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Title: Once Again, President Trump Is Magnificently Right—This Time About Russia
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PJ Media
URL Source: https://pjmedia.com/spengler/once-a ... -right-this-time-about-russia/
Published: Jul 16, 2018
Author: David P. Goldman
Post Date: 2018-07-16 19:51:31 by nolu chan
Keywords: None
Views: 9264
Comments: 69
Once Again, President Trump Is Magnificently Right—This Time About Russia By David P. Goldman President Trump offended the entire political spectrum with a tweet this morning blaming the U.S. for poor relations with Russia. “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity,” the president said, and he is entirely correct. By this I do not mean to say that Russia is a beneficent actor in world affairs or that President Putin is an admirable world leader. Nonetheless, the president displayed both perspicacity and political courage when he pointed the finger at the United States for mismanaging the relationship with Russia. Full disclosure: I was a card-carrying member of the neoconservative cabal that planned to bring Western-style democracy and free markets to Russia after the fall of Communism. As chief economist for the supply-side consulting firm Polyconomics, I got an appointment as an adviser to Boris Yeltsin’s finance ministry and made several trips to Moscow. Of course, the finance ministry really was a family office for Yeltsin’s oligarch friends, who were too busy stealing Russia’s economy to listen to advice. The experience cured me of the neoconservative delusion that democracy and free markets are the natural order of things. Unfortunately, the delusion that the United States would remake Russia in its own image persisted through the Bush and Obama administrations. I have no reason to doubt the allegations that a dozen Russian intelligence officers meddled in the U.S. elections of 2016, but this was equivalent of a fraternity prank compared to America’s longstanding efforts to intervene in Russian politics. The United States supported the 2014 Maidan uprising in Ukraine and the overthrow of the Yanukovych government in the hope of repeating the exercise in Moscow sometime later. Then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland pulled whatever strings America had to replace the feckless and corrupt Victor Yanukovych with a government hostile to the Kremlin. She didn’t say it in so many words, but she hoped the Ukraine coup would lead to the overthrow of Vladimir Putin. Evidently Nuland and her boss, Hillary Clinton, thought that the Ukraine coup would deprive Russia of its Black Sea naval base in Crimea, and did not anticipate that Russia simply would annex an old Russian province that belonged to Ukraine by historical accident. [...] The Maidan coup was the second American attempt to install a Ukrainian government hostile to Moscow; the first occurred in 2004, when Condoleezza Rice was secretary of State rather than Hillary Clinton. As I wrote in Asia Times a decade ago, “On the night of November 22, 2004, then-Russian president - now premier - Vladimir Putin watched the television news in his dacha near Moscow. People who were with Putin that night report his anger and disbelief at the unfolding 'Orange' revolution in Ukraine. ‘They lied to me,’ Putin said bitterly of the United States. ‘I'll never trust them again.’ The Russians still can't fathom why the West threw over a potential strategic alliance for Ukraine. They underestimate the stupidity of the West." [snip]
PJ Media
July 16, 2018
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#6. To: nolu chan (#0)
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It's all great... unless Anatoliy Golitsyn was right.
Golitsyn's decades old conspiracy theories were debunked by Ivan Petrovich Sidorov.
Survey Says, meet the New Nolu Bullshyte... Same as the Old Nolu Bullshyte.
Old? Golitsyn's book is 34 years old and Golitsyn is dead. Ivan Petrovich Sidorov remains current.
Show us the URL to his "current" debunking or STFU.
Show me the URL to Golitsyn's "current" debunking of Trump or STFU.
LOL. How many results, Nolu Chow? Maybe if you Google it with your trusty TI calculator you can pull some "facts" out of your arse? Or NOT... as usual.
#17. To: VxH (#15)
Maybe if you use your trusty Google Draw, you can present another triangle with a side longer than the hypotenuse as a display of your inner genius. 1 result. I am not responsible for your inability to use the Google better than you do. The Russian Ivan Petrovich Sidorov is much better known than Anatoly Golitsyn. Virtually all of Russia knows Sidorov. As for your crap the unreliable conspiracy theorist Golitsyn spewed, the guy has been dead for 10 years, and he has not said anything in the last ten years, and can reliably be expected to not say anything about the the Trump presidency and Making America Great Again. Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, Transworld Publishers (May 1, 2018) By Martin Pearce [Excerpt] For Oldfield, the most relevant of the traitors was the largely anonymous Vassall.
I see you are still incapable of using the Google to find Ivan Petrovich Sidorov and still have no clue who it is. Pathetic.
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#7. To: VxH (#6)
It's all great... unless Anatoliy Golitsyn was right.
#8. To: nolu chan (#7)
#9. To: VxH (#8)
Same as the Old Nolu Bullshyte.
#10. To: nolu chan (#9)
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#11. To: VxH (#10)
Show us the URL to his "current" debunking or STFU.
#15. To: nolu chan (#11)
Replies to Comment # 15. Maybe if you Google it with your trusty TI calculator you can pull some "facts" out of your arse?
It's easy to see why Angleton became intoxicated with Golitsyn and his theories, and equally easy to see why the official historian of MI5, Professor Christopher Andrew, was to describe him as 'an unreliable conspiracy theorist'. Golitsyn began by confirming the identities of two Soviet spies the CIA and M16 had known of but whose activities they had never been able to prove legally, and who were already safely in Russia: Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. He then gave details of some spies who had not been unmasked, including the Briton John Vassall and a Russian double agent who had operated mostly in Germany named Aleksander Kopatzky. Vassall. a relatively low-level official at the Foreign Office. was later arrested, convicted and jailed. The case against Kopatzky was unproven and after a brief period seeking refuge in the Russian Consulate he braved it out and lived peacefully in Virginia for the rest of his days. Golitsyn also gave enough clues for the authorities, at last, to unmask Kim Philby — a spy who, having been effectively neutered a decade earlier, had arguably outlived his usefulness to the Soviets.
#31. To: VxH (#15)
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