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Post by Daniel on Dec 18, 2015 9:10:33 GMT -5
Vladimir Putin Endorses Donald Trump for President
Christine Rousselle | Dec 17, 2015
"He is a bright personality, a talented person, no doubt about it," the Russian leader said. "It is not up to us to appraise his positive sides, it is up to the U.S. voters. but, as we can see, he is an absolute leader in the presidential race."
Putin added: "He is saying that he wants to move to a different level of relations with Russia, to a closer, deeper one. How can we not welcome that? Of course, we welcome that."
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Post by Daniel on Dec 20, 2015 12:28:43 GMT -5
Trump Seeks to Make Russia Great Again
Cliff Kincaid — December 19, 2015
Donald Trump has hired an attractive young woman to spin the news in his favor. But it’s a difficult job, especially when a cold-blooded killer endorses your candidate. On CNN on Thursday night, Katrina Pierson attempted to soften the impact of the Russian president’s endorsement of—or high praise for—Trump for U.S. president.
“This wasn’t an endorsement,” she said. “This was simply just a powerful man recognizing someone in the United States running for president who is also a powerful man. It was not an endorsement.”
That “powerful man” in Russia is a former KGB spy whose regime is murdering innocent people in Ukraine and Syria. It is the same regime whose terrorists in Eastern Ukraine shot down a Malaysian airplane and killed almost 300 people.
Putin said about Trump, “He is a very flamboyant man, very talented, no doubt about that…He is the absolute leader of the presidential race, as we see it today. He says that he wants to move to another level of relations, to a deeper level of relations with Russia. How can we not welcome that? Of course we welcome it.”
It certainly sounded like something approaching an endorsement.
Trump provided a statement to ABC News saying, “It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond.” Trump went on: “I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect.”
Highly respected? Does Trump not understand how the Kremlin manipulates the media and eliminates opposition political figures and independent journalists?
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www.aim.org/aim-column/trump-seeks-to-make-russia-great-again/
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Post by Daniel on Dec 20, 2015 13:13:38 GMT -5
Trump on Putin: He's strong and powerful
By Ben Ariel
12/20/2015
After Russian President Vladimir Putin lavished praise on Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, the billionaire returned the favor, praising Russia's leader as forceful and popular.
"I think that he's a strong leader, he's a powerful leader," Trump told MSNBC television on Friday, in comments quoted by the AFP news agency. "He's represented his country."
"When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia," Trump added.
He was speaking a day after Putin described the American billionaire as "talented" and "outstanding" in a press conference.
Trump brushed off the assertion by the show's co-host Joe Scarborough that Putin "kills journalists and political opponents and invades countries."
"He's running his country and at least he's a leader, unlike, you know, what we have in this country," he responded, according to AFP.
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www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/205163
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Post by Daniel on Jan 15, 2016 19:21:27 GMT -5
Attacking Trump for the Wrong Reasons
Cliff Kincaid — January 14, 2016
President Obama and Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley teamed up to attack Donald Trump on Tuesday night, even though Haley was supposed to offer the “Republican response” to Obama’s State of the Union address. Together they have probably only succeeded in making Trump more popular. They missed the Achilles heel of the New York billionaire—his soft views on Russia and his reckless undermining of U.S. allies like South Korea.
John Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., has identified the major threats to the United States as Russia, China, ISIS, Iran and North Korea. What does Trump think about this?
Obama’s address included a line referring to politicians who “insult Muslims,” clearly a reference to Trump’s vocal attacks on radical Muslim terrorists. Americans like the fact that Trump has identified the terrorists by name, but he only goes so far in describing the nature of the problem. He attacks the Iran nuclear deal without highlighting Iran’s sponsor, Russia. Indeed, he seems to welcome Russian military involvement in Syria, on the grounds (as claimed by Putin) that the Russians are attacking ISIS.
Trump speaks in broad-brush terms that seem to depict global Islam as the enemy. The fact is that some Muslims are America’s natural allies in the global conflict. Steve Chambers has written an excellent analysis in the American Thinker about fears of a Russian-Iranian invasion of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf oil-producing states. Of course, Saudi Arabia has not been a reliable U.S. ally in the past, and it has bankrolled radical Islamist theology and terrorism around the world. But if the U.S. avoids supporting Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Muslim Gulf states, under those circumstances we would be left with even fewer friends in the Middle East. It is significant that the Moscow propaganda channel Russia Today (RT) has been relentlessly attacking Saudi Arabia. RT helps identify Russian targets of opportunity.
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www.aim.org/aim-column/attacking-trump-for-the-wrong-reasons/
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Post by Daniel on Mar 20, 2016 10:57:36 GMT -5
Trump’s Pro-Russian Policy Threatens Israel
Cliff Kincaid — March 16, 2016
Donald J. Trump has received the endorsements of conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Something doesn’t make sense here.
Schlafly has always been a realist on the matter of the aggressive foreign policy of the old Soviet Union and now Russia. On the other hand, as noted by Josh Rogin at Bloomberg View, Trump has a “pro-Russian foreign policy” that could have something to do with the businessman’s history of trying to do business in Russia.
Trump is threatening riots if he doesn’t get the Republican nomination. But rank-and-file conservatives who make up the Republican Party could themselves protest if Trump walks out of the Cleveland convention with the nomination. Indeed, they could walk out on Trump and back a third party conservative candidate. It’s not just Trump’s pro-Russian views. It’s how his support for Russia and Putin threatens Israel.
The Forward has run an article claiming that Trump has the strongest Jewish ties of all the GOP candidates. He has raised money for Jewish causes and members of his family are Jewish. But none of this can justify his support for Putin’s Russia. It is Russia that is backing Israel’s enemies in the region, most notably Iran.
Trump can’t have it both ways by supporting Russia while attacking Iran. The two regimes are engaged in a military alliance.
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www.aim.org/aim-column/trumps-pro-russian-policy-threatens-israel/
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Post by Daniel on Apr 8, 2016 8:57:39 GMT -5
Donald J. Trump and the Moscow Establishment
Cliff Kincaid — April 6, 2016
We read over and over again how Donald J. Trump is running a campaign against “the establishment” in the Republican Party. The term sounds horrible and dangerous. But when you seriously think about it, the Republican Party “establishment” has one purpose—to maintain the party as a viable opposition vehicle to the plans of the Democratic Party. This is what a two-party political system should be about. Without two major political parties, America’s democratic form of government collapses and the United States becomes a socialist one-party state. The Trump candidacy threatens to destroy the two-party system.
Trump and his allies have made the term “establishment” into a dirty word. But Trump, an outsider with a history of supporting the other party, is trying to stage a hostile takeover of the GOP. The apparent plan is to make the Republican Party into a carbon copy of the European far-right “populist” parties that serve Russian interests. Some of these, like the National Front of France, are Russian-funded.
Interestingly, Donald J. Trump has a cordial relationship with the Moscow establishment headed by Vladimir Putin, but despises the Republican establishment in the U.S. For example, Trump has nothing but contempt for Mitt Romney, who ran against President Obama in 2012. For all his faults, Romney at least recognized the dangers posed by Russia. By contrast, Trump talks about a strategic alliance with Putin.
Putin’s network of shell companies and tax havens has recently been exposed in the so-called Panama Papers as a method by which he protects billions of dollars in personal wealth. One has to wonder whether Putin also maintains a global network of agents and sympathizers to make sure the Free World wilts in the face of Russian military aggression in Europe and the Middle East. One would have to be naïve to think no such network exists. Indeed, Trump is clearly a part of it, for he attacks NATO and various U.S. allies, including South Korea and Japan, and receives the open support of the Kremlin and its agents. Foreign intervention in an American presidential campaign has never been this blatant.
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www.aim.org/aim-column/donald-j-trump-and-the-moscow-establishment/
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Post by Daniel on Apr 30, 2016 8:03:56 GMT -5
Trump Promises “Peace in Our Time”
by Cliff Kincaid on April 30, 2016
David Horowitz has decided to throw in the towel in the presidential contest. The former New Leftist turned conservative activist and deep thinker has apparently concluded that Donald J. Trump will be the GOP nominee and that conservatives have to rally behind him. But one strange omission in Trump’s “reassuring” speech continues to cause controversy and reverberations around the world. Trump failed to even mention Russian aggression in Ukraine.
How could Trump not mention the one country in Europe, Ukraine, which has been recently invaded by Russian forces and a part of which is under foreign occupation? Even if you are so callous as not to care about the freedom of the people of Ukraine, what about the fact that this is the country in which pro-Russian forces fired a missile that brought down a civilian airliner, Malaysian flight MH17, killing all 283 passengers on board? The blood on Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s hands was apparent when his nation vetoed a United Nations proposal to prosecute the perpetrators.
No wonder Trump boasted that Putin has called him a genius. The New York businessman can sound tough while articulating a policy of pandering to, and appeasement of, Russia. And some conservatives are buying it. This is not genius but deliberate deception.
Commenting on Trump’s “reassuring” foreign policy speech, the usually astute Horowitz said it was “a step towards satisfying his conservative critics…” He said Trump had rejected “the neo-conservative dream of democratizing the world” and had instead emphasized an “old-fashioned conservatism” based on “limited foreign policy goals and stability, as the framework of peace.”
Under Obama’s similar limited foreign policy goals, Russia is making major gains, threatening the peace of Europe. Its allies Syria and Iran are on the march in the Middle East. The “old-fashioned conservatism” of someone like Ronald Reagan would never have glossed over the gains made by our enemies. But Trump did.
Horowitz added, “Can’t wait for those Trump-Hillary debates,” a signal from his perspective that the race is over on both the Republican and Democratic sides.
From this perspective, it looks like a debate between two security risks who have no real understanding of the major threats to America and our allies.
Horowitz wrote, “If Mitt Romney had given the speech that Donald Trump did today, and if he had followed its strategy during the third presidential debate with Obama on foreign policy, he would have won the 2012 election.” Romney at least recognized Russia as a geopolitical threat. Trump sounds like Obama or Hillary Clinton, who engineered a disastrous reset with Russia.
In retrospect, Romney looks like a statesman, ahead of his time and aware of the dangers we face. Trump has learned no lessons from the recent history of Russian aggression.
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www.aim.org/aim-column/trump-promises-peace-in-our-time/
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Post by Daniel on Nov 5, 2016 8:33:33 GMT -5
Russian media backs Trump, questions US democracy
By HOWARD AMOS November 5, 2016
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian state-owned media does little to hide its preferences in the US presidential election.
News reports about the race for the White House on Russian television devote most of their time to elaborating on Donald Trump’s allegations that Hillary Clinton is corrupt and the election is rigged.
“Clinton has a choice. Either she gets the presidency or she goes behind bars,” pro-Kremlin journalist Dmitry Kiselyov said during his flagship Sunday program on the state-controlled Vesti channel. Unlike the anti-establishment Trump, he told viewers, Clinton has the full backing of the US security services, “oligarchic” corporations and the media.
Other reports on the Kremlin-controlled TV channels that are the primary source of news for most Russians have highlighted concerns about Clinton’s health, linked her to sex scandals and suggested the Democratic Party is “panicking” over recent polls.
“My colleagues at these channels completely back Trump and show all the bad things about Clinton,” said Aleksei Venediktov, the editor of liberal Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy.
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www.timesofisrael.com/russian-media-backs-trump-questions-us-democracy/
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Post by sevenofnine on Nov 5, 2016 11:54:09 GMT -5
Of course they don't like Hillary they think she is cheat also sexism to it Daniel
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