From Kremlin to courtroom, an odor of authoritarianism

Garnering little attention, The Washington Post obtained a secret Kremlin document. Containing plans to destabilize the West, especially the U.S., it proposes to do so by “continuing to facilitate the coming to power of isolationist right-wing forces in America” [Author’s note: MAGA?] and “to escalate the situation in the Middle East around Israel, Iran and Syria to distract the U.S. with the problems of this region.”

The plans entail an “offensive information campaign” and other measures including “the military-political, economic and trade and informational psychological spheres.” As described by the Post, part of the goal is to “leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance” (Washington Post: tinyurl.com/nofriend4u).

This ought not be news. Excepting the Gorbachev/Yeltsin eras, Russia’s place on America’s enemies list has been obvious since the end of WWII. Remember Reagan? Remember Khrushchev’s “We will bury you”? No surprise to people paying attention, which excludes most Fox-watchers, Vladimir Putin has aggressively picked up the baton. The document proves it.

Here’s the point: cluelessness alone, of which there’s a surfeit among the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, doesn’t explain the Putin-love we see among so many Republican politicians and their mouthing media. Even without the aforementioned document, the clarity of Russia’s intentions means their support for Putin against Ukraine can be understood only as willing collaboration with a dangerous adversary. Sedition, by definition. What Putin has on them or what they expect from him remains clouded.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-from-kremlin-to-courtroom-an-odor-of-authoritarianism/