kunstler | “For more than a
decade, Russia has meddled in elections around the world, supported
brutal dictators and invaded sovereign nations — all to the detriment of
United States interests.”
— The New York Times
The Resistance sure got a case of the vapors this week over Mr.
Trump’s failure to throttle America’s arch-enemy, the murderous thug V.
Putin of Russia, onstage in Helsinki, as any genuine Marvel Comix hero
is expected to do when facing consummate evil. Instead, the Golden Golem
of Greatness voiced some doubts about the veracity of our “intelligence
community” — as the shape-shifting Moloch of black ops likes to call
itself, as if it were a kindly service organization in Mr. Rogers
neighborhood, collecting dimes for victims of childhood cancer.
If I may be frank, the US Intel community looks like a much bigger
threat to American life and values than anything Mr. Putin is doing, for
instance his alleged “meddling” in US elections. This word, meddling,
absolutely pervades the captive Resistance news outlets these days. It
has a thrilling vagueness about it, intimating all kinds of dark deeds
without specifying anything, as consorting with Satan once did in our history. The reason: the only specific acts associated with this meddling
include the disclosure of incriminating emails among the Democratic
National Committee leadership, and a tiny gang of Facebook trolls making
sport of profoundly idiotic and dysfunctional American electoral
politics.
The brief against Russia also contains vague accusations of
“aggression.” It is hard to discern what is meant by that — though it
apparently warms the heart of American war hawks and their paymasters in
the warfare industries. They allege that Russia “stole” Crimea from
Ukraine. Consider: Crimea had been a province of Russia since the 1700s.
Ukraine itself was a province of the USSR when Nikita Khrushchev put
Crimea under Ukraine’s administrative control in 1956, a relationship
which became obviously problematic after the breakup of the soviet
mega-state in 1990 — and became even more of a problem when the US State
Department and our CIA stage-managed a coup against the Russia-leaning
Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. Crimea is the site of
Russia’s only warm water naval bases. Do you suppose that even an
experience American CIA analyst might understand that Russia would under no circumstances give up those assets? Please, grow up.
