IS RUSSIA (I.E. PUTIN) FINALLY BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT?

This week the United Kingdom expelled 23 Russian diplomats over its belief that Vladimir Putin had another of his critics poisoned to death there – which, over the years, seems to have become a specialty of this current President, former KBG agent and career thug.

And now we have the following, excerpted from Dustin Volz and Timothy Gardner’s article for Reuters:

 The Trump administration on Thursday blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the U.S. power grid, marking the first time the United States has publicly accused Moscow of hacking into American energy infrastructure.

Beginning in March 2016, or possibly earlier, Russian government hackers sought to penetrate multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and manufacturing, according to a U.S. security alert published Thursday.

Is this true?

I would not put it past Putin’s Russia.  I would not put anything past Putin’s Russia.

But let’s talk, for a moment, about the Trump administration directly accusing it of sabotaging our country.

-Isn’t this the same Trump administration that is supposed to be in cahoots with Vladimir Putin? It’s big-time friend?

-Isn’t this the same Vladmir Putin-led Russia which is supposed to have colluded with Trump to make him President instead of Hillary Clinton – despite the fact that, as Secretary of State, she signed off on a deal giving a Russian company 20% of our uranium reserves, while Putin’s apparatchiks enriched the Clinton Foundation by well over $100 million dollars?

-Isn’t this the same Russia that then-President Barack Obama promised to provide more flexibility to after winning re-election in 2012?

Yet, after a year of coming up with nothing,  and now watching Trump take decisive action against Russia,…

…Robert Mueller continues with his investigation Star Chamber, by expanding its reach further and further, in a desperate effort to find something, somewhere, somehow, that might make it look like Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign…

…while completely ignoring the actual, specific evidence that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama actually did so?

And our so-called neutral media continue to look the other way as this sham and farce plays out.

I did not support Donald Trump in 2016.  I did not vote for him (or Hillary Clinton).  I have regularly criticized Trump in this blog.

But I, and everyone else who cares about the United States, owes his presidency an enormous debt of gratitude for showing us so clearly how far this country has strayed from what we are supposed to be.  And why we should be ashamed of what we have become.

If Mr. Trump can go some distance to bring us back from these depths, he will – and should – go down in history as one of our greatest Presidents.