Stark choices in 2020! LOL
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Posted on 07/08/2017 3:14:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Now, Russia still has a lot of oil and gas reserves. And it uses this to bully Eastern and Western Europe. It threatens to cut off these resources if Europe dares to complain about Putin power-grabs in Crimea, eastern Ukraine, the Baltics, and elsewhere.
But enter President Donald Trump. In his brilliant speech in Warsaw, Poland, earlier this week, he called Putin’s energy bluff.
It may well have been the best speech of his young presidency. Trump delivered a stirring leadership message, emphasizing the importance of God, freedom, strong families, and democratic values.
But in an absolutely key part of the speech, he took direct aim at Vladimir Putin’s energy bullying.
Trump said, “We are committed to securing your access to alternative sources of energy so Poland and its neighbors are never again held hostage to a single supplier of energy.” Italics are all mine.
President Donald Trump has quickly made it clear that Barack Obama’s war on business is over. He’s also made it clear, through regulatory rollbacks of breathtaking scope, that the Obama war on fossil fuels is over.
In short, with the free-market policies he’s putting in place in America’s energy sector and throughout the U.S. economy, the business-man president fully intends to destroy Russia’s energy-market share. And as that takes hold, Russia’s gas-station economy will sink further.
And as that takes hold, bully-boy Putin will have to think twice about Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics. He’ll have to think twice about his anti-American policies in the Middle East and North Korea. And he’ll have to think twice about his increasingly precarious position as the modern-day Russian tsar.
And the world may yet become a safer place.
Trump has Putin over a barrel.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Excellent points all. We will still need the Saudis on board however.
Best conservative speech since Tear Down This Wall! Absolutely brilliant and delivered with passion.
Then tell them to man the oars.
Yep. Trump gets that as demonstrated by Saudi Arabia being the first country he visited aboard as President.
And as that takes hold, bully-boy Putin will have to think twice about Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltics. He’ll have to think twice about his anti-American policies in the Middle East and North Korea. And he’ll have to think twice about his increasingly precarious position as the modern-day Russian tsar.
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I believe this is all true. Trump’s energy policies will challenge Russia’s market share. But for Trump to exercise his leverage in all these danger spots he will have to give Putin SOMETHING.
What will it be?
The Libtard media are beside themselves. The best they have is James Brown Waters and Liawatha.
Trump makes it look easy. He is very impressive.
Stark choices in 2020! LOL
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Russia spends twice the rate of the US on defense spending relative to GDP.
National Review? How quaint.
Were you asleep when Trump had that great face-to-face with Saudis?
“Trump has Putin over a barrel” of oil.
There, fixed it.
“National Review? How quaint.”
Those were my thoughts, too. Not having read anything on that site since early last year I took a look at the article out of curiosity. Of course, Kudlow ranted on about those mean old Russians and how they needed to be economically punished for reclaiming what was rightfully theirs for a thousand years, that is, the area known as the Ukraine, which never should have been allowed to separate from Russian territory after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Just ask Pat Buchanan about this.
Anyway, after reading Kudlow’s blather, I perused the comments section and thought I was on the HuffPost. I swear, the Never-Trumper jerks that populate the National Review website are of the same mindset as the rabid leftoid marxocrats and other denizens of the Jackass Party. In their twisted opinions, Trump can do no right.
It’ll be another year or longer before I check out anything from the National Review again.
No. But they still have an obvious interest in their own geographic region of the planet. They also have issues with Qatar and Iran. In addition, they have been very concerned about the possibility of reductions in imports of foreign oil to the US. Were you asleep the last time oil was $12 a barrel?
We need to have an open and honest debate over who is really our enemy and where they rank threat wise. Russia is not a major menace to us just because Kudlow, Bolton, and Nikki Haley believe it is. Russia is surely less dangerous than it was was under communism. Saudi money is being spread all over the USA in an effort to import Islam into this country. And why is Russia any more bullying than Turkey, which has also been throwing its weight around in the middle east? Or more oppressive than Venezuela? Or more politically meddlesome than Canada and the EU have been by their efforts to ally with global warming politicians in the USA? Or more maniacal than North Korea?
What’s so bloody difficult to understand that these fools can’t comprehend in the Trump approach: You identify your opponent’s weakness and then go straight at it. Period.
Obambi always did the opposite: identify his own weakness and surrender from there.
I wish I could give this post a great big LIKE!
Dealing with Saudis, to keep us from falling with Russians. Doesn’t sound like much of a win.
So you object to the most established and prestigious conservative journal praising President Trump?
The Saudis are in the same boat as Russia...all they have is oil...
China is the big threat not Russia...
Trump should tell Europe you are on your own with Russia...time to man up...we have taken care of you for seventy years..
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