The Roman republic began its descent into empire as victorious generals – starting
with one Julius Caesar – returned to claim the fruits of their victories, their
final conquest being the republic itself. “Crossing the Rubicon” has today become
a phrase meaning an event that cannot be undone, usually of ominous portent,
and surely this applies to the machinations of one General Philip Breedlove,
former Supreme Commander of NATO.
Revealed by hackers who broke into his email accounts,
Breedlove’s plot to start World War III with Russia recalls the recklessness
of Dr. Strangelove in a movie
of the same name – except this isn’t a movie, it’s reality.
Coordinating with sympathetic retired military personnel, such as Wesley Clark,
former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Harlan Ullman, a top official of
the Atlantic Council, the idea was – as Ullman put it – to “leverage, cajole,
convince or coerce the U.S. to react” to an alleged Russian threat in Europe.
Another academic contact, one Phillip Karber, head of the neoconservative Potomac
Foundation, was involved in disseminating a crude forgery supposed to have depicted
Russian tanks in Ukraine. Naturally, the Washington Free Beacon fell
for it, as did Sen. James Inhofe. Confirmation bias is pandemic in these
circles.
Breedlove has himself been at the center of
similar hoaxes, claiming that tens of thousands of Russian troops are present
in Ukraine, armed to the teeth with the latest advanced weaponry: this was an
outright lie, as the German intelligence agency, the BND, pointed out.
Another retired general in this network, Wesley Clark, acted as an intermediary
between Washington officials and the Kiev regime: he lobbied the Obama administration
through neoconservative Victoria Nuland to send advanced offensive weaponry
to Ukraine. Gen. Clark,, you’ll recall, tried to start World War III by ordering
an attack on a Russian military contingent in Pristina during the Kosovo war,
and was prevented from doing so by the British refusal
to go along with it.
Testifying
before Congress, Breedlove directly contradicted both the administration and
our NATO allies, declaring that Russia was getting ready to invade Ukraine with
a force of 80,000 troops. The Ukrainian regime took up the cry, with President
Poroshenko declaring martial law – a ready excuse to shut down his political
opponents and institute conscription – and demanding that the West come to his
aid. Of course, there was no such invasion, but that didn’t matter – the propaganda
blitz, with the help of the Russophobic “liberal” media, had accomplished its
purpose of establishing the Russian Threat. Cold War II was launched.
Speaking of the media, the more “liberal” precincts of the Fourth Estate have
been ablaze with calls to arms against the…