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US seeks to provoke war with China, Russia: Analyst

Friday, 27 May 2016 4:52 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 27 May 2016 4:52 PM ]

US President Barack Obama (C) arrives late to participate in a Group of Seven (G7) Working Session in Shima, Japan, on May 27, 2016, during the G7 Summit. (AFP photo)

Press TV has interviewed Mike Billington, from the Executive Intelligence Review in Leesburg, about a Group of Seven agreement on the South China Sea dispute.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: Using the G7 as a forum to blast China about that, I am sure China is saying how low can you go?

Billington: I agree. It is obviously absurd. China is not part of the G7 and Russia is no longer part of the G7, and this is clearly part of Obama’s effort to provoke a military confrontation with Russia and China over entirely other reasons having to do with the emergence of Russia and China as an alternative world financial and development policy to the collapsing Western financial system.

Obama is dangerous. There is no question in this. He is capable of provoking a war. He even said in his NHK interview when asked if he would apologize for the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he said ‘No, absolutely not. I as a war leader have learned that you have to make such decisions occasionally.’ In other words openly declaring he is capable and ready to deploy nuclear weapons if he finds it feasible.

So it is dangerous but it is important to note that he is in fact a fake, as far as being a military leader, he has been drastically outflanked by Putin and by Xi Jinping not only in the Middle East but also now in Asia.

Abe has formed an extremely close collaborative relationship with Putin in Russia on development. He has moved towards increasing his relationships, improving his relations, with China and just today there is a meeting of the defense ministers of China and the ASEAN countries going on in Laos, at which the Chinese Defense Minister Chang Wanquan said very clearly that the idea of freedom of navigation is a totally fake issue of false proposition that there are over a hundred thousand ships that go through the South China Sea year by year.

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