Paul Craig Roberts Again Cites Matlock’s Warning: The U.S. Is Provoking Russia to War

Former Reagan Administration official and current national syndicated columnist Paul Craig Roberts pens an unusual, third-consecutive-day column on the war danger, which again, as the day before, cites Executive Intelligence Review’s coverage of former Russian Ambassador Jack Matlock’s Feb. 11 remarks in Washington D.C. This time Roberts cites on Matlock’s speech in his first paragraph.

Roberts’s column, titled, “Washington Has Destroyed Trust Between Nuclear Powers, Thus Raising The Specter Of War,” Roberts says Reagan’s successors have done

“a thorough job of destroying this trust. In the last two years the destruction of trust has been total.”

On February 24, Roberts attacked Alexander J. Motyl and the Council on Foreign Relations’ February 5 publication of a

“large collection of blatant lies… I observed that the publication of ignorant nonsense in what is supposed to be a respectable foreign policy journal indicated the degradation of the Western political and media elite. I did not think things could get any worse, but one day later I came across Andrew S. Weiss’ article in the Wall Street Journal. Weiss’ article is the most amazing collection of misrepresentations imaginable. It is impossible to believe that the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment could possible be so totally misinformed. The false reality that Weiss creates precludes any diplomatic resolution of the conflict that Washington has created with Russia.”

Roberts says it reminds him of the confession of Udo Ulfkotte, an editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the 1960s, that he published under his name articles handed to him by the CIA and that the entire European press does the same. “Was Weiss handed the disinformation by the CIA, or by Victoria Nuland,” or, says Roberts, is he just another of the former NSC, State Department, or DOD “propaganda operatives currently operating out of a think-tank?”