John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY JUSTIN RAIMONDO IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“The New Cold War Flops, The American People Are Not Buying
“Poll shows anti-Russia campaign had little effect”
Justin Raimondo, as he has shown in other articles, often just does not "get it.”
It simply does not matter whether the American public embraces the power establishment’s disinformation efforts.
There is almost no connection between what average Americans want and believe and what Washington does.
And this has been true for a very long time.Did the public want the holocaust in Vietnam or a list of other horrors?
They are simply dragged along for the ride when Washington is determined to do something. They have nowhere to turn with their votes even. Republican or Democrat, the results in terms of war and empire will be the same.
The United States’ power establishment doesn't care what anyone thinks anymore when it wants to do something. Oh, I’m sure they’d rather the public “bought in,” but whether they do or not simply is not a “deal breaker.”
Washington ignores the UN. It ignores international law. It ignores many traditions and norms. Oh, it will offer up some excuse, some flimsy excuse for what it is doing, but, in the end, it doesn't matter what the American public believes, any more than it matters what the other 95% of humanity represented by the UN believes.
The American public is virtually uninformed about what goes on abroad anyway. Their press and government representatives work hard towards that end. And the truth is the American public is largely uninterested. Bored with foreigners and even knee-jerk hostile to many. So many people also are just trying to keep body and soul together in the changed economic realities of contemporary America. They have no time to be concerned about what goes on “out there.” America’s establishment actually counts on such realities in its imperial calculations.
The only time America's public ever gets really worked up over such matters is when Americans die in considerable numbers. Foreigners, who cares? But America has arranged its foreign dirty work so that numbers of Americans do not die.
The numbers at a certain point during Vietnam began to generate something like the national divisions of the American Civil War. Through many mechanisms, that has never been allowed to happen again.
Look at the dirty work in Syria. We know, right now, a new phony gas attack is being planned around Idlib. There is significant intelligence on the matter. And it is only a set-up for a new round of bombing Syria, a country with which America is not legally at war and a country where it has no business having any forces without permission.
John Bolton's ugly public threat about even more devastating bombing if chemical weapons are used again – “again,” entirely begging the question of whether such weapons had ever been used by the government, with virtually all indicators saying they had not - serves as a public invitation to the paid mercenaries in al-Nusra and such affiliates as the phony humanitarians of the White Helmets, to get on with the job of generating a needed provocation.
And will even one newspaper or network in America question the fraud? Or question the excessive response?
And what will it matter if the public supports it or not? They know absolutely nothing anyway about what goes on in Syria and America's big, long-term role in it on behalf of Israel and others, including Saudi Arabia, to work towards destroying a legitimate government and cripple a beautiful country.
