Posted on 03/12/2020 10:34:22 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told Congress this week that Russia now is trying to interfere in the 2020 election. The question is whether, in concert or in parallel with China, it is trying to do to President Trump what it partially succeeded in doing to Clinton in 2016. This time it is using the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic to undermine public perception of the president’s basic competence and trustworthiness.
Jani Vujica, director of analytics and research at the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, addressed a George Washington University conference on countering disinformation and propaganda last month. He described the Russian government’s efforts to exploit the virus crisis to America’s disadvantage by promulgating false stories that the pathogen originated in the United States. Unfortunately, he said, “many audiences around the world do believe these lies.”
Why would Vladimir Putin’s Russia, having worked to help Trump defeat Clinton in 2016, now try to sabotage Trump’s reelection bid, especially given the cognoscenti trope that Trump is in Putin’s pocket? The obvious first answer is that the critics are wrong about the president’s susceptibility to the Russian dictator’s charms. Whatever personal chemistry the president has established with Putin, Trump’s national security team has been vigorous in punishing the Russian government for its aggression in Ukraine.
More broadly, the National Defense Strategy promulgated by this administration pulls no punches in naming both Russia and China as “revisionist powers” intent on upending the U.S.-led rules-based, democracy-promoting world order and moving it in a more authoritarian direction led by Beijing and Moscow. In other words, the neo-Maoist Communist Chinese and the neo-Soviet Russian dictatorships are America’s all-but-proclaimed enemies.
If Putin thought he could inveigle the new deal-making American president into giving way to Russia’s pressures on Ukraine, he
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Yes.
Both Russia and China would like to defeat Trump for their agenda
Russian collusion against Trump is the biggest scam ever
Re Red China and Russia interfering in the 2020 election(s). So what else is NOT NEW? They’ve been doing this since the 1930’s (at least the Soviet Union, Red China in the 70’s). Red China has three possible agents in Congress, Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), Judy Chu (D-Ca), and Ted Liu (D-Ca) and reportedly many in NY City Chinatown and S.F./L.A. areas.
Anita Dunn is back. She was or still is Obama’s resident Maoist advisor. She’s helping Michael Avenatti publicist or something like that.
What a psycho but she WAS in the White House as an advisor to the president. What better avenue for the Chicoms to have a direct line to the president of the U.S. than to have one of his top advisors as a Mao admirer.
Russia must hate Trump. Trump has slammed them with sanctions. After the Russians murdered the dissident in England. After Trump is reelected expect him to increase the sanctions.
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