U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin © Reuters / Sputnik
NBC: Trump at odds with his national security team over pro-Russia moves
The Washington Post reported yesterday that Donald Trump is scrapping “the CIA’s covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad.” As luck would have it, that’s precisely what Vladimir Putin’s Russian government wanted the American president to do.
This wasn’t an isolated development. As we discussed last week, Trump has also tried to weaken sanctions, isolated the United States diplomatically, fractured Western alliances, diminished the influence of the State Department (which is now led by Putin’s closest American ally), and largely ignored Russia’s attack on the U.S. elections – all of which serve Moscow’s strategic goals. As Rachel noted on Tuesday’s show, the list of actions in D.C. that Putin is certain to like keeps growing.
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Update: By embracing Russia, Trump bumps up against top advisers (AP).
WNU Editor: President Trump was very opened on what he wanted to do when he ran for President .... and now that he is implementing his agenda .... at least that part of his agenda that is not dependent on Congress .... and we are now seeing (and this not a surprise to me at all) the blow-back from national security "anonymous" sources .... whoever they may be.
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coincidents just keep piling up,non stop
"Russia attack on US elections" the lie that makes it impossible to engage Russia in any usefyul dialogue.
These are not coincidences. This is a political campaign that has been ongoing since President Trump was elected. The difference is that it is the media that is carrying the water for this story .... the Democrats and never-Trumpers have been absent for the most part.
Jim,
You are quite correct. Nailed it!! One of the reasons he was elected was to negotiate with Russia to solve common problems and God willing end Cold War 2.
While it may or may not be a lie, such a claim would require proof which hasn't been supplied. During the election cycle I and about three news pundits predicted a Trump victory. While I wavered on this at the end and came very close to changing my mind, as of election day, I predicted a Trump victory on the morning of 11/8/16 and am not aware of anything I wrote or typed to contradict that. Since I was one of the only ones to predict this, in retrospect I was probably EXTREMELY fortunate. As for Russian interference in the US election, Russian intelligence is quite good. As such, there are one of two possibilities. 1.)They made the same analysis I made and that would have been comparable to the lonely pundits. If so, interference in the US election would have been unnecessary and counterproductive. 2.)They made the same prediction as pretty much everyone else, planned accordingly, and were expected to be greeted with president elect Clinton on 11/9 who had won in a landslide. In such a case, interference in the election would have been a useless endeavor that would have had big costs with little upside along with major downside risks. As such, interference would have had negative utility. I think 2 is most likely.
While anything is certainly possible and it may not always be possible to "know", the best approach is to apply common sense. With little upside and major downside risks, Russian interference on any kind of level that could have changed the outcome seems farfetched. To make such a claim is an extraordinary claim and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence to be accepted. Thus fare extraordinary evidence has not been presented.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-appears-taking-georgias-land-185005478.html
"Russia has been slowly taking land from neighboring Georgia for years, and Moscow appears to have done it again in early July, moving its borders about 2,300 feet into the former satellite state, according to Yahoo News UK.
On July 3, Russia troops simply picked up a border sign and moved it farther into Georgian territory, Yahoo reported."
Jay,
When Georgia picked a fight with Russia back in about 2008 or so, a I recall, they received what they reaped what they sowed. Picking the fight was bad enough. Going out of one's way to pick the fight is even worse.
In any event, regardless who is right or wrong I fail to see how this rises to the level that America needs to intricate itself into a power struggle between Russia and Georgia. While America may still be a powerful country, as founding father John Adams pointed out, America cannot be expected to go through the world looking for monsters to slay.
Now perhaps western European nations want to intricate themselves in this power struggle. If so, they can have it. If Canada wants it, go for it. If you want to involve yourself in this power struggle, by all means strap it on!! Georgia, Poland, Ukraine, and a host of other nations in the region can use some Canadian cannon fodder.
You need to look at late news developing abouttrump and pardons
The great negotiator is giving putin everything hes ever dreamed of...and what does us get? A big di*k up the a$$.
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