By James The Russian Analyst
Defeated presidential candidate and lifelong grifter Hillary Clinton is out in the legacy media this week, promoting her book What Happened and accusing Trump's campaign of colluding with the Russians.
If the consequences from an accelerating Eurasian and now even Venezuelan dump of the U.S. dollar wouldn't be so dire, the entire #MuhRussia story concocted by deep staters and the suddenly ultra-hawkish fake liberal presstitutes would make for a hilarious Cold War farce.
Instead, as my friend The Saker writes the initial optimism in Moscow regarding the election of Trump has turned to contempt for the extent to which the USA is disappearing up its own paranoid rear orifice faster than you can say, "Russian troll-bots organized an anti-refugee rally in Idaho" (which four people can seem to recall attending if it happened at all). Trump being bullied and blocked from pursuing his campaign promise of detente with Russia has also revealed who really runs Washington, and that certainly isn't the man sitting in the Oval Office. Vladimir Putin put it succintly in a recent press conference when Vlad stated that Trump isn't his bride and he is not a groom, and that it's difficult to constructively engage people who confuse Austria and Australia (alluding to a gaffe by President Obama, but intended as a dig against the American political class in general).
Hey Rachel Maddow -- no more free parking for U.S. and British diplomats in Russia!
Exceptionalistan is Either Too Stubborn or Stupid to Negotiate:
The Meaning of "недоговороспособны"
"Not Agreement Capable" (недоговороспособны) is a term Russian diplomats came up with to describe their American counterparts, after each deal in Syria seemingly fell apart during the Obama Administration's lame duck phase, with the Pentagon 'accidentally' bombing Syrian government troops or otherwise sabotaging deconfliction agreements established to fight ISIS. At the rate the media returned to the latest "Russian trolls for Trump" reports, you'd think there were no clean ups going on from two massive hurricanes striking Texas and Florida within the last two weeks, and nothing else of importance going on in the world besides another North Korean missile test.
The problem is that Cold War 2, like the first Cold War which lasted over 40 years, has become an industry that's too lucrative in terms of clicks or potential federal grants to quit. Nevermind if many of its premises like the 'Steele dossier' or 'Russians hacked the DNC' are either saturated with lies or elaborate hoaxes. Poking the Russian bear, or blaming Russia for everything that's deteriorating rapidly with America's global standing, has become an irresistible compulsion. Like an alcoholic or a junkie, Washington and New York's political and media classes cannot stop or they'll go into withdrawals, which they imagine will be fatal.
FORMER FBI AGENT AND SYRIA JIHADIST FANBOY TURNED HUNTER OF RUSSIAN TROLLS CLINTON WATTS -- WOULD YOU BUY A USED CAR FROM THIS MAN?
Backfiring: How 'Russia Hacked the Election' Story Reduces Washington's 'Soft Power', by Making the U.S. Government Look Either Inept, Weak or Both
Recently the legacy media seized on an alleged 'confession' made by Vyachislav A. Nikonov (Вячеслав Алексеевич Никонов), the grandson of Stalin's infamous foreign minister Georgy Molotov, on Russia's most watched Sunday night talk show with host Vladimir Solovyov. In sarcastic remarks that did not translate well -- but would've been twisted into an admission of guilt in any case -- Vyachislav Alexeyivich declared that if the U.S. intelligence community's January 2017 assessment regarding Russians 'hacking the election' were true, then the American security services are admitting to be fools who allowed Russia to exert a great influence over the world's most powerful nation. Even the Cold War 2 clickbaiters at The Hill managed to find someone in the ten richest counties per capita in America surrounding Washington D.C. who could fairly translate what Nikonov actually said:
“On a Sunday panel show, a Russian politician said U.S. “intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States.”
Vyacheslav Nikonov, a member of the Russian parliamentary body, the Duma, made the remarks on the panel show “Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov.”
The focus of the episode was the decline of U.S. power in the world. In that context, said University of Virginia professor Allen Lynch via email, Nikonov was less stating the extent of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, and more mocking the resulting chaos as emblematic of U.S. weakness.
“His point in making the remark was that if the U.S. can’t protect the integrity of its own electoral system, then how powerful can it really be?” wrote Lynch.”
— http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/350040-russian-pol-us-intelligence-missed-it-while-russian-intelligence-stole
Mr. Nikonov's point was that either Russia didn't do it, and the FBI/CIA/NSA chiefs have been lying to the world, or alternatively, the Americans are weak and easily bested by Russia's cyber-spies and informational warriors. There is no easy way out position in between these poles of explanation that salvages the CIA/NSA/FBI's reputation for integrity and competency. This is the case despite efforts by journalists' deep state sources and ex-spooks to claim that Russian influence operations this time around exploited the voodoo black magic of social media, unlike back in the good ole days of Radio Moscow and KGB active measures publishing disinfo in obscure newspapers overseas in places like India before it made its way to the U.S.
Even if one questions Mr. Nikonov's honesty and apologetics for his Ribbentrop pact signing Stalinist grandfather, you cannot argue with his logic on #RussiaGate. The U.S. intelligence services cannot proclaim themselves to be the very best in the world at everything but counterintelligence and say in the same breath that Russia 'hacked the election' under their noses.
New York Times Admits its Sources Lied About Russian Doping, But Trust Em on #TrumpRussia and Russians Posing as Americans on Social Media to Trick YOU
The American deep or we should say derp state of course, wants to explain away its failures with 'but Russians are so danged clever' or 'it was the bots' -- referring to automated trolling and spreading of 'fake news' regarding Hillary Clinton carried out by the dreaded St. Petersburg Internet Research Center aka Kremlinbots HQ. In a long rambling article intended to support the Justice Department's demand that RT America register as a foreign agent under the previously not enforced versus news orgs Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), The New York Times attempted to link RT with the Gerasimov Doctrine, the supposedly new Russian way of hybrid warfare against the minds of gullible westerners. Except there are numerous problems with the article, ranging from the NYT's admission that no one seems to really know how many Americans watch RT much less had their votes influenced by it, to highly professional as well as amateur Russia watchers disputing whether any Gerasimov Doctrine actually exists.
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