{"id":13276,"date":"2025-03-06T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13276"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:45:17","slug":"krasnov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13276","title":{"rendered":"Krasnov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in more innocent times, in January 2016, a year before he was inaugurated for his first term as President of the United States, Trump boasted that &#8220;I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn&#8217;t lose voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only now do I realize the real meaning behind that statement. What he actually meant was, &#8220;I could stand in the middle of the Oval Office and commit high treason and I wouldn&#8217;t lose voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13277\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/krasnov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For instance, today we learned that Trump will revoke the legal status of Ukrainian refugees. Each and every time I thought I saw the full depth of the depravity of Trump and his entourage (including Elon Musk), they surprise me some more. A few examples (just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, really, there is plenty more):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s treatment of America&#8217;s neighbors and closest allies, Canada and Mexico;<\/li>\n<li>Trumps contempt towards America&#8217;s European allies and NATO in particular;<\/li>\n<li>Threats to use force if necessary to annex Greenland, reoccupy the Panama Canal zone and turn Canada into the &#8220;51st state&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>The assault on press freedom, including Trump&#8217;s treatment of The Associated Press;<\/li>\n<li>Installing loyalists of highly questionable credentials as key members of his cabinet;<\/li>\n<li>Loyalty tests for other officials concerning the &#8220;stolen election&#8221; of 2020;<\/li>\n<li>The firing of top military brass;<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;non-employment&#8221; of Elon Musk at DOGE, without a security clearance, an official mandate, or Congressional oversight;<\/li>\n<li>The deplorable treatment of Ukraine&#8217;s wartime president, Zelenskyy, in the White House;<\/li>\n<li>Cutting off military aid and critical intelligence to Ukraine;<\/li>\n<li>Halting Cyber Command&#8217;s operations concerning Russia;<\/li>\n<li>Voting in the United Nations on the side of Russia, North Korea, Eritrea and similar regimes;<\/li>\n<li>Plans to turn Gitmo into a concentration camp for up to 30,000 asylum seekers;<\/li>\n<li>Destroying USAID, America&#8217;s premier instrument of &#8220;soft power&#8221; abroad;<\/li>\n<li>Indiscriminate firing of critical federal workers, including those maintaining America&#8217;s nuclear arsenal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know that our existing world order, <em>Pax Americana<\/em>, is kaput. The only thing I don&#8217;t know yet is whether Canada still has any viable options left to maintain our independence, our economic well-being, our territorial integrity, or if we are doomed already.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Krasnov, incidentally, is the presumed nickname given to Trump when he was recruited by the KGB in 1987, according to an uncorroborated accusation by Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet security official. Whether or not he was indeed recruited, I do not know. But his present-day actions speak louder than any dubious accusations concerning his past.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13276' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in more innocent times, in January 2016, a year before he was inaugurated for his first term as President of the United States, Trump boasted that &#8220;I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn&#8217;t lose voters.&#8221; Only now do I realize the real meaning behind that statement. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13276' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-politics","category-22-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13276"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13283,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13276\/revisions\/13283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}