I am no fan of Hillary Clinton, but her being hawkish against a Russia, that is slipping back into a society that has been deaf dumbed and blinded -- a one party system that has a decoration of opposition. A kleptocracy being run by an elite class of KGB officers schooled under the psychopath Yuri Andropov...your reluctance to educate your readership on that fact is curious to say the least. Hillary is a pain in ass, but on this matter, a demon knows one of it's own...
A move away from the usual, are you seeing some light, I would hope you are, you are quite good with a pen. And you are intelligent, but we plant seeds here...ya know.
I like this piece, and I can see you thinking; choosing your words, not so quick to knee jerk. that is good.
That being said -- Trump is being soft and that is a curiosity, as too his election knowledge from Cambridge Analytica, and the traitor Julian Assange released a month before the election about Hillary, was in fact a political assassination orchestrated by Putin. He was afraid of power, and he watched many time the murder of Gaddafi.
But in no way is Trump escalating a the New Cold War.
That would be Putin himself a paranoid Chekist, and conspiracy theorist, who believes the west is against him, but many times a reset has been tried and he will not accept it -- and is rummaging his own economy for himself and his cronies. Just the other day food service to the military was given to one of his pocket crony's. At a inflated price.
Educate yourself on Khodorkovsky, on Nemtsov, or his murder of Journalist in Russia and recently in Africa -- on how Putin fixed the recent gubernatorial election in Primorsky Krai, allowing a gangster to buy in for $430 million...when Putin has in actuality outlawed free gubernatorial elections in his first run as president of The Russian Federation.
Why is he power so long, he has ruled since the start...you believe that is supported by the Russian people. Protest is being outlawed as we speak.
His assassinations both physically and politically of any reputable candidates of value is low. His contract killings use of Islamic strong men and barbarians like Kadyrov is contract killing for gain.
"The U.S. has been engaged in too many military conflicts in places such as Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan for too long, and should prioritize getting Americans out of harm’s way,"...
Syria has been in Russia's pocket since before Assad's father ruled, there has been cruel oppression and a politics of the 'Cult of Personality' running the country for five decades.
Afghanistan is backed by Russia, the Taliban are Islamic Socialists and has been for a long time -- they oppose free elections
As soon as that was contested by democracy is when the real fight began in Afghanistan.
Iraq was led by a despot who was against Russian expansion and turned out to be the worst -- Iraq was an oil war and a removal of a dangerous man on the world stage, but a American mistake, trying to fix a mistake...
Who should confront Putin's world expansionism and empire building?
Putin's base building in middle east; in Syria; in Chechnya; in Crimea; in Georgia; in Yemen; in Africa -- his arming head choppers like MbS, and Kadyrov, his arming American enemies with S-400's; his undermining of the Internet, his corruption of it, and cyber and economic war on the west, and his need for Russia to be an Empire again. His need for himself to hailed as a new Peter the Great.
He longs for the old days of the Soviet Union; his father is Andropov, his god is Stalin, the worse psychopath that walked this earth.
To be great again, it his aim, like during Stalin's time. A country that is large and wealthy with resources, and the peasant is back in his place, and order is brought upon the land -- but he will not share that great resource with the world, with Europe or, will not allow capitalism to explore and use it for worlds needs.
But he will use it as a tool to aid China and the BRICS nations, the enemies of America and its downfall; towards his particular brand of globalism. Which is a 1984 version.
All legitimate oligarchs have been driven out of Russia or killed. The press is owned, the media in general is owned, a new Russian Internet is being built, because he cannot control corporations like Google and Facebook, Twitter or freedom...VPN"s are outlawed, and Internet servers and Internet providers, and social media are required by law to keep all communications of their subscribers for six months. tourism is now a threat, and Americans are being arrested, and used as pawns to release criminals he sends this way.
Vladimir Putin is a zero-sum gain master, he has a judo mind, a paranoid place that he has lived in since he was a boy of eleven. He was spying and turning people in for minor infractions against the Soviet state when he was a child in Petrograd. He wanted to join the local KGB officer back then as a child. They gave his special little chores, and he was a prodigy and the golden child of Yury Andropov.
Are you understanding what I am saying Caitlin? I have been studying Russia and the KGB a long time...are you afraid of them and that is why you do not speak against them. Is that why you lie and do not tell the truth about the Kremlin and the corrupt an criminal Russian federation?
Meduza did an interesting piece on Gorbachev, an elder statesman who is a Pariah in his own country. he took his Noble prize money back then and started the first indepent newspaper. He was a great man, he was a great Russian, he helped end that Soviet sickness that oppressed a world.
Or are you one of them?