Note context of calling Putin politically "smart" which the Left spins as commending invasion. And while I do not agree with all Trump says, esp. carelessly, yet such liberals even parrot Trump being Putin's parrot, as if being such would mean a tripling what its predecessor spent on the European Reassurance Initiative, and slightly increasing US troops stationed in other NATO nations, while paying $150 million less for NATO's annual $2.5 billion maintenance in working to increasing the amount other NATO allies supply (knpr.org: Under Trump, NATO Nations Get More U.S. Troops And Military Spending )
And even liberal NPR basically confessed:
Is Trump The Toughest Ever On Russia?.. much tougher on Russia than any in the post-Cold War era. NPR | July 20, 2018
Trump sought to add $1.4 billion for fiscal year 2018 to the European Deterrence Initiative — a military effort to deter Russian aggression that was initially known as the European Reassurance Initiative. That's a 41 percent increase from the last year of the Obama administration. The president also agreed to send lethal weapons to Ukraine — a step that Obama resisted. And Trump gave U.S. forces in Syria more leeway to engage with Russian troops...actually resulting in one incident in hundreds of casualties on the Russian side,"
In contrast, "Russia's Putin praises Obama's missile defense decision" to "cancel a radar installation in the Czech Republic and ground-based interceptors planned for Poland," LA Times Sep 19, 2009
Meanwhile although the U.S. Department of the Treasury instituted multiple sanctions actions against Russia on April 15, 2021 under a new Executive Order, yet imports of Russian oil to the United States reached their highest level in a decade that Spring, and Russia became the second-largest exporter of oil to the US that year. - Oil price com
And as regards overall Russia Exports to United States Exports to United States CMLV in Russia reached an all time high in December of 2021 . Trading Economics com
They title is incorrect. It should say “The real President of the USA, Donald Trump’s CPAC Speech Transcript in Full”
Stephy was peeing in his pants to get tom cotton to address this and weakling cotton wasn't smart enough to handle it. BTW, it was the best speech ever by Trump.
Trump to CPAC: 'No Idea of the Sleeping Giant They Have Awoken'
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