12 Ways Trump Is a Nightmare for Putin
By Daniel Ashman / American Thinker
I am frustrated to still hear the silliness about how President Donald Trump is soft on Russia. It continues to be a mainstream talking point, repeated by congresspeople pushing impeachment and pundits like Max “I would rather vote for Stalin than Trump” Boot. Our friends the Germans even made this disgusting parade float of a Russian bear sodomizing Trump.
Their argument is insane. Not tethered to reality. A supreme attempt to gaslight normal people.
Below is a list of all the ways that Trump’s policies are anathema to Moscow. They are coordinated and deliberate, to help America and undermine Russia. Trump may not be saying as many mean things about Putin as the media say about Trump, but he has taken the concrete actions of a dead serious man.
As a point of contrast, please keep in mind that ex-president Barack Obama’s pro-Russian policies included granting Russia permanent normal trade relations, ushering the Russians into the WTO, and a “reset button.” It would be easy to go on at length about how Obama helped Russia.
Without further ado, the list:
1. Trump is unleashing the American energy industry: more fracking, more offshore drilling, and approval for the Keystone Pipeline. This is important because 52% of the Russian government budget comes from sales of oil and gas. Increased American supplies of fossil fuels will push global prices down, costing Putin many billions of dollars on a recurring basis.
2. Trump took the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement (PCA).
Putin was a strong backer of the PCA. He said, “[C]limate change has become one of the gravest challenges that humanity is facing” and called for a legally binding treaty. He has a few motivations for this. First, each time the U.S. submits to international treaties and organizations, Russia gains control over America. Second, as part of the PCA, Obama wanted to donate $3 billion to a Green Climate Fund. These international funds are ripe for plunder by Russia. Finally, the PCA would hurt American coal and help Russian gas.
3. Trump is permitting American companies to export liquefied natural gas. The first shipment arrived in Poland in June of 2017. A Polish diplomat described it as a “milestone.” This will help Poland avoid “energy bullying” from Russia. In addition to weakening Russia’s position politically, it will, once again, hurt Russia economically. (Angela Merkel and Germany prefer Russian gas.)
Note how many policies Trump has coordinated that hurt Russia economically in a significant way. Trump is, as Theodore Roosevelt would say, “speaking softly and carrying a big stick.”
4. Trump approved a deal to sell Poland an anti-missile defense system. Russia will become weaker politically because it will have less leverage to blackmail Poland. Russia’s comparative military strength is being diminished. It will have a harder time attacking Poland – a threat the Polish people live with daily and take seriously.
5. Trump has approved the sale of $47 billion’s worth of defensive arms to Ukraine. This was a move that “lawmakers of both parties have been urging for years.” Russians will die because of this. Insofar as Putin cares about dead Russians, or fails to hide the casualties he caused to his people, this will hurt him.
6. The American military recently killed up to 300 Russian troops in Syria.
7. Trump has shifted America’s foreign policy to become dramatically more hawkish toward a number of countries who act as proxies for Russia. The clearest example is North Korea. Russia has an extensive history of providing North Korea with weapons, including nuclear weapons. (Please view this interview with world-class expert Peter Pry for details.) Russia even threatens to go to war with America to defend North Korea. Notwithstanding Russian intimidation, Trump has pushed a policy of steadily increasing pressure on North Korea via sanctions. Trump even explicitly called out Russia for its help for North Korea. (That’s a fact America’s mainstream media have been hiding for decades).
Iran is another country that works with the backing of Russia. Trump has begun rolling back the dangerous and misnamed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. When Iranians began revolting against the ayatollah, Trump offered them the full moral support of America. Trump has also taken steps to strengthen America’s alliance with enemies of Iran.
Yet another example is Venezuela. Russia is a good friend to Venezuela. The Russians supplied Hugo Chávez and have since been supplying Nicolas Maduro with military weapons as well as billions of dollars. In response, Trump is upping sanctions. He has even threatened an American military intervention.
In sum, Trump is containing and hurting the many arms of a devious Russian foreign policy.
8. Trump closed three Russian diplomatic compounds.
9. Trump placed sanctions on Russians.
10. Trump is pushing for a stronger military. This includes auditing the Pentagon to remove waste and corruption, as well as significantly increased spending. Russian governance and foreign policy are still based on hard power. American military might is a key to respond to and deter any actions Russia may take that threaten American national security.
11. Trump has repeatedly pushed for modernization of America’s nuclear forces. With a utopian view of the world, many previous presidents had allowed America’s nuclear deterrent to become “dangerously obsolete.” Russia, on the other hand, has been hard at work. The Russian defense minister recently stated that Russia will “continue a massive program of nuclear rearmament.” A modernized American nuclear arsenal is essential to deter Russia and protect Americans.
12. Finally, and most important of all, Trump is doing his best to restore the confidence of Americans in America. This is the basis for any success we may have.
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Whistler Blowers, Insiders
The military adventurism of the USA is comparable to England’s notorious historical scorecard. That is what will cause trouble being that the USA continues with the embrace of the Bush Preemptive Strike Doctrine that authorizes invasion, violent coups, killing leaders and using depleted uranium munitions on the unfortunate populations.
You are dealing with a self-made man with a punk LEECH who stole a Superbowl Ring for his “boy” collection.
We don’t need more ways to screw up our environment to get what should be an obsolete source of energy.
If we had listened to Jimmy Carter, we would be heating and lighting with wind, solar, and fuel cell techonolgies and our cars would be running on sugar cane like in Brazil.
We are in this situation and 911 happened because of reagan, who undid everything President Carter did to get us out from under oil.
Wind, Solar and Fuel cell technology are all more expensive and worse for the environment than oil is an 9/11 happened because your powers that be needed a never ending war against the bogeyman under your bed.
This is just more bullshit from our social engineering media aimed at the herd.
There are far better means of getting energy, and wind and solar do very little damage to the earth. At most turbines kill a few birds, and solar takes nothing from the earth and damages nothing.
Jimmy Carter warned us that 911 was coming back in the 70s, and tried to get us out from under the clutches of OPEC. As a result of idiot reagan undoing President Clintons accomplishments, we continued for decades to enrich the middle east, and reagan made them a terrorist nightmare to be reckoned with.
Again, had we listened to Mr Carter and left his aid to find alternative sources of fuel ( money reagan hijacked to feed the military industrial complex with) Saudi Arabia would never have had the wealth to have the presence they have on the worlds political scene and likely not attacked us, and we would not have attacked the wrong two countries and the Arab nation at large which has cost us the petrodollar and put the dollar in the discount bin.
A few birds like previously protected and still endangered bald eagles but, what-the-hey, they’re only your national icon, no biggie. and wind turbines don’t make enough money to pay their own maintenance costs so when the subsidies dry up the farms are abandoned quick smart.
Then i guess solar panels are made of angel dust not plastic, which is made from oil by the way, and silica. Try breathing silica dust before you tell me how benign it is.
You have enough oil and never needed Saudi Arabia but you’re greedy and wanted the cheapest energy source you could find and the ignorant sand niggers were only too happy to oblige.
If you’re interested, Rockledge, here’s a reputable study…
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7f40/034e4c94626f50196c85ac2223814f4eb6e6.pdf
… that shows Natural Gas as the cheapest with pulverised coal following a close second. Nukes, wind and solar are further down the list in terms of both cost and carbon footprint.
Natural gas, hmmm, well as it happens the US flares off more natural gas than required to meet all your electricity needs.
More natural gas flares…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-has-more-gas-flares-than-any-country/
… than any other country.
We certainly shouldn’t be allowing jets in the air if that is the case.
“Studies” are like statistics. The results are often what the studiers desire.
Drug companies do “studies”. Look at how fucked up our drug dependant society is. Drugs the FDA approves and that the drug companies rob the public blind for.
You can make statistics and studies say anything you want them to.
And every left idiot is still fighting Pres. Trump. Shame.
Both parties politicians are fighting him, and it isn’t just the left ” idiots”, who comprise a very small part of the “left” , it is most of the left and right, because most among both have been brainwashed into thinking this is some kind of bizarre struggle of ideals from two extremes.