This Carbon Based Life

By David Glenn Cox

I want to ask you a question, why? It’s a very old question asked all the time, but for some reason amid the orange theatrics, it goes unasked. It’s pretty obvious to me why a high pocket businessman searches anywhere in the world for funding. His whole empire is built on a phony reputation of success. Not everyone can bankrupt three casinos, you know. If it ever gets around that the banks won’t lend to him, the games over. So, he seeks alternative funding through less traditional channels.

“We get our money from Russia.” – Erc Twump

You mean I wasn’t supposed to say that daddy? Twump got his money and dreamt of building Twump Tower in Moscow. Twump dweamed that dweam for over a decade, of being the first Westerner to build a high-rise in downtown Moscow. A dream is a hook that never gives way, you can hang a lot on it and everyone dreams of something.

Old Vlad Putin was a former high-ranking intelligence officer in the KGB. Top drawer material, best and brightest sort of guy. So, why? Why is Russia so cozy with Twump? HAL – 9000 meets Mr. Potato Head. But the difference between Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges, is that Laurel & Hardy didn’t know that they were dumb, and thought they were smart. Know it all, Real Estate silver spoons rich baby meets hard core Russian intelligence officer. If we flash forward to now, we can look back at the Twump then, who thinks that he’s outsmarting the Russians.

Vlad has real hard on about the end of the Soviet Union. He had no problem with the fall what was authoritarianism. The end of Stalin’s bed clothes. He didn’t miss Communism, but he did miss the Warsaw Pact. Captive states along the Russian border. Theoretical buffer states in the event of an attack that’s never coming. Captive economic markets beholden only to you.  No different than the British Commonwealth or the European Union, only the membership was involuntary.

The children look to the end of the school year and businesspeople to the end of the quarter. Politicians look over the horizon. When Joe Biden said that he thought Putin had already made up his mind to go to war. It probably because Putin made up his mind to go to war, after Twump lost the election. “Ass, Gas or Grass, nobody rides for free!” For if Twump had won the election, the war would be unnecessary. They would be trading vodka shots in Kiev right now.

It all becomes so clear, Putin was gonna try and rebuild its dominance over his neighbors. Not next week, but over of the years. A long-term pet moon project. His own long-term career goal.

Sure, it’s fun to have a dupe and help to get him elected over your enemy’s country. That’s fun, I mean you embarrass the hell out them in a foreign capitol and make them look like a fool, but that don’t feed the bulldog. There is more at play here than just embarrassing photo ops.

Since the fall of Communist East Germany, the new gate between the back door to Moscow and the west is in Turkey. You might remember Turkey as that country that Mike Flynn was secretly working for. You might remember, Mike Flynn as the former Army general, who once asked to be assigned in Russia. Then Flynn worked for the Twump Campaign. Then he was named National Security Advisor to former President Twump, while still secretly working for Turkey. Then everyone found out and Mike Flynn was fired.

Boy oh boy, if you were in Turkey and needed to speak to someone in English about Twump, Mike Flynn was your boy! Now, if you are in Russia, and you are lonely for a conversation in English about Donald Twump, you’ve probably already had Mike Flynn on your speed dial. But unfortunately for Flynn, the FBI also had the Russians on speed dial. Guess what Flynn was lying to the FBI about?

Do I know? No, of course not. All I know, is that before I’d face ten years in Federal prison, it must be some pretty good information. Possibly sensitive information, detrimental to people Mike Flynn would like to keep as friends. Why then, did Twump so quickly pardon Flynn? And then, quickly rehire Flynn on the sly? We have money; we have motive, and we have machinations. If it quacks like a duck!

After Russia was kicked out of the G-8. Twump promptly proposes letting Russia back in, with all hard feelings forgotten. He all but kisses Putin’s ass and follows him around the Helsinki stage, like a puppy. An American President humbled on the world stage. But why? It wasn’t done for nothing; Putin was sending a message, “don’t count on this guy, this clown won’t help you. You’re mine!” And while it’s fun to try and break up an alliance, it’s even more fun to intimidate the powerless.

Twump had planned to withdraw all the US troops from Germany. Who gains from this? Twump had withdrawn from Syria, after a confrontation with Russia. Abandoning an American base to be taken over by, any guesses?

Every step planned out to the letter and then Twump went and lost the election. Forcing the Russians to fall back on plan B. Maybe that partially explains January 6^th. Maybe if Twump didn’t win, Twump might have other over seas back-channel problems.

So, the Russians stack men and equipment on the Ukraine border. No differently than drawing back a fist and threatening to hit someone. In the Kremlin they are saying, “This is all Twump’s fault! The next time we have an American President by the short hairs. We’re going to have to move a little faster because it’s already too late now.

Putin can invade Ukraine and win, but not without becoming the new North Korea. If Twump had won the election, there wouldn’t be any sanctions to worry about. Putin could walk right into Kiev, that’s what Putin bought Twump for in the first place. To get something that he wants, without using an army.

If all the pieces fit, you can’t acquit.