a domestic policy adviser to putin. that s right. obviously, the president laid out what we would call the top lines. the overarching sanctions, what they are on vbe bank, military bank, cutting russia off from the west. but now we have three specific names who are attached to the inner circle of putin. and who they are. i ll just run through as we re just getting this in the last few minutes. one is the son of the director of the fsb, the federal security service. the next one is the chairman of psb. the other is the son of the first deputy chief of staff, the domestic policy adviser for putin. so as this treasury department press release indicates, these are individuals who have directly benefitted from the clep tok rasy that is russia. part of putin s inner circle and now they and their assets will be cut off.
is actually online now it ll be of the new york post tomorrow just all that there with these russian oligarch was his townhouse in manhattan and also another mansion he had in washington dc were rated by the fbi on tuesday and i thought i would just search the laptop before his name in bingo there it came hunter biden trying to sell to $25,000 his knowledge and intelligence about these russian oligarchs0 who was allegedly quite odious if you look at the treasury department press release from 2,011 when i sanctioned him quite a scary individual individual but dirt biden apparently knew enough about him to want to sell intelligence about his quote elite that worth the value of the company. i don t think he got the money because one of the alcoa quite smart governor relations people
.
The first goal this story served was to weaponize it in the battle waged by pro-war House Democrats and their neocon GOP allies to stop Trump s withdrawal plan from Afghanistan. How, they began demanding upon publication of the CIA/
NYT story, can we possibly leave Afghanistan when the Russians are trying to kill our troops? Would that not be a reckless abdication to the Kremlin of this country that we own, and would withdrawal not be a reward to Putin after we learned he was engaged in such dastardly plotting to kill our sons and daughters?
In late June, this alliance of pro-war House Democrats funded overwhelmingly by military contractors and the Liz-Cheney-led neocon wing announced amendments to the military budget authorization process that would defund Trump s efforts to withdraw troops from either Afghanistan or Germany (where they had been stationed for decades to defend Western Europe against a country, the Soviet Union, that ceased to exist decades ago). They instan
A US soldier in Afghanistan CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES
That Russia placed bounties” on the heads of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan was one of the most-discussed and consequential news stories of 2020. It was also, as it turns out, one of the most baseless as the intelligence agencies who spread it through their media spokespeople now admit, largely because the tale has fulfilled and outlived its purpose.
The saga began on July 29, 2020, when
The New York Timesannounced that unnamed “American intelligence officials” have concluded that “a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan including targeting American troops.” The paper called it “a significant and provocative escalation” by Russia. Though
one of the most-discussed and consequential news stories of 2020.
It was also, as it turns out, one of the most baseless as the intelligence agencies who spread it through their media spokespeople now admit, largely because the tale has fulfilled and outlived its purpose.
The saga began on July 29, 2020, when
The New York Timesannounced that unnamed “American intelligence officials” have concluded that “a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan including targeting American troops.” The paper called it “a significant and provocative escalation” by Russia. Though
no evidence was ever presented to support the CIA s claims neither in that original story nor in any reporting since most U.S. media outlets blindly believed it and spent weeks if not longer treating it as proven, highly significant truth. Leading politicians from both parties similarly used this emotiona