Those who claim that the Kremlin tried to promote Trump because the Republican candidate appears to be more favorably disposed toward Russia are wrong. They misunderstand the complex nature of Russian-American relations and underestimate Russian strategy. Moscow understands that its bilateral relationship with Washington rests on a set of longstanding geopolitical variables and does not depend on ephemeral personal relations between individual leaders. The Russian plan is to sow mistrust between Western civil society and Western political institutions, which, given the challenges currently being faced by European and American democracy, is not a far-fetched goal.I'm pretty sure you could say that most foreign governments that US policy impacts attempt covert action to influence elections. Certainly the Israeli attempts are so brazen as to hardly be classifiable as covert anymore.
But the report admits that at the beginning of this year, when bank stocks were getting clobbered, insiders were heavy buyers, and with impeccable timing: Jamie Dimon bought $26 million of JP Morgan shares on February 11. Since then, JPM has jumped 60%. So now, for them, seeing what they see from their perch, it’s once again time to unload, and do so at record pace – perhaps with impeccable timing once again.Same old scam. With rates going up for mortgages, you'd be a fool not to sell at this point.
None of the other permanent Security Council members were anywhere near this, and the only other countries on the planet with comparable figures were Nigeria and Israel.
The broadest opposition to war crimes, unsurprisingly came from respondents to the poll in countries ravaged by war, with people in Yemen uniformly against torture and against attacking hospitals. The Afghan public, similarly was overwhelmingly opposed to both.
