It's well documented that Putin & his oligarch network runs stealth efforts on behalf of politicians who rail against the European Union and want to push away from NATO.
And why wouldn't they?
Putin has been a patron of the fascists like Golden Dawn in Greece, Ataka in Bulgaria, and Jobbik in Hungary. Russian banks financed the campaign of fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen in France.
In a speech at the Brookings Institution Joe Biden noted: “President Putin sees such political forces as useful tools to be manipulated, to create cracks in the European body politic which he and his oligarch circle can then exploit.”
Ruptures that will likely multiply after Brexit—a campaign Russia’s many propaganda organs bombastically promoted.
While the destruction of Europe is quite a grandiose objective; so is the weakening of the United States. Until recently, Putin's oligarch network has only focused glancing attention on US elections.
Then along came the barking Tangerine Twitler.
If the Oligarchs could design their perfect patsy, it would look exactly like Trump.
He celebrated the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU.
He denounces NATO.
He spits on long time allies.
He praises dictators.
He preaches division.
He wants to build walls, not tear them down.
And he is also a great admirer of Vladimir Putin.
Trump’s devotion to the Russian president has been portrayed in the news as a buffoonish enthusiasm for a fellow macho strongman. But Trump’s statements of praise are something closer to slavish devotion. In 2007, he praised Putin for “rebuilding Russia.” A year later he added, “He does his work well. Much better than our Bush.” When Putin ripped America in a New York Times op-ed in 2013, Trump called it “a masterpiece.” Despite ample evidence, Trump denies that Putin has assassinated his opponents, “In the event that such killings have transpired, they can be forgiven: At least he’s a leader.” And not just any old head of state: “I will tell you that, in terms of leadership, he’s getting an A.”
Many of Trump's ties to Russian Banks owned by Putin's network of oligarchs are known.
When the American banks stopped loaning him money because of his habit of intentionally declaring bankruptcies to get out of paying labor & creditors, he was bailed out by the Russian banks, owned by Putin's inner circle. And why wouldn’t the Russians offer him the same furtive assistance they’ve lavished on Le Pen, Berlusconi, and the rest? Russian propaganda went full throttle for Trump, using its Russia Today apparatus to hail the courage of Trump’s foreign policy. (Sample headline: “Trump Sparks NATO Debate: ‘NATO Obsolete’) Russian intelligence services hacked the Democratic National Committee’s servers, purloining its opposition research files on Trump and just about everything else it could find. They also wormed their way into the computers of the Clinton Foundation, a breach reported by Bloomberg. And though it may be a mere coincidence, Trump’s inner circle is populated with advisers and operatives who have long careers advancing the interests of the Kremlin.
There is certainty that a foreign power that wishes ill upon the United States attached itself to a major presidential campaign.
Donald Trump’s interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there’s extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev’s efforts to charm the American public. On his legendary trip to Washington and New York, the Soviet in chief left the confines of his limousine and security cordon to glad-hand with the American people. Donald Trump suggested to reporters that the Soviet leader would be making his way to Trump Tower, a crucial station on his journey to capitalism. This was, in fact, a self-aggrandizing fabrication that Trump himself planted in the tabloids, but it was a convincing lie. A year earlier, Trump had traveled to Russia to attempt to develop luxury hotels in Moscow and Leningrad to feed the regime’s new appetite for Western business. Newsweek reported this story.
Trump reveled in the newspaper stories that reported Gorbachev’s forthcoming visit to his HQ as fact. But he never expected his fake story to become reality. He must have been gobsmacked when he received word that Gorbachev wanted to pay a spontaneous visit to Trump Tower.
The skyscraper’s namesake rushed down from his penthouse office to pay obeisance.
From the video, we can see the blotched head of Gorbachev emerge from his car.
Trump and his retinue push through the crowd.
“Great, great honor,” the mogul says as he pumps the hand of the Soviet supremo.
But one of Trump’s many vulnerabilities is that he doesn’t vet his people, whether it’s business partners, or the dubious characters he retweets, or the foreign leaders who show up at his door.
As it turns out, this Gorbachev wasn’t really the Soviet leader but an impersonator called Ronald Knapp. Trump was lavishing praise on the winner of a look-alike contest.
The con man was easily conned by a prankster.
Now he's dealing with far more accomplished "pranksters", and the future of the US, as well as our allies and partners hangs in the balance.
And that my friends, abridged as it may be; tells you all you really need to know about this mango Mussolini. That was merely the first instance of Trump carelessly sucking up to Russian power in the hopes of personal gain.
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But none of this is the point of this writing today.
No, this isn't about Russians meddling.
The real issue, the one we ought to be up in arms about has nothing to do with one nation or another.
It has nothing to do with borders on a political map.
The real truth is that this is a class war.
The billionaire oligarchs against everyone else.
America has over time become less democratic and more oligarchic.
The gutting of protections against monopolies, the destruction of labor organization protections, the use of capital to override and overturn laws in favor of the obscenely wealthy...there's a privileged class and there's "the "inferior" who are not billionaires
The "unnecessary eaters" as they were called in Weimar Germany by Trump's "many good people".
(sarcasm off)
This isn't about Russians, it's about oligarchs -- Birds Of A Feather.
If you think the Fanta Fascist is on YOUR side, unless you own a few Senators and travel in a personal Lear Jet, you likely attended Trump University and are a moron.
What do the Oligarchs want?
From The Kochs and Mercers, to the Kozitsyns, Potanins, and Melnichenkos...they all want one thing. The end of liberal democracies.
They have grown bored and tired with the inconvenience of going through the motions of pretending all you "unnecessary eaters" out there have political voices...the expenses of buying legislatures off.
Beyond your value as an organ donor when their livers are shot, you are less than nothing.
Putin is estimated to be the richest man in the world.
Like Trump, he hides the details.
(Trump's a halfwit who is hiding his debts and money laundering...make no comparison...he wasn't in the oligarch club...he wants in ).
This isn't about the country of Russia, it's about the wealthy going after the last crumbs on earth...yours.
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