© Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff / CC BY 2.0Jared Kushner
Here we are a little more than a year into the Trump presidency and his administration's body count is already, as The Donald might put it, "
unbelievable, perhaps record-setting."
Among the
casualties are Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson; my former boss at Goldman Sachs, economic policy chief Gary Cohn; national security adviser Michael Flynn; FBI Director James Comey; White House press secretary and communications director Sean Spicer; four other communications directors including Hope Hicks who, having been
Ivanka Trump's confidante, was elevated to the status of the president's "
real daughter" before her own White House exit; chief strategist Steve Bannon; chief of staff Reince Priebus; a bunch of other instant relics of Trumpian political history, and a partridge in a pear tree. (Actually, a
200-year-old magnolia uprooted from the White House grounds thanks to the first lady.)
Responding to Hope Hicks' departure and, perhaps subliminally, the rumored future exile of son-in-law Jared Kushner, the president typically
half-lamented and half-quipped, "So many people have been leaving the White House. It's invigorating, since you want turnover. I like chaos. It really is good. Who's going to be the next to leave? Steve Miller or Melania?"
Comment: On Litvinenko:
Litvinenko's father: 'The British duped me - Putin did NOT kill my son'
What an incredible spasm of anti-Putin propaganda we are witnessing coming from London these days.
WMDs, chemical weapons, the War on Terror, directed mass immigration, proxy wars in the Middle East, economic sanctions... it's all connected.
And underlying it appears to be a Global Cultural War in which Russia has found itself the prime obstacle in the way of locking down a totalitarian Western-controlled world order ruled by fear and terror.
See also: Skripal Likely Poisoned by British Intelligence in Effort to Smear and Silence Russian World View
UPDATE: 20/03/18
According to Fort Russ: