October 22, 2017
By John Solomon and Alison Spann
As Hillary Clinton (click here) was beginning her job as President Obama’s chief diplomat, federal agents observed as multiple arms of Vladimir Putin’s machine unleashed an influence campaign designed to win access to the new secretary of State, her husband Bill Clinton and members of their inner circle, according to interviews and once-sealed FBI records.
Some of the activities FBI agents gathered evidence about in 2009 and 2010 were covert and illegal....
...Other activities were perfectly legal and sitting in plain view, such as when a subsidiary of Russia’s state-controlled nuclear energy company hired a Washington firm to lobby the Obama administration. At the time it was hired, the firm was providing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in pro bono support to Bill Clinton’s global charitable initiative, and it legally helped the Russian company secure federal decisions that led to billions in new U.S. commercial nuclear business, records show....
Democrats need to find treatment for their anxiety disorder. All this mess was before Russia destroyed a treaty and invaded Ukraine. Russia was still a member of the G-8. There was every reason to believe Russia was a trading partner interested in moving into a world class power other than just a nuclear power. Russia was one of the BR (Russia) IC countries. A burgeoning economy attracting investment.
...There is no evidence in any of the public records that the FBI believed that the Clintons or anyone close to them did anything illegal. But there’s definitive evidence the Russians were seeking their influence with a specific eye on the State Department....
Then in 2014, all that good stuff changed and the communists with significant political pressure in Russia entered Ukraine.
November 20, 2016
By Paul Roderick Gregory
...Russia (click here) thus finds itself in the questionable company of Burundi, Gabon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Columbia, and Niger as suspects in creating international armed conflicts. The ICC report demolishes Putin’s narrative of the Ukrainian conflict, which paints Russia as an innocent bystander. Following the ICC report and Russia’s angry withdrawal from the international tribunal, there should be no further reference to “civil war,” “separatists,” or “insurgents.” Instead the conflict that has claimed 9,578 lives is an “international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.” Another consequence is that Russia, as a party to the conflict, should no longer have a “peacemaker” seat in negotiations in Minsk.
The ICC report is particularly embarrassing for the Kremlin as it tries to peddle its parallel-reality version of the Ukraine conflict to the incoming Donald Trump administration....
One of the reasons President Obama and Chancellor Merkel moved quickly to end Russia's participation in the G8 and wrote sanctions against Russia is because Russia was so far along in 'the trust' that builds strong ties between the prosperity and freedom with The West.
There were a lot of American businesses that could not believe Russia had betrayed their trust and now they faced fiscal losses to their stockholders because of the sanctions. President Obama had no desire to punish any business participating in investment in Russia. Some of these investors were newly involved in international markets, they weren't all Goldman Sachs. But, if Russia was able to continue to build wealth and influence it could compromise the safety of the people of the Ukraine. President Obama could not look the other way for the sake of Wall Street. There were lives at stake and it was the USA standing in the void facilitated by a treaty with Russia, Ukraine and Germany. Either treaties with the USA means something or not.
There was no choice to be made, Russia had violated a very valuable treaty. It was not long ago when the treaty was signed and Ukraine disarmed. There were nuclear weapons and materials in Ukraine that were removed from the country and made inert to cause injury or death ever again. The treaty was huge. It proved disarmament from nuclear weapons can bring peace and prosperity to people rather than investing national treasuries in hideous nuclear weapons.
After the treaty was signed and Ukraine was disarmed little did The West know Russia was involved deeply in Ukraine politics and had made the national Ukraine military helpless to defend the country even with conventional weapons. Yanukovych weaponized the oligarchs transferring military power from the national military to militias in control by oligarchs. Ukrainians were helpless.
Putin carried on about a coupe in Ukraine which continues even today. Who knows. There were sharp divisions in the country and if the truth be known the coupe occurred in 2004, silently, when the Ukraine Constitution was rewritten. But, that is not arguable according to the World Court when it heard the case regarding Ukraine. The treaty absolutely prohibited Russia from intervening with any Ukraine issue. Russia violated the treaty and today Russia does not even have the right to mitigate Minske.
But, as to the fact Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State was secretly stalked by Russia to gain influence and information is old news. The FBI did it's job. I am confident every Secretary of State of the USA was visited by an agent at some point in their tenure stating facts about potential contacts and agreements were ill-fated and had to be abandoned.
So all this mess FOX News is spewing as if it is new information is horse hockey. FOX News is horse hockey by nature. FOX News knows only sensational reporting because it's founder, Murdoch, is used to arguing with the Queen as if the people were powerless as an Australian. That is the issue with FOX News. They have a foreign methodology thGot at is bullying everyone in hear shot. That is the method of Australian media. FOX News is bizarre and never, ever are they mainstream news.
The Democrats have to simply say, "Oh, where did you hear that on FOX News?"
Practice it, "Oh, where did you hear that on FOX News?" AGAIN: "Oh, where did you hear that on FOX News?" Now, with spirit: "Oh, where did you hear that on FOX News?" As if the country's sovereignty counts on it, "Oh, where did you hear that on FOX News?"
FOX News, in reality, could be solely responsible for the danger the American people are facing today because of a Big Mouth President that finds solace with FOX News and pacifying him that he is still in control of his base. FOX News will carry out any scandal, be it a lie or not, in order to control their power with the electorate. If they control the electorate their power is unending and influence with the US Republicans that bow to their power. How many votes did FOX News own?
The Democrats need to find their backbone and stand up for the people of this country in the face of any FOX News tirade. The Democrats need to do their job!
This meeting in the White House was a travesty!
Got that, Mr. Trump. Crimea is occupied by Russia and it's people don't want war as is the case along the Russian border. I cannot believe Rand-McNally Atlas was intimidated by Vladimir Putin to change their own maps in the face of international law otherwise. It is sickening the cowardice that exists in all this.
