Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

The insouciance of the Western world is extraordinary.

It is not only Americans who permit themselves to be brainwashed by CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the New York Times and Washington Post, but also their counterparts in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, who  rely on the war propaganda machine that poses as a media.

The Western &ldquo leaders,&rdquo that is, the puppets on the end of the strings pulled by the powerful private interest groups and the Deep State, are just as insouciant.

Trump and his counterparts in the American Empire must be unaware that they are provoking war with Russia and China, or else they are psychopaths.

A new White House Fool has replaced the old fool.  The New Fool has sent his Secretary of State to Russia. For what? To deliver an ultimatum? To make more false accusations? To apologize for the lies?

Consider the audacity of Secretary of State Tillerson. He has spent the week prior to his visit to Moscow supporting incredible lies and false allegations that Assad of Syria used chemical weapons with Russia&rsquo s permission, which justified Washington&rsquo s unambigious war crime of a military attack on a country with which the US has not declared war. Less than 100 days in office, and Trump is already a war criminal along with the rest of his warmonger government.

The entire world knows this, but no one says it.  Instead, Tillerson, who has been heavy with lies and threats has the confidence to go to Moscow to tell the Russians that they have to hand over Assad to the American Uni-Power.

Tillerson&rsquo s mission demonstrates the complete, total unreality of the world in which Washington lives. Try to imagine Tillerson&rsquo s arrogance. If you had been bad-mouthing and threatening strong, important people, would you feel comfortable going over to their house to have dinner with them? Does Tillerson think that now that Russia has largely freed Syrtia of US-supported ISIS, Russia is going to turn Syria over to Washington?

Is he going to tell Lavrov that he didn&rsquo t really mean all those nasty lies he told about Russia, but the zionist neoconservatives made him do it? That he is not really in charge, just a tool of the Anglo-Zionist Empire?

Is Tillerson going to apologize for White House press secretary Sean Spicer&rsquo s statement that Assad, Russia&rsquo s ally, is more evil than Hitler? 

Maybe Tillerson is going to ask for asylum and get on the winning side.

Stephen Cohen, one of the few remaining Americans knowledgeable about Russia, told the two CNN presstitutes and the warmonger Col. Leighton, one of the &ldquo experts&rdquo that the presstitutes roll out to pronounce the propaganda against Russia, that Russia was preparing for hot war. It seems to have gone over the heads of the CNN presstitutes and colonel.  Whose payroll are they on?

The Russian leaders, who, unlike the Western liars, speak the truth, have said clearly that Russia will never again fight a war on her own territory.  The Russians couldn&rsquo t put it more clearly. Provoke a war, and we will destroy you on your own territory.

When you watch the president and government in Washington, the European governments, especially the idiots in London, the Canadian and Australian governments, you can only marvel at the total stupidity of &ldquo Western leadership.&rdquo   They are begging for the end of the world.

And the presstitutes are at work driving toward the end of life. Huge numbers of Western peoples are being prepared for their demise, and they are protected from the realization by their insouciance.

Washington is so arrogant and lost in its own hubris,  that Washington does not understand that the years of clear as crystal lies about Russia and Russian intentions and deeds have convinced Russia that Washington is preparing the populations of the United States and Washington&rsquo s captive peoples in West and East Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan for a US pre-emptive nuclear strike against Russia. Published US war plans against China have convinced China of the same.

If not for war, what else is the change in US war doctrine for? George W. Bush abandoned the stabilizing role of nuclear weapons by moving them from a retaliatory function to a nuclear first strike. Then he pulled out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty concluded by President Richard Nixon. Now we have US missile sites positioned on Russia&rsquo s borders. We tell the Russians the lie that the missiles are to prevent an Iranian nuclear ICBM strike against Europe. This lie is told, and accepted by the puppets in Europe, despite the known, incontestable fact that Iran has neither nukes nor ICBMs. But the Russians do not accept it. They know it is another Washington lie.

When Russia hears these flagrant, blatant, obvious lies, Russia understands that Washington intends a preemptive nuclear attack on Russia.

China has reached the same conclusion.

So, here is the situation.  Two countries with nuclear forces expect that the insane fools who rule the West are going to attack them with nuclear weapons. What are Russia and China doing? Are they begging for mercy?

No. They are preparing to destroy the evil West, a collection of liars and war criminals, the like of which the world has never previously experienced.

It is the US, the washed-up joke of a &ldquo uni-power&rdquo that after 16 years is still unable to defeat a few thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan, that needs to ask for mercy.

The reckless and irresponsible war talk in the US government and presstitute media and among NATO and Washington&rsquo s vassals must stop immediately. Life is in the balance.

Putin has shown amazing patience with Washington&rsquo s lies and provocations, but he cannot risk Russia by trusting Washington, whom no one can trust. Not the American people, not the Russian people, not any people.

By  jumping on the Deep State&rsquo s propaganda wagon  the liberal/progressive/left is complicit in the march toward Armageddon.

 

For the rich and famous among us, the endgame has been relatively clear for a long time: according to the surge in ultra luxury " bunkers for billionaires" being built, the way all this ends is nothing short of a whole lot of mushroom clouds around the globe, with the world' s wealthiest hoping to protect themselves in deep underground bunkers designed for just such an eventuality. That these bunkers are also  ultra luxurious and extremely expensive  is just the status symbol today' s billionaires are eager to show as they carry humanity' s survival " to the other side."


Interior bedroom of bunker


Bunker swimming pool and garden using artificial lighting


Underground bunker wine cellar

But who said that doomsday bunkers have to be unaffordable for the common man?

As  CBS reports, while the Trump administration&rsquo s increased military strikes might cause fear for some people, for one North Texas man, it means big bucks. Nora Holloway of Dallas is one of those folks who is concerned about the state of the world. So, citing the recent bombings in Syria, Afghanistan and the growing tension with North Korea, Holloway posted online to see if anyone wanted to &ldquo go in&rdquo on an underground bunker. 

&ldquo I&rsquo m in no position to buy one,&rdquo said Holloway. &ldquo However, I think that for a lot of people that is a serious concern and a lot of people have done so and will be doing so.&rdquo

They have indeed, and with doomsday bunkers  no longer only confined to the 0.01%, it means Trump' s recent foreign policy overtures have led to a bonanza for bunker builders " for the rest of us."

&ldquo If I took 30 people and I worked 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, I still wouldn&rsquo t be caught up right now,&rdquo said Clyde Scott of  Rising S Bunkers in Murchison, Texas. Scott said there is around a three-month backlog for one of his subterranean shelters.

&ldquo They don&rsquo t really call me and ask me about the price or colors,&rdquo said Scott. &ldquo They say how fast can they get it.&rdquo

The list is only growing with each bomb dropped and threat levied. &ldquo You should have got it 6 months ago,&rdquo said Scott. &ldquo You shouldn&rsquo t wait until the threat, until the fuse is lit on the rocket.&rdquo

To be sure, unlike the ultraluxury  bunkers discussed previously, these are at best Spartan, but at least they are affordable to most people. The most basic model is 100 square feet of protection that is installed for around $45,000. Scott said the most common is a 500 square-foot model for a family of four that runs for around $120,000.

The bunkers have all the amenities of home, are solar powered and surrounded by 100 percent steel. Scott said only an imagination and wallet stand in the way.

&ldquo Doomsday crazy person, &lsquo prepper&rsquo that&rsquo s all kind of nutty that people make them out to be&hellip they don&rsquo t have $3.5 million to by a 5,500 square-foot bunker. Right?&rdquo   questioned Scott.

While all of his clients are kept confidential, Scott said everyone from star athletes, Forbes 500 CEOs and maybe even an unsuspecting next door neighbor is investing underground without anyone noticing. &ldquo I&rsquo ve sold to billionaires and I&rsquo ve sold to average Joes,&rdquo said Scott. Holloway said she does not have the money but can at least dream.

&ldquo It would prepare people, myself specifically for what could and very well may happen in the future,&rdquo said Holloway.

A list of models can be found  here. The most expensive model being offered is &ldquo The Aristocrat.&rdquo For $8.3 million, the model comes with a pool, bowling alley and gun range.

Some examples:

ECONOMY SURVIVAL SHELTERS, 8 X12 &ndash MINI BUNKER &ndash $39,500



 

STANDARD SURVIVAL SHELTERS, 10× 20-BASE MODEL &ndash UNDERGROUND BUNKER &ndash $58,500



 

FREEDOM SERIES, 10× 50 &ndash FREEDOM SERIES, UNDERGROUND BUNKER &ndash THE HOMESTEADER &ndash $159,000



 

ADMIRAL SERIES, 20× 50 &ndash ADMIRAL SERIES &ndash UNDERGROUND BUNKER &ndash $288,000



XTREME SERIES, 2500SQFT &ndash XTREME SERIES - UNDERGROUND BUNKER &ndash   THE GUARDIAN &ndash $679,000



 

XTREME SERIES (BUNKER COMPLEX) UNDERGROUND BUNKER &ndash &ldquo THE FORTRESS&rdquo &ndash $1,009,999



 

 

 

&ldquo THE PRESIDENTIAL&rdquo LUXURY BUNKER: $4,200,000



 

 

 

&ldquo THE ARISTOCRAT&rdquo LUXURY BUNKER &ldquo THE ARISTOCRAT&rdquo &ndash $8,350,000



And while it hardly needs it considering the niche audience, here is the marketing material one creates to sell a $8 million bunker.