{"id":2985,"date":"2018-04-16T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:10:44","slug":"the-latest-round-of-russia-appeasement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2985","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Round of Russia Appeasement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why? It&#8217;s becoming increasingly apparent that Trump <em>is<\/em> a Russian asset, because he&#8217;s been blackmailed into it by them. There&#8217;s the pee video, which <a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=2969\">as I just posted,<\/a> probably is real, and then there&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s long past history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2016\/jun\/21\/hillary-clinton\/yep-donald-trumps-companies-have-declared-bankrupt\/\">business financial issues<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/inside-trumps-financial-ties-to-russia-and-his-unusual-flattery-of-vladimir-putin\/2016\/06\/17\/dbdcaac8-31a6-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html\">transactions with the Russian oligarchy.<\/a> The Russian ruling class is almost certainly exerting financial coercion on him as well.<\/p>\n<p>Why now? Because of something touched on in <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=2962\">another recent post.<\/a> The fascist part of Trump&#8217;s base positively <em>admires<\/em> Putin&#8217;s Russia, because it is the sort of right-wing authoritarian state they dream of. It&#8217;s his way of trying to kiss and make up to them after having double-crossed them on Syria. Also, the <em>Russian ruling class<\/em> is upset about said double-crossing. They need some kissing and making up, too, and bigly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why? It&#8217;s becoming increasingly apparent that Trump is a Russian asset, because he&#8217;s been blackmailed into it by them. There&#8217;s the pee video, which as I just posted, probably is real, and then there&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s long past history of business financial issues and transactions with the Russian oligarchy. The Russian ruling class is almost certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}