The President’s military attack on the airbase of Russia’s
ally Syria, in response to President Bashar al-Assad’s heinous use of illegal
gas weapons against his own people, further diminishes allegations that Trump
is friendly with Putin. The Russians had warned the White House against the
move. The move is in sharp contrast to the Obama Administration’s reluctance to
offend Putin’s Syrian ally.
The
“Russian Connection” allegations against the Trump Administration need to be
seen for what they truly are. Even
by the usual harsh standards of politics, the slash and burn tactics practiced
by the losing side of the 2016 election have been excessive.
The
situation is deeply worsened by the complicity of a media that remains
embarrassed that its open advocacy of Hillary Clinton was not only unethical
but also unsuccessful. Combined with an academic establishment that seeks to
censor non-leftist student speech, and the financing by rogue billionaires of
street protests, its adds up to a (mostly) nonviolent attempt to overturn the
results of the 2016 election.
The
normal governmental avenues are increasingly unavailable to the hard left.
Voters have taken note of Progressives’ failed policies at home and
abroad.
Republicans
now dominate the White House, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and
most governorships and state legislatures. Rather than do the
soul-searching and preparation for the next campaign as the GOP did in the
aftermath of the 2008 election, when it was Democrats that took total control
of the federal government, the extremists who have taken over the
Democrat Party are seeking to delegitimize the election results.
Since
the Trump Administration is too new to actually have a record to criticize,
allegations have been made about improper actions before the election,
specifically, contacts with the Russian government.
No
convincing evidence has yet to be presented, either of illegal contact,
(despite the newly released information that the Obama Administration was
indeed engaging in surveillance of the Trump campaign) or of any resulting
impact in the campaign—that much is clear. But a larger question looms.
Why would the Russian Government favor a Trump victory?
The
Obama loyalist theory is this: in 2011, protesters marched in Moscow, claiming
Putin had rigged his election. Clinton had criticized the election, angering
Putin. This, the former President’s supporters maintain, motivated the Russian
president to retaliate by moving against Clinton. Russia did hack DNC
computers, so there was, at least, some smoke. But was there fire?
The
idea assumes that Putin is as sensitive as a college student needing a safe
space to hide from microaggressions. Was the ex-KGB official so hurt that he
would place his entire government at risk by helping Trump? Would he overlook,
because of Clinton comments, the enormous favors that Clinton and Obama did for
Russia, which included:
§ Slashing spending on U.S. armed forces,
§ Selling 20% of U.S. uranium (the basic ingredient of nuclear
weapons) to Moscow,
§ signing the New START treaty which, for the first time in
history, gave Russia the lead in atomic weapons,
§ Doing virtually nothing other than impose weak sanctions in
the wake of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine,
§ Roadblocking U.S. energy production from federal lands,
thereby giving Russia’s chief export greater value,
§ Withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq and allowing Russia to
become the main influence in the region.
There
also another problem: there is no evidence that, other than hacking
computers, Putin actually did anything that in any way actually influenced even
a single vote. The most the DNC can point to is that some Clinton quotes may
have been leaked, although even that is open to question.
In
contrast, during the campaign, Trump pushed concepts that were virtual daggers
pointed at the heart of Moscow. The first was the undoing of the dramatic
and dangerous cuts to the U.S. defense budget. The second was a promise to
reinvigorate the U.S. energy sector, which could cause significant harm to the
Russian economy. The third was a reversal of Obama’s intentional
reduction of U.S. leadership across the globe.
Much
was made of Trump’s attempt to get NATO countries to spend more, claiming that
pleased Moscow because it opened up a wedge between Europe and the U.S.
The assertion doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, in large part because several
European nations now express a willingness to beef up their defenses. Having a
greater defense against Russia’s increasingly powerful military is not exactly
a result Putin would want.
Comments
If
Liberals were smarter, they would have known that there would be political
consequences to the failure of the federal government to govern itself. The consequences include Trump. Voters didn’t want our US economy decimated
by socialists and globalists. Trump articulated every grievance Americans had
and is redressing those grievances with speed.
These are issues that were consciously hidden by politicians and the
media, but we voters knew about them.
Trump ran
against the rest of the world and for the American voters and Trump won. The
Democrats and the media either need to regroup or be dumped on the ash heap of
political history.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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