Posted on 07/30/2017 3:42:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
The news has just broken that Vladimir Putin will expel 755 American diplomats -- or "diplomats," depending on whether they're working for the State Department or some other, er, agencies -- in retaliation for the latest round of American sanctions imposed by a panicked Congress being stampeded into increasingly foolish actions by the resentful Democrats and their allies in the Compromised Media. This is a toxic brew that can have no good outcome, but the short version is: we've just been neutralized in Russia.
Russian president Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that he was ordering 755 American diplomats out of that country. In an interview with the state-owned broadcaster Russia 24 , Putin said the move was in response to “illegal restrictions” imposed on the country by the United States. Putin claims that there are over a "thousand" American diplomatic employees in Russia, but "755 will have to cease their activities in the Russian Federation."The Senate passed a new round of sanctions on Thursday aimed at punishing Moscow for interfering on the United States’ presidential election, among other things. A U.S. State Department official declined to comment Putin's announcement, telling NBC News: "It is our policy to not comment on the number of individuals serving at our missions abroad."
If this were a Bond movie, our hero would meet a shadowy figure with a foreign accent at a back table in a seedy restaurant in Baku, where Robbie Coltrane or Christoph Waltz would be waiting for him. "Congratulations, Mr. Bond," he would intone. "You've just been blinded."
As Clarice Feldman notes , the entire Democrat/Compromised Media fantasy over Russian "collusion" during the 2016 election has now collapsed, but the damage the Left has done to our nation purely out of pique over its loss last fall is becoming incalculable. Using their standard technique of "raising questions," they began a Narrative that has led to a falling-dominoes series of calamities that now threaten not only the Trump presidency, but also the very legitimacy of our form of government. Consider:
In short, the "Russia!" meme has worked like a charm. If the Democrats/Compromised Media/Never Trumpers had wanted to set out to helpPutin in his global chess match vs. the United States, they could not have done a better job. And perhaps that was their goal all along.
The truth is, we've never witnessed anything like this before -- not, at least, since 1861. Back then, the Democrats made the fatal error of actually firing on Fort Sumter and waging a prolonged rebellion against the federal government under the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln -- whom they later assassinated. That conflict resulted, thanks to Grant and Sherman, in the devastation of the South, and a century of poverty, backwardness and resentment. Eventually, the Democrats seized the civil rights movement as their redemptive vehicle, and somehow managed the trick (via the media) of convincing the rest of the country that they were never the racist, seditious, literally anti-American sappers they so obviously were, and still are.
Today, they wouldn't make the mistake of going to actual war against the country-as-founded. Just as they refused to accept Lincoln as the lawfully elected president, so do they refuse to accept Trump; if Lincoln was the first of his party to reach the White House, they mean to make sure Trump is the last. To use a favorite phrase of theirs: "by any means necessary." That's because the Democrat/Compromised Media Complex plays for keeps. And we don't.
Meanwhile, any hope of detente and strategic cooperation with Russia slips away -- thanks to the Democrats, who since Lenin have never met a Russian they didn't love. The sanctions, which only Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul voted against, also include a possibly unconstitutional provision to tie the president's conduct of foreign policy in the future, by making it impossible for Trump to lift them without congressional approval. Trump has said he will sign the bill , but let's see how long that provision lasts in court.
The Senate overwhelmingly voted Thursday to impose new sanctions on Russia, joining the House in approving the measure by veto-proof margins. The vote on the bill — which would also add sanctions against North Korea and Iran — was 98-2, with only Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., dissenting. The House passed the measure on Tuesday by 419-3. The bill targets Russia's aggression in Ukraine and Syria, citing corruption, human rights abuses and weapons sales."This arouses deep regrets, because such actions imply aggravating circumstances and special cynicism," Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a joint news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in Savonlinna, Finland. Putin called the proposed sanctions "an obvious attempt to use geopolitical advantages in competition to pursue [the United States'] economic interests at the expense of its allies," according to the Russian news agency TASS.
And all this -- all of it -- because the Democrats cannot accept the results of the election. Now, however, they have the feeble-minded and weak-spined Republicans and impotent "conservative" Vichycons joining in the stampede; note in the CNN clip linked just above, host Anderson Cooper attributes the sanctions not to "corruption," et al., but to "its interference in the election, among other issues." The case may have factually cratered, but the meme itself will not die until it's fully exhausted for propaganda purposes.
They never stop, they never sleep, they never quit. It's long past time to start fighting back -- not necessarily to defend Trump the man (for the Democrat and the Compromised Media, there'll be a distracting "scandal" a day, forever) but to defend Trump the president, his office, the validity of our electoral system, and the proper workings of the federal government in its task to uphold the Constitution and defend the nation from all threats, foreign and domestic.
That the Democrats don't seem to care about any of that -- indeed, that they are now actively working against it -- tells you all you need to know about them.
Lord do we really need that many “Diplomats” in Russia?
Swamp creatures on assignment. Get rid of them!
we need diplomats in Russia to coordinate all the collusion and pass along Putin’s instructions to trump.
I HOPE you were being Sarcastic.
Yuh think?
President Trump needs to send a Thank You note to President Putin for ridding us of over 700 government bureaucrats feeding off of the US taxpayer.
Thank you Mr. Putin. May we have another 300 cut?
NO, we don't need that many errr diplomats in Russia. Since this is liberal elite democrat hatred toward Trump the obvious solution is to fire 90% of those kicked out of Russia. Let's save the money.
And since the haters in Congress aren't done expressing their hatred of Trump and his followers, fire the 'diplomats' sitting in China and the ME too. The effing democrats want to burn the house down? Fine. Here's the matches control freak losers in Congress...
No we don’t, in my view.
Go Trump, Go!
But, but who is left to assist the ambassador to shine his shoes, wind his Rolex, and count out four sheets of toilet paper??
One of those rare articles whose every word I agree with.
Oh, no !
More collusion, Collusion, COLLUSION ? As defined in Federal statute as, ... what exactly?
Oh, my bad; what about meddling, Meddling, MEDDLING ?!! There’s that, right?
Oh never mind.
Last week there was testimony by William Browder to the Senate Judiciary Comittee that the Russians paid Fusion GPS to generate the totally fictional Trump Dossier.
Is that true? It could be. And if it is I believe we would see a pretty big turnaround with regard to the wisdom of Russian sanctions.
Mr. Mueller might even take notice that the rationale for his appointment is based on a phony Russian document handed to Comey by John McCain.
If true, it turns the whole Trump-Russia scenario upside down. And, IMHO, justifies the sanctions.
If not, then I would still be against them.
If Trump has any wisdom, he should veto the Russia sanctions bill after Congress goes on vacation next month.
If the Democrats still feel like the Russia collusion is still working for them, worst he would face is a veto override vote.
But there’s a good chance cooler heads will prevail and the whole thing will finally die.
We need to be improving relations with Russia, not making them worse. All this happened, not because of non-existent Russian meddling but because of the Democrats’ refusal to accept Trump as our legitimately elected President. Punishing Russia wouldn’t change it.
When I hear the word collusion I think of the word delusion
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