By David Stockman, October 30, 2019

The prepared statement of the latest UkraineGate whistle-blower is well worth the read. It tells you all you need to know about why the Deep State apparatchiks are coming out of the woodwork in a massive assault on America's duly elected president.

They're deathly afraid Trump will begin to dismantle a far-flung Empire which has wreaked havoc around the world, bled America's fiscal accounts dry, and fostered unspeakable prosperity among the beltway's legions of empire-supporting agencies, contractors, think tanks, foreign lobbies, NGO's and K-street racketeers. Whether out of common sense, naiveté or just contrariness, the Donald has dared to question and disrupt the Empire's core policy on the Ukraine/Russia file. And that's apparently exactly why the whistleblower de jour, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, wrote his now ballyhooed memos.

He feared that Trump's appropriate desire to get to the bottom of the well-documented Ukrainian involvement in the Obama Administration's illegal spying on his 2016 presidential campaign would undermine the bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill for Washington's utterly wrong-headed Ukraine policy.

Stated more crudely, Washington overthrew the duly elected government of Ukraine in
early 2014 because its leader was deemed too cozy with Moscow. And in the vanguard of that illegal meddling in the governance of a sovereign foreign state was Obama's state department led by neocon Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland, Washington's self-appointed roving proconsul John McCain and at length Vice-President Joe Biden.

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As it happens, Lt. Colonel Vindman is a vociferous partisan of Washington's Big Lie about the Russian ogre, and was virtually a fifth column operative in the viper's nest of neocons at the Donald's national security council. In fact, Vindman reported to Russophobe Fiona Hill, who reported to the Walrus of Forever War himself, John Bolton.

To the contrary, the gravamen of the colonel's concern was domestic politics and the possibility that in withholding the $380 million of pending Ukrainian aid (which should have been zero in the first place) and pressing the Biden investigation, Trump would alienate Capitol Hill Democrats and leave the Deep State's policy of using the Ukraine as an anti-Putin battering ram high and dry.

".... I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government's support of
Ukraine.... "I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens
and Burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would
undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has
thus far maintained."
"This would all undermine U.S. national security. Following the call, I
again reported my concerns to NSC's lead counsel."

Folks, Lt. Col. Vindman was not elected to nothin'. If he's a proud 20-year veteran of the US Army and diplomatic service as he claims, fine.
But his job is to implement policy as decided by the elected representatives of the people, not to free lance in the cause of the Empire group-think in which he is obviously and hopelessly steeped.

So let's cut to the chase: The policy he feared the Donald might be jeopardizing by his
pressure tactics with President Zelensky has been a travesty from start to finish. The
Ukraine has no bearing on America's homeland security whatsoever, and the policies of
its government vis a vis Russia or any of its other neighbors are none of Washington's cotton picking business.

So despite all the Democrats' crocodile tears for the constitution and rule of law, Vindman's beef wasn't really about their whole abuse of power canard. Nor did it touch upon the risible Dem/MSM nonsense that in asking a foreign government to undertake a legitimate action (an investigation of the corrupt use of taxpayers money by the former Vice President) Trump was committing a violation of U.S. election laws.

You can't be more emphatic about the utter irrelevancy of Ukraine to America's homeland security.
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So there's your Deep State at work. It isn't some kind of sinister conspiracy lurking deep in the shadows of the national security machinery.

To the contrary, it's right there in the broad daylight of the Imperial City. It is populated by hundreds of thousands of foot soldiers like Colonel Vindman who make a career of drinking the Cool Aid, collecting a pay check from the state and propagating the policies of Empire First---policies which are immoral, illegal, unaffordable and have absolutely nothing to do with protecting America's liberty, prosperity and security inside the great ocean moats, which once upon a time birthed a peace-loving Republic.

We have no illusions, of course, that the Donald is a peace-lover. He's self-evidently first and foremost a Donald-lover.

Still, what is underway in Washington---first with the RussiaGate hoax and now with UkraineGate and impeachment---is an extra-constitutional political lynching, and one that has turned Washington's desperate, mendacious Dem pols into complaisant handmaids of the Deep State.

So Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman isn't some kind of whistle-blowing hero. He's just another mindless cog in the wheel of Empire talking his own book and thereby abetting the political mob that is now threatening the very constitution he was sworn to uphold.

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