The Sunday Guardian

CAPITOLGAT­E: TRUMP MADE INTO A.Q. KHAN OF U.S.

The flames of hate were fanned by the 45th President of the US. However, other players may be active as well, including a few countries that look upon the US as an impediment to their goals.

- MADHAV NALAPAT NEW DELHI Hope springs

By concentrat­ing all their attention on Donald J. Trump and his more unruly supporters, law enforcemen­t agencies may be missing out on some of the deadly players who encouraged the toxicity which caused the mayhem that erupted inside the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January. Certainly President Trump showed by his reaction to the victory of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, that niece Mary Trump’s analysis of his personalit­y traits was accurate. The flames of hate and the unreasonab­le, often uncontroll­able, rage that often accompanie­s it was indeed fanned by the 45th President of the US, and recent manifestat­ions are partly the consequenc­e of his refusal to accept defeat in the Presidenti­al election. However, other players may be active as well, including a few countries that look upon the US as an impediment to their goals. The role played by them especially since 2013 in using social media, much as it has been used by US administra­tions against suspect targets, appears to have been given hardly any priority in the investigat­ions into the violence that was on display on 6 January. The effort is to make Donald J. Trump bear the full responsibi­lity for an armed effort by an irregular militia to overawe, if not overthrow, the elected legislatur­e of the United States by coercion. A narrow focus on a single individual as the perpetrato­r resembles the conclusion that GHQ Rawalpindi’s nuclear and missile bazaar was the sole creation of a scientist gone rogue, A.Q. Khan. A host of “Cold War 2.0 deniers” has sprung up that refuse to acknowledg­e

A healthcare worker looks on as a nurse prepares a dose of Covishield vaccine, during the coronaviru­s disease vaccinatio­n campaign, at a medical centre in Mumbai, on Saturday. that the US and some other major democracie­s (including India) are under attack by a group of countries that are sophistica­ted enough to utilise more than obviously kinetic methods (such as those seen in convention­al warfare) in their special operations against countries they have made their targets, such as India and the US. Unless the

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