Valin Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 The American Interest: Trump’s core global strategy is intended to destroy any illusions in Moscow that Russia is a peer competitor of Washington’s. Walter Russell Mead Feb. 24 2017 With his latest effusive remarks to Reuters on the importance of expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal, President Donald Trump has sent the press into a panic once again. What the press has largely ignored about Trump’s latest pronouncement is an obvious truth that undermines its own narrative: someone who was safely in Vladimir Putin’s pocket wouldn’t run around saying things like this. While liberal America may have forgotten recent history, Russia certainly hasn’t: provoking a nuclear arms race with an outclassed, economically weak Soviet Union was Ronald Reagan’s winning strategy in the 1980s. Tech and wealth are two key American advantages over Russia now as they were over the Soviet Union then; Trump’s message here is that he intends to follow in Reagan’s footsteps to use these strengths to advance American power, with the inevitable result of marginalizing one of Russia’s primary sources of power and prestige. Putin’s ramshackle Russia is no more capable of matching an American nuclear buildup than Brezhnev’s sclerotic Soviet Union could keep up with the United States—and Putin knows it. (Snip) 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 (Snip) Meanwhile, the current media and Democratic drumbeat of fierce, hyper-patriotic anti-Russian fervor is legitimating exactly the kind of nationalist assertiveness and chauvinism that, in normal times, liberals try to tamp down. The liberal media, in the desperate hope of landing some blows on President Trump, is helping to create a national climate of alarmed and defensive patriotism that leads to exactly the kind of public opinion climate that is catnip to Republicans and poison to liberal Democrats. Of course it’s possible that all the rumors and gossip about Trump and Putin are true, and that Putin holds powerful blackmail material on Trump, or alternatively that they share a dark and anti-democratic dream that they will jointly try to impose on the world. But if those things are true, we won’t find out because some nameless source has whispered something incriminating to one of Ben Rhodes’ 27 year-old journalistic naifs; it will be because Trump begins to shift American foreign policy in ways that benefit Russia. What would those telltale signs of treason look like? (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 It has gotten to the point that if I read something about Trump in the MSM I read it not with a..not a grain of salt but LARGE bag of salt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clearvision Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Several articles today on whether or not Trump's new White House staff and Melania can pull off the Governor's dinner tonight seeing as how they are amateurs at this stuff. Lot's of pictures of Obama's doing it and Michelle personally in the kitchen tasting things.... CNN is of course the worst.. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/politics/trump-governors-dinner/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Several articles today on whether or not Trump's new White House staff and Melania can pull off the Governor's dinner tonight seeing as how they are amateurs at this stuff. Lot's of pictures of Obama's doing it and Michelle personally in the kitchen tasting things.... CNN is of course the worst.. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/politics/trump-governors-dinner/ Michelle in the kitchen tasting things was for the benefit of the photographer. I'm sure Melania and staff will do just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 Several articles today on whether or not Trump's new White House staff and Melania can pull off the Governor's dinner tonight seeing as how they are amateurs at this stuff. Lot's of pictures of Obama's doing it and Michelle personally in the kitchen tasting things.... CNN is of course the worst.. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/politics/trump-governors-dinner/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27E1HaO78AI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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