Medvedev: Muscovy Clown and Kremlinal

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In a recent Tweet, the high and not so mighty Dmitry Medvedev, chair of the Security Council of Russia, referred to Ukrainian President Zelensky as a “provincial clown”. After so many years of accumulating material about Russia, I had quite a bit to pack into one riposte–>


Provincial clown?

Look in the mirror.

For #Nazis, this has been #Russia’s work in its support of dictatorship-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2018/02/24/war-east-west-abomination-syria-bombing-hospitals/ -of the lust for the wealth of others and the power to steal it: #StormInMoscow-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/05/03/reference-journalist-alexander-zhilin-operation-storm-in-moscow-aka-moscow-apartment-bombings/ (you bombed #Russians in the dead of night as part of an obscene political theater) and here you will destroy what doesn’t shoot back: https://youtu.be/a245RkGUXfk; https://youtu.be/c1xFSCDy8Jo; https://youtu.be/q2nfuIP2tU0; https://youtu.be/8_XCe86resg. Your #JewHate traces back to about here: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/02/01/ftac-endemic-russian-anti-semitism-a-note/ -and your own #RussianNazism does too. Regarding #Hitler’s sideshow: you know of #WhiteRussianLoyalist #MaxErwinVonScheubnerRichter-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/12/29/ftac-middle-east-conflict-back-to-max-erwin-von-scheubner-richter-and-forward-to-the-plundering-of-palestinian-misery-by-palestinian-leadership-elites/.

In the end, the darkness you believe surrounds you–that paranoia–is your own and fixed by a reliably delusional, grandiose, messianic, and malign narcissism that has no other purpose than the want of adoration (narcissistic supply).


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Essential Trump Tour Guide

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All in one X-pression–>

Failurehttps://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/09/27/djt-the-success-at-failing-two-tweets/;
Malignant Narcissismhttps://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/10/malignant-narcissistic-process-distilled/;
Rus Real Estatehttps://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/10/09/trumps-america-in-retrospect-russian-real-estate-entanglements/;
Russian Moneyhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how-russian-money-helped-save-trumps-business/;
Collusionhttps://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/12/07/trumps-russian-collusion-no-delusion-probably/;
Traitor-Fraudulent #2020ElectionDenial, Fraudulent Electoral College Ballots ready to replace authentic ones-https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/02/14/americantraitor-donaldjohntrump/.

#MikePence’s refusal to stop #Congress on #Jan6 effectively stopped #Trump’s #Jan6RealSteal. #Trump, who appears not to understand either #Democracy or #Integrity, had lied to his base and the #GOP every step of the way to the last election–and he hasn’t changed one bit. As a #MalignantNarcissist and #PoliticalCriminal slow-walking toward his grand jury reviewed #4FelonyCases91Counts, he’s incapable of serving other than his projected image.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/; https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-little-moscow-sunny-isles-miami-russian-money-real-estate-2022-3.

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X-Pression: Trump’s Ignoble Republican ‘New Nobility’

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Hash for Shameful Traitorous Republicans

#AINOS – Americans In Name Only.
#TAKs – Trump’s Ass Kissers.


Latent Political Impact

Adult responsible Democrats and Republicans, critically thinking, reasoning, and reasonable in the constructing and fine tuning of good public policy, appear slow to comprehend how deep the attack on America’s way of life, domestic tranquility, and defense and moral strength among nations has gone. In fact, a portion of today’s GOP has traded its conservative Constitutional moorings for a reactionary feudal-medieval position in time and is fast floating away from the desires, hopes, and ideals of ordinary Americans who would not allow themselves to be dumb.

For Republicans, where are “the adults in the room”?

Where is the push-back from conservatives who should be mad as hell as regards the selfish and piratical theft of their democracy?

#FeloniousTrump #4FelonyCases91Counts well may be called #AmericanTraitorTrump–and no conservative Republican dares call him out to his face.

We have seen the brazen and greedy–where are the brave and free among the much less visible virtuous?

A Note on Nobility and Virtue

In Putin’s world, the fire sale of state assets into the pockets of former Communist Party nomenklatura had been set up by the mid-1980s as insurance and precaution against the possibility of bankrupting the state (hunt around in Karen Dawisha’s work for the scholarship). “A New Nobility” appears intended for the KGB/FSB and associated oligarchy that would become wealthy enough to live as it pleased without concerns for the development of Russia and its people. Private estates built on private wealth and power would become as unassailable as those who owned them. Putin would return Russia to feudal-medieval barbarism and the patrimonial authoritarianism in which the test of sovereignty and dominion would be the ability to destroy persons and property as alike and at will and with impunity.

For the west, that world awaits only inaction or passive and tacit popular American approval at the polls.

Anyone who is not constrained may wield power with a hammer and the fear of it, but in the better liberal democracies of the world, all hew to the ideals, laws, and principles of democratic order by constitution and by legal code, centuries of it and fine tuned by conflict, reason, and struggle for the greater good.

Whatever “the nobility”–who would themselves represent law in each their respective domains–may think of themselves, there are those around them–or placed beneath them–who judge quietly, perhaps sullenly, but with determination to set right the wrongs of merely vulgar power. The dimensions that matter: awareness and comprehension; compassion and empathy; good conscience and intents; courage and fortitude; goodness in spirit; good grooming and manners; inherent grace, justice, and magnanimity.

Most Cogent on BackChannels: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/12/07/trumps-russian-collusion-no-delusion-probably/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/02/14/americantraitor-donaldjohntrump/.

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Hey, Suzie Qz: Perfect “X”–>New Consideration for the Peace of Westphalia

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Suzie Qz posted this on X today as appropriate to Trump’s #RevoltingGOP and House Speaker Mike Johnson’s role in the reactionary subversion of America’s guiding principles and values:

The response that came to me yielded two additional:


If you would be passionate about the survival of American democracy, be at least curious about the Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia that served to end it while also revolutionizing European diplomacy, redefining the assumptive principles of sovereignty, and forever modifying relationships between powers and the management of their affairs beneath an umbrella greater than themselves. This one treaty would then set a part of the stage for America’s own revolutionary departure from the power known to kings.

Before the Westphalia settlement, there was no recognizable diplomatic profession. Spies, irregular envoys, and heralds citing scripture or handing out ringing declamations were the usual route that princes chose to alert one another to the start of war. After Westphalia, the diplomatic craft was practiced by a kind of well-born guild, with members who were adept at melding reason, precedent, and law with quiet allusion to the implication of armed compunction.

Nathan, James A. Soldiers, Statecraft, and history: Coercive Diplomacy and International Order. 1 ed. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002 — cited: https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1146&context=the_histories–Patton, Steven. “The Peace of Westphalia and its Affects on International Relations, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy.” The Histories 10:1 (91-99), 2019.

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American House Speaker Mike Johnson & America Dumb & America Last



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VladimirPutin #ParanoidMalignantNarcissist

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On Elon Musk’s X platform, all Xpression may as well be flushed down the digital river of tweeted communications: the appearance is brief and the flood mighty.

Countermeasure: copy-paste and blog the message as well.

Prompt: Vladimir Putin’s laughable statement: “We did not initiate this war [in Ukraine]. Rather, we are striving to end it.”

Vladimir Putin using Viktor Yanukovych as his lackey had sorely abused Ukrainian business with time-honored mafia methods, i.e., plain skimming theft in the end:

https://www.occrp.org/en/yanukovychleaks-national-project/; https://www.occrp.org/uk/yanukovychleaks-national-project/.

A popular turn toward Europe against the will of the Kremlin’s puppet and a related “Revolution of Dignity” ensued.

Euromaidan2014.

#RussianInvades #Crimea #Donetsk – https://euromaidanpress.com/2014/12/07/fsb-colonel-girkin-tells-details-of-how-russia-invaded-ukraine-in-twice-censored-interview/; https://www.brookings.edu/articles/watch-out-for-little-green-men/.

#Putin & #RussianNazis #RusNazis spread chaos, degradation, deprivation, and desperation worldwide, and then cover their crimes with lies, specifically baseless accusations, deflections, denials, erasures of collective memory, fabrications, and omissions of facts.

Regarding #EvilMirroring and #Narcissism: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2023/06/28/a-dark-mirror-in-language/.

#DarkMirrorInLanguage #MalignantNarcissism #MedievalVModern #PhantomOfTheSoviet #PoliticalPsychology #TrumpPutin


Thematically Related

#TrumpPutin’s shared basic psychology: Malignant Narcissism and Process. The lies told by both represent the “Covering” of deeply seated humiliation (“Narcissistic Mortification”) and the fear of its repeat. The psyche creates an alternative undamaged courageous-heroic self, and that becomes the leader’s principle project both in its assertion and its defense (in the psychology, “Splitting” or, together, “Covering/Splitting”). Complementary observation, term, or trope: “delusional, grandiose, messianic ideation absent of normal boundaries or limits, i.e., the parameters of conscience” (so I quote myself). The end of the process for the Russian dictator and the American wanna-be dictator: “Unlimited Narcissistic Supply”, i.e., the validating infinite love of millions without end in sight.

Putin rose to power on a false-flag operation, the “Moscow Apartment Bombings” (also reference David Satter’s “The Unsolved Mystery Behind the Act of Terror That Brought Putin to Power”, National Review, August 17, 2016 or on this blog “Reference: Journalist, Alexander Zhilin, Operation Storm in Moscow AKA Moscow Apartment Bombings” – May 3, 2023 ); Trump, by contrast, appears to have run fairly for 2016 but then attempted to rig the 2020 election with the Big Lie that it had been stolen while he, in fact, he had lined up fraudulent election ballots to steal it for himself–he had hoped to order Mike Pence to interrupt the count, have authentic ballots replaced, and then reclaim power with the now apparent intent to functionally disestablish America’s democracy as well as the NATO security umbrella against the rapacious and politically absolute enemies of freedom.

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#AmericanTraitor #DonaldJohnTrump

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After years of blogging defined by “collect, select, and opine”, I have found with the national and global obsessions with “#FeloniousTrump” (“#4FelonyCases91Counts”)–so I frequently refer to him on Elon Musk’s X post-Twitter platform–a certain saturation. I have tired of Donald John Trump’s image and voice, his skewed anti-democratic American political stances, his now infamously malign and surreal (delusional, grandiose, messianic) narcissistic psychology, his paranoia and related lies and lying, and the uncritical and other than Christian self-righteous viciousness of his fan base. 

I have seen enough as well of the Hitler-Stalin Trump-Puntin (#TrumpPutin) dance and related intents, and would wish not only fellow Americans but Europeans and others free of them and all similar political criminals and elevated crackpots. 

Instead of writing (much), I’ve chosen to produce a page of reference with two of Liz Cheney’s YouTube videos at the base. Before one reaches them: excerpts form suggested reference.

Motivation

Donald Trump has failed perhaps more than his share of bank loans and debts, and he has had to deal with a rough world, one often lawless beyond his own reach. The pressures must get “up there” with always incessant needs for cash. Well, he found his cash, and much of it in concentration.

Trump’s Business and Banking Failures; Trump Rescued by Russian Money; Trump’s Russian Real Estate Entanglements; Trump’s Malignant Narcissism.

Moscow is in Russia; Little Moscow: Miami Beach, Florida.

Malice Aforethought: Trump’s Fake Electors Scheme

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/recordings-trump-team-fake-elector-ballots/index.html; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/trump-fake-elector-scheme-case-tracker; https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-electors-205d1fc6a02e1225c8c51214980a1232; https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-jan-6-investigation-fake-electors-608932d4771f6e2e3c5efb3fdcd8fcce; https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/us/politics/fake-electors-explained-trump-jan-6.html. Addendum: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-supreme-court-immunity-arizona-fake-electors-rcna149359.

Malice Aforethought: Trump Compromises Capitol Defense for January 6, 2021

https://www.businessinsider.com/pentagon-hindered-dc-national-guard-response-to-insurrection-attempt-report-2021-1; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-report-details-sweeping-failures-around-jan-6-attack; https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/us/politics/capitol-riot-security.html; https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/956842958/what-we-know-so-far-a-timeline-of-security-at-the-capitol-on-january-6; https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/january-6-senate-investigation/2021/06/08/a8cc5b1e-c7d4-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html; https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/january-6-senate-investigation/2021/06/08/a8cc5b1e-c7d4-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html; https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riots-hearing-security-officials-a9ecf8efd4d76f02d5ab9c7a01c5bdb1;

Trumpolini #Jan6

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-capitol-probes-season-finale-focus-trump-supporters-three-hour-rage-2022-07-21; https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/08/politics/fact-check-trump-january-6/index.html; https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-probe-uncovers-new-details-trumps-inaction/story?id=106131854; https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/09/17/trump-refuses-to-say-what-he-did-during-the-jan–6-attack-unfolded-at-the-u-s–capitol; https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/7/21/jan-6-live-news-panel-to-examine-trumps-conduct-during-riots; https://time.com/6199490/trump-jan-6-oath-dereliction-duty/; https://www.courthousenews.com/jan-6-hearing-to-focus-on-trumps-inaction-during-capitol-riot/; https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-panel-hearing-3e3dc618ed8cee37147cf6a792c0c0fa; https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/politics/trump-jan-6.html; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lit-that-fire-of-capitol-insurrection-jan-6-committee-report-says; https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64071723; https://www.voanews.com/a/final-report-on-jan-6-attack-points-finger-at-trump-/6888552.html; https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/21/jan-6-panel-trump-attack-00047130.

2020 Election Affirmation

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/trumps-failed-efforts-overturn-election-numbers/4130307001; https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/2020-election-electoral-college-vote/index.html; https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/19/936647882/georgia-releases-hand-recount-results-affirming-bidens-lead; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/biden-electoral-college.html; https://www.michigan.gov/sos/resources/news/2021/02/12/statewide-election-audit-process-affirms-presidential-election-outcome; https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/maricopa-county-election-cyber-ninjas-fraud-trump-senate/2022/01/05/9bc64ace-6e50-11ec-aaa8-35d1865a6977_story.html; https://madison.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/wisconsin-fake-electors-settlement/article_69073b5a-9452-11ee-a516-37d30bea32bc.html; etc.

2020 Election Denial

For former President of the United States Trump: https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-lies-debunked-4fc26546b07962fdbf9d66e739fbb50d; https://www.reuters.com/world/us/who-allegedly-conspired-with-trump-overturn-2020-election-2023-08-02/; https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/politics/trump-election-lies-fact-check.html; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-repeats-false-election-fraud-claims-during-speech-in-washington; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/07/trump-refuses-to-accept-election-results-says-it-is-far-from-over.html;

For present Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: https://apnews.com/article/congress-house-speaker-2024-election-certification-8cd7c5a9e6ae69635bbb4624cc78e5c5; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/mike-johnson-trump-january-6-democracy-threat-election-denier; https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/07/johnson-election-denier-nonsense-biden-2020-election-00134184; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-who-denied-2020-election-loss-announces-new-white-house-run;


As a bipartisan effort, the report does not delve into the root causes of the attack, including Trump’s role as he called for his supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn his election defeat that day. It does not call the attack an insurrection, even though it was. And it comes two weeks after Republicans blocked a bipartisan, independent commission that would investigate the insurrection more broadly.

“This report is important in the fact that it allows us to make some immediate improvements to the security situation here in the Capitol,” said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which conducted the probe along with the Senate Rules Committee. “But it does not answer some of the bigger questions that we need to face, quite frankly, as a country and as a democracy.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-report-details-sweeping-failures-around-jan-6-attack


But the DHS and the FBI do not create an intelligence report focused specifically on the upcoming pro-Trump rally. That’s important because these reports go beyond raw intelligence — they validate information and put it into context that would help local law enforcement develop a plan. These threat assessments or intelligence bulletins are typically written as a matter of course ahead of high-profile events. It’s not clear why this didn’t happen.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/956842958/what-we-know-so-far-a-timeline-of-security-at-the-capitol-on-january-6


“There were significant, widespread and unacceptable breakdowns in the intelligence gathering. .?.?. The failure to adequately assess the threat of violence on that day contributed significantly to the breach of the Capitol,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the homeland security panel, told reporters. “The attack was, quite frankly, planned in plain sight.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/january-6-senate-investigation/2021/06/08/a8cc5b1e-c7d4-11eb-81b1-34796c7393af_story.html


Sources said Scavino told Smith’s investigators that as the violence began to escalate that day, Trump “was just not interested” in doing more to stop it.

Sources also said former Trump aide Nick Luna told federal investigators that when Trump was informed that then-Vice President Mike Pence had to be rushed to a secure location, Trump responded, “So what?” — which sources said Luna saw as an unexpected willingness by Trump to let potential harm come to a longtime loyalist.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-probe-uncovers-new-details-trumps-inaction/story?id=106131854


As he pushed to overturn the election, Trump relied on a band of outside allies who undertook what federal prosecutors have called a “criminal scheme” to fraudulently overturn the 2020 results instead of relying on the advice of attorneys in the White House who urged him to accept his loss to Biden./Trump was asked in the interview why he didn’t listen to those lawyers.

“I didn’t respect them,” Trump said.

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/09/17/trump-refuses-to-say-what-he-did-during-the-jan–6-attack-unfolded-at-the-u-s–capitol


In public, he made more than 800 inaccurate claims about the election from the time the polls began closing on Nov. 3, 2020, to the end of his presidency, according to a database compiled by The Washington Post. Dozens of times, he simply characterized the election as “rigged,” “stolen” or “a hoax,” and flatly and falsely declared he had won — even as a mountain of evidence proved otherwise. Other falsehoods were more specific about the voting and ballot-counting process, contained unproven allegations and promoted conspiracy theories.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/us/politics/trump-election-lies-fact-check.html


Also Related on BackChannels

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2017/02/02/united-states-of-america-basic-training/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/01/19/gop-and-the-ridiculous-traitorous-mister-trump/.


On YouTube, July 27, 2021.

On YouTube July 12, 2022.


On YouTube November 11, 2020

Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection and Other Rights

  Section 3 Disqualification from Holding Office

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/amendment-14/section-3/

Addendum-Additional Reference Online-From March 28, 2024 and Forward

Protess, Ben, Alan Feuer, Danny Hakim. “Catch Up on Where the Trump Investigations Stand.” The New York Times, March 20, 2024.



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EU – Charles Michel Says Additional $50 Billion Authorized for Ukraine

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Michel

Charles Michel serves as the President of the European Council. When the news comes straight from the authority who makes it, no further confirmation would seem needed.

Update: Related Online

Bayer, Lili. ”Deal reached over EU’s €50bn Ukraine package – Europe Live.” The Guardian, February 1, 2024.

McGee, Luke. ”EU agrees to $50B funding deal for Ukraine at pivotal time in the war.” CNN, February 1, 2024.

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