Thursday, March 07, 2019

Austrailan TV Explores the Russian Connection

In a hard hitting series of three episodes, ABC Australia explores the dimensions of the on going expose of Trump's Russian Connection: a Kremlin approved operation to engage in "asymmetrical warfare" against the US political system.  US Person posts it here because it is useful to get an ally's perspective on the scandal that is bigger than Watergate, especially since domestic media coverage tends to be distracted, partisan or fragmentary.   The so-called "Witch Hunt" encompasses the compromise of a sitting president by an adversarial foreign power, a condition unprecedented in US history. The questions have been asked in Congress: is Individual I a Russian intelligence asset?  Does the Kremlin--or the Russian mob , these days one in the same--have kompromat that would assure Trump's policy tilt towards cooperation?  In the first episode ABC follows the money beginning with a road trip of two Russian agents collecting intelligence in 2014, and answers the question, who is Felix Sater?: