{"id":96805,"date":"2018-03-18T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=96805"},"modified":"2018-03-18T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T17:22:54","slug":"why-has-rachel-maddow-incited-war-with-russia-at-every-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=96805","title":{"rendered":"Why has Rachel Maddow incited war with Russia at every opportunity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Year Ago, Maddow Explained How MSM Would Use Russiagate To Escalate Cold\u00a0War<\/h1>\n

Caitlin Johnstone<\/p>\n

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I was just reminded by a reader that a few days ago marked the one year anniversary of Rachel Maddow\u00a0announcing on MSNBC<\/a>\u00a0that Democratic party-aligned media outlets intended to use Russiagate and the infamous Steele Dossier to pressure the incoming Trump administration into escalating the new cold war with Russia. A year into the Trump administration and we can see plainly that this new president is already\u00a0demonstrably more hawkish toward Russia<\/a>\u00a0than his predecessor.<\/p>\n

Before I get into recapping Maddow\u2019s seething neocon sleaze fest, please allow me to direct your attention to\u00a0this excellent\u00a0Truthdig<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0titled \u201cHow \u2018Russiagate\u2019 Helped Secure a Dangerous Arms Deal\u201d by Max Blumenthal, which details the way neocons and Russia hawks on both sides of the political aisle have successfully used the Russiagate scandal to pressure this administration into selling weapons to Ukraine. As Blumenthal notes, this is an agenda these military-industrial complex lackeys have been aggressively pushing for years, and one the Obama administration refused to bow to for fear of the dangerous escalations with Moscow that it would cause.<\/p>\n

This administration has escalated cold war tensions with Russia in various other ways beyond that, forcing\u00a0first RT<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0then Sputnik<\/a>\u00a0to register as foreign agents,\u00a0expanding NATO<\/a>\u00a0with the addition of Montenegro, establishing a\u00a0permanent military presence in Syria to effect regime change<\/a>, assigning\u00a0neoconservative Russia hawk<\/a>\u00a0Kurt Volker as special representative to Ukraine,\u00a0shutting down a Russian consulat<\/a>e in San Francisco and throwing out Russian diplomats as part of continued back-and-forth hostile diplomatic exchanges,\u00a0selling an anti-ballistic missile system to Japan<\/a>\u00a0in what Moscow has been calling a violation of international missile treaties, and\u00a0signing the Russian sanctions bill<\/a>\u00a0despite loud protests from the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n

Now back to Maddow.<\/p>\n