In the wake of the historic Trump victory, Democrats are looking to place blame anywhere but on themselves or on Hillary. For her part, the sore loser has taken to blaming Russia. She even took to Capitol Hill to support a CIA assessment calling out Russia for cyber attacks and to demand further investigations.
The idea of any foreign influence over our elections is certainly troubling, and Putin is a menace, but there are legitimate questions whether the hacks were Russian, Chinese, Julian Assange or domestic. While there certainly is plenty of evidence that Putin is no fan of Hillary or Obama, the bigger question is, why?
While Republicans like Mitt Romney were calling Russia the biggest threat to the U.S., Obama was scoffing. In his famous hot mic gaffe, he was caught whispering the message to Putin that he would “have more flexibility” to reduce our nuclear weapons arsenal after his re-election. Hillary later punctuated the administration’s interest with the silly “reset button” photo op.
When Putin objected, we scrapped our planned missile-defense system in Poland. The cozy relationship included Moscow delivering $500,000 in speaking fees to Bill and $145 million to the Clinton Foundation, in exchange for Obama and Hillary giving Russia 25 percent of our uranium reserves. We then stand down as Russian ally China takes over the South China Sea, the biggest shipping lanes in the world, by building fake islands and air strips contrary to international law. We can be so flexible when we want to be.
Where did the love go?
According to the popular mainstream media narrative, the world loves Obama. All during the election cycle, we hear that Hillary is immensely competent, one of the greatest secretaries of state, ever.
Experts on organized crime will tell you that one hallmark of Italian Mafioso and other crime syndicates are codes of honor, rules written and unwritten. Even organized criminals understand the purpose of honor for the sake of avoiding chaos.
You rarely see mobsters targeting spouses or children of competitors, for instance, because the ensuing carnage would be unthinkable. Mobsters also rarely target innocent cops who are just people doing their jobs. They have families, and that should be respected. Dirty cops, on the other hand, especially the ones who double cross you, are fair game.
All evidence suggests that Obama and Hillary played their roles well with the criminal, Putin. In addition to giving Russia our uranium, Obillary let it take Crimea and a portion of Ukraine. Obillary drew a red line in Syria, promised to depose Putin’s puppet, Bashar al-Assad and, well, there he sits.
Their European Natural Gas play to control Assad, and thus the Iranian pipeline shipping Persian Gulf natural gas to Europe through their Iran-Iraq-Syrian allied territory, is going exactly as planned. Rather than take out Assad, or arm the Kurds to do so, Obillary armed ISIS, which turned on Kurds, Christians and Yazidis. What better friend could Putin ask for?
I don’t know the answer of where things went wrong between Putin and Hillary. The “flexibility” promise and reset button gestures certainly put statists Obama and Hillary in the allied position you would expect them to have with fellow comrade, Putin. How could Obama and Hillary, two disciples of Marxist radical Saul Alinsky, find themselves at odds with the head of the KGB? Absent a public check on Putin’s influence, I am guessing there was a double cross, a promised benefit never delivered.
One might point to the decline of the Russian economy and sanctions Obama initiated over Ukraine, but banning travel for a dozen Russian businessmen is not exactly scorched earth. During the Obillary administration, the man who dreams of restored Russian greatness retained his hold on South Ossetia, took Crimea and swaths of Ukraine and enjoys Middle East dominance in the axis through Iran-Iraq and Syria.
Since Hillary’s Arab Spring scheme toppled Tunisia, Libya and even our ally, Egypt, Russia has tightened ties with the new Egyptian regime and enjoys unprecedented Suez Canal and nuclear power deals.
Maybe Putin is mad at Hillary for allowing our “moderate” Syrian proxies do a little more damage to Assad than what was called for in the script. Maybe she failed to honor an exception to the withering travel ban on the Russian oligarchs like allowing a visa for someone who arranged the Bill Clinton speaking fee in Moscow.
There is no public explanation for Putin’s hatred of Hillary. Publicly, she has been a perfect Putin puppet on the take. That means the explanation for the animosity of Putin for Hillary must lie in some secret deal. Here’s hoping the Trump CIA will turn its efforts from blaming the security breach on Putin to finding the reason for any meddling and why Russia turned on its puppet, Hillary.
