Michael Flynn, Trump’s former Adviser on Security, just resigned due to his embarrassing ties with Moscow, when a secret plan to lift sanctions on Russia popped out in Washington.
On 14 February, Trump’s security adviser, Michael Flynn, gave his resignation. A former shadow adviser for international affairs during the election campaign, Flynn is a retired general and former military intelligence chief from 2012 to 2014 who makes cooperation with Russia his mantra. He’s often guest of the Russian state channel in English RT and, after having resigned from the secret services a year before the end of his term without explanation, was pictured in Moscow at the same table with Putin at a banquet celebrating 10 years of RT.
Flynn was forced to resign after he lied about a telephone call with the Russian ambassador in Washington, Sergei Kisilyak. When it was revealed that the conversation had been tapped by the secret service, Flynn said they just exchanged Christmas greetings. But later, when more information were leaked by the intelligence, it was clear that the two had talked about something more substantial and that concerned the sanctions imposed by Obama to Russia.
And yet, a few days after Flynn’s resignation, it turned out something even bigger.
A secret plan
A peace plan for Ukraine would have been delivered into Flynn’s hands. The authors of the peace plan are three people who have nothing to do either with the US administration nor the foreign policy: Trump’s personal lawyer, Michel Cohen, a Trump aide who helped him doing business in Russia, Felix Sater, and a Ukrainian lawmaker, Andrii Artemenko. Incidentally, according to the New York Times, in the latter’s political career would have been partly orchestrated by Paul Manafort, the former Trump’s – as well as Yanukovich’s – spin doctor, who is now under FBI investigation.
The so-called peace plan for Ukraine, according to what Mr. Cohen and Mr. Artemenko told the NYT, was something quite different from that set out in Minsk and would be based on broad concessions to Russia. Plus a sort of “collateral” goal: lifting sanctions on Russia. Once again.
Nobody knows if the plan has any chance of being taken into account by Trump or – if Flynn had not been overwhelmed by the scandal – would have had more chance. But we do know how close to Trump are the men who signed it.
What catches the eye is the obstinacy of the people who are working in the shadows, from across the Atlantic, to remove the sanctions on Moscow. And, again, the level of penetration of Kremlin’s “emissaries” in the rooms of the White House.
Something to take very seriously. And that should make us reflect on the reasons why Russia was put under the sanctions regime by half the world, from the US, EU, to Canada.
Besiders the economic interests of individuals or groups of power, there is no reason to make concessions to Putin. At least until he will not restore the damage caused by the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbass.
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Michael Flynn, Trump’s former Adviser on Security, just resigned due to his embarrassing ties with Moscow, when a secret plan to lift sanctions on Russia popped out in Washington.
