The
View of Russia in the West
By Paul
Craig Roberts
July
11, 2018 "Information
Clearing House"
- The upcoming Trump/Putin summit
is hampered by the crazed portrait of Russia
painted by presstitutes. Jonathan Chait, Amy
Knight, Max Bergmann, Yaroslav Trofimov, Roger
Cohen, and the rest of the conscious or de facto
CIA assets that comprise the Western presstitute
media have turned Putin into a superhuman who
controls election outcomes throughout the West,
murders people without rhyme or reason, and has
President Trump under his thumb doing Putin’s
bidding. Who could imagine a more extreme
conspiracy theory?
Jonathan Chait in New York magazine writes that
“the dark crevices of the Russia scandal run
deep,” so deep that “it would be dangerous not
to consider the possibility that the summit is
less a negotiation between two heads of state
than a meeting between a Russian-intelligence
asset and his handler.”
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
So here
is Chait, who brands truth-tellers “conspiracy
theorists” coming up with the greatest
conspiracy theory of our time that President
Trump has been a Kremlim asset since 1987. Chait
provides a ”crazy quilt of connections” to
illustrate his absurd conspiracy theory that
“it’s not necessary to believe that Putin always
knew he might install Trump in the Oval Office
to find the following situation highly
plausible: Sometime in 2015, the Russian
president recognized that he had, in one of his
unknown number of intelligence files, an inroad
into American presidential politics.”
Chait
believes that Russia is also behind the UK’s
exit from the European Union. “Driving Britain
out of the European Union advanced the
decades-long Russian goal of splitting Western
nations apart, and Russia found willing allies
on the British far right.”
Chait
gets even more conspiratorial. He admits that
Paul Manafort’s indictments for alleged white
collar crimes are not related to Trump’s
election, having occurred years previously in
Ukraine. Nevertheless, Chait is certain that
Manafort is shielding Trump even though
according to Chait Manafort is facing many years
in prison. Why would Manafort shield Trump?
Chait’s answer:
“One way to make sense of his behavior is the
possibility that Manafort is keeping his mouth
shut because he’s afraid of being killed. That
speculation might sound hyperbolic, but there is
plenty of evidence to support it. In February, a
video appeared on YouTube showing Manafort’s
patron Deripaska on his yacht with a Belarusian
escort named Anastasia Vashukevich.”
Chait’s
article is long and heavily weighted with
innuendo. Chait, or whoever wrote the article,
possibly the person who wrote the Steele
Dossier, collects every disparaging fact and
fantasy about Trump and assembles them in a way
to paint a portrait of a person who must also,
without much doubt, be a Russian agent. If the
public can be convinced of this, the
military/security complex can assassinate Trump
and blame Putin for getting rid of an asset who
was exposed by the Russiagate investigation, no
longer useful, and perhaps prepared to spill the
beans.
Another
conspiracy theorist, Amy Knight, writes that
“The real question is where does the Russian
criminal state end and the criminal underworld
begin, and how do they work together in what
amounts to a new murder incorporated?”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/novichok-victim-dies-did-the-kremlin-really-lose-control-of-its-deadliest-poisons?ref=wrap
Yaroslav Trofimov tells us in the Wall Street
Journal (July 7) that “Putin maps out his own
empire” to replace the lost Soviet one.
In the
Washington Post Max Bergmann tells us that Trump
is going to sell out NATO in Helsinki. This line
leads to the supposition that Putin is using
Trump to unleash the Russian military on Europe.
Many conspiracy theorists have come together on
the view that first the Baltic States will be
invaded and then Putin will move on to Germany
and the rest of Europe. The New York Times’
Roger Cohen even pulls Marine Le Pen into the
plot which widens to include ethnically
cleansing the West of the refugees from
Washington’s wars.
This is
the level of absurdity that the American media
delivers to the public’s understanding of
foreign affairs.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
The
views expressed in this article are solely those
of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of Information Clearing House.
