{"id":288296,"date":"2017-01-03T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-dangerous-is-the-us-assault-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T20:38:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T19:38:10","slug":"how-dangerous-is-the-us-assault-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-dangerous-is-the-us-assault-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"How Dangerous Is the US Assault on Russia?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As 2016 draws to a close, we find ourselves a deeply unsettled nation. We\u2019re unable to draw the lines of our national interest. Is it jobs and economy, is it national security, or is it now in our interest to ensure global security \u2014 in other words, act as the world\u2019s policemen?<\/p>\n

As the \u201cfailing\u201d (to quote Trump) New York Times degenerates into a Washington Post organization with its stagnant Cold War vision of a 1950s world where the Russians are to blame for most everything \u2014 Hillary\u2019s loss, most of the aggression and disorder in the world, the desire to destabilize Europe, etc. \u2014 the Times has added the issue of \u2018fake news\u2019 to reassert its problematic role as the dominant voice for the Washington establishment.<\/p>\n

Certainly this is true in the case of Russia\u2019s \u2018hacking\u2019 the 2016 election and putting into office its Manchurian Candidate in Donald Trump. Apparently the CIA (via various unnamed intelligence officials), and the FBI, NSA, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (who notoriously lied to Congress in the Snowden affair), President Obama, the DNC, Hillary Clinton, and Congress agree that Russia, and Mr. Putin predominantly, is responsible.<\/p>\n

Certainly the psychotic, war-loving Senator John McCain is right up there alongside these patriots, calling President Putin a \u201cthug, bully and a murderer and anybody else who describes him as anything else is lying.\u201d He actually said this \u2014 the man whose sound judgment chose Sarah Palin as his VP nominee in \u201908. And the Times followed by printing the story in its full glory on page one, clearly agreeing with McCain\u2019s point of view.
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I don\u2019t remember Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, or Reagan, in the darkest days of the 1950s\/80s, ever singling out a Russian President like this. The invective was aimed at the Soviet regime, but never were Khrushchev or Brezhnev the target of this bile. I guess this is a new form of American diplomacy. If a black youth in our inner cities were killed or a Pakistani wedding party were murdered by our drones, would President Obama be singled out as a murderer, bully, thug?<\/p>\n

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