Donald Trump “finally concedes”
Russia hacked the election, crowed the US media following his first
news conference this week. That seeming turnaround by Trump signals
'the Donald' is being tamed to toe the “official” Washington
line.
That line centers on the US
pushing a belligerent policy toward Russia.
Notably, too, on the same day,
Trump’s pick for the next Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,
adopted a remarkably antagonistic view of Russia under pressure from
hostile senators during his Congressional confirmation grilling.
Tillerson, who holds a Russian
Order of Friendship award bestowed by President Vladimir Putin in
2013, responded to relentless goading from senators by saying that
the US should maintain sanctions on “resurgent Russia,” adding
that “the taking of Crimea” was against the law.
Together, the shift by Trump and
his incoming cabinet toward a more frosty stance on Russia signals
that a coercive taming process is underway by the Washington
establishment, with sinister implications for supposed US democracy.
It’s a truism that US
presidential winners are, in reality, determined by elite corporate
power, the 'Deep State' military-intelligence apparatus, and their
controlled news media conglomerates. In Donald Trump’s case, the
outcome appeared to be an exception to the rule. So, post-election,
'the Donald' is being 'processed' to produce the desired 'result.'
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