June 9, 2017
Dear Mr. President,
I was slightly shocked when you made the announcement
yesterday that Comey's testimony to Congress represented, "total and
complete vindication" for you.
What? How do you figure
that? What life raft do you think you are
clinging to? I don't see it.
The FBI has made it very clear from the beginning that they
are investigating how Russia influenced the election and the democratic process,
not investigating you
specifically. Believe me, no one thinks
that you are smart or savvy enough to have personally
colluded with the Russians. It's quite
the opposite in fact. We think that you
are stupid enough to have been
unwittingly used as a pawn in a much greater game.
I personally don't believe that the Russians were trying to
set up back door communication channels with Jared Kushner because they saw you
as an exceptional Leader (note the
capital L) who should be singled out for special treatment. I believe they saw you as clueless enough to
be easily manipulated; a means to an
end or an opportunity that couldn't be passed up.
As usual, you've got the wrong end of the stick. The scary part is that you don't even know
it.
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
Russia’s worldview can be understood within a “fascist framework” for geopolitics... fascism is... comfortable with the state not being the center of analysis, and comfortable with political interests being intangible or irrational... it accepts disorder as a goal of foreign policy... Russia is unstable as a state because it has no clear principle of leadership succession... Russia is not a fascist state, however, it does face the basic problem of having no succession strategy. What fascist states do in that condition is seek foreign adventure and conflict, exporting and projecting their problems to other states... further development of this in Russia merits close attention.
ReplyDelete-- Timothy Snyder, Professor of History at Yale University, speaking in 2016 at the Foreign Policy Research Institute on Russian foreign policy in the Putin era