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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is a real "Deep State"
If nothing else, the Mueller investigation has shown that to be true.
But it is not what the right-wing conspiracists think.
We now see that Russia is mostly a country run by criminals and oligarchs. They thrive on dirty money and criminal activities. Their Boss is Vladimir Putin.
We also see that their lifeline is Big Oil. We see how they made a big deal with Rex Tillerson and Exxon-Mobil. And we see how Rex Tillerson was moved into the Trump Administration as the Secretary of State.
We see the folks that were having secret meetings with Russians all around the world, people like Erik Prince, brother to Betsy Devos, the Secretary of Education under Donald Trump. We see how they made deals to construct nuclear power plants in the Middle East, most notably, Saudi Arabia.
And we see how they move their dirty money thru money-laundering operations. We see how they have their favorite banks that will work with them. And we see how they handle their little proxy wars in places like Yemen and Syria.
And we see how politicians and campaign managers have moved into countries to help their "clients" run their countries. Their "clients" can be the most ruthless dictators, it doesn't matter. It is greed that is their primary motivation.
Donald Trump, and the investigation by Robert Mueller, has done a lot to expose the way these people operate on the world stage. And how they operate in the shadows. We have seen how easy it is to put hundreds of millions of dollars into American political campaigns. We see how they sabotage other governments.
We are witnessing the real "deep state".
peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Swallow the money and choke on reality, whackos.
dalton99a
(81,451 posts)kentuck
(111,079 posts)...that he rails against.