Investigations conducted in the US on the relations between the election headquarters of presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Kremlin ignore the important aspect of the activities of Russian agents - the question of how the policy of the future Trump administration towards Russia.
Russian political scientist and publicist Andrei Piontkovsky in an article on the website of Radio Liberty told how the Kremlin managed to influence the views of the US president.
Piontkovsky noted that in the United States the investigation "came close to the key neuralgic event of the special operation" Trampnash ".
According to the expert, the main role in the imposition of pro-Kremlin views on Trumpu was played by a native of Russia Dmitry Simes, president and manager of the National Interest Research Center.
"I've often talked in different audiences about the unique niche that Simes chose for himself in American political discourse. As head of the Nixon think tank and then the Center for National Interest, he has been carrying out an important mission for more than two decades in the American expert community. Its role is to softly instill in the American establishment positions that are profitable for Moscow at the moment, pushing the White House to the next reboots, "he wrote..
As Piontkovsky recalled, on April 27, 2016, the conference hall of the Mayflower hotel was rented by the Center for National Interest for an important event - with his first foreign policy report, Donald Trump, the presidential candidate from the Republican Party.
"The candidacy of Donald Trump, a man little knowledgeable in foreign policy issues, extremely self-confident and made his skate slogan America First, proved to be an ideal object for developing. The key success of Simes was Trump's readiness to deliver his first foreign policy speech at the Center for National Interest - precisely that the slogan "America above all" will become the main topic of the future administration, "the Russian political scientist noted..
"In the subsequent statements of Trump and his entourage from this kind of passage, as from the larva, the entire Putin program of Western surrender began to come out. "Our main enemy is the" Islamic state, "Putin is fighting the" Islamic state, "so we must drop all our small differences and unite with Putin" - this is a simple cliche of consciousness that day and night inspired Trump. "Throw small differences" in this language meant - to hand over Ukraine to the mercy of Putin. And now Trump states: he is not sure whether the annexation of Crimea to Russia was an annexation, and then skeptical about the obsolete, in his opinion, NATO organizations, "he stressed..
Piontkovsky writes that according to witnesses, surrounded by a newcomer in Trump's big policy in the spring of 2016 there were no experts on international relations at all, "and filling the vacancy of an informal foreign policy adviser for motivated Simes is a simple matter".
"We can assume that it was decided to focus on indoctrinating the two most important memes for Moscow:" Putin is America's necessary ally to cooperate with "and" NATO is outdated as an organization of the Cold War era ". Both of these provisions were first made in the characteristic style of Simes insinuating manner already in the introduction speech on April 27: "We must look for the ground for cooperation on the basis of common interests. Russia, for example, also faced the horrors of Islamic terrorism, "" The countries that we protect must pay the cost of this protection, or the US should be prepared to ensure that these countries protect themselves. We have no other choice ". The US rejection of the military protection of the country - a member of NATO, from the principle of nuclear deterrence would mean the end of the North Atlantic alliance, the end of the US as a world power, the withdrawal of the West from world history, "he writes..
However, according to the Russian expert, the Kremlin did not understand one very important circumstance: "It is not enough to cloud the brains of an inexperienced politician and put him in a chair in the Oval Office in the White House in order to subordinate the US foreign policy".
"Over a hundred-plus days of Trump's presidency, the Kremlin special operation went from triumph to complete failure. But the virtuoso skill of its protagonist in zombifying his client should be appreciated by the professionals of the intelligence community. Judge for yourself: Trump waves of criticism, but he continues to repeat the learned mantra: "Putin is our ally in the fight against Islamic terrorism, and we must cooperate with Moscow". And at a meeting of NATO in Brussels, directly refuses to confirm the commitment of the United States to Article 5 of the organization's charter on collective defense, "added Piontkovsky.
As reported by the "Observer", in the US after the loud dismissal of the chief of the FBI, James Komi, talked about the possibility of impeachment of President Donald Trump. Dismissed Komi was investigating the relations between the head of the White House and Moscow.
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