Russia suffers some sanctions already, and the new sanctions are in the making.
And yet, the President-Elect have been praising the Russia’s Dictator for his wisdom, and handling of the political challenges. He has been diminishing (and previously totally dismissing) the role Russia played in hacking, and other attacks on the US, and the other allies’ affairs (hacking the newspapers around the Europe etc.).
We all know these facts, and, frankly, I still can’t believe that such a person could have been elected President of the USA.
After so much denying the merit of the findings of the CIA and other agencies about the Russian actions, Trump threatens to remove the sanctions imposed on Russia for their actions against our democracy.
On January 14 in the interview for The Wall Street Journal Trump had audacity to utter such a statement:
“If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody's doing some really great things?”(1*).
Yes, we have to admit, that Russia is a force, which does some stabilizing action in the Middle East. Yet, it’s not by humanitarian means, but indiscriminating ‘extermination’ of the civilian population in Syria, helping the tyrant like Basher Assad, who otherwise would be deposed by his ‘subjects’. Recently Russia teamed up with another ‘going-dictatorial’ force in the region - Turkey, which instead of fighting the ISIS (or I should say ‘beside’), uses this opportunity to decimate their Kurdish opposition.
Proving by his actions in Syria, in the recent months, that he was a War Criminal, Putin is probably the last person on the planet who could have been called:”…somebody's doing some really great things”. Even if he is an ‘ally’ in the fight with ISIS, no one can overlook his absolutely illegal (and condemned by the whole civilized world) annexation of the Crimea, and an attempt to steal at least part of the Ukraine. Let’s not forget the situation in Georgia and a fear which he rises in all Baltic States, who gained the sovereignty from the USSR in a peaceful (mostly) process, and do not want to fall under the New, Revived Russian Empire.
Unfortunately, the United States have had in the past some politicians, who disregarded the obvious aggression against the neighboring countries, and wanted to talk and negotiate with the tyrant… I am talking about Joseph P. Kennedy Sr - the father of so beloved President John F Kennedy, who rejected the warnings of the prominent Member of Parliament Winston Churchill that any compromise with Nazi Germany was impossible. Instead, Kennedy supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's apparent policy of appeasement. Throughout 1938, while the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany and Austria intensified, Kennedy attempted to arrange a meeting with Adolf Hitler.[39] Shortly before the Nazi aerial bombing of British cities began in September 1940, Kennedy once again sought a personal meeting with Hitler, again without the approval of the Department of State, "to bring about a better understanding between the United States and Germany”.(*2)
Let’s think for a moment how misguided this lack of judgement on part of Kennedy was…
President Elect Donald J Trump is doing the same, stupid mistake diminishing the danger, which is associated with letting Putin do what he wants.
I only hope that being surrounded by the people (who he hand picked himself), who are more realistic about Russia and the thread it constitutes, will influence the change in his thinking direction.
If not… God, save us all.
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1* - http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/13/politics/donald-trump-russia-sanctions-taiwan/
2* - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Sr.
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