Posted on 07/31/2016 10:40:49 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
Donald Trump has come under fire for his praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his ties to the country--and he suggested Sunday that he might recognize Russia's control of Crimea.
"You know, the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were," he said on ABC's "This Week." "And you have to look at that, also. Now, that was under -- just so you understand, that was done under Obama's administration. ... Crimea has been taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that."
Trump made those comments just after saying Putin is "not going into Ukraine."
"Well, look, you know, I have my own ideas. He's not going into Ukraine, OK?" Trump said of Putin. "Just so you understand. He's not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down and you can put it down, you can take it anywhere you want."
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Which geniuses in the State Department forgot that little item of history?
Crimea’s gone, unless someone wants to go to war over it.
Forcing the Black Fleet out was a stupid move and forced Russia to react. It’d be nice to have Ukraine friendly to the West, but its not worth poking the Bear over it.
Besides, the Pro-West bloc is hardly less corrupt than the Pro-Russian clique.
The Donbas region is something more of an issue, as well as them trying to annex Baltic areas that have Russian minorities.
Besides, the West needs to clean its own house desperately and stop with the adventurism.
We Americans have been expansionary imperialists since Thomas Jefferson became President. We keep forgetting to look at ourselves with open eyes.
And as a colleague points out, a violation of an international treaty recognizing national boundaries as those in force prior to this transfer (Ukraine was actually an "independent" country with its own seat in the UN, even if it was also part of the USSR.
The Turks might have something to say about that.
Hear, hear!
the headline is a lie
Trump as President can not allow or disallow Russia to keep the Crimea
Every body that matters knows that the gambit in Ukraine is to make the West look good when Vlad doesn’t press the issue and invade
meanwhile, Russia keeps Crimea
“You’re the only one on this website to have an issue with it.”
No, it’s just that I’m the only one who has been quixotically self-destructive enough to speak up.
“Take all the time you want with your ‘effectiveness analysis’, I got plenty of time.”
I will posit a hypothetical leftard college professor who wants to influence young skulls full of mush.
He shows them your meme, except it reads “Trump-hating heads exploding without warning.” He can make some lame comments about how it is Trump partisans who are the “haters” and how the left are too calm and reasonable to suffer exploding heads. Not much there, really. It could even be that one or two of the class would be spurred into a reckless act of critical thinking by your meme.
If it reads “Trump hating heads exploding without warning,” though, suddenly he’s Stephen Colbert.
“Look what morons we’re dealing with, here. They don’t know even the most basic rules of the English language. This toothless, sister-humping hillbilly doesn’t even know that you’re supposed to hyphenate a compound adjective. Any intelligent, educated person, which pretty much means any liberal and no conservatives, has known about this hard and fast rule since the third grade. This isn’t a typo; it’s an indicator of the general level of intelligence among the conservatards. If they had one brain cell to rub against another they wouldn’t be supporting him in the first place, and this is just one more of thousands of indicators that they are idiots.” (N.B., these remarks are to be attributed to the hypothetical libtard, and not your humble servant.)
Every one of these “trivial” errors—errors which, by the way, can be the difference between admission to graduate school and rejection—opens the door to that sort of rant. The funnier the rant, the more effective it is, and the less effective the original thought.
Some will overlook these errors, certainly, but it is the very people who catch it who might be influenced. However, because they catch it, the credibility of the meme’s creator is undermined, and the thought itself is to some degree discounted.
http://www.worldtribune.com/report-7000-turkish-forces-surrounded-incirlik-air-base-overnight/
Today’s big question seems to be: Is Turkey going to allow the Obama administration to keep its nukes?
>The Ukraine gave up on its nukes only because “the West”
promised protection against the Russian commies. Where is that protection? Ukrainians were thrown under the bus by Obama’s timid treacherous policies. Trump is now openly supporting Russia. wtf
Still repeating Neo-Con/Obongo propaganda?
>We Americans have been expansionary imperialists since Thomas Jefferson became President. We keep forgetting to look at ourselves with open eyes.
That’s pretty normal for empires like ours. For instance Rome pretended that all their wars where defensive in nature pretty late into the empire.
Ah, the old, “Is not!” rebuttal.
“Nobody cares about your”
It’s not about me, except as you try to make it so to escape the real issue.
“In conclusion: your ‘effectiveness analysis’ = FAIL”
Your failure to reach necessary conclusions does not constitute a rebuttal.
“I hope you get the remedial help you need.”
And I hope you start having your stuff proofread, so that it will be more effective in promoting the cause in which we both believe.
Well now, that seems to further the argument that Hillary Clinton was an incompetent Secretary Of State.
It’s all Lies and BS
Crimea is already under Russian control...
Even if Trump wanted Russia to give it up, why would he...?
LIBBY Press being the stooges of the globalists, socialists, Democratic Party et. al. cabal - just itching for a World War with Russia.
He didn’t fumble a thing CNN you pieces of excrement. Crimea was annexed by Russia in the 18th century made part of the USSR following 1917 and then part of a socialist state. It becomes an autonomous Republic in 1991 and annexed again by the Russians in 2014. History repeating itself. I know one thing, it doesn’t belong to the EU.
There’s the bait for international bullies again. Here comes World War 3.
Let me spell this out for you:
When some grammar nazi like you starts showing their ass, no rebuttal is necessary. Your own skewed behavior proves that indeed, you don’t have a life and you have a desperate need to somehow prove your own self worth. All the polished apples and cleaned chalkboards and erasers from your youth mean nothing now.
You’re the kind of insignificant yoyo that would be in a fox hole with someone under combat conditions, and after they fire their weapon, killing their target, you would mewl away about “your gun looks like it has a bit of smudge or dirt on the barrel”.
If you waste everyone else’s time the way you’ve wasted time in this thread today, I strongly suspect that you have very few friends, and you’re losing the few you have.
Of course you’re in Colorado, the new mecca for pot smokers, and the last refuge of the CruzBots, two more groups who make no meaningful contribution to society.
Like grammar nazis.
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