Радуйся, Козырь! Новый лидер Союза советских Штатов Америки!
(Hail, Trump! The leader of the Union of Soviet States of America!)
Good morning, Comrades!
No, this is not a scholarly treatise connecting all the dots and footnoting to oblivion and back. I wish I had time for that. Maybe when I retire....
But
There is enough there to make anyone question, even the most devout Trumpeteer.
There is enough there to make some Republican Senators demand a full investigation, and now the Senate Committee on intelligence will commence one.
There is enough there that an MI6 agent, one with a great reputation for accuracy and decades of experience in Russia, has continued to work without pay to get intelligence agencies to look at what he found.
The only part of the Republican platform that Trump gave a flip about, enough to force it to be changed, is to insist that the United States would not give military insistence to Ukraine to defend it against Russian incursion.
He's had a series of prominent advisers who were close to the Russians and had made considerable money doing work for them.
His nominee for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson (Exxon CEO), has at stake a deal with Russia that is worth a half a trillion dollars, and has been awarded the Order of Friendship by Putin.
Trump, no matter how pressed, will not say anything bad about Putin, In fact, for Trump, Putin seems to be golden, and just showers him with praise. Trump is already stating that he is likely to reverse sanctions. Nothing Trump does lends one to think the allegations of collusion are not true.
His proposed National Security Chief, Michael Flynn, was on the phone to the Russian Ambassador a reported five times on the day of the sanctions, This is quite unusual. Well, maybe except Nixon with Vietnam or Reagan with Iran. OK, maybe not so unusual for Republicans. Still not good, though.
But like I said. There are no citations here, no references. I encourage you to check out these stories for yourself. That's dangerous, as both sides have their own news filters, and the truth is often the victim. But take a chance. Go outside your bubble, alt-right or lefty progressive or whatever, and see if you can't smell the fire.
Hope y'all like vodka.
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