The Russian Connection

 If anyone cares to remember there was a tangible Trump via Giuliani Russian connection.  Former disgraced president Donald Trump's liaison with communist dictators was not subtle.  He feigned a love affair with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, and gushed when shaking hands with Russia's now war criminal Vladimir Putin.  There is no mistaking the "Russian Connection."  Fast forward to Joe Biden's presidency and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Trump had intentions of pulling U.S. troops from Afghanistan and ending America's longest war.  He hedged several times during his presidency at the insistence of military advisors.  It never clearly was stated that we were in Afghanistan to thwart Russian aggression.  Instead George W. Bush's "War on Terror" was the prospectus.  We were fighting ISIS, ISIL, the Taliban, and Hezzbolah, not the Russians.  Were the Russians propping up these groups?  It is a maze of confusion, and more likely Iran and the lower Saudi royals could be the culprits.  The Prince and Vladimir Putin brutally assassinated their nay-sayers with nerve agents and dismemberment.  This is of what they are capable.  Ironically with U.S. troops gone from Afghanistan their purpose there now is clear.  Putin has declared war on Ukraine, and his invasion is the non-celebrated beginning of World War lll.  There is no mistaking this.  Not in our lifetimes have we seen Communist terror unfold in murderous violence for the sake of things.  We have experienced repercussion for botched diplomacy, and consequently we have for the most part left the Middle East via Afghanistan.  Instead of quelling violence, violence from that region, without knowing we opened the back door for Putin's pipe dream of of a new USSR.  The news is not reporting anything about Ukraine and its politics, nor are we remembering Donald Trump via Rudy Giuliani's collaboration with these new mafia henchmen.  Which is worse for corruption, Ukraine or Russia?  If you were Putin you would feel threatened by this presence in Ukraine, and probably it inspired his invasion.  The riches of Ukraine cannot be discounted.  Only do we have to turn on the TV and hear the insipid fake prophesying of Joe Manchin and his empty compassion for the constituency in his state.  He feigns caring about the people of West Virginia, but his interests are his own.  "Sanction Russian energy!"  Without missing a step he is on the bandwagon for energy profits to revert to domestic source including coal-fired electricity.  This man is a hypocrite as is Senator Lindsey Graham.  The interests of one man's investment in a back woods, anachronistic, destined-to-fail energy sector do not represent the needs of the rest of America.  I would rather take up the hammer dulcimer and sell apples on the side of the road.  While Mr. Manchin has credible credentials, it would seem he is inflicted with the same dementia as the rest.  Hitler's neurosis was related to syphilis, and he treated it with methamphetamine.  What is Trump taking, horse steroids?  As a nation we must begin to recognize mental illness, as it casually was swept off the table from Geraldo's reporting.  Either you fix the problem by fixing the system, something nearly impossible today because we would rather play on our iPhones, or you sweep it under the rug allowing mental illness to run amuck in American society.  There are requirements for a free America.  There are prices to be paid for commercial economic freedom and its rewards.  You must pay twenty dollars for the room and two dollars for the condom to have your fun.  American billionaires and Slavic dictators want to pay nothing.