Trump’s world’s greatest salesman routine is wearing thin. He’s not convincing Putin to pull out of Crimea or the part of Ukraine it occupies anytime soon. This is basically Trump’s version of Dubya’s “I looked into his eyes and saw his soul”, after a meeting with Putin. McCain’s put-down of the experience is apt: “I looked into his eyes and saw three letters, a K, a G and a B”. He ain’t gonna persuade the Korean dwarf blimp to give up his nukes either. Or get Xi to stop sticking it to American companies voluntarily.
All this servility does is make him look weak. He’s been very hard-line on foreign policy vis-a-vis the country’s adversaries. He should take credit for it with Reagan-style rhetoric. Instead of “my very good friend Xi Jinping/Kim Jong-un/Vladimir Putin”, it should be “Mr. Xi/Kim/Putin, tear down this wall”, or whatever pablum his hired wordsmiths can summon up.
Let’s face it ... the only reason Russia is still considered an “adversary” by the political class in this country is that it’s predominantly white — which makes it an acceptable political target.
Except that the Crimea has been part of Russia since 1783, and was only gifted to the Ukraine by Stalin in 1954, at a time when both Ukraine and Russia were part of the USSR. Ukraine has no historic claim to the Crimea. The Russians simply took back what belonged to them. Most of the people in the Crimea are Russian. The Crimea has been part of Russia for far longer than it's been a part of the Ukraine.
I don't see what the fuss is about.
Sadly I agree
I don't get what your point.
You want Trump to simply March into North Korea and grab their nuclear weapons?
Yeah that will work a treat.
In reality Trump has imposed the toughest sanctions ever on North Korea. Plus met Kim three times to try and work things out. He's done far more than any US President to try and reach peace with North Korea.
Outside of war that's all he can do. Negotiations backed with tough sanctions.
All this servility does is make him look weak. He’s been very hard-line on foreign policy vis-a-vis the country’s adversaries.
He's been extremely tough on both Russia and North Korea.
He should take credit for it with Reagan-style rhetoric.
Except Reagan turned round and negotiated START with Gorbachev. They ended up very fond of each other.
We need to restart the Tea Party to force the GOP to grow a pair and stand up for America. We need to run real conservatives not the weak livered Vichy Republicans who will weep and fall to their knees if called racist. We need to run more people like Sarah Palin and Donald Trump. We need real power brokers! Tucker Carlson is right. We need a revived GOP—BUT it must come from below. All I get from the GOP now is requests for money, money, money. We need BOLD leadership NOW in the face ofthe cabal of Leftist Media, Hollywwod and Democratic-Socialists. People who love Capitalism as much as Sanders Loves Communism.
Russia will pull out of Crimea when the US pulls out of Texas.
The best rule to being successful is not to announce doing impossible things only to predictably fail at it.
Nothing would make Kim to disarm and nothing would bring Crimea back.