By David Stockman
The Vlad and Donald show in Helsinki yesterday was simply brilliant and breathtaking---
we'd say even a beautiful thing to behold.
Between them, they left CNN's nattering nabobs of neocon nonsense sounding like the
shrieking monkeys they actually are. And that's to say nothing of the fools they made out
of the newly minted liberal and progressive war-mongers on the Dem side of the aisle in
Washington or the so-called journalists who fill 90% of the space in the so-called
mainstream media with endless pro-war propaganda.
But most of all it was the single greatest blow to the War Party since it turned
Imperial Washington into a colossal menace bent on global hegemony when the Soviet Union
slithered off the pages of history in 1991.
We have said all along that Putin and Russia have been demonized because the Warfare
State desperately needs an "enemy" to justify its $800 billion annual mugging of
America's taxpayers. Yet today's spontaneous chorus by the two leaders in behalf of
détente, dialogue and diplomacy puts the kibosh on that Big Lie more completely than
could 100 Ted Talks or a year's worth of pro-peace op eds in the Washington Post.
So Flyover America will have no trouble seeing the good of the Helsinki Summit. Trump
and Putin just killed it on every topic where the War Party and its shills in the press
wanted to drive a wedge.
That is to say, cooperation on Syria, arms control, terrorism, North Korea, Ukraine;
friendly competition on supplying natural gas to Europe; an invitation to Mueller to
send his legal sleuths to Russia to participate in the interrogation of the 12 GRU ham
sandwiches named in the indictment; and best of all, a reciprocal notion that Russian
prosecutors come here to question Deep State operatives about how they helped one of
the greatest scoundrels of modern times, Bill Browder, abscond from Russia with almost
$1.5 billion skimmed from its people and on which he and his posse paid zero taxes
both there and here.
Indeed, the debunking of the false mainstream narrative about Russia's nefarious
intentions and doings was so complete that the Deep State apparatchiks were reduced to
sputtering hysterically. For instance, here is the bile issued by the central architect of the
Russian collusion lie, former CIA director John Brennan:
Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the
threshold of “high crimes & misdemeanors.” It was nothing short of treasonous. Not
only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican atriots: Where are you???
Then again, when you actually read the transcript of the joint press conference, you will
find the very words, phrases and tonalities that harken back to the courageous efforts of
liberal democrats like Senators George McGovern and Frank Church and even President
Jimmy Carter to promote diplomacy and detente during the height of the Cold War
confrontation when each side had 9,000 nuclear warheads on hair-trigger alert.
And exactly what was John Brennan doing circa 1976?
Why, he voted for the communist candidate for President, Gus Hall, because he thought
Jimmy Carter was too much of a cold warrior!
In other words, the guy is a demented partisan hack who arose to power during a 25
year career in the CIA that began in 1980, and during which he sold his soul to the
Warfare State in pursuit of position, power and pelf.
But beyond our joy in hearing the gaskets popping all over the Imperial City we can say
this: In the course of that press conference the Donald threw down the gauntlet to the
Deep State in a manner so explicit and unequivocal that there is now no turning back.
Either he will rally the undoubtedly dazed GOP troops on Capitol Hill and his base in
behalf of rapprochement with Russia and an end Washington's arrogant Imperial
hegemony---or they will indeed put him on the Dick Nixon Memorial Helicopter for a
final ride to Gonesville.
At this point we are at a loss---50 years of studying the Imperial City notwithstanding---
to know which way it will go.
But we have no doubt that the Deep State and its shills, assigns and
nomenklatura throughout the Imperial City will now escalate their war against the
Donald to red hot intensity. The signal for that was in the very first words that came
off Anderson Cooper's viperous tongue the instant the press conference was finished:
“You have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an
American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader, that I have ever seen”.
But just call it fever pitch on steroids. That's the condition that CNN had already worked
itself into after a full weekend of near-hysterical gumming about Robert Mueller's latest
gambit.
We are referring, of course, to his Friday indictment of 12 alleged election meddlers
slathered in Russian dressing.
But wasn't that just another Deep State "insurance policy"?
Wasn't that a desperate, bald-faced effort to sabotage yesterday's summit in Helsinki?
After all, why did these indictments come down on Friday afternoon July 13?
Did Mueller and Rosenstein need to hurry-up their indictments and make lightening
perp-walk style arrests so that their targets wouldn't flee the country in the dead of
night?
Not at all. The 12 indictees were already long gone. In fact, these particular Russians
were never here, if they actually exist at all.
So let's call a spade a spade. Friday afternoon's action by his own Justice
Department was a brazen shot across Donald Trump's bow by the Deep State the likes of
which we have never before seen; and which after today's rebuke of its entire false
RussiaGate narrative will undoubtedly prove to be a mere token of the pounding attacks
yet to come.
Even then, Friday's bald-faced attempt to sabotage the summit in itself raises deeply
troubling questions about whether even the veneer of democratic self-government has
much shelf-life left in America.
That's because Friday's theatrics amounted to a frontal attempt to nullify the 2016
election. If the Donald said anything about his agenda during the 2016 campaign that
was remotely coherent (besides building the Mexican Wall) it was that he would seek a
rapprochement deal with Putin.
Needless to say, the War Party is dead set against constructive engagement with
Russia because the Fake Enemy represented by its risible demonization of Putin is
literally its authorization to continue squandering $800 billion per year on "national
security"; and that, in turn, is the very life-blood of Imperial Washington's malodorous
prosperity.
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