The Red Line for Whether Trump is Vlad's Puppet

The most dangerous aspect of Russia Gate has been the manufacturing of consent for war with Russia. After Russia's attack on the country that was considered just as bad the time the Saudi backed terrorists 'attacked' us on 9/11/2001 how could Trump allow them to get away with it?

CNN And WaPo Demand That Trump Further Escalate Tensions With Russia

CNN has aired a segment in which pundit Fareed Zakaria tells the network’s audience that the US president has “been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue” and asks “will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?”

The segment is a near-verbatim reading of Zakaria’s Washington Post column from a couple of days prior, so that’s two massive prongs through which this false and pernicious narrative is being driven into mainstream consciousness claiming that the Trump administration has been far too dovish toward Moscow, rather than dangerously hawkish as is actually the case.

Zakaria begins his segment by describing the Trump administration’s (completely illegitimate) efforts to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, then describing Russian efforts to counter this agenda as an attempt to “taunt the United States.” He then spends the rest of the segment asking if Trump will be brave and patriotic enough to further escalate tensions against a nuclear superpower. Zakaria concludes by implying that if Trump fails to increase world-threatening nuclear tensions to effect yet another US regime change intervention in yet another oil-rich country, it will be because he is a Kremlin agent.


“The big question for Washington is: Will it allow Moscow to make a mockery of another U.S. red line?” Zakaria said. “The United States and Russia have taken opposing, incompatible stands on this issue. And as with Syria, there is a danger that, if Washington does not back its words with deeds, a year from now, we will be watching the consolidation of the Maduro regime, supported with Russian arms and money

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Yes Fareed, there is a real “danger” that if the Trump administration you liberal pundits claim to oppose doesn’t act like the reckless madman you claim he is and tempt hot war with a nuclear superpower in order to effect regime change in a sovereign nation, that regime change agenda will fail. Very, very dangerous to not flirt with nuclear war over US resource control agendas.

“The administration has been tough on Russian involvement in Venezuela,” said Zakaria. “Trump himself has even declared, ‘Russia has to get out.’ But that is an unusual statement from Trump, who has almost never criticized Putin and often sided with Russia on matters big and small.”

“I have never alleged collusion or conspiracy between Russia and Trump, writing merely that we should wait to see what evidence special counsel Robert S. Mueller III presented,” Zakaria concludes, trying to shelter himself from the ridicule that is being directed at the debunked Russiagate conspiracy while simultaneously promoting it. “But the real puzzle remains: Why has Trump been unwilling to confront Putin in any way on any issue? And will Venezuela be the moment when Trump finally ends his appeasement?”

You could not ask for a more perfect illustration of just how dangerous and toxic this years-long Russiagate psyop has been. Even after the Mueller investigation concluded with no mass arrests, no sealed indictments, no further indictments and no evidence of Russian collusion, the mass media war propagandists are attempting to use the Russia hysteria they’ve already manufactured via the collusion narrative to create demand for more escalations against Russia. Fragmenting and undermining Russia and shoving it off the world stage has been an agenda of opaque US government agencies since the fall of the Soviet Union, and steps have been taken into a new cold war to effect this agenda for more than five years now, long before liberals in America spent any part of their day thinking or caring about Vladimir Putin. Mass media outlets like CNN and WaPo have been actively facilitating this agenda by promulgating these false narratives, and they are playing an instrumental role in convincing the US populace to keep their foot off the brake pedal in an accelerating and world-threatening new cold war.

Trump has already greatly escalated tensions with Russia by implementing a Nuclear Posture Review with a much more aggressive stance against Russia, withdrawing from the INF treaty, bombing and illegally occupying Syria, arming Ukraine, staging a coup in Venezuela, and many, many other hawkish actions taken against the interests of Russia’s geostrategic and economic interests. It is an indisputable fact that Trump has been more aggressive toward Russia than any other president since the fall of the Berlin wall. But the Russiagate narrative enables the war propagandists to not only ignore these escalations and the danger they pose to all life on earth, but to demand more and more of them.

This is how depraved the mass media are. They’re willing to lull the populace into complacency with the formation of a new cold war that threatens everyone they love, even get them demanding direct confrontation, all to please their plutocratic owners, their military-industrial complex sponsors, and the intelligence agencies with which they are aligned. They’re willing to risk getting us all killed for money and crude oil.

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Not Henry Kissinger's picture

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:00 A.M) – A group of Chinese soldiers arrived in Venezuela on Sunday as part of a cooperation program between Beijing and Caracas.

According to reports, more than 120 soldiers from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army arrived at Venezuela’s Margarita Island to deliver humanitarian aid and military supplies to the government forces.

Fareed Zakaria is gonna need a drool cup.

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The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?

There is no hope for the people of this country.

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon

@dkmich for Zakaria to be printing and broadcasting this bs.
How come the paid shills get an enormous forum, while truth tellers have to whisper in the dark?

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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that I was glad Russia was in Venezuela. She got awfully quiet so I know she disagreed. I found it very interesting. She was all in on the Rooskie-gate debacle, so there's your sign! Pleasantry

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

@Raggedy Ann Russia and China united against another US regime-change operation. What could go wrong?

NOTHING for the war profiteers. NOTHING for the fossil fuel suppliers, arms merchants, illegal drug traffickers, CIA, Special Ops, Mercenary Contractors. EVERYTHING for the residents in Venezuela and everyplace on the globe where we use murder and genocide to fatten up our ruling class.

I hate our countries rapacious genocidal ways.

I don't want any of the wars we currently are waging.

Don't want this one in Venezuela, either.

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NYCVG

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@NYCVG
Pleasantry

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Lookout's picture

The war machine will not let it end.
The Russian missile system has arrived. Elliot is having his thugs set Venezuela on fire literally (13 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzq2B6uV8T8]

To offset that somber note how about the lighter side of russiagate? (7 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY8F8ry44KI]

The full discussion (from which the preceding video was edited) at 1.3 hours was pretty interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLPFycyPnyQ

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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was a supporter of the South African apartheid regime back in the '80s when the college protests were going on. No wonder the elites picked him up.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fareed+zakaria+anti-divestment&client=fi...

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"The war on Gaza, backed by the West, is a demonstration that the West is willing to cross all lines. That it will discard any nuance of humanity. That it is willing to commit genocide" -- Moon of Alabama

@Cassiodorus I think this was at the Validi (sp?) conference. Putin slapped Zakaria for wildly misquoting him on Trunmp.

At least Zakaria did not constantly interrupt Putin like other American or European interviewers to show how tough they were on Putin.

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@MrWebster @MrWebster to go along with a propagandizing hack.
Thanks for that video clip and I'm glad I checked the comments first because I finally found it to post and when looking for it I came across several sites on which the video said "no longer available".
There should be a loud outcry against this sniveling little war monger and if I ever had the chance to post a question or comment to him it would basically be something like this..'if you and your fellow bloodthirsty friends manage to gin up a real 'hot' war with Russia I hope you all are located at ground zero for the very first nuke and you all know it before you can escape the area.'
Actually I think that may be too generous of a wish when a more fitting bit of karma would be that they survive and are there to try to live with the results of their endeavors.

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Remember from the Bush regime, the rise of the neocon chickenhawk? Have to talk tough about Putin/Russia. Seems one of the emerging rhetorical shifts since the Mueller report is to push Trump to confront Putin big time or he is some Putin stooge. Maddow clearly shifted to that the day after the Mueller report. Will Trump finally say that Russia ATTACKED us.

No matter how many times the skeptics list out all the actions which have shown how Trump has materially hurt the Russians, won't matter. As I have said before, the rhetoric of democrats parallel not the Cold War, but the real German Nazis against Jews and the Russians.

If a democrat is elected to the Oval Office in 2020, the pressure will be enormous to take military action of one sort or another against the Russians. After all, Pearl Harbor and 9-11.

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the only Dem running for POTUS2020 to get this right.
https://youtu.be/gJmKqD_CY3c

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chuck utzman

TULSI 2020

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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:

THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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...is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations.

What questions could remain?

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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato

This Cold War II is far more dangerous than Cold War I because the US gives no respect to Russian interests. It's as if they don't deserve our consideration. Russia's red line is attacks on Russian military personnel anywhere, or direct attacks on Russia itself. The response will be swift. Russia will shoot down US warplanes or sink US warships, depending on where the attack originated. The response from the brain dead, presidential wannabe critters in Congress will be to demand complete and violent military retribution. You don't have to guess what Russia will do in response. I think that the US military understands the certainty of this scenario and tries to maintain deconfliction when in the same region with Russia. I believe that this scenario is a certainty if Trump is convinced to use military force against Russia.

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Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.