tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post8184906665465357254..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: What's the Big Deal With the Don Trump Jr. Email? Why Not Ask a Veteran Russian Spy?The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-85905077729441032522017-07-13T13:04:21.651-07:002017-07-13T13:04:21.651-07:00Anyong.....Thanks for your reply. Anyone with hal...Anyong.....Thanks for your reply. Anyone with half a brain knows that Putin is clapping his hands every night before he goes to bed saying...don't let anything happen to Trump, "I have use of him".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-3540388826128363192017-07-11T23:06:33.116-07:002017-07-11T23:06:33.116-07:00Chris, really, Lamar Smith wrote that letter and h...Chris, really, Lamar Smith wrote that letter and he's about as post-fact as they come. Sort of in the "tail gunner Joe" league.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-53063486380798699282017-07-11T19:43:54.937-07:002017-07-11T19:43:54.937-07:00The commentator in that clip, Jack Barsky, is, I t...The commentator in that clip, Jack Barsky, is, I think, quite correct: the goal of Russia was to create chaos in the U.S. political scene (not necessarily elect Trump).<br /><br />A few days ago, I was reading (from a Republican-dominated <a href="https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/06_29_2017%20CLS%20%26%20Weber%20-%20Mnuchin.pdf" rel="nofollow">congressional committee letter</a> to the Treasury department) about how the Kremlin may be behind some major funding of certain U.S. environmental and left-wing political think tanks. The Russian government supported RT network also heavily pushes certain environmental stories and theories. (Anti-GMO, anti-frakking). <br /><br />I am not arguing that there is nothing to be said for some considered opposition to those environmental issues, but note that the more <i>polarized</i> the opposition to frakking and GMO in the U.S. and Europe, the more Russia can benefit by selling its gas and its wheat.<br /><br />crfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10726414637021391906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-76448091257606327582017-07-11T15:58:33.403-07:002017-07-11T15:58:33.403-07:00Well, Anyong, payback, as they say, is a bitch. Si...<br />Well, Anyong, payback, as they say, is a bitch. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we've been rolling the Russians back eventually parking our tanks right up on their border. We engineered the coup in Ukraine and Russia pushed back by seizing Crimea. We've forward positioned NATO forces in the Baltic, ostensibly for self-defence, and Putin has countered by deploying nuclear-capable missile batteries in Kaliningrad.<br /><br />Putin is shrewd and dangerous. He wants to reclaim Russian influence in the "near beyond" and into the Middle East. Part of that entails taking every opportunity to exploit differences between Europe and the US, an opportunity that Trump has served up on a platter. The more he can weaken that link the easier it is for him to advance Russia's interests closer to home. The more he can foment unrest and division within the US the less he has to worry about on his side of the Atlantic.<br /><br />Beijing is doing something vaguely similar across East and South Asia and the Asia Pacific. The Road & Belt policy seeks to re-establish a modern day Silk Road providing China an overland route to the oil fields of Iran.<br /><br />Bit by bit Russia and China's aspirations come to pass. Trump is out of Putin's league and Trump may not even be able or willing to recognize his glaring disadvantage.<br /><br />So, yes, Putin is getting his way. His future prospects at home would be in jeopardy if he passed up these made-in-America opportunities.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-74178698279338974042017-07-11T14:25:46.978-07:002017-07-11T14:25:46.978-07:00Anyong....Putin is getting his way.Anyong....Putin is getting his way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com