President Trump is dispatching the Witkoff/Kushner/Rubio “Gang of Three” to Moscow for talks with Putin. In my view, both Trump and Putin want the talks to be successful. There are, of course, major hurdles.
Trump has marginalized the Europeans to the point that he has ordered Rubio to skip the NATO ministerial on December 3. Marginalizing the Lindsey Grahams and Mark Warners of this world – not to mention the legacy media – is sure to prove more difficult.
Are we now to expect “Russia-gate II”, with Trump back “in Putin’s pocket”?
Yes. The Russophobes and war profiteers will surely try to emasculate Trump once again.
It will be easy for them to succeed in this, unless Americans can understand that “Russia-gate I” was one of the biggest political scandals in American history — far worse than a “hoax”.
I gave a talk on this at USC earlier this year, but someone forgot to press the RECORD button. So I interviewed myself, using the same 11 slides used during my lecture at UNC, updating them a little. My self-Zoom is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1uQ6QHO88.)
Here are the slides:
