Paul Craig Roberts
The governments of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, if their
countries are to survive, must give up their deluded hopes of reaching
agreements with the United States. No such possibility exists on terms
that the countries can accept.
American foreign policy rests on threat and force. It is guided by
the neoconservative doctrine of US hegemony, a doctrine that is
inconsistent with accepting the sovereignty of other countries. The
only way that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea can reach an
agreement with Washington is to become vassals like the UK, all of
Europe, Canada, Japan, and Australia.
The Russians—especially the naive Atlanticist Integrationists—should
take note of the extreme hostility, indeed, to the point of insanity,
directed at the Helsinki meeting across the entirety of the American
political, media, and intellectual scene. Putin is incorrect that
US-Russian relations are being held hostage to an internal US political
struggle between the two parties. The Republicans are just as insane
and just as hostile to President Trump’s effort to improve
American-Russian relations as the Democrats, as Donald Jeffries reminds
us.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/07/donald-jeffries/the-trump-putin-conference/
