20.01.2020 Author: Gordon Duff
Pompeo: New US Policy Authorized Drones Strikes on Russian, Chinese Leaders
Column: Society
Region: USA in the World
President Trump, and not obliquely, has put the assassination of Vladimir Putin “on the table” as part of a new policy, one at direct odds with both American and international law. This isn’t just a broad policy against those Washington deems enemies, but Russia was specifically listed as a target for highest level assassinations in order to achieve regime change.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during a policy address at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute on January 13, 2020, outlined the new policy. The title of the speech was “The Restoration of Deterrence, the Iranian Example.”
The Hoover institution has a long history of CIA ties and receives secretive private funding from a variety of “strange bedfellows:”
- The Bradley Foundation, cited by the Council of Islamic American relations for Islamophobia and hate mongering.
- The Scaife Family Foundation, long run by now deceased Richard Mellon Scaife, right wing extremist billionaire who employed an army of private security operatives used to threaten members of the press, including involvement in the death of Steve Kangas, founder of America’s independent press.
- The Castle Rock Foundation, a front for Adolf Coors, one of the largest funders of right-wing extremism and Russophobia in the United States
- The Koch Foundation, largest funder for climate denialism through profits from the coal industry
Former President Herbert Hoover, long blamed for failing to address the needs of a starving nation during the first 4 years of the great depression, for whom the Hoover Institution is named, was a powerful advocate for allowing and possibly even supporting Hitler in his war against Russia.
Only recently, after being suppressed for 50 years, has Herbert Hoover’s World War II analysis, “Freedom Betrayed,” been published, by the Hoover Institution. In that work, the “betrayal” was entering the war against Hitler and fighting alongside Russia.
You see, TDC or “top dead center” for American conservatives has always been the destruction of Russia and the subjugation of the Russian people on behalf of the Deep State.
