Posted on 07/27/2017 8:56:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Boris Johnson, the British foreign secretary, has defended Donald Trump’s handling of relations with Russia, saying the US president has taken a more uncompromising approach towards the Kremlin than Barack Obama.
Johnson, speaking in Australia on Thursday, voiced strong support for the way Trump had handled what he termed “the Russia problem”. He rejected allegations that Trump was too close with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and said the US had been resolute in maintaining sanctions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
Johnson offered high praise for Trump’s “kinetic” response to the Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack in Syria in April. “When you look at how the Americans responded to the Syria crisis, they’ve been more hardline against the Russians than the Obama administration was,” Johnson said.
“Actually, the Americans responded to the barbaric massacre on 4 April, when up to 100 people died in a chemical weapons attack, by kinetic action, which the Obama administration never did. It is the Americans who have been tough on the Assad regime’s convoys, and so I think just look at what they’re really doing.
“Is it fitting and right for the president of the United States to have any kind of personal relationship with Mr Putin? Well, I think, actually, it is. He didn’t meet him until 20 July, and they had a lot to discuss,” he said.....
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Obama hard on Russia??
He gave Putin everything he wanted on all-important missile defense and nukes, including the Iran nuke deal that Putin loves so much.
Trump sold a bunch of Patriot batteries to Poland, while Obama withdrew ABMs. Trump has unleashed our energy industry to drill, etc., driving down the price of oil and gas and costing the Russians a fortune, while Obama shackled the energy industry. Trump is building up our military, Obama dismantled it.
So who was Putin’s bitch?
FLASHBACK: “RESCUING RUSSIA: A special report.; The Bailout of the Kremlin”
Clintons just suck when it comes to Russia.
Hey Boris, let Charlie Gard be brought to the US.
Did you watch this hearing yesterday? If not it will be well worth your time.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?431852-1/william-browder-overturning-magnitsky-act-putins-top-priority
He’s letting McCain and his girlfriend, Ms. Lindsay push him around. Got to “prove” he’s not pro Russian.
The only thing Obummer was hard on was his domestic opposition. Everybody else got money.
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