By Steven Jonas
"The Russia House" was a 1990 movie starring Sean Connery in his post-James Bond mature period. Moviefone summarized the plot as follows:
"While visiting Moscow, British publisher Barley Blair (Sean Connery)
learns of a manuscript detailing the Soviet Union's nuclear missile
capabilities. British intelligence and the CIA consider the book to
contain crucial information and recruit Blair to investigate its editor,
Katya Orlova (Michelle Pfeiffer). As Blair learns the origin of the
manuscript and discovers Russian military secrets, he falls in love with
Katya and fights to protect her family."
I did see the movie, for I have been a big Sean Connery fan since he
hit the big time in that very first James Bond film, "Dr. No." I don't
recall much of it, but it did involve spycraft, Moscow, the Soviet and
British secret services, and, of course, romance.
And so, what do we have here, in "L'Affaire Trump/Russe?" (which may
be as fictional as "The Russia House" was, or then again, maybe not). We
have spycraft for sure, in the person of the former British secret service member Christopher Steele.
He may or may not be telling the truth, but a) his reportage has been
verified by various European secret services and b) at one time the FBI planned to retain and pay him for his services. (This is the same FBI that worked hard in an attempt to prevent the election
of Hillary Clinton.) Then there's the nuclear weapons angle, for the
Russians are apparently in the process of modernizing theirs (whatever
that means) and Trump would like to do the same for the U.S. nuclear
arsenal. Then there's the seamy side of the Steele "dossier" which would
introduce a touch of sex, if not romance, into the plot.
And finally, there are the two leading men. Trump likely regards
himself as a James Bond type, at least when he is dealing with the
ladies (and of course, for Trump, with his legendary attention span, it
would very easy for him to confuse Sean Connery and James Bond, just as
Ronald Reagan actually visualized himself participating in the
liberation of a Nazi concentration camp when, during World War II, he never left the Hollywood back-lots).
As for Putin, who was a real-life KGB agent, one or more characters
like him appeared in the movie. Given what we know about him and his
ego, e.g., in his 60s still playing hockey (good for him) and scoring a
lot (what, you say the defense and the goal-tender on the other team
ease up on him?), he may well fancy himself as an actor too, and would
just love to play one of those roles (in a movie in which, of course,
the Soviet Union/Russia would come out on top).
Turning to the more serious side of this narrative, as is very
well-known there is considerable controversy over the following issues.
Not necessarily in order of importance: did the Russians somehow
interfere with the U.S. electoral process in 2016? If so, did they ally
themselves with Trumpian interests? If so, did one or more Trump
agents/representatives collude with the Russians in doing so? Despite
his blanket denials, does Trump have business interests in Russia and/or
do one or more of the Russian robber-baron-capitalists otherwise known
as the oligarchs have investments with President Trump, in Russia and/or
elsewhere? How many more high-level Trump appointees are going to get
caught up in the mess, before it possibly reaches Trump himself? And so
on and so forth.
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Source: OpEdNews.com
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