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"Once again, America and the world are watching with horror as a Republican
candidate for president — just to win an election — manipulates world affairs
in a way that will cause widespread death and destruction while damaging the
interests and reputation of America.
There’s a long tradition of Republicans running for president committing what
can best called treason, or at least criminal manipulation of international
affairs, to advantage themselves and hurt incumbent Democratic presidents.
Yesterday, Mitch McConnell let the proverbial cat out of the bag. A bipartisan
group of senators had been working on a bill to provide funding to Ukraine and
Israel, with money for the southern border, and when it looked like they were
going to produce something that would actually pass the House and Senate,
Donald Trump inserted himself, telling the Republicans they should kill the
bill.
Trump apparently wants to run on chaos at the border, and solving the problem
as this legislation is intended to do would take that issue away from him. But
he’s also explicitly opposed to any further US aid to Ukraine. This is a
treasonous twofer, putting Trump’s election above the interests of the United
States and world peace.
Trump, of course, knows that if it weren’t for Putin’s intervention in the 2016
election, he never would have been president. And he desperately needs a repeat
to hold onto his fortune and stay out of jail: he’s in a far greater bind now
than when he first ran for president as a hustle to get GE to pay him more for
his TV show.
His 2016 Campaign Manager Paul Manafort, after all, admitted that during that
election he was handing secret internal campaign polling and strategy
information off to Russian intelligence, so they could successfully use it to
micro-target vulnerable voters via Facebook, an effort that reached 26 million
targeted Americans in 6 swing states.
Now, Trump wants Putin’s help again for 2024. He knows that Putin can do things
from overseas, including using deepfakes and posing as Americans to spread
explicit lies on social media, that would send people to prison for election
interference if done here in the US.
Putin’s number one goal, of course, is to seize control of Ukraine while
destabilizing western democracies. So, Trump, wanting Putin’s help, is now
trying to deliver Ukraine to Putin by killing US aid.
This pattern of Republican presidential candidates criminally intervening in
foreign policy just to win elections started in 1968 and has been a feature —
not a bug — of every Republican president who succeeded in taking the White
House since: it’s time to seriously discuss the five-decade-long problem we
have with treasonous and illegitimate GOP presidents."
Via Kevin O'Brien.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
