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Had to be especially weird for all of the kids involved.

 

I was thinking Shakespearean.

 

Doesn't get much more NOT COOL! than hooking up with your dead brother's widow.

 

On the other hand ...

 

BTE, I know that's not exactly what happened. It's shorthand, not completely accurate. If anything, they fixed the opinion of the American voters, with a not inconsiderable assist from FBI Director Comey. I doubt that Putin ever thought that Trump would beat Clinton, he just wanted to sow doubt and chaos surrounding Clinton, and succeeded far beyond any expectations.

I'm not a Russia expert by any means. I'm just an American who grew up through the Cold War. I'm a news junkie. My opinions have been formed over the years by what I've seen and read. I understand that my media sources are all American/Western, and that my understanding of the issues from the viewpoint of the Russians is at best badly limited. On the other hand, you seem to be in denial about who and what Putin is and how he uses the power that he wields.

I like Terry Gross' show on NPR, "Fresh Air". For my money she's one of the better interviewers working. The show for today, 3/1/17, was with New Yorker editor David Remnick and staff writer Evan Osnos. They just put out an article in this month's issue titled "Active Measures". I urge you and everyone on the board with a shred of interest to listen to it. Osnos was living in Moscow as a correspondent for the NY Times during the fall of the USSR and for several years after. These two guys have detailed knowledge at their fingertips that I'd have to crank up Google to get a shred of. I feel that this interview and the article give a fairly accurate picture of what went on and the motivations. I thought of you as I listened to it, and wondered what your take on it would be. YF, it would do you good to listen to it too, but I doubt it will get past your laundry filter.

Give it a listen.

The New Yorker article is at Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War

 

I'm guessing it's what Beau would have wanted.

 

Yeah. But Trump will put 5-year-olds back in the coal mines and nursing home residents in the oven to juice up the numbers and make health care work.

 

God, I hope you're joking.

 

Isn't that what they always say?

 

Uh oh.

Sessions met with Russian envoy twice last year, encounters he later did not disclose

Maybe it just slipped his mind...

Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general.

 

This needs more than a "like." Well played. Touch 'em all.