Trusting Putin

Trusting Putin isn’t the issue. Trump will make deals with Putin to get Russia’s help to defeat ISIS in Syria. Trump will look to make other deals with Putin, but will also compete for oil and natural gas exports and will walk away from bad deals. 

Trump will put America first and will encourage Putin to put Russia first.  But Trump also believes in national sovereignty and will challenge Putin to respect the national sovereignty of his neighbors. Trump didn’t object to Russia’s annexation of the Crimea, because 80% of their citizens voted to be annexed by Russia. That is not the case in the Ukraine or other former USSR satellite countries that are now independent. 

Most importantly, both Trump and Putin are not globalists and Putin can weigh in to recommend that European voters vote to leave the EU. The biggest threats to the US are ISIS, Muslim migration, the American Communist Party, the Democrat Party, the globalists and the UN.

It has been a long time since the USSR was our primary advisory.  After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the dissolution of the Communist Party in 1990, the newly formed Russia released its satellite states and openly cooperated with the US to secure nuclear warheads. After that, it got quiet. 

Yes, Russia did get some of their stooges elected to some satellite countries and these countries do not prosper because they are big government and anti-free market. Some of these countries elected good leaders and they have bigger private sectors, small government, low government debt and they do prosper.

Russia developed its oil and natural gas businesses to export and some business development happened.  But Russia had a rule of law that was too weak to attract much outside investment. 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader