Checking in recently with some history of the Alfa-gate series of untoward Russia-hoax events, we unearthed some “degrees of separation” type dots through which the events linked, however innocently, to MBNA, the Delaware banking giant Joe Biden was at one time referred to as “the Senator from [i.e., “from MBNA”],” and other aspects of the Biden family enterprises.
The most pertinent TOC articles are here and here. That’s where you’ll find background links for most of the assertions of fact below.
The reason for this opening exercise is to set the stage for broader links that reveal a big-picture pattern, one that goes beyond the links highlighted earlier.
This big-picture pattern goes beyond the known outlines of Alfa-gate and its parent -gates, Russiagate and Spygate. In fact, it reaches all the way to Elon Musk’s bid to buy out Twitter, and for me illuminates the full meaning of “investor activism,” and how it appears to connect in at least some cases to the politics of interventionist government.
Starting with the MBNA thread, a brief summary:
Hunter Biden got a lucrative $100,000-a-year job at MBNA in 1996, Continue reading “The chain gang (an Alfa-gate tale): From Senator MBNA, to Aon, to Twitter and Musk”
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