Dear Friends of CCI,
This is a belated catch-up note. I’m glad to be back in touch after a hiatus to recover from the last trip, coalesce our travelers’ experiences, and to edit numerous videos. Whoooo!
CCI has been a “dead run” for the entire year of 2018! Groups of Americans traveling across Russia to check out their stereotypes and investigate for themselves … and Russians coming to numerous American cities to address facts and fiction existing in both of our populations.
Our September trip was the most rigorous citizen diplomacy trip ever attempted in Russia by any organization, past or present. Our 25 mainstream travelers visited 15 Russian cities across 10 regions of Russia to investigate how each is faring far from Moscow and St. Petersburg. They brought back an enormous amount of information, video materials and photos which we will send to you over shortly.
Today US-Russia relations are as dangerous as they can get, short of an actual all-out nuclear war. Amazingly, few Americans are informed or even interested in this issue. Our compatriots assume their comfortable lives will go on indefinitely. Conversely, I feel compelled to “do the impossible” … something to break through this insanity. I keep hoping that others in powerful places will wake up! Senator Rand Paul, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and a few others have, maybe others will wake up as well. But so far it isn’t happening enough to make a difference. This morning I watched Dan Ellsburg’s latest, “Hitler Wouldn’t Risk Doomsday, But The United States Did”, where Ellsburg reiterates how none of the top scientists and political advisors to Truman opted to tell him the truth about the A-bomb he was about to drop on the two Japanese cities. Some said it “wouldn’t be patriotic” and advised others not to tell!
Here is the link to that video: https://therealnews.com/stories/hitler-wouldnt-risk-doomsday-but-the-united-states-did-daniel-ellsberg-on-rai-2-8.
Watch this video, it is shocking. Do we have top scientists and political advisors today who are NOT advising President Trump about the worldwide consequences of a “limited nuclear war?”