August 10, 2025
Paul Roberts wrote:
This needed to be said.
By Chuck Baldwin Comment by PCR: I am worried that in his meeting with Putin Trump will blow up as he often does, and the die will be cast. There is a lot of hope placed on the Trump-Putin meeting, No one seems to realize the danger. Where others see hope, I see danger.
This meeting has aspects of a set-up. If Trump wants peace, why did he just deploy more Ohio class submarines closer to Russia? Why did he just return the intermediate-range missiles, which Reagan had removed, to Europe? What does it mean when the US director of plans for strategic command says, “We’re ready to have a nuclear war with Russia, and we’re going to win.”
If Trump wants peace, why did he raise the nuclear threat to Russia? Is this Trump’s practice of bluffing them into submission? As A.J.P. Taylor shows in his histories of both World Wars, bluffs produce wars.
Trump bemoans all the people being killed in Ukraine, but he does nothing to stop the killing in Palestine. Let’s pray he doesn’t convince Putin that there is no security for Russia.
Has Trump renounced Washington’s hegemony? No. He asserted it:
“I rule America and the world.”
Has Trump ceased to serve the profits and power of the US military/security complex? No. He has just completed a deal with Europe to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American weapons for Ukraine. Will the purchases take place and the profits be realized if peace is achieved?
Can peace prevail over the American doctrine of hegemony and the power and profit of the US military/security complex?
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/08/09/in-the-year-2025/
