Paul Craig Roberts see’s but falls into a cognitive trap due to his profound misunderstanding of Globalism. In a sense he is the mirror image of the Patriot who blames Russia and China but never the US government. Mr. Roberts remains unaware of a higher organization ordering the makeup of governments of putative nation states. He can see U.S. interference and he readily grasps this government was installed almost like that of the Ukraine in a color revolution. He will not accept that the U.S. deep state is not of the United States but has hirelings who are - Joe Biden among many others both in government and outside. For this reason his analysis is deeply flawed. He cannot bring himself to recognize Putin barks like a doggie because he is following orders. He does not recognize there was no “Fall”of communism only communism reborn. He ignores Cibulka. He ignores Golitsyn. I think his misunderstanding of this truth that Globalism and Communism are the same coin is a failure. I think it undercuts his analysis. For instance he refuses to ask WHY? “Just as the Israelis are annihilating Gaza, Western leaders are setting up the Western world for the same.”
://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/06/06/normalizing-war-with-russia/
I do not think Mr. Roberts has any handle on this idea—even after Obama, even after Trump or Biden. https://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/04/the-clenched-fist-revisiting-golitsyns-predictions/
The feigned disunity of the communist world promotes real disunity in the noncommunist world…. False alignments, formed with third parties by each side against the other, make it easier to achieve specific communist goals, such as the acquisition of advanced technology or the negotiation of arms control agreements or communist penetration of Arab and African states. In Western eyes the military, political, economic, and ideological threat from world communism appears diminished. [1]
Communist strategy has long used the tactic of “controlled opposition” to deceive and lull their enemies into complacency. The purpose of “false opposition” is to further confuse and undermine any genuine opposition in the communist world. Vladimir I. Lenin best summed up the dialectical strategy of controlled opposition by stating, “The best way for us to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.
A reviewer of the Perestroika Deception - second book by Golitsyn-also unread by Mr. Roberts-writes-We clearly discern the fraudulent collapse of the USSR by (1) the continued existence of thousands of statues to the anathema Lenin standing proudly throughout Russia; (2) the continued existence of anathema Soviet iconography; and (3) post USSR electorates electing back into power Soviet era Communist Party member Quislings. With a liberalization' ruse there would be no problems with the continued existence of such Soviet themed artifacts and electing into power Communist Party members, but with a 'liberalization resulting in a collapse' ruse those Soviet artifacts and elections are tell tale signs proving that the collapse of the USSR is a strategic ruse. Under Golitsyn's original understanding, as presented in New Lies for Old, the USSR was to only 'liberalize', after which the continued existence of Soviet themed artifacts and the election of Communist Party members would be normal. Not normal, however, if the USSR had collapsed. Indeed, the fact that not one political party in the West voiced a need to verify the collapse of the USSR would have also alerted Golitsyn that the political parties of the West were co-opted by Marxists, since the survival of the West depends on verification.
In The Perestroika Deception Golitsyn doesn't discuss what he knows concerning the Marxist co-option of the West (the book is a mere collection of memorandum the author submitted to the CIA between 1973 and October 1995), which is where this researcher fills in the gaps. The following succinct proof proves the Marxist co-option of the West...
The West never verified the collapse of the USSR because no collapse occurred, since if a real collapse had occurred the West would have verified it, since the survival of the West depends on verification. Conversely, this proves that the political parties of the West were co-opted by Marxists long before the fraudulent collapse of the USSR, since the survival of the West depends on verification.
In fact, the 'freed' Soviets and West also never (1) de-Communized the Soviet Armed Forces of its Communist Party officer corps, which was 90% officered by Communist Party members; and (2) arrested/de-mobilized the 5-6 million vigilantes that assisted the Soviet Union's Ministry of the Interior and police control the populations of the larger cities during the period of Perestroika (1986-1991). Due to New Lies for Old, the USSR was (1) forced to alter its strategy; which (2a) allows one to empirically verify the fraudulent collapse of the USSR; thereby (2b) also allowing one to empirically verify the Marxist infiltration of the West's political parties and institutions.
The above means that the so-called ‘War on Terror’ is an operation being carried out by the Marxist co-opted governments of the West in alliance with the USSR and other Communist nations, the purpose being to (1) destroy the prominence of the West in the eyes of the world, where the West is seen (i) invading nations without cause; (ii) causing chaos around the globe; and (iii) killing over one-million civilians and boasting of torture; (2) close off non-Russian supplies of oil for export, thereby increasing the price of oil, the higher price allowing oil exporting Russia to maintain economic stability while she modernizes and increases her military forces; (3) destroy the United States Armed Forces via the never-ending ‘War on Terror’; the ultimate purpose of the aforementioned to (4) bring about the demise of the United States in the world, opening up a political void to be filled by a new pan-national entity composed of Europe and Russia (replacing the European Union), a union ‘From the Atlantic to Vladivostok’; which will (5) see the end of NATO.
The West never verified the collapse of the USSR because no collapse occurred, since if a real collapse had occurred the West would have verified it, since the survival of the West depends on verification. Conversely, this proves that the political parties of the West were co-opted by Marxists long before the fraudulent collapse of the USSR, since the survival of the West depends on verification.
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It seems that the Soviet Union collapsed in the sense that Russia lost control of Poland, Ukraine (if temporarily), etc. But, yes, whether or not the system of government, the control and ideology of Russia, really changed, is a different issue?
https://substack.com/@stegiel/note/c-58299160?utm_source=activity_item