Russia and the War Party

http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/24/russia-and-the-war-party/
Date Written:  2018-04-24
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX22778

A critical look at the book "Russian Roulette", by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, which examines alleged Russian interference in the 2017 U.S. election.

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Russian Roulette is filled with 300 pages of meticulous detail - Trump's (actual, planned, or failed) business dealings in Russia, endless goings and comings of shady characters and "operatives", electronic transactions across the great divide, a litany of speeches, conferences, dinners and other activities, computer hacking and trolling schemes, breathless tales of lurid behavior, Russians clandestinely entering the U.S., reports on secret files, and of course the menacing specter of Russian "oligarchs". All this is believed to demonstrate Putin's ruthless war against America, his supreme goal being to "destroy our democracy", instill chaos, and neutralize U.S. as well as European geopolitical power. As we have been ritually informed by CNN and kindred venues, cyber warfare (for now) is the Russians' preeminent mode of combat – and it has been so devastatingly effective as to paralyze normal American politics.