So a little noted comment Jeff Sessions made during the hearings on Capitol Hill got my attention. "It isn't The Soviet Union anymore and we should be engaging with the Russians, it's a darn shame we are not" .
Of course for those many Americans who're memory challenged due to their short attention spans, this sort of statement was made not too long ago by an ageing Richard Nixon at the time of Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Nixon's idea was that America had a brief window of opportunity to encourage the Russians to lean toward Democracy after the fall of the Iron curtain and the popular disillusionment with Communism,
A window which might not be 'open ' for long in a land with a long brutal history of heavy handed imperial rule. Nixon was right but that window is now 'closed' in the era of Putin who is re-establishing totalitarian "order" lite in sheep's clothing while at the same time bringing back none of it's ideals or morality and instead vastly expanding the opportunities for official corruption and greatly enriching himself, his family and his circle of cronies.
So THIS IS THE RUSSIA which Trump, Sessions and other former Cold warriors are now deeply infatuated with. The Russia of lavish international corruption, a new expanded royal ruling class which the Trump oligarchy seeks to emulate, invest in and "do deals with"
All at the expense of The American public and the nation's security. In the lands of Trump and Putin there's NOTHING which money can not buy when one has enough of it !
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