kybkh wrote:http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/fe ... ussiagate/
The answer to the question in the title of this article is that Russiagate was created by CIA director John Brennan.The CIA started what is called Russiagate in order to prevent Trump from being able to normalize relations with Russia. The CIA and the military/security complex need an enemy in order to justify their huge budgets and unaccountable power. Russia has been assigned that role. The Democrats joined in as a way of attacking Trump. They hoped to have him tarnished as cooperating with Russia to steal the presidential election from Hillary and to have him impeached. I don’t think the Democrats have considered the consequence of further worsening the relations between the US and Russia.
Oh yes, Russia has been assigned the role of an enemy in order to justify huges budgets and Trump could have threatened this. Poor, poor Russia. How conveniently you forget that
both George W Bush and Obama tried to normalize Russia relations with Obama even after the Russo-Georgian war?
How about for one time looking at the situation from the Russian viewpoint, starting from their official Military Doctrine where they state as threats to the Russian Federation in the following order:
12. The main external military risks are:
a) build-up of the power potential of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and vesting NATO with global functions carried out in violation of the rules of international law, bringing the military infrastructure of NATO member countries near the borders of the Russian Federation, including by further expansion of the alliance;
b) destabilization of the situation in individual states and regions and undermining of global and regional stability;
c) deployment (build-up) of military contingents of foreign states (groups of states) in the territories of the states contiguous with the Russian Federation and its allies, as well as in adjacent waters, including for exerting political and military pressure on the Russian Federation;
d) establishment and deployment of strategic missile defense systems undermining global stability and violating the established balance of forces related to nuclear missiles, implementation of the global strike concept, intention to place weapons in outer space, as well as deployment of strategic non-nuclear systems of high-precision weapons;
e) territorial claims against the Russian Federation and its allies and interference in their internal affairs;
f) proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, missiles and missile technologies;
g) violation of international agreements by individual states, as well as non-compliance with previously concluded international treaties in the field of arms prohibition, limitation and reduction;
h) use of military force in the territories of states contiguous with the Russian Federation and its allies in violation of the UN Charter and other norms of international law;
i) existence (emergence) of seats of armed conflict and escalation of such conflicts in the territories of the states contiguous with the Russian Federation and its allies;
j) growing threat of global extremism (terrorism) and its new manifestations under the conditions of insufficiently effective international anti-terrorist cooperation, real threat of terrorist acts with use of radioactive and toxic chemical agents, expansion of transnational organized crime, primarily of illicit arms and drugs trafficking;
k) existence (emergence) of seats of inter-ethnic and inter-confessional tensions, activities of radical international armed groupings and international private military companies in areas adjacent to the state border of the Russian Federation and the borders of its allies, as well as territorial contradictions and upsurge in separatism and extremism in some regions of the world;
l) use of information and communication technologies for the military-political purposes to take actions which run counter to international law, being aimed against sovereignty, political independence, territorial integrity of states and posing threat to the international peace, security, global and regional stability;
m) establishment of regimes, which policies threaten the interests of the Russian Federation in the states contiguous with the Russian Federation, including by overthrowing legitimate state administration bodies;
n) subversive operations of special services and organizations of foreign states and their coalitions against the Russian Federation.
See
The Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation.
Note that international terrorism, ISIS is as a threat only at j), not at all mentioned close to the top threats.
And furthermore, Russia just as the Soviet Union has an extensive history in active measures and continues with the approach as it is a way to counter the massive conventional superiority of the United States. Why this is so difficult to understand is beyond me. And one can see that they are doing a great job in it as they aren't bound anymore with any ideological and political constraints as they were during the Soviet Union and the rule of the Communist Party.
