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Trump: Kim Jong Un deserves 'credit' for taking out rivals
The Hill ^ | January 9, 2016 | Bradford Richardson

Posted on 01/09/2016 10:09:03 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

Republican primary front-runner Donald Trump says North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-un deserves "credit" for the cutthroat efficiency with which he disposes of his political foes.

"If you look at North Korea, this guy, he's like a maniac, OK?" Trump said at a rally in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Saturday.

"And you've got to give him credit: How many young guys - he was like 26 or 25 when his father died - take over these tough generals and all of a sudden, you know, it's pretty amazing when you think of it. How does he do that?" he added.

“Even though it is a culture, and it’s a culture thing, he goes in, he takes over, he's the boss. It's incredible."

After North Korea's government said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb earlier this week, Trump called the authoritarian leader a "madman playing around with nukes" and a "total nut job."

But he also insinuated that Kim had some admirable qualities.

"I mean, it's amazing that a young guy would go over and take over," Trump said Thursday on Fox News' "On the Record." "You know, you would have thought that these tough generals would have said no way this is gonna happen when the father died.

"So he's gotta have something going for him, because he kept control, which is amazing for a young person to do," he added.

Trump has previously praised other world leaders with less-than-stellar human rights records.

He called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "highly respected" man in global affairs, after the Russian strongman called Trump "bright and talented."


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To: Cincinatus' Wife

"I think that I would probably get along with him [Putin] very well."

--Donald Trump, CBS' Face The Nation, Oct 2015
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TRUMP: Vladimir Putin's praise is 'a great honor'

Business Insider ^ | December 17, 2015 | By Maxwell Tani

Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.

"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.

He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
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How Russia arms America's southern neighbors

Ioan Grillo
May 9, 2014

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.

Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.

Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.

In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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Russia Boosts Arms, Training for Leftist Latin Militaries

Moscow defense minister inks deals with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua for joint exercises

BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015

Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.

Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.

Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/

101 posted on 01/10/2016 12:57:36 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL
Aug 2015...

 photo Obama Iran Deal Russia KGB Putin 01_zpspjyus9ja.jpg

102 posted on 01/10/2016 1:11:12 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; MarchonDC09122009
Mr Putin, what do you think of your "useful
idiot" supporters in the United States?

 photo vladimir-putin-laughing_zps8kx1avdw.gif
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Useful idiots

Thomas Sowell
May 20, 2003

Thomas Sowell

"The term 'useful idiots' has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.

Long after the Soviet Union's horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics. ..."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful_idiots

103 posted on 01/10/2016 1:25:05 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran's Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran's Quds Force commander - their chief exporter of terror - and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ..."

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran's proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ..."

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they’ve seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants - some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/

104 posted on 01/10/2016 1:29:38 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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Vladimir Putin is not Finnish

Jim Treacher
March 31, 2014

And if he gets his way, which he will as long as Obama is president, nobody else will be either.

Jack Moore, International Business Times:

"One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest ex-advisers has claimed that the ex-KGB agent ultimately wants to reclaim Finland for Russia.

Andrej Illiaronov, Putin's economic adviser between 2000 and 2005 and now senior member of the Cato Institute think tank, said that "parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership..."

Illiaronov admits that Finland is not Putin's primary concern at present but, if not stopped in other areas of Eastern Europe, the issue will one day arise."

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/31/vladimir-putin-is-not-finnish/#ixzz3vXvUhxDC

105 posted on 01/10/2016 1:31:59 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: nikos1121

I would suggest “obsession” more accurately describes Rush and others. I get that you want to “take out” and cripple the msm and uniparty types (that is good) but I believe you’re jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

My “obsession,” as you put it, is in posting a wide variety of articles about things in the news:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:cincinatuswife/index?tab=articles


106 posted on 01/10/2016 1:33:41 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: MarchonDC09122009
I very accurately stated fact about Trump's unsuitability to run for public office.

What is very accurate for you passes for foolishness for the rest of us who think logically.  Lets look at why I say that.


1. Here's a loud mouth attention whore.
2. He has no filters, like most New Yawkers.
3. He has very poor discernment.

This is a man that borrowed $1 million dollars from his father and turned it into between $3 and $10 billion dollars.  Whether you can grasp it or not, Trump is not a shallow man.  You're simply not going to be able to get away with trying to go that route.  What to you seems uncooth, loud, or self-centered is to others the makings of a man who can get things done.

As for most New Yorkers, I am not a big New York fan.  There something consumately annoying about someone having to remind themselves every few minutes that they "ILNY".  That being said, those folks have something going on or they wouldn't be New Yorkers.  It costs a lost to live in New York.  Some of the most costly realestate in the nation is located there.  Someone owns those properties or is leasing them.  As for no filters, that's fine with me.  I prefer that people tell me what they think.

Next you're going to try the discernment tactic.  Once again, whether you like it or not, can grasp it or not, Trump is not some sort of mindless fool.  His management services are sought out around the planet.  He negotiates with people in this nation and other nations.  He has had to deal on some level with governments around the world as his companies have to comply with different situations.  Your attempts to belittle the man leave you looking like an utter fool.


Prove those observation statements wrong, Trump lackeys -

They are absurd on the face of it.  And I'll tell you something you evidently don't know, I don't mind being called a Trump lackey.  He is going to be our next president.  I know that and you don't.

Who is the mindless lackey?  For all the big talk, you have no ability to think logically.  You just toss out these statements ignoring reality as if everyone else would.  Well everyone else won't.d


Trump's New Yawk habit of saying Everything he thinks sends confusion to allies and enemies alike at a time of Huge tension on the border with N. Korea, when @sshole Trump makes the following confusing quasi-kissass statement?

Can you tell us when there wasn't big tension between North Korea and South Korea?  What a juvenile thing to say.

Trump: "I mean, it's amazing that a young guy would go over and take over," Trump said Thursday on Fox News' "On the Record." "You know, you would have thought that these tough generals would have said no way this is gonna happen when the father died."
"So he's gotta have something going for him, because he kept control, which is amazing for a young person to do," he added.

What part of this is wrong?  None of it.  No experts on Korean dynamics were sure how things would play out in North Korea.  It has been rather remarkable this guy could run as rigid a ship as he has.

Trump has previously praised other world leaders with less-than-stellar human records.

Okay, then you are incapable of grasping that making an accurate observation is not praise.  It was remarkable that a house painter could rise up to lead Germany and cause global war.

No doubt you think this is great praise of Hitler.  No, it's just an accurate observation.  


It's damned similar to what Bill Maher said admiring the "courage" of 911 highjacking pilots.a

No it's not similar at all.  Trump did not attribute courage or brilliance to the North Korean leader.  He merely made an observation that was both rational and undenaible.  You can't grasp the dynamics of this either.


Look at the utter hell we heaped on a comedian for a conceding statement praising any attribute about a murderous enemy.

You are so eaten up with hatred for Trump, that you can't even come close to being rational.  Bill Maher made a character assessment.  "My they were brave.  What courage..."  Trump didn't do that.  Once again, you're just incapable of rationally assessing a simply statement from a public figure.

Trump is running for president and is not supposed to run his mouth like a clumsy chatty buffoon.

Trump is free to run his campaign any way he likes.  If he is as bad as you think, he will not attract support.  Sadly for you, he is attracting massive support.  This is why I address you and others as incapable of rationally assessing a situation.  You are convinced that Trump is ignorant, loud mouthed, doesn't think, and is embarrassing himself and the nation.

You're wrong.  His polling figure prove you wrong.  You're entirely welcome to have your opinions.  You are not entitle to your own facts.  You are simply wrong, and the facts prove it.


Little hope that Trump's adoring fans will listen and process critical statements about Trump's unsuitability for office.

Yes, of course, if Trump supporters don't agree with an airhead, they have to be flawed.  Trump isn't at 41% in the polls and others below 15% because Trump is not considered presidential.  So yes, you have your opinions.   Sadly for you, the facts simply don't match your mental construct of the situation.

DoughyOne sez:

"Honestly, it's just downright scary to follow the logic trail with some of you anti-Trump folks."


And after reading your flight of fantasy, DoughtyOne says:

"Honesty, it's just downright scary to follow the logic trail with some of you anti-Trump folks."

Disagree with me all you like, but don't ignore all the polls and massive support Trump has drawn to him, and then try to play it all off as an illusion.

Your perceiptions are the illusions.  The truth is staring you right in the face.  You can deny it, but the only person who is going to agree with you, is you.


107 posted on 01/10/2016 1:43:02 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: mkjessup

You’ve really nailed them there.

Nice work.


108 posted on 01/10/2016 1:44:29 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: DoughtyOne
Disagree with me all you like, but don't ignore all the polls and massive support Trump has drawn to him, and then try to play it all off as an illusion.

All that shows is how simple-minded and/or clueless the bulk of the public is. Most haven't the slightest idea when it comes to matters of complex foreign affairs such as what we are dealing with ISIS AND a resurgent Russia and China. Even guys like Limbaugh and Hannity, at best, have a weak understanding of these things.

109 posted on 01/10/2016 1:55:25 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: All
Ted Cruz on ISIS, Russia, Obama, missile defense, and the New START Treaty with Russia...

"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.

We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."

-snip-

"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.

We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.

These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.

These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."

"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.

Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."

https://www.tedcruz.org/news/icymi-cruz-we-have-no-business-getting-in-the-middle-of-the-syrian-civil-war-goal-should-be-to-defeat-isis/

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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.

The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.

For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.

We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

110 posted on 01/10/2016 2:01:27 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

The argument is made that the public is not smart enough to pick a candidate intellectually.

However, if that public was flocking to the man you support, they would be incredibly intelligent and discerning.

So ultimately, this argument fails.

They see in Donald Trump a man that appeals to them, wants to do the things they want to see done.

I have not seen one interview where the people stated they wanted to vote for him based on his appearances on the Apprentice.

You are going to have to accept that you do not see what these folks do, and that you just may be wrong.

You folks are selling the public short.

You want their votes, but if they don’t pick your guy, you resort to slandering them.

If they aren’t smart enough, why is your guy spending so much time on something that is impossible?

Well, you don’t think it is. So which is it? Are they too stupid or not?


111 posted on 01/10/2016 2:21:38 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: ETL
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The two sides [Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Russia] agreed to "promote and enhance friendly relations" in line with the joint declaration of July 19, 2000 and the Russia-DPRK friendship and good neighborly cooperation treaty of February 9, 2000.

Putin and Kim agreed during their talks to promote a Russian- DPRK political dialogue on the Korean issue and international affairs, and discussed many topical international problems, deputy head of the Russian presidential administration Sergei Prikhodko told reporters following the talks.

The two leaders spoke for an independent and peaceful solution to the issue of reunification of the Korean Peninsula, and against "any outside obstacles to this process" as "unacceptable."

http://www.china.org.cn/english/2001/Aug/17008.htm

or,

http://web.archive.org/web/20100808144846/http://www.china.org.cn/english/2001/Aug/17008.htm

112 posted on 01/10/2016 2:51:43 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: DoughtyOne

What is it that you believe the American people think Donald Trump “will get done?”

And please no neon signage, or slogans or generalities - state some concrete, LEGAL, executive branch things [or maybe he’s cynically appealing to them using uninforceable promises].


113 posted on 01/10/2016 2:54:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

After seven months, I have to lay out Trump’s platform for you.

You’re not even the slightest bit embarrassed to admit that either, are you.

There are videos all over the internet with Trump explaining what he’s going to do.

Millions of people have witnessed him explain what he plans to do.

Sorry, not interested in spending my time educating you.


114 posted on 01/10/2016 3:04:35 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: DoughtyOne

Then post some links instead of all that meaningless “bling.”


115 posted on 01/10/2016 3:06:01 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Got news for you CW, I’m not your servant.

You’ve got plenty of time on your hands. Google Trump rallies and educate yourself.


116 posted on 01/10/2016 3:10:08 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

First Putin. Now Kim Jong Un. Trump has some odd heroes.


117 posted on 01/10/2016 3:27:00 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

You’ve got to give that Hitler guy credit for the way he managed to take over Germany.


118 posted on 01/10/2016 3:28:57 AM PST by sakic
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To: DoughtyOne

I am educated on Trump - present and past.

I find it instructive that you avoid an opportunity to highlight his stand on the issues (preferring to frame your avoidance as my seeking to make you my slave).


119 posted on 01/10/2016 3:50:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’m not sure what you think the proper term is, but when someone orders me to go do their legwork for no pay, only a few things describe that type of thing.

Why should I want to discuss Trump’s plans with someone who has played the fool for seven months?


120 posted on 01/10/2016 3:57:53 AM PST by DoughtyOne ((It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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