Senate Neocons Vow New Anti-Russia Measures by Stephen Lendman
Bipartisan lunatics infesting Washington intend preventing improved relations with Russia - whether or not Trump follows through on his pledge to try getting along with Vladimir Putin.
John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and other bipartisan Senate neocons want Trump blocked from lifting sanctions on Russia without congressional approval.
McCain and Graham are rabid Russia haters, urging more sanctions than already - Graham saying 2017 is going to be the year of kicking Russia in the ass in Congress, adding:
My biggest concern with President Trump
is that hes never really looked a camera in the eye and said that even though it was the (Democrats) that suffered from Russian interference, I am now the leader of the free world
and I can assure you that (Russia is) going to pay the price on my watch for trying to interfere in our election.
Fabricated claims of Russia US election hacking was a CIA led- intelligence community plot to prevent improved relations with Mosow, wanting adversarial ones maintained.
Graham serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee McCain chairs. When post-election infighting subsides, Congress will move on to other things, and top of the list will be (more) sanctions against Russia, he said, adding he hopes Trump will embrace the idea
that he should be working with us to punish Russia.
Separately, Secretary of State Tillerson said Washington wont cooperate with Moscow in Syria unless it stops calling all opposition groups terrorists - a signal the Trump administration intends supporting some, perhaps all its terrorist foot soldiers, possibly suggesting continued conflict, not resolution as hoped for with Obama gone.
Two rounds of Syria peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan achieved no breakthroughs, not auguring well for Geneva later this week - especially with no US representation or at best involvement by one or more low-level delegates.
Its unclear what Trump intends. Even pro-Western UN envoy to Syria peace talks Staffan de Mistura asked (w)here is the US in all this? I cant tell you because I dont know.
On Press TV this morning, I was asked to comment on his remarks. I said I rarely, if ever, agree with anything he says, but this time is an exception.
I dont know what Trump intends. Washington didnt participate in Astana talks. Its unclear if itll be involved in Geneva, and if so, at what level.
One thing is clear. If Trump and his key people want conflict resolution in Syria, itll happen. If not, it wont, regardless of Russias good faith efforts.
So far geopolitically, it largely looks like Obama never left. Americas imperial wars keep raging, prospects for resolving any slim at best.
Trump wants a more robust military with enhanced nuclear capability, not a responsible scaling back.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."
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