And one more note... remember, in 2008, Rick Davis used one scandal (the politicization and piggy-bank revolving door of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae going to extremes) to obscure all the other ones. The rise and fall of sketch banking 2005-2007 obscured both things like Deripaska and Manafort worming into multiple holes in the GOP and things like Likud and GRU becoming a London-based unit, two big events that formed later events. It also helped obscure power moves around Yukos and Georgia, of course. This is what the GOP does - create so much illegal noise with money laundering that you don't notice the treason.
Jay, some thoughts on the Schmidt/McCain talk - you know the essence of Steve's charge is malicious and wrong insofar as it calls McCain personally owned by Putin - which he emphatically and obviously wasn't - but he's doing the Lord's work when he tells people to look at McCain's *circle* 2006-2008. Why did Patten drift towards Moscow without being noticed at the same time as Alexander Ali used farm-team black bag stunts for the campaign to get deeper INTO the GOP/CNP world? You can't undo a true shit-slinging fest like Steve vs Megan, BUT, what you can do is shine your light on 2005-2008, and, sadly, that real history is quite close to Steve's sketch, even if he gets the central fact wrong in a way that sadly slanders a dead man.
Whether the gods, fates or Ed Whelan associate managed to get Jesse Benton in front of McFadden doesn't matter - you can't let shit-sling moments like this keep you from the mission of letting people know exactly who Jesse is in a way the Greenwald-Putin axis can't obscure.
Very good analysis, as usual. My question is what if the statement by Basurin was to try to force a surrender and the drone was part of the carrying out of the threat but it didn't work, only affecting a few soldiers, so Putin initially arrested Basurin but decided to take another tack. Basurin's failure was/is Putin's failure. Therefore, the waters must be muddied to obscure the failure.
Claims of chemical weapons in Mariupol, an arrest that wasn’t and avoiding mistakes in the information war
And one more note... remember, in 2008, Rick Davis used one scandal (the politicization and piggy-bank revolving door of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae going to extremes) to obscure all the other ones. The rise and fall of sketch banking 2005-2007 obscured both things like Deripaska and Manafort worming into multiple holes in the GOP and things like Likud and GRU becoming a London-based unit, two big events that formed later events. It also helped obscure power moves around Yukos and Georgia, of course. This is what the GOP does - create so much illegal noise with money laundering that you don't notice the treason.
Jay, some thoughts on the Schmidt/McCain talk - you know the essence of Steve's charge is malicious and wrong insofar as it calls McCain personally owned by Putin - which he emphatically and obviously wasn't - but he's doing the Lord's work when he tells people to look at McCain's *circle* 2006-2008. Why did Patten drift towards Moscow without being noticed at the same time as Alexander Ali used farm-team black bag stunts for the campaign to get deeper INTO the GOP/CNP world? You can't undo a true shit-slinging fest like Steve vs Megan, BUT, what you can do is shine your light on 2005-2008, and, sadly, that real history is quite close to Steve's sketch, even if he gets the central fact wrong in a way that sadly slanders a dead man.
Whether the gods, fates or Ed Whelan associate managed to get Jesse Benton in front of McFadden doesn't matter - you can't let shit-sling moments like this keep you from the mission of letting people know exactly who Jesse is in a way the Greenwald-Putin axis can't obscure.
Very good analysis, as usual. My question is what if the statement by Basurin was to try to force a surrender and the drone was part of the carrying out of the threat but it didn't work, only affecting a few soldiers, so Putin initially arrested Basurin but decided to take another tack. Basurin's failure was/is Putin's failure. Therefore, the waters must be muddied to obscure the failure.