veteranstoday--2020-04-28--A Government against the people

A Government against the people

by Phil Giraldi , with The Unz Review [ Editor ’ s Note : Phil touches on one of the key election issues of our day , and that is Trump ’ s presidential style of his requiring first a loyalty to him , where the country and the Constitution come somewhere else down the line .
Similar to a Mafia Don , all of his capos have to swear fealty under the penalty of being thrown out the door and executed in public opinion with the usual Trump kiss off we have seen so many times .
To Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the biggest actually .
His Unipolar Shtick mob just a mob turf war .
He never really caught on to what public service was about , other than maybe something for schmucks to get excited about .
It ’ s just not in his DNA .
After all , this is a man who showed his family pride during his campaign by bragging about his successful father having once managed “ sportin ’ ladies ” in his early years .
A naive segment of the American public took it as a joke @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the history of his “ sporting teenage girls for years ” with pal Jeffrey Epstein , which some suspect may have contributed to Epstein ’ s death to prevent him from telling tales to get a reduced sentence .
But as Phil notes , Trump has now gone after the inspectors general , the people who historically have had enjoyed wide latitude in hunting down government misdeeds wherever they could be found .
Trump has preempted them from making any problems for his re-election by giving them the boot first .
The public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new President in November .
It will also be voting against what we have had , a presidency not of the people , only Trump loyalists , and not for the people if it conflicted with the Trump gang ’ s personal interests .
Is the country smart enough to realize how much more damage could be done with another four years with an “ acting President ” , also known as President Tweet ?
As for the Trump team , all I can say is never have some many owed so little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ market went way up .
It was pumped up by the record low interest rates so there was nowhere else to invest money .
And then the corporate dons used their big tax breaks to run their stocks up even more , laughing all the way to the bank , and of course they will be bankrolling his campaign… Jim W. Dean ] Jim 's Editor ’ s Notes are solely crowdfunded via PayPal Jim 's work includes research , field trips , Heritage TV Legacy archiving & more .
Thanks for helping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 24/7 intensified media coverage of the coronavirus story has meant that other news has either been ignored or relegated to the back pages , never to be seen again .
The Middle East has been on a boil but coverage of the Trump administration ’ s latest moves against Iran has been so insignificant as to be invisible .
Meanwhile closer to home , the declaration by the ubiquitous Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that current president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro is a drug trafficker did generate somewhat of a ripple , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to intercept the alleged drugs , but that story also died .
Of more interest perhaps is the tale of the continued purge of government officials , referred to as “ draining the swamp , ” by President Donald Trump as it could conceivably have long-term impact on how policy is shaped in Washington .
Prior to the virus partial lockdown , some of the impending shakeup within the intelligence community ( IC ) and Pentagon were commented on in the media , but developments since that time have been less reported , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To be sure , Trump has good reason to hate the intelligence and national security community , which utterly rejected his candidacy and plotted to destroy both his campaign and , even after he was elected , his presidency .
Whether one argues that what took place was due to a “ Deep state ” or Establishment conspiracy or rather just based on personal ambition by key players , the reality was that a number of top officials seem to have forgotten the oaths they swore to the constitution when it came to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may , beyond the musical chairs that have characterized the senior level appointments in the first three years of the Trump administration , there has been a concerted effort to remove “ disloyal ” members of the intelligence community , with disloyal generally being the label applied to holdovers from the Bush and Obama administrations .
The February appointment of U.S .
Ambassador to Germany Richard “ Ric ” Grenell as interim Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) , a position that he will hold simultaneously with his ambassadorship , has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inexperience , history of bad judgement and partisanship .
The White House is now claiming that he will be replaced by Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe after the interim appointment is completed .
Criticism of Grenell for his clearly evident deficiencies misses the point , however , as he is not in place to do anything constructive .
He has already initiated a purge of federal employees in the White House and national security apparatus considered to be insufficiently loyal , an effort which has been supported by National Security Advisor Robert O ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Many career officers have been sent back to their home agencies while the new appointees are being drawn from the pool of neoconservatives that proliferated in the George W. Bush administration .
Admittedly some prominent neocons like Bill Kristol have disqualified themselves for service with the new regime due to their vitriolic criticism of Trump the candidate , but many others have managed to remain politically viable by keeping their mouths shut during the 2016 campaign .
To no one ’ s surprise , many of the new employees being brought in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that they are passionate supporters of Israel .
While it is not unusual for presidents to surround themselves with devoted yes-men , as Trump does with his spectacularly unqualified son-in-law Jared Kushner , his administration is nevertheless unusual in its tendency to apply an absolute loyalty litmus test to nearly everyone surrounding the president , even several layers down into the administration where employees are frequently apolitical .
As the Trump White House has not been renowned for its adroit policies and forward thinking , the loss of expertise will be hardly noticeable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reduction in challenges to group think while replacing officials in the law enforcement and inspector general communities will mean that there will be no one in a high enough position to impede or check presidential misbehavior .
Instead , high officials will be principally tasked with coming up with rationalizations to excuse what the White House does .
Trump ’ s recent claim that he has the sole authority to shut down or open up the country is clearly unconstitutional based on the 10th Amendment and his warning that he will use his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ session of congress to enable him to approve hundreds of pending recess appointments plausibly qualifies as impeachable .
His exhortation last Friday to his followers to “ liberate ” three states from the control of their governors is insurrection , a dangerous provocation that undeniably meets the requirement to qualify as a “ high crime ” as defined by the constitution .
Trump ’ s latest firings of top level officials are notable because they have involved two inspectors general .
The first one to go was the inspector general of the intelligence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ admittedly was not well liked because of his job responsibilities , was reportedly fired because he had been the official who had forwarded to Congress the initial whistleblower report on the notorious Ukrainian telephone call .
Trump explained his decision in a letter to the two congressional intelligence committees : “ As is the case with regard to other positions where I , as President , have the power of appointment … it is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general .
That is no longer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ General.
” It should be noted that Atkinson had a statutory obligation to forward the report to initiate congressional oversight of an alleged executive criminal action .
After the firing , Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz rejected Trump ’ s criticism of Atkinson , saying he had handled the whistleblower matter correctly .
It was , of course , a phone call that led to Donald Trump ’ s impeachment , so Atkinson had to go and Horowitz might just be next .
Subsequent to the defenestration of Atkinson , Trump went @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who was principal deputy IG at the Pentagon and had been charged with heading the panel of inspectors that would have oversight responsibility to certify the proper implementation of the $ 2.2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package .
As has been noted in the media , there was particular concern regarding the lack of transparency regarding the $ 500 billion Exchange Stabilizing Fund ( ESF ) that had been set aside to make loans to corporations and other large companies while the really urgently needed Small Business Loan allocation has been failing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that have lined up for the loans .
The risk that the ESF would become a slush fund for companies favored by the White House was real , and several investigative reports observed that Trump business interests might also directly benefit from the way it was drafted .
Four days after the firing of Atkinson , Fine also was let go to be replaced by the EPA inspector general Sean O ’ Donnell , who is considered a Trump loyalist .
On the previous day the tweeter-in-chief came down on yet another IG @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Human Services Christi Grimm , who had issued a report stating that the her department had found “ severe ” shortages of virus testing material at hospitals and “ widespread ” shortages of personal protective equipment ( PPE ) for healthcare workers .
Trump quipped to reporters “ Where did he come from , the inspector general .
What ’ s his name ?
” On the following day , Trump unleashed the tweet machine , asking “ Why didn ’ t the I.G.
, who spent 8 years with the Obama Administration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ H1N1 Swine Flu debacle where 17,000 people died ? )
, want to talk to the Admirals , Generals , V.P .
& others in charge , before doing her report .
Another Fake Dossier !
” A comment about foxes taking over the hen house would not be amiss and one might also note that the swamp is far from drained .
A concerted effort is clearly underway to purge anyone from the upper echelons of the U.S. government who in any way contradicts what is coming out of the White House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ looking into malfeasance are receiving the message that if they want to stay employed , they have to toe the presidential line , even as it seemingly whimsically changes day by day .
And then there is the irony of the heads at major agencies like Environmental Protection now being committed to not enforcing existing environmental regulations at all .
Most damaging to consumer interests , the rot has also affected the so-called regulatory agencies that are supposed to monitor the potentially illegal activities of corporations and industries to protect the public .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ several times predicted , under both Obama and Trump advocates of ostensibly “ regulated ” corporations have taken over every U.S. federal regulatory agency .
The captured U.S. government regulators now represent the interests of the corporations , not the public .
This is more like government by a criminal oligarchy rather than of , by and for The People .
Philip M. Giraldi , Ph.D. , is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest , a 501 ( c ) 3 tax deductible educational foundation ( Federal ID Number # @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East .
Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org , address is P.O .
Box 2157 , Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is [ email protected ] .

by Phil Giraldi, with The Unz Review
[ Editor’s Note: Phil touches on one of the key election issues of our day, and that is Trump’s presidential style of his requiring first a loyalty to him, where the country and the Constitution come somewhere else down the line.
Similar to a Mafia Don, all of his capos have to swear fealty under the penalty of being thrown out the door and executed in public opinion with the usual Trump kiss off we have seen so many times. To Trump, government is just another big racket, the biggest actually. His Unipolar Shtick mob just a mob turf war.
He never really caught on to what public service was about, other than maybe something for schmucks to get excited about. It’s just not in his DNA. After all, this is a man who showed his family pride during his campaign by bragging about his successful father having once managed “sportin’ ladies” in his early years.
A naive segment of the American public took it as a joke, but it was not, per the history of his “sporting teenage girls for years” with pal Jeffrey Epstein, which some suspect may have contributed to Epstein’s death to prevent him from telling tales to get a reduced sentence.
But as Phil notes, Trump has now gone after the inspectors general, the people who historically have had enjoyed wide latitude in hunting down government misdeeds wherever they could be found. Trump has preempted them from making any problems for his re-election by giving them the boot first.
The public will not just be voting for a new President in November. It will also be voting against what we have had, a presidency not of the people, only Trump loyalists, and not for the people if it conflicted with the Trump gang’s personal interests.
Is the country smart enough to realize how much more damage could be done with another four years with an “acting President”, also known as President Tweet? As for the Trump team, all I can say is never have some many owed so little to so few.
Sure, the market went way up. It was pumped up by the record low interest rates so there was nowhere else to invest money. And then the corporate dons used their big tax breaks to run their stocks up even more, laughing all the way to the bank, and of course they will be bankrolling his campaign… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … April 27, 2020 –
The 24/7 intensified media coverage of the coronavirus story has meant that other news has either been ignored or relegated to the back pages, never to be seen again. The Middle East has been on a boil but coverage of the Trump administration’s latest moves against Iran has been so insignificant as to be invisible.
Meanwhile closer to home, the declaration by the ubiquitous Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that current president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro is a drug trafficker did generate somewhat of a ripple, as did dispatch of warships to the Caribbean to intercept the alleged drugs, but that story also died.
Of more interest perhaps is the tale of the continued purge of government officials, referred to as “draining the swamp,” by President Donald Trump as it could conceivably have long-term impact on how policy is shaped in Washington.
Prior to the virus partial lockdown, some of the impending shakeup within the intelligence community (IC) and Pentagon were commented on in the media, but developments since that time have been less reported, even when several inspectors-general were removed.
To be sure, Trump has good reason to hate the intelligence and national security community, which utterly rejected his candidacy and plotted to destroy both his campaign and, even after he was elected, his presidency.
Whether one argues that what took place was due to a “Deep state” or Establishment conspiracy or rather just based on personal ambition by key players, the reality was that a number of top officials seem to have forgotten the oaths they swore to the constitution when it came to Donald Trump.
Be that as it may, beyond the musical chairs that have characterized the senior level appointments in the first three years of the Trump administration, there has been a concerted effort to remove “disloyal” members of the intelligence community, with disloyal generally being the label applied to holdovers from the Bush and Obama administrations.
The February appointment of U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard “Ric” Grenell as interim Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a position that he will hold simultaneously with his ambassadorship, has been criticized from all sides due to his inexperience, history of bad judgement and partisanship. The White House is now claiming that he will be replaced by Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe after the interim appointment is completed.
Criticism of Grenell for his clearly evident deficiencies misses the point, however, as he is not in place to do anything constructive. He has already initiated a purge of federal employees in the White House and national security apparatus considered to be insufficiently loyal, an effort which has been supported by National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Many career officers have been sent back to their home agencies while the new appointees are being drawn from the pool of neoconservatives that proliferated in the George W. Bush administration.
Admittedly some prominent neocons like Bill Kristol have disqualified themselves for service with the new regime due to their vitriolic criticism of Trump the candidate, but many others have managed to remain politically viable by keeping their mouths shut during the 2016 campaign. To no one’s surprise, many of the new employees being brought in are being carefully vetted to make sure that they are passionate supporters of Israel.
While it is not unusual for presidents to surround themselves with devoted yes-men, as Trump does with his spectacularly unqualified son-in-law Jared Kushner, his administration is nevertheless unusual in its tendency to apply an absolute loyalty litmus test to nearly everyone surrounding the president, even several layers down into the administration where employees are frequently apolitical.
As the Trump White House has not been renowned for its adroit policies and forward thinking, the loss of expertise will be hardly noticeable, but there will certainly be a reduction in challenges to group think while replacing officials in the law enforcement and inspector general communities will mean that there will be no one in a high enough position to impede or check presidential misbehavior. Instead, high officials will be principally tasked with coming up with rationalizations to excuse what the White House does.
Trump’s recent claim that he has the sole authority to shut down or open up the country is clearly unconstitutional based on the 10th Amendment and his warning that he will use his executive authority to adjourn the continuing virtual session of congress to enable him to approve hundreds of pending recess appointments plausibly qualifies as impeachable.
His exhortation last Friday to his followers to “liberate” three states from the control of their governors is insurrection, a dangerous provocation that undeniably meets the requirement to qualify as a “high crime” as defined by the constitution.
Trump’s latest firings of top level officials are notable because they have involved two inspectors general. The first one to go was the inspector general of the intelligence community Michael Atkinson. Atkinson, who admittedly was not well liked because of his job responsibilities, was reportedly fired because he had been the official who had forwarded to Congress the initial whistleblower report on the notorious Ukrainian telephone call.
Trump explained his decision in a letter to the two congressional intelligence committees:
“As is the case with regard to other positions where I, as President, have the power of appointment … it is vital that I have the fullest confidence in the appointees serving as inspectors general. That is no longer the case with regard to this Inspector General.”
It should be noted that Atkinson had a statutory obligation to forward the report to initiate congressional oversight of an alleged executive criminal action. After the firing, Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz rejected Trump’s criticism of Atkinson, saying he had handled the whistleblower matter correctly. It was, of course, a phone call that led to Donald Trump’s impeachment, so Atkinson had to go and Horowitz might just be next.
Subsequent to the defenestration of Atkinson, Trump went after another inspector general Glenn Fine, who was principal deputy IG at the Pentagon and had been charged with heading the panel of inspectors that would have oversight responsibility to certify the proper implementation of the $2.2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package.
As has been noted in the media, there was particular concern regarding the lack of transparency regarding the $500 billion Exchange Stabilizing Fund (ESF) that had been set aside to make loans to corporations and other large companies while the really urgently needed Small Business Loan allocation has been failing to work at all except for Israeli companies that have lined up for the loans.
The risk that the ESF would become a slush fund for companies favored by the White House was real, and several investigative reports observed that Trump business interests might also directly benefit from the way it was drafted.
Four days after the firing of Atkinson, Fine also was let go to be replaced by the EPA inspector general Sean O’Donnell, who is considered a Trump loyalist.
On the previous day the tweeter-in-chief came down on yet another IG, the woman responsible for Health and Human Services Christi Grimm, who had issued a report stating that the her department had found “severe” shortages of virus testing material at hospitals and “widespread” shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers. Trump quipped to reporters “Where did he come from, the inspector general. What’s his name?”
On the following day, Trump unleashed the tweet machine, asking “Why didn’t the I.G., who spent 8 years with the Obama Administration (Did she Report on the failed H1N1 Swine Flu debacle where 17,000 people died?), want to talk to the Admirals, Generals, V.P. & others in charge, before doing her report. Another Fake Dossier!”
A comment about foxes taking over the hen house would not be amiss and one might also note that the swamp is far from drained. A concerted effort is clearly underway to purge anyone from the upper echelons of the U.S. government who in any way contradicts what is coming out of the White House.
Inspectors general who are tasked with looking into malfeasance are receiving the message that if they want to stay employed, they have to toe the presidential line, even as it seemingly whimsically changes day by day. And then there is the irony of the heads at major agencies like Environmental Protection now being committed to not enforcing existing environmental regulations at all.
Most damaging to consumer interests, the rot has also affected the so-called regulatory agencies that are supposed to monitor the potentially illegal activities of corporations and industries to protect the public.
As University of Chicago economist George Stigler several times predicted, under both Obama and Trump advocates of ostensibly “regulated” corporations have taken over every U.S. federal regulatory agency. The captured U.S. government regulators now represent the interests of the corporations, not the public. This is more like government by a criminal oligarchy rather than of, by and for The People.
Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a 501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number #52-1739023) that seeks a more interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Website is councilforthenationalinterest.org, address is P.O. Box 2157, Purcellville VA 20134 and its email is inform@cnionline.org.


veteranstoday--2020-04-27--NEO – Trump and Putin talk: How is this bad?

…by Phil Butler , Crete , …with New Eastern Outlook , Moscow , … and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences , a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa .
According to MSN and most mainstream American news outlets , the Trump administration has caused certain lawmakers on Capitol Hill deep concern over a gesture of peace and brotherhood between nations .
The coming row will show the world , the real purveyors of crisis and war on our planet .
Read on to find out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ document drafted by the Trump administration as an “ unusual declaration intended to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a meeting between American and Soviet troops at the Elbe River on April 25 , 1945.
” But , such an olive branch only seems unusual if we consider the never-ending conflict between the United States and Russia as acceptable .
The MSN reporters can not even come up with a decent provocation to justify their one-sided report .
The best Microsoft ’ s news dogs can come up with is Russian fighters buzzing American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That ’ s as if the US Navy never practiced targeting Mig or Sukhoi jets whenever they ’ re close by .
Readers of American media get a constant menu like this .
Russia helping Syria .
Putin wants to remake the Soviet Union .
And so on .
The ones so deeply concerned include Rep. Eliot Engel ( D , NY ) , who is , if you can imagine , the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee .
What this psychopath Tweeted should make a chill run down your spine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Everyone knows that Trump has a bizarre infatuation with Russia ’ s autocratic leader and that Trump constantly plays into Putin ’ s hands.
” And then Bill Gates ’ news network springs the rabbit out of the liberal world order hat .
The reporters say arms control proponents agree with Trump as if avoiding nuclear holocaust and endless crisis is the plague .
Michael R. Gordon and Gordon Lubold pecked out a single line about support for much-needed detente , and then their masterpiece turned back to the war footing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people is not a US president trying to establish good relations with international partners .
The rewrite of the foreign policy playbook is what ’ s crazy about 21st-century geopolitics .
Trump , if he wanted to attend Russia ’ s May 9th celebrations of the victory of Axis powers in World War II , would be portrayed as “ Putin puppet ” if he did .
What a momentous occasion that would be !
For Americans to at long last welcome with open arms the grandchildren of those Russian brothers who bled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Such gestures are banned by Washington ’ s controlling elites .
It ’ s funny .
No , excuse me .
Sadly , America has a monument from the Russian people standing on the New Jersey shore to pay tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001 .
The “ Tear of Grief and the Tear Drop Memorial ” work was commenced on site with President Putin at a ceremony back in 2005 .
It the time Foreign Policy Magazine condemned the monument , along with other “ factions ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American people never were appraised of the gesture or the insults leveled at the Russians .
As an American veteran , I am ashamed to even be associated with scum who would do such a thing .
The story is always the same .
Yet , our leadership expects a different outcome somehow ?
Russia extends a hand , America slaps it .
Putin pledges partnership and brotherhood with Americans .
Our leadership is skeptical , abusive , bombastic , and pledges only more conflict , sanctions , and undying misunderstanding .
Look @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hamstrung by an unexpected catastrophe .
Russia sends medical equipment and masks to the US as a gesture and bona fide help , and these same “ lawmakers ” rile and insult yet again .
What could be wrong with a simple “ thank you ” from these curmudgeons ?
Julia Davis , writing for the Putin hating Daily Beast says the Russians were “ grandstanding with shipments of supplies ” in a pitiful attempt to get Americans to lift economic sanctions .
Readers here won ’ t be surprised to learn Ms. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expert on Russian propaganda with the Atlantic Council ’ s Disinformation Portal .
She gets paid to blast Putin , Russia , and anything approaching peace – because peace would mean unemployment .
She ’ s billed as a National Security/Anti-Terrorism/Immigration Expert slash TV producer slash Atlantic Council ’ s Digital Forensic Research Lab investigative sleuth .
Ugh .
The Atlantic Council .
Citing people who work for this so-called “ forensics lab ” is like naming Gestapo operators in Nazi-occupied France during World War II .
And we ’ re expected to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t lie about would be Roosevelts , Stalins , and Churchhills ?
I tell you what .
Go to this document from DFR Lab .
Scroll down the list of names on the report entitled and then visit their Twitter profiles .
Then , tell me how the Russians are controlling the internet and changing outcomes and history .
Now .
I wish somebody would let me head a “ lab ” to uncover spooks and trolls paid to disseminate disinformation .
These people would hide in a hole somewhere in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a couple of examples , then you do the rest .
Eto Buziashvili , a Georgian national with the latest Tweet : “ Thread about how Russian official Twitter accounts amplified the hashtag # TruthAboutWWII to rewrite history and cover up the fact that the USSR initially allied itself with Nazi Germany during WWII .
Visit DFRLab here to see some of her NATO disinformation efforts on Facebook .
By the way , it ’ s not the Russians trying to rewrite World War II history .
Next , there ’ s Nika @ @ @ @ @ @ @ youth building zombie sent out to infect Latvia and the wider world with Open Society Foundations ’ message .
Sorry , Nika , but I didn ’ t make you sell out to Soros so you could train disinformation operatives for the liberal world order .
Here a video about “ Putin invading Ukraine ” in 2014 , plays like a US State Department Cold War film .
It ’ s funny if you watch from an objective point of view .
Jets and tanks woosh by , Stalin is invoked , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ undermine western democracies , and Aleksejeva ’ s disinfoportal is the contravening weapon against Putin ’ s expanding empire !
The message is tailor-made for empty heads in search of a valiant mission .
Then there ’ s Lithuanian Lukas Andriukaitis , who Wikispooks says researches Russian disinformation in Syria , as well as the conflicts in Syria and Donbas .
The former special operations lieutenant in the Lithuanian military is one of the more interesting Atlantic Council operators .
He seems to be involved in cyber statecraft these days .
You can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bosses present at a meetup entitle “ A New Initiative for Poland : A Future Leader in Securing the Fourth Industrial Revolution , ” which is part of the Atlantic Council ’ s mission to engage in cyber warfare .
He gets his sanction from Baltic-American Freedom Foundation and other US shadow operations , which is how he was indoctrinated into the Atlantic Council club .
USAID stands behind BAFF .
The pattern is all too familiar by now .
The finger-pointing reminds me of the schoolyard bully beating some kid up and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notices .
Connect the dots .
The media moguls , the technocrats they helped create , and social and business agents they sent out into the world – all focused on anti-Russia narratives .
And Putin is trying to alter reality ?
If Vladimir Putin had leveraged the resources the liberal order has , we ’ d have been speaking Russian for two decades already .
MSN ’ s story came from the Wall Street Journal , which is owned by Putin enemy Rupert Murdoch .
Now there ’ s a circular reasoning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia saving Assad , we talked about this many times .
Imagine anti-Russia campaigns emanating from former VP Dick Cheney , Rupert Murdoch , former CIA director James Woolsey , former US Treasury boss Larry Summers , and some lawmakers pissed over Russia ’ s saving Syria for Syrians .
As far as US – Russia detente , it ’ s possible any chance of peace ended in 1980 when the Carter administration “ gave ” the Soviets their own Vietnam .
I am not rewriting history in proclaiming this .
Here ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ On January 2 , 1980 , in a strong reaction to the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan , President Jimmy Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty and recalls the US ambassador to Moscow .
These actions sent a message that the age of detente and the friendlier diplomatic and economic relations that were established between the United States and the Soviet Union during President Richard Nixon ’ s administration ( 1969-74 ) had ended.
” Look at any dissertation you can find @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dig as deep as you can and you will find this same recurring friction nightmare .
All Russia wants is to be the new Soviet Union , that ’ s the central thesis .
This University of Miami thesis in 2008 , tells us Russia feels pressured by the Iraq situation and reacts like the Soviets would – supposedly .
At least this author inserts neo-containment as unacceptable for Russia .
However , all experts operate from flawed reasoning .
Russia is no re-emerging .
Russia resisted destruction by western banking factions and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pressure is on account of a foregone conclusion .
The biggest most resource-rich country in the world just “ is ” a power .
All this scheming and rhetoric is about containment as usual .
So , Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin having a discussion should never be a crisis point for the media or lawmakers .
Not if progress is to be made .
Anybody on the other side of this reality has a destructive agenda .
And that is the only truth any researcher is going to find .
Phil @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analyst , a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe , he ’ s an author of the recent bestseller “ Putin ’ s Praetorians ” and other books .
He writes exclusively for the online magazine “ New Eastern Outlook .
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…by Phil Butler, Crete, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow, … and the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a research institution for the study of the countries and cultures of Asia and North Africa.
– First published … April 27, 2020 –
According to MSN and most mainstream American news outlets, the Trump administration has caused certain lawmakers on Capitol Hill deep concern over a gesture of peace and brotherhood between nations. The coming row will show the world, the real purveyors of crisis and war on our planet. Read on to find out who they are.
MSN bills a document drafted by the Trump administration as an “unusual declaration intended to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a meeting between American and Soviet troops at the Elbe River on April 25, 1945.”
But, such an olive branch only seems unusual if we consider the never-ending conflict between the United States and Russia as acceptable.
The MSN reporters cannot even come up with a decent provocation to justify their one-sided report. The best Microsoft’s news dogs can come up with is Russian fighters buzzing American Navy planes over the Mediterranean Sea.
That’s as if the US Navy never practiced targeting Mig or Sukhoi jets whenever they’re close by. Readers of American media get a constant menu like this. Russia helping Syria. Putin wants to remake the Soviet Union. And so on.
The ones so deeply concerned include Rep. Eliot Engel (D, NY), who is, if you can imagine, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. What this psychopath Tweeted should make a chill run down your spine if you ever wondered about world peace:
“Everyone knows that Trump has a bizarre infatuation with Russia’s autocratic leader and that Trump constantly plays into Putin’s hands.”
And then Bill Gates’ news network springs the rabbit out of the liberal world order hat. The reporters say arms control proponents agree with Trump as if avoiding nuclear holocaust and endless crisis is the plague. Michael R. Gordon and Gordon Lubold pecked out a single line about support for much-needed detente, and then their masterpiece turned back to the war footing.
What’s unusual to normal people is not a US president trying to establish good relations with international partners. The rewrite of the foreign policy playbook is what’s crazy about 21st-century geopolitics. Trump, if he wanted to attend Russia’s May 9th celebrations of the victory of Axis powers in World War II, would be portrayed as “Putin puppet” if he did.
What a momentous occasion that would be! For Americans to at long last welcome with open arms the grandchildren of those Russian brothers who bled alongside them. But, no. Such gestures are banned by Washington’s controlling elites.
It’s funny. No, excuse me. Sadly, America has a monument from the Russian people standing on the New Jersey shore to pay tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001. The “Tear of Grief and the Tear Drop Memorial” work was commenced on site with President Putin at a ceremony back in 2005.
It the time Foreign Policy Magazine condemned the monument, along with other “factions” in the US deep state. The American people never were appraised of the gesture or the insults leveled at the Russians. As an American veteran, I am ashamed to even be associated with scum who would do such a thing.
The story is always the same. Yet, our leadership expects a different outcome somehow? Russia extends a hand, America slaps it. Putin pledges partnership and brotherhood with Americans. Our leadership is skeptical, abusive, bombastic, and pledges only more conflict, sanctions, and undying misunderstanding. Look at the coronavirus pandemic.
America is hamstrung by an unexpected catastrophe. Russia sends medical equipment and masks to the US as a gesture and bona fide help, and these same “lawmakers” rile and insult yet again. What could be wrong with a simple “thank you” from these curmudgeons?
Julia Davis, writing for the Putin hating Daily Beast says the Russians were “grandstanding with shipments of supplies” in a pitiful attempt to get Americans to lift economic sanctions. Readers here won’t be surprised to learn Ms. Davis is Daily Beast’s featured expert on Russian propaganda with the Atlantic Council’s Disinformation Portal.
She gets paid to blast Putin, Russia, and anything approaching peace – because peace would mean unemployment. She’s billed as a National Security/Anti-Terrorism/Immigration Expert slash TV producer slash Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab investigative sleuth. Ugh.
The Atlantic Council. Citing people who work for this so-called “forensics lab” is like naming Gestapo operators in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. And we’re expected to believe the new Hitlers of the world don’t lie about would be Roosevelts, Stalins, and Churchhills? I tell you what. Go to this document from DFR Lab.
Scroll down the list of names on the report entitled and then visit their Twitter profiles. Then, tell me how the Russians are controlling the internet and changing outcomes and history. Now. I wish somebody would let me head a “lab” to uncover spooks and trolls paid to disseminate disinformation. These people would hide in a hole somewhere in Kyiv. I’ll give you a couple of examples, then you do the rest.
Eto Buziashvili, a Georgian national with the latest Tweet: “Thread about how Russian official Twitter accounts amplified the hashtag #TruthAboutWWII to rewrite history and cover up the fact that the USSR initially allied itself with Nazi Germany during WWII. Visit DFRLab here to see some of her NATO disinformation efforts on Facebook. By the way, it’s not the Russians trying to rewrite World War II history.
Next, there’s Nika Aleksejeva, who is a George Soros youth building zombie sent out to infect Latvia and the wider world with Open Society Foundations’ message. Sorry, Nika, but I didn’t make you sell out to Soros so you could train disinformation operatives for the liberal world order. Here a video about “Putin invading Ukraine” in 2014, plays like a US State Department Cold War film.
It’s funny if you watch from an objective point of view. Jets and tanks woosh by, Stalin is invoked, the evil Kremlin deploys advanced asymmetric tools to undermine western democracies, and Aleksejeva’s disinfoportal is the contravening weapon against Putin’s expanding empire! The message is tailor-made for empty heads in search of a valiant mission.
Then there’s Lithuanian Lukas Andriukaitis, who Wikispooks says researches Russian disinformation in Syria, as well as the conflicts in Syria and Donbas. The former special operations lieutenant in the Lithuanian military is one of the more interesting Atlantic Council operators.
He seems to be involved in cyber statecraft these days. You can see his participation with US Homeland Security bosses present at a meetup entitle “A New Initiative for Poland: A Future Leader in Securing the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” which is part of the Atlantic Council’s mission to engage in cyber warfare.
He gets his sanction from Baltic-American Freedom Foundation and other US shadow operations, which is how he was indoctrinated into the Atlantic Council club. USAID stands behind BAFF.
The pattern is all too familiar by now. The finger-pointing reminds me of the schoolyard bully beating some kid up and then accusing the victim when the teacher notices. Connect the dots. The media moguls, the technocrats they helped create, and social and business agents they sent out into the world – all focused on anti-Russia narratives. And Putin is trying to alter reality? If Vladimir Putin had leveraged the resources the liberal order has, we’d have been speaking Russian for two decades already.
MSN’s story came from the Wall Street Journal, which is owned by Putin enemy Rupert Murdoch. Now there’s a circular reasoning point, Genie Oil and Syria, Russia saving Assad, we talked about this many times. Imagine anti-Russia campaigns emanating from former VP Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, former CIA director James Woolsey, former US Treasury boss Larry Summers, and some lawmakers pissed over Russia’s saving Syria for Syrians.
As far as US – Russia detente, it’s possible any chance of peace ended in 1980 when the Carter administration “gave” the Soviets their own Vietnam. I am not rewriting history in proclaiming this. Here’s how the History Channel reported it:
“On January 2, 1980, in a strong reaction to the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty and recalls the US ambassador to Moscow. These actions sent a message that the age of detente and the friendlier diplomatic and economic relations that were established between the United States and the Soviet Union during President Richard Nixon’s administration (1969-74) had ended.”
Look at any dissertation you can find. Examine all the think tanks. Dig as deep as you can and you will find this same recurring friction nightmare. All Russia wants is to be the new Soviet Union, that’s the central thesis. This University of Miami thesis in 2008, tells us Russia feels pressured by the Iraq situation and reacts like the Soviets would – supposedly.
At least this author inserts neo-containment as unacceptable for Russia. However, all experts operate from flawed reasoning. Russia is no re-emerging. Russia resisted destruction by western banking factions and is naturally taking her place. All the pressure is on account of a foregone conclusion. The biggest most resource-rich country in the world just “is” a power. All this scheming and rhetoric is about containment as usual.
So, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin having a discussion should never be a crisis point for the media or lawmakers. Not if progress is to be made. Anybody on the other side of this reality has a destructive agenda. And that is the only truth any researcher is going to find.
Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”