The US Establishment will only accept fealty. And something tells me that the Russians don't do fealty.

You must accept corporate sponsored public policy in your country by our rules. If you don't you're a terrorist or a Russian satellite and are to be sanctioned or bombed (probably both if you have oil) by ourselves or our NATO or Saudi allies.

So there is really no potential solution to this. It's a Long War that all but promises to end in Nuclear bombs being dropped.

Thinking about it, you know what the cold war was missing? A Global Terrorist movement. Man, if we would have had that wild card, we would have won the Cold War for real.

And, I'll tell you, @caitlinjohnstone, the American people are buying this. They think the hacking is kind of bullshit, but the war stuff and meddling in democracy is deadly serious.

Russian Aggression is a given. To suggest anything but Russian Aggression facing America is to be unreasonable and out of line. It's pretty scary.

The slope looks and feels pretty slippery.

Peace~