Posted on 05/12/2019 3:43:14 AM PDT by NorseViking
Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading to Russia with an unusual and thankless task -- standing firm against the rival power even as his boss, President Donald Trump, reaches out to reconcile.
Pompeo will meet Tuesday with Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, in the highest-level US engagement with the Russian leader since a July summit in Helsinki after which Trump faced wide scorn at home for his trustful embrace of the Russian leader.
The top US diplomat's trip comes less than two months after Special Counsel Robert Mueller wound up an investigation that found that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election -- but that the Trump campaign did not collude with Moscow.
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What a dumpster fire of comments!
Yep, mentioned it too:)
Another barf alert posting. AFP. SacBee. Washington Post. NYTimes. It never ends. Free Republic has become the DU with a more right wing comments section.
I disagree. Everything deserves to be reviewed. Comment section here is that makes difference.
What’s schizophrenic about US policy? It is carrot and stick.
Niccolo Machiavelli produced a compendium of various ways to deal with foreign nations, which is widely known and respected today by every practitioner of diplomatic skills. Some of these recommendations seem at first to be contradictory or even counterintuitive, but if applied with skill and with an intended objective, have at times produced uncommon results.
Mike Pompeo is a very apt student.
We ALL need to PRAY for this administration.....ALL of them!
This might even be Pompeo's idea.
>>Washington (AFP) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is heading to Russia with an unusual and thankless task — standing firm against the rival power even as his boss, President Donald Trump, reaches out to reconcile.
Sounds like a standard good cop / bad cop approach to me. Art of the Deal stuff. AFP are just anti-Trump morons who refuse to see it.
US diplomacy turns schizophrenic>>>>>
Its the lefty a$$hats in the MSM fake news press who are schizoid.
President Trump has a full option set on the table in relation to Iran, the world’s continuous sponsor of International Terror and a threat to World Peace.They finance most of it.
This is a showdown.
Showdowns are not “schizophrenic.”
Showdowns are wise to do early and often , rather than put up with generations of hate and violence from these Shiite ba$tards who deserve whatever is decided by the President.
Hopefully there will no longer be a terrorist bully in the ME.
May G_d bless our President and the men and women who serve and protect our freedoms.
Patriotism is hardly Schizophrenia.But to the lefty a$$hat press, patriotism is a mental illness?
We will be rid of them soon as they tank from poor ratings with a second term for President Trump.
We want more, not less, of President Trump’s schizophrenia.Its quite refreshing and delightful.
Just look at Hillary and her supposed reset button and the games Obama played in Ukraine.
In one "reporter's" opinion.
less than two months after Special Counsel Robert Mueller wound up an investigation that found that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election
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They did not find any evidence of Russia meddling. They just took hillarys word that the Russians hacked her computers.
Another barf alert posting. AFP. SacBee. Washington Post. NYTimes. It never ends. Free Republic has become the DU with a more right wing comments section.
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I agree. FR is one of the Internet’s top sources for Leftist propaganda.
Agreed . The article does not mention Iran. Nor does it mention Turkey where Erdogan has nullified an election after failing to carry Istanbul and for other urban centers. Russia and the US have an awful lot to talk about.
Or, Pompeo could be searching for evidence that some low level Russian apparatchiks colluded with the hillary campaign to bring down Trump
No that’s not true. Somethings are as worthless as teets on a boar hog.
It’s the right thing to do. Russia is a leading nation of the world. Ignoring that country is not the way to go.
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We need to re-examine our list of enemies and where they should be on it. We have more reason to fear what’s going on in Canada, the EU, and China than anything Putin is doing. Sure, the Russians are supporting Maduro in Venezuela (our backyard), but they see that as payback for American meddling in the Crimea (their backyard). Is Russia well governed? Of course not. But neither is the EU.
[turns schizophrenic]
Yes, the Lefty-activists disguised as “journalists” never stop putting out the propaganda. Ever.
I happen to be one of those folks who believes that Russia is not our natural enemy.
The Soviet Union was, China is. Turkey and all of Islam is.
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