What is the Traitor Thinking? And will Conservatives continue to support this nut case?
Now are we going to let Putin run rough shod over Ukraine? What should we have learned from WWII?
And will the USA back down from it's commitment to protect the Ukraine?
I do not have the answers, but ANYONE attacking our sitting PRESIDENT, and PRAISING a ruthless DICTATOR is definitely in the WRONG.
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I wonder if Putin thinks he can be aggressive now because he knows with a virtual certainty that there will be a pro Trump majority in one or both houses of Congress next year.
--Hiram
Probably nothing to do with US politics.
Putin always wanted an "America First" American foreign policy. He wants America to put what many perceives as it's interests ahead of the collective security of the Europe west. Putin's reasoning is simple. For him, America is a far away land of which he knows nothing. Europe is on his border. We hadn't heard the phrase "America First" in recent years until Trump revived it. That is in part because it was largely discredited as a foreign policy theory by some events that occurred at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
More generally, tyrants always seem to perceive democracies as weak. We don't lock up people who lose elections. We don't mostly confuse diversity with division. After much hesitation, we do pull together in a crisis. And I fully expect that will happen this time too.
--Hiram
That is why I am curious how the Conservatives will react.
Will they continue to fall for Trump's stupidity?
Or will they remember the Cold War / Reagan era when we had to fight the USSR / Communists?
I don't think they care about Ukraine. Any more than Americans cared about Czechoslovakia in 1938, or Poland in 1939. The "America First" approach was discredited by events, but it has always been there, just not spoken of. In every country, I think, there is an idea that we can throw up borders and isolates from the world. We see it in the appeal of Trump's fence just as we see it in Brexit. Hitler was an advocate of that, of isolating Germany from the rest of Europe. He just needed a greater Germany to make it possible since the territorial Germany of his era wasn't able to sustain itself without access to foreign markets or trade.
--Hiram
Bob Dole always reflected that undercurrent of American First ideology. He came from Kansas, which is a long way from Poland. In moments of weakness, perhaps after a martini or two, he would often start grumbling about "Democrat Wars". As a sophisticated politician of course, he did understand about collective interests, and how alliances make us stronger, but deep down, there was always that teenage Kansas boy, dumped into Italy, fighting a war in which he was terribly wounded for reasons that had nothing to do with his experience growing up in Kansas.
--Hiram
Republican positions on Russia are about more than just Trump. For instance, Steve Bannon and Erik Prince were talking up Putin yesterday because he is "anti-woke" and they like his repression the LGBT community (which folks like Greg Abbott are now picking up and running with).
Yes, that is the choice Republicans and their politicians will need to make.
Do they support the USA and democratic values?
Or do they support the minority / dictator control?
I was watching this show on the Dreyfus Affair. Early on, it was clear that Dreyfus was innocent. But people still supported his conviction because the honor of France was at stake, that he wasn't a real Frenchman.
I think that idea influences America. That Biden might get the most votes but the real America votes for Trump.
--Hiram
Kind of like when you thought Hillary won when she definitely did not win enough states? :-O :-)
There is no question that Hillary won the popular vote. But Trump was elected president. It's why Hillary attended Trump's inaugural. She was making a statement about our system. She was standing up for America, something for which all of us can be proud.
--Hiram
I am wondering if Putin is now thinking that Biden isn't quite as weak as Putin's Republican friends assured him he was.
---Hiram
Putin probably did something that no one else could have...
He single handedly unite and strengthened NATO... :-)
Thank God Trump was not the President during this period.
Putin made the mistake of believing what Trump and his other Republican friends told him; that President Biden was a weak individual and a weak president. It has turned out to be an astounding miscalculation by the Russian president.
--Hiram
Very True
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