By April, 2015, Vladimir Putin saw the perfect storm gathering in
American politics and decided to seed the clouds. The man is no dummy. He was
after all ex KGB, although much like ex Marines, they don't exist. He used his
'cold war' network and long perfected covert craft, to effect a perfect plan
(apparently) to critically damage American democracy and throw its government
and its people into chaos.
From all apparent accounts, his
plan was fairly simple. The first part included the infiltration of both
political parties and their candidate's campaign by agents of the Russian
government and 3rd party associates for the purposes of extracting intelligence
while offering support in the form of fabricated misinformation and other
enticements to solidify the infiltration and 'compromat'. The human intelligence
gathering did well until the obfuscation failed and their intentions and
motives were exposed.
The second part of Putin's plan
was to use America's own deep political divisions as a weapon against
themselves. Putin was well versed on America politically. He understood that
while there were only 2 parties, those parties were divided into thirds. His plan would rely on the widening divide between the left and right in each party
to swallow the center. The larger political left/right divide would follow suit and swallow it's center as well. In truth, part of this plan had been in operation for
decades, institutionally funding organizations covertly that were 'politically
connected'. Again all while gathering political intelligence on hot button/3rd
rail issues and buying influence into those circles and their network's politically connected circles. He
knows how to work American politics.
The third part of his plan
involved us, we the people. How we get our news, who we get if from, our likes and hates, our astuteness and our gullibility. He would use our own media to implement and weave
his web of counter intelligence and misinformation, using our cable networks and multi-media, social platforms and Americans, both willing and
unwilling as dupes. He was confident the cyber media operation he sanctioned would
weaponize and use to his advantage the lunacy exhibited by the 17 or so
Republican candidates and the alleged DNC election improprieties as well as the loud cries
from the masses of unfairness towards the other Democratic candidate Bernie
Sanders. Putin's intelligence gathering also gave him high confidence that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had damaged the
Democratic left and the Republicans themselves had damaged their platform
and the RNC, to the extent they were basically made moot entities. He privately gloats in Kremlin circles that his continued funding of his prized cyber intrusion operation into America's election system easily mitigated any risk of Clinton winning and
Trump losing the election. He's especially proud that he did it utilizing our own 4th estate and our TV and cable multi-media social platforms, After all, he is ex KGB, he's had decads to control his own people and the people of other nations he's directed his aggression towards.
There you have it. That's how
it happened. Now...the race to remove the entire episode from the annals of
American history. It's much too embarrassing to think about.
