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British Apoplectic over Possible U.S.-Russia Summit

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Steven Pifer. Credit: C-SPAN

The reaction coming from British quarters and their hangers-on to the news that the teams of the Russian and American Presidents are working out the details for a bilateral summit to occur in the short term, should make clear to any doubters the strategic importance of The LaRouche Organization’s new White Paper, “Worse than Treason: The Actual Motive of Russiagate.” The traitors who colluded on Russiagate are back at it, pumping out propaganda intended to sabotage a Putin-Trump summit, come what may.

“Trump Walks into Putin Trap with High-Stakes Meetings,” The Times of London’s “Times Radio” wails, headlining its interview with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer. The Washington Post asserts “Kremlin Senses Advantage”; Bloomberg News writes, “U.S. and Russia Plan Truce that Keeps Moscow’s Gains.” A short item pinned at the top of Britain’s Sky News’ live Ukraine war news blog today trumpets “Putin Deceiving Trump over Peace Talks, Analysts Say.” That cites the warmongers at Washington, D.C.’s Institute for the Study of War, assuring that “Putin’s efforts to posture himself as amenable to U.S. peace proposals and meaningful negotiations while refusing to meet with Zelenskyy in the near term are attempts to obfuscate the reality that Putin remains uninterested in ending his war and is attempting to extract bilateral concessions from the United States without meaningfully engaging in a peace process.” (Whew!)

The article in London’s The Independent by its World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley, wins the “Christopher Steele Purple-Prose Lying Award,” however. Insinuating that he is writing in the name of Anglo-American intelligence’s “Five Eyes,” he comes as close to labeling Trump a Putin agent as he could, without facing a suit for libel.

If the Russia-U.S. summit comes off, “from London to Langley, Berlin, Canberra and Tokyo, intelligence chiefs will be on tenterhooks wondering whether this is another occasion resembling the meeting between an agent and his handler. There’s no evidence that Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin,” he adds, “but there is ample evidence that the U.S. President favors Putin’s agenda....” Included in his wild diatribes against Putin (e.g., Putin “tosses critics off balconies"), Kiley repeats the now well-documented lie, that Putin “ordered Russian intelligence services to interfere in the 2016 elections, to undermine the very notion of truth in the Western media.”