Based on a four-page summary
of what is said to be a 300+ page
Mueller Report, which I will assume
to be an accurate summary
because Bill Barr has a good
reputation:
President Donald Trump
and his White House team
have been cleared of collusion
with the Kremlin in the
2016 presidential election.
You would have known the
charge was fake in late 2016
if you followed this blog.
The thought of Trump colluding
with anyone is laughable --
he is a one-man show !
Trump’s long-held claim
that the “Russiagate" story
was a “hoax”, is correct.
But always angry Democrats
don't care.
Attorney General Barr accepts
as fact the claim that Russia
interfered in the US election.
We only know of minor, incompetent
interference, such as $45,000
of Facebook ads placed by Russian
trolls before the election, versus
$4+ billion spent for all candidates
running for President.
The unproven, and most likely
false claim remains, that Russians
hacked into the Democrat party
computer system during 2016
and released emails compromising
Hillary Clinton to the whistleblower
website WikiLeaks.
That whole claim has debunked by
WikiLeaks and independently by
former NSA technical expert
William Binney and other former
US intelligence officials.
They have shown the information
was not hacked from outside,
but rather was released by an insider
in the Democrat party, which is
exactly what WikiLeaks claimed.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration’s
decision to unleash FBI illegal wiretapping
and other dirty tricks against Trump ,
was a serious, not yet prosecuted crime !
The belief that Russia interfered
in the US elections will continue to poison
US-Russia relations and used to justify
more economic sanctions against Moscow.
The relationship was not good under Obama"
When Barack Obama took over
the White House in 2009,
there was the famous
“reset policy”
initiated by Washington
towards Moscow.
In March 2009, US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton greeted Russian counterpart
Sergei Lavrov in Geneva with a jokey
“reset button”, to demonstrate
a willingness in Washington for a
new beginning in bilateral relations.
(1)
But later there was
American intervention
in Ukraine, in early 2014,
when we installed a rabidly
anti-Russian regime
through an illegal coup d’état.
(2)
Moscow’s military defense of Syria,
from US-led regime change, followed.
(3)
Then, under Trump, we abandoned
an arms control treaty, the INF,
which could allow it to install short
and medium-range nuclear missiles
in Europe, increasing tensions with Russia.
