STALKED BY A SKINWALKER! A True Scary Story from Russia
Carter Page, a former Trump adviser, published an op-ed in a Russian government run news agency.
Carter Page, a businessman whom Donald Trump named as a foreign policy adviser in March but distanced himself from following reports of scrutiny into Pages ties with Russia, published an op-ed on Thursday arguing that the U.S. shows complete disregard for Russias interests and must soften its stance toward the country.
The op-ed published in Sputnik, a news agency backed by the Russian government is critical of the Obama administrations relations with Russia, suggesting that its response to the countrys annexation of Crimea was interference in the international arena. The U.S. ought to try to respect, rather than provoke, the Kremlin, he suggested, so the two countries do not end up on a nuclear brink.
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President Obama has advocated for the concept of mutual respect in a domestic context, but a step back from the high-handed brink of todays diplomacy could help to create a lasting change in the trajectory of global affairs, Page wrote. In contrast to the idea of mutual respect, the U.S. Governments actions in the domestic democratic processes of Russias neighboring states stand as a primary example of interference in the international arena.
He named Ukraine in particular and implied that the U.S. should not disregard Russias interests in its foreign policy decisions: Among the national interests of Moscow and in light of continued instability, Ukraine has risen as a primary example of these same trends. While no simple answer to these problems exist, a complete disregard for Russias interests further increases the expected longevity of todays downward trajectory, he wrote.
This is not the first time Page has sounded off on the U.S.-Russian relationship or advocated a position more favorable to the Kremlin. In August, The Washington Post reported that he had praised both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Trump and criticized American foreign policy before international audiences. Last month, Yahoo News reported that U.S. intelligence officials were investigating whether he was communicating with Russian officials and discussed that a President Trump might end economic sanctions against the country.
Trump said in March that Page was advising him on foreign policy issues the real estate mogul described Page as among a group of some of the people that we are dealing with but campaign aides walked that back when scrutiny into Pages Russian ties made the news in late September.
Julie Ioffe, in POLITICO Magazine profile of Page published on Sept. 23, found that he isn"t especially well-known in Russia, either. [D]espite the tightly knit nature of the expat business community in Russia, no one I spoke to had ever heard of Carter Page, she wrote.
A Trump campaign policy staffer told Ioffe at the time that Carter is a red herring, not a Rasputin. Hes never met Trump, never briefed him. He has zero influence, none.
In the Yahoo News report, Trump campaign also officials denied that Page was advising or speaking for the campaign. After Pages op-ed was published on Thursday, campaign spokesman Jason Miller reiterated in an email that Carter Page has no role with our campaign, and he did not respond to a followup question about when Trump and Page had cut ties.
Trump himself has offered praise of Putin, suggesting he is a strong leader, and Democrats allege that the Kremlin is attempting to swing the election in the New York moguls favor. U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believe that the Russian government is behind cyberattacks on the Democratic National Committee and a hack of the email account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/carter-page-trump-sputnik-op-ed-229740
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