Democratic Party deploys Russian meddling smear against Sanders
The Democratic establishment and the corporate media are now peddling the lie that Sanders is the beneficiary of Russian intervention in the 2020 elections.
Since the dissolution of the USSR, the US has pursued an aggressive military build-up against Russia. In the 2000s, the US orchestrated several so called “color revolutions” in countries bordering Russia, including Georgia and Ukraine. This campaign has culminated in the 2014 coup in Kiev.
The advanced war preparations have been bound up with a hysterical campaign in the US media against the Putin regime and Russia. Spearheaded by the Democratic Party in conjunction with the national intelligence agencies, this war-time like agitation has served as the basis for both an aggressive escalation of the military-build up against Russia and further assault on democratic rights, above all the censorship of the internet.
Since 2017,the Democratic Party has made the conflict over the correct tactics in the war preparations against Russia the center of its opposition to the Trump administration, including the failed 2019-2020 impeachment drive. The aim of this campaign has been to mobilize sections of the upper middle class for an imperialist war against Russia, while at the same time diverting social opposition to the Trump administration.
The Democratic establishment and the corporate media are now peddling the lie that Sanders is the beneficiary of Russian intervention in the 2020 elections.
A casual viewer might have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin, not Trump, was on trial.
An editorial in the New York Times makes clear that the central purpose of the Democrats’ campaign against Trump has been to demand more aggressive action against Russia.
Wednesday’s testimony by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller before Congress, staged by the Democrats in the hope of reviving their discredited anti-Russia campaign, blew up in their faces.