The very first time Trump dared to say that he felt NATO allies should pay more, this all of a sudden elicited a ripple of horrified cries from various circles among the Left. I remember how Mad-Maddie-Albright quickly appeared on CNN to express her deep dismay at such a statement. It was very quickly following this that suddenly rumors began surfacing that Trump's campaign manager was somehow connected to the former govt in Ukraine. They hadn't yet spun up their lie to directly claim "Trump Working For Putin", but started out with "Manafort Has Ties To Yanuckovitch" -- it's only later that they expanded it to Trump-Collusion-With-Putin. The Great TrumPutin Conspiracy Theory then gradually expanded to include those like Roger Stone. All of it based on innuendo, hearsay, and fractional facts (From Fractional Banking to Fractional Reporting to Fractional Justice System).
Are we talking about Trump or Putin? Because Putin's problems are exacerbated by his relationship to Trump, however even if Trump did not exist, Putin would still be a problem. Putin's anger toward the West date back specifically TO the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall to be specific. He was a station chief with the KGB in East Germany when it happened and he speaks of his feeling of humiliation.
NATO allies SHOULD pay more, however threatening to WITHDRAW from NATO (Trump's idea) is dangerous, however it IS exactly what Putin would want, which I find interesting.
Aha - the "enemy" and the "allies" - such a circular argument.
We label the enemy not for being a threat to us, but because he's a threat to our allies -- and of course our allies are defined as those in conflict with the enemy.
This is a totally circular argument designed to promote a particular narrative.
So you have difficulty with the fact that we have allies, fine...we'll remove the allies from the argument for your sake.
I'm not the one obsessed with fighting the Cold War -- it's your Lefty McCarthyites who are -- it's their so-called "patriotism" which is "the last refuge of scoundrels".
Here is where we must come to a FULL STOP because you appear to not understand what a McCarthyite is.
You will need to look it up and get the definition explained to you, because the term does not adapt to anything that is of the Left. But in any case, screeching about your hatred of liberals does not help your argument anyway.
We aren't fighting the Cold War. This is about America retaining sovereignty over its domestic and foreign policy independent of the wishes of Vladimir Putin.
Glad of you to mention that "Russia is no longer communist" - because there are a lot of Lefty shills who like to simply name-drop Moscow as America's "longtime enemy", along with "KGB Putin" -- both politicians and their media acolytes do this.
It looks as if you don't have the slightest idea of what a "Lefty" even is, because in the same breath you castigate liberals for being pals of communism and simultaneously accuse them of namedropping Moscow as America's enemy.
You can't have it both ways. It's impossible.
However, the classic knee-jerk reactionary paranoid accusation would be to imply that Lefties are buddy buddy with Moscow.
And that would make YOU the McCarthyite, seeing as how you're the extremist on the Right.
I almost wonder if you're just engaging in POE flip flopping, because no sane person would try to construct an argument with such pathetically lame descriptors.
Lefty McCarthyite indeed.... :lamo
