Since the fall of the Soviet Empire, the US has been considered the big boy on the block, the world’s lone superpower. But actually, that status has been changing. And much of that has been due to our own mistakes and hubris – and that, the work of one particular political party. President Clinton transferred satellite technology to the Chinese – and they used it to modernize their military and close the gap on the US. Then we saw the Obama administration oversee the decay of our nuclear deterrent – while the Russians kept modernizing theirs. And now we’ve found out that the Russians have developed hypersonic cruise missiles that can evade the defenses of every nation on the planet. The story of how they acquired that capability is just starting to break. In May 2010 the Clinton Foundation began to push Hillary’s Department of State to approve a meeting with a Russian technology entrepreneur, Viktor Vekselberg, who was in charge of a project called Skolkovo Innovation Center – and who also just happened to be a Clinton Foundation donor. According to The Daily Caller, within a month of the meeting, “Bill Clinton would receive $500,000 for a speech in Moscow from a Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin.” What followed was Secretary Hillary Clinton’s successful push for the Uranium One deal, which gave Russia control of 20% of America’s uranium, a key ingredient in making nuclear weapons. And for their efforts, the Clinton Foundation just happened to get $145 million. Now the But there’s more. Bill’s meeting also led to the transfer of Western technology to a project that euphemistically became known as “Russia’s Silicon Valley.” And can you imagine? Another coincidence! 17 of the 28 companies in the Russian project became Clinton Foundation donors. [Will the serendipity never cease?] And here’s the kicker – that’s where the technological know-how came for the building of Russia’s hypersonic weapons.[i] The US was looking into this technology years ago – yet never completed development. Analysts are divided on whether this new class of weapons is a game changer. It has, however, at least for the time being, rendered America’s current missile defense systems obsolete.[ii]
[i] Diana West, Hillary’s Hypersonic Missile Gap, Daily Caller, March 21, 2018
[ii] Adam Taylor, Putin’s new missiles could probably strike the U.S. The old ones could, too, Washington Post, March 2, 2018
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