By Paul Edwards
Enough with accusations. Let’s assume the worst. Or maybe you think of it as the best. Let’s stipulate that Trump, never mind how, is the helpless tool of evil Putin. Putin posted social media attack rants to sow confusion and doubt in American minds about their country, and ordered the DNC hacking to expose and discredit Hillary on Wikileaks and get his puppet elected. What follows? What was his grand purpose, the endgame?
So, as President, Trump was Putin’s abject slave. What did Putin want? Diplomatic relations. Trump expelled a hundred Russian diplomats. He demanded sanctions against Russia be dropped. Trump added more. He ordered Trump to stay in the Iran deal. Trump dumped it. He directed Trump to de-fund Kiev’s neo-Nazi regime and drop demands to give up Crimea. Trump said no. He told Trump to cut the military budget. Trump increased it. He insisted Trump get out of Syria. Trump refused and had to be forced out. At Helsinki, he may even have asked Trump for--gasp!--a nuclear arms control deal. Trump demurred. No go, Vlad, said the slave.
One would have to say that, to date, Putin’s having Trump by the plums has produced no great triumphs. How can that be? What slavery is this? Either you have leverage or you don’t; you can exert pressure or you can’t.
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Ah,
but
one
bonehead
military
braintruster
has
revealed
that
it’s
all
about
undermining
America’s
“moral
authority”
in
the
world.
That,
you
see,
is
Putin’s
truly
diabolical
desire.
Never
mind
all
the
oppositional
policies
and
antagonistic
acts
by
Trump;
they
are
but
clever
cover
for
a
far
more
sinister
plot
by
the
fiend
Putin
to
diminish
our
cherished
respect
in
the
world
mind.
One
might
have
thought
our
grotesquely
vicious
blood-and-horror
shows
in
Afghanistan,
Iraq,
Libya
and
Syria
would
have
sufficed
to
render
our
“moral
authority”
moot
for
Putin
since
we
no
longer
have
any,
but
not
so.
There
is
evidently
no
limit
to
his
malevolent
passion
to
see
America
become
the
most
hated
nation
on
earth,
and
he
wants
it
done--the
gods
know
how!--faster
than
we’re
doing
it
ourselves.
That
being
so,
one
might
suspect
his
evil
meddling
reaches
far
back
to
Clilnton,
the
Bushes,
and
Obama,
but
that’
s
not
how
the
story
goes.
What
Putin
wants
Trump
to
do
is
to
eliminate
non-existent
admiration
and
respect,
a
tough
order
indeed.
For
the
sake
of
rigorous
inquiry,
let’s
set
aside
the
poor
performance
Putin
is
getting
despite
his
death
grip
on
his
victim,
and
speculate
about
what Vlad
Teufelsdreck
might
ideally
hope
for
with
a
slave
who
honored
his
obligations
better.
If
you’ve
followed
me
so
far,
his
goal
seems
clear.
He
wants
to
recreate
a
Russian
Empire
and
rule
the
world.
This
may
not
be
obvious
from
his
actual
behavior
but
we
need
not
be
fooled
by
mere
evidence.
After
subverting,
disarming
and
occupying
the
U.S.--having
asked
Xi
and
China
to
hang
tight
while
he
conquers
his
moral
authority-impaired
foes--he
will
then
turn
on
China,
just
as
Hitler
did
on..
Can
you
go
on
with
this
line
of
bullshit?
Can
anyone?
Taking
an
honest
look
at
the
wild
goat’s
nest
of
irrationality
and
deceit
behind
the
claim
that
Putin
has
any
hold
of
any
kind
whatever
on
Trump,
and
then
parsing
the
implications
of
that
idea,
the
infantile
fatuity,
the
mind-numbing
idiocy
of
the
whole
sham
has
to
slam
one
like
a
hi-balling
train.
An
assertion
of
fact
is,
in
logic,
a
premise,
which
is a
proposition
supporting
a
conclusion.
The
assertion
that
Trump
is
Putin’s
puppet
supports
the
conclusion
that
Trump
must
obey
his
will,
which,
QED,
is
howlingly
absurd.
Clintonista
Corporate
Democrats,
obdurate
in
hara-kiri
mode,
have
gone
all
in
to
attack
Trump
with
this
baseless
fantasy
rather
than
blister
him
for
the
glaring
evils
he
has
actually
perpetratred.
That
would
be
damned
awkward
for
them
as
many
of
their
big
donors
are
just
fine
with
the
looney
fiats
of
the
Imperial
Pagliacco.
And,
their
ploy
has
failed.
Trump’s
riding
them
out.
They’ve
embraced
the
Goldwater
mantra,
“Better
Dead
Than
Red”,
and
are
stoking
the
fires
of
the
gullible
for
a
face-off
with
Russia.
Gearing
up
for
that
Big
One
would
be a
jackpot
for
the
War
Machine.
It
could
gouge
out
a
far
fatter
hunk
of
budget
than
they’ve
gotten
beating
up
defenseless
little
nations
and
it’d
be
fat
city
right
up
to
the
point
where
Russia,
generations
ahead
of
Aunt
Sam
in
weaponry,
tore
The
Empire
a
great
big
new
one.
If this desperate madness persists, we may yet have both Trump and war. It may be as Kafka reflected: “There is infinite hope... but not for us.”
Paul Edwards is a writer and film-maker in Montana. He can be reached at: hgmnude@bresnan.net
The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Information Clearing House.
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