Putin and Trump, and Bill Clinton’s Interference in Russian Elections for Yeltsin | Beastrabban\’s Weblog
Boris Yeltsin with his good buddy Bill Clinton.
There’s increasing concern and speculation that Putin really does have some kind of ‘dirty’ dossier on Trump, featuring some rather unsavory things that the Orange Generalissimo may have done with prostitutes during business trips there.
But America also has a very long and deeply unpleasant history of interfering in the elections of independent states around the world. At its most extreme this takes the form of coups, but the US has also exerted its influence through more subtle means, like the financing of opposition candidates and parties, covert propaganda, threats to withhold aid and so on.
In 1996 Bill Clinton and his team intervened in the Russian elections to secure the victory of neoliberal privatisers and booze-sozzled corrupt drunk, Boris Yeltsin.
It’s grossly hypocritical for American politicos to whine about Putin interfering in their democratic process, when America has been doing just that all over the world, including Russia, since World War Two.
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If Putin has got anything on Trump, which is quite likely as Trump is not a discreet individual, let’s hope he uses it sooner rather than later.
That would be the America that had Obama attempting to alter the course of our referendum then?
Citation needed.
“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.” Nelson Mandela