Ex-Reagan Official Warns: N-War Future Is Likely, China And Russia Won't Accept US Hegemony

The rise of the key nuclear-armed countries, Russia and China, will be blocked by the White House. Both of them will not join the "world's acceptance of Washington's hegemony," says head of the Institute for Political Economy, Paul Craig Roberts, according to rt.

Paul Craig is the ex-US assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. He explained in a blog that at present China is "confronted with the Pivot to Asia and the construction of new US naval and air bases to ensure Washington's control of the South China Sea, now defined as an area of American National Interests."

Moreover, the US commitment to hold back Russia is the reason "for the crisis that Washington has created in Ukraine and for its use as anti-Russian propaganda."

Having written multiple books on American policy, Paul Craig said that US "aggression and blatant propaganda have convinced Russia and China that Washington intends war, and this realization has drawn the two countries into a strategic alliance."

He is sure that neither Russia nor China will accept the so-called "vassalage status accepted by the UK, Germany, France and the rest of Europe, Canada, Japan and Australia." The political analyst pointed out that the "price of world peace is the world's acceptance of Washington's hegemony."

"On the foreign policy front, the hubris and arrogance of America's self-image as the 'exceptional, indispensable' country with hegemonic rights over other countries means that the world is primed for war," Roberts writes.

Painting a dark warning, he said that "unless the dollar and with it US power collapses or Europe finds the courage to break with Washington and to pursue an independent foreign policy, saying good-bye to NATO, nuclear war is our likely future."

Russia's commemoration of the May 9 Victory Day celebration was a "historical turning point," according to Roberts. He said that many western politicians refused to attend the 70th anniversary of the Nazi Germany, yet "the Chinese were there in their place." China's president sat next to President Putin in the military parade on Red Square, Moscow.

In a recent survey of over 3,000 people in France, Germany and the UK, it was found that surprisingly as little as 13 percent of Europeans know the role of the Soviet Army while liberating Europe from Nazism. Most of those surveyed---almost 43 percent, are convinced that the US Army played a major role.

"Russian casualties compared to the combined casualties of the US, UK, and France make it completely clear that it was Russia that defeated Hitler," Roberts pointed out. He added that "in the Orwellian West, the latest rewriting of history leaves out of the story the Red Army's destruction of the Wehrmacht."

Dr Roberts added that the US president mentioned only US forces while celebrating the 70th anniversary of the victory, but President Putin in contrast "expressed gratitude to 'the peoples of Great Britain, France and the United States of America for their contribution to the victory.'"

America, along with its vassals, "do not hear when Russia says 'don't push us this hard, we are not your enemy. We want to be your partners.'"

While Moscow and Beijing have "finally realized that their choice is vassalage or war," Washington "made the mistake that could be fateful for humanity," according to Dr Roberts.