The Vlad and Donald show in Helsinki Monday was simply brilliant and breathtaking - we'd say even a beautiful thing to behold.
Between them, they left CNN's nattering nabobs of neocon nonsense sounding like the shrieking monkeys they actually are. And that's to say nothing of the fools they made out of the newly minted liberal and progressive warmongers on the Dem side of the aisle in Washington or the so-called journalists who fill 90% of the space in the so-called mainstream media with endless pro-war propaganda.
But most of all it was the single greatest blow to the War Party since it turned Imperial Washington into a colossal menace bent on global hegemony when the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of history in 1991.
We have said all along that Putin and Russia have been demonized because the Warfare State desperately needs an "enemy" to justify its
$800 billion annual mugging of America's taxpayers. Yet today's spontaneous chorus by the two leaders in behalf of détente,
dialogue and diplomacy puts the kibosh on that Big Lie more completely than could 100 Ted Talks or a year's worth of pro-peace op eds in the Washington Post.So Flyover America will have no trouble seeing the good of the Helsinki Summit. Trump and Putin just killed it on every topic where the War Party and its shills in the press wanted to drive a wedge.
That is to say, cooperation on Syria, arms control, terrorism, North Korea, Ukraine; friendly competition on supplying natural gas to Europe; an invitation to Mueller to send his legal sleuths to Russia to participate in the interrogation of the 12 GRU ham sandwiches named in the indictment; and best of all, a reciprocal notion that Russian prosecutors come here to question Deep State operatives about how they helped one of the greatest scoundrels of modern times, Bill Browder, abscond from Russia with almost $1.5 billion skimmed from its people and on which he and his posse paid zero taxes either there or here.
Comment: With 50 dead on just the first day, this tragedy is likely to surpass the 2007 wildfires, which were (at the time) 'unprecedented'...
Update 15:00 CET
As the fires continue to rage, the death toll has climbed to 60, while Croatia, Turkey, Italy, Germany, and Russia have offered to send much-needed help.
The accounts of the survivors are haunting and heartbreaking: Update 19:00 CET
The death toll is already up to 76 in just 24 hours. 26 dead bodies were found close together on the beach in Mati. Flames apparently ripped through the area faster than people could run. For comparison, 84 people were killed over two weeks of wildfires around Athens in late August 2007...