A n’en pas douter une seconde, le sommet d’Helsinki a \u00e9t\u00e9 un succ\u00e8s. Les deux acteurs le voulaient, ils l’ont eu<\/strong>. Savoir ce qu’il sortira, ce qu’il en restera, ce qu’on en fera, c’est une toute autre affaire <\/strong>pour laquelle nous nous empressons de renvoyer nos lecteurs au texte d’hier<\/a> de PhG dans son Journal dde.crisis <\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n « Ainsi est-il assez logique que j’en vienne \u00e0 vous dire qu’il ne faut pas trop attendre de ma plume quelque analyse assur\u00e9e et r\u00e9flexion d’une pr\u00e9cision extraordinaire quant aux choses d\u00e9cid\u00e9es ou non, quant aux \u00e9v\u00e9nements produits par les deux hommes, au cours de cette rencontre Trump-Poutine qui a lieu ce jour m\u00eame ; et je le dis tout en admettant sans aucun doute que la raison est fond\u00e9e d’y voir un \u00e9v\u00e9nement d’importance<\/em>… »<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dans tous les cas et pour l’instant, Trump apparaît aux yeux de tous comme un v\u00e9ritable pr\u00e9sident antiwar <\/em>tel que le r\u00eavent depuis plusieurs ann\u00e9es, sinon deux ou trois d\u00e9cennies, des commentateurs tels que le libertarien-isolationniste Justin Raimondo<\/a>(« It’s Trump versus the War Party<\/em>). C’est une singuli\u00e8re et remarquable performance, en m\u00eame temps qu’une \u00e9nigme savoureuse et bien dans la forme de cette \u00e9poque \u00e9trange de voir ce pr\u00e9sident plein de d\u00e9tours et de lacets claironnants, de plaies et de bosses, de tweets sans fin et d’excentricit\u00e9s aussi longues, – du d\u00e9sordre enfin, encore du d\u00e9sordre, toujours du d\u00e9sordre<\/strong>, –en arriver pour ce moment, \u00e0 cet instant, pour cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement, \u00e0 cette position du \u00ab\u00a0pr\u00e9sident-antiwar<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb qu’il avait promise durant sa campagne avec un tel entourage<\/strong>, ses principaux conseillers et ministres dans les mati\u00e8res de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale, connus sous les noms de Bolton, Mattis et Pompeo, qui sont tous des archi-faucons d’une fa\u00e7on ou l’autre<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n C’est un signe de plus, dans tous les cas, que le d\u00e9sordre, dont Trump est le maître incontest\u00e9, est plus fort que tout, notamment que le minable DeepState<\/em>, qui n’a rien pu faire de s\u00e9rieux contre lui malgr\u00e9 ses moyens consid\u00e9rables et la domination de tous ses outils d’influence et de coercition. Force est de constater qu’\u00e0 mesure que passe le temps Trump ne cesse toujours pas \u00e0 n’en faire toujours plus qu’\u00e0 sa t\u00eate, et souvent contre les conceptions bien rang\u00e9es et bellicistes du DeepState <\/em>en question ; s’il est profond cet \u00ab\u00a0État\u00a0\u00bb, ce dont on ne doutera pas une seconde, sa sottise semble l’y accompagner<\/strong>… Quoi qu’il en soit et pour l’instant, on en restera malgr\u00e9 tout \u00e0 cet instant d’une rencontre aussi symboliquement importante<\/strong>, en laissant venir pour voir les effets et les cons\u00e9quences de la rencontre sur les relations internationales et les relations entre les USA et la Russie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n S’il est par contre, apr\u00e8s ce sommet d’Helsinki qui fut couronn\u00e9 d’une conf\u00e9rence de presse houleuse, une certitude qui tranche sur notre position g\u00e9n\u00e9ral d’Incertiutude \u00e0 propos de ce sommet, c’est la relance furieuse de l’incendie du Russiagate<\/em>, avec la col\u00e8re<\/a> tonitruante et voyante, et faite pour \u00eatre vue et entendue, des parlementaires d\u00e9mocrates qui d\u00e9busquent la trahison partout, comme autant de d\u00e9f\u00e9cations de ce pr\u00e9sident-f\u00e9lon, et surtout le d\u00e9chaînement absolument extraordinaire de la presseSyst\u00e8me, qui a r\u00e9agi comme d’une seule voix pour ce qui est des habituels grands r\u00e9seaux et journaux<\/strong>. Ainsi peut-on d\u00e9gager deux constats qui sont autour de nous depuis longtemps mais qu’il est bon, \u00e0 l’occasion de cet \u00e9v\u00e9nement d’importance que fut ce sommet d’Helsinki entre les deux pr\u00e9sidents, de fixer ici d’une mani\u00e8re plus solennelle et plus d\u00e9cisive pour l’\u00e9tat de la situation \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0D.C.-la-folle\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n • D’une part, la disparition devant \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9e de oplus en plus comme d\u00e9finitive de toute possibilit\u00e9 de grande politique \u00e9trang\u00e8re bipartisane (\u00e0 moins de s’entendre sur la destruction compl\u00e8te d’un pays [la Russie, ce serait bien], d’une zone compl\u00e8te ou de l’esp\u00e8ce en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral si on en arrivait aux armes nucl\u00e9aires). La disparition de ce qui faisait l’efficacit\u00e9 de la direction washingtonienne, parfaitement rod\u00e9e depuis 1945-1948<\/strong>, est d\u00e9sormais en train de prendre une allure structurelle qui ne peut que faire s’interroger sur la durabilit\u00e9 \u00e0 tr\u00e8s court terme <\/strong>du syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme. La solidarit\u00e9, l’int\u00e9r\u00eat commun de caste, une psychologie conceptuelle commune, une complicit\u00e9 de brigands avec une sorte de code d’honneur comme dans la Cosa Nostra<\/em>, tout cela constituait le ciment semblant indestructible du pouvoir du syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme<\/strong>. Aujourd’hui, et cela depuis d\u00e9sormais trois ans, chaque grande occasion, chaque \u00e9v\u00e9nement, – et celui-ci l’est plus qu’aucun autre puisqu’il pulv\u00e9rise le tabou cr\u00e9\u00e9 par le Syst\u00e8me lors des pr\u00e9sidentielles de 2016, – servent \u00e0 conforter un peu plus l’irr\u00e9versible fracture <\/strong>introduite dans la structure de \u00ab\u00a0D.C.-la-folle\u00a0\u00bb, c’est-\u00e0-dire l’irr\u00e9versibilit\u00e9 de sa folie, et par cons\u00e9quent la confirmation de sa pente de l’autodestruction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n • Le caract\u00e8re de compl\u00e8te incontr\u00f4labilit\u00e9 de la presseSyst\u00e8me, dont nous disons plus haut, volontairement de mani\u00e8re caract\u00e9ristique, qu’elle \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9agit comme d’une seule voix pour les habituels grands r\u00e9seaux et journaux\u00a0\u00bb, comme s’il s’agissait d’une entit\u00e9 collective<\/strong>, d’une sorte de monstre aux multiples tentacules r\u00e9agissant \u00e0 une perception unique et d\u00e9pendant, pour la formation de ses jugements, d’une psychologie \u00e9galement unique<\/strong>. Nous pr\u00e9f\u00e9rons sans aucun doute cette sorte d’analyse plut\u00f4t que de parler d’une \u00ab\u00a0direction\u00a0\u00bb d’une \u00ab\u00a0influence\u00a0\u00bb, notamment du fait des quelques grands conglom\u00e9rats et milliardaires (type-Bezos pour le Washington Post<\/em>, acquis gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une intervention financi\u00e8re de la CIA) qui, aujourd’hui poss\u00e8dent l’essentiel de cette presseSyst\u00e8me. Ce sont des \u00ab\u00a0nouveaux riches\u00a0\u00bb sans la moindre conscience des enjeux<\/strong>, avec le milli\u00e8me de l’intelligence d’un Rockefeller ou d’un Pierpont Morgan qui surent construire un syst\u00e8me avec ses solidarit\u00e9s, tout juste bons \u00e0 devenir des pions de la CIA ou de la NSA, qui laissent aller les \u00e9v\u00e9nements d’un yacht serti d’or \u00e0 un jet priv\u00e9 d\u00e9cor\u00e9 de diamants.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Pour nous, la presseSyst\u00e8me r\u00e9pond par sa nature et sa perception conceptuelle \u00e0 tous les st\u00e9r\u00e9otypes postmodernes et du progressisme-soci\u00e9tal qui sourdent de l’\u00e9crasante pr\u00e9sence diabolique \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur du Syst\u00e8me<\/strong>, ce qui la met sans n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de la moindre consigne, chacun dans son style, n\u00e9cessairement du c\u00f4t\u00e9 du Syst\u00e8me, de la postmodernit\u00e9, de la pouss\u00e9e d\u00e9structurante et entropique, c’est-\u00e0-dire naturellement du c\u00f4t\u00e9 n\u00e9o-lib\u00e9ral et de toutes les valeurs fortun\u00e9es envisageables aujourd’hui. Leur r\u00e9action est donc naturelle, spontan\u00e9e, si l’on veut d’une compl\u00e8te franchise par rapport \u00e0 leur nature mal\u00e9fique<\/strong>. Ainsi en a-t-il \u00e9t\u00e9 de leur r\u00e9action \u00e0 Helsinki : une r\u00e9volte, une fureur, – une \u00ab\u00a0\u00e9meute dans la maison des fous\u00a0\u00bb puisque fous ils sont sans nul doute, – devant cette manifestation impudente de la trahison, de la corruption psychologique, du m\u00e9pris de toutes les \u00ab\u00a0valeurs\u00a0\u00bb postmodernes auxquelles notre avenir est invinciblement li\u00e9 et ainsi de suite… . Le r\u00e9flexe anti-Trump qui rassemble en un personnage symbolique et des circonstances cr\u00e9\u00e9es \u00e0 partir d’une narrative <\/em>utopique tout ce qui repr\u00e9sente quelque chose qui pourrait se r\u00e9f\u00e9rer au Mal-absolu selon la m\u00e9taphysique hollywoodienne <\/strong>(\u00ab\u00a0le c\u00f4t\u00e9 sombre de la Force\u00a0\u00bb, quelque chose de la sorte), ce r\u00e9flexe a jou\u00e9 bien au-del\u00e0 d’une m\u00e9canique pavlovienne.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n (La m\u00e9taphysique hollywoodienne, \u00e9videmment progressiste-soci\u00e9tale camarade, pourrait \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme une variante sublim\u00e9e de la m\u00e9canique pavlovienne, – bref, une \u00ab\u00a0m\u00e9taphysique pavlovienne\u00a0\u00bb.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Sur ce dernier sujet du comportement de la presseSyst\u00e8me par rapport \u00e0 Helsinki, on s’arr\u00eatera \u00e0 l’excellent article de Joe Lauria pour ConsortiumNews <\/em>du 16 juillet 2018<\/a>, qui nous fait bien saisir l’aspect d\u00e9ment et hyst\u00e9rique des r\u00e9actions des m\u00e9dias US de la presseSyst\u00e8me aujourd’hui, \u00e0 l’occasion de la conf\u00e9rence de presse conjointe Poutine-Trump. (Titre complet :« US Media is Losing Its Mind Over Trump-Putin Press Conference<\/em>. ») Lauria (r\u00e9dacteur-en-chef de ConsortiumNews<\/em>), en plus de nous donner quelques informations sur le sommet lui-m\u00eame, passe en revue les r\u00e9actions d\u00e9chaîn\u00e9es, totalement irrationnelles, compl\u00e8tement marqu\u00e9es par l’affectivisme<\/a>et le d\u00e9terminisme-narrativiste<\/a>qui garantissent la plus compl\u00e8te bonne foi dans la r\u00e9action, c’est-\u00e0-dire la certitude compl\u00e8te de la pers\u00e9v\u00e9rance aveugle dans cette conception, cette analyse, ce jugement, ce regard. Rien, jamais, ne pourra les r\u00e9concilier avec ce que repr\u00e9sente l’administration en place et son pr\u00e9sident, et la \u00ab\u00a0guerre civile de la communication\u00a0\u00bb, l'\u00a0\u00bb\u00e9meute des fous\u00a0\u00bb grondent plus que jamais<\/strong>. Un autre article, \u00e9galement excellent, de Bill Van Auken sur WSWS.org<\/a><\/em>, compl\u00e8te notre dossier sur l’accueil catastrophique de la communication, et sugg\u00e8re la possibilit\u00e9 de nouvelles tentatives de coup d’État<\/strong>, ou coup d’\u00e9clat, du DeepState <\/em>contre Trump. Il est toujours revigorant pour l’esprit g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de voir un pur et dur trotskiste pur-jus sauter, apr\u00e8s les r\u00e9serves d’usage, \u00e0 la rescousse d’un Donald Trump en sabrant avec un bel entrain dans la horde d\u00e9chaîn\u00e9e des progressistes-soci\u00e9taux poudr\u00e9s, parfum\u00e9s et enturbann\u00e9s. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Poutine, le pauvre, a souhait\u00e9 dans une de ses interventions que les pol\u00e9miques int\u00e9rieures n’interf\u00e8rent pas sur les politiques ext\u00e9rieures. Au moins, le pr\u00e9sident russe ne manque pas d’ironie…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The reaction of the U.S. establishment media and several political leaders to President Donald Trump’s press conference after his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday has been stunning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Writing in The Atlantic<\/em>, James Fallows said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0There are exactly two possible explanations for the shameful performance the world witnessed on Monday, from a serving American president.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Either Donald Trump is flat-out an agent of Russian interests—maybe witting, maybe unwitting, from fear of blackmail, in hope of future deals, out of manly respect for Vladimir Putin, out of gratitude for Russia’s help during the election, out of pathetic inability to see beyond his 306 electoral votes. Whatever the exact mixture of motives might be, it doesn’t really matter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Or he is so profoundly ignorant, insecure, and narcissistic that he did not realize that, at every step, he was advancing the line that Putin hoped he would advance, and the line that the American intelligence, defense, and law-enforcement agencies most dreaded.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Conscious tool. Useful idiot. Those are the choices, though both are possibly true, so that the main question is the proportions … never before have I seen an American president consistently, repeatedly, publicly, and shockingly advance the interests of another country over those of his own government and people.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As soon as the press conference ended CNN cut to its panel with these words from TV personality Anderson Cooper: \u00ab\u00a0You have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader, surely, that I’ve ever seen.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n David Gergen, who for years has gotten away with portraying himself on TV as an impartial political sage, then told CNN viewers : <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0I’ve never heard an American President talk that way buy I think it is especially true that when he’s with someone like Putin, who is a thug, a world-class thug, that he sides with him again and again against his own country’s interests of his own institutions that he runs, that he’s in charge of the federal government , he’s in charge of these intelligence agencies, and he basically dismisses them and retreats into this, we’ve heard it before, but on the international stage to talk about Hillary Clinton’s computer server …\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0It’s embarrassing,\u00a0\u00bb interjected Cooper.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0It’s embarrassing,\u00a0\u00bb agreed Gergen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n White House correspondent Jim Acosta, ostensibly an objective reporter, then gave his opinion : \u00ab\u00a0I think that sums it up nicely. This is the president of the United States essentially taking the word of the Russian president…over his own intelligence community. It was astonishing, just astonishing to be in the room with the U.S. president and the Russian president on this critical question of election interference, and to retreat back to these talking points about DNC servers and Hillary Clinton’s emails when he had a chance right there in front of the world to tell Vladimir Putin to stay the HELL out of American democracy, and he didn’t do it.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n In other words Trump should just shut up and not question a questionable indictment, which Acosta, like nearly all the media, treat as a conviction. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n The media’s handlers were even worse than their assets. Former CIA director John Brennan tweeted<\/a> : \u00ab\u00a0Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors,.’ It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Here’s where the Republican Patriots are, Brennan: \u00ab\u00a0That’s how a press conference sounds when an Asset stands next to his Handler,\u00a0\u00bb former RNC Chairman Michael Steele tweeted.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Representative Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president, said on Twitter: \u00ab\u00a0As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, I am deeply troubled by President Trump’s defense of Putin against the intelligence agencies of the U.S. & his suggestion of moral equivalence between the U.S. and Russia. Russia poses a grave threat to our national security.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n All these were reactions to Trump expressing skepticism about the U.S. indictment on Friday of 12 Russian intelligence agents for allegedly interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election while he was standing next to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the press conference following their summit meeting in Helsinki. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be\u00a0\u00bb Russia, Trump said. \u00ab\u00a0I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The indictments, which are only unproven accusations, formally accused 12 members of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, of stealing Democratic Party emails in a hacking operation and giving the materials to WikiLeaks to publish in order to damage the candidacy of Trump’s opponent, Hillary Clinton. The indictments were announced on Friday, three days before the summit, with the clear intention of getting Trump to cancel it. He ignored cries from the media and Congress to do so.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Over the weekend Michael Smerconish on CNN actually said<\/a>the indictments proved that Russia had committed a \u00ab\u00a0terrorist attack\u00a0\u00bb against the United States. This is in line with many pundits who are comparing this indictment, that will most likely never produce<\/a>any evidence, to 9\/11 and Pearl Harbor. The danger inherent in that thinking is clear. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Putin said the allegations are \u00ab\u00a0utter nonsense, just like [Trump] recently mentioned.\u00a0\u00bb He added: \u00ab\u00a0The final conclusion in this kind of dispute can only be delivered by a trial, by the court. Not by the executive, by the law enforcement.\u00a0\u00bb He could have added not by the media. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Trump reasonably questioned why the FBI never examined the computer servers of the Democratic National Committee to see whether there was a hack and who may have done it. Instead a private company, CrowdStrike, hired by the Democratic Party studied the server and within a day blamed Russia on very dubious grounds.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Why haven’t they taken the server?\u00a0\u00bb Trump asked. \u00ab\u00a0Why was the FBI told to leave the office of the Democratic National Committee? I’ve been wondering that. I’ve been asking that for months and months and I’ve been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media. Where is the server? I want to know, where is the server and what is the server saying?\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n But being a poor communicator, Trump then mentioned Clinton’s missing emails, allowing the media to conflate the two different servers, and be easily dismissed as Gergen did.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n At the press conference, Putin offered to allow American investigators from the team of special counsel Robert Mueller, who put the indictment together, to travel to Russia and take part in interviews with the 12 accused Russian agents. He also offered to set up a joint cyber-security group to examine the evidence and asked that in return Russia be allowed to question persons of interest to Moscow in the United States. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Let’s discuss the specific issues and not use the Russia and U.S. relationship as a loose change for this internal political struggle,\u00a0\u00bb Putin said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n On CNN, Christiane Amanpour called Putin’s clear offer \u00ab\u00a0obfuscation.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Even if Trump agreed to this reasonable proposal it seems highly unlikely that his Justice Department will go along with it. Examination of whatever evidence they have to back up the indictment is not what the DOJ is after. As I wrote<\/a>about the indictments in detail on Friday:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0The extremely remote possibility of convictions were not what Mueller was apparently after, but rather the public perception of Russia’s guilt resulting from fevered media coverage of what are after all only accusations, presented as though it is established fact. Once that impression is settled into the public consciousness, Mueller’s mission would appear to be accomplished.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The indictments<\/a>did not include any members of Trump’s campaign team for \u00ab\u00a0colluding\u00a0\u00bb with the alleged Russian hacking effort, which has been a core allegation throughout the two years of the so-called Russia-gate scandal. Those allegations are routinely reported in U.S. media as established fact, though there is still no evidence of collusion. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Trump emphasised that point in the press conference. \u00ab\u00a0There was no collusion at all,\u00a0\u00bb he said forcefully. \u00ab\u00a0Everybody knows it.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n On this point corporate media has been more deluded than normal as they clutch for straws to prove the collusion theory. As one example of many across the media with the same theme, aNew York Times <\/em>story<\/a>on Friday, headlined, \u00ab\u00a0Trump Invited the Russians to Hack Clinton. Were They Listening?,\u00a0\u00bb said Russia may have absurdly responded to Trump’s call at 10:30 a.m. on July 27, 2016 to hack Clinton’s private email server because it was \u00ab\u00a0on or about\u00a0\u00bb that day that Russia allegedly first made an attempt to hack Clinton’s personal emails, according to the indictment, which makes no connection between the two events.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If Russia is indeed guilty of remotely hacking the emails it would have had no evident need of assistance from anyone on the Trump team, let alone a public call from Trump on national TV to commence the operation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n More importantly, as Twitter handle \u00ab\u00a0Representative Press\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>pointed out: \u00ab\u00a0Trump’s July 27, 2016 call to find the missing 30,000 emails could not be a ‘call to hack Clinton’s server’ because at that point it was no longer online<\/em>. Long before Trump’s statement, Clinton had already turned over<\/a>her email server to the U.S. Department of Justice.\u00a0\u00bb Either the indictment was talking about different servers or it is being intentionally misleading when it says \u00ab\u00a0on or about July 27, 2016, the Conspirators attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third party provider and used by Clinton’s personal office.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n This crucial fact alone, that Clinton had turned over the server in 2015 so that no hack was possible, makes it impossible that Trump’s TV call could be seen as collusion. Only a desperate person would see it otherwise. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n But there is a simple explanation why establishment journalists are in unison in their dominant Russian narrative: it is career suicide to question it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As Samuel Johnson said as far back as 1745: \u00ab\u00a0The greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinions than that they are in fashion …since vanity and credulity cooperate in its favour.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Trump said the unproven allegation of collusion \u00ab\u00a0as had a negative impact upon the relationship of the two largest nuclear powers in the world. We have 90 percent of nuclear power between the two countries. It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous what’s going on with the probe.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The American president said the U.S. has been \u00ab\u00a0foolish\u00a0\u00bb not to attempt dialogue with Russia before, to cooperate on a range of issues.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0As president, I cannot make decisions on foreign policy in a futile effort to appease partisan critics or the media or Democrats who want to do nothing but resist and obstruct,\u00a0\u00bb Trump said. \u00ab\u00a0Constructive dialogue between the United States and Russia forwards the opportunity to open new pathways toward peace and stability in our world. I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n This main reason for summits between Russian and American leaders was also ignored: to use diplomacy to reduce dangerous tensions. \u00ab\u00a0I really think the world wants to see us get along,\u00a0\u00bb Trump said. \u00ab\u00a0We are the two great nuclear powers. We have 90 percent of the nuclear. And that’s not a good thing, it’s a bad thing.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Preventing good relations between the two countries appears to be the heart of the matter for U.S. intelligence and their media assets. So Trump was vilified for even trying. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Obsessed as they are with the \u00ab\u00a0interference\u00a0\u00bb story, the media virtually ignored the other crucial issues that came up at the summit, such as the Middle East. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Trump sort of thanked Russia for its efforts to defeat ISIS. \u00ab\u00a0When you look at all of the progress that’s been made in certain sections with the eradication of ISIS, about 98 percent, 99 percent there, and other things that have taken place that we have done and that, frankly, Russia has helped us with in certain respects,\u00a0\u00bb he said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Trump here is falsely taking credit, as he has before, for defeating ISIS with only some \u00ab\u00a0help\u00a0\u00bb from Russia. In Iraq the U.S. led the way against ISIS coordinating the Iraqi and Kurdish security forces. But in the separate war against ISIS in Syria, Russia, the Syrian Arab Army, Kurdish forces, Iranian troops and Hizbullah militias were almost entirely responsible for ISIS’ defeat. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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U.S. media Is Losing Its Mind<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
The Media’s Handlers <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Still No ‘Collusion’<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Importance of US-Russia Relations<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n
Ignoring the Rest of the Story<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n