2aguy
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Yep...the democrats are pretending to be outraged about Russia, and are trying to use it to attack Trump..when people who were alive in the 70s, 80, and 90s know that the democrats loved the russians.....especially when they were expanding around the world....they defended the Soviet Union and even went so far as to help them the way ted kennedy did.....when he wasn't drinking and sexually asaulting women...
As this article points out....Trump is going to be a pain in the ass to Russia...
Blog: Walter Russell Meade destroys 'Trump as Russian mole' narrative
This Walter Russell Meade essay destroys that narrative with devastating logic:
A Trump administration is going to be four years of hell for Russia: a massive American doubling down on shale production along with a major military buildup. Trump is, in other words, a nightmare for Putin and a much, much bigger threat to Putin’s goals than President Obama ever was or wanted to be.
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran
That Trump is planning to do precisely the opposite of these things may or may not be good policy for the United States, but anybody who thinks this is a Russia appeasement policy has been drinking way too much joy juice.
Obama actually did all of these things, and none of the liberal media now up in arms about Trump ever called Obama a Russian puppet;
instead, they preferred to see a brave, farsighted and courageous statesman. Trump does none of these things and has embarked on a course that will inexorably weaken Russia’s position in the world, and the media, suddenly flushing eight years of Russia dovishness down the memory hole, now sounds the warning that Trump’s Russia policy is treasonously soft.
This foolishness is best understood as an unreasoning panic attack. The liberal media hate Trump more than they have hated any American politician in a generation, and they do not understand his supporters or the sources of his appeal. They are frantically picking up every available stick to beat him, in the hopes that something, somehow, will Miloize him.
Trump's real politik approach to Russia has unnerved the left. You could make a sound argument that his policy is short sighted and fraught with uncertainty (Will Putin respond positively to the US approach?) But only an idiot would make the case that Trump is some kind of Russian mole about to betray US vital interests.
As this article points out....Trump is going to be a pain in the ass to Russia...
Blog: Walter Russell Meade destroys 'Trump as Russian mole' narrative
This Walter Russell Meade essay destroys that narrative with devastating logic:
A Trump administration is going to be four years of hell for Russia: a massive American doubling down on shale production along with a major military buildup. Trump is, in other words, a nightmare for Putin and a much, much bigger threat to Putin’s goals than President Obama ever was or wanted to be.
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
Blocking oil and gas pipelines
Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
Cutting U.S. military spending
Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran
That Trump is planning to do precisely the opposite of these things may or may not be good policy for the United States, but anybody who thinks this is a Russia appeasement policy has been drinking way too much joy juice.
Obama actually did all of these things, and none of the liberal media now up in arms about Trump ever called Obama a Russian puppet;
instead, they preferred to see a brave, farsighted and courageous statesman. Trump does none of these things and has embarked on a course that will inexorably weaken Russia’s position in the world, and the media, suddenly flushing eight years of Russia dovishness down the memory hole, now sounds the warning that Trump’s Russia policy is treasonously soft.
This foolishness is best understood as an unreasoning panic attack. The liberal media hate Trump more than they have hated any American politician in a generation, and they do not understand his supporters or the sources of his appeal. They are frantically picking up every available stick to beat him, in the hopes that something, somehow, will Miloize him.
Trump's real politik approach to Russia has unnerved the left. You could make a sound argument that his policy is short sighted and fraught with uncertainty (Will Putin respond positively to the US approach?) But only an idiot would make the case that Trump is some kind of Russian mole about to betray US vital interests.
