The United States Cannot Survive the Corruption of Its Leaders and the Insouciance of Its People

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

The United States military was sent into Afghanistan two decades ago on the basis of a lie. The warmonger neoconservative George W. Bush regime lied to the American people, to US soldiers, and to the world that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, that bin Laden was hiding in Afghanistan, that the Afghans would not turn him over to stand trial, and that the US military was going in to get him.

After 20 years of bombing weddings, funerals, kid’s soccer games, medical centers, farmers, schools, and murdering large numbers of Afghan women and children, President Trump said enough and announced he was bringing US soldiers home.  All it took to block the president of the United States was one corrupt, scheming, neoconservative, who made up a story that Russia was paying Afghans to kill American soldiers.  The neocon handed the lie to an obliging New York Times which never saw a lie unworthy to run with, and that was the end of the withdrawal.

The entirety of the presstitute herd, a passel of anti-Trump Democrats, and the Republican Liz Cheney declared the lie to be confirmed fact.  President Trump was again demonized as a Putin agent for wanting to withdraw the troops instead of holding Putin responsible for the deaths of American soldiers. Moronic Americans actually believed that bounties paid by Putin was the only reason American soldiers had died. Parents of soldiers killed in the Afghan War demanded to know why President Trump was pulling the troops out instead of facing down Putin.

Now that Biden wants to bring the soldiers home, the story has to be adjusted.  The “confirmed fact” has been turned into a report of low confidence for which there is no evidence.

Listen to Tucker Carlson walk you through the story, and if you don’t already, you will understand that the presstitutes, Democrats such as Adam Schiff, and the Republican Liz Cheney are totally unreliable.  Think of all the people these monsters got killed. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-afghanistan-russia-bounties-new-york-times-lies

As I pointed out at the time, the fake news story was nonsensical on its face. The alleged bounty was pointless. The Afghans had been killing invading American soldiers for two decades. It was a war. Why would Russia bother to pay Afghans to do what they had every reason to do and were already doing?

Not even Adam Schiff and the NY Times, CNN, Washington Post, NPR, and the rest of the lie machine that comprises the “media,” could possibly have believed such an absurd story.  They were lying and their target was President Donald Trump.

Isn’t this treason?  Isn’t an electorate insouciant that sends Schiff and Pelosi to represent them?  After the exposure of lie after lie, why do people still read the NY Times, listen to NPR, watch CNN?

It is the American people themselves who are America’s worst enemy.  The United States cannot survive the insouciance of its people.

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

I have some experience with liars.

A major part of their operational utility has very little to do with getting away with something or even with fooling people, but strangely enough it focuses on getting people around them to feel comfortable with lies and to encourage people who are honest to incline towards becoming a liar as well. They are, in an odd way, building a community of others who share their values. If everyone lies, they feel more comfortable with their own duplicity.

The same thing that is happening with obesity- getting people to stop drawing attention to it as mean or harmful (fat shaming) has morphed into encouraging people to celebrate it (body positivity) that finally extols it as something to emulate with Playboy putting a big fat girl on its cover.

I think that’s a big part of why the lies are increasingly more transparent and don’t even need any justification, they want even the most dimwitted to understand that lying is a virtue now and that people who point them out are bad.

Odd world.

Georges S
Georges S

HSF, as mentioned before I was born in France and before I moved to the States, I saw the town turning commie. It was at the last days of Stalinism and the beginning of Kroutchevism (OK I made up the word). There were high praises for the successful USSR.
1990 the failed USSR split and many countries retrieved a Freedom they taught they lost for ever. Ukraine, Poland Lithuania Czech Rep. and Slovakia etc… enjoyed their new found rights to choose to live freely. But then they made the mistake of joining EU and their “fredomicidal” rulings just like in the days of USSR.
When I had to go back to France to care for my ailing mother, I found out the people of town had not changed a bit. Despite the failing of the USSR, they were still commies. Trying to have a conversation about basic economics would end in shouting profanities in my direction (and I’m being kind when I use the word profanities).
Where there some sort of brain freeze?
This area of France has been communist since the 20’s. The towns are financially ruined. Nothing works, Mom & Pop type stores are gone, even regular bakeries are folding.
In Piennes (the town I live in) there are 2 kebabs, 1 pakistanese restaurant (with a subvention from the town), 2 grocery halal stores (also with subventions) , 2 flowers shops next door to the funeral parlor. And yet people continue to vote far left and accept the lies.

Ken31
Ken31

I always suspected the French people welcomed the Germans as liberators from their corrupt politicians and protectors again Bolsheviks. The French as “surrender monkies” proved the stronger lie.

Georges S
Georges S

Actually in 1939, since the nazis were partners with the commies, the main communist union (CGT conferation general du travail) gave orders to all people working in armament factories to sabotage weapons ammunition even military cars trucks and airplanes to make sure Adolf could win. In 39, infantry was using 2 different caliber for their riffles 8mm for their antiquated Lebel and 7,5 mm for the MAS 36. They made sure they send the wrong caliber to each regiment. Some of them changed their mind after June 22 1941 (just in case you didn’t know that was the day Operation Barbarossa started, the German invasion of the Soviet Union)

Ghost
Ghost

Nice.

And true. In a bizarre world where obesity and sloth are celebrated with EBT credits.

Head down, HSF. I sense strange events ahead.

Stucky

Well stated. In other words … misery loves company.

Thersites
Thersites

Vaclav Havel wrote about living the lie in his 1978 “The Power of the Powerless”, it is a very good read. His example was the greengrocer unwittingly collaborating with the state by placing their propaganda signs in his establishment. Along with HSF many have also noticed the lies imposed on us are increasingly more obvious. Certainly these obvious lies are no longer designed to deceive but to degrade, discourage and make use feel powerless.

For now I take instruction from Solzhenitsyn’s “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie”. Look for these lies, the ones we are increasingly forced to accommodate, and find new and inventive ways to circumvent them.

Cricket
Cricket

Until regular people accept that the people who’ve sought power and taken over nearly every institution in our countries are evil and actively trying to ruin our civilization, nothing will change. Nearly all of the institutions that were set up to protect us have been corrupted. The problem is regular people who aren’t evil have a hard time accepting there are evil people in the world who mean to do us harm.

“We know they’re lying, they know they’re lying, they know that we know they’re lying, we also know that they know that we know they’re lying, but they still lie.” Too many regular people just accept this and take no action.

PorkChopSandwiches
PorkChopSandwiches

“The problem is regular people who aren’t evil have a hard time accepting there are evil people in the world who mean to do us harm”

the term for that is “normalcy bias”.

Georges S
Georges S

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Quiet Mike

I see it as a simple mathematical formula. If one American Patriot dies for every two Communists that die then over time, we get our Nation back from those who stole it. CWII is coming. Make The Lord your shield.

Anonymous
Anonymous

NPR = Rockefeller Foundation.

Doesn’t matter what there ratings are.

clayusmcret
clayusmcret

Bin Laden was responsible and the Afghans were protecting him. Our mistake was staying in country after we brought the regime down; roughly ~day 5 if memory serves.

brian
brian

Bin Laden was responsible and the Afghans were protecting him.

Fully agree with you in that the wonderful and profitable invasion of another country under the guise of ‘justice’ could have ended days later. But then it wouldn’t have been a wonderful and profitable adventure, I mean security concern.

And he was found hiding in India… But what the smeg… keep bombing the snot outta Afghanistan just because you can… US security interests you know…

Mygirl....maybe

The Intelligence agencies fund themselves via drugs. Note how American marines are guarding poppy fields. The 9/11 attacks were an inside job, Bin Laden was the convenient scape goat. I won’t go into all the stuff like an odd little NORAD drill that kept the planes from being diverted or removed… anyone with a brain and a soupcon of curiosity can look up those strange anomalies….

Always ask who benefits whenever acts like 9/11 happen. Rumsfeld’s comment about missing trillions plays into the events as did the implementation of the “Patriot Act” and other civil liberty destroying actions.

RIP Mike Ruppert.

Georges S
Georges S

Did he really kill himself or did he get a little help? After all he was going after Dick Cheney (halliburton, enron)

Mygirl....maybe

Bin Laden was a creation of the CIA, and, like Saddam Hussein, was used to create proxy wars to suit American corporate interests. Guadaffi was killed and Libya destroyed so the Central Banks and oil companies could fleece the country. Hussein was the American golden dictator until it came time to grab Iraqi oil. Bin Laden was used against the Soviets in Afghanistan and had nothing to do with 9/11 except as a convenient boogy man and scape goat. Odd how five minutes into the planes hitting the towers the media had his name on their monitors. Do you believe in magic?

Georges S
Georges S

When I found out about the tower, my first reaction was to say: SOB finally did it. Co-workers questioned me, asking me what I meant. I answered quickly: Effing Bush opened the door to WW3. Little did I know that he was planning a global war on the human race.

Mygirl....maybe

The black community is now free to commit any crimes and get off scot free. Murder an Uber driver in cold blood? Probation. It will only get worse going forward. Do not call 911 if you are white…

gilberts
gilberts

I think that’s OK. They can have their fun and games. Eventually, the pendulum will swing the other way and the %12 will be surprised it can happen to them, too. I live in a better area than I used to. I wish my former neighbors all the best luck as they enjoy their diversity. They’re willfully ignorant for now, but I think experience will teach them what emotion and idealism did not.

gilberts
gilberts

It doesn’t matter if it was true. Did it FEEEEEEL True?
The NYT would have been happy to interview a formerly-living US Veteran who was killed by Afghans for Russian prize money if they had thought to invent one. They might even pay the bounty, itself, just to report on how the system works and how we suffer because Trump.

Ken31
Ken31

PCR seems to be believing media lies like how any significant numbers consume and believe media lies. Do they? I don’t know, I can only rely on what the media reports.

Ken31
Ken31

Africans are animals that should be kept on the reservation of Africa. Let the Chinese deal with them, if they think it’s worth it.

Nikki
Nikki

For those too young to know, Dr. Albert Schweitzer dedicated his life to alleviating the suffering of Blacks in Africa. But in his “African Notebook,” he relayed the following warning to White people:

“I have given my life to try to alleviate the sufferings of Africa. There is something that all white men who have lived here like I must learn and know:

That these individuals are a sub-race. They have neither the intellectual, mental, or emotional abilities to equate or to share equally with white men in any function of our civilization. I have given my life to try to bring them the advantages which our civilization must offer, but I have become well aware that we must retain this status: the superior and they the inferior. For whenever a white man seeks to live among them as their equals they will either destroy him or devour him. And they will destroy all of his work. Let white men from anywhere in the world, who would come to Africa, remember that you must continually retain this status; you the master and they the inferior, like children that you would help or teach. Never fraternize with them as equals. Never accept them as your social equals or they will devour you. They will destroy you.”

–Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1951

The U.S. is now reaping what it has sown over the last 55 years of Affirmative Action.

Stucky

Henceforth, I will stop reading any article that uses the word “insouciance “.

For fuksakes, Mr. PCR … just write “INDIFFERENT”!!!

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