Putin signs off on using Trump to destabilize American politics and Society

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Today, The Guardian broke the most disturbing news to emerge in a continuum of such news.

According to The Guardian, in January of 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his security services to "use all force" to get Republican candidate Donald J. Trump elected President of the US in 2016.

Putin has repeatedly denied accusations of interfering in western democracy. The documents seem to contradict this claim. They suggest the president, his spy officers and senior ministers were all intimately involved in one of the most important and audacious espionage operations of the 21st century: a plot to help put the "mentally unstable" Trump in the White House, declares The Guardian..

The documents leaked from the Kremlin are genuine, according to a variety of independent experts on Kremlin communications and security procedures. The Guardian does not say exactly how it came in possession of the papers-- i.e., who leaked them.

What is most disturbing about these papers, and the decisions made at the top level of Russian Federation government in this meeting, is the apparent conclusion that it is a positive step to not only allow, but to aid, a mentally unstable (to say nothing of blindingly ignorant of American history, and utterly opposed to traditional American political traditions and procedures) candidate to become POTUS.

Apparently the decision was reached at this meeting that the "turmoil" that the election, and Presidency, of Trump would cause among the US people, and the skeletons in Donald Trump's closet which Russia possessed, would weaken the US, and allow Russia to undertake "bold" foreign policy initiatives.

There was no talk among the heads of the Russian security apparatuses about whether a mentally unstable US President might, in some crucial moment in the progression of his inferiority complex, authorize the use of nuclear weapons. Apparently they must have concluded that Trump's degree of mental instability was not dangerous enough to endanger Russia, but severe enough to damage his own country.

And besides that, they concluded that Russia's palpable new influence on American political decisions would also induce America's allies not to go along with, or weaken, sanctions imposed by the US.

How dangerous was Trump considered by those who might, in extremis, have had to disobey his orders?

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According to KVIA.com, excerpts of an upcoming book, I Alone Can Fix It, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, show that the top U.S. military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley, was so shaken that then-President Donald Trump and his allies might attempt a coup or take other dangerous or illegal measures after the November election that Milley and other top officials informally planned for different ways to stop Trump.

The excerpts, published by CNN, describe how Milley and the other Joint Chiefs discussed a plan to resign, one-by-one, rather than carry out orders from Trump that they considered to be illegal, dangerous or ill-advised.

"This is a Reichstag moment," Milley told aides, according to the book. "The gospel of the Fuhrer."

Ahead of a November pro-Trump "Million MAGA March" to protest the election results, Milley told aides he feared it "could be the modern American equivalent of 'brownshirts in the streets,'" referring to the pro-Nazi militia that fueled Hitler's rise to power.

How would Russia have reacted if there were a successful coup or if Trump tried to fire nukes? Well, first of all, we must be reassured by what Milley told Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, when the two conferred after the January 6 insurrection.

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Pelosi told the general that she was deeply concerned that a "crazy," "dangerous" and "maniac" Trump might try and use nuclear weapons in his last days in office, the book said.

" 'Ma'am, I guarantee you these processes are very good,' Milley reassured her," said the authors. "There's not going to be an accidental firing of nuclear weapons."

And about the possibility of a coup? Milley spoke to friends, lawmakers and colleagues about the threat of a coup, and the Joint Chiefs chairman felt he had to be "on guard" for what might come.

"They may try, but they're not going to f**king succeed," Milley told his deputies, according to the authors. "You can't do this without the military. You can't do this without the CIA and the FBI. We're the guys with the guns."

If January 6, 2021 was an attempted coup that failed, we see that Russia has been pretty silent about it. After all, US-Russian relations are bad enough over Syria and other issues. And cyber-warfare from a variety of Russian actors, against both our government and against uncounted private entities, has continued.

Now that the new President has been elected, what facets of the 2016 Kremlin plan of destabilization are still in place? Biden is neither insane nor a would-be dictator.

Surely Biden is not influenced by Trump policies regarding sanctions; he levies his own. And the leak of this Kremlin plot, if genuine, surely will not influence Biden, or any other US or allied foreign policy decision-makers, to soften any sanctions.

So did Putin's plan of destabilization actually succeed, even though Trump is gone from office? I don't know that a true evaluation of the relative success of Russian destabilizing of American politics and society during the Trump Administration can be made before these new documents exposed by The Guardian are digested.

One thing is sure: anybody who trusted Russia in any way must now have second thoughts.

(Article changed on Jul 15, 2021 at 3:33 PM EDT)

(Article changed on Jul 15, 2021 at 3:34 PM EDT)

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My name is William Perkins Homans the third, but probably more people know me as the bluesman (and artist) Watermelon Slim.



I've been in the fight against war, fascism, injustice and inhumanity for 47 years. I was at MayDay, 1971, and at the moratorium March the week before. I was one of the leaders of the Great New Jersey Turnpike Stall on my birthday, April 25, 1971.



I bear the scar on my left shin from a neoNazi jackboot, when I was one of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War who bounced the NSWPP from Flamingo Park at the Republican National Convention of 1972. My father fought the Nazis in the North Atlantic and Anzio, and I met their spawn in Miami.



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