Saturday, December 14, 2019

TRUMP IS ALIGNING HIS FORTUNES WITH PUTIN AND THE RUSSIAN WHITE SUPREMACIST CRIMINAL SYNDICATE - "Simple optics should preclude such a move by our president, but he obviously feels immune from congressional pressure and absolutely unable to resist directives from the Kremlin."

Judicial Watch: Only Crimes in Russia Scandal Are from ‘Obama Gang’



THE OBAMA – CLINTON RUSSIAN CONNECTION
WITH THESE TRAITORS, JUST FOLLOW THE MONEY!
How President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided Russia’s quest for global nuclear dominance.

"Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes.  This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan  AMERICAN THINKER.com


Trump Is Aligning the Military with the Russian White Supremacist Criminal Syndicate



Whether you’re a fervent nationalist or citizen-of-world internationalist, this story should inspire some alarm:
Russian efforts to weaken the West through a relentless campaign of information warfare may be starting to pay off, cracking a key bastion of the U.S. line of defense: the military.
While most Americans still see Moscow as a key U.S. adversary, new polling suggests that view is changing, most notably among the households of military members.
The second annual Reagan National Defense Survey, completed in late October, found nearly half of armed services households questioned, 46%, said they viewed Russia as ally.
Overall, the survey found 28% of Americans identified Russia as an ally, up from 19% the previous year.
So a significantly larger portion of the military–nearly half!–sees Russia as an ally than does the general public. If your first reaction is that this is part of a tribalistic Trump effect on a constituency that leans conservative overall, you would be right.
Generally, the pollsters found the positive views of Russia seemed to be “predominantly driven by Republicans who have responded to positive cues from [U.S.] President [Donald] Trump about Russia,” according to an executive summary accompanying the results.
While a majority, 71% of all Americans and 53% of military households, still views Russia as an enemy, the spike in pro-Russian sentiment has defense officials concerned.
It’s easy to sound the alarm over this for basic national security reasons. From a traditional Westphalian perspective, it is clearly dangerous for the people we entrust to secure the country’s self-defense to be much more favorable to our fiercest geopolitical foe than the public. It should be the other way around. It is beyond alarming when put in the proper context: one of the country’s two major political parties was just assisted in the previous election by its greatest foe; the president who was elected by a minority of voters with that rival’s help has continued to run interference for that rival, has been weirdly obsequious to its dictatorial leader, has refused to accept his own intelligence services’ findings about the criminal theft of opposition documents in the election, and is to this day extorting and undermining a nation in a hot war with that same rival power in an effort to fabricate dirt on a political rival for the next election and, amazingly, to frame the victim of the extortion for the crimes of its rival aggressor.
The president has embroiled his personal lawyer, his Attorney General, his Vice President and his Secretary of State in the conspiracy as well. And all of this is occurring even as the president rules under a cloud of suspicion about his own personal and business financial ties to the same rival power.
And now, due to purely partisan interests, the nation’s military is being warped into supporting the hostile foreign power–against our own values, geopolitical interests, and intelligence services It’s like the plot from a bad spy novel, except that it’s happening right out in the open. This is the situation as it stands between Trump, Russia, the Republican Party and Ukraine. And no one can do anything about it because the Republican Party sees itself as locked into a demographic death spiral as it sheds support from every demographic except the declining share older, white, exurban evangelicals, and is therefore willing to defend even the most abominable behavior in exchange for nominating a slew of extremist radical judges who they hope will derail any progressive priorities for the next several decades.
But even this understates the cause for alarm. Because Russia isn’t just a geopolitical foe: it is also the global leader of white supremacy and fossil fuel kleptocracy. It is an international criminal syndicate operating as a government, and it is actively recruiting allies and henchmen all around the world. As I said last year, it’s not so much that the United States lost or is losing the Cold War (we didn’t lose it), as much as that racist plutocrats won it:
In order to pacify the populace during this process, Putin and allies used  the standard timeless conservative tactics: they allied themselves with rural and socially conservative religious elements, ramped up hostile rhetoric toward supposedly corrupt outsiders, leveraged racist and sexist sentiments against domestic minorities and women’s rights groups, and portrayed themselves as the only ones who could make Russia great again.
It was unsurprising, then, that a Russian government aligned with racist, sexist and plutocratic principles would find an easy friend in Donald Trump and the American Republican Party. They are natural allies. It is less that America became Russia’s client state, than that the conservative movements in both America and Russia made a semi-secret criminal global compact that neither could acknowledge publicly. Since Trump’s election, their wealthy patriarchal white supremacist movement has sought and encouraged allies in Britain, Europe, Brazil and elsewhere, seeking to align the world against socially inclusive economic progressivism in favor of plutocratic ethnonationalism.
The American white supremacist movement has long looked to Russia and Putin as friends and allies. They see Western Europe as engaged in destruction of the white race through liberal immigration policies, of male dominance through embrace of feminism, of rural fossil fuel power through embrace of policies designed to fight climate change, and of conservative Christianity through cultural secularization. They see America as destined to follow along on the same path, and they see Russia (as well as a few former Eastern Bloc countries like Poland and Hungary) as the only major world power to be moving in the other direction, asserting the privileges of wealth, patriarchy, orthodox fundamentalism, and fossil fuel extraction industries. There is nothing they would like better than for an America in a conservative counterrevolution to abandon NATO and align wholeheartedly with Putin. Trump’s hostility to Merkel and Macron is seen as a feature, not a bug: his subservience to Putin an advantage.
In this sense, Trump is not just pushing the military toward favoring a rival nation-state that is actively sabotaging our own for his own personal and political benefit. He is attempting to align the military with a global white supremacist, patriarchal fossil fuel-backed mafia syndicate. It’s almost certain that he is also hoping that in a Constitutional crisis pitting Western secular liberal values against said syndicate, that the military will help overthrow democracy itself on the syndicate’s behalf.
We aren’t there yet. But another four years of Trump in the White House could have very dark consequences for the entire world. It can happen here.





It Couldn’t Be Any Clearer That Trump Serves the Kremlin






One thing that came through in many of the House Intelligence Committee’s interviews with Ukraine experts was the symbolic importance to President Zelensky of having an Oval Office meeting with Donald Trump. It was widely understood that he would be strengthened both at home and in his upcoming negotiations with Vladimir Putin. The meeting with Putin occurred in Paris on Monday. Zelensky entered the summit without the benefit of an Oval Office meeting.
Not only that, Zelensky lacked anything resembling unified American support. The whole world now knows that President Trump does not like Ukraine and accuses them of trying to “take him down” in 2016. They know he sees the country as irredeemably corrupt and uniformly unsupportive of his political future. They know that Trump put Ukrainian military aid on hold and only released it reluctantly when he realized that he was about to face down a scandal that could (and will) cause his impeachment.
Meanwhile, some in the Republican Party have now embraced a debunked theory that Ukraine, rather than Russia, was responsible for interfering in the 2016 election. They adopted this theory because it’s the only way to defend Trump’s demand that Ukraine blame themselves for the hacking of the Democrats if they wanted to receive a formal visit in the White House. For those who can’t quite embrace this level of craziness, they simply argue that Ukraine was almost as guilty of Russia because some of them objected publicly to Candidate Trump’s opinion that Crimea rightfully belongs to Russia.
So, far from entering his peace negotiations with Putin from a position of strength, Zelensky was lacking support from his most important ally. And if that wasn’t clear on Monday, it certainly became clear on Tuesday when the Russians were granted what Zelensky could not secure for himself.
Donald Trump held a closed-door meeting with the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, at the White House on Tuesday, but the two men gave diverging accounts of what was discussed, on a day articles of impeachment were announced against the US president.
The last time Lavrov visited the White House, in May 2017, Trump was reported to have disclosed highly classified information to him about US intelligence-sharing arrangements.
On this occasion, the press were barred from the meeting, and were handed a White House statement saying, that among other topics: “President Trump warned against any Russian attempts to interfere in United States elections.”
Asked about the statement at a press conference in the Russian embassy later the same afternoon, Lavrov claimed: “No we haven’t even actually discussed elections.”
So, on the very day that the House of Representatives introduced two articles of impeachment related to Trump’s Ukraine policy, President Trump was huddling in the Oval Office privately with the foreign minister of Russia.
Simple optics should preclude such a move by our president, but he obviously feels immune from congressional pressure and absolutely unable to resist directives from the Kremlin.




Democrat morality, and how it drives the impeachment push



Inspector General Horowitz delivered his report on Monday, December 9, 2019.  It confirmed, among other things, that the spying on Trump campaign by the Obama administration took place.  Although Horowitz was apparently unwilling to conclude quite obvious political bias at the origin of said spying, the facts that it articulated speak for themselves.
According to Horowitz, Trump was investigated (spied upon, according to A.G. Barr) by the FBI and Obama DOJ for allegedly wanting to get some dirt on H. Clinton from Russians.  That suspicion was reportedly triggered by Papadopoulos's statement "over a glass of wine" that "Russians had some dirt on Clinton."  Oddly enough, the sole basis for that allegation, as presented to the FISA court, was a "dossier," ordered and paid for by the Clinton Campaign and DNC, whose author, British spy Steele, collaborated with Russians to fabricate dirt on Trump.
You see, the evil was when candidate Trump was interested in dirt that Russians might have on a Democrat presidential candidate.  The good was when a Democrat presidential candidate paid Steele to make Russians produce dirt on Trump that was subsequently used in attempt to derail Trump's campaign and, later, to discredit him as the president.  All this, apparently, because the Democrats self-identified as the agents of good and deemed Trump and his Republican allies as the agents of evil.
The above is a fairly typical Democrat "morality" that Ms. Pelosi and Messrs Schiff and Nader seem to subscribe to.  It makes imposition of a Democrat-controlled government a moral imperative that overrides and supersedes all other imperatives and values.  It also puts the Democrats above the law while at the same time allowing them to portray themselves as uncompromising guardians of the principle that no one is above the law.  After all, they seem to believe that they have to be above the law in order to make sure that no one else, in particular, Trump, is.
The asserted necessity of Democrat-controlled government  leads to another Democrat invention of an impeachable offense: anything that Trump does that might have a negative impact on electability of a Democrat presidential candidate, actual or future.  From that perspective, Trump's attempts to bring presidential hopeful Biden's meddling in Ukraine authorities' anti-corruption efforts to public attention in the U.S. is clearly an impeachable offense, as it sheds serious doubt on Biden's integrity and, as such, decreases his electability in the 2020 presidential race.
(I was a bit surprised that the Impeachment authority of the House overlooked the fact that every time Trump claims credit for any improvement in national security and economic growth, he commits an impeachable offense, because by doing so, he decreases the electability of his current and future Democrat challengers.)
From that perspective, if Trump wins the 2020 presidential election, then it automatically will be an impeachable offense, because, if it happens, it will decrease the electability of his Democrat opponent to zero.  So if you want the House kangaroo courts to redo the travesty of justice we are seeing now, then by all means vote Democrat in the 2020 elections.
Here is a word of warning.
If the Democrats are so blatant in abusing their power and breaking the law and rules when they don't have the White House and the Senate, then imagine all the wrongs they will not hesitate to do (and cover up) for their "good cause" after they grab control of the three branches of the U.S. government.  (The fourth branch, the professional government, AKA the bureaucracy, appears to be under firm Democrat control.)  If you think the "good cause" they claim to be the champions of gives them a mandate to do all such lowly things, then what would make you believe they will not do the same lowly things for a bad cause after they are done with their grab of power?
Our Constitutional Republic has been an exceptionally successful experiment in establishing a powerful and functional government (of the people, by the people, for the people) that despite its might was unable to submit us, free Americans, to its control.  Replacing the Republic we have with a Democrat regime that is given a mandate to break the laws and rules for a "good cause" has no safeguards against such submission.  It will likely lead to a permanent despotic government similar to other despotic governments that were instituted in the name of "social justice," "protection" of the least advantaged, and such.
You may wish to study the history of the Soviet Union and the atrocities committed there under the dictatorship of its "Dear Leader," Stalin, if you would like to get a glimpse into what some Democrats may have for us in their political plans.  After all, if it happened there, then it may happen here.  It is worth noting that since the mid-1800s, millions of Russians and ex-Soviets immigrated to America, so a claim that a Soviet-style system of governance cannot be imposed on our society seems baseless.  Today's Democrats are making progress towards such a system.
Mark Andrew Dwyer's recent columns are posted at https://federalobserver.com/?s=mark+andrew+dwyer
and at https://canadafreepress.com/members/1/Mark-Andrew-Dwyer/895.  Links to his other commentaries can be found here.

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