“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic
into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures
in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded
as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” ― John Adams
“A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be
marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing
political adversaries or ejecting them from office.” ~ Alexis de
Tocqueville
The impeachment inquiry into whether
President Trump committed high crimes or misdemeanors in requesting Ukrainian
President Zelensky to investigate whether Joe Biden or his son were involved in
corruption in Ukraine is a sham. After
Attorney General Bill Barr launched an investigation into the origins of the highly
dubious Russia-gate charges launched by the DNC, panic and desperation
ensued. Desperate to cover up the
massive theft of taxpayer money and corruption of the Obama Administration Dems
put impeachment on the fast track.
The so called whistleblowers are CIA spooks who were complicit
in the massive crimes against the American taxpayers and the people of
Ukraine. The crimes were committed by
Democrats in the highest levels in the DNC, CIA, State Department, Pentagon as
well as the British MI6. From The Unz Review:
Excerpt:
The Plundering of Ukraine by Corrupt American Democrats
A talk with Oleg Tsarev reveals the
alleged identity of the "Trump/Ukraine Whistleblower"
Mr. Tsarev with Israel Shamir in
Crimea
Top Dems are involved in the plundering of the Ukraine: new names,
mind-boggling accounts. The mysterious ‘whistleblower’ whose report had
unleashed the impeachment is named in the exclusive interview given to the Unz
Review by a prominent Ukrainian
politician, an ex-Member of Parliament of four terms, a candidate for Ukraine’s
presidency, Oleg Tsarev.
Mr Tsarev, a tall, agile and
graceful man, a good speaker and a prolific writer, had been a leading and
popular Ukrainian politician before the 2014 putsch; he stayed in the Ukraine
after President Yanukovych’s flight; ran
for the Presidency against Mr Poroshenko, and eventually had to go to exile due
to multiple threats to his life.
During
the failed attempt to secede, he was elected the speaker of the Parliament of
Novorossia (South-Eastern Ukraine). I spoke to him in Crimea, where he
lives in the pleasant seaside town of Yalta. Tsarev still has many supporters
in the Ukraine, and is a leader of the opposition to the Kiev regime.
Oleg, you followed Biden story from
its very inception. Biden is not the only Dem politician involved in the
Ukrainian corruption schemes, is he?
Indeed, John Kerry, the Secretary of State in Obama’s administration,
was his partner-in-crime. But Joe Biden was number one.
During the Obama presidency, Biden was the US proconsul for Ukraine, and he
was involved in many corruption schemes. He authorised transfer of three
billion dollars of the US taxpayers’ money to the post-coup government of the
Ukraine; the money was stolen, and Biden took a big share of the spoils.
It is a story of ripping the US taxpayer and the Ukrainian
customer off for the benefit of a few corruptioners, American and Ukrainian.
And it is a story of Kiev regime and its dependence on the US and IMF. The
Ukraine has a few midsize deposits of natural gas, sufficient for domestic
household consumption.
The
cost of its production was quite low; and the Ukrainians got used to pay
pennies for their gas. Actually, it was so cheap to produce that
the Ukraine could provide all its households with free gas for heating and
cooking, just like Libya did. Despite low consumer price, the
gas companies (like Burisma) had very high profits and very little expenditure.
After the 2014 coup, IMF demanded to
raise the price of gas for the domestic consumer to European levels, and the
new president Petro Poroshenko obliged them. The prices went sky-high. The Ukrainians were forced to pay many
times more for their cooking and heating;
and huge profits went to coffers of the gas companies. Instead of raising
taxes or lowering prices, President Poroshenko demanded the gas companies to
pay him or subsidise his projects. He said that he arranged the price hike;
it means he should be considered a partner.
Burisma Gas Company had to pay
extortion money to the president Poroshenko. Eventually its founder and
owner Mr Nicolai Zlochevsky decided to
invite some important Westerners into the company’s board of directors
hoping it would moderate Poroshenko’s appetites. He had brought in Biden’s son Hunter, John Kerry, Polish ex-President
Kwasniewski; but it didn’t help him.
Poroshenko
became furious that the fattened calf may escape him, and asked the Attorney
General Shokin to investigate Burisma trusting some irregularities would
emerge. AG Shokin immediately
discovered that Burisma had paid these ‘stars’ between 50 and 150 thousand
dollar per month each just for being on the list of directors. THIS IS
ILLEGAL BY THE UKRAINIAN TAX CODE; IT
CAN’T BE RECOGNISED AS LEGITIMATE EXPENDITURE.
At that time Biden the father entered the fray. He called Poroshenko
and gave him six hours to close the case against his son. Otherwise,
one billion dollars of the US taxpayers’ funds won’t pass to the Ukrainian
corruptioners. Zlochevsky, THE
BURISMA OWNER, PAID BIDEN WELL FOR THIS CONVERSATION: HE RECEIVED BETWEEN THREE
AND TEN MILLION DOLLARS, ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT SOURCES.
AG Shokin said he can’t close
the case within six hours; Poroshenko sacked him and installed Mr Lutsenko
in his stead. Lutsenko was willing to dismiss the case of Burisma, but he also
could not do it in a day, or even in a week. Biden, as we know, could not keep
his trap shut: by talking about the pressure he put on Poroshenko, he
incriminated himself. Meanwhile Mr Shokin
gave evidence that Biden put pressure on Poroshenko to fire him, and now it was
confirmed. The evidence was given to the US lawyers in connection with
another case, Firtash case.
What is Firtash Case?
THE DEMOCRATS WANTED TO GET ANOTHER UKRAINIAN OLIGARCH, MR FIRTASH, TO
THE US AND MAKE HIM TO CONFESS THAT HE ILLEGALLY SUPPORTED TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN FOR
THE SAKE OF RUSSIA. Firtash had been arrested in Vienna, Austria; there he
fought extradition to the US. His
lawyers claimed it is purely political case, and they used Mr Shokin’s
deposition to substantiate their claim.
For this reason, the evidence
supplied by Shokin is not easily reversible, even if Shokin were willing, and
he is not. He also stated under oath
that the Democrats pressurised him to help and extradite Firtash to the US,
though he had no standing in this purely American issue. It seems that Mrs
Clinton believes that Firtash’s funds helped Trump to win elections, an
extremely unlikely thing [says Mr Tsarev].
Talking about Burisma and Biden; what
is this billion dollars of aid that Biden could give or withhold?
It is USAID money, the main channel
of the US aid for “support of democracy”. First billion dollars of USAID came
to the Ukraine in 2014. This was
authorised by Joe Biden, while for Ukraine, the papers were signed by Mr
Turchinov, the “acting President”.
The Ukrainian constitution does not know of such a position, and
Turchinov, “the acting President” had no right to sign neither a legal nor
financial document. Thus, all the documents that were signed by him, in
fact, had no legal force. However, BIDEN
COUNTERSIGNED THE PAPERS SIGNED BY TURCHYNOV AND ALLOCATED MONEY FOR UKRAINE.
AND THE MONEY WAS STOLEN – BY THE DEMOCRATS AND THEIR UKRAINIAN COUNTERPARTS.
Two years ago, (that is already under President Trump) the United
States began to investigate the allocation of 3 billion dollars; it was
allocated in 2014, in 2015, in 2016; one billion dollars per year. The investigation showed that the documents were falsified, the
money was transferred to Ukraine, and stolen. The investigators tracked
each payment, discovered where the money went, where it was spent and how it
was stolen.
As a result, in October 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice opened a criminal case
for “Abuse of power and embezzlement of American taxpayers’ money”. Among
the accused there are two consecutive Finance Ministers of the Ukraine, Mrs
Natalie Ann Jaresko who served 2014-2016 and Mr Alexander Daniluk who served
2016-2018, AND THREE US BANKS. The
investigation caused the USAID to cease issuing grants since August 2019. AS
TRUMP SAID, NOW THE US DOES NOT GIVE AWAY MONEY AND DOES NOT IMPOSE DEMOCRACY.
THE MONEY WAS ALLOCATED WITH THE FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF AMERICAN LAW.
There was no risk assessment, no audit
reports. Normally the USAID, when allocating cash, always prepares a
substantial package of documents. But the billions were given to Ukraine
completely without documents. The
criminal case on the embezzlement of USAID funds had been signed personally by
the US Attorney General, so these issues are very much alive.
Sam Kislin was involved in this
investigation. He is a good friend and associate of Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer
and an ex-mayor of New York. Kislin is well known in Kiev, and I have many
friends who are Sam’s friends [said Tsarev]. I learned of his progress, because
some of my friends were detained in the United States, or interrogated in
Ukraine. They briefed me about this. It appears that Burisma is just the tip
of the scandal, the tip of the iceberg.
IF TRUMP WILL CARRY ON, AND USE WHAT WAS ALREADY INITIATED AND
INVESTIGATED, THE WHOLE HEADQUARTERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL COME DOWN.
They will not be able to hold elections. I have no right to name names, but
believe me, leading functionaries of the Democratic Party are involved.
Poroshenko was aware of that; he gave orders to declare Sam Kislin
persona non grata. Once the old man (he is over 80) flew into Kiev airport
and he was not allowed to come in; he
spent the night in detention and was flown back to the US next day.
Poroshenko had been totally allied with Clinton camp.
And President Zelensky? Is he free
from Clintonite Democrats’ influence?
If he were, there would not be the scandal of Trump phone call. How
the Democrats learned of this call and its alleged content? The official
version says there was a CIA man, a whistle-blower, who reported to the
Democrats. What the version does not clarify, where this whistle-blower was
located during the call. I tell you, he was located in Kiev, and he
was present at the conversation, at the Ukrainian President Zelensky’s side.
This man was (perhaps) a CIA asset,
but he also was a close associate of George Soros, and a Ukrainian high-ranking
official. His name is Mr Alexander Daniluk.
He is also the man the investigation of Sam Kislin and of the DoJ had led to,
the Finance Minister of Ukraine at the time, the man who was responsible for
the embezzlement of three billion US taxpayer’s best dollars. THE DOJ
ISSUED AN ORDER FOR HIS ARREST. NATURALLY HE IS DEVOTED TO BIDEN PERSONALLY,
AND TO THE DEMS IN GENERAL. I WOULD NOT TRUST HIS VERSION OF THE PHONE CALL
AT ALL.
Daniluk was supposed to accompany President Zelensky on his visit to
Washington; but he was informed
that there is an order for his arrest. He remained in Kiev. And soon
afterwards, the hell of the alleged leaked phone call broke out. Zelensky administration investigated and
concluded that the leak was done by Mr Alexander Daniluk, who is known for his
close relations with George Soros and with Mr Biden. Alexander Daniluk
had been fired. (However, he did not admit his guilt and said the leak was done
by his sworn enemy, the head of president’s administration office, Mr Andrey
Bogdan, who allegedly framed Daniluk.)
This is not the only case of US-connected corruption in Ukraine.
There is Amos J. Hochstein, a protege
of former VP Joe Biden, who has served in the Barack Obama administration
as the Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. He still hangs on the
Ukraine. Together with an American citizen Andrew Favorov, the Deputy Director
of Naftogas he organised very expensive
“reverse gas import” into Ukraine.
In this scheme, the Russian gas is bought by Europeans and
afterwards sold to Ukraine with a wonderful margin. In reality, gas comes
from Russia directly, but payments go via Hochstein. It is much more costly
than to buy directly from Russia; Ukrainian people pay, while the margin is collected by Hochstein and Favorov. Now they plan to import liquefied gas
from the United States, at even higher price. Again, the price will be paid by
the Ukrainians, while profits will go to Hochstein and Favorov.
In all these scams, there are
people of Clinton and spooks who are fully integrated in the Democratic Party. A former head of CIA, Robert James
Woolsey, now sits on the Board of Directors of Velta, producing Ukrainian
titanium. Woolsey is a neocon, a member of the
Project for the New American Century (PNAC), pro-Israel think-tank, and a man
who relentlessly pushed for Iraq war. A TYPICAL DEMOCRAT SPOOK, NOW HE GETS
PROFITS FROM UKRAINIAN ORE DEPOSITS.
One of the best Ukrainian
corruption stories is connected with Audrius Butkevicius, the former Minister
of Defence (1996 to 2000) and a Member of the Seimas (Parliament) of
post-Soviet Lithuania. Mr AB is supposedly
working for MI6, and now is a member of the notorious Institute for Statecraft,
a UK deep state propaganda outfit involved in disinformation operations,
subversion of the democratic process and promoting Russophobia and the idea
of a new cold war. In 1991 he commanded snipers that shoot Lithuanian
protesters.
The kills were ascribed to the
Soviet armed forces, and the last Soviet President Mr Gorbachev ordered speedy
withdrawal of his troops from Lithuania. Mr AB became the Minister of Defence
of his independent nation. In 1997 the
Honourable Minister of Defence “had requested 300,000 USD from a senior
executive of a troubled oil company for his assistance in obtaining the
discontinuance of criminal proceedings concerning the company’s vast debts”,
in the language of the court judgement. He was arrested on receipt of the
bribe, had been sentenced to five years of jail, but a man with such
qualifications was not left to rot in a prison.
In 2005 he commanded the snipers
who killed protesters in Kyrgyzstan, in Georgia he repeated the feat in 2003
during the Rose Revolution. In 2014 he
did it again in Kiev, where his snipers killed around a hundred men, protesters
and police. He was brought to Kiev
by Mr Turchinov, who called himself the “acting President” and who
countersigned Joe Biden’s billion dollars’ grant.
In October 2018 the name of Mr AB
came up again. Military warehouses of
Chernigov had caught fire; allegedly thousands of shells stored for fighting
the separatists had been destroyed by fire. And it was not the first
fire of this kind: the previous one,
equally huge, torched Ukrainian army warehouses in Vinnitsa in 2017. Altogether, there were 12 huge army arsenal
fires for the last few years. Just for 2018, the damage was over $2 billion.
When Chief Military Prosecutor
of Ukraine Anatoly Matios investigated the fires, he discovered that 80% of
weapons and shells in the warehouses were missing. They weren’t
destroyed by fire, they weren’t there in the first place.
Instead of being used to kill the
Russian-speaking Ukrainians of Donetsk,
THE HARDWARE HAD BEEN SHIPPED FROM THE PORT OF NIKOLAEV TO SYRIA, TO THE
ISLAMIC REBELS AND TO ISIS. And the man who organised this enormous
operation was our Mr AB, the old
fighter for democracy on behalf of MI6, acting in cahoots with the Minister of
Defence Poltorak and Mr Turchinov, the friend of Mr Biden. (They say Mr Matios was given $10 million
for his silence).
THE LOSS WAS OF UKRAINIAN PEOPLE, AND OF US TAXPAYERS, WHILE THE
BENEFICIARIES WERE THE DEEP STATE, WHICH IS PROBABLY JUST ANOTHER NAME FOR THE
DEADLY MIX OF SPOOKS, MEDIA AND POLITICIANS.
The Democratic Party no longer exists, what has replaced it
is a highly corrupt amalgam of crooks from the George W. Bush Administration
and Obama Administration who have committed massive theft of the American
taxpayers money. They are what Tulsi
Gabbard called “the rot that has infected the Democratic Party.”
Isn’t it rich? The
Democrats want Trump impeached for holding up funds they authorized for the
government of Ukraine, money that will go directly into their own and their
families’ pockets, with a little off the top for the corrupt Ukraine government
cronies.
These Democrats and their family members siphoned billions of
taxpayers’ dollars that they funneled through the corrupt government they
illegally installed in Ukraine after a CIA/State Department/MI6 coup. The American taxpayers bear the burden of
paying interest on the trillions the Federal Reserve Bank printed up to pay for
it. The politicians call the billions in
interest payments to the Federal Reserve “an entitlement” therefore when they
lump the interest owed to the Federal Reserve Bank with Social Security,
Medicare and Medicaid they tell the American people that entitlements are
bankrupting the country.
The Democrats are desperate to
stop Barr’s investigation because if brought to light there will be no
Democrats left. From Larry Johnson at
LaRouche Pub:
Larry Johnson Writes, Attorney General Barr Has ‘Pulled the Trigger’
Oct. 26, 2019 (EIRNS)—Writing on
the “Sic Semper Tyrannis” website, Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst who
helped create the VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity),
proclaims that the counterpunch against
the attempted coup has been kicked into high gear under the direction Attorney
General Bill Barr. Johnson writes:
“I do not believe that it is a mere
coincidence that these three events occurred late last night [Thursday night]:
“1. The investigation of the roots
of the plot to destroy Donald Trump and his Presidency is now a criminal
matter.
“2. A letter from Inspector
General Horowitz announcing that his report on the FISA fraud would be out
shortly with no major redactions.
“3. The Government caved to Honey
Badger Sidney Powell and allowed her to fully expose criminal conduct by
Michael Flynn’s prosecutors.
“What is going on? Two words. Bill
Barr. The Attorney General has pulled the trigger and altered the landscape in
the Russiagate saga. Having been granted
full authority by the President to declassify information, including intel from
the CIA and the NSA, he has now acted in a powerful, but low key way.
The
announcement that this is now a criminal investigation means that anyone,
including FBI agents and CIA officers, who try to hold back information or hide
information will be vulnerable to obstruction of justice charges. Criminal
penalties attach....
“Christopher Wray and his sycophants last night folded like a cheap
tent in a hurricane in terms of blocking release of the Inspector General
report on FISA abuses. They also withdrew the FBI objections to the
Exhibits that Sidney Powell had
attached to her brief explaining why the FBI had engaged in criminal activity
against her client, Gen. Mike Flynn.
“When Durham goes to the CIA, the
DIA and the NSA asking questions and demanding documents they must cooperate or
face criminal charges. That is the
gamechanger.”
Gamechanger indeed.
Let the impeachments begin, not of Trump but the Obama Administration, the
DNC, CIA, State Department and all those involved. The crimes committed should carry life
sentences for the damage they caused the American people and the Ukrainian
people and the people of Syria. From
Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge:
Excerpt:
The DOJ's Russiagate Probe Just Turned Into A Criminal Investigation
What began as an administrative review by the Justice
Department into the origins of Russiagate has "shifted" to a criminal
inquiry, according to the New York Times, citing two people familiar with
the matter.
The move will allow prosecutor John H Durham the power to subpoena
documents and witnesses, to impanel a grand jury, and to file criminal charges.
Durham's progress has been closely monitored by Attorney General William
Barr, who appointed the veteran investigator in May, tasking him with looking into FBI and CIA intelligence gathering
operations surrounding the 2016 US election.
US Attorney John Durham
As the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross
notes, Barr said on April 10 that he
believed "spying" had taken place against the Trump campaign, and
that he doesn't buy former FBI officials' version of how the collusion
investigation began. Little is known
about Durham’s activities so far in the investigation. The Times report said it
is unclear when the investigation took on a criminal element, or what specific
crime Durham is investigating.
Durham accompanied Barr to Italy late in September as part of an
inquiry into U.S. intelligence agents’ activities there during the 2016
campaign. They also inquired about Joseph Mifsud, a mysterious Maltese
professor who established contact with Trump aide George Papadopoulos in 2016.
-Daily Caller
Just over three weeks ago, the
Times also reported that President Trump
asked the Australian Prime Minister to help Barr uncover the origins of
"Russiagate," a move which Justice Department officials said "would be neither illegal nor
untoward for Trump to ask."
And according to NBC News, Durham
has set his sights on former CIA Director John Brennan and former national
intelligence director James Clapper.
Durham's investigation has been running parallel to a probe by Justice
Department Inspector General (and registered Democrat) Michael Horowitz, who
told Congress on Thursday that he expects his report to be "lengthy,"
but able to be made mostly available to the public.
The Durham probe is similar to a Justice Department inspector general’s
investigation into the FBI’s surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page…
Horowitz has been investigating whether the FBI misled the foreign
surveillance court in spy applications against Page. Investigators relied
heavily on the Steele dossier in the applications, though information in that
document was largely unverified. Unlike Durham, Horowitz has not had subpoena
power, and cannot use a grand jury as part of his investigation. -Daily Caller
And of course, with Durham's
administrative review turning into a criminal probe, the Times has already
given away the predictable response from
the left; Barr is investigating the Obama intelligence community to help Trump
win in 2020. Nothing to see here folks, right?
Yeah, nothing to see here.
Barr is Trump’s puppet, Joe Biden and his son have been cleared of any
wrong doing, that’s all you hear from the Mainstream Media. Now we are being told, “how dare you
challenge the brave whistle blowers, they are heroes.” From David Stockman at Lew Rockwell:
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Deep State and It's Feeding the Anti-POTUS
Mob
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Deep
State and It's Feeding the Anti-POTUS Mob
The prepared statement of the
latest UkraineGate whistle-blower is well worth the read. It tells you all you need to know about why the Deep State apparatchiks
are coming out of the woodwork in a massive assault on America’s duly elected
president.
They are deathly afraid Trump will
begin to dismantle a far-flung Empire which has wreaked havoc around the world,
bled America’s fiscal accounts dry, and fostered
unspeakable prosperity among the beltway’s legions of empire-supporting
agencies, contractors, think tanks, foreign lobbies, NGO’s and K-street
racketeers.
Whether out of common sense,
naiveté or just contrariness, the Donald
has dared to question and disrupt the Empire’s core policy on the
Ukraine/Russia file. And that’s
apparently exactly why the whistleblower de jour, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman,
wrote his now ballyhooed memos.
He feared that Trump’s appropriate desire to get to the bottom of the
well-documented Ukrainian involvement in the Obama Administration’s illegal
spying on his 2016 presidential campaign would undermine the bipartisan
consensus on Capitol Hill for Washington’s utterly wrong-headed Ukraine policy.
Stated more crudely, Washington overthrew the duly elected
government of Ukraine in early 2014 because its leader was deemed too cozy with
Moscow. And in the vanguard of
that illegal meddling in the governance of a sovereign foreign state was
Obama’s state department led by neocon Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland,
Washington’s self-appointed roving proconsul John McCain and at length
Vice-President Joe Biden.
After aiding a motley phalanx of ultra-nationalists, crypto-Nazi and
political fortune seekers in overthrowing President Viktor Yanukovych,
Washington has stood-up what are essentially puppet governments. The
purpose has been to cause maximum abrasion with Putin and Russia; and at a
cost of billions in aid from the US and other western agencies designed to prop
up the economic basket case and cesspool of corruption which passes for the
Ukrainian economy…
As it happens, Lt. Colonel Vindman is a vociferous partisan of Washington’s Big Lie
about the Russian ogre, and was virtually a fifth column operative in the
viper’s nest of neocons at the Donald’s national security council. In fact,
Vindman reported to Russophobe Fiona
Hill, who reported to the Walrus of Forever War himself, John Bolton.
So despite all the Democrats’
crocodile tears for the constitution and rule of law, Vindman’s beef wasn’t really about their whole abuse of power canard.
Nor did it touch upon the risible
Dem/MSM nonsense that in asking a foreign government to undertake a legitimate
action (an investigation of the corrupt use of taxpayers money by the former
Vice President) Trump was committing a
violation of U.S. election laws.
To the contrary, the gravamen of the colonel’s concern was
domestic politics and the possibility that in withholding the $380 million of
pending Ukrainian AID (WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN ZERO IN THE FIRST PLACE) and
pressing the Biden investigation, Trump
would alienate Capitol Hill Democrats and leave the Deep State’s policy of
using the Ukraine as an anti-Putin battering ram high and dry.
“…. I was worried about the
implications for the US government’s support of Ukraine…. “I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens
and Burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would
undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far
maintained.”
“This would all undermine US
national security. Following the call, I again reported my concerns to NSC’s
lead counsel.”
FOLKS, LT. COL. VINDMAN WAS NOT ELECTED TO NOTHIN’. If he’s a proud
20-year veteran of the US Army and diplomatic service as he claims, fine. But
his job is to implement policy as decided by the elected representatives of the
people, not to free lance in the cause of the
Empire group-think in which he is obviously and hopelessly steeped.
So let’s cut to the chase: The
policy he feared the Donald might be jeopardizing by his pressure tactics with
President Zelensky has been a travesty from start to finish. The Ukraine has no
bearing on America’s homeland security whatsoever, and the policies of its government vis-à-vis Russia or any of its other
neighbors are none of Washington’s cotton picking business.
You
can’t be more emphatic about the utter irrelevancy of Ukraine to America’s
homeland security. Even at the pre-coup peak in 2013 it had a minuscule GDP of $185 billion,
which has since plunged by 30% to $130 billion. Even if Putin were foolish
enough to annex the approximate 30 million Russian-hating Ukrainians outside of
the Russian-speaking eastern Donbas region, which he surely is not, it wouldn’t
amount to a hill of beans in the strategic equation.
Ukraine amounts to just 8% of Russia’s pint-sized GDP and is actually
worthless to the Kremlin. That’s because the cost of occupation and pacification
of the non-Russian speaking majority of the country would vastly outweigh
whatever industrial and material output it might steal from the Ukrainians.
Besides, what in the hell is
wrong with Washington when it gets all hot and bothered about a no-count
territory plagued with economic failure and which generates annually about
two days worth of US output?
Moreover, even if you have warm and fuzzy regard for the rights and
liberties of the Ukrainian “nation”, which has existed only
infrequently as an independent state with wildly variant borders during the
last 800 years, the question remains. Namely, how in the world can it be argued that its people were not better off
in 2013 under an elected government of the Regions party that tilted toward
Russia compared to the economic calamity which exits today and is only saved
from complete collapse by US and European subventions?
So here’s where the Deep State’s
hegemonic “sole superpower” world view comes in. Washington’s Ukraine policy has nothing to do with homeland security or
prevention of military attack on American shores.
Instead, it is based on policing the world and demonizing the rump-state of
Russia which emerged after the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of
history in 1991. What was left was a decimated economy with half the former
population and a current day GDP of $1.6 trillion, which is actually less than
the GDP of the New York metro area.
Still, the Warfare State needs
palpable “enemies” and adversaries – no matter how tendentious the case – to justify its massive fiscal drain ($1.1
trillion counting everything) on US taxpayers, both current and unborn; and
it also needs expansive missions like
spreading the blessings of democracy, prosperity and western culture to the far
corners of the earth.
And that’s not our hyperbole in the
slightest; it’s essentially the content of Vindman’s whistleblower testimony to
Shifty Schiff’s Star Chamber proceedings today.
Thus, when it comes to the
blatant lie that Russia is an expansionist power, Vindman’s purple prose would
make even the late warmongering Senator from Arizona proud:
Since 2008, Russia has manifested
an overtly aggressive foreign policy, leveraging military power and employing
hybrid warfare to achieve its objectives of regional hegemony and global
influence. Absent a deterrent to
dissuade Russia from such aggression, there is an increased risk of further confrontations
with the West. In this situation, a
strong and independent Ukraine is critical to U.S. national security interests because
Ukraine is a frontline state and a bulwark against Russian aggression.
Wow! That’s just bellicose rubbish.
A “frontline state and bulwark”my eye. In fact, during the years since 1991 when
Washington has invaded and virtually destroyed upwards of a dozen sovereign
countries, Russia hasn’t invaded anyone!
But the reference to 2008 does tell
you exactly where Vindman is coming from. He’s
obviously referring to Russia’s thwarting of Georgia’s invasion of South
Ossetia in August 2008. That
incident has been spun by the Deep State ever since as Russian aggression when
it was just the opposite.
To wit, it was an aggressive military
invasion by Georgia designed to reclaim the breakaway republic of South
Ossetia. The real culprit was its
mercurial leader and Washington tool, Mikheil Saakashvili, who had been egged
on by Senator McCain and the usual cast of neocons with the promise of
Washington military help, which fortunately did not happen.
But a subsequent 1,000 page report
by an independent EU fact-finding mission led by a renown Swiss diplomat makes clear that the Georgian
accusations of Russian aggression were completely fabricated.
“It was Georgia which triggered off the war when it attacked (South
Ossetian capital) Tskhinvali” said Heidi Tagliavini, the mission head, in a
statement. Although the EU commission
tactfully avoided using the word “lie,” the report implies that Saakashvili did
not tell the truth about how the war started.
The same is true of the so-called annexation of Crimea and the
Kremlin’s support for the breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine.
As to the former, the population of Crimea is
overwhelmingly Russian, and for 171-years from 1783 to 1954 it was an integral
province of Czarist Russia. It got arbitrarily assigned to the Ukraine
Soviet Socialist Republic by Khrushchev after he won the post-Stalin power
struggle in 1954 as a reward to his compatriots in Kiev – even though less
than 15% of the population was Ukrainian.
After
the US funded, supported and instantly recognized coup in Kiev in February 2014
and the immediate passage of virulent anti-Russian legislation by the putsch,
the Russian-speaking population of
Crimea voted overwhelmingly (87%) to return to Mother Russia. The so-called
coercive annexation by Russia is a figment of War Party propaganda, and implies
a willingness to use American money and
arms to enforce the dead hand of the Soviet Presidium.
And the same story goes for the Donbas. The largely Russian
speaking population of this industrial region, which is highly integrated with
the Russian economy, wants to be
separated from the Ukrainian nationalists in Kiev who have launched a vicious
war to subdue them. But if the
Donbas were to be partitioned or even if it voted to join the Russian
Federation, so what?
The honest truth of the matter is
that Europe is flush with partitioned states. These include Slovakia and the
Czech Republic as well as the manifold offspring of Yugoslavia including North
Macedonia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Serbia, which, at the insistence of Washington, got further carved up by the
partition of Kosovo.
That is to say, once Washington upended the tenuous
political/ethnic balance of post-Soviet Ukraine by supporting the nationalist
coup, there was still no reason that the Yugoslav model of partition could
not have settled the matter.
In fact, the 5-year war on the Donbas – which has killed upwards of 20,000 and
brought economic and fiscal ruin to both the region and Ukraine as a whole
– wouldn’t have lasted more than a few weeks without the promise of western economic and military aid and political
support.
The needless tragedy there is not the fruit of Russian aggression. It’s the consequence of Washington
meddling, including all the corruption which has flowered after Ukraine was
turned into a Washington vassal and found it necessary to hire Washington
lobbyists and racketeers like Hunter Biden and Devon Archer (then Secretary of
State John Kerry’s former campaign bundler) to keep the cash flowing.
Needless to say, the Deep State slathers this toxic reality in a narrative that
is pure hogwash. And Colonel Vindman has it down pat: Namely, under the tutelage, money and political and military cover
of the Washington Imperium, Ukraine is to be brought into the “Euro-Atlantic community” as a splendid
new democracy.
The bolded term, of course, is an
undisguised euphemism for NATO:
In spite of being under assault from Russia for more than five years,
Ukraine has taken major steps towards
integrating with the West. The US government policy community’s view is
that the election of President Volodymyr Zelensky and the promise of reforms
to eliminate corruption will lock in Ukraine’s Western-leaning trajectory,
and allow Ukraine to realize its dream of a vibrant democracy and economic
prosperity.
The United States and Ukraine are and must remain strategic
partners, working together to realize the shared vision of a stable,
prosperous, and democratic Ukraine that is integrated into the Euro-Atlantic community.
Here’s the thing. The expansion of NATO to the very doorstep
of Russia was the most colossal mistake of the post-cold war period. And
the War Party’s insistence that this should to taken all the way to the
incorporation of Ukraine and Georgia – historic vassals of Russia – actually
trespasses upon the very border of insanity.
Indeed, the father of containment
and the intellectual architect of NATO in the late 1940s, the great George F. Kennan, hit the nail on the
head when lightweight Clintonistas like Strobe Talbot and Madeleine Albright
launched the NATO expansion process in the 1990s:
”I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,” said Mr. Kennan from
his Princeton home. ”I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely
and it will affect their policies. I
think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No
one was threatening anybody else.
This expansion would make the
Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves. We have signed up to protect a whole series
of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do
so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a light-hearted action
by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs.”
”What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate
debate was,” added Mr. Kennan, who was present at the creation of NATO and
whose anonymous 1947 article in the journal Foreign Affairs, signed ”X,”
defined America’s cold-war containment policy for 40 years. ”I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country
dying to attack Western Europe.
Don’t people understand? Our
differences in the cold war were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the
very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove
that Soviet regime.
”And Russia’s democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of
these countries we’ve just signed up to defend from Russia,” said Mr.
Kennan, who joined the State Department in 1926 and was US Ambassador to Moscow
in 1952. ”It shows so little understanding of Russian history and Soviet
history. Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then
[the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians
are – but this is just wrong.”
He couldn’t have been more right
about the substance of what would happen. But
little did even Kennan realize that once in motion any even tepid effort to
question or stop it – per the Donald’s campaign rhetoric about the obsolescence
of NATO – would actually provoke a Deep State assault on American democracy
itself.
So there’s your Deep State at work.
It isn’t some kind of sinister
conspiracy lurking deep in the shadows of the national security machinery. To the contrary, it’s right there in the
broad daylight of the Imperial City.
It is populated by hundreds of thousands of foot soldiers like Colonel
Vindman who make a career of drinking the Cool Aid, collecting a pay check from
the state and propagating the policies of Empire First – policies which
are immoral, illegal, unaffordable and have absolutely nothing to do with
protecting America’s liberty, prosperity and security inside the great ocean
moats, which once upon a time birthed a peace-loving Republic.
We have no illusions, of course,
that the Donald is a peace-lover. He’s self-evidently first and foremost a
Donald-lover. Still, what is underway in
Washington – first with the RussiaGate
hoax and now with UkraineGate and impeachment – is an extra-constitutional
political lynching, and one that has turned Washington’s desperate,
mendacious Dem pols into complaisant handmaids of the Deep State.
So Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman isn’t some kind of whistle-blowing
hero. He’s just another mindless
cog in the wheel of Empire talking his own book and thereby abetting the
political mob that is now threatening the very constitution he was sworn to
uphold.
It’s on folks! Having
watched every minute of the Nixon impeachment on TV, I can tell you that this
is going to be must watch TV. Every
minute is going to be as exciting as a roller coaster ride. What’s even more exciting this time is that
there is an election coming up and the DNC is ready to implode on live TV.
This gives a candidate like Tulsi
Gabbard a huge advantage as she is the only one who has been calling out the
DNC for its massive corruption. After
the whole explosion that will take down the entire Democratic hierarchy Tulsi
may be the only Democrat left standing. So
get your popcorn and beverages and get set because Kaboom! Russia-gate probe has exposed explosive
evidence of Obama Administration and DNC massive corruption and theft in
Ukraine.
