Snippets from @SethAbramson Fasten your seat belts.
(THREAD) Trump's 2016 campaign made a pre-election grand bargain with Saudi Arabia, Israel, UAE and Russia that required Ukraine's approval. Ukraine said no—and Trump spent years getting revenge via savage acts
(THREAD) Trump's 2016 campaign made a pre-election grand bargain with Saudi Arabia, Israel, UAE and Russia that required Ukraine's approval. Ukraine said no—and Trump spent years getting revenge via savage acts
spanning continents. This book is that story. amazon.com/dp/1250272998?…
1/ Many people don't realize that Trump's two most important campaign advisers—Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner—had devised, by the end of 2015, an *entire foreign policy* for Trump that met his only
1/ Many people don't realize that Trump's two most important campaign advisers—Michael Flynn and Jared Kushner—had devised, by the end of 2015, an *entire foreign policy* for Trump that met his only
requirement: that it would make him rich. He *wanted* that foreign policy agenda.
2/ The foreign policy Kushner and Flynn devised for Trump in 2015, and perfected in 2016, was a "grand bargain" between Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt that would benefit
2/ The foreign policy Kushner and Flynn devised for Trump in 2015, and perfected in 2016, was a "grand bargain" between Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt that would benefit
all parties geopolitically and Donald Trump both politically and financially. It was genius.
3/ The broad strokes of the plan—called "the grand bargain" or "the Middle East Marshall Plan"—were that Trump would do enough to please the nations involved that he'd be able to do
3/ The broad strokes of the plan—called "the grand bargain" or "the Middle East Marshall Plan"—were that Trump would do enough to please the nations involved that he'd be able to do
stunningly lucrative future business in their countries while receiving election aid from them.
4/ Much of the bargain came to pass: Trump set up a campaign foreign policy on nuclear power, foreign sanctions,
4/ Much of the bargain came to pass: Trump set up a campaign foreign policy on nuclear power, foreign sanctions,
and the U.S. embassy in Israel that these foreign autocrats wanted—and in turn four of them (Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE) delivered illegal election aid.
read on: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1270144…
read on: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1270144…
The big issue is that we are spoon fed pieces of the pie as they occur, with no comprehensive view of the larger conspiracies. @SethAbramson @sarahkendzior @TimothyDSnyder and others provide that for us.
Here is another from two years ago. It is long, but worth a read.
Here is another from two years ago. It is long, but worth a read.
How can we know all of this, and not think that the fix was in cover up and deny everything, to hobble the system in every conceivable way. The depth and scope seems impossibly large to be concealed from the public at large. But they have done just that. Will we just go on
our way, like sheep, figuring that our leaders will take care of us. WE CANNOT. We, the people have to become better informed, and DEMAND action from them. #ImpeachTrumpAgain for his crimes, @HouseDemocrats!!!
Invoke the #25thAmendmentNow @SenateGOP!!! Be bold! Be patriots!
Invoke the #25thAmendmentNow @SenateGOP!!! Be bold! Be patriots!
Protect us from Trump and his minions. It lies in your hands. Never, in our history have we had such an imminent threat from within our borders. And Congress has the power to neutralize that threat before he achieves is goal as the American Fuhrer. 
@threadreaderapp pls unroll
