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17 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
While the spook author of this paranoid call to “severely punish the Russians” offers no evidence, it can be deduced that US intelligence is cranking up its Mighty Wurlitzer to ensure a continuum in Russia hysteria between the Trump & Biden admins.
A day after a wave of stories about a hack described w/o evidence as a Russian “act of war,” NYT published a call for Biden to ramp up hostility with Russia & declared “the era of bifurcation between the West Wing and the American national security establishment is about to end.”
Framed as a “news analysis,” the NY Times was basically providing Biden with the New Cold Warrior’s playbook, courtesy of an array of anti-Russia fanatics treated as seasoned experts in Washington. It’s clear they expect Biden to be completely malleable. nytimes.com/2020/12/15/us/…
It’s not only ideology that prompts US security state leaders to foment & maintain a Cold War posture. They also need an enemy to justify massive budgets & lucrative contracts. Just look at the bio of Thomas Bosset, author of the first NYT op-ed cited here. ImageImageImageImage

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On April 30 2018, well before Mossad assassinated Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Netanyahu singled out the Iranian scientist in his April 2018 “nuclear archive” slide show.

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A quick thread on a few foreign policy apparatchiks who stood out. buildbackbetter.com/the-transition…
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"govt can supply these independent experts with information and perhaps prod them into action from behind the scenes..."
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In an act of pure masochism, I watched Showtime’s The Comey Rule.

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There was no evidence Internet Research Agency ads had any impact on the 2016 election anyway. According to Facebook, 56% of them appeared after the election and most did not relate to the candidates.
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Did Western media ignore all this because the US gov't seeking Assange's extradition was responsible? thegrayzone.com/2020/09/18/mai…
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