{"id":31463,"date":"2018-02-22T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31463"},"modified":"2018-02-22T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:27:21","slug":"being-relatively-new-to-russia-in-those-days-and-far-from-moscow-it-also-seemed-bizarre-when-then-secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-called-for-a-full-investigation-of-alleged-irregularities-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31463","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

America\u2019s Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World<\/a><\/h3>\n
\"undefined\"America\u2019s ruling class has a curious attitude to democracy. It seems to be interpreted as something that\u2019s good for the US and its allies but bad for critters who won’t accept their role in the “America-led international order.”First off, let me be clear. I think all foreign electoral interference is wrong. In any country. And if it\u2019s eventually proven that Russians meddled in America\u2019s 2016 presidential election, I certainly won’t condone it. But I\u2019ve have always doubted that the Russian state organized some heinous plan to tilt the contest to Donald Trump, so I\u2019ll be shocked if something of this nature is ever proven.<\/p>\n

Instead, I\u2019ve always imagined the greatest extent of Russian “interference” was probably some half-baked playing around by private individuals. Something akin to a\u00a0\u201csocial media marketing campaign,\u201d\u00a0as the New Yorker\u2019s Adrian Chan\u00a0believes<\/a>. And on a relatively minute scale, to boot. Because – given the billions of dollars swirling around American stumping – anything bar a full-scale FSB\/GRU, all-hands-on-deck operation would probably amount to little more than a hill of beans.<\/p>\n

By the same token, I was stunned back in 2011 when\u00a0the Moscow Times<\/a>\u00a0(a pro-US title, overwhelmingly written by Westerners, despite its name) reported how ex-vice president Joe Biden had told fringe Russian opposition figures that\u00a0\u201cit would be better for Russia if Putin did not run\u201d\u00a0in the 2012 election. Indeed, when you see the opprobrium\u00a0directed<\/a>\u00a0today towards US Green leader Jill Stein for once\u00a0attending<\/a>\u00a0an RT banquet where Putin was present, its shows one hell of a double standard.<\/p>\n

Distant View<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

Being relatively new to Russia in those days, and far from Moscow, it also seemed bizarre when then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a\u00a0“full investigation”\u00a0of alleged irregularities in 2011\u2019s parliamentary elections.\u00a0<\/section>\n
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America\u2019s Elite Thinks it Has a Divine Right to Rule the World America\u2019s ruling class has a curious attitude to democracy. It seems to be interpreted as something that\u2019s good for the US and its allies but bad for critters who won’t accept their role in the “America-led international order.”First off, let me be clear. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[18868,18867,204,18869,542,15396,3899,694,827],"class_list":["post-31463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-american-elite","tag-bryan-macdonald","tag-democracy","tag-global-rule","tag-moscow","tag-ron-paul-institute","tag-ruling-class","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31466,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31463\/revisions\/31466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}