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He [Reagan] turned to the CIA who had some old weapons they would sell to Israel who would then trade small arms to the Contras. The real story was the backstabbing again by the Dems of some freedom fighters trying to stop Communism in this hemisphere just like they did in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. Neve mind it ended up destroying Nicaragua, they all believe in Marxism no matter who is hurt.

Great piece. When I first heard the Russia-Trump hoax in 2016 I assumed they were criminalizing a policy disagreement. Trump wanted the Cold War to be over and the PTB and Hillary wanted to continue the Cold War (Fake "reset" button notwithstanding). The choice was that Trump was a Putin stooge or would start a nuclear war with Putin. They decided on the Putin stooge formula and the "Trump wants to be a dictator like Putin" meme. The Hitler editorials in the Washington Post were part of that, but it didn't work.

The biggest problem is that criminalizing policy disputes leads to rat holes like the Mueller probe and tragedies like 9-11. They don't want Trump to fight Iranian and other terrorism, or denuke North Korea, or secure our border, so they criminalize any steps towards those ends. Part of it is not wanting Trump to succeed but most of it is the permanent war and permanent threat mentality that the Deep State requires.

You are right that these are fake scandals but they are also part of the survival plan for the Deep State.

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Bingo! You got to the heart of it better than I did. There is a multi-trillion dollar budget to protect which buys lots of Beemers and mansions in VA to protect. Imagine if all that went away.