The Harris State Department
(a satirical view)
Rumors that a president Harris State Department would feature mandatory Russophobia Workshops are likely spurious.
However the sentiment is well-founded. The DNC knows it was hurt and exposed by the Sullivan-Morell handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story. The public saw through that charade rather easily, leading them to reverse engineer some of the earlier ploys around Guccifer 2 and so on.
Getting back on an even keel will require restoring old circuits that kept the peace during the Cold War, even helping bring it to a close.
That’s before it was restarted by relatively inexperienced junior officers with allegiance more to a political ideology than actual intelligence, per the ongoing VIPS analysis.
Old rifts, believed healed in the wake of the Berlin Wall’s coming down, were made new by the Victoria Nuland crowd, and made a centerpiece of the new NATO’s party line.
For those not remembering, or just tuning in, stoking russophobia was the best counter to Trump’s win the Hillary folks could think up, short of confessing their own shortcomings.
That pre-existing adversarial relationship with Russia, time-tested and load-bearing, was already presumed by the Beltway Mafia as axiomatic to its business plans, so…