Stranger than Fiction
Dispatches from Deena Stryker
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f memory serves me right, after World War II, the US, the Soviet Union and various bystanders in the looming standoff between the two nuclear powers founded The United Nations, with the hope that unlike the League of Nations, it would keep international peace for all time.
Fast forward seventy plus years and the political community in Washington is threatening to blow up the Trump presidency because of revelations that his advisors were meeting with Russian diplomats before he was sworn in — in the hope of overcoming the most serious falling out ever between the two major nuclear powers! How dare he try to cooperate with the enemy?
Only those who do not wish to see can deny that powerful people in Washington have itching trigger fingers — fatuously believing that a nuclear war would be no big deal. Tonight on CNN Vice President Pence, trying desperately to steer clear of the gathering storm, claimed “Of course there were no contacts with the Russians during the campaign. Why would there be?!!!!!” Why would there be? Really?
Editor’s Note: The very idea that any contact, by anyone, with an ambassador with whom Washington maintains formal relations is a crime, or an act meriting suspicion of treason, is not only ludicrous and contrary to longstanding norms, but the height of hypocrisy, especially considering the role of US embassies around the world, veritable engines of espionage, political turmoil, and often counter-revolution in their host countries. But of course, neither truth, nor common sense, or elementary decency, have any bearing on how the US media “reports” reality.
If the disgrace of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was the first act in an orchestrated effort to eventually bring down the Trump administration, we are now witnessing act two. (Sadly, a bright, seemingly aware young anchor who got her stripes following the presidential campaign, wondered tonight whether the career diplomat who is Russia’s ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak is a spy!)
Actually, it turns out the ambassador was keen to make sure that if elected, Trump would not approve arms sales to the Neo-Nazi regime that the Clinton/Obama State Department installed in Ukraine, in an attempt to pry that large country away from Russia and fold it into the European Union, together with the countries on Russia’s Eastern border, who have also opened their doors to NATO tanks and troops.
American journalists repeat like a mantra that Putin hated Hillary Clinton, but never mention the reason: it was her Assistant Secretary for European Affairs Victoria Nuland (wife of fellow Neocon writer Robert Kagan) who, after boasting to a press gathering that the US had spent over $5 billion dollars supporting the Ukraine opposition to Russia-friendly president Yanukovich, handed out cookies to Maidan ‘revolutionaries’, then in a phone call with the US Ambassador, discussed which Ukrainian oligarch, wrestler or banker should be anointed as president, and which should be prime minister (famously adding ‘fuck the EU!’ if it didn’t agree).
Recusing himself from investigating Trump surrogates’ encounters with Russian diplomats, after lying to Congress about his own participation in them, pixie-faced Attorney General Jeff Sessions played the down-home southerner to the hilt. One participant on Chris Matthews’ Hardball asked coyly ‘If there was nothing wrong’ about Trump surrogates meeting with the Russian ambassador…? implying they might have been discussing the best way for Russia to influence the vote, rather than how to end a US-inspired war on Russia’s doorstep.
This morning the witch hunt continues. Former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul made the trip to Washington from his sinecure at a California university, but when asked on MSNBC who the Russian Ambassador really is, he showed the miserable level of American intellectuals. He said Sergey Kislyak liked to give parties, but that he revealed the poor state of the Russian economy by serving Costco vodka to his guests. I’ll wager the decision was taken on the basis of most Americans probably not knowing the difference…
DEENA STRYKER, Senior Contributing Editor
Born in Philadelphia, Stryker spent most of her adolescent and adult years in Europe, resulting over time in several unique books, her latest being
CUBA: Diary of a Revolution, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia Sanchez
America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World
A Taoist Politics: The Case For Sacredness
She began her journalistic career at the French News Agency in Rome, spent two years in Cuba finding out whether the Barbados were Communists before they made the revolution (‘Cuba 1964: When the Revolution was Young’). After spending half a decade in Eastern Europe, and a decade in the U.S., studying Global Survival and writing speeches in the Carter State Department, she wrote the only book that foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall AND the dissolution of the Soviet Union (“Une autre Europe, un autre Monde’). Her memoir, ‘Lunch with Fellini, Dinner with Fidel’, tells it all. ‘A Taoist Politics: The Case for Sacredness’, which examines the similarities between ancient wisdom and modern science and what this implies for political activism; and ‘America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World” is a pamphlet about how the U.S. came down from the City on a Hill’.
MAIN IMAGE: Ambassador Sergey Kislyak shakes Pres. Putin’s hand at airport.
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