WE may have had our suspicions prior to the Musk/MAGA win in the US but if the mists have not lifted, the penny well and truly dropped - now is the time.
WE know Trump, apart from being a Farting,
lying, racist, racist, orange, cretinous, faithless, weak, unstable, conman, is a Putin stooge who invited Putin’s henchmen
into the Oval office when he was president the first time around and he has
been recipient of Russian money via over-payments for properties dating back
years. That’s before you consider the efficacy or not of the pee tapes.
Here in the UK Putin’s first poisoning of a Russian
dissident – Alexander Litvinenko went unchallenged and largely unremarked
because the UK Tory Party was so awash with Oligarch money. It was only after
the second botched event against Sergei Skripal and his daughter near Salisbury
that the UK took notice.
It was Boris Johnson who – despite being warned that
Russian tanks would soon cross the Ukraine border laughed at his military
advisors – though he subsequently took every chance he could get for a photo op
with President Zelenskyy – but that would be the same Johnson who appointed a Russian
Oligarch to The house of Lords against firm political and security advice.
Kim Jong Un had his brother killed in THE RUSSSIAN
STYLE and is now of course contributing thousands of troops to the invasion and
destruction of Ukraine.
Even here in Scotland I’d note that Alex Salmond got his RTE licence in 2017. During the Pandemic I was relieved that Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson wore makeup because apart from the physical similarities between her and Salmond – they both spent the entire pandemic attacking the Frist minister of Scotland. How either of them thought that helpful to a country in crisis is anyone’s business but they each had their pay masters. For Davidson it was – oh yes – again – Boris Johnson who also rewarded her with a seat in the lords. Salmond was finally prised away from RTE after the invasion of Ukraine.
Even the side men are out. Is anyone surprised that Peter Mandelson – he of Russian oligarch Deripasca Yacht scandal – is out soft pedalling for Trump and Putin?
Remember, Putin is KGB through and through. As well
as the Le Carre type, there is soft espionage that involves using – for example –
those weakened by unstable egos. It’s not that they are Russian operatives but
they sure know who buttered their bread.
My point is that anyone surprised at the US result
should not be. Both Trump and Musk are the exact types of egos Putin colonises
and makes use of to destabilise and undermine his enemies. HE rots them from
within.
The current backbiting in the US is pointless. Putin
has a 24 year head start on them and they need to get real.
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And – you know I used to doodle. Here’s an old
one from 2016 about choices…
