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[[Ray McGovern]] and [[John Helmer]]: [https://youtu.be/7a-FBfYkyP4 Russia UNLEASHES Full-Scale Assault — Is WW3 Closer Than Ever?]
[[Ray McGovern]] and [[John Helmer]]: [https://youtu.be/7a-FBfYkyP4 Russia UNLEASHES Full-Scale Assault — Is WW3 Closer Than Ever?]
:Helmer: ''Trump has lost the normal machinery of government that coordinates what a president understands and knows and learns each day and then coordinates and mobilizes what he has to say in response day by day, hour by hour. We know that
there's been a massive purge inside the [[State Department]]. We know that there's a purge underway in the [[National Security Council]]. We know that there's a purge underway at the [[Pentagon]]. And we know that there's a purge underway in the [[intelligence service]]s. Now this is not the normal turnover of the 6,000 or more presidential appointees who come in with a change of administration. What Trump is doing goes beyond that - to purge the mainline agencies of their professionals, let's call it the their underlying [[deep state]]. The permanent employees for disloyalty and they're subject to loyalty tests. When you remove large numbers of people like that, you do two things: first of all you stop the flow of paper going into the National Security Council you purge the National Security Council of most of its desk offices....without a deep staff when you have the same thing going on at these other agencies you're basically creating a
structure that doesn't inform the president in a timely fashion and doesn't regulate, coordinate, and produce a feedback loop of what he has to say. What he has to say is visible in this system of tweets. Over the last 48 hours or a bit more the Russian side has commented on this - blowing off of steam. Presidential spokesman [[Dmitri Peskov]] said there's emotional overload there....Second, over the last few hours what we've seen is a concerted effort on the part of the [[Kremlin]] spokesman and [[Zakharova|Foreign Ministry spokesman]] to say President Trump is not being properly informed. Therefore he says things, he shoots off his mouth without a brain attached, it's polite but it's warning Trump of a sociological process which he himself has launched for his reasons, for loyalist reasons. He's in fact created a machine that's running out of his control. And he isn't being informed. We've talked about this before. The president's official log shows that he doesn't get a daily intelligence briefing. He gets one a week. And that's less common than his lunch with the Vice President. So he's getting briefed by people close to him, or people who have a particular agency line or policy line or ideological line to run, but he doesn't have the system to weigh checks and balances inside his own in his own office, and that's something the Russian side's concerned about.''
[[Daniel Davis]]: [https://youtu.be/s_SDk6dQZfk Putin Fixated on War Victory, No Matter the Cost /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Andrei Martyanov]
[[Daniel Davis]]: [https://youtu.be/s_SDk6dQZfk Putin Fixated on War Victory, No Matter the Cost /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Andrei Martyanov]