The Putin-Manafort-Trump conspiracy cabal is beginning to disintegrate.

As the walls of justice continue to inexorably close in around Donald Trump, current President of the US, we should not loose sight of the fact that the thread of Maidan is an integral part, and possibly a central part, of the impeachment noose that is now rapidly descending around the neck of Donald Trump.
 
Let us recall that at the 2016 Republican Convention at which Donald Trump was hoisted into being the Republican presidential candidate for the 2016 US presidential election, behind the scenes at this convention was Paul Manafort, Trump's new campaign manager, the same Paul Manafort who gave Victor Yanukovich a political and style makeover that led to Yanukovich becoming president of Ukraine in 2010.

Trump sang the praises of Manafort as his campaign manager after securing the Republican presidential nomination, but soon after began to sing a different tune about Manafort as the criminality of Manafort began to emerge.

Let us also recall that at this 2016 Republican convention, it was Diana Denman (right), a platform committee member from Texas, who had proposed at the Republican National Security Committee platform meeting in Cleveland,

".... a platform amendment that would call for maintaining or increasing sanctions against Russia, increasing aid for Ukraine and “providing lethal defensive weapons” to the Ukrainian military.


As  Josh Rogin (left) then reported,

"The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week
to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington." (Washington Post : July 18, 2016) (my emphasis)

It is known that Manafort's fingerprints were all over this attempt to scupper the proposed amendment of Diana Denman  regarding 'increasing' sanctions against Russia, and providing Ukraine with 'lethal' weapons in their war with Putin's Russia.

Now prison for Manafort beckons as the ill-gotten gains that he received from Yanukovich is revealed in a US Court of Law.


As Nathan Layne and Karen Freifeld (left) now report,

"While prosecutors have said they will not present evidence in this trial about possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, they may dig deeper into Manafort’s connections with Russian and Ukranian oligarchs, legal experts have said.

Devine said in his testimony on Tuesday that Manafort used Western-style polling and advertising to help lift pro-Russian political figure Viktor Yanukovych to victory in Ukraine’s 2010 presidential election.

Yanukovych was later swept from power and fled to Russia in 2014, triggering a big loss of business for Manafort." (Reuters : August 1, 2018) (my emphasis)


And it was precisely this fleeing of Yanukovich into the arms of Putin that so angered Putin against the revolutionaries of Maidan that he immediately set in motion his illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, and started his war with Ukraine in the Donbas.

Following Putin's illegal annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, the EU and the US instituted their economic sanctions against Putin's Russia.

It is this millstone of sanctions around Putin's neck that led to his direct collusion with Trump during the 2016 US presidential elections, and that has now led to Manafort staring into the abyss of  a long prison sentence.

And now the Putin-Manafort-Trump conspiracy cabal is beginning to disintegrate.

(to be continued)