Paul Craig Roberts Interview: Israel, Middle East, Ukraine, Russia, US Foreign Policy
by Health Ranger Report starting at 1:13:00 [12-1-2023 published].
(This is one of the most informative discussions I've seen that helps understand how we got from the end of WW2 to the present messes in the world that could easily turn into a fatal nuclear war if we aren't careful. Unfortunately, the policies of the United States have placed us in a very weak position against Russia & China, although our government would like you to think otherwise.
Since WW2, the United States has tried to use economic sanctions & wars to control other countries and tried to project that we are the only super power. Listen to Dr. Roberts explain the ramifications about this policy. Carefully note that we didn't bring down the Soviet Union. President Reagan wanted to end the dangerous Cold War, yet it was internal strife that collapsed the Soviet Union. President Boris Yeltsin was considered a puppet of the United States. We continued with our wars in the Middle East and weren't paying attention when Vladimir Putin became President of Russia.
In 2007, President Putin announced at the Munich Security Conference that the unipolar status of the United States had ended, which took the West by surprise. Russia really wanted to get along with the rest of the world, yet the United States wasn't willing to accept this. Putin is a statesman and is not interested in ruling the world.
The Paul Wolfowitz Doctrine was formulated that essentially said that no one was to be allowed to challenge the superiority of the United States on the world stage. Economic sanctions and all necessary other means would be used against those whom we thought could be a challenge. Of course, Russia & China have been in our crosshairs ever since.
When Putin entered Ukraine in February 2022, his intent was to protect the Russian areas and to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO. He was not interested in taking over all of Ukraine. Ever since 2014, the West had been arming Ukraine to fight a proxy war against Russia. Remember the Wolfowitz Doctrine.
The West & Ukraine have completely lost the fight in Ukraine, yet they are still living in fantasy land. The Russian economy is stronger now than before 2022 and the Russian military has the most advanced weapons & is probably the most capable in the world at this time. Both NATO & the United States are in a weak position relative to Russia at this point. Unfortunately, this only leaves the nuclear option if we want to start a direct war with Russia. This is the real threat.
In addition, the US $dollar is fast losing its status as the world's reserve currency. It is unlikely that this can be salvaged at this point.
Listen carefully to this very informative interview to better understand what is really happening. As both Mike Adams & Dr. Paul Craig Roberts point out at the end, it is hard to find knowledgeable people today who have studied the history leading up to where we are and are willing to tell the truth. — RAD)
- UAE abandoning dollar for oil trades and financial landscape shifts.
- US foreign policy in the Middle East and Ukraine.
- Geopolitical events and potential miscalculations.
- US-Israel relations and media decentralization.
- US foreign policy and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
- Geopolitics and economic sanctions.
- Russia's economic and military strength.
- US-European relations and geopolitics.
- Geopolitics and media censorship.
Resources
Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy
Paul Craig Roberts has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy.
Scholarship & Academia
Dr. Roberts has held academic appointments at Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of New Mexico, Stanford University where he was Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, George Mason University where he had a joint appointment as professor of economics and professor of business administration, and Georgetown University where he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Cardoza Law Review, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance.
He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, The National Interest, Policy Review, National Review, The Independent Review, Harper’s, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, London Times, The Financial Times, TLS, The Spectator, The International Economy, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.
Journalism
Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States.
Public Service
President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Business
Dr. Roberts was president of the Inlet Beach Water Company, president of Economic & Communication Services, advisor to J.P. Morgan asset management, advisor to Tiedemann-Goodnow, advisor to Lazard Freres Asset Management, and a member of corporate and financial boards.
Books
Dr. Roberts’ latest books are The Empire of Lies, The Neoconservative Threat To World Order, How America Was Lost, and The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism. These books have had English, German, French, Czech, Chinese, Korean editions and a forthcoming Russian edition of How America Was Lost. In January, 2010, CounterPunch /AK Press published How the Economy Was Lost. The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with IPE Fellow Lawrence Stratton, was published by Prima Publishing in May 2000. A new edition, now in a second printing, was published by Crown Publishing Group, a division of Randon House, in 2008. Chile: Two Visions—The Allende-Pinochet Era, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen Araujo, was published in Spanish by Universidad Nacional Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile, in November 2000. The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen LaFollette Araujo, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997. A Spanish language edition was published by Oxford in 1999. The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy, co-authored with IPE Fellow Lawrence Stratton, was published by Regnery in 1995. A paperback edition was published in 1997. Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy, co-authored with IPE Fellow Karen LaFollette, was published by the Cato Institute in 1990. Harvard University Press published Roberts’ book, The Supply-Side Revolution, in 1984. Widely reviewed and favorably received, the book was praised by Forbes as “a timely masterpiece that will have real impact on economic thinking in the years ahead.” Dr. Roberts is the author of Alienation and the Soviet Economy, published in 1971 and republished in 1990. He is coauthor with Matthew Stephenson of Marx’s Theory of Exchange, Alienation and Crisis, published in 1973 by the Hoover Institution Press and republished in 1983 by Praeger Publishing. A Spanish language edition was published in 1974 in Madrid by Union Editorial.
Honors
Dr. Roberts was awarded the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award for “his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic policy.”
In 1987 the French government recognized him as “the artisan of a renewal in economic science and policy after half a century of state interventionism” and inducted him into the Legion of Honor.
In 2015 he was awarded the Press Club of Mexico’s International Journalism Award.
He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. In 2017 Dr. Roberts was awarded Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award: https://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/paul-craig-roberts-iii-named-alifetime-achiever-by-marquis-whos-who-440127.php