Politics Can our Republican friends here please explain something...

The Russians built bases in the middle east for the first time in decades under Obama's watch. Just one of several times Obama got punked by Putin. Remember the infamous red line in the sand?

Meanwhile, we recently bombed and killed dozens of Russians in Syria.


Left wing think tank:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/03/05/dont-rehabilitate-obama-on-russia/

But not everything is relative; we should not slip into collective amnesia over the Obama administration’s weak and underwhelming response to Russian aggression.

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Nevertheless, the president resisted calls from Congress, foreign policy experts, and his own cabinet to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine that would have raised the costs on Russia and helped Kyiv defend itself against Russian military incursion into the Donbas. As Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg, he viewed any deterrent moves by the United States as fundamentally not credible, because Russia’s interests clearly trumped our own; it was clear to him they would go to war much more readily that the United States ever would, and thus they had escalatory dominance. Doing more simply made no sense to Obama.

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Has the Trump administration been tougher on Russia than Obama, as the president claims? Trump’s own boasting feels like a stretch, especially given how he seems to have gone out of his way to both disparage NATO and praise Putin during the course of his first year in office. Still, many of his administration’s good policies have been obscured by the politics of the Mueller investigation and the incessant furor kicked up by the president’s tweets. As Tom Wright has noted, the Trump administration seems to pursue two policy tracks at the same time: the narrow nationalism of the president’s inflammatory rhetoric openly clashing with the seriousness of his administration’s official policy decisions.​

Who is the Manchurian Candidate, really?

Trump did provide arms to Ukraine. So much for him being soft on Russia, or in Putin's pocket.

Shocking that a president might have his own ideas about how to handle foreign affairs.

The bomb throwers might let this bit from Brookings, above, sink in.

 

Trump is Putin's puppet, indeed!

http://www.newsweek.com/russia-blames-obama-trump-failures-white-house-658468

BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 9/1/17 AT 11:58 AM

Russia announced Friday it plans to retaliate against the latest U.S. diplomatic attack that saw Moscow forced to shutter assets in three major U.S. cities.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told students that the White House on Thursday had given Moscow only 48 hours to close down its consulate in San Francisco and two other buildings in New York and Washington. The U.S.’s move came in response to Russia’s decision to slash the number of U.S. diplomatic staff allowed in Moscow, a strike that itself followed Congress rolling out new sanctions against Russia earlier this month. Lavrov said Russia was preparing to react strongly to President Donald Trump’s administration, but blamed Trump’s predecessor for sabotaging bilateral relations in the first place.

“But I want to say that this whole story with [the two countries] exchanging tit-for-tat sanctions was not started by us. It was started by the Obama administration to undermine U.S.-Russia relations and to not allow [President Donald] Trump to advance constructive ideas or fulfil his pre-election pledges,” Lavrov said, according to Reuters.

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In April, Trump ordered an airstrike on a Syrian military base after accusing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of conducting a chemical weapons attack on civilians, something Assad and Putin denied. The incident led to a bitter fallout between the two and an escalation of aggressions between their respective allies abroad. As the White House and the Kremlin sought rapprochemen tlast month, Congress instituted new sanctions against Russia that were reluctantly signed into law by Trump, who said relations had reached an “all-time and very dangerous low.”

 

You're defending the indefensible, and you're all over the place/rambling.

Trump had a huge part in defeating ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Russia did, too. It is a good thing.

Instead of having to fight on two fronts (Assad and ISIS), we're now in a position to deal with Assad. At least we're not drawn into their civil war and at least ISIS was defeated.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/wo...Syria-s-Assad-government/stories/201803050207

Trump’s White House considers new military action against Syria’s Assad government

 

There are a lot of policy ideas of Trump that I cannot stand and do not support. My judgements are based upon the policies themselves, not on whether I perceive his skin to be orange.

Obama was going around saying ISIS would be around for many years to come and the battles in Iraq and Syria would take many years. Trump did end those within months. ISIS controls no land at all anymore. All the land ceded to them when Obama surrendered is not in their hands anymore. The issues facing the nations who fought ISIS are now what to do with the captured ISIS fighters, many of whom came from the very nations that fought ISIS.

So far, I feel like Trump has been more dove than hawk when it comes to military might. He talks like a Libertarian about building a stronger military to defend the homeland. He reluctantly keeps our troops overseas, but at least he's listening to the generals about those things. He hasn't started wars in countries he didn't inherit hot wars in (like Obama did in Libya and a number of other places).

And much to your horror, his difference in approach does seem to have some positive effect. Don't be fooled by the main stream news - they call him a warmonger and fear nuclear armageddon (but gave Obama a pass).

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/06/south-north-korea-to-hold-summit-in-april-south-korea-says.html

 

Bring Obama back, he'll bomb those several African countries at the drop of a hat!

Somalia first, right?

 

You know those tweets are from 2013, right?