'Russia
Today' Goes Bananas(!)
If
It's Good News For Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign, It's Bad
News For Moscow!
(Opinion)
Russia
Today, the television, news network and personal mouthpiece of
President Vladimir Putin [ФСБ ] has
gone berserk today because the FBI will not be filing charges against
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. The network has made no
secret that it considers Clinton a 'very dangerous' woman. On the
same day that a former British Minister described a potential next
British Premier (Theresa May) – also no great 'fan' of Putin - as
'a bloody difficult woman to work with' , it appears that the Kremlin
will be having headaches and nightmares day and night should both
women be elected into Offices later on this year.
The
network has made no secret of it's wish for Donald Trump to be
elected to the Office of President of The United States.
Clinton,
a hawk on military issues, will give no ground on issues such as The
Ukraine and the security of Poland and the Baltic States.
Under
a Clinton administration we are likely to see defense commitments to
Europe intensify with a new command structure specifically for the
Nordic nations being initiated to provide greater security,
cooperation and 'cross-platform' standardization to deter aggression.
The
apologists for Vladimir Putin in Western Europe - have also not taken
the FBI's decision not to charge Clinton with any great applause.
Historically,
the Kremlin has always preferred to be dealing with demagogues and
tyrants rather than with the likes of Hillary Clinton.
[It's
always been much easier for the Kremlin to be dealing with 'useful
idiots' who can be 'bought off' or who 'work' the Presidential Office
on the basis that America is 'for sale' than with patriots such as
Hillary Clinton.]
Russia
Today, already 'frozen out' of most of the mainstream media loop in
the United States, is increasingly reliant on far-left and far-right
sympathisers for its coverage of local events. This is why the
'picture' of political, economic and social life which it paints of
the United States through its flagship media network, is increasingly
distorted.
For
example, compare the 'violence' it covers in the exercise of civil
rights demonstrations in the U.S. with the carefully choreographed
State-sponsored and State-controlled 'peaceful' 'protest' (fake)
'demonstrations' which take place in Moscow and elsewhere in Putin's
Russia.
While
I don't see Russia Today being banned in the West nor in America
(such would, in my opinion, be folly, naive, and highly undemocratic)
I do see the network being even more isolated and increasingly
ridiculed for its highly and wildly distorted coverage of news events
in the West and in the United States.
This
is no more evident than in its coverage of security and foreign
policy matters.
As
Russia Today intensifies the propaganda campaign to discredit
Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton and her running mate, it should
expect 'no mercy' and 'the death of a thousand cuts' should she be
elected President in the Fall.
If
I were to advise the network on strategy, it would be to give 'fair
and balanced' coverage to the U.S. Presidential campaign - or suffer
the consequences (such as being 'frozen out' even further) and many
many more years of 'Tundra extremes' isolation in the aftermath.
©Patrick
Emek, July 2016
'A Bloody Difficult Woman To Work With!' : [the entire clip]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5ISF_0aNG4
'A Bloody Difficult Woman To Work With!': [shorter version - annotated]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipW1D2EyDbA
