Trump/Putin Connection

Click here for an article at Politico by Michael Crowley entitled "The Kremlin Candidate." It tells of Ed Schultz's strange move from MSNBC to RT, Russia Today, a propaganda outlet funded by the Kremlin.

On December 10, 2015, RT held a banquet at the Moscow Metropol Hotel, "in the shadow of the Kremlin," to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Vladimir Putin was the guest of honor. Two seats to his right was Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's chief military adviser. A year and a half earlier, Flynn had been the head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, "the Pentagon’s powerful in-house equivalent of the CIA."

Flynn now makes semi-regular appearances on RT as an analyst, in which he often argues that the U.S. and Russia should be working more closely together on issues like fighting ISIL and ending Syria’s civil war. “Russia has its own national security strategy, and we have to respect that,” he said in one recent appearance. “And we have to try to figure out: How do we combine the United States’ national security strategy along with Russia’s national security strategy, despite all the challenges that we face?”

Click here for an article by Cliff Kincaid at AIM -- Accuracy in Media -- for much more detail about the Flynn/Putin connection.

"In her interview with Flynn, Shevardnadze [Sophie Shevardnadze, an RT anchor, granddaughter of former Politburo heavy Eduard Shevardnadze] did not disappoint, echoing the Russian line on the Middle East by blaming the U.S. and its allies for conflict and violence. Rather than attack Putin’s military interventions in Ukraine and Syria, Flynn responded by saying that the U.S. and Russia have “to move forward” together. Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from July 2012 to April 2014, said on RT that “…in order for us to not move to a greater level of conflict between the great nations of the world, we have to come to grips of how do we work together, how do we take interests, interests that are converging. So we have a whole set of converging interests that we are seeing right now, and unless we understand it, we’re going to make mistakes, we’re going to make tactical mistakes that are going to lead to strategic consequences.”

He claimed that Russia has faced terrorism from Muslims within, as if Russia, like the U.S., is a victim of radical Islam. He said, “…there are some in this country that know this enemy from having dealt with it in Chechnya and Dagestan and other places. This is a very, very deadly enemy that we’re facing, and it’s not just hundreds or thousands, these numbers are much greater.”

In fact, as veteran Moscow correspondent David Satter and others have documented, what sometimes appears to be Islamic terrorism in Russia can be carried out with the approval—or even at the direction of—the Kremlin, in order to justify greater repression by the Putin regime. For example, the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings that served to solidify Vladimir Putin’s control of the country, and justify the war against the former Soviet republic of Chechnya, were proven to be the work of agents of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, a successor to the old KGB.

There's a lot more; it's a very interesting article.