After Wayne Madsen's comprehensive catalog of
imperialist interventions, executed without the slightest hint of subtlety, to undermine and "change" displeasing regimes in every corner of the world, going back decades, the topic seemed all but exhausted. But that turned out not to be correct. A very important piece of that mosaic needs to be added. As this is being written, the provocatively and insolently misnamed and foreign sponsored
Free Russia Forum is gearing up to leave its mark on Russia's forthcoming presidential election.
As alert readers are probably guessing by now, contrary to its deceptive billing the Free Russia Forum is anything but an "independent" discussion group. It is, rather, a political project, a creature one could say, of the State Department. It was created in 2014 and meets twice a year in the Lithuanian capital, just across from the Russian border, to serve as a tool for interference in Russia's internal affairs.
But good guys do not interfere in the internal affairs of other sovereign countries, just as gentlemen do not read each other's mail, right? Yeah, right.
The
Vilnius gatherings (which have been going on for several years) are a biennial convention of the most militant specimens of Russia's "non-system" opposition, under the chairmanship of the former chess champion Garry Kasparov. Officially,
participants include "representatives of think tanks, academia, writers, politicians, civil society activists, philosophers and artists, for thought-provoking and off-the-record discussions on Russia". That, however, is just the façade.
Comment: Does Trump and his allies have the will and the power to bring Clinton and her deep state cabal down? It remains to be seen. The Clinton people play for keeps, are well connected in the intelligence community - and will likely stop at nothing to keep themselves from being prosecuted.
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