USA is in hysterics over Russia. Russian hackers and spies are everywhere. Russian ambassador Kislyak is behind every locker. Everyone around Trump is being recruited by him. Trump himself is almost a Russian agent. Trump's people are being questioned by the Senate's Investigation Committee about Russia's interference in American election.
According to CNN's recent poll, 75% of American see Russia as a threat. This is a record since the Cold War. Kremlin calls this type of American behavior a hysterical fit. A fit in public's opinion, a fit in official Washington and in American media. This causes a lot of harm to our future mutually beneficial relationship. It's time for someone in the States to think: are we so weak, that some country can involve itself in our internal issues and affect our electoral system. It's impossible to imagine and someone has to say this isn't true. Let's clear our heads and think straight. Calm and with a clear head... Too bad they won't hear it in the USA.
The search for Kremlin's agents, Russian hackers, and Trump's team's connection to Russia has turned into quite a lucrative and self-sufficient business for the American press. Thanks to Russophobia, CNN ratings have increased by 50% since the fall election. And the Wall Street Journal subscriptions have increased by 300%. And even though the battle is allegedly with Russia, Russia's true identity, its answers and true opinions are not wanted there. I'd say this resembles masturbation, when America adds fuel to its own fire. Something similar already happened to America in the past. This period of American history is called McCarthyism, or Red Panic. It was named in honor of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who encapsulated the anti-communism hysteria of the 1950's. When he became Head of the House Un-American Activities Committee, tens of thousands of so-called pro-communist books were withdrawn from American libraries. Thousands of officials were fired due to not just sympathy for communists, but sympathy to the already-dead Roosevelt's new course. Those were the times of everyone's suspicions, accusations and fear. Punishments were non-judicial. No such thing as "innocent until guilty" existed. A priori, anybody could become guilty.
If an empty accusation was made, one would have to prove their innocence. Everything vice versa. Even the creative community was persecuted. It resembled a medieval witch-hunt. Even the great Charlie Chaplin was a suspect in secret ties to the Russian communists. The reason — taking part in the campaign for dismissal of the Western Front in WWII. Considering his fame, it wasn't easy to get rid of Charlie Chaplin. But they found a way. When Chaplin left America for England in 1952 for the world premiere of "Limelight", he was banned from returning to the US.
After facing the facts, Chaplin involuntarily moved to Vevey, Switzerland, where he lived for the next 25 years. Chaplin wasn't the only one to suffer from McCarthyism. The great pianist, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein was also persecuted. His name was bad-mouthed in connection to alleged appearances of communists on American TV. An American physicist, creator of the nuclear bomb, Robert Oppenheimer was fired and denied access to secret developments. Even the genius Albert Einstein was hunted. He was accused of preaching anarchy. Even thought all Einstein said was that capitalism disregarded one's personality. In dreams of a more social government, he wished for rapprochement between USA and USSR. This went on for 4 years. Once common sense returned, Senator McCarthy got fired from everywhere. He was later investigated as well. McCarthy's time had passed. He started drinking, went on for 3 more years. His liver gave out and the crazy man died at 48, leaving behind only ill memories.
Now "McCarthyism" is an unpleasant hallmark. But this is exactly how Trump himself describes what is happening in America. Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! Barack Obama was furious. He claims to know nothing about the wiretap. Was there wiretap at all? This is not the first time Obama is theatrically furious. The republican press has reminded him of spying on Fox News journalist, James Rosen in 2009 and of wiretapping dozens of Associated Press reporters.
Later, Edward Snowden has uncovered the American system, whose goal was to wiretap everybody on the planet. Literally everybody. It doesn't look like some Trump was an exception. What would it be based on? Illegal? It hasn't been an issue for American special services for a long time. For moral consideration? This is simply ridiculous. CIA and NSA have never been compatible with morality. This is what the new CIA documents published on Wikileaks on Tuesday, are about. This is just the beginning of publications of a large package of data. Only 1% has been published so far, but it's already clear that CIA hackers have the resources for secret operations and sabotages under someone else's name.
For example from the alleged Russian hackers. They do this by leaving others' cyber fingerprints. Just like in old Russian movies about border patrol, a trespasser would cross over broken soil, leaving behind trails of hooves instead of feet. Thus, making it look possible to blame on cows or wild horses. Sounds funny, but this is exactly how American military hackers leave others' cyber trails of "hooves" behind. These are old tricks. Just to be sure, "snap-in hooves" were placed backwards. So now we also see so-called hooves, but this time, online. And again, they blame it all on the Russians. Who else?
