Yesterday, without even informing the press corps, or the American public, the American President called Vladimir Putin and failed to condemn Putin’s nerve gas assassination attempt in Britain or the Russian hacking of American infrastructure facilities, among a litany of recent aggressions. Instead he congratulated Putin’s sham election victory!
To be fair, the American President appears to have successfully protected his financial exposure to Russian mobsters, uh, I mean creditors.
Speaking of sham election victories: The Guardian is reporting that the board of Cambridge Analytica has failed to oust the CEO even after he was caught on tape admitting to electioneering opting instead to suspend him. Bravo, fortune favors the bold, chums.
We cannot expect other strongmen to do much of anything beyond simple flattery of this American regime’s floundering head of state, before going about their anti-democratic business of self-enrichment. What have they got to lose? America may not be a perfect country, but we have clear interest in preserving democratic processes and encouraging democratic institutions globally. As long as the GOP fails to correct their catastrophic error in party judgement in choosing to support this criminal, they do harm to themselves as Americans, and the well-being of their own families far into the future. They serve themselves alone, for the brief flash of time they maintain in office.
Yes, we are tired of the “winning”… of other despots.
