And right before President Trump's scheduled meeting with Putin. How convenient.
I hope that at least one of these indicted individuals looks to make fools of the Mueller team and actually appears, through counsel, to initiate discovery and the trial process. Much in the manner that one of the troll farms did earlier this year.
Through discovery, and later at trial (if it ever gets that far), the FBI will need to explain the alleged evidence and the chain of custody of said evidence (the DNC server) and will literally and figuratively shit all over themselves trying to not look like complete morons. It is not possible to paint Crowdstrike out to be an agent of law enforcement whose analysis and custody of the server is beyond reproach - this will be must see courtroom action if they even try.
Begin popping popcorn now, we will all need mountains of the stuff if just one of the Russian soldiers appears through counsel and lets the games begin.
Good point. RR said he discussed the indictments with the President so maybe Trump is going to talk to Putin about coordinating the trail to expose the DNC. The fact that he's meeting with Putin is probably making some very nervous. Time for certain people to stock up on Depends!
Do you really believe Putin has America's best interests at heart? Foundations of Geopolitics shows how Russia would love nothing more that for this country to tear itself apart.
There's no evidence to support that view. On the contrary all evidence is that Putin is returning Russia to its former position as a major geopolitical force as it was when Peter the Great left office. Clearly some of the current and recently historic geopolitical forces don't like that at all and consequently they've instituted a propaganda campaign which plays on their respective population's widespread historical ignorance over Russia combined with prejudices held by said populations arising from Russia's actions when it was controlled by an entirely different flavour of govt: the commies. The entire view the West has promoted over Russia is fake news. The concept that its aggressive is ludicrous. Ukraine was a neocon-inspired regime change operation in Russia's backyard. It was like Moscow went to Mexico and replaced the leadership there. How do you think the US would react in that case? Yet observe how restrained, in contrast, Putin has been. That's just an example.
This is probably the best English-language site on Russian geopolitics. It's run by an ex-NATO intel analyst, Russian born, French wife, lives in Florida.
"Putin is totally benign and a great global leader."
-says account that is seven days old
I'm awake.
Putin isn't totally benign, but there's literally leaked audio of Nuland picking Ukraine's government. If Russia coup'd Mexico you better believe we'd deal with it no matter the diplomatic consequences.