US risks war with China and Russia - World War III - Pt 1/2 - 04-25-2011.

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While revolts in Tunisia and Egypt caught the US by surprise there is speculation that they are behind revolts in Libya and Syria. Russia and China are also see observing these developments.


Press TV talks with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant secretary to US Treasury in Panama City who concisely provides insight as to the larger scope of American hegemonic strategy that seriously risks Russian and Chinese interests.

Press TV: There is talk about Washington being advised to arm the revolutionaries in Libya. Do you think this is a good idea?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: They are already arming them. That is what's unique about the Libyan revolt. It's not a peaceful revolt; it's not taking place in the capital; it's an armed revolt from the eastern part of the country. And we know that the CIA is involved on the ground and so they are already armed.

Press TV: How do you compare this military intervention to the one in Bahrain?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: We don't want to overthrow the government in Bahrain or in Saudi Arabia where both governments are using violence against protesters because they're our puppets and we have a large naval base in Bahrain.

We want to overthrow Gaddafi and Assad in Syria because we want to clear China and Russia out of the Mediterranean. China has massive energy investments in eastern Libya and is relying on Libya along with Angola and Nigeria for energy needs. This is an American effort to deny resources to China just as Washington and London denied resources to the Japanese in the 1930s.

The interest in the Syria protests, which Wikileaks shows the Americans are behind -- we are interested in that because the Russians have a large naval base in Syria and it gives them a presence in the Mediterranean. So you see that Washington is all for invading against Libya and is putting more and more pressure to intervene in Syria because we want to get rid of the Russians and the Chinese.

We don't have anything to say about the Saudis -- how they treat protesters or anything to say about the violence used against protesters in Bahrain.

Press TV: Are you saying the ultimate goal in attacking Libya is because of the oil factor?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: It's not just the oil, it's the fact of China's penetration of Africa and China lining up oil supplies for its energy needs. You may be aware that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released a report that says that the 'Age of America' is over and that the American economy will be bypassed by China in five years and then the US will become the second largest economy rather than first. So one of the things Washington is trying to do is to block; to use its superior military and strategic capabilities at this time to block China's acquisition of resources in order to make the development of the Chinese economy slow down.

This is a major reason why the CIA has been active in eastern Libya and it's the reason protests broke out in the east not in the capital like in the other Arab countries and it's the reasons it's armed.

Press TV: Do you think Libya's diplomatic isolation was the main reason for this military intervention?

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: I don't think it was the main reason. The main reason I think was to evict China from Libya, which is what is happening. The Chinese had 30,000 people there and they've had to evacuate 29,000 of them.

It's also payback to Gaddafi for refusing to join the US Africa Command (AfriComm). It became operative in 2008 and was the American response to China's penetration of Africa; we created a military response to that and Gaddafi refused to participate -- he said it was an act of imperialism trying to purchase an entire continent.

And I think the third reason is that Gaddafi in Libya controls an important part of the Mediterranean coast; as does Syria.

So I think those two countries are just in the way of American hegemony in the Mediterranean and certainly the Americans don't want a powerful Russian fleet stationed there and they certainly don't want China drawing energy resources.

Washington was caught off guard by the outbreaks of protests in Tunisia and Egypt, but quickly learned that they could use and hide behind Arab protests to evict Russia and China without a direct confrontation, they wouldn't want that, so they've engineered these protests.

We know for a fact that the CIA has been stirring discord in eastern Libya for some time, this is a known fact. And the release of Wikileaks cables show that the Americans are involved in stirring up unrest in Syria.

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[youraposer1]

AMERICANS ARE THE REAL TERRORISTS. BUT DONT TELL THAT TO THE AMERICANS, OH NO THEY DONT LIKE THAT.

[rambo753]

the US and Israhell are the only terrorist nations

[maioccotaco112]

@youraposer1 Uh do you ever see us crash in building's?

[KowBoySpace]

@starmanskye your cynicism and anti establishment mentality lets you down gravely. You also insult those nations that you claim they were so easily agitated and that they do not blame "us" must be because they were what? too stupid to realise?. World war 1 was triggered by a Bosnian Serb, you think everything was hunky dory down there? They have been struggling with internal fair representation since 1918. But sure, BP and the west caused it. Like everything else..

[starmanskye]

@KowBoySpace -- Turns out before the 92-95 conflict AMOCO & BP both knew of surveys indicating a large oil & gas reserve under Bosnia w/ min. 500 million tonnes that may be on the scale of Saudi Arabia. But equal if not greater motive for US/UN dismantling Yugoslavia was to sabotage the embarrassing example of popular & successful socialism. US, Israel & Germany colluded in provoking ethnic unrest, provoking economic instability that fomented civil conflict which CIA leveraged, funded & incited.

[starmanskye]

@youraposer1 -- Hey, a lot of Americans despise the hard-rightwing turn US has made over the last 50+ yrs. I agree, US has been world's leading exporter of violence following the end of WW II. US public only supports these overt & covert actions to the extent they are cleverly propagandized to be seen as righteous & necessary -- but more & more Americans are realizing their gov. has been hijacked & coopted by MIC-embedded corporatocracy imposing neoliberal serfdom & waging wars for Imperialism.

[somotastic21]

@asrafoo what do you gain from not minding your own business retard

[1969AmericanMuscle]

Russia has enough materials to make over 80K ICBMs

[asrafoo]

the doc always says hegenomy lol

[asrafoo]

@somotastic21 what do you gain from picking on things like that? if you don't have any smart thing to say, shut up! his caps lock might be on but you display your stupidity in capital letters.

[somotastic21]

@youraposer1 your caps lock is on dumbass american hater

[samcan1980]

@RyanBrooksby OMG, I can't believe you pulled that one out! It's a well known fact that Iraq tried invading Iran and got repelled back. What book you been reading? If someone tries slapping you and you slap them by blocking their attack, that doesn't make you the aggressor, does it? I talk to people to improve my intellect. not regress it! Good day, sir!