The latest round of sanctions the US Treasury has imposed on Russia are a strange affair.
Earlier rounds of sanctions have been linked to specific acts of real or alleged Russian misbehaviour e.g. the death of Sergey Magnitsky, the Crimean crisis, the war in the Donbass, the shooting down of MH17, and the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election.
By Phil Butler – New Eastern Outlook – 03.04.2017 Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska is all over mainstream media front pages over alleged misdeeds involving former Donald Trump aid Paul Manafort. The latest sensationalist claims revolve around a supposed Associated Press “scoop” that attempts to link Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin more closely together. The […]
Three weeks ago I wrote a piece for The Duran in which I suggested that the corner appeared to have been turned in the fake ‘Russiagate’ scandal.
What was a tentative conclusion then can now be firmed up.
Though the leaders of the US security services have denied the President’s allegation that they wire-tapped him – though they were careful not to deny that they mounted surveillance on him and his associates – the President’s claim that they did, in effect smoked them out.
Here is a screen grab from Deripaska’s statement as published in the Wall Street Journal.
The Russian billionaire wrote this strongly worded article after the AP targeted him and his business dealings, in what was a classic example of US, western fake news propaganda.
Paul Manafort, right, is one of the four high ranking Trump officials that was the subject of an FBI surveillance request over alleged ties to the Russian government. June 22, 2016, in New York.
The elaboration of the tightly-knit business links between Oleg Deripaska & Nathaniel Rothschild
Prologue
