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From the moment a shocked American Main Stream Press understood that Donald\u00a0Trump was going to be the next President of the United States the chattering class quickly blamed Russia and Putin for their candidate\u2019s stunning loss.<\/p>\n
The effort to turn Putin into a supervillain was to mask what they knew in their hearts to be true but could not admit publicly and that is Hillary Clinton\u00a0was a miserably\u00a0flawed candidate. They all knew it, but, by God, they were not going to eat crow and say \u2013 \u201cOh, boy \u2013 she really had nothing to say to the American\u00a0people \u2013 honestly, she totally sucked as a candidate.\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>Nope, not going to happen.<\/p>\n So, instead, it\u2019s all Putin\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n This week alone Politico.com, Guardian, \u00a0and the New Yorker magazine have lengthy pieces on Vladimir Putin. I particularly enjoyed Guardian\u2019s \u00a0<\/a>headline : I\u2019ve read them all and I have to say \u201cIt\u2019s Deja Vu, all or again\u201d and that is elite media is again wrong on a critically important matter of foreign policy , yet they demand that the American people take them seriously.<\/p>\n Remember Iraq, Syria, Libya, and the Arab Spring? \u00a0Main Stream press was \u201call in\u201d on the manufactured ideal that with a little bit of American ingenuity and muscle i.e. billions of dollars of military hardware, Democracy and Freedom would arrive like spring Tulips into the hearts and minds \u00a0of Middle Easterns.<\/p>\n The unspeakable human tragedy that followed Main Stream Press\u2019s delusion that America knows best for cultures we know nothing about is perhaps the darkest\u00a0moment in America\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Much of the blame for the Geo-political catastrophe can be pinned, like a tale on a donkey, on John McCain and Lindsey Graham and their Neo-Con allies in deep-state Washington D.C.<\/p>\n And, so with this \u00a0dubious track record in mind, the Washington Post, The New York Times, CNN and the rest of the usual subjects trot out John McCain and Lindsey Graham AGAIN<\/strong>\u00a0to do their bidding on what the \u00a0America people need to know about the evils of the Putin regime. McCain recently called Vladimir Putin a \u201cKiller, a thug, a murderer\u201d<\/strong> Excuse me? \u00a0Is American press really going to look to John McCain again for direction on \u00a0critical matters on foreign policy and war? \u00a0Its\u2019s hard to believe but they are and it\u2019s crazy\u2026in the truest sense of the word.<\/p>\n Main Stream Press has the nerve to ask, with their knowing, superior, smugness : \u201cIs Donald Trump Mentally Ill\u201d. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. \u00a0An old boss of mine once told me, \u201d Steve, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.\u201d<\/p>\n But here we are again, the elite\u00a0press, who were callous, unapologetic, and \u00a0wrong on everything they supported in the Middle East, now feel it is their duty to sort out Putin and Russia for the American people.<\/p>\n No wonder we see Putin pleading the world press to start looking at international events differently and not through a rear-view mirror. Recently, an exasperated Putin rhetorically asked a gathering of journalists:<\/p>\n You people in turn do not feel a sense of the impending danger \u2013 this is what worries me. How do you not understand that the world is being pulled in an irreversible direction? While they pretend that nothing is going on. I do\u2019t know how to get through to you anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cI do\u2019t know how to get through to you anymore\u201d . This is \u00a0not the pleading of an unsophisticated man. Putin truly means it. And he means it when he says \u201d \u00a0You people in turn do not feel a sense of the impending danger \u2013 this is what worries me. How do you not understand that the world is being pulled in an irreversible direction? <\/strong><\/p>\n But the instead of listening to a world leader armed with rockets and nuclear weapons, the elite \u00a0press continues to talk among themselves, reach a consensus, \u00a0then publish their wretched, misinformed, words. Words that have not only been often wrong but in fact led to catastrophic human suffering throughout the world.<\/p>\n Putin understands at the root of the rising tensions between the West and Russia is, to a large degree, the West\u2019s \u00a0aggressive secular culture rigidly supported by America\u2019s Main Stream press that conflicts with Russia\u2019s sense of self which includes a favorable role for Christianity and religion in the public square.<\/p>\n Now of course the sophisticates and the elites will disagree with this point of view, but who cares? \u00a0The elite media like blind mice\u00a0have been so wrong, for so long that they no longer have any understanding of what the truth is and no moral standing and with this troubling development they have resorted to calling any written word not sanctioned by their own club members to be \u201cFake News\u201d. It is depressing that they cannot seen the irony in their own ridiculous fake news accusations given their miserable record.<\/p>\n Listen to Putin\u00a0in his own words on how the Christian faith is a root cause of the misunderstandings between the West and Russia.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cKiller, kleptocrat, genius, spy: the many myths of Vladimir Putin\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n