Is US Creating Shield Against Potential Nuclear Retaliation From Russia, China?
SputnikNews.com
06.05.2017
There is a striking resemblance between the previous demonization of Iran and the ongoing media fuss over the North Korean crisis, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts wrote on his blog, suggesting that both episodes are smokescreens for deploying the US’ anti-ballistic missile systems in close proximity to Russia and China.
Although Pyongyang has been recently presented as the main source of the crisis in the Korean peninsula, it appears that there is yet another player behind the escalation of tensions in the region.
“The North Korean ‘crisis’ is a Washington orchestration,” Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, American economist, author and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under President Ronald Reagan, writes on his blog.
Regardless of its image of a troublemaker North Korea has not attacked or invaded anyone in the last 64 years, he noted, adding that Pyongyang lacks the military strength to attack either South Korea or Japan — the US’ longstanding allies in the region.
“Moreover, China would not permit North Korea to start a war,” he remarked.
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