"Trump was ready to give Putin what he wanted. We now have a president on the right side": "No one should forget or underestimate the degree to which President Donald Trump empowered...

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

"No one should forget or underestimate the degree to which President Donald Trump empowered Russian aggression."

“President Trump at a pretty critical period withheld military assistance to Ukraine,” which was “desperate for it at that particular junction, basically to get [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a personal favor,” former Russia adviser (and witness in the Ukraine extortion impeachment) Fiona Hill said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “Well, that sends a message to Putin that Ukraine is a plaything for him, and for himself as well, and for the United States. And that nobody’s really serious about protecting Ukraine.”

She added that this was “ultimately a sign of weakness” and that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be “quite shocked now that we’ve got some collective action together.”

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has also explained how his former boss enabled Putin. “It’s just not accurate to say Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians,” Bolton said on Newsmax. Many have asked why Putin waited to attack Ukraine. Bolton’s answer is the most logical we’ve heard: Putin was waiting for Trump to withdraw from NATO in his second term.

Republicans have yet to break with Putin’s poodle or to account for their own betrayal of Ukraine in voting to acquit Trump for extorting Zelensky. If they had successfully reelected Trump, is there any doubt the NATO alliance would be in shambles and Ukraine left out in the cold?

But what a difference an election makes. President Biden has helped revitalize NATO — or, perhaps more accurately, has helped make it stronger than at any time since the Cold War. Instead of threatening, insulting and ignoring NATO, Biden from the start of his presidency corralled the member states, emphasized democracy as the unifying thread tying Europe to the United States, and reiterated again and again that other countries have the right to chart their own future.

In an article about the meticulous preparations Biden undertook in the weeks leading up to the invasion, the New York Times reports that American diplomats “had held hundreds of meetings with European officials” by the time Russia “began massing troops in the fall. In a striking break from practice, the C.I.A. disclosed detailed intelligence about Mr. Putin’s war plans, including so-called false-flag operations that Russia could use as a pretext to strike.” That unusual move “stripped Russia of any element of surprise.”

It takes nothing away from the Europeans — who now genuinely fear for their own security — to say that the response would not have been as robust or as fast without Biden’s planning.

Once the fighting began, the Pentagon leapt to action, arranging critical arms shipments. The day after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called his Ukrainian counterpart, the Times reports, “the White House approved another $350 million package of weapons and equipment for Ukraine that Pentagon officials said began flowing within days — lightning speed, as arms shipments go.” Now, we are considering a deal with Poland that would provide Ukraine with desperately needed aircraft.

The GOP’s belated cheering for Ukraine should not disguise the inconvenient and damning fact that until a couple of weeks ago, Republicans failed to challenge Trump’s efforts to placate and embolden Putin. They never broke with him, even after he betrayed our security interests and those of Europe. They still contemplate reelecting him. Former vice president Mike Pence now says there is no place in his party for Putin apologists. Too bad he worked for one and fought to reelect him.

Voters should take note. Given our status as the world’s only superpower and leading democracy, it is essential — and unbelievable that we must state this — that the U.S. president be an unwavering defender of democracy and unapologetic supporter of NATO. When that position is not asserted, authoritarian aggressors notice."

Jennifer Rubin

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InfiniteISO Loc: The Carolinas, USA

There's a very short list of people that read and believe Jennifer Rubin. There is more evidence damming the incompetency and criminal culpability of Obama / Biden in regards to the Ukraine situation going sideways than there is to implicate Trump. The Ukrainian impeachment was a deflection. This article is a deflection.

I know I can't convince you of that, but you need to read beyond the Washington Post for a better perspective on this.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

A tortuous misread of current and past events as to be totally ridiculous. Bird cage lining material. Written for the Dem base of biased idiots who would buy this.

David Martin Loc: Cary, NC

Kmgw9v wrote:

We now have a president on the right side

Russia, China and Iran heartily agree.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Jake Tapper in a CNN State of the Union piece on Sunday provided an excellent review of how US foreign policy over decades helped get Putin to where he is today. And the blame lies with both Republican and Democrat presidents.

BlackRipleyDog

Kmgw9v wrote:

"No one should forget or underestimate the degree to which President Donald Trump empowered Russian aggression."

“President Trump at a pretty critical period withheld military assistance to Ukraine,” which was “desperate for it at that particular junction, basically to get [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a personal favor,” former Russia adviser (and witness in the Ukraine extortion impeachment) Fiona Hill said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “Well, that sends a message to Putin that Ukraine is a plaything for him, and for himself as well, and for the United States. And that nobody’s really serious about protecting Ukraine.”

She added that this was “ultimately a sign of weakness” and that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be “quite shocked now that we’ve got some collective action together.”

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has also explained how his former boss enabled Putin. “It’s just not accurate to say Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians,” Bolton said on Newsmax. Many have asked why Putin waited to attack Ukraine. Bolton’s answer is the most logical we’ve heard: Putin was waiting for Trump to withdraw from NATO in his second term.

Republicans have yet to break with Putin’s poodle or to account for their own betrayal of Ukraine in voting to acquit Trump for extorting Zelensky. If they had successfully reelected Trump, is there any doubt the NATO alliance would be in shambles and Ukraine left out in the cold?

But what a difference an election makes. President Biden has helped revitalize NATO — or, perhaps more accurately, has helped make it stronger than at any time since the Cold War. Instead of threatening, insulting and ignoring NATO, Biden from the start of his presidency corralled the member states, emphasized democracy as the unifying thread tying Europe to the United States, and reiterated again and again that other countries have the right to chart their own future.

In an article about the meticulous preparations Biden undertook in the weeks leading up to the invasion, the New York Times reports that American diplomats “had held hundreds of meetings with European officials” by the time Russia “began massing troops in the fall. In a striking break from practice, the C.I.A. disclosed detailed intelligence about Mr. Putin’s war plans, including so-called false-flag operations that Russia could use as a pretext to strike.” That unusual move “stripped Russia of any element of surprise.”

It takes nothing away from the Europeans — who now genuinely fear for their own security — to say that the response would not have been as robust or as fast without Biden’s planning.

Once the fighting began, the Pentagon leapt to action, arranging critical arms shipments. The day after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called his Ukrainian counterpart, the Times reports, “the White House approved another $350 million package of weapons and equipment for Ukraine that Pentagon officials said began flowing within days — lightning speed, as arms shipments go.” Now, we are considering a deal with Poland that would provide Ukraine with desperately needed aircraft.

The GOP’s belated cheering for Ukraine should not disguise the inconvenient and damning fact that until a couple of weeks ago, Republicans failed to challenge Trump’s efforts to placate and embolden Putin. They never broke with him, even after he betrayed our security interests and those of Europe. They still contemplate reelecting him. Former vice president Mike Pence now says there is no place in his party for Putin apologists. Too bad he worked for one and fought to reelect him.

Voters should take note. Given our status as the world’s only superpower and leading democracy, it is essential — and unbelievable that we must state this — that the U.S. president be an unwavering defender of democracy and unapologetic supporter of NATO. When that position is not asserted, authoritarian aggressors notice."

Jennifer Rubin

"No one should forget or underestimate the de... (show quote)

So this how you spend your time, regurgitating pablum from a puke NYT stenographer?
Isn't time for your daily dose of whatever anti-psphychotic you obviously need or have you gone off your meds as well like dirtpusher, thomw, shutterbug and the other loons in your cuckoo nest.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Kmgw9v wrote:

"No one should forget or underestimate the degree to which President Donald Trump empowered Russian aggression."

“President Trump at a pretty critical period withheld military assistance to Ukraine,” which was “desperate for it at that particular junction, basically to get [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a personal favor,” former Russia adviser (and witness in the Ukraine extortion impeachment) Fiona Hill said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “Well, that sends a message to Putin that Ukraine is a plaything for him, and for himself as well, and for the United States. And that nobody’s really serious about protecting Ukraine.”

She added that this was “ultimately a sign of weakness” and that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be “quite shocked now that we’ve got some collective action together.”

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has also explained how his former boss enabled Putin. “It’s just not accurate to say Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians,” Bolton said on Newsmax. Many have asked why Putin waited to attack Ukraine. Bolton’s answer is the most logical we’ve heard: Putin was waiting for Trump to withdraw from NATO in his second term.

Republicans have yet to break with Putin’s poodle or to account for their own betrayal of Ukraine in voting to acquit Trump for extorting Zelensky. If they had successfully reelected Trump, is there any doubt the NATO alliance would be in shambles and Ukraine left out in the cold?

But what a difference an election makes. President Biden has helped revitalize NATO — or, perhaps more accurately, has helped make it stronger than at any time since the Cold War. Instead of threatening, insulting and ignoring NATO, Biden from the start of his presidency corralled the member states, emphasized democracy as the unifying thread tying Europe to the United States, and reiterated again and again that other countries have the right to chart their own future.

In an article about the meticulous preparations Biden undertook in the weeks leading up to the invasion, the New York Times reports that American diplomats “had held hundreds of meetings with European officials” by the time Russia “began massing troops in the fall. In a striking break from practice, the C.I.A. disclosed detailed intelligence about Mr. Putin’s war plans, including so-called false-flag operations that Russia could use as a pretext to strike.” That unusual move “stripped Russia of any element of surprise.”

It takes nothing away from the Europeans — who now genuinely fear for their own security — to say that the response would not have been as robust or as fast without Biden’s planning.

Once the fighting began, the Pentagon leapt to action, arranging critical arms shipments. The day after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called his Ukrainian counterpart, the Times reports, “the White House approved another $350 million package of weapons and equipment for Ukraine that Pentagon officials said began flowing within days — lightning speed, as arms shipments go.” Now, we are considering a deal with Poland that would provide Ukraine with desperately needed aircraft.

The GOP’s belated cheering for Ukraine should not disguise the inconvenient and damning fact that until a couple of weeks ago, Republicans failed to challenge Trump’s efforts to placate and embolden Putin. They never broke with him, even after he betrayed our security interests and those of Europe. They still contemplate reelecting him. Former vice president Mike Pence now says there is no place in his party for Putin apologists. Too bad he worked for one and fought to reelect him.

Voters should take note. Given our status as the world’s only superpower and leading democracy, it is essential — and unbelievable that we must state this — that the U.S. president be an unwavering defender of democracy and unapologetic supporter of NATO. When that position is not asserted, authoritarian aggressors notice."

Jennifer Rubin

"No one should forget or underestimate the de... (show quote)

They will deny recent history ... that we all lived through ... to bolster their second rate orange bad boy.

Can a 5th Ave shooting spree denial by the faithful be far away?

" ... The GOP’s belated cheering for Ukraine should not disguise the inconvenient and damning fact that until a couple of weeks ago, Republicans failed to challenge Trump’s efforts to placate and embolden Putin. They never broke with him, even after he betrayed our security interests and those of Europe. They still contemplate reelecting him. Former vice president Mike Pence now says there is no place in his party for Putin apologists. Too bad he worked for one and fought to reelect him. ... "

Even Tucker Carlson backpedaled on his lavish praise for the KGB genius. Trump's the last Pooter rah, rah boy left.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Kmgw9v wrote:

"No one should forget or underestimate the degree to which President Donald Trump empowered Russian aggression."

“President Trump at a pretty critical period withheld military assistance to Ukraine,” which was “desperate for it at that particular junction, basically to get [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a personal favor,” former Russia adviser (and witness in the Ukraine extortion impeachment) Fiona Hill said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “Well, that sends a message to Putin that Ukraine is a plaything for him, and for himself as well, and for the United States. And that nobody’s really serious about protecting Ukraine.”

She added that this was “ultimately a sign of weakness” and that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be “quite shocked now that we’ve got some collective action together.”

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has also explained how his former boss enabled Putin. “It’s just not accurate to say Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians,” Bolton said on Newsmax. Many have asked why Putin waited to attack Ukraine. Bolton’s answer is the most logical we’ve heard: Putin was waiting for Trump to withdraw from NATO in his second term.

Republicans have yet to break with Putin’s poodle or to account for their own betrayal of Ukraine in voting to acquit Trump for extorting Zelensky. If they had successfully reelected Trump, is there any doubt the NATO alliance would be in shambles and Ukraine left out in the cold?

But what a difference an election makes. President Biden has helped revitalize NATO — or, perhaps more accurately, has helped make it stronger than at any time since the Cold War. Instead of threatening, insulting and ignoring NATO, Biden from the start of his presidency corralled the member states, emphasized democracy as the unifying thread tying Europe to the United States, and reiterated again and again that other countries have the right to chart their own future.

In an article about the meticulous preparations Biden undertook in the weeks leading up to the invasion, the New York Times reports that American diplomats “had held hundreds of meetings with European officials” by the time Russia “began massing troops in the fall. In a striking break from practice, the C.I.A. disclosed detailed intelligence about Mr. Putin’s war plans, including so-called false-flag operations that Russia could use as a pretext to strike.” That unusual move “stripped Russia of any element of surprise.”

It takes nothing away from the Europeans — who now genuinely fear for their own security — to say that the response would not have been as robust or as fast without Biden’s planning.

Once the fighting began, the Pentagon leapt to action, arranging critical arms shipments. The day after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called his Ukrainian counterpart, the Times reports, “the White House approved another $350 million package of weapons and equipment for Ukraine that Pentagon officials said began flowing within days — lightning speed, as arms shipments go.” Now, we are considering a deal with Poland that would provide Ukraine with desperately needed aircraft.

The GOP’s belated cheering for Ukraine should not disguise the inconvenient and damning fact that until a couple of weeks ago, Republicans failed to challenge Trump’s efforts to placate and embolden Putin. They never broke with him, even after he betrayed our security interests and those of Europe. They still contemplate reelecting him. Former vice president Mike Pence now says there is no place in his party for Putin apologists. Too bad he worked for one and fought to reelect him.

Voters should take note. Given our status as the world’s only superpower and leading democracy, it is essential — and unbelievable that we must state this — that the U.S. president be an unwavering defender of democracy and unapologetic supporter of NATO. When that position is not asserted, authoritarian aggressors notice."

Jennifer Rubin

"No one should forget or underestimate the de... (show quote)

What a load of Lefty lunatic BS conspiracy nonsense lol. You Lefties just can help but to make ch*t up lol.

Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

Kmgw9v wrote:

"No one should forget or underestimate the degree to which President Donald Trump empowered Russian aggression."

“President Trump at a pretty critical period withheld military assistance to Ukraine,” which was “desperate for it at that particular junction, basically to get [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a personal favor,” former Russia adviser (and witness in the Ukraine extortion impeachment) Fiona Hill said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “Well, that sends a message to Putin that Ukraine is a plaything for him, and for himself as well, and for the United States. And that nobody’s really serious about protecting Ukraine.”

She added that this was “ultimately a sign of weakness” and that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be “quite shocked now that we’ve got some collective action together.”

Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton has also explained how his former boss enabled Putin. “It’s just not accurate to say Trump’s behavior somehow deterred the Russians,” Bolton said on Newsmax. Many have asked why Putin waited to attack Ukraine. Bolton’s answer is the most logical we’ve heard: Putin was waiting for Trump to withdraw from NATO in his second term.

Republicans have yet to break with Putin’s poodle or to account for their own betrayal of Ukraine in voting to acquit Trump for extorting Zelensky. If they had successfully reelected Trump, is there any doubt the NATO alliance would be in shambles and Ukraine left out in the cold?

But what a difference an election makes. President Biden has helped revitalize NATO — or, perhaps more accurately, has helped make it stronger than at any time since the Cold War. Instead of threatening, insulting and ignoring NATO, Biden from the start of his presidency corralled the member states, emphasized democracy as the unifying thread tying Europe to the United States, and reiterated again and again that other countries have the right to chart their own future.

In an article about the meticulous preparations Biden undertook in the weeks leading up to the invasion, the New York Times reports that American diplomats “had held hundreds of meetings with European officials” by the time Russia “began massing troops in the fall. In a striking break from practice, the C.I.A. disclosed detailed intelligence about Mr. Putin’s war plans, including so-called false-flag operations that Russia could use as a pretext to strike.” That unusual move “stripped Russia of any element of surprise.”

It takes nothing away from the Europeans — who now genuinely fear for their own security — to say that the response would not have been as robust or as fast without Biden’s planning.

Once the fighting began, the Pentagon leapt to action, arranging critical arms shipments. The day after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called his Ukrainian counterpart, the Times reports, “the White House approved another $350 million package of weapons and equipment for Ukraine that Pentagon officials said began flowing within days — lightning speed, as arms shipments go.” Now, we are considering a deal with Poland that would provide Ukraine with desperately needed aircraft.

The GOP’s belated cheering for Ukraine should not disguise the inconvenient and damning fact that until a couple of weeks ago, Republicans failed to challenge Trump’s efforts to placate and embolden Putin. They never broke with him, even after he betrayed our security interests and those of Europe. They still contemplate reelecting him. Former vice president Mike Pence now says there is no place in his party for Putin apologists. Too bad he worked for one and fought to reelect him.

Voters should take note. Given our status as the world’s only superpower and leading democracy, it is essential — and unbelievable that we must state this — that the U.S. president be an unwavering defender of democracy and unapologetic supporter of NATO. When that position is not asserted, authoritarian aggressors notice."

Jennifer Rubin

"No one should forget or underestimate the de... (show quote)

Only a dead brain idiot would believe this garbage lol.

slocumeddie Loc: Inside your head, again

Texcaster wrote:

They will deny recent history ... that we all live... (show quote)

Please list what actions Trump took to placate and embolden Putin.....

Please list how Trump betrayed our security interests and those of Europe.....

Please list what you have been drinking, smoking, and/or snorting.....

soba1 Loc: Somewhere In So Ca

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Texcaster Loc: Queensland

slocumeddie wrote:

Please list what actions Trump took to placate and embolden Putin.....

Please list how Trump betrayed our security interests and those of Europe.....

Please list what you have been drinking, smoking, and/or snorting.....

You're serious? Why don't you start with some very recent history you missed?

" ... Donald Trump has said that Vladimir Putin is “very savvy” and made a “genius” move by declaring two regions of eastern Ukraine as independent states and moving Russian armed forces to them.

Trump said he saw the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis on TV “and I said: ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine … Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.” ..." Guardian

Trump justifies Russian invasion of Ukraine

Trump said "Putin is smart. He's taken over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I'd say that's pretty smart. It is a vast, vast location, a piece of land with lot of people and just walking right in. This would never have happened - never in a million years. I know him (Putin) very well," he said.

Rose42

David Martin wrote:

Russia, China and Iran heartily agree.

Indeed they do.

Watash

slocumeddie wrote:

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