All Russiagate Did Was Advance Pre-Existing Agendas Of The Same Spy Agencies Who Started It by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-10-04 at 16:11:06 )

All Russiagate Did Was Advance Pre-Existing Agendas Of The Same Spy Agencies Who Started It by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

One of the many interesting stories that has gotten lost in the shuffle over the controversy over the horrible Trump-Biden debate and the presidents recent Covid-19 diagnosis is the recent allegation by The Federalists Sean Davis that Central Intelligence Agency director Gina Haspel has been personally blocking the declassification of incriminating documents pertaining to the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory known as Russiagate.

Mr. Davis claim may be true or false, but it is worth earmarking for later reference given that we already know that longtime Central Intelligence Agency insider Gina Haspel has been actively persuading the United States president to roll out cold war escalations against Russia, and given that we know the only real changes of consequence that have come about as a result of Russiagate are changes which advanced the longstanding agendas of the same intelligence agencies who started it.

The mainstream Democratic partisan narrative has been that investigations into possible collusion between the Donald Trump camp and Moscow were designed to ascertain whether the United States government had been co-opted at its highest levels by a hostile foreign power, with countless human clickbait pundits claiming earlier in Donald Trumps term that these investigations would result in Donald Trump being dragged out of the White House in chains. The mainstream Republican partisan narrative has been that the president was the target of a soft coup attempt by the deep state using false allegations of Russian collusion in an attempt to remove him from office for standing up to the deep state.

Like most partisan narratives, these are both false.

It is correct that the conspiratorial allegations of Vladimir Putin secretly controlling the executive branch of the United States government were bogus.

It is also correct that Russiagate was a psyop advanced by forces in the United States intelligence cartel who are sometimes collectively referred to as a part of the "deep state", though that term has become largely meaningless in recent years due to Trumpists twisting its meaning into "Democrats and anyone who does not like Donald Trump".

But both Republicans and Democrats are mistaken in believing that Russiagate had anything to do with removing Donald Trump from office.

Russiagate was never a deep state operation targeting Donald Trump; Russiagate has always been a deep state operation targeting Russia.

You may be sure this is true because while Russiagate has not had any significant negative effect on Donald Trump, it has greased the wheels for the escalation of many new cold war aggressions against Russia.

Russiagate was not an operation by the deep state against Donald Trump, it was an operation by the deep state against Russia. That is why it resulted in no negative outcomes for Donald Trump, but did facilitate mountains of cold war escalations against Russia.-Caitlin Johnstone October 4, 2020

Anyone who was informed and unbiased knew that the Mr. Mueller investigation would never touch Donald Trump (even as a newbie at the time I correctly called it back in 2017), and anyone who was capable of counting Senate seats knew impeachment would result in acquittal.

As far as Donald Trumps presidential career is concerned all Russiagate ever accomplished was galvanizing his Republican base around the completely false notion that he is fighting the establishment.

But what has Russiagate accomplished in relation to Russia?

The political pressure it placed on Donald Trump to act tough on Moscow and the Democratic Partys baseless insistence that this administration is controlled by Mr. Putin have ensured that there is nothing but acceleration for a world-threatening new cold war which has seen nuclear treaties abandoned, a much more aggressive nuclear posture against Russia, weapons sent to Ukraine, many sanctions on Russia, airstrikes on Russias ally Syria, sanctions on Russias ally Venezuela, the Iran deal shredded against urging from Moscow, NATO expansionism and increased military activity at Russias borders.

These aggressions were all planned years in advance. Barack Obama initiated them, the frighteningly anti-Russia hawk Hillary Clinton was scheduled to continue and expand them, and then when that fell through the Russiagate contingency was rolled out to ensure the United States intelligence cartel would get its long-sought campaign to shove Russia off the world stage and thereby hamstring its ally China.

A dodgy intelligence assessment on 2016 Russian election meddling by a few operatives who were hand-selected by notorious Russophobe and known perjurer James Clapper combined with a steady stream of bogus "leaks" like the notoriously false Steele dossier to form the foundation of Russiagate, and it all came from the same spy agencies whose agendas benefitted from Russiagate.

#Durham BREAKING: The primary sub-source for the Steele dossier was deemed a possible "national security threat" + the subject of 2009 FBI counter-intel probe. According to new records, those facts were known to Crossfire Hurricane team in December 2016.-Catherine Herridge September 24, 2020

Why were FBI agents talking about people "scrambling for info to support certain things" at a time United States intelligence officers were putting together their report on Russian election interference? Pretty sure conclusions are supposed to come after investigations.-Caitlin Johnstone September 24, 2020

The question "Who benefits from this?" is essential for understanding the world, and if you ask it of Russiagate there is one power structure which stands head and shoulders above everyone else.

Yes, the mass media got a major ratings bump from Russiagate, which is why they played along with it. Yes, the Democratic Party got to neuter the progressive movement and distract from its 2016 scandals, which is why they played along with it. But in terms of actual changes that were implemented as a direct result of Russiagate, the ones who gained the most were the United States intelligence collective whose pre-existing agendas were advanced by it.

Not only were pre-existing agendas against Russia facilitated by Russiagate, but pre-existing agendas against the United States of American left were facilitated as well.

The burgeoning swell of progressive populism galvanized by the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign would have made a lot of warmongers nervous, and the opaque government agencies which consistently ally themselves with status quo-loyal plutocrats have a vested interest in protecting the class with which they are allied. The fact that all oxygen was sucked from the progressive movement into baseless Russia conspiracy theories served the same intelligence cartel which initiated Russiagate.

In January of last year a former Assistant Director for the FBI (the same FBI which wordlessly allowed the bogus Steele dossier to circulate despite knowing its intelligence had been compromised) admitted that his work with the FBI had included actively sabotaging leftist politicians in the United States to keep them out of government. This officers entire FBI career took place after J Edgar Hoovers death and after COINTELPRO had officially been ended.

Uhhhhhhh...Fmr FBI Assistant Director just said "When I first got into the FBI one of the missions of the FBI in its counterintelligence efforts was to try to keep" progressives out of government.-Andrew Lawrence January 19, 2019

So that is two longstanding agendas of United States spy agencies that were advanced by Russiagate, a psychological operation which was launched by those same agencies.

And that is all you really need to know about Russiagate: that it was started by the same spy agencies which directly benefited from it. Unless you were born yesterday, this will tell you that we have been conned.

And now we are being told that the CIA director is forcefully obstructing transparency into the creation of that operation, even as the same Office of the Director of National Intelligence that James Clapper headed is promoting the narrative that Iran and China are seeking to influence the United States election for Joe Biden while Russia is seeking to influence it for Donald Trump.

US Intelligence: If Donald Trump Wins Russia Did It, If Joe Biden Wins It Was China And Iran

"Lastly, the dumbest thing about believing foreign nations are interfering in United States of American democracy is believing the United States of America has any democracy to interfere with."-Caitlin Johnstone August 8, 2020

This narrative that we are being primed for will enable these same spy agencies to sell the story that at least one of the governments they have targeted for sabotage can be accused of election interference regardless of who wins.

And the most depressing thing about it is that they already know they will be able to sell it successfully, because nobody has learned anything over the last four years despite the transparent scam of Russiagate.

Democrats will happily keep pushing Russia conspiracy theories if Donald Trump wins, and Republicans will cheerfully push conspiracy theories about China and-or Iran after a Joe Biden win. There is no reason to change strategies if it has been immensely successful. If it aint broke, do not fix it.

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