To NATO, Ukraine is a handy tool to threaten Russia with.
Recently Ukraine, the U.S., and a dozen other NATO nations conducted military drills in the northern Black Sea.
That wasn't even the most provocative step.
Normally the U.S. government is quiet about it's offensive cyberwar strikes, but that changed in the past few weeks.
First there was the alarming NY Times article.
Democratic politicians and other grifters have looked into the future (by means of a technology yet unrevealed) and discovered that Trump isn't protecting our democracy.
Originally published Sep 7, 2018
You may remember the cyberattack with the “Not Petya” virus, which our CIA immediately attributed to a branch of Russia’s GRU. Naturally the Washington Post and other MSM outlets trumpeted this far and wide.
The U.S. has been squeezing the Russian oil and gas industry since 2014.
Originally published Jul 17, 2018
Following Trump’s summit with Putin, Representative Mike Rogers (R) of Alabama issued a tweet that quite concisely summarized the chief lies that have been used to demonize Russia and keep us plowing our money into the military-industrial complex.
Russia:
Both Republicans and Democrats are in agreement. The Land Of The Free(tm) thinks that Assange should be extradited to the U.S., given a trial that will confirm his obvious guilt, and then thrown into a very deep, dark hole.
Russia completed a major new gas pipeline this week.
There is a long history of high-profile Russians turning up dead or seriously ill in foreign countries.
Relations between Washington and Berlin have gotten cool in recent years, and yesterday Berlin had to assert it's independence from the U.S.
The Washington political establishment appears to be ready to do something that can't be undone. Once you sanction your allies either they fold, or they stop being allies.
then you'll be the "socialist" bogeyman for life.
Check out this piece from Thursday:
The U.S. prepared to apply more sanctions on Russia this week. After years of increasing sanctions, it might be difficult to find anything in Russia that hasn't already been sanctioned.
The important thing is that the sanctions are working, right?
As Rachel Maddow would say, "Russia!Russia!Russia!"
Consider this recent WashPost headline: Russia secretly offered North Korea a nuclear power plant, officials say
New year's messages from Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel
