them strictly speaking, to do with them or with america that effort began many years earlier. winnipegger to july twenty second, 2016. that s the day that wikileaks published thousands of emailsrso from the servers ofe the democratic national committee in washington. democratl commit those emailst party officials had rigged the democratic process,s, the primary process in favor of hillary clinton and againstrgen the insurgent populist candidate. that year, bernie sanders ofpo vermont. within days, the chair of the dnc, debbie wasserman schultz,he chair resigned in di the wikileaks scandal brokee win the same day that hillary clinton shows her on the same day that hillary clinton chose her running mate, senator tim kaine, in ang overshadowmar tim kaand it the g convention that followed. but more significantlyed.,s scan the wikileaks scandal threatened to split the democratic party into piecesdait the d. more than 13 million bernie the ers voters, many young people learned tha
the war by commissioning a piece today by tom nichols. nicholsday by t s is a thoroy silly foreign policy establishment parasite who apparently is taken foreign seriously by other ne er doellsa wells and dumb people in washington. but the piecndin washington.e ir in it, he inadvertently reveals the point of this war ine terms. the clearest possible terms, quote, now we are faced with the long grind of defeating mosquitoes, armies and eventually rebuilding a better world. better oh, defeating moscow sd armies and building a better world. perfect. thank you, tyre nichols. those itemsth to thisan nichols to do list. unspecified in the piece is exactly how we plan to do this. how we plan to defeat russia chi and its ally china and then build utopia. the pieces notably lightece is on details. you d feel a little better hearing all this if tom nicholsh and others like him inol washington had a track record that suggested they could do any of this.f this a track record of competence an
to deflect blame from themselves onto someone. the dnc servers,ice, they claimed, had been hacked by the russian military. the goal was to hurt hillary hur clinton, whom the russiansan feared for her strength and wisdom, and to help donald trump, whom they controlled. rvr russia hacked the servers in order to hack the election. that was their story.it the the washington post ran with it the first day as if it were true. but there was never any evidence that it was true. almost seven years later, there is still no evidence the dnc story about its servers is ais lie. but as a political strategy, that lie worked flawlessly. russia mad.ade the perfect villt . itry was a white christian country with a traditional social structure. democratic parin the democratic party already opposed the foreign policy ths in washington was happy to hate russia again. after 40 years of cold war hating russia was muscle memory so soon? the leaders of both parties in washington signed on to the russia col
to china to make sure the chinese government didn t align with brezhnev with the russians. donald trump understood this very clearly. russians. verussia will never be our closest ally, he said. b buutt if russia ever becomes china s ally, we re in deep trouble. the combinatio deep tre.n of nal resources, military and economic power and sheer population would make the russian chinese alliance the most powerful force inchines the world. the united states would soon be thrown out. we d be takingthe un orders, asn put it.o there is no reason to make to me russia our enemy and there are many reasons not to . it was a sound case, but official washington ignored him. their response shouted in unison, shut up, putin stooge. and then they set aboutd they trying to provoke a warth rus with russia. now they have succeeded. but the wasir we re fighting in ukraine is not against russia alone, but also againsta russia s newest ally,lly, t the people s republic of china. what donald trumheina.p
them strictly speaking, to do with them or with america that effort began many years earlier. winnipegger to july twenty second, 2016. that s the day that wikileaks published thousands of emailsrso from the servers ofe the democratic national committee in washington. democratl commit those emailst party officials had rigged the democratic process,s, the primary process in favor of hillary clinton and againstrgen the insurgent populist candidate. that year, bernie sanders ofpo vermont. within days, the chair of the dnc, debbie wasserman schultz,he chair resigned in di the wikileaks scandal brokee win the same day that hillary clinton shows her on the same day that hillary clinton chose her running mate, senator tim kaine, in ang overshadowmar tim kaand it the g convention that followed. but more significantlyed.,s scan the wikileaks scandal threatened to split the democratic party into piecesdait the d. more than 13 million bernie the ers voters, many young people learned that the proc