Russia is right: The deep state doesn’t want better relations
(NationalSentinel) Foreign Policy: That GOP candidate Donald J. Trump has spoken admiringly of his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is a matter of record. So is his stated foreign policy objective of seriously improving ties between the U.S. and Russia.
But what should be equally obvious by now, given the whole “Russia hacked the election to help Trump” BS narrative and this latest effort to ensnare Attorney General Jeff Sessions as part of a ‘Trump-Russia conspiracy’ to “steal” the election from Hillary Clinton, the Deep State and its defense-foreign policy-intelligence careerists, in conjunction with establishment types in both major parties, doesn’t want a ‘reset’ with Russia. Because actually achieving one would finally break the military-industrial-political power structure that has long ruled from the shadows.
What’s more, the Russians know this. Because you see, they are no strangers to psychological operations, and they can spot one when they see it. The goal of the deep state in the U.S. is to so poison the political atmosphere that any real attempt by the president and his foreign policy team to seriously improve relations with Moscow will be viewed with anger and suspicion by the bulk of the American electorate.
As reported by The Associated Press:
The intense attention being given to the new U.S. attorney general’s meetings with Russia’s ambassador , the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
The spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters he did not know about the meetings last year between Ambassador Sergei Kislyak and Jeff Sessions, who at that time was a U.S. senator. Sessions also was a policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s campaign.
[…]
. Sessions’ office has said the meetings .
He characterized the reaction to the news of the Sessions meetings as
A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, told The Associated Press that the Russian Embassy would not comment on meetings with American political figures, but she also said they
Zakharova echoed Peskov’s assessment in a briefing on Thursday, saying .
“What is happening now in the West, particularly in the U.S. media, ” she said.
But Moscow appears frustrated by the lack of visible progress, imposed on Russia for its interference in Ukraine.
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That Russia would seek to gain an advantage with a U.S. administration is understandable; doing so would allow Moscow to refocus resources and attention elsewhere. But a better U.S.-Russia relationship would also be in America’s best interests, yet Trump is getting the most resistance from the U.S. deep state. The question is, why?
The answer: Because better U.S.-Russia relations inevitably means a loss of power and influence among deep state operatives and careerists, many of whom still obviously are pining for a new Cold War and the budget and resources it would bring.
Trump has asked, rhetorically, why a better relationship with Moscow would be a bad thing. No one who can has given a good answer, which, in and of itself, is telling.
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