America’s Russian-Nightmare Returns Home

by Eze Eluchie,

By his very size, you simply could not ignore him and he was unmistakable – he filled any room he was in.

The ever present boyish grin which adorns his face elicits an endearing smile from whosoever comes into first contact with him – and this obviously opens quite a lot of doors, hearts and secrets for his employers.  

The size and ambience appeared to have worked extremely well for Russian Ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak.

After a decade of service to his country as its Ambassador to the United States, during which period he developed, explored and sustained contacts with his host country, reaching out to influential elements in US political, business and social circles, Sergey Kislyak, is finally returning to his home country where he is being received as hero who admirably navigated very turbulent waters during the Obama presidency, culminating his tenure by achieving the unthinkable - superintending over a successful Russian interference in US presidential elections.

In the build-up to the November 2016 US Presidential elections, it had been quite clear to all that the Russian Federation had a preference for an identifiable and clear candidate between the two main candidates in the US. The Russian preference was easily discernible and was boldly asserted and shown by Russians of all works of life, from the Kremlin, President Putin all the way through to cab drivers and waiters on the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Despite the fact that subterranean efforts were deployed by Russia through its maze of covert security operatives and agencies, the task of frontally representing the interest of the Russian Federation, and ensuring that the desires of the ‘motherland’ come to fruition, rested on the broad shoulders of Amb. Kislyak.  

In brash, discreet and diplomatically unprecedented moves, Ambassador Kislyak met with and discussed ‘issues’ surrounding the US Presidential elections with key members of the inner caucus of the Presidential Campaign organization of Russia’s preferred candidate, such as Michael Flynn {Former US National Security Adviser}, Jeff Session {current US Attorney General}, Jared Kushner {US Presidents Special Adviser and influential son-in-law} and so on – meetings that have only begun to be revealed several weeks after the US Presidential elections have long been concluded and the deed already done. With each revelation of a clandestine meeting with Ambassador Kislyak, the realization of how deeply engrained the level of Russian interference in selecting the 45^th POTUS became clearer to many Americans.

At one point, it became obvious that politicians in Washington DC were examining their social and private meetings to verify if they had ever come into contact or been in the same room with Ambassador Kislyak. Any previous interaction with Ambassador Kislyak, or even dreams where the Ambassador had featured in, became a source of concern to politicians in the capital city.

An unfortunate outcome of Ambassador Kislyak’s successful tenure in Washington DC., is that any hope of US – Russia collaboration in efforts to defeat extremist Islamist terrorism virtually evaporated as the US establishment now appears to have directed its embarrassment and disgust at the successful Russian interference in US Presidential elections at thwarting any efforts at rapprochement, amity and collaborations between the Trump administration and Kremlin. President Trump is, himself, forced to act against Russian interests in manners in which he ordinarily would have exercised reservations – such as with the attack on the Syrian Air Force base in – in a bid to show ‘independence’ from The Kremlin.

Hopefully with the return of Ambassador Kislyak to his home country, tension will be diffused and it will be possible to downplay the issue of Russian interference in US elections and focus once more shifted towards ensuring that the two main global powers positively engage with themselves and work towards ensuring the extermination of extremist Islamist terrorism and other vices of existential concern to humanity.

Picture: Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.