With most of the news of interactions between the US and Russia decidedly negative, Russian officials have reported a positive over the weekend, crediting an intelligence tip from the CIA with having thwarted a major terrorist attack in St. Petersburg.
Details are still emerging, but the plot was said to involve bombing the Kazan Cathedral and a number of other sites around the city, which Russian officials said could’ve killed a large number of people, if it had been successful.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Trump on Sunday to think him for the intelligence-sharing, which seems to be a very positive step in bilateral relations. The White House subsequently praised CIA Director Mike Pompeo over the matter.
Ties between the US and Russia are at their worst point in decades, with US military buildups in Eastern Europe and allegations of Russian “fake news” driving a lot of the hostility. Though President Trump had initially talked of a rapprochement after being elected, he never followed through on this.
That’s nice – if true. Not to be cynical but I suspect the CIA outed one of their own black ops after getting cold feet.
And yet ALL of the foreign intelligence that pointed to 9-11 was purposely ignored. Makes you wonder (well, it doesn’t make me wonder, I know that the official government version is a complete and total lie).
Rather convenient, but good if true.
“Though President Trump had initially talked of a rapprochement after being elected, he never followed through on this.” As if he had any choice, with the Hillary-neocons Russiagate.
Yes, poor, poor Donald. He can never do anything he said he was going to do because Democrats.
Snowflake culture goes beyond the Democrats into the GOP and more importantly the post 9-11 CoG (Continuity of Government) shadow government that now gives the House its major cues.
The Shadow Government a.k.a. the 7th Floor Group is no myth; it was mentioned specifically in the Podesta emails and subsequent FBI documents.
“New FBI Docs Reveal ‘Shadow Government Protected Hilary in Email Investigation”, Alice Salles, Oct. 17, 2017, TheAntimedia. org.
“Forget the FBI Cache, the Podesta Emails show how America is run”, Thomas Frank, Oct. 31, 2016, The Guardian.
Things like the debt ceiling, only resolvable by House action, easily tame Trump. Ironically, under Trump the checks and balances of the Constitution suddenly have become relevant again, albeit applied selectively not by The People but the CoG.
The timing is critical; had the St. Petersburg attack gone off, during the same time period as more or less ending the two-state Palestine solution Russia (and China) may still support, the horrifically less-than-diplomatic message would have been naked intimidation by the usual CIA Salafist proxies.
“Salafism and the CIA: Destabilizing the Russian Federation?”, Sep. 14, 2012, F. William Egdahl, globalresearch. ca.
Either the U.S.D.S. is signalling it can and will ignite another round of Islamic unrest in Russia, so Russia (and China) had better back off expanding influence any further in the Middle East; or Trump and the white hats are signalling they’re deliberately pulling the plug where they can, no strings attached and whatever happens they really are sincere.
Its probably a mix of both; the U.S.D.S. benefits from both signals and is learning to accommodate and use Trump’s credibility, which may be bad but certainly better than theirs. They demonstrate latent power short of a threat and Russia does not escalate in turn as they would if things got real or a real threat was made following up on former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell’s very public anti-Russia threats during the 2017 election.
Realistically there’s alot these two very powerful nations could do to improve the world and also be examples of what it means to be a Super power yet,as history has shown us man in there heart is primal and even up to now with all the advancements in technology and all achievements that have been made it comes back to who is the biggest and most powerful it’s not gonna matter in the end if it’s all destroyed. Human nature.