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Time for a GOP Senate Revolt on Sanctions Against Putin
Wall Street Journal ^ | May 26, 2025 | WSJ Editorial Board

Posted on 05/27/2025 6:56:19 AM PDT by karpov

President Trump is unhappy with Vladimir Putin. The Russian isn’t heeding the President’s entreaties to stop the killing in Ukraine, and Mr. Trump is nonplussed.

“I’ve always had a very good relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely CRAZY! He is needlessly killing a lot of people, and I’m not just talking about soldiers. Missiles and drones are being shot into Cities in Ukraine, for no reason whatsoever,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social.

Separately, Mr. Trump told reporters: “I’m not happy with what Putin is doing. He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin.”

Mr. Trump may be the only person in the world still surprised by how Mr. Putin is behaving. The Russian is the same man he’s been for two decades, bent on reconstituting as much of the old Soviet empire as he can get away with. Ukraine is his obsession. He’s not going to modify his ambitions merely because Mr. Trump alternates between begging for peace and scolding outbursts on social media.

Mr. Trump and his advisers fancy themselves steely-eyed realists on foreign policy. No “neocon” idealism for them. But on Mr. Putin they are starry-eyed idealists, mouthing “peace” as if they can make it happen by wishing it were so. Mr. Trump’s naivete is helping Russia continue the killing as long as Mr. Putin wants.

The good news is that the U.S. Senate still has some genuine realists when it comes to Russia. As GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham writes in a letter nearby, he has 82 co-sponsors on a bill that would hit countries that buy Russian oil and gas with tariff sanctions. Energy sales are Mr. Putin’s financial lifeline.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: christophersteele; fakenews; fusiongps; glennsimpson; lindagraham; neoconwarpigs; peterfritsch; putin; russia; russiagate; ukraine; wallstreeturinal; wsjwarpigs; zot
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Full article. Putin has not gone "crazy". He's been an evil man for a long time. To state the obvious, Russia started the war by invading Ukraine and is responsible for continuing the war.
1 posted on 05/27/2025 6:56:19 AM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

GOP revolt? LOL. Anything to do with politics/patriotism, etc, is of no interest to our RINO reps in congress. It would interfere with their insider business deals and partying with the opposition.


2 posted on 05/27/2025 6:58:17 AM PDT by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist.)
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To: karpov

Not going to happen in this world or the next!


3 posted on 05/27/2025 6:59:23 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: karpov
Most top-level government dictators the world over kill when and because
they can get away with it. It’s in their nature.

The very concept of government has been utterly perverted into the Satanic in this world.
This planet temporarily belongs to Satan.
Things will change for the infinitely better - eventually.

4 posted on 05/27/2025 7:04:24 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: karpov

“Energy sales are Mr. Putin’s financial lifeline.”

Hitler waged war for over five years without oil revenue.


5 posted on 05/27/2025 7:06:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: karpov

Karl Rove still writing for the WSJ, it appears


6 posted on 05/27/2025 7:06:18 AM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: karpov

Ukraine can make peace with the Russian Federation or it will be absorbed into it.


7 posted on 05/27/2025 7:08:09 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: karpov; LouAvul

Democrats are predatory and evil, and Republicans are morons and cowards. Not much hope here.


8 posted on 05/27/2025 7:09:05 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: karpov

Lindsey Graham? Lindsey Graham? Are you kidding me?


9 posted on 05/27/2025 7:10:10 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: karpov

The GOP Senate can’t even figure out what planet they live on.
Turtle and Linda should have been gone 10 years ago.


10 posted on 05/27/2025 7:12:09 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: karpov

“As GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham writes in a letter nearby, he has 82 co-sponsors on a bill that would hit countries that buy Russian oil and gas with tariff sanctions.”

Do you really think the Chinese are going to tolerate that?

The US simply can’t function without Chinese exports.

If the US insists on being a bully, it will get shunned.


11 posted on 05/27/2025 7:13:08 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Russia started the war when it seized Crimea under a Democrat President of course. Then it started seizing the rest of Ukraine under another Democrat President. Now the Democrats will probably blamed Pres. Trump for that fiasco which is their only talent ... screw things up and blame the closest republican for it.


12 posted on 05/27/2025 7:16:31 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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To: LouAvul

“Mr. Trump’s naivete is helping Russia continue the killing as long as Mr. Putin wants.“

More BS from the WSJ TDS gang. They are as far gone as AP. I guess


13 posted on 05/27/2025 7:16:37 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: karpov

“Russia started the war by invading Ukraine and is responsible for continuing the war.”

Neither side has clean hands, but I suspect the Russian hands are dirtier.

This is my understanding of the situation:

The war in the Donbas cooled down during Covid.

Once Covid fears passed, the war fears began again.

Pro-Moscow people in Donbas asked for Putin’s armed help and got it.

The war almost started a year earlier.


14 posted on 05/27/2025 7:21:33 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: antidemoncrat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation


15 posted on 05/27/2025 7:31:32 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: karpov

It looks as though Chinese Sanctions are hurting our military FAR MORE than any sanctions we impose intended against Russia.

Bottom Line - Russia gets the Chinese Rare Earth, we are no longer getting it:

https://theoregongroup.com/commodities/rare-earths/78-of-us-military-weapon-systems-potentially-vulnerable-to-china-critical-mineral-dominance/


16 posted on 05/27/2025 7:32:25 AM PDT by BobL
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To: karpov

“To state the obvious, Russia started the war by invading Ukraine and is RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTINUING THE WAR.”

According to your date of choosing.


17 posted on 05/27/2025 7:35:28 AM PDT by BobL
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To: karpov
Mr. Trump’s naivete is helping Russia continue the killing as long as Mr. Putin wants.

The WSJ took nearly 1/2 page before they blame Trump.

18 posted on 05/27/2025 7:38:41 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: karpov

You can simply promote production of oil. That reduces the price and revenue for Russians.


19 posted on 05/27/2025 7:42:01 AM PDT by TTFX
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To: karpov

Of all the things for the GOP Congress to finally wake up and start taking action on, it figures that it would be one that doesn’t benefit Americans in any way whatsoever.


20 posted on 05/27/2025 7:43:19 AM PDT by Teacher317
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