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sourmash
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FEB 24, 09:58 AM
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From Yahoo News. There's more reading at the site.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday described Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “genius” and “savvy," praising his onetime counterpart for a move that has spurred sanctions and universal condemnation from the U.S. government and its trans-Atlantic allies.
"I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that's wonderful," Trump said in a radio interview with “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show." "He used the word ‘independent’ and 'we're gonna go out and we're gonna go in and we're gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that's pretty savvy."
Trump's praise for the Russian president comes at a perilous geopolitical moment in Europe, where the Kremlin has amassed thousands of troops along the Ukrainian border. Already, Russian troops have invaded breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine that the Kremlin recognized as autonomous earlier this week. That recognition, as well as the subsequent invasion by Russian forces, prompted the U.S. and its allies in Europe to impose what President Joe Biden called "the first tranche" of sanctions against Moscow.
The comments from Trump also fit into a personal pattern of relatively warm rhetoric for Putin, especially compared to the abrasive approach that the former U.S. president employed in dealings with NATO and other U.S. allies. Trump repeatedly refused to accept the conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, at one point telling reporters at a joint press conference with Putin that he had accepted the Russian president's assurance that the Kremlin had not been involved.
Trump's 2016 campaign and its alleged ties to Russian interference efforts in that year's presidential election were the subject of an investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, a probe that Trump routinely derided as a "witch hunt." Mueller's report described numerous contacts between Trump's campaign and agents or allies of the Russian government, including solicitations for assistance, but said the evidence was insufficient to conclude that Trump or his team coordinated with or conspired to support the Kremlin's election interference effort.
Trump has long claimed that Mueller's report exonerated him and his campaign, but Mueller, in remarks to the press about his report, emphasized that his team had not cleared Trump of wrongdoing and that "if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so." And Mueller repeatedly emphasized that his investigators were unable to access key sources of evidence and were inhibited by false testimony — some of which led to criminal charges, including against longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, who was ultimately pardoned by Trump just before facing jail time.
Trump, in his Tuesday radio interview, played up his relationship with Putin and said "I think nobody probably knows him better in terms of the discussions that we have or that we’re having this morning."
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olejoedad
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FEB 24, 10:00 AM
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Did you actually hear what 45 said?
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2.5
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FEB 24, 02:58 PM
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Declaring it independent and saying they were going in to keep the peace is basically lawyer speak to me, covering his butt on paper. "Here is what happened here is what we did". Politicians lie, its what they are good at.
Be the judge of possible real reasons
[This message has been edited by 2.5 (edited 02-24-2022).]
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Fats
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FEB 24, 03:12 PM
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Tell me you don't get sarcasm, without telling me you don't get sarcasm.
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2.5
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FEB 24, 03:33 PM
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Ya that story sure feeds the hungry. "More trump news tell us more about trump being bad." Likely all the folks convinced of the media hype the past couple years before during and after Trump was prez are convinced Trump wants whatever Putin wants. I'm not sure what could be said that would change their mind, even if truth came from Biden or Obama or Hillarys mouth.... or Pelosi?
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Fats
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FEB 24, 03:45 PM
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I think a person would have to be a fool to think that Putin is stupid in any way.
You can be evil and smart.
You don't control an entire country the way he's done for so long and be stupid.
Nothing he's done has ever seemed stupid to me. It's all been calculated and very smart. He's buying the dip again and again so to speak. Has he done anything in the past decade that put his position as the leader of a world superpower in danger? No, all he's done is cement his position.
And the move into Ukraine? He outsmarted most of the world.
I've got an evil sister, truly evil, like I hope nobody here ever has to deal with. And smart. Scary smart... And savvy. But still completely evil. All these things can be, and are true at the same time.
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Wichita
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FEB 24, 04:22 PM
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 [This message has been edited by Wichita (edited 02-24-2022).]
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olejoedad
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FEB 24, 06:57 PM
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olejoedad
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FEB 24, 07:04 PM
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Fats
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FEB 24, 07:20 PM
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| quote | | “As a result, it is pivotal that Russia and China work together in this domain. Already, there is growing collaboration in strategic technologies in a number of areas, including aviation, military, and space, as a result of the challenge posed by the US. But semiconductors also need to be in the picture.” |
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Both have been members of BRICS for a while now and collaborate on quite a bit of stuff. From what I understand they have their own private communications network between all the BRICS countries. Nobody pushed them together, they came together because they have commonalities.
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