Posted on 06/13/2016 8:14:47 AM PDT by milton23
Whoever wins the race to the White House is going to have to deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin from day one. Hopefully, the next U.S. president will learn from the mistakes of the past.
One of the biggest foreign policy follies of the Obama administration was the so-called Russian “reset”.
In March 2009 Hillary Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov symbolically, if not awkwardly, pressed a “reset” button—to demonstrate a fresh start to U.S.-Russian relations.
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I can agree with the title and the opening statement. Putin is a Russian Imperialist and Hillary’s Reset button was a laughable disaster that showed the abject juvenility of the Obama administration.
Still, Russian Imperialism is nothing to be scoffed at. It is as dangerous as Soviet Imperialism. Same $h1t different day.
Didn’t she get the translation wrong also.
I have the feeling that if Trump were elected, he’d meet with Putin and the two of them would very quickly iron out our differences. And then they would go have a nice state dinner together, and trade some nasty barbs with each other for a good laugh.
On the other hand, if Hillary Clinton is President, Putin will own her like a pet dog, but she’s the type of irrational pet dog that still craps the carpet and needs a beating with the rolled up newspaper. He’s already got copies of all her e-mails. He’s already bought our uranium from her, and God knows what else. On the other hand, he knows he can’t trust her, she’s unstable, corrupt and unreliable.
Hard to say who he would prefer; someone he rents until the next highest bidder comes along, or someone he can rationally deal with.
I see opposite. The great dangers of the world for the are Islam and the infilitration into our government of same, and the corruption/leftists in the US government.
Russia? What is it going to do to CONUS? The US needs to stop trying to control the freaking world.
The US is on the ropes due to the corruption and tyranny of our own government, massive immigration both legal and illegal, mozlem invasion, and all the leftistpuke agendas being forced on everyone, too numerous to list.
Russia? Big Freaking Deal unless you think that the US should control Eastern Europe. I do not.
Keep in mind that US relations with Imperial Russia were cordial, they even sold us Alaska.
I have no doubt that Putin would lie, cheat, and steal to help Russia.
On the other hand, I have no doubt that Putin would never lie, cheat, or steal to HURT Russia.
Putin is an example of what a leader who puts his country first, before every other county, looks like.
Compare that to Hillary Clinton, who puts the needs of those who pay her money first, even before the needs of America.
I said it was dangerous. I didn’t say we needed a new cold war to oppose it. However, we do have obligations and treaties to uphold or our word means squat. Like it does under Obama, frankly.
Whether we should have made those obligations to begin with is another argument I am willing to hear.
Now, will President Trump be able to make accommodations with President Putin? Yes, I really do believe so. The world will be a less dangerous place because of it.
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All good points, and I am nothing but a quick drive-by Kremlin watcher.
However, given his career from KGB agent to quite effectively out-dealing top Russian business leaders, I would wager that dealing with this unstable, corrupt and unreliable individual would play to his strong suit. He is no doubt very skilled in reading and manipulating trapped, unsure, panicky and not very clever individuals.
Aside from her ability to shriek, throw ashtrays and intimidate those with whom she surrounds herself (even to the extent that they destroy evidence of criminal acts), she is an amateur.
I heard they were on our side in WWI, WWII, and after 9-11, too.
At least they didn’t get James Taylor to sing.
I think Putin would respect Trump because he knows Trump will not fold like a cheap suit. I can see both of them negotiating in English (Putin’s English is quite good) and very animated as well (the security details will be thinking “are they gonna kill each other”), yet the two will get along quite well. I have had bosses that were terrors, but respected those who would stand their ground.
No, it isn't.
Europe of the four empires was a more or less stable place. For little people, it was paradise compared to what followed 1918.
The Soviet Union had universalist ambitions. Right up until Chernenko, they had active subversion programs in every Western nation and global ambitions for communism.
If Russia controls its near abroad, they would do no more than WE should be doing with Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
A Habsburg on the throne in Vienna and a Romanov on the throne in St. Petersburg would make the world a better place.
It is true that Mr. Putin does wish to see a resurgence of ‘old Russia’, now tempered with the disaster years of Communism.
The old Czar’s military in Syria, echoed today, reminds me of another old Czar’s military history ... when a European commander made the first blunder of invading ‘Ol’ Russia’.
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Yup. The Tsars executed and deported hundreds of thousands from subject territories long before the Soviet Union.
Russia was and remains something like Mordor on the steppes.
Which, given Germany's propensity to wander off on it's own Sonderweg as it is now doing wouldn't be a bad thing.
However, you are forgetting that Russia's frustrated ambition was the biggest single cause of the First World War.
Sort of like now.
Putin wants to be Czar-—I agree—When Trump wins one of his first meetings will be with Putin and they were go behind locked doors and cut up the world into zones of influence. I think we will have a better relationship and be able to influence Russian Ambitions and work with Russia to end Isis and pressure North Korea into joining the nations of the world. Putin will see Trump as an ally, not an enemy (or fool).
I agree. Putin in all KGB and is trying to resurrect the Empire. And none of what he does will be for the benefit of the West.
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