As you can see yourself, she is a classic case of being dumb as a stump despite her "impressive credentials", and if you take a look at this "fellow's" educational background you will understand why US "strategists" are a pathetic bunch abusing sinecures in all kinds of pseudo-academic think-tanks.
She wouldn't understand a first thing about REAL strategy, warfare, governance and technology as wouldn't most of people from Aspen Group, RAND, ISW and other grant-consuming fraudulent establishments in the vast sea of the American think-tankdom machine of intellectual corruption and propaganda. But her butthurt and sore-loserism is shining through.
Is this TACO? Yep, a desperate attempt to save own political life while already being a political corpse. He should have called Israel, his masters. But, ah yes, recall those sweet days of hope))
The guy is obviously a retard, the only type which comes out from US humanities degree mills. Curiosity should have told him that letter P in РОССИЯ is not "P" but "R". Good Lord.
In fact, those were not missiles at all, I am sure. The US is finding new ways to humiliate itself every day. Mr. Smith wrote a superb piece for Larry's blog. I will quote him but read the whole thing at Larry's blog, where Smith gives incoming DJT some advice.
How do you prove it? Invite Banderistas to Fox studio. Let them reminisce on how they hoped for Hitler's help and how they continued to fight Russians in the "underground army" (yes, Banderite "patriots" led by cadre SS officer).
You can observe how the whole matrix breaks down and laugh like hell)). Why didn't they invite former Nazi officers, I am sure they can dig some out, few should still be alive. That would be a fascinating interview on how Nazis fought for freedom and democracy against evil Roosskies. Hey, it is coming--Nazism will be exonerated in the West. I personally know couple of prominent figures who work hard doing this.
Pope. Rebekah Koffler has an "impressive" (for DC) resume and she is "from the former USSR" and she is an embodiment of why the United States finds itself where it finds itself today vis-a-vis Russia and pretty much the rest of the world. There is very little about this Koffler lady on the internet, say how old is she and where in the USSR was she born precisely (she states she was born in Kazakhstan), but there is very little doubt in that she read too much of Solzhenitsyn and, judging by her appearance, she does look like my peer and that is why she is full o' shit. No, I am not talking about her book and "Russian hacking", I am talking about her urban myths and BS about the USSR she spews on the air at Fox (and elsewhere) and here is the latest this "Russia expert" delivers three days ago.
I am not claiming that the USSR was a "free" country in Western understanding but it is clear that I and millions of my peers and Rebekah lived in a different USSR and that this intelligence "professional" is milking her "Soviet" biography for some kind of gain, most likely monetary, and tells fairy tales about USSR popular among former Soviet (primarily Jewish, but not exclusively) Brighton Beach populace. For starters, why she lies: criticism and anecdotes about Soviet government and Communist Party were not just common, but they were spoken openly from smoking rooms to diners to even barracks in Soviet military (and she certainly has no experience with that) and nobody were persecuted let alone "expelled from schools", because the only reason to be expelled from any Soviet school was two fold--discipline and academic failure. Period. Hundreds of my peers, who entered naval academy with me in 1980, same as before that, or after, were political anecdotes and jokes telling, American jeans wearing, rock-music listening and long-haired dudes, have been checked by KGB (namely counter-intelligence) before even allowed to apply, well...
Never in my life have I heard of any kid "expelled" from the school on the bases she proposes and I met and studied with very many peers who were border-line asocial and anti-Soviet. One of my academy classmates made it into the KGB organization NEVER being in Komsomol, let alone being a member of Communist Party and... had no problems in advancing along the career path. Koffler, obviously, when she left USSR at a young age, had only Soviet dissident narrative, much of it hearsay and outright BS, and urban myths to sell in the US, which was eager to listen to any contrived BS as long as it was instrumental in drawing a caricature of a country, they had no real understanding of. It is not surprising then, when having such "analysts" and "experts" as Koffler, who sounds like a keynote speaker at the regional Communist Party gathering and who deliberately oversells this "totalitarian thingy" for own benefit, that the US "intelligence community" has become a butt of a jokes around the world, especially in anything related to Russia.
She claims that she was an analyst of "Russian strategy and cyber warfare", well, strategy is a very broad term, but Koffler's feeble attempts to sell her Soviet high school experiences as a valuable contribution to the intelligence field while having zero experience and education with Soviet institutes of state power and security, be that military or security services are telling, as are her misguided and incompetent attempts to draw parallels between the USSR and modern USA. She is no big thinker. She is also utterly militarily incompetent. Here is a proof from her book:
This is the "level" of "experts" who consulted and continue to consult on Russia inside the US and who think that two technological catastrophes such as F-35 and LCS are "capabilities" for the United States, then there is no surprise with the outcomes we all observe. You can extrapolate the rest of the skill-set for such "analysts". I am not gonna buy her book because I don't have time to review yet another pseudo-intelligence drivel (Koffler states that Steele Dossier was a Russian operation, face-palm) about Russia from a person who has zero background in both USSR and Russia and has only her past security clearance to wave around and use big words and catch phrases. I will just remind you of a superb piece by our esteemed guest Mark Hackard about another dissident BSer Yuri Bezmenov, who was selling exactly what Koffler sells--a hot air. Here is Mark's succinct conclusion about Bezmenov, which applies fully to Koffler:
This also explains why those "analysts" cannot find their own ass with both hands in a brightly lit room. They call it "intelligence."
I am still puzzled with the role Koffler ascribes to "advanced" Littoral Combat Ships in the "war with Russia". Unless she means to build so many of them that Russians exhaust completely their stock of anti-shipping missiles sinking them and then surrender? Then several thousand of LCS should be built. I am sure it was Russian clandestine operation too, to convince Pentagon to invest innumerable billions into shitty technologies, such as F-35 and LCS. It has got to be Russian operation. How else can you explain this clusterfuck. I am sure Koffler will write a book on that too. Nah, I am screwing with you.
I am not a naive teenager to believe that US oligarchy and national security-warfare state really cares about the "will of the people", law or the fate of people who actually made America great at some point of time. It is all bunk and words such as "democracy", "electoral process" or "rule of law" when applied to the United States today come across as a bad joke. But still, personalities matter and they still can make a difference in a long run. After all we all can see how that difference, in terms of destruction of the country, is being made by such personalities as shallow mediocrity and racist Obama, or a NY's very own Israel's stooge and hot air balloon Donald Trump. And we all know that in the endless game of BSing American public through never ending and pointless electoral process, most promises made by power hungry nonentities mean squat. Yet, even Marxist generalists bothered themselves with the role of personality in history.
So, in this case, apart from Fox surprisingly giving a podium to her, Tulsi Gabbard speaks a total geopolitical and military common sense about Iran and possible war with it, and she does have background, unlike it is the case with Bolton or Trump himself, to speak with authority. Listen for yourself.
However, knowing how American political party machines and media are corrupt to the core, especially so with DNC, which is basically a variation of an organized crime group, I don't think Tulsi has a chance at Democratic (what an irony to call totalitarian liberal-fascist party "democratic") primaries. Too bad, she could have made a difference. She certainly knows where, apart from systemic crisis of liberalism, America's woes originate from--non-stop and unwinnable wars, which already bankrupted the country. Judging by Tulsi's young age, she, if she sticks around and fights, granted I personally do not share some of her political views, she will become a voice of reason of note to take on presidency in the future. In the end, the Democratic Party as it exists today is a train wreck (or rotting corpse, if one wishes) which cannot exist anymore in its present form. In general, she does come across as a decent human and promising politician--this is not nothing in times of a complete madness and corruption of the American political class.
Remember this scumbag O'Reilly, who was so cool as to call President Putin a "killer"? Well, Putin, FSB, GRU and others struck back at Bill O'Reilley and he got fired by FOX News today. I am telling you, this Putin fella is a mighty dark lord of US media, intelligence services, Pentagon, Congress, what have you. What's next now? Trump declaring socialism in good ol' USA? I am telling you, a scary stuff. On the other hand, wait, Bill O'Reilley got fired not because of Putin, he got fired because he is, indeed, a scumbag and a sexual pervert but let us leave it to courts to decide it, after all--innocent until proven guilty. But there is no doubt that he was and is fake, top-bottom, as was the Factor (or Fucktor?) he pushed on his unsuspecting sheeple.
Tucker Carlson brings Stephen Cohen to his show and a remarkable conversation happens--honest and in agreement. I didn't see that in a long while. Cohen's points for the most part are valid, but especially so his lament of this current geopolitical insanity being perpetrated by the so called "progressives". This also, however circumstantially, answers the question about who gave the order to assassinate Ambassador Karlov.
Meanwhile, the truth begins to surface at the affiliates of a major network.
As Russian proverb (also spoken in one of the cult movies of 1990s Brat, "Brother") goes: The God is not in power, he is in truth.
