Posted on 12/01/2017 5:08:27 PM PST by BereanBrain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxEDomUlXw
sorry ex-Russian PM, not Putin.
Yep.
IIIMMMMPPPEEEEAAACHHH 45!
Sometimes Trump’s orange color is darker than it is other times.
Why would Putin side with tlTrump. He already bought and owned Hillery. If Hillery would transfer Uranium to Putin, there is nothing she would not sell.
Putin lost big tome when he lost Barry and Hillery.
Ya got me!
I agree. Trump was an unknown, unpredictable. Hillary was and is an open book. Better for Putin to deal with someone already compromised like Hillary.
This theory doesn’t stand a fact that Hillary declared war on Putin in 2011 and tried to unseat him during 2012 elections.
I didn’t say he liked her. Putin is a player. He enjoys revenge-taking. She was a known predictable that had already been compromised and could be compromised again. And he wanted payback in the worst way. Trump, otoh, is an entirely different game. Trump can go toe-to-toe with Putin. That is a bit unsettling to him.
If you’d been watching Russian media over last 5 years you’d think Hillary is a devil’s ambassador. Her coverage in Russia was close to that of Hitler in US during WWII.
That might be a reverse psychology but who knows.
Obama “colludes” with the Russians bypassing the approval of the American people by undermining our missile defense “until after the election”,,,
Hillary “colludes” with the Russians by approving a sale of 20 percent of the US uranium in a quid quo pro agreement while IN OFFICE as Sec State and profits directly from it...
But Trump is colluding, even if true and it is not, by exposing the evils of Hillary WHICH WERE TRUE????
Can you say “projection”?
These people, meaning Democrats, are truly sick.
well, I haven’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised. And with publicity like that, anything Putin pulled on Hillary’s America would have been absolutely okey dokey with the populace, yes? Including open aggression, yes? With Trump, Putin can’t play hero. Bummer for him. Trump, and probably especially Melania, are respected in Russia at the moment. Trump has made it clear he has no intention of allowing Russia or any other nation to displace America as #1. Men made uncomfortable and facing an equal tend to want to negotiate levels of comfort that are bilateral. So Putin now has to act the wise statesman and save his revenge for another day. And that’s a good thing for America and Russia, because it likely won’t involve America as a whole as it surely would have had Hillary, who he considered beneath him, been elected.
You might be right but Russian politics has pecularities.
For example you don’t see any personal attacks between their top opposing parties. Let’s say the most influential opposing forces in Russia are center-right Putin’s United Russia, Jhirinovsky’s Liberal Democrats and Zyuganov’s Communists. Their agendas are heavily countrary to each others and they are practically at war but they are avoiding directly taunting each other. Opposing bills and programs are sabotaged by either parties, exact lawmakers behind bills and programs are getting taunted but no direct confrontation between leaders.
Putin knows full well that when he would attack a Communist leader it won’t be taken lightly by a Communist supporters although he may sabotage Communist policies carefully explaining why these are bad in language understood by Communist supporters. He can’t simply say: ‘Zyuganov is a freak who are out of touch from reality and socialized healthcare would be abolished tomorrow because its a money pit and poor services!’ He knows that a great deal of people disagree and don’t want to have them radicalized in backing his opponent.
The same is true for the Communist leader who disagree with most of Putin’s policies.
In US division within populace in politics has become a norm but in Russia it is a big no-no for some reason. When someone is personally attacked it is bad news for him meaning there is a consensus among all opposing players that he is generally bad and has no future.
It is extending into a foreign policies too and it is clearly visible. The Russians might taunt a Pentagon spokesman or figures like that but bigger fish is off-limit due to their virsion of diplomatic etiqutte. For the very same reason. They know that the foreign leaders are representing their populations and avoiding alienating these populations at all costs.
There are really few exceptions from this rule in decades being the Georgian President Saakashvili, Obama’s Ambassador Mike McFaul and Hillary. These exceptions works exactly the same as in Russian domestic politics described above.
For that reason I am absolutely sure they didn’t want to see Hillary as POTUS. It doesn’t mean there was any meddling though.
An other important point I missed. An idea that Putin wants to replace US as number one is ridiculous. Russia doesn’t have resources to do it and he knows it.
With Hillary they knew her agenda regarding Russia excercised by her as SOSUS. Namely supporting leftist and islamic sedition within Russia and sabotage of legitimate Russian economic interests in Europe. Also backing Saudi policies which are both about sabotaging Russian economic interests in Europe and supporting islamic sedition in both Russia and its immediate neighboring countries.
These are vital issues of life and death to Russia more important than Uranian One and other perks they might have bought from her.
Trump was a big unknown but all thing concerned it was prefferable to Hillary which was a one big known threat.
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