TWGB: Citizen Krasnov?

 

I'm just a simple, mostly reality-based blogger, and I have to admit, the "Krasnov" story about Trump being recruited by KGB in the 1980s both interests and concerns me. On one hand, I'm skeptical, because I remember the "Steele Dossier" dropping shortly before Trump's first term and well-enough after the election and coloring all investigation into the Trump/Russia ties in the public opinion with a hint of scurrility. 

In the public mind, everything regarding the connection between Trump and Russia was supposedly a little bit fake, because despite every nugget of fact that Trump did seem oh so very partial to Russia and enamored with Putin, we were supposed to not connect the dots and fail to acknowledge the evidence of our eyes.  The Republican US Senators who wrote the intelligence report on Russia's connection to Trump concluded they most certainly did help him in 2016. 

So, I get the game by now--let's call this a "limited hangout". Maybe there was an attempt at a KGB recruitment of Trump--after all, he subsequently did publicly downgrade NATO--what is up with that? 

Maybe Trump is just a dipshit who misunderstands NATO as, not a defense against Russian aggression, but a kind of protection racket. He is kind of stupid.  Is that so wrong? (For someone in the office of the presidency--it is so much wrong it is like a mirror universe, an "opposite day", an abortion of reality.) 

And what of Trump's business connections--oh, shit, well, here's the thing. Trump's good friend Rudy Guiliani oversaw the transition from the Italian to the Russian mob SOME PEOPLE SAY. Anyway, there's a good book about Trump business and mafia and mafiya connections from Craig Unger. Is it persuasive? Folks don't want to say--but me, I think probably.

Because Trump and Russian money laundering is a thing, and so is his desire to have a footprint in Russia (the Russian "Moscow Trump Tower")

I can't vouch for the recent supposed leak that Trump was recruited as an RU op--but take as a fact his behavior with respects to Putin wouldn't belie that at all. And let's look at the name "Krasnov"--there was an historic personage in Russian history of this name. A Nazi collaborator who also had Cossack/Ukraine history. 

I'm not a Russian historian, so I won't tie that together other than say there is irony. After all, what would be the continuity between pre-Soviet Union fail and today but a kind of Russian deep state in the intelligence apparatus? And every idiot in the world could understand racism is an American pressure point. But maybe Trump is not so much even seen as a person but a pressure point, himself?  A racist narcissist who is also the most ridiculous stupid ugly American stereotype. The perfect useful idiot to separate the US and Europe?

It makes a lot of sense. 

It really does. 

Do I sign on 100% that this is true? Why no! How unnecessary, when Trump always acts on Russia's best interests? He just does. Always. Play it over and over. He never puts America First. He is not about that life. He is not the leader of the free world, just Putin's puppet. We needn't care about the process that got him there. 

UPDATE: I f you ever wanted an anti-capitalism poster child though/ Many people understand the boorish, unlettered thing he is and react accordingly.