VDH: Putin is America's Puppet Master

[133743Hokie]

This sums up the Russian issue nicely...
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The list of Russian capers, collusions, and conspiracies could be expanded, but the picture is clear: Putin’s Russia is in bad shape. It is economically weak and eager to do anything possible to hurt the U.S. — largely by using a fake-news disinformation campaign, spreading Kremlin cash, and playing a gullible and often unprofessional U.S. media eager to find a scandalous Russian under every American bed.

So far the Russian disinformation program has worked brilliantly.

What foreign government could possibly entangle in truth, lies, half-truths, rumors, and scandals the Trump family, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Comey, John McCain, John Podesta, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and a host of other Beltway grandees?

Who could prompt enough investigations and inquiries to overwhelm and distract the entire U.S. government at a time when North Korea is aiming missiles at U.S. territory, Iran is pressing ahead to develop a nuclear weapon, Syria is a genocidal mess, and immigrants from the war-torn Middle East are sweeping across Europe?

Putin is now America’s puppet master — and we are his empty-headed playthings dangling from his Kremlin strings.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... pet-master

[UpstateSCHokie]

This sums up the Russian issue nicely...
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The list of Russian capers, collusions, and conspiracies could be expanded, but the picture is clear: Putin’s Russia is in bad shape. It is economically weak and eager to do anything possible to hurt the U.S. — largely by using a fake-news disinformation campaign, spreading Kremlin cash, and playing a gullible and often unprofessional U.S. media eager to find a scandalous Russian under every American bed.

So far the Russian disinformation program has worked brilliantly.

What foreign government could possibly entangle in truth, lies, half-truths, rumors, and scandals the Trump family, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Comey, John McCain, John Podesta, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, and a host of other Beltway grandees?

Who could prompt enough investigations and inquiries to overwhelm and distract the entire U.S. government at a time when North Korea is aiming missiles at U.S. territory, Iran is pressing ahead to develop a nuclear weapon, Syria is a genocidal mess, and immigrants from the war-torn Middle East are sweeping across Europe?

Putin is now America’s puppet master — and we are his empty-headed playthings dangling from his Kremlin strings.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... pet-master

Yep, and what the left and the MSM don't seem to understand or refuse to admit is that the strings Putin is pulling is not Donald Trump's - its the their own (the left & MSM). He could not be happier with the way they are using this phony fake news story to grind our government to a halt, or how its caused us to become so divided and impotent. Putin has to be loving the way the MSM and the left are behaving. He sure as hell does not want to see Trump's agenda items of more energy production or a strong military come to fruition.

[RiverguyVT]

I dunno. It's less Russia than it is just us being us

[cwtcr hokie]

I dunno. It's less Russia than it is just us being us

I agree, all it takes tho is getting MSM going, then they run with it and the low info folks flood social media with it... it must be true, its on the internet!!!