The ‘Ghastly’ Gamble: How the Clinton–Obama Intelligence Op Risked War to Take Down Trump

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August 7, 2025
The ‘Ghastly’ Gamble: How the Clinton–Obama Intelligence Op Risked War to Take Down Trump
By Charlton Allen
They knew it could spark a geopolitical catastrophe. They did it anyway.


Let’s dispense with illusions: Vladimir Putin is not misunderstood. He is an autocrat. He lies, he invades, he suppresses dissent, and he trades ruthlessly in realpolitik. His regime has poisoned opponents, jailed journalists, and bombed civilians.

He has aligned himself—out of both strategy and necessity—with the Chinese Communist Party, America’s chief geopolitical adversary.


In short, he needs no fabrication to appear villainous—his record speaks for itself.

But that’s what he got. According to the recently declassified Durham annex, senior U.S. officials weren’t content to let Putin’s record stand on its own.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_ghastly_gamble_how_the_clinton_obama_intelligence_op_risked_war_to_take_down_trump.html

[The_Reader_David]

I think the article is a bit overwrought,  but it is clear that antagonizing Russia did not bother HRC one bit.  It was on her husband's watch that Madeline Albright saw to it that post-Soviet Russia remained a definitional enemy, with NATO expansion into the old Warsaw Pact, but first by trampling on Russia's interests in the Balkans, deciding that Russia's coreligionists and traditional allies, the Serbs, were the sole villains in the wars of the Yugoslav dissolution (wars with atrocities on all sides, unsurprisingly, since they were simultaneously a civil war and a war of religion) denying Russia any peace-keeping role, and using NATO as an offensive force.