US seeking to replace Putin with CIA-backed regime: Madsen
Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen believes that the United States is seeking to replace Russian President Vladimir Putin with a CIA-backed regime.
“There are still these American dreams of ousting Putin and replacing him with some corrupt oligarch like Mikhail Khodorkovsky or a number of these CIA-supported and George Soros-supported Russian gangsters,” he said on Sunday.
American billionaire George Soros has been accused of using his money to subvert the political systems of many Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
The columnist made the remarks in an interview with Press TV regarding Putin’s congratulatory Independence Day message to President Barack Obama.
Madsen said Putin has made the right decision by calling on Obama to sit down and work together in order to resolve global issues.
“President Putin is correct in talking about how he and President Obama need to work together as they have been on Iran nuclear talks and on other issues,” he said.
The Russian president in his message noted that despite some differences, the state of affairs between the Kremlin and the White House remains vital to the international stability and security.
“We saw that happen with the Syrian chemical weapons being taken out of the country as a result of a US-Russian agreement,” Madsen said.
This is while the Obama administration has been busy imposing sanctions against Russia for what Washington calls arming pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.
Madsen, however, believes “the United States has right now a tendency to isolate Russia, to try to undermine its government.”
“The latest manifestation of that is obvious CIA support for something called the European Endowment for Democracy that is almost the same thing as the CIA-funded National Endowment for Democracy, out of Washington,” he said.
The analyst went on to say that although Russia is showing good will, it is not likely to get a similar response from the United States.
“It is going to be very difficult for President Putin to get anything substantial back from the American side on this olive branch that he has obviously extended to President Obama,” he concluded.
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