remember well President Reagan\u2019s hatred of those godawful nuclear weapons\u201d and his directive that the purpose was not to win the Cold War but to\u00a0end<\/em>\u00a0it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Storey <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Putin has misread the West (and) if he doesn’t wake up soon, Armageddon is upon us”, by Mike Whitney and Paul Craig Roberts – The Unz Review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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