ed note–keep in mind as we wade through all this ‘THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING, THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING’ noise coming from the JMSM 2 important items–

1. The JMSM is absolutely 666% devoted to the destruction of America. These same people who are now fear-mongering about ‘Russian influence’ over the American political process have ABSOFREAKINGLUTELY NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO SAY about the REAL, TANGIBLE, DIRECT, VISIBLE, AND MEASURABLE influence which Judea, Inc exercises over this same process, with organizations such as AIPAC and what is the incontestable armlock which these interests exercise over 435 SITTING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, to say nothing of the manner by which the processus cogitabat Americanus has become their plaything as if it were a mere marionette on strings.

2. But the other thing to keep in mind is the following–the target of all this ‘Russian meddling business’ is not the Russians. It’s not Putin. It’s not the Chinese, the Ay-rabs , the Eye-ranians or the Natzees.

It’s Trump, the same man who a depressingly-high percentage of ‘experts’ in the 9/11 ‘Truth Movement’ claim with dogmatic certainty is ‘owned by the Jews’, the same Jews who own the media in America lock, stock, and barrel, the same Jews who own Congress, Mueller, and all the various gears and levers making up the ‘special investigation’ that threatens to bring Trump down.

As we have said here many many times but with unfortunately, no ‘takers’–those mking up the ‘Trump is owned by the Jews’ brigade, please explain–in rational, non-emotional/non-hysterical terms–this obvious disparity. 

Go ahead, take your time formulating your thesis. We’ll patiently wait…

cnn.com

The Russians are coming! Except they aren’t. Though they already have a bit. And they might well be coming a bit more soon.

This is how very bad things happen.

The threat posed by Russia to Western interests is unlike anything seen since the 1990s. It has forces or proxies deployed in Syria, Ukraine and, don’t forget, parts of what’s still called Georgia. There is smoke, but there is also fire and daily there is a lot of fuel being added.

Dutch state media revealed this week that Dutch cyber spies — the Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (JSCU) — were able to hack into the closed-circuit television of the building where a Russian hacking organization known as Cozy Bear worked, and observe them coming and going from offices where they hacked the Democratic National Committee in the US. The Dutch told the Americans, touching off the US investigations. According to the Dutch, the Americans then helpfully told the media they were tipped off by a Western intelligence agency, prompting the Russians to turn off the Cozy Bear CCTV hack.

There was also a shrill warning from new UK Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson, who, amid a budget row and internal leadership posturing, chose Friday to unleash a barrage of concerns about “thousands and thousands and thousands” — yes, that many — deaths that Russia could cause in Britain, if it successfully hacked the electricity grid.

Williamson told the Daily Telegraph: “Why would they [the Russians] keep photographing and looking at power stations, why are they looking at the interconnectors that bring so much electricity and so much energy into our country? They are looking at these things because they are saying, ‘These are the ways we can hurt Britain.'” His officials have also alleged Russia may target the transatlantic cables that ferry the internet to the UK.
These new claims were met with the now-predictable Russian derision. Russian defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Williamson had “lost understanding of what is reasonable in his fierce fight for the banknotes in the military budget,” and that his “phobia” belonged in “children’s comic books” or an episode of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov dubbed the Dutch report “anti-Russian hysteria,” saying “if the Dutch newspapers want to supply the coal to the furnace of anti-Russian hysteria which is currently takes place in America, well… let’s say it’s not the most noble thing to do.”

‘All decorum has been cast aside’

Russophobia is a familiar and disturbing theme. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently called it “unprecedented.”
“We never saw this during the Cold War. Back then, there were some rules, some decorum… Now, all decorum has been cast aside,” Lavrov told Russian daily Kommersant in an interview published on January 21.
 
Some Russian state rhetoric is designed to paint a picture of an outside world that hysterically harnesses fear of a resurgent Russia, when really the country means no harm. It is designed to try and distance Russians from an outside world they can increasingly see, even if only through the slanted prism of Russian state media.
The xenophobia, homophobia and sometimes outright racism that has grown in Russian society also stem from the idea of a people — a narod — under threat. Russophobia, that argument goes, happens because “they want us gone, but also because they fear us, as we refuse to lie down.” I saw it in the eyes and anger of many ethnic Russians embattled in eastern Ukraine. They felt abandoned, scorned, left outside the rest of Ukraine, and had to turn to Russia to protect their Russianness.
Some of Russia’s urban elite has seen too much of the outside world to buy this reductive message. But its nationalists and beholden state employees embrace it, and much of rural Russia hasn’t seen the glittering globe beyond. Life remains tough there, with even state figures accepting that just under 14% of Russians live below “the minimum cost of living,” according to Tass.
Into this narrative of “them and us” come these increasingly vociferous Western claims of the Russian threat. In the partisan fury of US or UK politics, it is hard to know at times whether Russia did ingeniously undermine the entire US electoral process and infiltrate Team Trump, or just ended up having clumsy hackers steal some emails, and allow some of its sympathizers to get too close to some of Trump’s less savvy or wholesome staff.
It is hard to know, with Russian-backed tanks still in Donetsk and jets in Syria, whether we are seeing an expansionist Moscow intent on soon probing the Baltic states or switching off the lights in London, or a nervous Russia that is just checking threats it sees in its near abroad. 
The most troubling point is that the distinction doesn’t really matter. This perception of Russophobia (or a real Russian threat) is either what the Kremlin wants, to justify its more aggressive schemes, or it is what the Kremlin feels it has to respond to, as to not appear weak.
Vladimir Putin has long surrounded himself not with tech-age visionaries, but with men who stem from the same age as him, a period he called the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” — the fall of the Soviet empire. He still feels it personally, wishes to see the shift in power partially redressed and must surely be bemused at how the US public has elected a president so capable of diminishing US influence the world over.
The Kremlin takes things personally. It may seem disproportionate to the slight, but not when compared with the extraordinary suffering of the Soviet era and the brutal collapse of the 1990s. But by recognizing Russia as the threat it increasingly shows itself to be, Western figures are also ensuring Moscow has little choice but to fulfill the prophecy.
One thought on “The Russian threat is real, and it matters”
  1. Since before the NuQuler bombing of Civilian targets, Hiroshima & Nagasaki (not to mention the relentless fire bombings of other Civilian targets in Japan) the US State Dept has one focus: Subjugate Russia; Nuking 300,000 Civilians to make a point to Russia that ‘murikkka is the new boss of the planet.
    This process of Subjugating Russia comes in many ways in various countries from Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Cuba and of course Syria, everywhere the tentacles of the US State Dept INFECT the local and region ie the DoD/militiary all around the world ~ the US State Dept infects.
    The news of the day is filled with Russia hate and Subjugate Russia in every possible way.
    The Joos in the US State Dept must disappear
    and then after that the whole US State Dept and Israhell if the world is to know Peace

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