"Oh! what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive"
Yesterday I wrote that,"When Putin ordered his acolytes in the Kremlin to 'steal' information from Democratic Party computers in the US as a means of assisting Trump get into the White House, he did not quite anticipate just how swiftly the deep links between Trump and his top White House officials, and himself and his kleptocratic 'siloviki', would become universally exposed.(full video)" (blog entry: Monday, 27 March 2017)
This morning we learn that,
"Jared Kushner (left) has been asked to appear before the Senate Intelligence
Committee to discuss communications between Trump aides and Russian
officials, the first time a White House official will be interviewed by
investigators over Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election." (Courtney Weaver : Financial Times : March 27, 2017) (my emphasis)Furthermore that,
"... in addition to meeting Mr Kislyak in December, Mr Kushner met Sergei Gorkov, the head of Russia’s state-owned bank Vnesheconombank. That meeting occurred at the request of Mr Kislyak, the Times reported. " (ibid Courtney Weaver) (my emphasis)
Rachel Maddow, of MSNBC, exposes the links between Russia’s state-owned bank Vnesheconombank, Putin, Ukraine, and Jared Kushner. (Full Report)
In particular, she also outlines the inextricable link between the EU-US sanctions that resulted from Putin's invasion of, and subsequent annexation of, Ukrainian Crimea, as well as his ongoing war with Ukraine in the Donbas, and Jared Kushner and Sergei Gorkov.
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Part 2
Rachel Maddow also reports on the ever-expanding White House brief that Kushner is in charge of, including modernizing the technology and data infrastructure of every Federal department and agency, as well as broadband policy for the USA.
Like Trump, Kushner seems also to have a cosy relationship with Deutsche Bank, the very bank that is now under scrutiny in New York for, among other things, laundering Russian money. Recall that,
"In January a US regulator, the New York Department of Financial Services, fined Deutsche Bank $425m for laundering around $10bn of Russian money. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority imposed a £163m fine, its largest ever." ( Luke Harding, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Nick Hopkins and David Smith : The Guardian : Thursday 16 February 2017) (my emphasis)
And whilst Putin must now be rueing the moment when he ordered his Kremlin henchmen to steal data from the Democratic Party computers because it has not only exposed his sympathizers in the White House, but also seems to be heading Trump towards a possible impeachment, UNIAN reports that,
"The situation in the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation has become
more intense as Russian-terrorist forces have attacked 88 times the
positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the past day, according to
the ATO Headquarters.
The shelling was most intensive on the Mariupol line, the ATO HA wrote on Facebook." (UNIAN : 27 March 2017) (my emphasis)
Furthermore, though Putin is consolidating his 'romance' with France's National Front leader, Marine le Pen, he must be spitting nails because of Angela Merkel's election victory in Saarland against his Social Democratic sympathizers.
As reported by
As the revelations of Putin's interference in the US presidential elections continues to emerge, Putin is now also suffering from the collateral-damage this has caused to his global propaganda machinery viz. RT and Sputnik.
This weaponizing of information by Putin now turns out to be a double-edged sword.
The general public in the West is now more aware of how his army of 'computer trolls' operate. They are also more aware of the propaganda role of RT and Sputnik.
More importantly, they are becoming more aware of how these propaganda outlets of Putin disseminate 'false news' or, in other words, that they lie.
Putin is now at 'panic stations'.
(to be continued)
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