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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True words
Agreed.
I’m enjoying your delicious neocon tears along with the tears of your transsexual CIA buddies
Trump said that as a description. He didnt say he liked it. National Review makes Buckley roll over in his grave
When you see a bunch of one-word or three-word "quotes" you know they are specifically and intentionally removing the context around the statement.
And of course, Putin is smarter than Biden. Putin has mold in his shower that is smarter than Biden.
This is not front page news. It is an editorial/opinion piece.
Trump needs to shut up. Every time he opens his mouth he shows what an ignoramus he is. Mike Pompeo was running foreign policy, not Trump.
Putin is a murderous KGB thug; he’s not brilliant. And I’m tired of Trump’s poor little me routine about the stolen election. Anybody with half a brain knows it was stolen and each day Biden fumbles and shuffles around is further evidence he shouldn’t be president.
Trump should be a man and figure out how to go on from here and how to contribute something useful to the discussion of vital issues instead of whining about the past. Repeating the same story and the same gripes over and over again is a sign of senile dementia. Trump’s old enough and I’m beginning to wonder if the evidence isn’t there that he’s losing it too.
And Patton enthusiastically fought Rommel. Biden does not even know how to fight Putin. I'm not sure he is really trying.
That’s why all his supporters have to try to shift things to Trump.
I agree with your take on this. Sadly…
BTW Rommel studied the tactics of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry leader and early leader of the KKK. If I say that Forrest was a brilliant commander, that does not mean I agree with him 100%.
Exactly…
In truth, I don’t think Putin had to be much of a genius.
Biden/Harris
I rest my case.
We’re talking a twisted adult versus a fourteen year old and an eight year old intellectually, and Harris is on the North end of that one.
Maybe Trump meant compared to Biden.
Could be.
Either way, it wouldn’t matter.
If Trump had said Biden was a genius, would the Left then
think he supported Biden in all that he did?
Your comment makes no sense.
Perhaps you could elaborate on how those of us who are offended by the notion that Hitler was ‘brilliant, genius’ are ‘morally bankrupt’.
To me, intelligence includes more than just mental/intellectual ability - and you mention ‘evil’.
(Of course, if you believe that human beings are mere meat machines, you’ll differ...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer.
Zelenskyy said in response: “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,”
bmp
That stolen election led to war in Europe.
Rich Lowry, the extreme left-wing liberal of this article, thinks Republicans can do no right and Democrats can do no wrong.
Rich Lowry is a communist who hates America.
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