tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post8498958235565558617..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: What the Russians wantedDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-33273622715627253742017-07-16T00:38:04.977-04:002017-07-16T00:38:04.977-04:00The hidebound, relentless austerity policies craft...The hidebound, relentless austerity policies crafted by Dr. Schauble have a helluva lot more to do with "NATO disarray" than anything Trump could dream of. "Electronic Watergate" this was not, unless the Watergate front desk had some doofus Podesta stand-in, handing out keys to Nixon's crew when they walked in the lobby. I have remarked before -- with specifics -- on the hazards of your neverending, wide-eyed acceptance of anything coming out of the NYT. Finally, I doubt very very much that Trump's amateur-hour oppo research in Moscow is anything close to unprecedented. The 1980 "October Surprise" comes to mind. Or Nixon's feelers with the Thieu regime in '68. I'll bet there have been all sorts of shady "understandings" with our wonderful friends in Tel Aviv and Riyadh, involving both Republican AND Democratic campaigns.<br /><br />Liberals are well on their way to accomplishing something I would've thought impossible: They might actually <i>inflate</i> the casino huckster's stature, via their myopic and brain-dead <i>All Russia All The Time</i> obsession.sgloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02803729082968854590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-60055209106978801452017-07-14T08:21:34.284-04:002017-07-14T08:21:34.284-04:00Professor:
Re What the Russians wanted
Daogerous...Professor:<br /><br />Re What the Russians wanted<br /><br />Daogerous speculations here for the leaders of both sides....<br />Here's an allegorical post, from my site, December 16, 2016:<br /><br />(One might also call it Leopard Man Dialogue.)<br /><br />"Cannibal Politics:<br /><br />General Butt Naked (A Leopard Man): "How you know we hacked you?"<br /><br />Ogunda, (A Crocodile Man): "We hacked two men, they confessed."<br /><br />General: "I cannot tell this here; tribe will hack me."<br /><br />Ogunda: "Nor I; I will hack my men who hacked your men."<br /><br />General: "More meat!"<br /><br />Ogunda: "More meat!"<br /><br />This post dedicated to Newt Gingrich"<br /><br />All the best Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-78426948417795914202017-07-13T19:27:34.227-04:002017-07-13T19:27:34.227-04:00Professor
Great stuff.
More or less what one mig...Professor<br />Great stuff. <br /><br />More or less what one might have expected to have been going on, behind the scenes...<br /><br />Regarding this passage, I tend to think that Putin has gotten what he had wanted out of this farce:<br /><br />"Putin's investment in Trump has already paid off handsomely in the form of disarray within the NATO alliance and a general loss of respect for the US around the world. But his government has not gotten what it wanted..."<br /><br />I tend to see sanctions re Crimea, and the likelihood of Hillary increasing them, as a real non issue going forward. Perhaps I am quite wrong.<br /><br />My own view, big picture, is that Russia should have taken Crimea and should keep it, as far as I am concerned, that the US should forget about human rights in Russia or anywhere else, and pay what little focussed attention it has ever been able to pay to anything to other more pressing matters instead, while it still can, here at the end of the West...<br /><br />I don't of course expect what I suggest here to have any chance of actually happening.<br /><br />All the best <br /><br />Bozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-37614100263844504102017-07-13T17:31:32.824-04:002017-07-13T17:31:32.824-04:00This is a "scandal" in blind pursuit of ...This is a "scandal" in blind pursuit of an actual scandal and you may be right that one or more may be found. But, why practice politics in this way? <br /><br />Trump is enough of a political amateur and his impulses reactionary enough that one would think Democrats could find plenty to attack him on, on policy. Instead of buying tougher Russia sanctions by giving Republican health care proposals free passage thru the Senate's procedural morass. Unless they do not want to talk policy substance, just as Clinton wanted to appeal to suburban Republican women, while ignoring the consequences of the policies of financial deregulation, "free trade", mass incarceration, holding down wages, and perpetual war her brand name was attached to.<br /><br />Looking for an explanation for Clinton's election loss in Russia is very convenient for the Democratic politicians and operatives who have destroyed the Party and left the country exposed to the power of right-wing Republicans at every level and in every branch of government. Because Podesta's emails were so exciting! And, RT America has such a huge audience! <br /><br />At some point, one has to ask what drives this uncritical nonsense? (And has been driving it at least since the Clinton impeachment twenty years ago.)Bruce Wilderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09631065564839959376noreply@blogger.com