Posted on 03/04/2022 7:54:18 AM PST by george76
Mine too. You are not alone in your thinking.
I wonder at times how much further ahead our country (and the world) would be if he had been allowed to take his rightful place as POTUS.
In the hostage situation, fear was a factor.
However, the key in negotiating with an adversary is to treat them with respect (no name calling, no finger pointing, no arrogant virtue signaling), then find out what they want, and see if you can give them some of it.
Reagan’s people cut a deal that was a win win.
Trump was also an expert at that type of negotiation.
It is the combination of real strength and willingness to pursue win win outcomes that makes a great negotiator.
We know!
But the “establishment” together with the Democrats and GOP, Inc. wanted him gone!
Now look what’s happened!
It’s almost funny if it weren’t such a danger.
John and Cliff,
Y’all forgot that President Trump told Russia if they moved on any of their neighbors, then they’d lose Moscow.
[A stupid article
All they can say about Trump is that he “out neoconed the neocons”
If so, why did they hate him so much and worked for 5 years to remove him?]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1945)
Had LBJ done that to Hanoi, the North Vietnamese would have sued for peace. Post WWII Democrats have treated GI’s like factory widgets - putting them in impossible situations and using them like so much firewood to coddle the enemy.
Where do you get the figure of 10,000 US aircraft shit down over Vietnam?
United States Air Force
All told, the U.S. Air Force flew 5.25 million sorties over South Vietnam, North Vietnam, northern and southern Laos, and Cambodia, losing 2,251 aircraft: 1,737 to hostile action, and 514 in accidents. 110 of the losses were helicopters and the rest fixed-wing. A ratio of roughly 0.4 losses per 1,000 sorties compared favorably with a 2.0 rate in Korea and the 9.7 figure during World War II.
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Aircraft_losses_of_the_Vietnam_War
[Where do you get the figure of 10,000 US aircraft shit down over Vietnam?]
Trump likely would have quelled NATO talk and looked for a deal on the Eastern provinces
That’s just a gues
I think he and Pootie understood one another ...
bump
Hmm ok
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Putin -- who clearly is not the same Putin of 5 years ago -- understood that even though Trump was not a neo-con, there is nothing in Trump's make-up that would have prevented him from staging Kadyrov death in Chechnya -- meeting the same fate as dead old dad and make it look like Spetnaz did it. Right there Putin would have to commit forces to put down a Chechnyan uprising.
Or Trump could have quietly meddled in Kazakhstan, and funded an earlier Tokayev v Nazarbayev revolution. Again, another diversion that would have committed Putin to split forces once Kazakhstan melted down.
Putin knows there is zero chance the US alphabets would attempt either near-perfect subterfuge under Biden's White Hospice, a zombie who must choose the narrowest path of pre-determined caution abroad.
Mine too. Trump and Putin are both against the NWO,one world govt globalist. Rightfully so, I am too. Trump saw Putin as possible someone he could work with because he respected his position and Putin respected Trump’s. Jmo
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