The missile attack on the airfield certainly diverted attention from issues related to the conduct of Russia during the election and to contacts between Trump officials and Russians during the election, but it hardly disproved there was collusion. What the attack demonstrated, whether one supported it or not, was how erratic Trump is. No need to go through all his statements against any intervention against Assad or statements by Tillerson and others about it being up to the Syrian people--five million of whom happen to be in refugee camps--to decide on whether Assad should stay--just days before the attack. Trump sees images on the screen that disturb him and his daughter tells him how much they disturb her and almost immediately Trump's policy turns on its head.
Stalker alluded to the fact that Trump and Putin have some similarities: big egos, an authoritarian streak, confidence (over-confidence?) in their abilities to get a deal, etc. The world is too small for them both to get what they want so conflict between the two was inevitable. I've been saying that for months. But like Hitler and Stalin who made their unlikely deal before it was broken a couple of years later, Trump and Putin found it in their interest to say only good things about one another when they thought it was in their interest to do so.
Tulla, why do you go to the negative so quickly instead of letting a thing unfold; egs….collusion, assumptions of his daughter’s influence. That’s some crystal ball!
What you perceive as vacillation on Syria others call adapting to a new reality. Would you rather our leader hold to an outdated view or change with new information? Any military or political stratagem embodies the possibility of a ruse or feint. About Russia, if anything, the present situation has drawn
more attention to
everything Russian rather than the reverse. Militarily, most of the world feels Trump punched a bully in the nose, finding it refreshing to see America step up to the leadership role it has always had, rather than a continued policy of avoidance and unwillingness to engage….when necessary….on the world stage. There are always risks but greater still are the risks of indecision leading to perceived weakness, actual in the case of the previous administration which allowed Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. Everything is a gamble when belligerents are in such proximity but this is an understood and accepted part of policy. You guys don’t know this?
The world was a nasty place long before Trump as was Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and presence in the Middle East. All of this conspired to make confrontation a given, not a diversion. Into this mix comes the confrontational and clearly insane Kim Jong Un who has threatened us and others with a Nuclear attack. You can site on your hands like Obama or understand the wisdom of Noah building his ark
before the flood.
The missile attack on the airfield certainly diverted attention from issues related to the conduct of Russia during the election and to contacts between Trump officials and Russians during the election, but it hardly disproved there was collusion. What the attack demonstrated, whether one supported it or not, was how erratic Trump is. No need to go through all his statements against any intervention against Assad or statements by Tillerson and others about it being up to the Syrian people--five million of whom happen to be in refugee camps--to decide on whether Assad should stay--just days before the attack. Trump sees images on the screen that disturb him and his daughter tells him how much they disturb her and almost immediately Trump's policy turns on its head.
Stalker alluded to the fact that Trump and Putin have some similarities: big egos, an authoritarian streak, confidence (over-confidence?) in their abilities to get a deal, etc. The world is too small for them both to get what they want so conflict between the two was inevitable. I've been saying that for months. But like Hitler and Stalin who made their unlikely deal before it was broken a couple of years later, Trump and Putin found it in their interest to say only good things about one another when they thought it was in their interest to do so.
Tulla, why do you go to the negative so quickly instead of letting a thing unfold; egs….collusion, assumptions of his daughter’s influence. That’s some crystal ball!
What you perceive as vacillation on Syria others call adapting to a new reality. Would you rather our leader hold to an outdated view or change with new information? Any military or political stratagem embodies the possibility of a ruse or feint. About Russia, if anything, the present situation has drawn
more attention to
everything Russian rather than the reverse. Militarily, most of the world feels Trump punched a bully in the nose, finding it refreshing to see America step up to the leadership role it has always had, rather than a continued policy of avoidance and unwillingness to engage….when necessary….on the world stage. There are always risks but greater still are the risks of indecision leading to perceived weakness, actual in the case of the previous administration which allowed Putin’s aggression in Ukraine. Everything is a gamble when belligerents are in such proximity but this is an understood and accepted part of policy. You guys don’t know this?
The world was a nasty place long before Trump as was Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and presence in the Middle East. All of this conspired to make confrontation a given, not a diversion. Into this mix comes the confrontational and clearly insane Kim Jong Un who has threatened us and others with a Nuclear attack. You can site on your hands like Obama or understand the wisdom of Noah building his ark
before the flood.
