Posted on 02/24/2022 5:49:47 PM PST by karpov
On the cusp of Vladimir Putin’s act of naked aggression against the sovereign country of Ukraine, the most important Republican in the country praised the Russian autocrat for his “genius.”
Former President Donald Trump’s comments were another instance of his shockingly favorable and morally bankrupt statements about Vladimir Putin over the years.
Asked in a radio interview what had gone wrong that Putin recognized the independence of two Ukrainian breakaway regions on President Biden’s watch, Trump couldn’t muster one remotely appropriate sentiment.
He immediately cited “the rigged election” of 2020, an obsession of his that is so all-consuming, it makes Ahab look uninterested in the White Whale by comparison.
He characterized the recognition of the regions that Russian separatists claim as “wonderful” and “smart,” never mind that it was a transparently cynical step to create a pretext for war.
He said the so-called peacekeepers Putin had ordered into the regions were “the strongest peace force” and we could use it on our southern border.
He called Putin “a very savvy” guy — which is one way to put it — and bragged of knowing him “very, very well.”
It would have been a shoddy performance from a backbench congressman or a commentator, but Trump is the former leader of the free world. He’s never going to feel constrained by that role the way, say, George H.W. Bush did, but he shouldn’t sound like he could be an anchor on RT, either.
Putin is a brutal killer whose cynicism has been on blatant display the last few weeks. He seeks to reverse the West’s victory in the Cold War and drastically diminish US influence in Europe, toward the ultimate end of tag-teaming with China to end the American-created international order.
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I wonder which approach was the one that was on top when this went down? Oh, the democrat demonization and war mongering policy. Maybe ... just maybe ... demonizing Russia at every turn while showing obvious weakness has something to do with why Russia keeps annexing new land but only when Trump isn't in power.
Exactly right. And that's something I always try to tell posters (usually new to FR) who complain when articles from Leftist sources are posted. If you don't know what your enemy is thinking and saying, how are you going to respond to it?
Biden praised Putin ( https://neonnettle.com/news/15599-biden-praises-putin-on-world-stage-trashes-trump-and-republicans-watch ), and the neocon Chihuahua Lowry said nothing.
Rich Lowry of National Review. Isn’t that just special.
And it’s safer to walk down Putin’s streets that Biden’s.
It is possible for someone to be both. Genius does not imply goodness. Also, genius in the context President Trump used the term re Putin does not mean high IQ. It means very clever, as in Putin seized the moment in the face of totally craven weakness throughout all the Western nations. Biden, in particular, is about as weak and useless as a national leader can be.
President Trump was not praising Putin. He was commenting on the nature of our enemy.
It doesn’t take a genius to outsmart Brandon.
These media types are not that smart.
NYT : eff off chicken little.
“The only Republican who does not want Paul Ryan to become the next House speaker, it seems, is Paul Ryan,” Rich Lowry
Clearly, if Trump was president, Putin would never try what he is doing right now. As Trump said, “I know him well.”
Sherlock Holmes respected his mortal enemy, Moriarity.
We don’t know how this war will be fought and how it will end. If the 40 million Ukrainians dig in and fight an insurgent war or take to bombing targets in Russia Putin could look like a BIG Dummy. I don’t think that the Russians want their cities destroyed. Anti war protests spreading across Russia may cause internal collapse of Putin. But hey, I am not a genius either and can’t predict how it will end.
Trump has NOat praised Putin merely stated facts
Good observation.
Unlike Patton, Lowry probably looked at the covers but never "read his books" such as the one with the great Trump line "Never let your enemy define you."
Rich Lowry-— no surprise from a f’n Never Trumper who has destroyed the excellent formerly Conservative William F. Buckley edited National Review. Resembles it in NO way at all.
So, no surprise.
Just as it is no surprise to hear that a@@ Romney blaming TRUMP for Putin’s actions.. stabbing Trump in the back KNOWING there never was any “COLLUSION” with Russia, and stoking the money Romney has been getting from Burisma (owned by Russian Oligarch) where his former Campaign Manager Cofer Black (he of the SEE EYE EHHH apparat) still sits on the BOD of the Ukrainian energy company (littered with other Leftist US supporters, like the Atlantic Fund head, and our good ole idiota of Russia Hoax at the DOD— Evelyn Farkas. Allegedly a Ukrainian descent who does NOT, along with Victoria Nuland, support an independent Ukraine.
This idiot Lowry limp wrist has nothing to do with Intelligence and the Active measures which are needed right now— in the Ukraine (and which are most likely happening with Mossad imbeds— mounting an effective defense). Putin described a “Jewish run Nazi Ukraine”— absolutely INSANE notion when one reviews what happened at Yalta with FDR and Churchill Okaying turning over White Russians in Ukraine (who fought with German Nazis against the Soviets). Gave them up to Stalin—including the Leader of the Don Cossacks- to be murdered. And US Army units escorted them to the Soviets and watched them immediately shot or strung up.
So— to Putin- the Holodomor survivors who remember what sacred Stalin did to them— THEY— are Nazis? Putin is an insane gibbering olde Communist and an Oligarch at the same time. His days- prayerfully are numbered.
One day he's the worst thing our "Democracy" has ever had to
survive.
The next he's the most important Republican in the nation. Oh
and by the way, he's praising Putin as a genius, so the
Republican party is guilty of associating with him.
LOL. Last I heard the Democrats wanted to install Socialism/Communism here.
Isn't that like praising Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, Kim il Song,
Pol Pot, and Hugo Chavez for being brilliant?
Why yes, I do believe it is.
Yes.
We didn’t have all the problems we’ve had over the past year, when Trump was in charge.
Putin didn’t leave the southern border wide open then run to save the border of a foreign country.
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