https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/08/politics/donald-trump-syria-assad/index.html



I predict the cult will blame Obama for not putting boots on the ground in Syria, which they have been against up until this point. Their doublethink will defend future actions they voted against in the election. The HRC is too hawkish and Trump is a dove people like Mr. Shill.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Trump's latest tweet blamed Obama.

Good on Trump though for finally saying something negative about Putin. I think this might be the first time he's ever done it.

This post was edited by IceMage on Apr 8 2018 09:44am

actions speak louder than words..we just hit them with a shitload of sanctions....but where is the good old Trump works for putin bit? tired of spinning the same old bullshit yarn?

They do... but Trump is a guy who criticizes anyone and everyone, so his unwillingness to criticize Putin was and is suspicious. It's not like this narrative got created in a vacuum.

in his words to which i believe it's better that our two nations get along rather than fighting

Why is Russia and Putin special in this regard? It'd be great if we could get along with everyone, especially adversaries like Russia, China and Iran. Trump will criticize China and Iran, he'll criticize the leader of our closest ally(Theresa May), but he's chosen not to criticize Russia(and especially Putin) until recently.

Trump has no message discipline on anything.... except Russia and Putin.

This post was edited by IceMage on Apr 8 2018 10:00am

i think any country that has over 2k nukes should be treated special...You're a grown adult should I really have to explain that to you?

because china is a bigger threat to our geopolitical future dominance than russia. We can leverage our relationship with russia to hedge against chinese influence. And china is who benefits when america and russia are at each others throats

Russia has a bunch of nukes so the president of the United States can't criticize them for bad behavior? I don't see how that makes any sense.



That's true, but I don't think there's any good reason to think that's why Trump won't criticize Putin/Russia. Trump doesn't play 4d chess... he doesn't play chess at all, he's stumbling from one issue to the next.

Relationships between countries are a two way street, and Putin is making it impossible for us to get back to something normal. Also, I don't know that refusing to criticize Putin publicly is a good strategy. Practically every Russia or Putin expert I've heard or read says that Putin is a man who responds to strength.

This post was edited by IceMage on Apr 8 2018 10:43am

Trump's been doing the geopolitical equivalent of crushing putin's handshake and smiling at him, hasn't he? The stuff about sanctions and airstrikes in syria gets reported, and blowing up russian citizens defending an oil field instead of scampering off is a pretty big deal, but a lot of the more potent measures aimed at russia have flown under the radar- shipping lethal arms to ukraine, sending US natural gas to the old soviet bloc to wean them off russian dependence and selling patriot missiles to poland. Trump's made it clear he doesn't want to antagonize russia and would prefer if they played nice, but seems to be straddling a line between avoiding escalating into a new cold war and still playing a hard line. I'm not sure a war of words would help that.