Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Karl Rove blasts Schumer: He's an economic illiterate" video.
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Antonio Perales del Hierro Nice sarcasm. Recognizing the superior policy positions Trump had on immigration, diplomacy, trade, economics, free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms doesn't mean I'm giving him a tongue bath. Not only superior policy positions, but superior deeds. Kim Jong Un barked at Trump. Trump barked back, to the shock and dismay of neocons and neolibs everywhere, and next thing you know, he's meeting f2f with N. Korea's president, and they each cross from North to South and South to North. There was talk of reconciliation and even some steps toward reunification between and of the Koreas.
If not for sniping from neocons and neolibs, we could be on much friendlier terms with Russia, right now. Putin is doing a lot of things right. He still has the same territorial headaches and ambitions that Russian leaders have had since Peter the Great modernized the nation by force of personality and utter ruthlessness. That's always at the core of Russia's will to survive.
I'm still suspicious as hell of them when it comes to Ukraine, Crimea, and all things Mediterranean-related. Part of that is natural distrust of their territorial/imperial ambitions. But right now, all things considered, Russia's doing more right by their people than our leaders are. They honor the religious institutions and speak of a better future. They have a rock-solid currency, backed by commodities. They don't run deficits. That makes them more honest than our government, which has CONDITIONED us not to save, by fiat currency that erodes the value of the dollar every single day. It's outright theft which our government calls "keeping campaign promises."
Still, I don't have much doubt but that Putin's doing his bit to chip away at Ukraine's territory and sovereignty. The USA did an extremely poor job handling the fall of the Soviet Empire. Profiteers - may's well call 'em carpet-baggers - feasted on the bones of the former Soviet Union, turning members of the former Soviet Apparat into oligarchs of a new, chaotic order.
I distrust the unchecked powers of the Russian president. It's one thing in Hungary or Austria or some other European nation of more or less homogeneous composition. It's another thing in a nation the size of Russia. But near as I can tell, without claiming to be a scholar, is that Putin's the closest thing to a statesman amongst the superpowers. Helsinki was Trump, Putin, and a bunch of pretenders.
At the time of the Helsinki Summit, Trump was embroiled in RussiaGate, which has since proven to be totally fabricated. When asked whose intel he trusted more, he said "Putin's." it's plain as the nose on your face. We KNOW that most of the conspiracy theories that got ANY play were conspiracy theories from his opponents. But you of course believe the opposite, because you lack true discernment.
Anyway, free writing is fun.
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