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The West Has Decided It Will Be War

Paul Craig Roberts

Gilbert Doctorow and I have pointed out that Putin’s effort to prevent wider war has caused wider war.  The White House’s cancellation of the meeting of Trump with Putin in Hungary is powerful evidence of Putin’s strategic blunder of pretending that the war the West has declared on Russia was merely a limited military operation in Donbas to rescue the Russian populations there from massacre by the US trained and equipped Ukrainian neo-nazi army. Trump cancelled the meeting, because Putin refused a cease fire that left the root cause of the conflict unaddressed.

The root cause of the conflict is the West’s hostility toward Russia,  The Wolfowitz Doctrine says that the principle goal of US foreign policy is to prevent the rise of any country that could serve as a constraint on American unilateralism,  In addition to Russia and China, declared as American enemies, there is on a regional basis Iran.

Thus, America’s three enemies.

The root cause of the conflict is America’s hegemonic foreign policy ideology.  This together with NATO and US missile bases on Russia’s border creates enormous Russian insecurity.  The solution is to renounce Washington’s hegemonic doctrine and consent to a mutual security agreement that gets NATO off of Russia’s border.

That is not going to happen.  There is no recognition in Western foreign policy of the threat posed to Russia.  Instead the threat is misrepresented as a Russian threat to invade Europe, which is total nonsense.

As facts play no role, no good decision can be made.  That means war, not peace.

The financial markets see the future to be war:

Clearly the US Military/Security Complex Does Not Expect Trump to Deliver Peace.

John Helmer points out that the S&P Aerospace & Defense ETF has risen by more than 50% since Trump took over in January. 

https://x.com/bears_with/status/1981024528152031541 

Neither does the European Military/security complex expect peace.

The STOXX Europe Defence Index for shares of the 10 leading UK, Europe weapons companies has jumped by 121% this year to date.

https://x.com/bears_with/status/1981016213653426590  

The Camp of the Saints

Paul Craig Roberts

Reports, such as these:

Racism Against Indigenous Europeans by their own Governments: The UK Horror Story

https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/racism-against-indigenous-europeans-by-their-own-governments-the-uk-horror-story/ 

How Racism against Whites was legitimized by Marxist Multiculturalism

https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/how-racism-against-whites-was-legitimized-by-marxist-multiculturalism/ 

UK Authoritarian Control: This age will be viewed as the darkest stain on British history, says the Christian activist, Tommy Robinson

https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/uk-authoritarian-control-this-age-will-be-viewed-as-the-darkest-stain-on-british-history-says-the-christian-tommy-robinson/ 

The Downfall of Europe: Former UK PM Liz Truss wants national sovereignty, accountability, restoration of traditional values

https://hannenabintuherland.com/currentaffairs/the-downfall-of-europe-former-uk-pm-liz-truss-wants-national-sovereignty-accountability-restoration-of-traditional-values/ 

continue to pour out of Europe and the UK complaining of the hostility shown by governments against their white citizens. Even a recent British prime minister, Liz Truss, complained about the 30-year coverup by British governments of both parties of mass rapes of white British girls by dark skinned immigrant-invaders who now comprise large populations in a number of British cities and  hold many government positions and peerages.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Muslim_politicians   Liz Truss was quickly ridiculed and driven from office for uttering a truth.

According to the 2021 census, white British people comprise only 36.8% of London’s population, a decline from 44.9% in 2011. This is a substantial decline in 10 years.  If this decline continues, by 2041 London will be emptied of white British nationals.

In Britain and Sweden it can be a hate crime for a white female to complain of rape by an immigrant-invader. If the white female is a child and the parents complain, it is the parents who are threatened with prosecution for a hate crime.  It was this intimidation of whites that enabled the British governments to coverup the mass rape of white British females by immigrant-invaders for three decades.  The British governments that have facilitated massive inflows of immigrant-invaders covered up their crimes in order to protect the open borders policy.

Once the Democrats regain control of the US government, they will resume America’s travel down the same path.

Despite the adverse consequences of uncontrolled immigration, white voters in affluent states, such as California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, New York, and Massachusetts, continue to vote Democrat and to attempt to prevent federal authority from deporting illegal aliens.

Trump is a buffoon in many ways. He is an Israeli puppet and, thereby, a foreign policy disaster, but he is not guilty of permitting immigrant-invaders to have their way with white American females. One might think that women would appreciate this, but American women are overwhelmingly against Trump.

I regard this as further evidence that not enough Americans have sufficient intelligence for the society to survive.  This was Jean Raspail’s conclusion in 1973 about all white ethnicities. Raspail saw 52 years ago that the Western education system and media had created so much white guilt and self-doubt that white ethnicities were incapable of defending themselves.  In the US white heterosexual males have suffered for six decades  from racial discrimination in university admissions, employment, and promotion.  The US Secretary of War recently addressed 800 US generals and admirals in a long speech attempting to eliminate racial discrimination against white heterosexual males in the US military.  Not a single member of the audience clapped. This is the military that  conservatives think is going to save them from the Democrats.

A sixty year old white American male has suffered from racial and gender discrimination all his life.  Still today nothing has been done about the violation of the US Constitution’s prohibition of disparate treatment under law.

Think about it for a minute.  For 60 years it has been legal in the US to discriminate against white heterosexual males in favor of blacks and women. Nothing whatsoever was done about it.

They are supposed to protect us, not rob us.

A Note from PCR about the Situation on the Russian Front

Gilbert Doctorow, who is currently in Russia, reports that Russian life is increasingly disrupted and inconvenienced by drone strikes deep into Russia.  The cost and frustration has resulted in growing percentages of the population losing patience with Putin’s limited and never-ending war.  The dissatisfaction with Putin’s conduct of a war now completing its fourth year is found also among governing elements.  Consequently, Putin has hardened his line with regard to the terms of a settlement with the West.

Once the Trump gang understood that Putin would not agree to a ceasefire in place and that Putin was not going to yield to Trump’s demands, the White House signaled that the Trump-Putin meeting was off for the time being.

John Helmer has reported that a resolution of the conflict, regardless of the terms on which it is resolved, does not suite the war interests that essentially control the decision.  Trump has roped Europe into raising its military spending to 5% of its GDP, an increase that means enormous amounts of money flowing into US weapons purchases generating  massive amounts of commissions on the sales for the government officials involved.  War is too big of a profit generator and wealth creator for involved individuals to permit peace.  Helmer discusses the power of money here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSCtej_3NJQ&list=PLzImU_KHY9-KypTSeXTCTqTPQBBLosMPF&index=5 

The chances that the world is headed to war would be reduced if the American, British, and European foreign policy communities were capable of discussing the factual reality.  Instead, anyone such as Doctorow, Helmer, or myself who presents the reality of the situation is rudely dismissed with ad hominem attacks.  As long as the real facts are prohibited, no good decisions can be made.

See also: https://johnhelmer.net/trump-cancels-premature-ejaculation-explainer/ 

A Note from PCR about the Situation on the Russian Front

Gilbert Doctorow, who is currently in Russia, reports that Russian life is increasingly disrupted and inconvenienced by drone strikes deep into Russia.  The cost and frustration has resulted in growing percentages of the population losing patience with Putin’s limited and never-ending war.  The dissatisfaction with Putin’s conduct of a war now completing its fourth year is found also among governing elements.  Consequently, Putin has hardened his line with regard to the terms of a settlement with the West.

Once the Trump gang understood that Putin would not agree to a ceasefire in place and that Putin was not going to yield to Trump’s demands, the White House signaled that the Trump-Putin meeting was off for the time being.

John Helmer has reported that a resolution of the conflict, regardless of the terms on which it is resolved, does not suite the war interests that essentially control the decision.  Trump has roped Europe into raising its military spending to 5% of its GDP, an increase that means enormous amounts of money flowing into US weapons purchases generating  massive amounts of commissions on the sales for the government officials involved.  War is too big of a profit generator and wealth creator for involved individuals to permit peace.  Helmer discusses the power of money here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSCtej_3NJQ&list=PLzImU_KHY9-KypTSeXTCTqTPQBBLosMPF&index=5 

The chances that the world is headed to war would be reduced if the American, British, and European foreign policy communities were capable of discussing the factual reality.  Instead, anyone such as Doctorow, Helmer, or myself who presents the reality of the situation is rudely dismissed with ad hominem attacks.  As long as the real facts are prohibited, no good decisions can be made.

The Destruction of America Is What the Democrats Stand For

Paul Craig Roberts

The Democrat Party needs to change its name as it certainly isn’t democratic.  The Democrats have shut down the government in order to prevent democracy from working.  By freezing the government, they are trying to prevent the MAGA agenda that the people voted for.  The Democrat’s method of operation is:  When you can’t steal the election, shutdown the government.

By making democracy dysfunctional, the Democrats are bolstering the power of the executive branch.  It is not possible to have a government as large as the one the Democrats have created and prevent it from operating.  The result is to move power to the executive.  

In order to function, democracy requires considerable unity.  If differences are too great, there cannot be compromise.  All of the Western “democracies” have reached that point.  European politics is fragmented.  No party can produce a majority government.  Consequently a coalition of parties has to be assembled whose purpose is to block the “wrong” coalition from governing or, more correctly, attempting to govern.  

In the US, still a two party system, it becomes impossible when one of the parties becomes ideological, as the Democrats have done.  The agenda of the Democrats is to transform the US into a Sodom & Gomorrah Tower of Babel in which all sexual preferences are normal and white racists are replaced by peoples of color.  DEI is how the Democrats symbolize this agenda. They have institutionalized it everywhere, even in science where research funding is provided on a DEI basis and not on the basis of the merit of the proposal.

A revolutionary party becomes insurrectionist, as we are witnessing today with Democrat mayors, city councils, governors, and federal judges resisting the deportation of the immigrant-invaders that the Democrats not only allowed in with their open borders policy but actually organized and financed the invasion with taxpayers’ money. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/10/19/the-no-kings-protest-is-insurrection/ 

The Democrats’ DEI ideology is anti-merit, which means that Democrats support legal privileges based on race, declared gender, and sexual preference.  It is the death of equality under the law and the resurrection of aristocratic privilege, only the privileges go to sexual perverts and darker-skinned peoples from outside the American tradition and mores.  In means the destruction of the country.

PCR and Nima discuss  Trump’s Gaza/Israeli Peace Plan, the Trump/Putin meeting, and Venezuela

We can’t find much hope.

https://www.youtube.com/live/fM7CPaZTar0 

Hungary’s Orban Is the Only European Leader

https://www.rt.com/news/626675-orban-hungary-chosen-putin-trump/ 

Another Non-existent military power issues call to prepare for war with Russia

Sweden cannot even defend its own women from rape by immigrant-invaders.

https://www.rt.com/news/626699-nato-war-mode-sweden/ 

The Idiot German Government Is Destroying Its Own Airline Industry

https://www.rt.com/news/626702-lufthhansa-flight-cuts/ 

Donald Jeffries Explains How Jews Destroyed White Gentile America

https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/black-fatigue-in-a-zionist-world?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=344941&post_id=176647860&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=dx5km&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

I spend too much time watching videos of perpetually angry Black people attacking and assaulting White people. Always easy targets. Usually in gangs. Often starting with a cowardly sucker punch. But you can’t ignore them. They’re everywhere. Earlier this year, the shocking frequency of them triggered what was dubbed Black Fatigue.

Now, I wrote about what I called African American Fatigue Syndrome a few years back. I’m not bitter over the simpler Black Fatigue catching on. We’re talking about the same thing after all. Bluntly stated, those of us who aren’t “African-American” are saddled with a minority group that we cannot help but interact with at times. This group, although only about 12 percent of the population, is a very loud demographic, and their concerns and alleged mistreatment at the hands of the other 88 percent of the people is drummed into our heads continuously by what Donald Trump has christened the Fake News. The rest of us are supposed to be unduly interested in the welfare of these “African-Americans,” even to the extent of prioritizing them over our own families. What, after all, is more important than a young Black man in the “hood?” Stop whining about living paycheck to paycheck, or the fact you aren’t paid enough to save any money. You should be concerned instead about “Reparations.”

Sure, you might have experienced a medical emergency and find it impossible to pay the bill that comes courtesy of our thoroughly evil Medical Industrial Complex. It might have impacted your “quality of life,” to use a favorite term of that same Complex. But what about all those Black children with indecipherable names, who are forced to graduate from high school without ever learning to read? Who can’t perform basic math problems? Of course, we all know that grammar and math are “racist,” but why aren’t you worried about how they can all become “influencers,” rappers, and other kinds of laughable celebrities? As Humphrey Bogart once said, your problems don’t amount to a hill of beans. Not to some resident of a real, genuine “hood.” Where the nights are full of high excitement. Will there be an actual drive-by shooting here? Will some “gangstas” kill other “gangstas” who “disrespected” them? Don’t tell me about your Parkinson’s Disease. Have you ever been really and truly “disrespected?”

The AI photo above reflects a tragic reality; Black males have long been prone to raping White females. Forget To Kill a Mockingbird. Look at the official crime statistics. While Black on White rape is all too common, Whites raping Blacks is so statistically negligible as to be considered nonexistent. Yet, Hollywood always depicts things that way, doesn’t it? Eldridge Cleaver bragged about all the White women he raped in his allegedly best-selling memoir, Soul on Ice. How could a major publisher not publish it? I don’t have to tell you that there are very few former altar boys controlling the major publishers. White women especially ate that stuff up. Accounts of White women being raped. Somehow, that’s cool, as long as the rapists were a particular magical color. Ask the German “activist” who apologized to the migrants who raped her. Or the German girl who was given a longer prison sentence than the migrant rapists for “insulting” them. You’ve come a long way from Hitler, baby.

As I’ve said before, I am fatigued beyond measure by the ghetto mentality. Ghetto issues. Ghetto “fashion.” Ghetto “music.” I have zero tolerance for hearing any more Black people yelling. About anything. Being called “racist” doesn’t bother me in the least. It’s a label that has lost whatever meaning it might have ever had. I think Trotsky invented the term, didn’t he? You know, the former Lev Bronstein from New York. Who became a leading figure in the “Russian” revolution. Wound up with an icepick in the head, Lev did. Now, that’s ghetto. That’s “keeping it real.” I think Lev might have invented the term “anti-Semitism” too. “Anti-Semitism” and “racism” go together. Like a horse and carriage, in the words of the old song. Those words were written by yet another non-Irishman, Sammy Cahn. Old Lev would have been proud. Which brings us to the more important part of the equation. Just who ensures that there is always an endless array of Black complaints? Who promotes this?

I’m sure anyone reading this knows the answer to that. It wasn’t a group of Mormons. Or lesbian Presbyterians. Or one-legged Eskimos. Or transgender Unitarians. If any other group held the kind of power that those who are whole or partially Jewish do, the sleeping Sheeple would at least be aware of it. Because our lapdog press would at least acknowledge it. The lame investigatory process, such as it exists in America 2.0, is controlled by this magical Two Percent of the population. From the FBI to the New York Times, Jewish concerns are front and center. Since the primary concern of powerful American Jews is unquestioned taxpayer support to the parasitic state of Israel, their concerns are most often expressed as Black concerns. It is they who have pushed and promoted Blacks to the exclusion of all others, since the days when some hoaxer with incredible foresight produced the Protocols of Zion. Even got Henry Ford on board. Poor Henry, invented the car and gets labeled a despicable “anti-Semite.”

This marriage of Black and Jew is so prevalent that you have turn off your critical thinking skills not to see it. Who promoted all those Black big band leaders, and then the early rock and rollers? They weren’t Christmas Celebrators, to use comedian Leonarda Joni’s phrase. Of course, there were many Black performers with talent, but that many? Who guided the careers of Black big band leaders like Duke Ellington, and early rock and roll artists like Little Richard and Chuck Berry? After all, weren’t they all being viciously discriminated against in those days? Well, to be fair, those “guiding” their careers did invariably cheat and rob them of their earnings. What were all those White audience members doing, cheering on people who couldn’t stay in the same hotel with? Who wrote all those Brill Building songs of the early 1960s? Carole King? Cynthia Weil? Gerry Goffin? Neil Sedaka? No Irish in that bunch. And they wrote most of those songs for Black artists to perform.

Who produced the slew of Black television comedies in the 1970s? I think Norman Lear is still alive. Ask him if he goes to a synagogue or a church. Why did Lear, and so many other prominent Jews, have such a strong desire to promote Black comedians, Black musicians, and more recently Black politicians? Why didn’t they just promote members of their own tribe as rock and roll stars, etc? Sure, there was half-Jewish Gary Lewis. And David Lee Roth. Dee Snyder. The Beastie Boys. K.I.S.S. Going back to the early days of Hollywood, Jewish performers still were disproportionately represented onscreen, as they absolutely dominated things behind the scenes. Think of all the poor White gentiles, standing there with Fender Stratocaster in hand, waiting for somebody’s nephew named Seymour to “discover” them. Call it “hate.” Call it “anti-Semitism.” It’s undeniable who runs our culture. And that culture, on the surface, has the visage and “style” of ghetto Black people.

Considering how many videos are produced, on a daily basis, of Black people behaving badly, a sane society’s response should be to expose and try to correct this behavior. It’s irrational behavior. It’s uncivilized behavior. And it’s behavior that we don’t see any other group engaging in. Yet this same behavior is perfectly normal for untold numbers of this one particular minority group. Unbelievably conceited and arrogant “self-esteem,” nurtured from childhood by the non-Irish overlords of our culture. Senseless and unearned pride from non-accomplishments. Hyper sensitivity over any perceived slight, colloquially framed as “dissing.” You don’t “dis” a Black person. In spite of their inflated self-worth, they can be deflated by the simplest critique. Well, more often driven to violence by criticism. Or even someone looking at them. Kind of like how Hillary Clinton and other elitists don’t want the commoners to gaze upon them. As with dangerous animals, it’s best not to attract their attention.

So what are we doing here? Why are we accepting the presence of so many tightly wound, ticking time bombs all over the country? Why is it so hard to stand up to them, and demand that they follow the same rules we all are forced to follow? Why do so many White prosecutors continue to permit violent Black offenders to go relatively unpunished for their crimes? And who steered all those anti-White Black prosecutors and mayors into positions of power? The George Soroses? Do I even need to ask the question at this point? So, we essentially have people from that magical Two Percent of the population, rigging things in favor of those from the often obnoxious second largest minority group in America. That’s right; Blacks haven’t even been our largest minority group for quite some time. That honor belongs to Hispanics. And yet you don’t see a single Hispanic weatherman on television. Somebody tell the advertising companies that the other 88 percent of aspiring actors would like to have a chance.

But those ad companies, like the television networks, film studios, record companies, and big social media platforms, are all run by the same intrepid non-Irish. You want to contend that powerful Jews haven’t engineered this absurdly over-the-top obsession with American Blacks? Then explain all those executives, and agents, and managers, who work “for” Black performers. None of them come from the Catholic Legion of Decency. The Dr. Frankensteins who created the angry and aggressive Black personalities that hold so many positions of ground level power today weren’t German mad scientists. Some of them originally came from Germany, but none of them sing Christmas Carols. Our only hope of stopping this madness is in Frankenstein’s monster turning on its creators. That appears to be happening to an increasing extent, as can be seen on so many Black podcasts. Can a scattered bunch of Boris Karloffs of Color do what millions of Americans can’t- hold Black people accountable?

From Martin Luther King to Muhammad Ali, there was always a Jew in close proximity, manipulating the situation. These ridiculous modern Black “stars” don’t install themselves. They’re installed by someone else. Someone with great power, standing in the shadows. Do you want to tell me that someone thought Whoopi Goldberg, for example, was ever funny? That Puff Daddy/P Diddy was talented? I’m working on my book about corruption in sports, and I’ll document how many unworthy Blacks have been elevated in football, basketball, etc. To “star” for teams that largely are owned now by members of that familiar Two Percent. Blacks aren’t elevated by crusading Methodists. They aren’t wildly overrated by those who rejoice at Easter. They are mostly managed by those who have a curious vested interest in their success. By the time he’s Bar Mitzvahed, what does a Jewish boy get out of a disproportionate number of Blacks succeeding in sports and show business?

I’ve written here before about all the high profile Jewish figures who have left scathing anti-White comments on the public record. About wanting us to be exterminated. Kind of ironic, isn’t it? These elitist Jews don’t appear to consider themselves White, which is decidedly odd. But it does explain their zealotry in relentlessly promoting Black figures. It’s almost like the passage in the Protocols of Zion that talked about ensuring that Blacks rise to prominence in all areas, especially sports and entertainment, wasn’t some “anti-Semitic” forgery. That almost sounds like a far-reaching conspiracy. Quick- call your local chapter of the Anti-Defamation League. Get some White fired. Promote some Black. It’s a simple game, really. Whatever you do, don’t demand that Black criminals be punished. Enable them. Emulate them. Indulge them. Even when they openly hate you. Whites will soon be a minority. Applaud on cue. And for goodness’ sake, please don’t have any White babies.

Let’s say some young White guy was playing his country music really, really loud in a public place. Do you think that everyone would just look away, or pretend not to notice? If an irate Asian began throwing things, wrecking some local fast food place, because they were out of hot mustard, do you think the manager would be excessively patient? Or the police when they finally arrived? And yet most Whites are terrified to face this reality. And petrified to state the truth; that however few Blacks are involved, ghetto misbehavior is a huge problem in this country. Without Black crime, what exactly would the U.S. crime rate even be? Sure, the Hollywood studios, run again by those noted non-Irish, would have you believe that Russian gangs rule the mean streets of our big cities. I think too many Whites actually believe this is true. Live in fear of being carjacked by a Russian. But to the nonstop stream of Black crime in those actual cities, they just shrug. And fawn over the Snoop Doggs of the world.

When Blacks play the “Knockout Game” and sucker punch old Asian ladies, it’s because of “White Supremacy.” When an all Black football team underperforms, it’s the fault of the White coaches. Blacks are never at fault. Unless they’re a Kanye West, and talk just a bit too much about how Jews have robbed them. Then they become figurative “White Supremacists” themselves, kind of like Shabbos goys. Blacks enjoy undeserved accolades, but are never accountable for bad acts. And continue to claim victimhood status, even as they harm others. In this, they are mirroring their masters, the collective Dr. Frankensteins. Who are supposedly the scapegoats of the world they appear to largely run. Rules and laws are for the peasants, the goyim. They control the horizontal and the vertical. Somehow, we can’t force them to diversify. If you’re not confronting the truth, you’re part of the problem. Fair is fair. Equality is equality. We have to stop acting like Orwell’s Proles, if we want to truly be free.

Can the Trump-Putin Meeting in Hungary Succeed?

Paul Craig Roberts

The meeting between Trump and Putin in Hungary, assuming the pre-meeting negotiations between the envoys of the two presidents get that far, is likely the last chance for peace instead of war.  An agreement between the two presidents will require large adjustments in position for one or the other or both.

Either Trump would have to understand and accept that the solution is to get NATO off of Russia’s border and agree to a mutual security agreement between Russia and the West, or Putin would have to give up his goal of a mutual security agreement that brings an end to hostility, sanctions, and ceaseless provocations of Russia.  How likely are Trump’s envoys for Ukraine, Gen. Keith Kellogg and Steve Witkoff, and Putin’s envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, to produce that mutual understanding?

It is possible but unlikely.  The envoys on both sides have their own agendas.  They will be working to serve their agendas.  Kirill Dmitriev represents Russian business interests whose contacts are in the West and who have few, if any, with BRICS.

Kellogg has international business interests and will be serving those interests.  Witcoff is a billionaire real estate developer and at times seems to represent Israel.  

None of the three envoys has any comprehension of the depth and danger of Russia’s insecurity with missiles positioned on a long front along Russia’s border.  Dmitriev, like the American enjoys, wants concessions from Putin that will allow Russian business interests to be working with Western ones.  Consequently, they will be working for their interests and not for removing the threat that is Russia’s concern.

Perhaps if American foreign policy commentary focused on the real problem and spent less time demonizing Russia and “exposing” Russian military and economic vulnerabilities, something positive could happen.  But there is no sign of commentary that deals with the real situation.

Simply ending the Ukraine conflict and agreeing that the territory reincorporated into Russia is Russian does not end the security threat presented to Russia from having NATO and US missile bases on Russia’s border.

What is required is a mutual security agreement and the end to all provocations of Russia.  

What Is the Real Reason for Sarkozy’s Prison Sentence?

Paul Craig Roberts

I never cared for former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Nevertheless, I see his conviction for campaign funding irregularities as a payback for something other than the official charge.  I am puzzled by, and have read no explanation of, why the establishment, including Washington, that selected him as France’s president after serving as a mayor for two decades, turned on its candidate.

The official narrative is corruption, a charge that could be applied to most politicians who enter the public arena to serve their careers and fortunes, not to serve a nebulous “public interest.” 

The charge on which Sarkozy was convicted is too commonplace to be taken seriously.  Declared by the presiding judge to be of “exceptional gravity,” it amounts to a promise to help Libya restore its standing in international affairs in exchange for political campaign contributions. It is unclear whether the deal was ever put into operation or is anything more than an alleged plot.

Exchanging political favors for campaign contributions is the way democracy functions.  The US Supreme Court has legalized the right of organized interests to purchase government favors.  We might reason that Sarkozy violated a norm by dealing with foreign interests instead of merely domestic ones.  However, President Trump openly brags about the $148 million that Miriam Adelson, America’s richest Jew, gave to his political campaign, along with 67 million from Paul Singer and $64 million from Michael Bloomberg. In exchange, President Trump diligently attends to Israel’s interest.

As for influence peddling, no charges have been brought against Biden, his son Hunter, or Bill and Hilary Clinton. 

The question before us is what is Sarkozy’s real offense that has caused him a five year prison sentence in solitary confinement?

I sometimes remark on the decline of the West to third world levels where the incoming government prosecutes the outgoing one.  The Democrats did their best to imprison Donald Trump and would have succeeded had he not won reelection.  Now the French have imprisoned a former president on nebulous charges. The tendency to ban or arrest political opponents is becoming characteristic of Western countries.  I see the weaponization of politics as further evidence that the West is in its end days.

The Anti-British-Ethnic Starmer Government Is Using the Illegal Alien Issue to Impose Mandatory Digital ID to Have a Job in the UK

Suddenly Starmer is concerned about immigration as it can serve as the excuse for the introduction of the total police state.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn832y43ql5o 

The Digital Revolution Continues Its Massive and Inevitable Failure

Nothing is secure.  Nothing is reliable. Your identity and everything you have can be stolen.  No one will answer a telephone and will only call back recognizable numbers. Contacting a service provider is a time-consuming, frustrating nightmare.  All stored information is subject to being erased.  AI can create fake evidence against innocent people.  Those who control search engines control information.  Those who provide the data base control AI results.  

https://www.rt.com/news/626704-global-web-outage-aws/ 

The Digital Revolution Was Humanity’s Second Worst Mistake After Nuclear Weapons

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-east-internet-services-outage-654a12ac9aff0bf4b9dc0e22499d92d7 

War Is Israel’s Gift to the World

A new Iran-Israel war is just a matter of time

Actually, the war has never stopped.

https://www.rt.com/news/626554-iran-israel-war-imminent/ 

Israel strikes Gaza – IDF

https://www.rt.com/news/626681-israel-strikes-gaza-idf/ 

On the 10th Day of Trump’s Ceasefire, Satanic Israel Bombed Civilian Neighborhoods, Homes, Schools, and Refugee Camps

Trump should stop making a fool of himself and America

https://israelpalestinenews.org/why-did-israel-bombard-gaza-on-sunday-killing-45-this-is-a-ceasefire-day-10/ 

Israeli security minister calls for return to war in Gaza

As predicted.

The only purpose of Trump’s phony “peace plan” was to deceive Hamas into releasing the Israeli hostages.  Hamas got nothing out of the deal

https://www.rt.com/news/626679-gaza-israel-minister-resume-operation/