Abandoning sanity, our millionaire war profiteering congress
voted overwhelmingly for punitive sanctions against Russia that will plunge the
European Union into deep recession while supporting acts of terror against
Russia. President Donald Trump needs to
use this umpteenth month-long congressional vacation to clean house and drain
the swamp.
First to go should be our lunatic UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley
America’s shameful embarrassment at the UN.
Her actions at the UN are not only anti-Russia, they are
anti-American. This insane Russia-phobia
must end before the world is destroyed.
From Activist Post:
Excerpt:
U.S. Blocks Security Council Resolution Condemning Terror Attacks On
Russian Embassy
In a telling display, the United States has actually blocked a U.N.
Security Council resolution that would have condemned the July shelling of the Russian embassy in Damascus by
terrorist forces.
Terrorists launched a series of
mortar attacks on the Russian embassy on July 24 and 25 of this year. Although
terrorists have attacked the Russian embassy in the past, the recent attacks came during the backdrop of international peace
talks and negotiations that heavily involved Russia as a key player…
Regardless, the U.S. refusal to even agree to condemn terrorist attacks on the
Russian embassy is extremely telling, signaling to the world that the U.S.
or at least certain elements within the governing structure, have yet to give
up on the attempt to not only destroy
Syria but Russia as well…
“Alas, despite our partners’
statements of viewing anti-terrorism struggle as their priority, they
repeatedly try to protect those who they probably think may be useful in their devastating geopolitical plans
regarding Syria. It’s high time they demonstrated their commitment to a
political settlement of the Syrian conflict by words, not deeds and tried to
join forces in counteracting terrorism,” he added.
Haley’s latest and most dangerous actions at the UN come
after our war profiteering congress passed the most hideous, uncalled for
sanctions against Russia that have shocked and angered the world. The sanctions endanger Americans and their
interests around the world and have our “allies” ready to jump ship lest they
be taken down with us. America’s
politicians’ actions are designed to hamstring our President’s agenda of peace
and prosperity. From Vox:
Excerpt:
Congress has handcuffed Donald Trump on Russia
Nothing unites the parties like
mistrust of the president.
Congress has handcuffed Donald
Trump on Russia. On Thursday night,
sanctions legislation targeting Russia soared through the Senate by a margin of
98-2 just days after it coasted through the House of Representatives 419-3.
So it’s official: One of the first
major pieces of bipartisan legislation to pass Congress during Trump’s presidency has been explicitly
designed to sharply limit his powers.
The bill takes Obama-era sanctions against Russia that are in place
under executive orders — that is, directives that only the president has
authority to enact and rescind — and officially
enshrines them in the law. It also establishes a new congressional review
process that would allow Congress to
block the White House from taking steps to ease sanctions if it wanted to.
And it imposes a fresh batch of sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Trump now faces an awkward dilemma:
veto the legislation and endure the humiliation
of seeing Congress — controlled by his own party — override him with ease,
as lawmakers in both parties have pledged to do. Or sign the legislation and
endure the humiliation of agreeing to a bill that his administration lobbied
against in its bid to cling to a key bargaining chip in negotiations with
Russia.
Trump wanted to keep sanctions
under his control as he angles to turn things around in the rapidly souring
US-Russian relationship. Moscow despises US sanctions, and their removal would be central to any kind of major reset between the
two countries.
Could it be any clearer that America’s war-profiteering
millionaire congress will never allow peace to return to the world? As long as they continue to reap millions in
profits while in and out of congress every American is in grave danger. It appears the American voters are not their
constituents, the terrorists are. Drain
this swamp, now.
America’s allies are outraged by the betrayal and bullying
by our war-profiteering millionaire congress and are lashing out. From LaRouchepub:
Excerpt:
EU Angry at U.S. Russia Sanctions, Demands White House Response
July 24, 2017 (EIRNS)—European
Commission (EC) president Jean-Claude
Juncker is warning the Trump administration that the EC will respond sharply to
the imposition of new U.S. sanctions on Russia if these are adopted
"without EU concerns being taken into account."
Among the responses said to be
under consideration according to Politico, is the EU "Blocking Statute," a regulation stating that no
decision based on extraterritorial U.S. laws is enforceable in the EU. This
is the same principle China has asserted in defending its sovereign interests.
Both the Financial Times and
Politico obtained a copy of an internal memo which Juncker has reportedly
prepared for a July 26 meeting of the EC, expressing concern about the effects
of sanctions on European companies "doing
legitimate business under EU measures with Russian entities in the railways,
financial, shipping or mining sectors, among others." The bill that
the U.S. House will vote on tomorrow imposes individual sanctions for investing
in Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, the Caspian Sea oil and gas
pipelines, Ukraine gas transit and the Zohr field off the Egyptian coast.
Yep, that’s what the sanctions are about selling US gas at
higher prices in the EU. And who do you
think will profit off of that? Why our
war-profiteering congress, that’s who.
From Geopolitics.
Excerpt:
Is the US Congress Engaged in A Controlled Demolition of the US?
When you have nothing else to
offer, offer nothing by playing the sanction card – this seems to be the
formula that is persistently used by the Deep State-controlled US Congress. The
problem is: the rest of the world can
survive without depending on the US economy. If that’s the case, then why
are the US legislators behaving in such a way, if not to destroy America
itself?
So the American bully wants to slap
more sanctions on Russia over alleged misdeeds. This is blatant temper tantrums by a frustrated US trying to get “its
way or no way”.
It’s so absurd. The biggest rogue nation on Earth,
illegally bombing and killing civilians in several countries simultaneously,
covertly arming terrorist proxies in the Middle East, and a rampant subversive
interferer in foreign elections around the world, has the audacity to
lecture others about probity, resorting to financial arm twisting that makes a
mockery of international laws and trade rules…
Russia’s deputy foreign minister
Sergey Ryabkov deplored the latest move to tighten punitive measures on the
country’s energy, banking and defense sectors, among others. He said it was a calculated step to destroy any
prospect of normalizing ties between the US and Russia…
Germany’s foreign ministry sharply
criticized America of undermining European energy security and using sanctions
as “a tool to advance US industrial interests”. It’s not Russia being sanctioned so much as America sanctioning its own allies…
The bankrupt US – morally, politically, economically – has nothing
worthwhile to offer the world. Its so-called leadership is a lost cause.
Attempting to engage with this parasitic wreckage is only a drain on resources.
Few sane people – apart from US
politicians and media pundits – would welcome a further deterioration in relations between the world’s two nuclear
superpowers. And truth be told, Moscow has up to now shown great patience
and amenability to try to improve bilateral ties. But the US political class
has shown no interest whatsoever in pursuing any reconciliation. It’s like it has a death-wish.
American lawmakers endorsing the
latest sanctions were almost foaming at
the mouth, labelling Russia an enemy and citing unhinged accusations against
Moscow for meddling in last year’s presidential elections, also for
destabilizing Ukraine and, wait for it, “propping up the Assad regime in Syria”
– the country where the American CIA has
been propping up head-chopping jihadist terrorists for the past six years.
A sign of the impending American
political self-destruction is the furious reaction from Europe over the latest
sanctions. The Europeans are at last
waking up to the fact – long overdue – that Washington is acting brazenly
for its own selfish interests and is prepared to inflict pain on Europe, if
needs be.
Ah yes, our war-profiteering congress has really shot itself
in the foot this time, but the bullet ricocheted and lodged into its head. The EU and Russia have had it. From Paul Craig Roberts:
A Ray of Hope
America has been a discouraging
landscape ever since the neoconservatives took over US foreign policy during the
Clinton regime and started the two decades of war crimes that define 21st
century America and ever since US
corporations betrayed the US work force by moving American jobs to Asia.
The outlook became darker when the Obama regime resurrected the Russian
Threat and elevated the prospect of military conflict between the nuclear
powers.
As Europe is caught in the middle,
in normal circumstances European countries would have insisted that Washington
cease the gratuitous provocations of Russia. But normal circumstances have not existed. Since the end of WW2,
European countries have been vassals without independent economic and foreign
policies.
Europe hosts US military bases that threaten Russia. Europe has
backed Washington’s wars of aggression against Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Libya, Syria, Washington’s air attacks on provinces of Pakistan, and
Washington’s use of Saudi Arabia to fight its proxie war against Yemen.
Europe has backed Washington’s
gratuitous economic sanctions against Iran and Russia, sanctions that have cost Europe much and Washington little.
Accustomed to having its way with
Europe, Washington commits Europe without even consulting the vassal
governments. Now it seems Washington’s
extraordinary arrogance and hubris has resulted in overreach…
Europe views the sanctions as a
tool of US industrial policy that
elevates US business interests over Europe’s business interests. Let’s hope that Washington’s arrogance
will not permit Washington to back down and that Europe will give Washington the finger and disengage from the American
Empire.
Without Europe to host its military bases and to parrot its propaganda,
Washington’s ability to threaten Russia would significantly decline. Indeed, a
continuation of the hostile threatening attitude toward Russia would leave Washington isolated in the world. No
country wants the risk of experiencing nuclear war merely for the sake of
Washington’s unilateralism.
Last night the war-profiteering U.S. Senate passed the
sanctions bill and it was sent to President Trump. Today Russia has responded. From Stephen Lendman:
Excerpt:
Moscow Retaliates Against New US Sanctions
Russia’s move was modest, having no effect on bilateral relations. Washington was ordered to reduce embassy
and consular staff in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok to
455 people by September 1 – equaling the number of Russian diplomats and staff
in America.
Its southern Moscow warehouses and
Serebryany Bor property were frozen,
access by US personnel suspended as of August 1. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
Putin approved the moves. A Russian Foreign Ministry statement said “(i)n the
case of new unilateral actions of the US authorities to reduce the number of
our diplomats in the US, it will be
followed by a tit-for-tat response…”
“The US makes decisions on illegal sanctions against the Russian
Federation, seizes Russian diplomatic property, which is formalized in legally
binding bilateral documents, Russian diplomats are expelled from the
country.”
“This clearly violates the Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Relations and generally accepted diplomatic
practice…” Washington unacceptably acts
aggressively toward Russia. “(U)nder the guise of its ‘exceptionalism,’ (it)
arrogantly ignores other countries’ stances and interests.”
US ambassador to Russia John Teft expressed strong disappointment
over the Kremlim’s order to reduce Trump administration personnel in the
country, along with freezing American property.
Perhaps he should reflect on how outrageously his country treats others
– no matter which wing of its one-party state is in charge…
Russian academic Nikolai Platoshkin
suggested a harsher Kremlin response to new US sanctions if they’re enacted. Congress excluded bilateral cooperation on
space-related activities. The Countering America’s Adversaries Through
Sanctions Act does not apply to Russian cooperation with NASA. Platoshkin suggested “cut(ting) them off from
space. May they take a horse,” he said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Sergei Ryabkov explained nothing is
being ruled out “to bring overweening Russophobes to their senses…”
Putin has kept the door open for bilateral talks between
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Trump. President Donald Trump needs to use this month-long
war-profiteering congressional vacation to clean house and drain the
swamp. He must clean house and
fast. He made a smart move with his new
Director of Communications Scaramucci now it’s time to act and act fast.
Breaking news! Trump has begun draining the swamp. First to go Chief of Staff Reince
Priebus. From The Hill:
Excerpt:
Trump fires Priebus as chief of staff
President Trump has dismissed
Reince Priebus as chief of staff, announcing Friday that he has picked Homeland
Security Secretary John Kelly as his new top aide.
Reince Priebus is a
great start, now the heavy duty pumps must be fired up and let the great swamp
draining begin. Drain the swamp, President Trump, drain the
swamp of war profiteering, anti-American swamp monsters in your administration and
bring in American-interests-first replacements.
A good start would be Ron Paul as Secretary of State, Tulsi Gabbard as
UN Ambassador and Dennis Kucinich as Ambassador to Russia. God speed, drain the swamp.
By Patricia Baeten
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