Posted on 01/05/2017 8:38:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Is it better to be thought a lightweight and dismissed by rivals if you are in fact talented, ambitious and ready to strike? To be thought clueless when in fact you have a plan?
Now for the stretch on your part — and mine: What if President-elect Donald Trump is playing the Russians and Vladimir Putin as effectively as he played the U.S. media throughout 2015 and 2016?
What if the incoming president has a strategic vision that views China, Iran and radical Sunni Islamists as far greater threats to U.S. national security than Russia is? Even if Russia is rightly understood, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., put it after President Barack Obama's imposition of sanctions, as "not our friend," and is "guilty, guilty, guilty" of interfering in our election and harassing our diplomats, as I and most conservatives believe.
I know the guffaws that just erupted. I have firsthand knowledge that the new president is not — or at least was not — educated in matters such as the nuclear triad or the difference between Hamas and Hezbollah. The collective, deep, probably unbendable assumption is that he just doesn't know much about many aspects of national security. From that assumption it is an easy, and dangerous, leap to "he's clueless, cannot learn and has no interest in learning."(continued)
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This whole Russia thing has become a tiresome bore.
If American elites want to find a foreign influence that has attempted to influence the outcome of elections, they need look no further than the globalists, and George Soros.
Soros may be an American in some legal sense, but from his track record it is clear that he is working for an international government paradigm and unlike the Russians he has all sorts of support in the media. His interference has the potential to be quite massive. It’s a miracle really that Donald Trump managed to beat this threat.
As to the Russia narrative, this is just the Democrats trying to obfuscate, trying to deflect interest away from all the major issues that their political tailspin revealed.
“the incoming president has a strategic vision that views China, Iran and radical Sunni Islamists as far greater threats to U.S. national security than Russia is?”
It doesn’t take a genius to figure that one out..... Putin’s Russia is not Stalin’s USSR.
If Trump were to forge a new detente with Russia, it would reduce the danger of a China/Russia alliance that would prove lethal to the United States in the coming world war.
They are just trying to stir up trouble for Trump with idiotic accusations.
What if Trump is dealing with the Russians in the same way he has dealt with business competitors? There is nothing naive or inexperienced about his approach to Putin.
This cartoon is a perfect example of what they want the public to believe about Trump.
Trump is playing everybody.
Trump has never been an idiot and he’s become a lot more politically astute than many life-long politicians will ever be.
The plot thickens and grassy knolls abound!
Yeah, I think he’s a very fast study. Putin knows government and politics, while Trump knows business and trade. Trump is learning the other side quickly, and will apply his skills there, as well.
Go Trump!
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