RUSSIAGATE II: The NYT https://nytimes.com/2024/09/04/us/politics/russia-election-influence.html says US spy agencies “assess” that Putin favors Trump and is meddling w/subversive “influence operations” in the US to help. Evidence? There was none when CIA/FBI/NSA “assessed” the Russians hacked DNC emails.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200507215144/https:/intelligence.house.gov/UploadedFiles/SH21.pdf
German regional elections in Thuringia and Saxony bode ill for benighted, snively Scholz policy toward Russia and Ukraine. Inexorable Russian offensive west in Ukraine attrits and attrits. What might US do to try to stop it? Would China “sit idly by”?
Parsing Kremlin threats regarding nukes. Larry Johnson and I with the Judge today.
Putin warned pointedly of US exceptionalism 11 years ago in a NYT op-ed, right after he helped Obama face down pressure for war on Syria and there was then still a modicum of trust.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html
Alas, Sullivan/Blinken seem “invincibly ignorant”.
Mr President: Let the world know you can say NO to Netanyahu.
https://x.com/raymcgovern/status/1827434273219150136
Mr President: A Warning. Your Advisers Are Likely to Suggest Nukes to Thwart Defeat in Ukraine
https://x.com/raymcgovern/status/1827519758377611770
