As we noted in our earlier post, thug and killer Vladimir Putin is doing his best to disrupt and ultimately destroy the western alliance, now with the active participation of his man in Washington, narcissist and conspirator Donald "Rump" Trump. Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall looks at how Rump is fulfilling Putin's checklist:
"The last twenty four hours of attacks on our closest allies capped by President Trump’s seemingly out of the blue demand to bring Russia back into the G-7 (making it again the G-8 which it was for most of the post-Cold War era until Russia was expelled over the annexation of Crimea) simply brings the matter into a newly sharp relief. If candidate Trump and President Putin had made a corrupt bargain which obligated President Trump to destabilize all U.S. security and trade alliances (especially NATO, which has been Russia’s primary strategic goal for 70 years) and advance the strategic interests of Russia, there’s really nothing more remotely realistic he could have done to accomplish that than what he has in fact done."Add to that Rump's undermining and discrediting of our intelligence services and Federal law enforcement, spreading lies about Russian election meddling so as to excuse it and encourage their behavior next time, and his months-long foot dragging on imposing sanctions against Russia which gave them ample time to shift the targeted resources elsewhere while Rump intentionally stalled. If that's not treasonous behavior on Rump's behalf, what is? We can only hope that Special Counsel Mueller's final report clearly paints the portrait of a compromised and corrupt conspirator with Putin's Russia.
