It was, in short, the [[Deep State]]’s attempt to scuttle any effort to advance beyond the poisonous [[Russophobia]] it had spent a decade cultivating (taking my date from [[Vladimir Putin]]’s era-defining speech to the [[Munich Security Conference]] in 2007). | It was, in short, the [[Deep State]]’s attempt to scuttle any effort to advance beyond the poisonous [[Russophobia]] it had spent a decade cultivating (taking my date from [[Vladimir Putin]]’s era-defining speech to the [[Munich Security Conference]] in 2007). |