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
,and justifying the expansion of the national security state i . as the years passed and the rhetoric intensified, hysteria set in after a while, anybody with a heterodox opinion from right wingers to avowed socialists could be accused ofrm working secretly for vladimir putin. many wersecre accused and some destroyed by it. accume wereit was a textbook wio far more effective thank mccarthyism. and unlike mccarthyism, it never ended., russiait never remained americas greatest enemy , even as china emerged as america s greatest threat over time. the l the lie the democraties told to hide their crimes in the twenty sixteen primaries came to dominates america foreign policy and then to imperil america itself. olicy anfor generations, statesn and diplomats worked to prevent other greaitselft powers fromk aligning as a bloc against the u.s.. the idea is pretty straightforward. you might be able to beatt one one strong country, but if a couple of strong countriesouls ever got together, you w
the coffers of our government, and sending billions of dollars into, as you said, this blackas hole benefit the lives of the american citizens, which ought to be i would thinke the primary if not the only question that gets asked when we think about which policiess to support the united states government engaging, that should be the question why do american citizens have a strong interest? i understand a russian russiait does, but why doiz american citizens have a strong interest in who governs regions in eastern ukraine? and you the amazing thing about it is that when obama got asked on his way out why didn t you do more to arm ukraine, he saidi the realityne is ukraine willta always be of a vital interestl to russia but never will be for us and therefore will never risk a confrontation with moscowa over ukrainian sovereignty. that s just the reality. and now you re not allowed to a say that . well, i in case people thought that this was coming to an end, i mean u.s. involvement. we