Okay. I'll try to wrap this up in one post.
I'll just start off reminding everybody what our own eyes have shown us in Trump's twisted apprenticeship with his Sith Lord Putin of Russia. During the last presidential election debates with Hillary Clinton, Trump famously defended Russia against any charges of election meddling. Even though all our intelligence agencies knew the Wikileaks stolen email leaks were stolen by Russians and were coming from Russia, Trump was famously unconvinced. Trump said that we had no idea whether it was Russia. That for all we knew it could be some 400lb man sitting on a bed somewhere. (Like him maybe??) haha
Only after the election did we find out that Trump was aggressively pushing for permission to build a Trump Tower Moscow hotel. And he knew that the only way that would ever get approved is if it had the blessing of Putin himself. Of course Trump never shared the fact that he was sucking up to Putin and seeking favors from him during the course of the election, in hopes of building that Moscow hotel. Once he was called out on this huge conflict of interest later, he said that he had no idea whether he would win the election or not, or still be a private citizen. So therefore he had every right to continue pursuing this mega business deal with Russia during the campaign. (Even though he never shared this with voters.) So even during the campaign (in plain sight) he was acting as an enabler, a propagandist, an agent and an asset of Putin's Russia.
Anyhoo... Trump has been very aggressively saying before and after the last G-7 economic conference that Russia should be allowed back into the G-8. He never articulates the economic or political reasons
why they should be allowed back in. Only that in his opinion they definitely
should be. So let's look back at the root cause for why Russia was kicked out of the G-8 by the other G-7 members along with the Obama administration. It was because Russia invaded Ukraine and forcibly took over all of Crimea. And then it launched a war in the eastern Ukraine to claim some of Ukraine's most important industrial regions as part of Russia. That war still rages in eastern Ukraine today. Thousands have died in this war.
That's exactly why the U.S. imposed sanction on Russia in the first place. The Russian theft of emails from the Clinton campaign as well as their social media meddling in the election via ads on Facebook, Twitter, et al is yet just an additional reason why the U.S. has kept the sanctions on. But it started with Crimea.
So now we have word that circus clown Rudy Giuliani (on Trump's behalf) was pressuring Ukraine very heavily to not only try to dig up dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden...but also to investigate the made-up conspiracy theory that it was never Russia who meddled in the last election at all. That it was actually Ukraine. It's absolutely laughable that Ukraine would have seen it as being in its interest to help elect a pro-Russian candidate like Trump in the last election. But that's the propaganda line of bullshit lies Trump wants the world to hear. But why? Where is this going?
Giuliani and others were telling Zelensky that if he wanted U.S. military and economic support from the Trump administration that these investigations were a requirement which they would demand in advance in writing. They told him not only
what to investigate, but also the
required outcomes they expected to see from these investigations. Namely again, that Russia never interfered in the 2016 election at all and that it was instead Ukraine which did it.
When Trump's "perfect" phone call with Zelensky came to light, Trump brushed it off and said that not only was Zelensky not pressured in the phone call, but that he (Zelensky) was going to negotiate with Putin, and then he would be invited to the White House. Most of the world was like, "Huh??!" Negotiate with Putin? Then be invited to the White House? What does that mean?
So the U.S. public and the world stage is being set up for another round of Trump lies and gaslighting. Because... Any negotiations between a weakened Zelensky with a rival like Putin is going to end with not just Zelensky's agreement to hold elections in eastern Ukraine and allow voters to decide if they want to be part of Russia instead. Putin will demand (and eventually get) a very bitter and cold Ukrainian acquiescence to the Russian occupation of Crimea. Ukraine will be forced to ratify a legal document saying they agree that Russia has sovereignty over all of Crimea and that Ukraine gives up any and all future claims to it. The sellout of Ukraine will be complete. Much like Czechoslovakia to the Nazis in 1938.
What does all this have to do with Putin's (and therefore Trump's) goal of getting sanctions lifted on Russia? Do you see where this is going now?
If Ukraine "investigates" and the investigation shows that Ukraine was the one that meddled in the last election, stole the server contents from the DNC and Clinton campaign...and that it was never Russia at all... And then you have Ukraine agreeing to accept Russian control of Crimea... What happens to the excuse for maintaining the sanctions?
Trump would trot out there dragging his very portly behind, in all his sense of victimhood and indignation. Through his angry, anus-shaped lips he would rant. He'd go on and on about how the whole Russia thing was a hoax from the very beginning. And now Ukraine says that he was RIGHT! Russia never interfered or helped him win the last election. This was all a deep-state conspiracy of which he and Russia were the victims. (Blah, blah, blah) Putin said all along that it wasn't Russia. And he was right! We actually owe Putin and the Russians an APOLOGY for all of this.
Plus, Ukraine has agreed in international accords that Crimea belongs to Russia now. So they have put the matter behind them once and for all. If Ukraine itself has agreed to put this all behind them... Then why shouldn't WE?! I therefore call upon Congress and the Senate to begin lifting Russian sanctions immediately. (Yada, yada, yada) Anything I can do by executive order to either remove or weaken sanctions on Russia, I will start doing at once. I also call upon the G-7 to allow Russia back into the G-8.
It's not a pretty picture of where this game-plan is headed. Lord knows how much success Putin and Trump will have with it. Hopefully it's not completely successful.
