As Russia Provokes, Trump Remains Silent

9/3/20
Moscow has been busy. In the last week, the U.S. military has intercepted six Russian jets “loitering” off the coast of Alaska, while over the Black Sea, two Russian planes crossed a B-52 bomber’s nose at less than 100 feet. In Syria, a Russian vehicle sideswiped a U.S. armored vehicle, injuring seven soldiers amid what one U.S. official called a spike in provocative behavior by Russian forces in the country. And on Aug. 20, Russia’s opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was poisoned using the same nerve agent used to sicken former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in England two years ago — an attack believed by Western intelligence officials to have been carried out by Russian agents. President Donald Trump has been silent on the sudden spate of provocations by Russia. Although a National Security Council spokesman called the poisoning “completely reprehensible” in a Wednesday statement, Trump himself hasn’t spoken publicly on the matter since saying “we’re looking at it” the day after Navalny fell ill.

Trump’s reluctance to publicly condemn provocations by Moscow has become a point of contention in the run-up to the 2020 election. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday accused Trump of “subservience” to Russian president Vladimir Putin, specifically criticizing the president for failing to raise the issue of reported Russian bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan during multiple phone calls with Putin. The dynamic recalls Trump’s reaction to the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election and is working to sway November’s polling as well. The president has consistently and repeatedly taken Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s side in the matter. Trump’s consistent public defense of Putin has long raised concerns in Washington, with critics accusing him of cozying up to the autocratic leader at the expense of U.S. interests. Current and former officials say Trump’s personal sensitivity to any suggestion that Russia may have helped him win his office has complicated efforts to hold Moscow accountable for behavior the U.S. government considers objectionable.

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Rogue Valley said:

As Russia Provokes, Trump Remains Silent

The president continues a pattern of deference to Moscow amid unsafe air operations, a roadway collision that injured U.S. troops, and the poisoning of a Putin critic in Germany.

Joe Biden should continue to publicly hammer Trump over his subservience to Vladimir Putin. It resembles a BDSM relationship.

A very possible reason Trump is fighting so tenaciously to conceal his tax/banking information is that he owes millions to Russian banks who lent him money when Western banks refused due to Trumps many bankruptcies.

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Moderate Right said:

Ummmmmmmmmm, they haven't been silent at all regarding Belarus. Seems to me the left are being silent ever since we heard China and Iran are trying to help Biden.

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Moderate Right said:

Ummmmmmmmmm, they haven't been silent at all regarding Belarus.

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Rogue Valley said:

Russia Continues Interfering in Election to Try to Help Trump, U.S. Intelligence Says | The New York Times

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Moderate Right said:

There is no Trump/Russia collusion.

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Rogue Valley said:

Trump has indeed been silent on Mr. Navalny and Belarus.

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noonereal said:

just a ton of coincidences?

lol

smarten the **** up

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CaughtInThe said:

Trump has to toe the Russian Mafia line.

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Moderate Right said:

So what? That's what countries do. That's what the US does. There is no Trump/Russia collusion.

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Rogue Valley said:

That's not what the Senate Intelligence Committee report said.

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