By A. Shaw
In the first half of the interview, the The Saker give Roberts answers and Roberts provides questions to the answer.
The Saker’s answers are mostly questions that Roberts have discussed for many years.
The gist of The Saker’s answers is about the institutions, groups, and individuals in bourgeois society who chiefly exercise state power.
In the first half, Roberts explains who runs and doesn’t run the USA.
The second half is less structured by The Saker . The Saker asks questions and Roberts raps in response like a master theoretician or, at least, a very heavy dude.
Roberts casually steps on thin ice that many of us are afraid to walk on.
“Today NATO provides cover for US aggression and provides mercenary forces for the American Empire,”  Roberts says.
Today, US imperialists privatize [i.e.,mercenaries] their aggression.
Britain, Canada, Australia, are simply US vassal states just as are Germany, France, Italy, Japan and the rest.  There are no partners; just vassals.  It is Washington’s empire, no one else’s.
Yeah, US imperialists are insanely jealous and greedy.
Roberts says “I have never seen any evidence that the US controls Israel.  All the evidence is that Israel controls the US, but only its Mid East policy.  In recent years, Israel or the Israel Lobby, has been able to control or block academic appointments in the US and tenure for professors considered to be critics of Israel.  Israel has successfully reached into both Catholic and State universities to block tenure and appointments.  Israel can also block some presidential appointments and has vast influence over the print and TV media.  The Israel Lobby also has plenty of money for political campaign funds and never fails to unseat US Representatives and Senators considered critical of Israel.”
If we combine Roberts last two comments, it follows that Israel is neither a partner nor a vassal of US bourgeoisie. The preceding comment implies that Israel bosses the US bourgeoisie.
“I think Washington is lost in hubris and arrogance and 
is more or less insane,” Roberts says.
Roberts is deadly serious when he call Washington “more or less insane.”
“The only way a presidential election could matter would be if the elected president had behind him a strong movement.  Without a movement, the president has no independent power and no one to appoint who will do his bidding.  Presidents are captives,” Roberts says, perhaps this is his most important comment in the whole interview..
The insane rulers in Washington HAVE behind them a strong movement, call it extreme conservatives, neo-conservatives, crackpot reactionaries, or, better still, utter rottenness, this strong movement behind the nuts in Washington exists. About a third of the US people support this strong movement and these insane rulers in Washington. The remaining two-thirds of the US people don’t believe that the strong movement exists or one third of the people supports it.
The people, in their totality, are no longer partners; they are now mere vassals of the insane in Washington.
The Saker asks “Do you have any hope that the US military could step in and stop the “crazies” currently in power in the White House and Congress?”
“The US military is totally corrupt,” Robert replies.
In Washington, we have the insane and the totally corrupt. We are lucky to be alive with these asses in power.
“As far as I can tell from my many media interviews with the Russian media, there is no Russian awareness of the Wolfowitz Doctrine [an insane and utterly degenerate type of imperialism]. Russians think that there is some kind of misunderstanding about Russian intentions.  The Russian media does not understand that Russia is unacceptable, because Russia is not a US vassal. Russians believe all the Western bullshit about “freedom and democracy” and believe that they are short on both but making progress.  In other words, Russians have no idea that they are targeted for destruction,” Roberts says.
Yes, the poor Russians fall for the “freedom and democracy” shit and fantasize they are partners of US imperialists. This fantasy is their death warrant.
“If the Russians and Chinese do not expect a pre-emptive nuclear attack from Washington, they will be destroyed,” Roberts warns.
The rotten one-third of the US people will not only accept a billion human fatalities, this rotten sector will wildly welcome a billion pre-emptive fatalities as God’s greatest blessing ever.
Don’t doubt for one second that this scum is planning a billion-person massacre.