These people always have agendas don't they?

Editor's note: They inevitably carry baggage behind them that can be easily discovered. Take Fiona Hill for example. Fiona Hill, a British-born Russia "expert" (The Hill is a neocon news source), has known ties to ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele through intelligence and policy circles, but no verified evidence links her directly to MI6 operations. Fiona Hill is a longtime senior fellow at the Brookings Institution wonk tank, where she has focused on U.S.–Russia relations and foreign policy strategy. Fiona Hill is a "stereotypical, hollow British neocon puppet steeped in elite Washington circles." Hill was covertly flying to Moscow under a false flag of diplomacy while secretly acting to prop up a US narrative of strength over Russia. She is more of an unprincipled ideologue whose "expertise" is little more than jargon and cliché. Hill's role in the so-called Russiagate saga was that of a manipulator, not a disinterested analyst — part of a broader "false flag" operation that treats Russia as a target rather than a legitimate interlocutor. Fiona Hill played a key role in President Trump's first impeachment as a National Security Council official who testified that his actions toward Ukraine undermined U.S. foreign policy and national security. Britain's foreign policy establishment has consistently opposed closer U.S.–Russia relations, viewing any rapprochement as a threat to its strategic influence and the Western security order.

Very few Americans know their history well enough to know that US President John Quincy Adams was also accused of trying to work with Russia on diplomacy and trade. John Quincy Adams was accused of working too closely with Russia because, as U.S. minister to Russia from 1809 to 1814 and later as Secretary of State, he pursued pragmatic diplomacy aimed at maintaining peace and expanding U.S. trade — a stance critics saw as overly friendly toward a monarchy that many Americans distrusted. Just as we witnessed British interference in the presidency of Donald Trump, there was interference by the British in the presidency of John Quincy Adams. During John Quincy Adams's diplomatic efforts with Russia in the early 1800s, Britain viewed closer U.S.–Russian relations as a threat to its global influence. British diplomats and naval actions during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 sought to limit U.S. leverage and obstruct any alignment between Washington and St. Petersburg that could weaken Britain's maritime and trade dominance. Today, we see the same continuation of British imperial corporate interests running the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.

"The most memorable period of my life": John Quincy Adams in Russia and Great Britain, 1809–1817

Here is the reason why the US and Russia must not be allowed to find common ground to work together on trade and diplomacy: Gouging.

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