I wish it was this simple, I think this more likely to be Putin’s bidding.
Here is a an Op Ed John McCain wrote a year ago. About Montenegro.
In the never end circus of this presidency, it got overlooked even by me and I read practically everything John McCain writes or says.
TL:DR Putin tried and failed to stage a coup in the country and when that failed he tried to kill the prime minister. The bottom line is that Montenegro was a political black eye for Putin. More importantly, it was one of the increasingly small number of nice places Russian Oligarch can go and spend the billions they’ve ripped off.
This is due to the Maginsky act. One of the principal reason the Maginsky act not only was passed in the US but has spread to other countries is this man.
Bill Browder along with former Russia Amb. McFaul were the two guys who Putin want access to in exchange for that fantastically generous offer to let Mueller’s team interview the Russian intelligence officers.
Now here is another tidbit.
Now this also escaped much noticed, although I do remember reading it and thinking very interesting.
Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Ben Cardin (D-MD), former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, and former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul are angry with the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security for revoking the visa of British hedge fund manager William Browder, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Browder’s visa was revoked on Saturday, the same day Putin managed to get Browder placed on Interpol’s international watch list. Being on the list means he can’t leave the UK without potentially facing arrest.
In case you are wonder who is Senator Cardin and why is involved. Well ,he is the Democratic Co-sponsor, along with, no surprise John McCain, of the hated Maginsky act. Which if you may remember was one of the actual subjects that was discussed at the first meeting between Don Jr. Manafort, etc.with the Russians at the Trump Tower meeting.
For me the Helsinki meeting has cleared up a lot. I never really figured out why one of the first people that Trump attacked was John McCain. Forget, Hillary, John McCain is Putin #1 enemy in the US he’s done more to thwart Putin than any person on the planet. So Trump attacking McCain was partly loyalty test and partly just an act of revenge. If there was a way to cause brain cancer, I’m sure Putin’s agents would have figured it out.
The second question that we’ve all had is, Is Putin has Trump turned, why in the hell is Trump so damn obvious?
I’ve reached this conclusion. This isn’t about the West it is about maintaining control and reviving the USSR. Putin want’s his enemies and potential enemies to know that I’ve got the President of the United States as my puppet, my Reek.
The US has drones and SEAL teams that can kill anybody, anywhere at anytime.
Vladimir Putin has agents who can poison anywhere. But not only that he’s got the President of the US who can revoke Visa, share intelligence, maybe even extradite. Silly Montenegro you think you can escape my will by joining Nato think again. If the US won’t send troops there to defend you, that treaty does you no good.
Putin was always a pretty terrifying guy, but now with Trump’s help, he is even more deadly than the US military, at a fraction of the price.
