Thursday 13 July 2017

Move it Mueller

I think by the time Robert Mueller and his highly-paid team of investigators and prosecutors have finished their inquiry into Trump/Russia/collusion/family stuff, the whole of American and the world will be sick to death with it. I know it's all terribly important for democracy etc whether the Russians interfered to bring Trump to the White House and whether anyone in the Trump family/campaign team/aunties/uncles/cousins knew about it or arranged it. There's got to be an element of truth in some, if not, all of it, especially the Russian interference bit, but you would expect Moscow to try and get in the way of a Clinton presidency because Putin couldn't stand the sight of Hillary. I mean this is not a pleasant world we live in. Big players on the world stage never play by the book. They have always been devious, cunning, using their powers to the maximum, lied, omitted, deceived etc etc. And I'm not just talking Russia here. I'm talking everyone with power, huge budgets and national or self interests at stake. Certainly American governments have been involved in all kinds of shenanigans - the Bay of Pigs, bombing Cambodia and Laos, regime-change in Iraq, CIA plotting against socialist President Allende in Chile, invasion of Grenada, to name but a few. Russia is a democracy but it's an autocratic democracy, so Putin can pretty well do what he thinks is best for the glory of the Motherland. And that's putting it nicely! So, it's no big deal in the grand scheme of things if Putin authorised a bit of skulduggery in the American presidential election. I'm NOT cordoning it, but Putin is a KGB man through and through. This all comes naturally to him. The bigger deal is whether Trump colluded with Putin. That's on a different scale, and if true and totally provable, Trump's a dead Donald. Stuffed, finished, kaputski!! What we need more than anything is for Mueller to accelerate his inquiries, stop spending all his time recruiting fancy lawyers and get to the heart of it all as quickly as possible. For goodness sake, a huge amount of work must have already been done by other agencies - CIA, NSA, Justice Department, FBI etc. So move it, Mueller. If this goes on for months/years, the United States will just stop functioning, and that's bad for all of us. Even for Putin. There are far far bigger things at stake which need to be sorted out within the next two years or this world of ours is going to get more dangerous, more unsafe and more unpleasant. Time to bring this whole saga to an end!!

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