{"id":353929,"date":"2018-03-26T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/washington-has-declared-hegemony-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T13:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:23:48","slug":"washington-has-declared-hegemony-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/washington-has-declared-hegemony-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Has Declared Hegemony &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Stephen Lendman (below) that the Russian government\u2019s efforts to deal with the West on the basis of evidence and law are futile. \u00a0There is only one Western foreign policy and it is Washington\u2019s. \u00a0Washington\u2019s \u201cdiplomacy\u201d consists only of lies and force. \u00a0It was a reasonable decision for Russia to attempt diplomatic engagement with the West on the basis of facts, evidence, and law, but it has been to no avail. \u00a0For Russia to continue on this failed course is risky, not only to Russia but to the entire world.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, nothing is more dangerous to the world than Russia\u2019s self-delusion about \u201cWestern partners.\u201d \u00a0Russia only has Western enemies. These enemies intend to remove the constraint that Russia (and China) place on Washington\u2019s unilateralism. The various incidents staged by the West, such as the Skirpal poisoning, Syrian use of chemical weapons, Malaysian airliner, and false charges, such as Russian invasion of Ukraine, are part of the West\u2019s determined intent to isolate Russia, deny her any influence, and prepare the insouciant Western populations for conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid war Russia should turn her back, but not her eyes, on the West, stop responding to false charges, evict all Western embassies and every other kind of presence including Western investment, and focus on relations with China and the East. \u00a0Russia\u2019s attempt to pursue mutual interests with the West only results in more orchestrated incidents. The Russian government\u2019s failure to complete the liberation of Syria has given Washington Syrian territory from which to renew the conflict. \u00a0The failure to accept Luhansk and Donetsk into Russia has provided Washington with the opportunity to arm and train the Ukrainian army and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/paul-craig-roberts\/washington-has-declared-hegemony-or-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree with Stephen Lendman (below) that the Russian government\u2019s efforts to deal with the West on the basis of evidence and law are futile. \u00a0There is only one Western foreign policy and it is Washington\u2019s. \u00a0Washington\u2019s \u201cdiplomacy\u201d consists only of lies and force. \u00a0It was a reasonable decision for Russia to attempt diplomatic engagement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}