This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches from Moon of Alabama
While we have little or no hope that the War party s administration (nominally) under Biden will be more honorable or less sociopathic than Trump s repugnant regime, it is hard to imagine it will have figures as stunningly odious as Mike Pompeo, one of he great criminals of our time, as is his nominal boss. Unprincipled and opportunistic to a fault, these two individuals are political malignancies of the first order, but, again, they did not spring on the political scene out of nowhere, their enablers were the Democrats, the same bunch that now has the audacity to strut around pretending to be made of a different, superior moral fabric.
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches from Moon of Alabama
In a blistering speech one day after pro-trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an unprecedented security breach, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said the perpetrators should be considered domestic terrorists . Don t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists. It s that basic. It s that simple.
That the incoming president declares a number of activists from the Is this a terrorist?
Those rabbles were in no way terrorists. They were not even a mob. Most of them were out-of-town rednecks who felt that they had been wronged. They wanted to express that. They were surprised when they found how easy it was to enter the Capitol and they apparently took more time to take pictures than to rearrange the furniture.
How Trump Appeased Russia
Two years ago we wrote about Trump s relation with Russia:
Trump obviously wants better diplomatic relations with Russia. He is reluctant to counter its military might. He is doing his best to make it richer. Just consider the headlines below. With all those good things Trump did for Putin, intense suspicions of Russian influence over him is surely justified.
There followed 34 headlines and links to stories about Trump actions, from closing Russian consulates to U.S. attacks on Russian troops, that were hostile to Russia.
In fact no other U.S. administration since the cold war has been more aggressive towards Russia than Trump s.