Bibi Backs Trump - on Putin

Townhall.com ^ | 09/16/2016 | Patrick Buchanan

[AC Beach Patrol]

Since Donald Trump said that if Vladimir Putin praises him, he would return the compliment, Republican outrage has not abated.

Arriving on Capitol Hill to repair ties between Trump and party elites, Gov. Mike Pence was taken straight to the woodshed.

John McCain told Pence that Putin was a "thug and a butcher," and Trump's embrace of him intolerable.

Said Lindsey Graham: "Vladimir Putin is a thug, a dictator...who has his opposition killed in the streets," and Trump's views bring to mind Munich.

Putin is an "authoritarian thug," added "Little Marco" Rubio.

What causes the Republican Party to lose it whenever the name of Vladimir Putin is raised?...

According to foreign policy scholar Stephen Sniegoski, when Putin first visited Israel in 2005, President Moshe Katsav hailed him as a "friend of Israel" and Ariel Sharon said he was "among brothers."

In the last year alone, Bibi Netanyahu has gone to Moscow three times and Putin has visited Israel. The two get along wonderfully well.

On the U.N. resolution that affirmed the "territorial integrity" of Ukraine, Israel abstained. And Israel refused to join in sanctions against a friendly Russia. Russian-Israeli trade is booming.

[AC Beach Patrol]

This highlights what vacuous and dangerous rubes we have in Washington.

[Mjreagan]

All true. What these nancies ignore is that America and Putin have common enemies - Globalists and their Islamic front. Stalin was awful but America held its nose to work together to stop Hitler, we can do it again. I’m really surprised that Globalist-owned US Senators despise the Globalists’ enemy.

[Lurkinanloomin]

McCain, Graham and Rubio are doing the bidding of their Saudi masters.
They want Assad gone to build a pipeline to Europe.
Putin does not want the competition.
The Saudis have been funding and getting the US, through McCain, Graham, Rubio, Obama, Clinton and Kerry, to fund the armed insurgents against Assad.
Some of them became ISIS.
Others are still Al Queda.
They are all jihadis.
Our government has switched sides in the war on terror.

[ETL]

"when Putin first visited Israel in 2005, President Moshe Katsav hailed him as a "friend of Israel" and Ariel Sharon said he was "among brothers." "

Soviet documents ‘show Abbas was KGB agent’; Fatah decries ‘smear campaign’

Israeli researchers: Notes from USSR archivist who defected indicate PA president was working for Soviets in Damascus in 1980s while Putin’s current Mideast envoy was stationed there

By Tamar Pileggi September 7, 2016.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 television reported Wednesday, citing information it said was included in an archive smuggled out of the USSR.

According to Channel 1’s foreign news editor Oren Nahari, the famed Mitrokhin archive, kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin, revealed that Abbas was a Soviet mole in Damascus in 1983.

The documents — obtained by Israeli researchers Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez — purportedly show that Abbas, code-named Krotov (mole), was involved with the Soviets while Mikhail Bogdanov, today Vladimir Putin’s envoy to the Middle East. was stationed in Damascus.

Bogdanov was caught in a diplomatic tussle earlier this week after trying to broker a summit between Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, who both claimed a willingness to meet while decrying the other for allegedly refusing. ..."

http://www.timesofisrael.com/soviet-documents-said-to-reveal-abbas-was-kgb-agent-in-syria/

[bgill]

Donald, Vlad and Bibi would be a powerful force.

[ETL]

"when Putin first visited Israel in 2005, President Moshe Katsav hailed him as a "friend of Israel" and Ariel Sharon said he was "among brothers." "

Aug 2015

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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/
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Pro-Hezbollah Paper: Russia, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah Form Alliance

Sept 23, 2015

A prominent pro-Hezbollah newspaper in Lebanon reported Tuesday that Russia and the terrorist organization have formed an alliance and will fight together in Syria. "The parties to the alliance are the states of Russia, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, with Lebanon's Hezbollah as the fifth party,"

Al-Akhbar Editor in Chief Ibrahim al-Amin wrote. The pact would be called the "4+1 alliance", a pun based on the P5+1 that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran. Hezbollah is a proxy of Iran based in Lebanon and Moscow has been working with Tehran to save Bashar al-Assad's regime, even sending men and weapons to Syria.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/09/22/report-russia-partners-with-hezbollah.html

[1rudeboy]

Pat Buchanan uses Israel as an example to follow. Film at 11.

[taildragger]

"McCain, Graham and Rubio are doing the bidding of their Saudi masters. They want Assad gone to build a pipeline to Europe. Putin does not want the competition. The Saudis have been funding and getting the US, through McCain, Graham, Rubio, Obama, Clinton and Kerry, to fund the armed insurgents against Assad.Some of them became ISIS. Others are still Al Queda. They are all jihadis. Our government has switched sides in the war on terror."

Yes it is about the pipeline LL...

And I think we are watched here on FR more than I realized. Eons ago I said, lets Frack here and sell our Natural Gas to Europe to compete against Putin and be a "Stable" partner vs the one McCain etc are doing the bidding for.

Well guess what, Kudlow was talking about just this on either Hannity or Ingraham yesterday.

It is common sense, I get that, but where is our "leaders" promoting it?

The other stable supplier? Israel themselves, once their "Yuge" Natural Gas fields get on-line...

[Reno89519]

The Cold War is long over. I see no problem with engaging Putin, treating him maybe not as a friend, but definitely as a partner. We share common enemy—Islam.

[Mariner]

I think it's somewhat ironic that you chastise Putin for supporting the Iran deal.

The very same deal that was negotiated by a US President and approved and funded by the US Congress.

Why not reserve your hatred for them?

[EagleUSA]

These Washington GOPe pansies are really good at bashing the candidates they are scared to death of....but where was all the bashing of Obama and his radical leftist supporters for the past eight years???

American politics at its lowest.

[AC Beach Patrol]

Yeah, MIT-educated, 180-IQ’d Netanyahu is too unsophisticated to see all these things. You clearly need to be his advisor and set him straight about Russia.

[ETL]

I think I read somewhere yesterday that Trump reportedly reversed his position on agreeing with Obama on opening up to communist Cuba. He had originally said this...

"50 years is enough , " Trump said in an interview with the Daily Caller published Tuesday, referring to Obama's decision to re-establish U.S. ties with Cuba.

"I think it's fine. I think it's fine, but we should have made a better deal," Trump added. " The concept of opening with Cuba is fine."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/08/politics/donald-trump-cuba-diplomatic-opening/index.html
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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/

[ETL]

Donald Trump: 'Putin has eaten Obama's lunch' on Ukraine

Mar 13, 2014
Eun Kyung Kim: TODAY

Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."

The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.

"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."

http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098

[ETL]

I think it's somewhat ironic that you chastise Putin for supporting the Iran deal. The very same deal that was negotiated by a US President and approved and funded by the US Congress. Why not reserve your hatred for them?

Obama, despite the smoke and mirrors crap, has gone a long way to help Putin. From horrible (for us) missile defense deals to the equally horrendous NewSTART nuke Treaty with Russia. That plus the above mention Iranian nuke deal that Putin claims to have helped write. Also his (Obama's) slashing of our military. All of this was designed to weaken the US's position on the world stage and beef up others', such as Russia, the ChiComs, Iran...

From Real Clear Politics, Sept 10, 2015...

"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.

In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.

The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/iran_deal_throws_sparks_on_mideast_tinderbox_128034.html

[AC Beach Patrol]

Trump will work and negotiate and make deals that are in the best interests of the America (and by default, her friends). But at the same time these deals will also be good for countries acting in the best interests of their people. Trump knows that business and deal-making is not a zero-sum game. That each side's interests are not mutually exclusive. The idea of win/win. Hillary Clinton, with her average IQ coupled with her go-getter opportunism, doesn't get this. Same with most politicians.

Trump has a history of fierce competition and negotiating with fellow billionaire business titan former competitors (Ichan, Beal, Barrack, among others) but never let this fierce competition for advantage EVER develop into any animosity or create enemies. It is telling that these billionaire business titans (Icahn, Beal, Barrack), have all enthusiastically endorsed Trump for President. And Icahn is a lifelong Democrat voter and Barrack said Trump cleaned his clock in their business competition.

Just be open-minded.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Rubes? They are worse than that. The elite in both parties are drunk on Islam’s money. They’ve made themselves rich as sheiks, literally, by selling the country out to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States. Their treason is the cause of their pro-Islam politics.

[Psalm 144]

“What causes the Republican Party to lose it whenever the name of Vladimir Putin is raised?...”

That he punks the neocons like the chickenhawk paper pushers and political catamites that they are.

[GOPJ]

For example: I respect John McCain’s decision to stay as a prisoner of war rather than skip out because his father was famous... THAT DOES NOT MEAN I’M FOR AMNESTY.

I can respect Putin for loving Russia and the Russian people WITHOUT FOR A SECOND ACCEPTING COMMUNISM.

How hard is it to understand something this basic?

[Fiddlstix]

Well Said!

Harken to the old adage:
The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend