EDIT: i changed the title because the word i was using was too restrictive and really just silly
Ladies and gentlemen, this is my first diary after being a DailyKos reader (is that what you call a lurker?) for the past 5 years. So I apologize if any of this is repeated, unnecessary, or just plain too crazy.
I just read Leslie Sanchez's insightful musings propaganda regarding McCain's perceived existential upper-hand in the political fallout from the Russia conflict. And then I got a sneaky, tin-foil hat idea.
What if John McCain's campaign were responsible for the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia?
Entertain with me for a moment the following thought:
John McCain believes (as Sanchez's diatribe puts forth) that voters' "perceptions are often shaped by impressions formed by events that are completely out of the campaigns' control."
Events such as Russia invading another country. Scares the hell out of people. Drives them into the arms of hawks like Nixon.
Now, suppose John McCain found a way to control an event that he ostensibly couldn't-- i.e., relations between two foreign nations.
Two foreign nations-- one of which he just happens to have a red-phone hotline to, a hotline named Randy Scheunemann. What indeed did Scheunemann say to the Georgians, should be the question we are asking.
Did Scheunemann in fact convince the Georgians to believe that they had the support of the US, up to and beyond military aid? Did he in fact allow them to become so confident of US support that they would actually feel emboldened to make a show of strength in South Ossetia, an area under profound Russian influence?
And if he did, wouldn't he know full well that such action would provoke immediate, massively disproportionate force from Russia...
...and would he not also believe that such a situation would play into the favor of his employer-- no, not the nation of Georgia, but the aspiring presidential candidate, the man with the "untouchable national security credentials"?
For what it's worth, I don't necessarily support ANY of the logic above, but the crazy idea occurred to me, and I figured I'd bring it before my favorite focus group for crazy ideas. So, if I'm crazy, ignore me. Thanks for reading.