Hitting
the Wall
Courtesy of schmott guy Robert Reich, a concise summary
of Trump's unmistakable deference to Putin:
Connect the following 7 dots. Do you see a pattern?
1. Trump's debt load has grown dramatically over the
last year, from $350 million to $630 million. At the
same time, he’s been blackballed by all major
US banks.
2. Post-bankruptcy, Trump has become highly reliant
on money from Russia -- most of which has over the
years become increasingly concentrated among oligarchs
close to Vladimir Putin.
3. Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager and top
advisor, spent most of the last decade as top campaign
and communications advisor to Viktor Yanukovych, the
pro-Russian Ukrainian Prime Minister and then President
whose ouster in 2014 led to the on-going crisis and
proxy war in Ukraine. Yanukovych was and remains a
close ally of Putin.
4. Trump's foreign policy advisor on Russia and Europe
is Carter Page, a man whose entire professional career
has revolved around investments in Russia and who has
deep and continuing financial and employment ties to
Gazprom, which, in turn, is part of Putin’s financial
empire.
5. Over the course of the last year, Putin has aligned
all Russian state controlled media behind Trump.
6. The Trump Camp was totally indifferent to the Republican
Party platform, with one exception: They changed the
party platform to eliminate assistance to Ukraine against
Russian military operations in eastern Ukraine. Not
incidentally, this is the single most important issue
to Putin.
7. Trump is also suggesting the US and thus NATO might
not come to the defense of NATO member states in the
Baltics in the case of a Russian invasion -- another
important issue to Putin.
I’m no conspiracy theorist, but these are just
the facts.
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Thank you, Mr. Reich.
=Lefty=
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