by John Helmer, Moscow
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The Jewish and Christian bibles got the idea down pat.
“For this thing is from Israel,” said one of the writers whose compilation of warnings against worship of idols and competing gods is called the book of Hosea. “A craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria. For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” That warning comes from the late 8th or early 7th century BC.
Almost eight hundred years later, when Paul of Tarsus (aka Saint Paul) was writing his letter to the Galatian community of Christians, he warned: “A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.”
The Russian reaction to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is a combination – idol, whirlwind, sin, destruction, God, payoff — plus deep suspicion that either President Joseph Biden or Trump’s organization, or both of them, had a hand in fabricating what happened, plus conviction that they are now capitalizing on the outcome for all they are worth.
The official line was given by the Foreign Ministry’s spokesman on sowing the whirlwind. The Kremlin spokesman followed with the calf of Samaria.
“Yesterday,” wrote Maria Zakharova of the Foreign Ministry on Telegram, “one of the leaders of the Kiev regime, [Kirill] Budanov, openly admitted that Ukrainian intelligence was preparing attempts on the President of Russia. So this attempt was being prepared, again, for American money, without which there would have been no malicious activity of the GUR, the SBU and, in general, Bankova [the presidential office ]. With massive financing and uncontrolled supply of weapons, Washington has created a terrorist structure in Ukraine – the Kiev regime. It is a machine of murders, bombings, exterminations, and terrorist attacks against both political figures and civilians…TheUnited States of America should take stock of its policy of inciting hatred against political opponents, countries and people, and sponsoring terrorism. The bell is already ringing for Washington!”
Dmitry Peskov for President Vladimir Putin said there is “no plan” for the latter to telephone Trump. He then implied the Biden plot by making a qualified denial. “We do not think and do not believe that the attempt to eliminate the presidential candidate Trump was organized by the current authorities, but the atmosphere that was created by this administration in the course of the political struggle, the atmosphere around the candidate Trump, it was that which provoked what today faced with America.”
Peskov then tipped the Kremlin in Trump’s direction: “After numerous attempts to eliminate the Trump candidate from the political arena using first legal tools, attempts to politically discredit and compromise the candidate, it was obvious for his life to be in danger.”
The state news agency RIA-Novosti tipped even further for Trump. “The assassination attempt on Donald Trump is surprising only because it happened on July 13, and not earlier — a year, three or eight years ago. The upstart, who challenged not only most of the American establishment, but also the ‘Washington swamp’ as such, has risked his head very much all these years… It is clear that now the ‘swamp denizens’ are biting their elbows because they did not think to kill Trump before November 2016: they underestimated the threat, did not believe in the reality of his victory.”
Tsargrad, an internet platform of Russian exceptionalism and Orthodoxy, treats Trump as a Russian ally in the war against Biden. “A bullet in Trump’s head is a blow to Russia: What remains behind the scenes of the assassination attempt on the ex-president of the United States — a real assassination attempt or a staging? The question, in fact, is not idle, especially in relation to Russia. After the appearance of an increasing number of details in the case of the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, a lot of interesting things come up behind the scenes of the assassination attempt… This is the true face of hegemony and the unipolar world: anyone who is against globalism, who stands in its way, is first subject to demonization (through the tools of the abolition culture), then physical elimination…Globalists don’t care about the United States, just like everyone else. They need planetary power, the absolute power of supernational capital. And all countries, including America and Europe itself, are just tools in creating a World Government. Trump is for America and against the World Government. As Putin is for Russia, Xi Jinping is for China, Modi is for India, and Orban, Fico, Marine Le Pen and AfD are for Europe,”
The Russian military sources briefing Moscow’s military bloggers have focused on the evidence as it became available and avoided standing for or against Biden and Trump, making cracks about each of them. Boris Rozhin, director of the Colonel Cassad blog, concluded his series of reports through the Moscow night and into Sunday afternoon: “He [Trump] pulled his head just in time. If he had stayed in a static position like Biden, we’d be living in a slightly different world.” Note the adverb.
Rozhin’s reporting began eighteen minutes after the shots were fired at Trump at 01:29 in the Moscow morning – 6:29 pm on Saturday afternoon in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump walked on to the podium at 6:02. The shots were fired at him at 6:11.
Rozhin was first to publish an accurate map of the scene, showing the position of the shooter behind and to the right of Trump; the range of fire; the rifle used; and the wound and blood spatter on the right side of Trump’s head. Almost at once Rozhin initiated the issue of the US Secret Service’s apparent negligence with clear sight of the shooter seen on a nearby roof by witnesses for several minutes before he opened fire.
The public opinion and election advantage for Trump was obvious, Rozhin commented at 05:27. “The ear will be one of the main arguments in favour of his election”.
Left: Colonel Cassad, July 14 at 03:59. Right: close-up of Trump’s ear and head wound reported by Rozhin at 06:21. Trump has claimed: “I was hit by a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.” The evidence published by Rozhin suggests wounding by glass shards from one of the teleprompters in front of Trump as he spoke from the lectern. US reports confirm the right-side teleprompter was shattered by the rifle fire. An AR-15 bullet graze on the skin is likely to show burn traces; if high-velocity penetration occurs, the tissue damage is considerable, as this analysis of AR-15 bullet impacts on the body indicates. Trump’s organization has not released any details of the hospital analysis and treatment he received after the incident.
Source: New York Times published this map of the incident scene more than twelve hours after Rozhin’s map.
Twenty-four hours after his reporting began, Rozhin was ironical about both Trump and the US media warfare now under way. “By the way, Trump himself financed the Russian prediction of an attempt on the ear 32 years ago… In 1992, the young Donald Trump was a sponsor of [Leonid] Gaidai’s comedy Good Weather on Deribasovskaya Street,It’s Raining Again on Brighton Beach, which was filmed in the USA. In short, conspiracy stories sometimes have a great sense of humour.”
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