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Russia chaos
Sometimes a suspicion creeps out that the Kremlin and the Trump administration have a common department of propaganda. Donald Trump did not have time to write on March 2 Twit that the troubles of the Minister of Justice of Sessions are “witch hunt”, as on March 3, with a difference of one hour, the Russian Foreign Minister and the Kremlin press secretary fully approved this statement. Sergei Lavrov did this in an impersonal form:
I can only refer to the quote that the media was distributed today: all this is very similar to hunting witch or macartism, which, we thought, have long passed in the USA in a civilized country.
And Dmitry Peskov directly referred to Trump:
After the exhausting definition of President Trump, we have nothing more to add.
Lavrov, of course, perfectly understands that the story that happened to Jeff Sehns, and before him with Michael Flyn, has nothing to do with McCartism, but cannot deviate from the formula. "Witch Hunting" - a stamp, banality, but the same techniques are the same. President Trump publishes photographs of the Democrats leaders in the company of Putin and Medvedev, and in his Fighmaya manner, it requires investigation - Director of the Foreign Minister Maria Zakharov’s information in the nashi trolls of the American ambassador, which is proudly reported on Facebook:
*I go to the Foreign Ministry. The US Ambassador to the United States in Moscow J. Tefft comes out.
- You put yourself in danger, communicating with Russian diplomats - and suddenly CNN “recognizes,” I wished the partner good morning.*
And in another message with sparkling humor is expressed as follows:
It seems to me that if you publish all the contacts of Sergei Kislyak in Washington, the US Civil War of the North and South will resume in the United States.
And Trump, and Zakharov, and her boss carefully pretend that Sehnes suffers because of his contacts with the ambassador. But the essence of the claims is not at all in the fact of contacts. And the fact that Michael Flynn and Jeff Seshns considered this fact to hide this fact. They can be understood: saying A, B. Seshns should be said and asked about B, as soon as he recognized the fact of a meeting with a sour. The minister sets out his conversation with the ambassador of September 8 last year:
The conversation was the most ordinary. I don’t remember much, but I remember that he said that he was in Russia in 1991 with a group of believers, and he said that he himself was an unbeliever, but glad that believers came to Russia. In general, I think that he is such an old -regime ambassador of Soviet type. Well, we talked a little about terrorism, as far as I can remember. And somehow they went to the Ukrainian theme. To listen to him - this is how Russia does nothing wrong anywhere, but everyone else behaves incorrectly in the Ukrainian question. He spoke about this somewhat irritably. Well, in the end, he invited me to dinner. I refused, and we never had any lunch.
Of course, they did not say a word about the presidential election. And Sehnes met with the ambassador as a member of the Senate Committee on the Armed Forces, although in his testimony to the Senate he admitted that "once or two during this campaign I was asked to play the role of a trustee of" candidate Trump. Apparently, this was the wrong time.
But sometimes it is useful to see what happened before and after an event that interests us. On September 5, President Putin and President Obama met Hanzhou on the fields of the Summit twenty. In his comments for the press, Putin emphasized in every possible way that he was waiting for the election:
Yes, the sanctions theme was touched, but in passing, we did not discuss anything in detail, and I don’t see the point of discussing some kind of issues of this kind ... I think that, apparently, this is a matter of the future - to discuss these issues ... I hope that someday it will happen ...
On September 7, the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for the first time publicly stated that the hacking of the servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party, most likely, the work of Russian intelligence.
September 8 - on the day of the meeting of Seshns with Kislyak, but after it - Donald Trump gave an interview with the Russian television company RT in the person of Larry King. The following dialogue took place between the interlocutors:
*- Putin recently called the hacking of the servers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party Service to society. Do you agree?
I have no opinion on this. I don't know anything about it. I don't know who hacked the servers. Tell me who did it. But I have no opinion on this. I don’t know, I did not hear this statement.
It is reported that the US intelligence and law enforcement services began an investigation: they suspect that Russia is conducting a secret operation, trying to disrupt the 2016 elections in the United States. What do you feel about it?
Don't know. Yes, I heard and even read about it, but I treat it very skeptical. Maybe democrats specially spread these rumors? Who knows ... In my opinion, this is very unlikely. Nevertheless - everything can be. If such attempts are really made, then I hope they will be able to identify and suppress. After all, this is absolutely unacceptable.*
That same evening, Donald Trump took part in the TOK show NBC News "Forum of the Commander-in-Chief." Leading Matt Lauer asked him to tell about his attitude towards Putin.
*Donald Trump: He has a rating of 82 percent in various polls - including, by the way, and ours.
Matt Lauer: And this guy captured Crimea, invaded Ukraine, supports Assad in Syria, supports Iran, tries to undermine our influence in key regions of the world and, according to our intelligence community, he may be the main suspect in the hacking of computers of the National Committee of the Democratic Party.
Donald Trump: No one knows this for sure. Do you want me to start listing what President Obama has done at the same time?
Matt Lauer: Do you want to listen to the compliments of the former KGB officer?
Donald Trump: Well, when he called me a brilliant leader - yes, I accepted this compliment. In fact, this does not give him any advantages. I am a negotiator. The fact that he called me brilliant or somehow otherwise will have any consequences.
Matt Lauer: Do you believe that on the day when you become the President of the United States, he will change his position on these key issues?
Donald Trump: Perhaps. I don't know, Matt. Maybe. And this will not have any consequences. If he says wonderful things about me, I will also talk about him perfectly. He is a high degree. Of course, you can say: Ah, this is so terrible - he holds the country under strict control. This is a completely different system. It just so happened that I don't like it. But for that system, he is definitely a much better leader than our president for ours.*
Almost the word for word was repeated the last phrase by the candidate for vice presidents Mike Pence on CNN.
And in Moscow, on the same day, on September 8, but before both the interview of Trump and the meeting of Seshns with Kislyak, Dmitry Peskov approvingly responded to Trump's positive statements about Russia and Putin and made it clear that the Kremlin would not have to deal with the current president:
We hope that at the end of the election campaign, we will observe the political will in the direction of building good relations from Washington.
To this it is worth adding that Jeff Sehns was the first senator to support the candidate Trump. He did this on February 28 last year, when the struggle for the party nomination was in full swing. Already on March 3, Donald Trump said that Seshns will head the committee of his national security advisers. So he is not a trusted person, but a trusted person, which proves his appointment to one of the most significant state posts.
Of course, they will object to me that this is a conspiracyology and it is impossible to issue random coincidences for a causal relationship. But something a lot of random coincidences. Here is another chain.
August 12 Guccifer 2.0 (this site never probably existing the Romanian hacker used real crackers to publish stolen materials) publishes mobile phone numbers and electronic addresses of almost all democrats of the lower house of the Congress, and another similar site, DC LEAKS, is the electronic correspondence of two Republicans, the most toughly configured for Russia, - - - Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham. The message is more than transparent. On August 14, The New York Times reports that the National Anti -Corruption Bureau of Ukraine discovered a payment statement at which almost 13 million dollars are due to the head of the Trump Paul Floor Staff. Manafort, as you know, was an adviser to Viktor Yanukovych, but whether he got this money is unclear. On August 17, intelligence conducts for Trump the first secret briefing, at which he reports to him that there is a direct connection between the hacking of the mail and the Russian state. On August 19, Manafort is resigned. Trump continues to declare (and does this to this day) that the connection is not proven and that it is generally impossible to establish. On August 21, the Washington lobbyist and Trump adviser Roger Stone announces that the head of the election headquarters Hillary Clinton John Podesta will soon be left without work. WikiLeaks begins to publish a hacked dancing correspondence on October 7.
What is it, if not a war of compromising evidence?
Later it turned out that the FBI is investigating the Russian ties of Stone (along with the connections of Manafort, Carter Page and Michael Flynn) and that he maintained contact with the founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange.
There are many such chains. And it is hardly possible to recognize the publication of WikiLeaks a dossier about the KRRA hacker activity, which followed a few days after President Trump accused President Obama of the illegal wiretapping of his election headquarters. What orders, what is the secret court? Obama listened to Trump through the TV!
Apparently, the “Russian question” will shake American politics for a long time. In a sense, Moscow has achieved its own if its plans were to create chaos in Washington. But this is hardly a controlled chaos. And it was not possible to make a new reboot. Russia today is toxic for the White House.