Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on agriculture in Rostov region, Russia, September 24, 2015. REUTERS/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/RIA NOVOSTI/KREMLIN
Peter Eltsov, Politico: The Best Way to Deal With Russia: Wait for It to Implode
Over the past decade, the Russia threat has loomed larger and larger in the minds of U.S. foreign-policy experts and officials, but the fear has especially grown in the wake of the Russian government’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “It wasn’t a single attempt. They’re doing it as we sit here,” former special counsel Robert Mueller said of Russia’s election interference efforts during his recent hearing on Capitol Hill. “And they expect to do it during the next campaign.” “We are doing things at a scale that we never contemplated a few years ago,” one intelligence official told the New York Times in mid-June about stepped-up attacks on Russia’s power grid in response to Moscow’s hacking and disinformation campaigns.
But what if the biggest threat to Russia isn’t the United States, or any other foreign government for that matter, but Russia itself?
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WNU Editor: For as long as I can remember there has always been separatist tendencies in some of Russia's regions. But the overwhelming majority within Russia favour the federation, and I do not see that changing even when Russian President Putin is gone. Russia imploding? Not going to happen.
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Any analysis that relies on Robert Mueller is cntl-alt-delete. Garbage from the start.
His lone prosecution of collusion against Concord is failing apart under a withering legal dissection by the defense and the judge. So any thing else this journalist says is not worth your time.
I believe that the Russians are trying to influence American elections. So are the Chinese, the Muslim Brotherhood, Soros and others.
Robert Mueller has failed on multiple prosecutions. He is a perpetual trainwreck.
- The conviction of Senator Ted Stevens
- The persecution of Steven Hatfill
- The conviction of Arthur Andersen LLP overturned
- Keeping innocent men in prison in the Whitey Bulger Case.
"On behalf of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Paul O'Brien submitted a "Motion of The United States To Set Aside The Verdict And Dismiss The Indictment With Prejudice" in connection with case No. 08-231 early on April 1, 2009. Federal judge Emmet G. Sullivan soon signed the order, and since it occurred prior to sentencing it had the effect of vacating Stevens's conviction. During the trial, Sullivan expressed concern and anger regarding prosecutorial conduct and related issues."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Stevens#Convictions_voided_and_indictment_dismissed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hatfill
Mind you, the majority of the population (70%) favoured maintaining the Soviet Union as well. The opinion of the population does not matter; the opinion of the elite does, but I don't think it wants this country to implode at this juncture. If anything the sanctions have made it slightly more patriotic.
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