Posted on 07/16/2018 8:44:21 PM PDT by Mariner
Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have “never been worse.”
He then added pointedly, that just changed “about four hours ago.”
It certainly did. With his remarks in Helsinki and at the NATO summit in Brussels, Trump has signaled a historic shift in U.S. foreign policy that may determine the future of this nation and the fate of his presidency.
He has rejected the fundamental premises of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War and blamed our wretched relations with Russia not on Vladimir Putin, but squarely on the U.S. establishment.
In a tweet prior to the meeting, Trump indicted the elites of both parties: “Our relationship with Russia has NEVER been worse thanks to many years of U.S. foolishness and stupidity and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!”
Trump thereby repudiated the records and agendas of the neocons and their liberal interventionist allies, as well as the archipelago of War Party think tanks beavering away inside the Beltway.
Looking back over the week, from Brussels to Britain to Helsinki, Trump’s message has been clear, consistent and startling.
NATO is obsolete. European allies have freeloaded off U.S. defense while rolling up huge trade surpluses at our expense. Those days are over. Europeans are going to stop stealing our markets and start paying for their own defense.
And there will be no Cold War II.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
You are right.
Whoever monitors Free Republic for President Trump ... please get some of these quotes in post #30 into Trumps twitter :-)
The Dems and Left loves he commies in the old Soviet Union
Now Putin is a nationalist grand oligarch ex kgb with culturally conservative ideas so they hate him
If he were Gorby they’d love him
Putin gets on better with Netanyahu than I think anyone Russkie ever has....Stalin was Georgian yes I know
Yet neoconservatives who at lest celebrity wise are 90% what culture war? Jews who are Israel hawks hate Putin and are the most ardent nevertrumpers outside ANTIFA
It’s complicated
Media
Progressives
Neocons
Democrats
Some before mentioned common denominators but bound only by hatred of Trump
Hunch....neocons think all nationalists are potential Heydrichs.....that’s their real issue
All these groups hate nationalism especially if any hint of racial connection because they think folks like that..me...are just a hop skip and jump from Sharp Dressers who Walked in Lines....hattip(?)
Joy Division....
We have to be strong and defeat these people
They will destroy us rather allow a nationalistic USA with borders and common culture and identity
Elitists
Deep State whatever I never knew our national police and intelligence agencies were so compromised by the left
Damn
Pat is as sharp as ever.
Honestly. The world is safer today than yesterday when two great countries get along in some way better than before
Can someone catch me up on what happened to set people off so much re: this Trump-Putin meeting?
Pat B., or St. Patrick of Buchananomics, is old like Plato is old, like his Catholic Church is old, like ‘Tom Sawyer’ is old
similar to Professor Stephen Cohen on Tucker Carlson today. brilliant stuff, right to the last word from Cohen:
watch from 4mins40secs to 10mins05secs - begins with Brennan tweet, followed by interview with former darling of the Progressive Left, Professor Stephen Cohen, American scholar and professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton University and New York University, spouse: The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel:
Youtube: 39mins29secs: Tucker Carlson Tonight - July 16, 2018 - Breaking Fox News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSvXmFzbpNc
My blood (family) and treasure (wealth of my nation) will not be spent to support the warmongering of the deep state, which is the really emeny of the citizens of this great country.
Thank you for that link and the timing of the clip, which made em actually want to look at it. Genius questions, genius focus. Why do our political leaders hate Putin more than the communist heads of Russia? Why do they want our president to be unable to keep us safe? Why do they want him to conflagration conflict with the other nuclear superpower rather than subdue it?
Must see tv. That Cohen.
did anyone hear the MSM freaking out about Obama-appointed World Bank (technically the UN) President meeting with communist dictator for life Xi on the very same day as the Trump/Putin meeting, with not a word of criticism!
btw US contributes 17% to the World Bank; China 5.09%.
16 Jul: Xinhua: Chinese president meets World Bank president in Beijing
BEIJING — President Xi Jinping on Monday met with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim in Beijing...
Hailing the sound long-term cooperation between China and the World Bank, Xi said China appreciated the World Bank for supporting the Belt and Road Initiative, promoting capital increase and shareholding reforms in recent years, and improving the representation and voting power of emerging markets and developing countries, including China.
“The World Bank is an important force in safeguarding multilateralism and economic globalization,” Xi said. “China is willing to deepen global development partnership with the World Bank, strengthen trade liberalization and facilitation, jointly promote global poverty alleviation and sustainable development, safeguard an open world economy and build a community of a shared future for humanity.”...
The world today is a global village. Despite the constant appearance of unilateralism and protectionism, the blended interests and shared destiny of different countries and economic globalization are irresistable, and win-win cooperation represents the general trend, Xi stressed.
“China’s development has benefited from economic globalization and trade liberalization, and contributed greatly to global economic growth as well, “ said Xi. “We oppose the false accusations against China and will firmly safeguard its legitimate interests.”...
Kim expressed gratitude to China for its long-term great support to the World Bank. Noting that all countries should avoid shutting themselves in, and abide by the rules in the era of globalization, Kim said the World Bank appreciated China’s support for multilateralism and economic globalization, as well as for capital increase and shareholding reforms at World Bank...
“The Belt and Road Initiative proposed by President Xi reflects farsightedness and greatly contributes to international development and cooperation and cause of poverty reduction,” Kim said. “The World Bank is willing to deepen cooperation under the initiative.”
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/17/c_137329204.htm
Kim got re-elected for a further five years ahead of time, because Obama & co knew Trump was going to win the Presidency, according to globalist pro-China Financial Times:
15 Sept 2016: Financial Times: Jim Yong Kim heads for second term as World Bank President
by Shawn Donnan in Washington
Jim Yong Kim is heading for another five-year term as president of the World Bank after no other candidates emerged during a hurried nomination process.
But critics warn that both Mr. Kim and the World Bank’s legitimacy risk being further damaged by the US’s decision to speed through the Korean-born American’s reappointment before President Barack Obama leaves office early next year. They also argue that the lack of other candidates is a symoptom of how many big emerging economies such as China are turning away from the Washington-based lender to focus on their own new institutions...
In a letter last month the World Bank’s influential staff association complained of “a crisis of leadership” and asked the bank’s board to conduct a global search for a replacement for Mr. Kim, a call joined by a group of former bank officials who have been lobbying for shareholders to find a replacement...
The US and other major shareholders have ignored such calls, arguing for urgency and for a move before November’s US presidential election and a possible victory by Donald Trump, the Republican candidate running on a largely isolationist platform...
https://www.ft.com/content/a67937a6-7af9-11e6-ae24-f193b105145e
Kim’s second 5-year term officially began July 1, 2017.
27 Sept 2016: World Bank: Jim Yong Kim Unanimously Reappointed to Second Term as World Bank Group President
Executive Directors of the World Bank today agreed unanimously to reappoint Dr. Jim Yong Kim to a second five-year term as President of the World Bank Group, beginning July 1, 2017...
keep in mind Baby Trump balloon and Greenpeace paraglider in Scotland were both organised by gloBULL warming activists, useful idiots for the globalists.
16 Jul: Daily Caller: Tim Pearce: Trump Pulled Out Of The Paris Climate Accords, But The US Is Spending Billions To Implement It
The World Bank is spending millions in government funding from various countries, including the U.S., to implement climate mitigation strategies in line with an international agreement to fight climate change — the Paris climate accords.
The U.S. is the World Bank’s largest supporter and shareholder owning 17 percent of organization’s shares...
“Climate change is a threat to the core mission of the World Bank Group,” the World Bank’s 83 page Climate Change Action Plan for 2016-2020 states...
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/15/paris-climate-accords-spending/
the prize is the trillions in pension funds around the world, as we transition from a petro economy to a carbon economy, with China allegedly soon to have the biggest carbon dioxide emissions trading scheme in the world, bigger than the EU.
they must be stopped.
11 Jul: Bloomberg: Banks Pivot Toward Greener Finance in Climate Action Push
By Anna Hirtenstein
Financial institutions are beginning to get on board with the global fight against climate change, a movement that was until recently the territory of non-profit organizations and environmentalists. Natixis, UBS Group AG and ING Groep NV are among lenders unveiling large-scale environmental finance and investing initiatives as central banks and regulators step up their warnings on climate risk...
The strategy is to invest in cross-asset portfolios that include World Bank bonds, green bonds and environmental, social and governance-focused equity funds...
***Banks are still trailing asset managers such as pension funds and insurance companies in putting climate concerns into action. Institutional investors with $68.4 trillion under management have already signed up to the Principles for Responsible Investment, pledging to incorporate environmental, social and governance factors, known as ESG, into their investment decisions...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-11/banks-pivot-toward-greener-finance-in-climate-action-push
What ever the Russians did, of which there is scant evidence, it is still not even 29 billion light years close to what the Obama caliphate did along with the FBI, CIA and the justice dept. to deny the people the right to a fair election of which there is MOUNTAINS of evidence. THOSE are the mofos we should be paying attention to, THOSE are the mofos they should be investigating, not a bunch of mofo hackers who did jack diddly squat.
What kind of morons do these traitors on the left take us to be? That WOW! all of a sudden Russia started hacking us? Wow, you don’t say! And it’s just Russia, right? Not China, North Korea a zillion other countries and some fat guy in his moms basement, it’s JUST Russia who never ever hacked us before, am I right? Russia suddenly invented hacking am I right? What-a- f- joke.
Did Russia meet Bill Clinton on an airline tarmac to disqus Hillarys felonies? Did Russia make pretend it investigated Hillarys 110 violations of the espionage act in which gross negligence is the only requirement for a conviction and then laughably let her go? Did Russia bug Trump in his personal home by using a fake dossier to trick a judge? Has Russia ever been caught sending tweets blatantly saying they were going to prevent Trump from becoming President?
We can go on and on here yet there is no special counsel investigating that is there. Russia is not our enemy, the radical left is. THEY are the ones trying to destroy this country and people better wake up to that. They have NO idea the kind of bullet we dodged by Hillary losing and sooner or later the truth is going to come out. They can hold all these fake ass protests against Trump all they want, have all these fake indictments, sooner or later the truth is going to come stomping down because guess what? These radical leftists are no longer controlling Washigton and their BS is only going to last for so long.
looks like the libs
‘called for war and nobody came’
Trump should give Pat Buchanan the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Liberal heads would explode (of course that now happens on a daily basis).
bkmk
The military industrial complex Ike warned about was all in on Trump spending on military like a lunatic for the next 6 years and they are pissed.
I read this last night and was so pleased that Buchanan took this position and wrote this great piece
Thanks for posting. Hope everyone reads it!
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