The links between the Trump campaign team (and many in his government) and Putin and Putin's cohorts are far too many to be coincidental and unimportant.
Where there are that many links, something is going on.
Also, there is motivation. Russia has oil and gas. Russia shares an interest in the Arctic region with us. Exploration of the Arctic for oil may be a big part of the motivation behind Trump's crush on Russia and possible collusion or conspiracy with Russia during his campaign.
There is money to be made in Russia's oil and gas provided the US continues to be addicted to oil, and the Trump regime is dead-set on keeping the US hyped on oil.
DUers, our country is in peril.
The Russia scandal is the most superficial symptom of the problems we face.
Our entire economy runs on oil and coal with a little nuclear in the mix. The wind and solar components are relatively small.
There is lots of money to be made in oil. And as a representative of the Canadian nuclear energy industry stated in January 1974 at the First World Energy Conference in London (No link -- I was there), with solar energy (and some other forms of alternative energy), there is "no product to sell" and therefore no money to be made selling it. Fossil fuels make lots of money for those who sell them to an addicted public. I can't repeat that often enough.
But oil pollutes our air, our oceans and our homes. If we don't get off oil, don't kick our addiction to oil (and coal and fossil fuels altogether), there is a very good chance that our civilization will become impossible. It could even mean the end of all human life on our planet. I could be wrong, but . . . .
Think about what is happening in Southern California -- the fires, the high temperatures (80s today, sun shining brightly, we have all doors and windows open because it is unseasonably, incredibly warm for a December day). It's beautiful, pleasant -- but it is, no question, a catastrophe. We haven't had rain since at least June maybe April. Instead, we got fires, big ones, and winds, very strong ones, that spread the fires. Again, it's a catastrophe.
Man cannot survive on earth with the global warming that our use of fossil fuels is causing.
Russia is connected with the Republican effort to prevent us from dealing with the crisis of global warming. Russia has fossil fuels it wants to sell, needs to sell.
Granted, that Russia's desire to unload its fossil fuels with our help is just my theory. Others may disagree.
But, for me, the Russia investigation is not about Hillary or her e-mails as Trump and Fox News suggest. It's not an excuse for Hillary's loss in the election (of course she won the popular vote by about 3 million votes, but that's for another post). It's about Trump's wanting to lift the sanctions on Russia and postpone making the changes to our economy, especially our energy sector, that we must make if we are to remain a strong country.
If we don't switch as quickly as we can away from oil, coal and gas as our primary fuels, our economy will fail.
Other countries are moving away from fossil fuels. We need to join them.
Trump wants to impeded our progress away from these toxic fuels. That's what the Russia scandal is about. That's why regressive, conservative forces oppose the Mueller investigation. That's my opinion.
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