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Putin reaches out to Trump, while thumping Dems
Fox News.com ^ | December 23, 2016

Posted on 12/23/2016 2:40:22 PM PST by Kaslin

Russian President Vladimir Putin followed up a warm letter to Donald Trump with a more terse message for U.S. Democrats Friday: Don't blame me for your November drubbing.

President-elect Trump on Friday released the Dec. 15 note from Putin, who Democrats blame for tilting the election Trump won against Hillary Clinton, and called it a "very nice letter."

In it, Putin wished Trump "warmest Christmas" greetings and expressed hope that Trump would "bring our level of collaboration on the international scene to a qualitatively new level."

In addition to praising the tone of the letter from Putin, Trump said, "His thoughts are so correct. I hope both sides are able to live up to these thoughts, and we do not have to travel an alternate path."

But Putin, in a year-ending address from Moscow Friday, had a different message for Democrats as he offered his analysis of the American political scene.

“Democrats are losing on every front and looking for people to blame everywhere," he said. "They need to learn to lose with dignity.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; Russia
KEYWORDS: putin; russia; trumprussia; trumptransition
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1 posted on 12/23/2016 2:40:22 PM PST by Kaslin
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Ruh Roh (for the LSM), Pooty Poot seems to be getting on the twitter like trend of direct communication to the peeps, even the world-wide ones.


2 posted on 12/23/2016 2:44:29 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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...expressed hope that Trump would "bring our level of collaboration on the international scene to a qualitatively new level."

Translation: "Both our countries have screwed up the Middle East for decades. Let's work together to clean it up."

3 posted on 12/23/2016 2:48:01 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Kaslin
So Putin and his evil Russians did this!


4 posted on 12/23/2016 2:49:50 PM PST by Grampa Dave (It's way past time to drain the 'not so intelligent' swamp... President Trump Disband the CIA!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Reading what Putin said you can see he is scary level smart. Amazing that I actually respect a Russian leader more than the current President of the USA. I never thought that would be possible.


5 posted on 12/23/2016 2:51:46 PM PST by MNJohnnie ("The poltical class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Grampa Dave

The commies did finally turn the country red, but only because their agents in the media changed colors to pretend the Democrats weren’t Reds.


6 posted on 12/23/2016 2:57:26 PM PST by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: MNJohnnie

Russia needs to dump this love affair it has with Iran.


7 posted on 12/23/2016 2:57:35 PM PST by KyCats
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To: KyCats

That is one of the key things we can negotiate here with Putin. That how this game works. You don’t demand what you want and give nothing like Clinton-Obama tried to do. Trump is a master level deal maker. I have much more faith that he gets that then the 3 DC stoodges Obama-Clinton-MCcain did


8 posted on 12/23/2016 3:07:29 PM PST by MNJohnnie ("The poltical class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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It’s hard for me to understand how even Russia can believe that they are doing anything more with an Iran creeping towards nuclearization than buying time... that they are feeding the pit bull Milk-Bones because there’s nothing else to do. Then pretty soon it will say “I want that hand as a dessert for the Milk-Bones.” If fueled by a fanatic prophecy, that promises that their Allah will wipe out those horrid infidels, Iran won’t care about MAD.


9 posted on 12/23/2016 3:27:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Kaslin

Putin adds 2 + 2, gets 4. Trump agrees with his answer. Film at 11.


10 posted on 12/23/2016 3:30:50 PM PST by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: Kaslin

Even worse, President Putin sent President Trump a Christmas card and wished him “Merry Christmas”, both of which are completely non-PC.

Still, maybe not anti-PC at all; I think the “Merry Christmas” part is a coded message that President Putin will guarantee President Trump wins re-election in 2020 in return for a minor favor, like say turning New York City over to the Russians. I heard that President Trump was actually considering the offer ...


11 posted on 12/23/2016 3:51:02 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Kaslin

Putin is more American than any of the leftist democrats.


12 posted on 12/23/2016 5:05:45 PM PST by soycd
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>Russia needs to dump this love affair it has with Iran.

I believe the Russian long game with Iran does not include the psychopathic islamists.


13 posted on 12/23/2016 5:07:14 PM PST by soycd
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Won’t happen . . .


14 posted on 12/23/2016 5:33:37 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: catnipman

Putin doesn’t want New York—Too messy. But Alaska might be good—with all that oil.


15 posted on 12/23/2016 7:02:15 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: soycd
I believe the Russian long game with Iran does not include the psychopathic islamists.


just curious. what is this belief based on? the russians are certainly not acting today as though iran isn't in their plans for tomorrow, and nothing that I've seen in iran (since obama dicked the dog in 2009) would lead me to believe that the mullahs won't be in control in tehran for the foreseeable future.
16 posted on 12/23/2016 8:40:22 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“Putin doesn’t want New York—Too messy. But Alaska might be good—with all that oil.”

Putin doesn’t want war with us - or Alaska.. he wants the middle east and he wants the industrialization that is happening in Poland.

Like Rush says - Russia is a 3rd world country with a 1st world military.. that’s their leverage.

I frankly believe the new shift in the world will be our alignment with eastern europe and russia to get things back to normal..

hell, if we can align and take down the saudis and all the other gulf states, and split the difference the rest is gravy..

enough of this BS... time to put the boot back on the throat ... and western Europe can’t drag us into another world war...

We + russia can make this happen.. China is shitting their pants right now.. the works and every other country should be as well.. it’s only common sense.


17 posted on 12/23/2016 8:43:57 PM PST by acw011 (Great Goooogly Mooogly!)
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works = NORKS..

also - the Russians are the only ones who can clean up Iran and Syria - if they can be convinced to do that then the wahabbies are gonners...

we can rid the world of this Islam raid very quickly - and put them back in check.. that’s all they know - boot on throat...

that’s my 2 pennies (exchanged for value at window)


18 posted on 12/23/2016 8:55:26 PM PST by acw011 (Great Goooogly Mooogly!)
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To: Kaslin

The Democrats have never explained how Putin “tilted the election” towards the Republicans.


19 posted on 12/24/2016 3:37:22 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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>>I frankly believe the new shift in the world will be our alignment with eastern europe and russia to get things back to normal..

Common sense says American idiology has more in common with Russian Orthodox Christianity than with the theocratic savages the British/NyLon Royal morons put in power in the Middle East.

Common sense says an American-Russian petrodollar will do more to secure the inalienable rights of humanity than the present Wahhabi infested/OPEC cluster frack.

20 posted on 12/24/2016 3:42:05 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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