April 27, 2017 at 11:18 am

Written by James Holbrooks

Promising legislators that the U.S. would be ready to defend allies in the region “with the best technology” the military has to offer, Harris said the North Korean leader — who has ordered multiple missile tests of late, creating an international stir — will attack American cities as soon as he can.

Despite the United States’ innocent intentions in Asia, however — the military hardware is there to bring Kim “to his senses, not to his knees,” says Harris — the admiral also reminded Congress that a first-strike move against North Korea is still a possibility.

“As [US President Donald] Trump and [Defense Secretary James] Mattis have said, all options are on the table,” Harris said.

Indeed, Harris seems to think it will, in fact, come to that.

“I don’t share your confidence that North Korea is not going to attack South Korea, Japan, or the United States…once they have the capability,” he told Congress.

As to that fancy technology the admiral referred to, some of it is currently upsetting a lot of South Koreans. From a Reuters report on Wednesday:

“The U.S. military moved parts of an anti-missile defense system to a deployment site in South Korea Wednesday amid heightened tensions over North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs, triggering protests from villagers and China.”

Like the situation in Japan, many South Koreans feel the U.S. presence in their country only exacerbates regional tensions. To them, the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system could potentially be viewed as an act of aggression.

Strangely, Harris also actually admitted to Congress that the military buildup in East Asia is overkill and that the carrier strike group currently making its way to the Korean Peninsula is far more powerful than anything Kim Jong-un could throw at it.

“The weapons that North Korea would put against the Carl Vinson strike group are easily defended by the capabilities resident in that strike group,” Harris said.

Getting lyrical, the admiral reassured Congress of U.S. military might.

“If it flies it will die, if it’s flying against the Carl Vinson strike group,” he said, referring to North Korean missiles.

Still, Harris insists, the threat is significant enough that the U.S. actually needs more firepower in the Pacific.

“The United States may need to strengthen its missile defense, particularly in Hawaii,” Reuters writes, “given the advancing threat from North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs, the top U.S. commander in the Pacific told Congress Wednesday.”

According to the U.S. military, the initial deployments of the THAAD system in South Korea will be operational within days, just about the time the Carl Vinson strike group is scheduled to arrive at the peninsula.

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April 28, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – Not everyone likes to hear about the threat of nuclear war. Some find refuge in denial and say that nuclear war is impossible because it makes no sense. Unfortunately, humankind has a long record of doing things that make no sense.

In previous posts in recent years I have pointed out both written documents and changes in US war doctrine that indicate that Washington is preparing a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia and China. More recently, I have shown that Washington’s demonization of Russia and President Putin, the incessant lies about Russian deeds and intentions, and the refusal of Washington to cooperate with Russia on any issue have convinced the Russian government that Washington is preparing the Western populations for an attack on Russia. It is obvious that China has come to the same conclusion.

It is extremely dangerous to all of mankind for Washington to convince two nuclear powers that Washington is preparing a preemptive nuclear strike against them. It is impossible to imagine a more reckless and irresponsible act. Yet this is precisely what Washington has done.

Lt. Gen. Viktor Poznikhir, Deputy Head of Operations of the Russian General Staff has concluded that Washington in pursuit of global hegemony is implementing an anti-ballistic missile system that Washington believes can prevent a Russian nuclear response to a US pre-emptive attack. http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/04/us-forces-preparing-sudden-nuclear.html

Careful studies have convinced the Russians that Washington is investing in and arranging components that have no other function than to devastate Russia and cripple the country’s retaliatory capability. In short, Washington is preparing to launch a nuclear war. https://www.rt.com/news/386276-us-missile-shield-russia-strike/

As I explained previously, the theory behind this insane scheme is that after America’s preemptive strike Russia will be so devastated that Russia would not retaliate with any remaining forces out of fear that Washington would launch a second major strike. Washington also plans to use agents in place to assassinate as many members as possible of the Russian government, thus leaving the government in confusion without leadership.

Yes, the insane American/Israeli neoconservatives are this determined to exercise hegemony over the world.

Yes, Washington is sufficiently criminally insane to risk the destruction of life on earth based on the supposition that Washington’s offense will work perfectly and Russia and China’s capabilities will be so degraded that no retaliatory response will occur.

One might hope that the American and Western populations would be outraged that Washington is so power-crazed that Washington is subjecting all life to such risks. But there is no sign of an anti-war movement. The Western leftwing has degenerated into Identity Politics in which the only threat comes from white heterosexual males who are portrayed as misogynists, racists, and homophopes. The Western leftwing is no longer war-conscious. Indeed, the leftwing has become diverted into such silly irrelevancies as transgender rights to toilets of their choice. The impotence of the Western left is so overwhelming that the left might as well not exist.

Where then is the hope? Russia and China cannot simply sit there and await America’s preemptive nuclear strike.

Possibly Washington does not intend a preemptive strike, but only to convince Russia and China that Washington’s preparations give Washington so much predominance in a conflict that Russia and China will submit to Washington’s hegemony. But this interpretation of Washington’s intention implies no less risk. Why would Russia and China wait for Washington to complete its preparations for war, preparations that permit Washington to turn Russia and China into puppet states?

The US military/security complex has clearly prevailed over Trump’s intention to normalize relations between the US and Russia, and anti-Russian venom continues to pour out of NATO and Washington’s European vassal states. The majority of the American people seem to have accepted the propaganda that Russia is the number one threat to the United States. With propaganda controlling the explanation, Washington’s aggressive actions are explained as defense against a threat and not as a policy that will end life on earth.

The chances are high that life on earth is approaching its end. The responsibility lies heavily on the American people, whose success, due to the mistakes of others, made Americans think that they are exceptional and privileged. Unaware of the inhumane threat to all life that is embodied in the neoconservative claim that Americans are exceptional and indispensable, the self-satisfied American public is unaware of the consequences of such hubris. Hubris is leading them, and the entire world, to slaughter in thermo-nuclear war.

The neoconservative claim of American exceptionalism is the identical claim made for Germans by Hitler. If Americans are indispensable, everyone else is dispensable and can be “bombed into the stone age” as one US government official put it, or nuked as Washington intends to do to Russia and China. The claim of American exceptionalism is not accepted by Russia and China. Therefore, the insane, crazed monsters who rule over the West in Washington are bringing life on earth to an end.

And there are no protests. The idiot British, the idiot Germans, the idiot French, Italians, Canadians, Australians, Belgians, Greeks, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, rally behind the insanity that is Washington.

And so apparently do the American people, a population stupid beyond all belief.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.

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* ‘Kernproeven’, althans zoals de reguliere westerse pers en westerse politici in navolging van de VS en de bluf van de Noord-Koreanen, deze proeven noemen. Vreemd genoeg werd er na geen Noord-Koreaanse ondergrondse kernproef, radioactieve straling gemeten, iets dat normaal wel te meten is na een ondergrondse kernproef. M.a.w. de Noord-Koreanen brengen een enorme hoeveelheid springstof tot ontploffing, zoveel dat deze eenzelfde ‘aardbeving’ teweeg brengt, als die door een ondergrondse kernproef opgewekt…….

Zie ook: ‘Noord-Korea: VS negeert de waarschuwing van China niet door te gaan, met voorgenomen militaire oefening tegen N-K…….‘