Posted on 07/15/2018 8:47:36 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Donald Trump slammed President Obama Thursday on TODAY for failing to take a stronger line against President Vladimir Putin in dealing with Ukraine, saying he feared Obama would now make up for lost time with imprudent moves to "show his manhood."
The real estate mogul and reality-TV star, who has criticized Putin for sending military troops into Crimea, said Obama must now take fierce steps to prevent the situation from escalating further.
"We should definitely do sanctions and we have to show some strengths. I mean, Putin has eaten Obama's lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time," Trump said. ..."
http://www.today.com/news/donald-trump-putin-has-eaten-obamas-lunch-ukraine-2D79372098
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Here’s the interview w/ Matt Lauer on YouTube...
Donald Trump (2014): ‘Vladimir Putin Has Eaten Obama’s Lunch’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzURUENf1ns
Because Qaddafi shifted his tactics from violence to successful Economic and Banking opposition to Western Globalists, resulting in a reasonably stable Libya.
Mike Pence on Putin and Russia:
(from the VP debate on Oct 5, 2016)
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“What we’re dealing with is the — you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.
And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East.
I trust Trump.
The more I think about it, the more I realize this was a travesty and a horror far above and beyond what I’d previously thought. Obama really was on the side of Muslim extremists. I always kind of hoped that was just hyperbole on our side... tell you what, if Putin did meddle in our elections to prevent Hillary from continuing on this path, he did a good thing. He didn’t just do the US a favor. He did the whole world a favor.
One can't help but suspect that it was well planned and executed by Libyan forces that did not much like that weapons were on their way to Syria from Benghazi. One also has to wonder if they might have been forces that weren't real thrilled with the US still choosing winners and losers.
Benghazi was a CIA / State operation to supply Syrian jihadis. There’s nothing honorable about it. It was a nest of treason supporting the people who attacked us on 9/11. Benghazi is literally where we switch sides and began supporting black flag waving Al-Qeida
The recent trend seems to be that US/Western globalist/progressives break stuff in the Mideast or Southern Europe, and then Russia, Iran or others step in to control what remains
McCain, Graham and Rubio all supported the Kenyanesian Usurper in his illegal war in Libya and arming of jihadists.
This all depends on how you look at it. From an "Arab Spring" point of view The destruction of Libya's stable government and the ensuing Kaos that has opened the gates to the islamic jihad into Europe has been successful beyond their fondest dreams. To undo that will leave most of Western Europe and parts of North America looking like Aleppo.
Never forget the wicked witch cackle that follows that statement.
Thanks. I thought so, but didn’t remember him clearly. I appreciate you clearing that up.
Russia is overextended.
https://en.crimerussia.com/gover/government-implements-unpopular-reforms-during-2018-fifa-world-cup/
https://russiabusinesstoday.com/manufacturing/russia-cancels-serial-production-of-su-57-jet-fighter/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/07/russian-editor-our-space-program-is-entering-the-dark-ages/
That spells trouble for everybody else.
Interesting. (I’ve long-heard it was because of their oil and money)
The April 2011 email, sent to the Secretary of State Hillary by unofficial adviser and longtime Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal with the subject line “France’s client and Qaddafi’s gold,” reveals predatory Western intentions.
The emails indicate the French-led NATO military initiative in Libya was also driven by a desire to gain access to a greater share of Libyan oil production, and to undermine a long term plan by Gaddafi to supplant France as the dominant power in the Francophone Africa region.
Source:
G.W. Bush started the war in Iraq over claims his father was the target of Iraqi agents in Kuwait when the old man toured there. It was all about payback. Then Obama and Clinton overthrow Gaddafi. Where do we get these IDIOTS. Sadly our military deployed and operated like total idiots entering Iraq.
I seems to me that the West, in general, had a policy of containment since WWII that included tacitly propping up Arab dictators, who in return would try to keep their insane Muslim fanatics in check. From time to time those Dictators failed and the West punished them accordingly but for the most part it worked.
0bama celebrated and facilitated the Arab Spring which destabilized the entire region.
Islam’s long war against the West was unleashed.
It also seems to me that the new policy for some in the West was to arm certain factions of Islam, Sunni or Shiite, and let them focus their efforts killing each other.
A big problem that many in the West do not understand about Islam is that of a Nation State. Islam does not recognize the borders of a State. They only recognize Islam and believe they are entitled to the entire world.
More than that, the entire American Left, Rinos, MSM and Deep Swamp are too.
All their agendas and power rely on continued instability.
Putin and Russia did not meddle in US elections any more than the US (Intelligence Agencies) and US/Euro NGO's meddled in numerous Foreign Elections. They all conducted Intelligence gathering and Fake News operations against each other since the turn of the TWENTIETH Century. What's new is that the Western MSM got sloppy and has degenerated to nothing but Propaganda, Fake News and False Flags in the last two decades.
Crisis and Instability is ALL they have to continue their power (to influence), so now they create that Crisis and Instability when it won't happen where they want it.
Putin is simply trying to stabilize areas near Russia and maintain Russian influence in those areas, as it is beneficial to Russians to do so, and benefits elsewhere are simply consequences.
Remember, Ronald Reagan solved the Soviet Union problem by stabilizing Europe and Eastern Europe (for a while), so the Globalist Rats had to destabilize it again and used the Middle East to do it.
That's right up there with "I have a pen and a phone ...."
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