"We’re going to be gaslit into a dictatorship. It’s time to recalibrate the presumption that the Republican Party hasn’t been seriously compromised."
--Condé Nast journalist Luke Zaleski
As news of #AlexeiNavalny's death spread, spontaneous memorials took place in several urban areas, with people taken into custody in 36 cities from the border city of #Belgorod to #Vorkuta, an Arctic mining outpost once a centre of the Stalin-era gulag labour camps, to #NizhnyNovgorod, #Krasnodar, #RostovOnDon and #Tver. #Ukraine
#Navalny's murder was a catalyst event. Suddenly things are moving fast & in a different direction in the #EU - and just maybe, hopefully in the #US.
#Sanctions could include the use of frozen #RussianAssets, a move that would be in addition to a levy #Belgium exacts from interest on immobilised cash reserves. #Ukraine
On Independence Day July 4, 1987 Trump (& Ivana) flew to Moscow, on invitation from USSR ambassador Dubinin (& the KGB), lured by the prospect of building a big hotel in Moscow (30+ years later the illusion of building big in Moscow would still be haunting Donald's clan!).
Only two months after that (recruitment?) trip Trump had a full-page declaration of his published in the New York Times, Washington Post & the Boston Globe, for the first time publicly pursuing the goal to drive wedges between the U.S. & their international allies, pretending worries about financial imbalances.
Then serving the Soviet Union (& indirectly then-communist KGB-janitor Vladimir Putin), today serving Russia & fascist Eurasianism-imperialist Vladimir Putin.
Russia helps elect Trump. For the first time in US history, a hostile foreign power has an American ally in the WH. Eight years later, Republicans are helping Russia wage a genocidal war against European democracy. It is the greatest shift in America’s stance in world since 1776. A major US party has joined forces with a nuclear power waging war against democracy. If Republicans prevail in helping Russia, what it means to be an American will forever be changed. A shroud of shame will descend on the legacy of the Greatest Generation. They fought to liberate Europe. Republicans are fighting to enslave a European democracy — Stuart Stevens #quotes#quote#Russia#Putin#PutinGOP#PutinPuppets#RussianAssets#Trump#MikeJohnson#Republicans#Ukraine#uspolitics
Promising, & if authorized, Russian assets frozen in the West would be utilized for Ukraine🇺🇦, but not until February.
The US, UK & CA are reportedly set to present proposals to G7 leaders in Feb to finally utilize $300B+ in RU assets frozen in the West.
~$110B of Ukraine funding is now stuck either in the US Congress or the EU underlines the political challenges of getting Western taxpayers to sign off for big checks to foreign recipients.
Joe Biden removes"Russian pawn" Giuliani suit to federal court.
Rudy sued Biden for having said:
“His buddy Rudy Giuliani. He’s being used as a Russian pawn. He’s being fed information that is Russian — that is not true.”
See anything wrong in it?
"American intelligence agencies were not spying on Giuliani, but on the people with whom he was talking, the source said, including Andrii Derkach, who has been identified by the Treasury Department as a Russian agent. That collection led them to learn about Giuliani's dealings with Derkach and other Russian operatives who wanted to feed him information attempting to discredit Democrat Joe Biden, the source said."
Throw shit at people, which will be guaranteed to stick for quite some time, damaging the reputation of the targeted institution, then simulate backpedaling to limit the chances of being sued for damages.
While the obstructive intention to cause public harm is clearly recognizable & identifiable.
Newly declassified US #intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through Westerners
Alert: Former moscow bathroom robber Vlad Putin and his murderous FSB (KGB) use relationships with traitorous republicans to spread Russian propaganda and disinformation.
Vlad putin doesn't need to bomb the USA, he just buys republicans to destroy America.
Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence.
US #intelligence agencies believe that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is attempting to influence public policy and public opinion in the West by directing Russian civilians to build relationships with influential US and Western individuals and then disseminate narratives that support Kremlin objectives, obscuring the FSB’s role through Putin shills, hello republicans.