Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "'Trump is a Russian asset' | Craig Unger" video.

And is that a bad thing? Surely an alliance between thee two great powers is highly desirable.
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@briangriffiths937 I don't understand this obsession with GDP as some kind of measure of strength or greatness. Possession of nuclear arsenals is possibly of greater significance in this context.
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@TreforTreforgan I don't think any nation is in the crosshairs. Both the USA and Russia seem to have resigned themselves to the fact that dominance is brought at too high a price.
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@BohemianRaichu What if he is planning to join with Russia and then for both to ally with China, after an appropriate period of jostling? I think this must be at the back of his mind.
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@boozolini4465 I don't see why. It would remove a great deal of tension and lead to trade deals of benefit to both countries, and to the rest of the world.
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@atso1981 I think you misjudge the situation, and are unduly pessimistic. NATO was created to protect the West against Soviet Communist expansion. The collapse of the SU has made it irrelevant. Furthermore, Putin has merely protected Russian interests in Chechnya, Georgia and now in Ukraine - not sought to extend them. It seems to me that globalists have a need for perpetual war in order to advance their ideology. Neither Trump nor Putin adhere to this. Your assessment of history is incorrect, by the way. Russia was never formally in an alliance with NATO, but there was a period of cooperation. In 1997, the NATO-Russia Founding Act was signed, establishing the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council to foster dialogue and collaboration on security issues This was replaced in 2002 by the NATO-Russia Council, which aimed to deepen cooperation. However, Russia did not have a "seat" in NATO, as it was not a member of the alliance. Instead, the agreements were about partnership and cooperation, not membership. While the Founding Act emphasized principles like refraining from the use of force and respecting sovereignty, it did not explicitly require Russia to allow former Soviet states to join NATO. NATO's open-door policy allowed countries to apply for membership if they met certain criteria, and decisions were made by NATO members. Relations between NATO and Russia deteriorated significantly after events like the Russo-Georgian War in 2008 and the annexation of Crimea in 2014, leading to the suspension of practical cooperation. Both sides are at fault in the collapse of these agreements. It is foolish to continually blame things on personalities.
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@robertgierschick6819 Absolutely not. Grow up.
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@SamDude-cu2jb You totally misjudge the situation as you do Donald Trump. The fact that you cannot comment without making absurd historical analogies simply demonstrates your intellectual inferiority.
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@DrewRoshambo You set too much store by the wonders of democracy. Russia cannot deal with it and America has allowed it to be commandeered by war-hungry woke globalists.
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@davidrumbold-ej6ns The three big nations have to sort things out between them. One has to hope that they can do so without coming to blows.
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@ThePedroski007 I don't understand this obsession with GDP. Russia has a huge black economy which doesn't show up in official figures and lots and lots of nuclear weapons, as well as one of the largest reserves of fossil fuels and rare earth minerals in the world.
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@TreforTreforgan Trump's bluster is a far, far cry from the idea of military intervention! And Putin has no plans to extend Russia, merely to re-incorporate parts of it mistakenly included in the new country of Ukraine. What we have to remember is that both these men are in their 70s. We should really be worrying about the policies and ambitions of those who may succeed them. Empires based on military conquest are - I am optimistic enough to believe - things of the past. Neither Trump nor Putin seem either desirous or equipped to somehow be involved their final flowering.
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@Bobby-xr4bo But not by force. The fact that he "didn't rule it out" is a long, long way from making it a cornerstone of policy.
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@IISveirII Dark times are already here - and have been here for a while.
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@elrose1498 It didn't happen like that. This is just a false version of history designed to make Russia look bad. In any case that was then and this is now and circumstances have changed drastically.
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@Bobby-xr4bo I don't think "economic force" could be interpreted as "starving into submission"! It just means making one option more attractive than others. In any case, Trump is only half-serious. As with sanctions and tariffs, he just creates an atmosphere of uncertainty which he believes he can manipulate to America's advantage.
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@boozolini4465 There is no war of aggression. Putin is simply ensuring that the new country of Russia survives in the face of constant attempts by the West to destroy and undermine it. All the wars he has been involved in, as in Ukraine at the moment, have been in response to Western aggression of various kinds which, if left unchecked, would have led to economic and strategic losses to Russia. Russia is not alone in attempting to gain influence in parts of Africa and other corners of the world. China and America are at it too - and they all use very similar methods.
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@Bobby-xr4bo I think I can grasp it as much as anyone. He is setting it back on the right track after decades of it becoming corrupted by woke globalist warmongering. (I am not American, by the way. I am English.)
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@Tassie-Roamer They want authority tempered by proper democratic restraint -something which they have lost in recent years.
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@Tassie-Roamer Does a democratically elected government have no authority then?
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Trump and Russia share a common history - of being constantly and unfairly maligned. No wonder they are allies.
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