This would’ve been a good start. But seriously though... It’s become quite obvious that Meuller’s indictment of 12 Russian officials last week was a message to Trump to cancel the summit. In light of that alone, any POTUS with the best interest of the US at heart would’ve seen that. Cart before the horse.
This is the same President Obama that told Putin that once he was reelected he would have more "flexibility" in conducting his foreign policy with Russia?
Yeah, so? That was an objective statement that drove the righty-tighties mad. Was he wrong? That was before Crimea and Election meddling and after an alliance that secured most of the world’s loose neuclear materials from terrorist organizations. After Crimea, Obama kept his foot in Russia’s ass until he walked out the door and then Trump came along and started kissing it.
Medvedev...and that was before the invasion of Ukraine the annexation of Crimea, the shoot down of a civilian airliner, the attempted assassination of two people in the UK with a nerve agent....oh...and the whole 2016 Presidential election thing.
Why did there need to be a summit with Putin in the first place? What did America stand to gain from it?
Why are you all just piling on @Paladin ? Theres a few other wordforgers that need some 'help'. @oldfella1962 @Zombie get in here and defend what your grand Orange master got up to in Helsinki!
And has it occurred to you that President Obama's assurance of "flexibility" (to Putin's puppet) was what led to invasion of Ukraine the annexation of Crimea, the shoot down of a civilian airliner, the attempted assassination of two people in the UK with a nerve agent....oh...and the whole 2016 Presidential election thing?
There’s probably plenty of blame to hoist onto Obama, after all the meddling happened under his watch. But none of that is the point, it’s Trump throwing the intelence community under the bus that’s the problem and I’m not a big fan of the intelligence community. I wouldn’t tell Purim that though.
For the record, I cannot imagine what it is like to be so weak-minded as to have the liberal media control what I think. Seriously, what a complete bunch of idiots. You're all just a bunch of screaming chimps. Honestly, it's not clear who's left that actually deserves freedom anymore. You people deserve to be miserable.
Because "flexibility" can be construed as giving the Russians "permission" to do far more aggressive and questionable international conduct free of response from the United States.
Amazingly enough, there are options that don't involve EITHER ranting and raving and throwing threats around willy-nilly or kowtowing to Putin's every wish like a lovesick puppy.
Yeah I keep hearing about that. Who are we doing it to, and how do we generally do it? I know we've done a shit ton of it in the past...say Central America...but who have we done it to lately?
IIRC, the Obama Admin. made public statements that were deliberately meant to influence parliamentary elections in Israel and the Brexit vote.
So public statements is equivalent to illegal hacking and creating bots to spread lies and propaganda on social media?
You think the CIA, DEA etc just hung up their hats and went home? I highly doubt it. This is the spy game, I have no doubt we are still trying to influence things in Russia and elsewhere to go our way.
All the shady undercover business we did to prop up bloodthirsty Latin American dictators in the '80s, and THAT'S the one example you can come up with? Obama making public statements?
Like the most recent example of a Russian agent being involved with the NRA. Luckily we don't have anyone on this board that will pucker up to take whatever Trump shits out so long as it means they get to hold onto their snooty bang bang big dick stick.
Well, he hasn't done anything treasonous today has he? Plus it was totally opposites day in Helsinki so he was being like mega-patriotic. six more years FTW!
