“So you put putin power and empire above US freedom, that of our allies and all other nations wanting to be free of his influence and the Russian empire he aspires to build? It’s odd how much goodwill he got from losing his career as a KGB Colonel with the collapse of communism and his embrace of Russian chauvinism.”
Putin is not capable of reestablishing a Russian Empire. His country is too poor, and he doesn’t want a bunch of mini wars, or to look bad on the national stage. Putin is a Nationalist and a Populist. So is our new President. You keep trying to make it that Putin wants to bring back Communism, whereas throughout his entire regime so far, he has not done so. Plus, Putin is not a threat to our U.S. Freedom by a long shot. You use that comment as a faux fear tactic.
Get your head out of the old Cold War stand, and try to see that the Dems/Libs/MSM/NeoHawks like McCain/Graham, are trying to get us into a new Cold War with Russia based on their fake, drummed up conspiracy theories about a Trump/Putin election corruption connection that doesn’t exist.
The lefties/NeoHawks are trying to ruin any attempt by Trump at rapprochement with Russia based on common interests such as defeating ISIS, trade negotiations, working together in other hot spots such as Iran and North Korea, limiting China’s influence in Russia by turning Russia more westward leaning, getting Russia to be more westward leaning in general in the future where their true interests lie (it’s not with China), and working on other common interests such as cultural and financial, along with general economic issues.
Plus you a known Russian hater, so your viewpoint is always skewed in that direction.
“Plus you a known Russian hater, so your viewpoint is always skewed in that direction.”
The missing “are”: You are a known Russian hater.
But I am not. I am not a hater at all. I'm a Christian who tries to follow Christ.
If POTUS can effect a rapprochement with putinstan that secures peace, the rule of law, freedom, and religious freedom I'd be fine with it. But I'm in a unique position that allows me to judge a tree by its fruits. And President Trump will be the third president who tried to look in to Putin's eyes and see a good guy, reset with him, or whatever bromide the pols want to use.
Possibly some forget that putin doesn't run a free country. He's president for life. He confiscates property of opposition and shoots some of them.
Once upon a time he was just another aspiring skinny slob in Leningrad who wanted to join the KGB. He did well. His friends in the KGB did well too. More and more Russians were taken away to the Gulag. Sad. Unfortunately for little Vladimir, his beloved Soviet Union, though, collapsed. For him, it was the worst event in the 20th Century. What to do? Or as Lenin said, "What is to be done?"
putin found a new scam. Why not become a Russian ultra-nationalist? Why not rebuild the Russian Empire?
You say he's not capable of that. I say that's his ethos that he uses to justify his presidency for life. It's his way around accountability to the Russian people for all the things he's stolen from them. It's his Big Lie.
It's not Cold War thinking. It's informed real time knowledge that you can dismiss without regard for the facts.