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Aaron Maté
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That's right folks, a gratuitous display of US militarism and jingoism is "Putin's America." Putin, whose country is surrounded by NATO bases & US forces, just loves celebrating America's military might, and has a puppet in the White House to do it for him.
Russiagate's America requires blaming US phenomena -- neoliberalism's decay; Trump's victory/corporate Democrats' failure; social divisions; and now even US militarism & jingoism -- on Putin. It's a pathology, and it's sad to see bright people succumb to it. @AnandWrites
.@seansrussiablog just wrote this on the function of Russophobia in the US. "...the notion that there is a Russian narrative, Russian behavior or unwitting agents of Putin are some of the core tropes of the Russophobic mind." themoscowtimes.com/2019/07/03/the…
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Federal judge has issued a significant rebuke of a core Mueller claim. Mueller claims that the IRA -- a Russian troll farm -- was the 2nd of "two principal interference operations" by Russian gov't. But as judge notes, Mueller's implied link between IRA & Russian gov't was false:
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