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President Trump Should Ask Democrats to Declare War on Russia
FrontPage Magazine ^ | 5/3/19 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 05/04/2019 6:50:08 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell

President Trump Should Ask Democrats to Declare War on Russia

Either declare war on Russia or shut up.

May 3, 2019

Daniel Greenfield

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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

The Mueller Report has come and gone leaving behind neither collusion nor obstruction. But in the time that has passed, the Democrats have shown that they won’t give up their pet conspiracy theory.

The post-Mueller efforts of House Democrats to interest the public in scandals about White House security clearances and Trump's tax returns failed miserably because they lacked the drama, the unfolding layers of conspiracies, and the delegitimization of the 2016 election that Russiagate offers.

After Attorney General Barr's summary of the Mueller Report, the Democrat media held out hope that the full report would prove collusion. When it failed to do that, House Democrats have promised to hold as many hearings as it takes until even CNN stops inviting Rep. Adam Schiff to snack in its green rooms.

Conspiracy theories don't just go away. You can't prove a negative. There's no factual way to conclusively show that President Trump wasn't secretly elected by Moscow.

Every time you disprove a conspiracy theory, another layer of conspiracies is discovered underneath. When Barr summed up the Mueller Report, the theorists retreated to the ‘real’ report. When the report was released, they retreated to the redactions and to secret referrals for prosecution. If Mueller were to tell them they're wrong, it would be proof that the Russians have a tape of him in a Moscow hotel room.

Conspiracy theories can't be disproven. You can only humiliate and discredit the conspiracy theorists.

The details of the Russiagate conspiracy theory, that some combination of Russian Facebook trolling, most of which took place after the election and targeted black people, and the hacking of the emails of Hillary's campaign chair, whose contents no one outside the media and political activists cared about, somehow swung the election, are gibberish. But the facts don’t matter in the paranoid style of politics.

Hillary Clinton, whose people invented the Russia conspiracy theory and used it to convince Obama officials to spy on Trump allies and staffers, compared it to 9/11. Other Democrats and media outlets like the Washington Post and the New York Times compared it to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.

“This was an act of war, in my view,” Senator Richard Blumenthal said. Senator Tim Kaine also thought it was an act of war. Senator Ben Cardin said that the election conspiracy amounts to an "act of war". Rep. Steven Cohen also agreed that it was an act of war.

An "undeclared, but very real, 'war' has already come to the United States," Senator Chris Coons claimed.

If they really believe that Facebook trolling is an act of war, then they should declare war on Russia.

President Trump can’t declare war. Only Congress can do that. President Trump should ask Democrats to put up or shut up with a declaration of war. If they truly believe in their conspiracy theories, if they really think that what happened was as bad as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, that it was, in their own words, an “act of war”, they should have no problem voting unanimously for a declaration of war against Russia.

Democrats began raving about the need to mobilize for a Green New Deal, as if it were WW2, but when they were given the opportunity to vote on the Green New Deal, they all voted against it.

Russiagate is even bigger than banning cows and planes to save the planet from flying cow flatulence.

Democrats keep claiming that the Facebook trolling, which was as bad as 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, is an act of war. Yet they seem reluctant to actually do anything to Russia. Instead they want to fight Russia until the last surviving Trump family member and associate. They should have the opportunity to vote on a Russia war resolution. And then be forced to explain why they voted against their own rhetoric.

If they truly believe that what happened was an act of war, why won’t they defend America? If they don’t believe it, then they’ve spent the past few years lying in order to bring down a president.

In a crowded field of 2020 candidates, not a single one has promised to go to war with Russia.

"A hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 election to help Donald Trump," Senator Elizabeth Warren claimed.  She whined that Trump is not “responding with strength” to Putin, but then rebuked him for a proposed arms race with Russia. Instead, she wants to cut the military and work with the Europeans to sanction Russia. Even though that’s what President Trump has already been doing.

"We're all clear that Russia attacked our country during the 2016 election and that they are continuing to attack us today," Senator Kamala Harris declared. Her proposed response to that is to “make sure that the American public recognizes who is trying to sow hate and division among us”.

They’re called Senate Democrats.

If Senator Harris really believes that Russia attacked us, her solution would be more robust than a speech. Instead, Harris and other Democrats are using Neo-McCarthyism to sow division and hate.

When President Trump responded to Russian arms accord cheating by pulling out of the fake INF Treaty, Harris wailed that Trump needed to go back and negotiate with the Russians.

"This is a Paul Revere moment," Senator Cory Booker speechified two years ago. "The Russians are coming, what are we going to do about it?"

Apparently, nothing. Two years later, Revere is still snoozing on his horse in the barn.

"We were attacked. We know who did it," Senator Spartacus tweeted last year. "The attacks from Russia will continue unless met with strength."

How does he propose to do that? His Senate campaign foreign policy page doesn’t even mention Russia. The Paul Revere moment is so urgent that he couldn’t even find the time to write up a policy position.

President Trump can offer Booker, Harris, Warren and all the rest the opportunity to meet Russia with “strength”. All that House and Senate Democrats have to do is put forward a joint war resolution.

Except that the Democrats never seem to want to do anything about Russia over this act of war.

The solution that House and Senate Democrats keep proposing is holding more hearings about Trump. That and censoring social media so that no one who disagrees with the media can ever be heard again.

Is that their idea of “strength”?

Rep. Eric Swalwell commemorated September 11 with an editorial comparing Russian Facebook trolling to 9/11. “We can still show our enemies that we will stand together in the face of aggression. We can still put country ahead of party. We can still create an independent, bipartisan commission,” he vowed.

The California Democrat was obviously echoing Churchill’s stirring words, "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall create an independent bipartisan commission in France. We shall create an independent bipartisan commission on the seas and oceans. We shall create an independent bipartisan commission on the beaches whatever the cost may be, we shall create an independent bipartisan commission on the landing grounds, and another one in the fields, and even the streets."

Swalwell suggested nuking gun owners, but he wants to fight Russian aggression with a commission?

Even though Swalwell is running on “Russia, Russia, Russia”, he cares so much about Russia that the one word his House Foreign Affairs and Defense page never even mentions is… “Russia”.

Democrats keep invoking wartime emergencies to justify subversion of civil liberties at home, but they’re laughably unwilling to treat their supposed “act of war”, their 9/11, as a wartime emergency.

They want to deprive us of our rights at home, and then fight Russia with hearings and commissions.

They want to censor the internet and remove the President of the United States from office because of this “act of war”, and then they might sanction Russia a little bit, before holding some more hearings.

Nyet, Comrades. You can’t call for a wartime emergency at home, when you won’t vote for one abroad.

The Democrats don’t know anything about Russia and don’t care. They couldn’t find Moscow on a map if they were offered their weight in rubles. They claim Russia attacked America, but their only response is to hold more hearings to investigate Trump. They want to fight Russia until the last Trump associate.

A Russia war vote would force them to put or shut up.

And then every time they tried claiming that Trump’s victory was a Russian act of war, they would have to explain why they had the opportunity to vote on a war declaration, but ran from it like rabbits.

The only way to make the Russiagate conspiracy theory go away is to completely destroy the credibility of the liars, hacks and frauds who have been using it as a pretext to attack the legitimacy of a free election, to remove a sitting president, and to undermine the First Amendment. No more cartoons of Trump in a Russian fur hat, no more Neo-McCarthyist efforts to connect every Republican organization from the RNC to the NRA to Russia, no more reports, investigations, hearings and witch hunts.

Either declare war on Russia or shut up.


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1 posted on 05/04/2019 6:50:08 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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2 posted on 05/04/2019 6:51:07 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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“This was an act of war, in my view,” Senator Richard Blumenthal said.

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Yeah, right, Da Nang Dick. You mean like the Vietnam War you said you fought in, but never did?


3 posted on 05/04/2019 6:57:49 AM PDT by poconopundit
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To: Louis Foxwell

They would do it just to blame Trumps collusion on getting us in a nuclear war and killing millions of people. To me it’s time to demand how say 10000 voters in Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin or Michigan....and only really these states, that were going to vote for Hillary, were changed to Trump by the Russians, otherwise there is no argument, and it’s time to start rounding us and putting on trial members of Congress and the Senate with sedition. If found guilty, immediately hang them to prevent pardoning. Guarantee it would never happen again watching Maxine, Schaffer, and Nadler the Hutt swing from the gallows.


4 posted on 05/04/2019 6:59:23 AM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputeca)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Thanks for posting this excellent article.


5 posted on 05/04/2019 7:01:39 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( One of President TrumpÂ’s Clinging, Deploreable, Low IQ, Dreg supporters helping to MAGA!))
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Yo, Da Nang Dick, we have just one question.

Isn’t it true that Jane Fonda spent more time in Viet Nam than you did?


6 posted on 05/04/2019 7:05:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( One of President TrumpÂ’s Clinging, Deploreable, Low IQ, Dreg supporters helping to MAGA!))
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To: Louis Foxwell

Wasn’t Russia involved in the phoney dossier to hurt Trump?


7 posted on 05/04/2019 7:07:11 AM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
The dims are imitating art, with their own comedy version of the classic film


8 posted on 05/04/2019 7:08:14 AM PDT by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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Busy. Didn’t read it. Understand the premise.

Question is do you even kid about the two most powerful nuclear nations going ‘at it’?


9 posted on 05/04/2019 7:08:20 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Watching the “Dick” Go after Bar was DICK spicable.


10 posted on 05/04/2019 7:21:02 AM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Nonsense. We shouldn’t play around with declarations of war— somebody is going to take them seriously. We should be telling the Democrats to produce any hard evidence that Russia has done anything worth our getting into a dispute with them. “So-and-so in the intelligence community” said that the Russians did something is not evidence. Photos of Russian troops or missiles in Venezuela might justify our going eyeball to eyeball with them.


11 posted on 05/04/2019 7:24:40 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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“De Rooshians are coming.... Ev’ry body to get from street!!!”

Classic...


12 posted on 05/04/2019 7:26:39 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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It was a wonderful film with a cast of such remarkable talent....here I am longing for the good-olde-daze when comedy was not a dirty word with political overtones.


13 posted on 05/04/2019 7:29:13 AM PDT by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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To: Vaquero

“Question is do you even kid about the two most powerful nuclear nations going ‘at it’?”

No more than democrat congressmen should state publicly that the Russians have attacked us to the extent that we were attacked on 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. But they did state that.


14 posted on 05/04/2019 7:34:08 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Fido969

Wasn’t Russia involved in the phoney dossier to hurt Trump?
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Probably not. Since it was all fake, Hillary probably wrote it herself. Maybe McCain helped her with the big words.


15 posted on 05/04/2019 7:40:24 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Louis Foxwell

Hard to refute his logic.


16 posted on 05/04/2019 7:44:20 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: redshawk
Best BOL of a great morning:

Watching the “Dick” Go after Bar was DICK spicable.

Thanks!

17 posted on 05/04/2019 7:47:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( One of President TrumpÂ’s Clinging, Deploreable, Low IQ, Dreg supporters helping to MAGA!))
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To: Vaquero

This piece is well done and raises a valid point. It leaves the real danger of this whole mess unspoken by design. This contrived and made up hoax to excuse her loss and cover their tracks for illegal surveillance of a political opponent has made every American less safe.

Russia is not a conventional threat to us. They do not have the economy to support a massive modern military. You are spot on in describing their nuclear capability. This is dangerous for everyone in the world.

Russia is not our friend as they promote their own interests just as we do. They do not have to be our arch enemy either. We will often be on opposite sides of an issue, but having the two leaders of the two largest nuclear arsenals talk and find common ground when possible is a good thing. By depriving Trump and his administration of this ability one can argue that democrats foolishly put politics above our national security.

There is little doubt in the calculation who Russia would like to be in power in the U.S. The left. The policy of the left will restrict our nation financially, neglect our military, be weak on foreign policy, and seek peace through “appeasement”. Trump ran on “peace through strength” and strengthening our economy and he has done both.

Can anyone logically explain to me (beyond Putin’s alleged distaste for Clinton) how Russia preferred Trump and his policy to the continued weakness of the previous administration?

Consider this question with the one factor that people do not pay enough attention to - energy policy. Russia is highly reliant on energy exports to support their economy and military. HRC would have suppressed our energy production not only in the U.S., but throughout the west in the name of climate change. Russia would have exported energy at a higher price.

Trump pledged to expand our energy production and his administration has succeeded far beyond my expectations. This single policy difference has been the most consequential for Russia as we have become a major competitor in energy for them and driven the price down causing them direct economic harm. Russia has far less money to spend militarily because of Trump.

The idea that a few Fakebook ads and alleged protest with a few dozen people somehow influenced a 2 billion dollar election is a complete farce. They did not “hack” our election and likely, like the whole world, expected HRC to win.

I have yet to see a single reliable data point that supports any argument that they changed our election, yet this suggestion is constantly repeated by the media and politicians in both parties. Where is the proof in the Mueller Report?


18 posted on 05/04/2019 7:53:23 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Conspiracy theories can't be disproven. You can only humiliate and discredit the conspiracy theorists.

Has anyone considered the theory that it was really aliens from outer space, posing as Russians, that stole the election from Hillary?

Can anyone prove I'm wrong?

19 posted on 05/04/2019 8:01:25 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The government did not create the people. The people created the government.)
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To: Daffynition

“...onging for the good-olde-daze when comedy was not a dirty word with political overtones...”

They’re gone. Like everything else liberals touch. Turns to sh*t in a second.


20 posted on 05/04/2019 8:23:44 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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