Sunday, December 18, 2016

Why is Obama poisoning relations with Russia just before he goes?

Barack Obama is to leave office on 20 January, when the next president, presumably Donald Trump, will be sworn in, but he is doing his best to make sure to poison relations with Russia to such an extent that Trump will find it impossible to solve problems, such as the civil wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. The CIA and the FBI are accusing the Russian government of hacking into and releasing Democratic National Committee emails which helped Trump win the election. WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange flatly denied receiving the emails from Russia and former UK Ambassador, Craig Murray has said that he met the man who leaked the emails in Washington DC and he was an American. However, Obama is continuing with his hate campaign against Russia saying that he ordered Vladimir Putin to "cut it out". Putin must have been trembling with fear. "Whatever they do to us, we can potentially do to them," said Obama. Like what exactly? Precipitate World War III? Hillary Clinton said that Putin has a "personal beef" against her. "He is determined not only to score a point against me but also undermine our democracy," she said. There are 3 points here: 1. The DNC should have protected its servers against hacking, 2. The hacking was only effective because the Chair of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was found to be actively undermining Bernie Sanders, who was fighting Clinton in the primaries and 3. Clinton should have treated Putin with more respect when she was Secretary of State. Instead she is supposed to have said that since he had been in the KGB then "by definition he doesn't have a soul". We cannot comment about anyone's soul but a trained KGB officer would certainly know how to play the underhand game. She alleged vote-rigging by Putin to win the elections in 2011. A weak government like ours would smile and carry on sucking up to the Americans but not Putin who harbors a grudge because of the humiliation of former president, Boris Yeltsin. At the time the Soviet Union had fallen apart, the Russian economy was in dire straits and criminal oligarchs were looting the state. Yeltsin's drunken antics were a source of amusement to the US press. But, perhaps the worst humiliation was the expansions of Nato to former Comecon countries. An article on the days just before the US election by David Remnick, a total Obama supporter, for the left wing New Yorker, shows how arrogant and egotistical Obama is. When asked if he could imagine Trump delivering a State of the Union address he said," Well, I can imagine it in a 'Saturday Night' skit." Faced with a President Trump in exactly one month he is going all out to destroy Trump's credibility, even if that damages the interests of the nation. The electoral college is to meet today to decide on the next president and there are threats against the electors. We will know tomorrow.

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