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| Putin is Bust So Who Won the Pot? |
| 2017-03-21 |
| If Putin is the world's puppet master he's not doing very well. Russia's economy has been in crisis since 2014, with no end in sight. The Kremlin has been in the doldrums for two reasons: the continued decline in oil prices and economic sanctions imposed on Moscow for its incursions into Ukraine. Trends have worsened rather than gotten better. Initial hopes the Trump administration would cut Russia some slack were dashed. "Enormous amounts of money have flowed in and out of Russia over the past several months as oil prices and U.S. policies turned from favorable to seemingly unfavorable". ...If Putin robbed the bank where's the money? The problem with the Russian hacking stories now roiling Washington is demonstrating how any of it worked to the Kremlin's advantage. A proper conspiracy theory involving a foreign power in the last election should at least consider China, not just Russia, as a suspect. The Chinese at least would have benefited from cheap oil. Yet even here there are problems. ...The golden rule in detecting conspiracies lies in observing what suspects did rather than focusing on what they are alleged to have said. Lobbying and influence peddling in Washington is a multi-billion dollar business. From the policy record there is no reason to think that Russia is the only, or even the major, source of corruption in the capital. It's not hard to believe there's mischief afoot in DC. The more interesting question is whether the Narrative is on the trail of the actual culprit or following a red herring. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 If the Russians wanted to interfere with the election, there's lots of things they could have revealed re: the Obama and Clinton administrations. Like, among other things, the Iran deal... They can literally prove the dem party's hog thieves because they've been helping them throw them in the back of the truck after hitting them in the head. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-03-21 15:32 |
| #1 Nonworking link in the text is for: Mexico Is Among The Top 10 Countries Paying Washington Lobbyists |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-03-21 11:03 |