So why would Vladimir Putin be rooting for
Bernie Sanders for U.S. president?
American Thinker,
by
Monica Showalter
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
2/22/2020 6:27:23 AM
The mainstream media has been doing its level best to claim that new intelligence reports about Russian meddling in the U.S. election, helping Bernie Sanders, is really all about Russia sowing chaos, or else getting Bernie up there on the Democrat slot to re-elect Trump. It's always Trump who's the real heart of these Russian affections, see, and Bernie is just a means.
It's rubbish.
The Russians have always had Sanders at a first-draft choice for president, not just in this election but in the 2016 election, too. It was obvious enough from three things:
One, the content of the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee's emails. What did those expose?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lazyman 2/22/2020 6:35:39 AM (No. 325944)
The cousin of Communism is Socialism.
7 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/22/2020 6:46:28 AM (No. 325950)
If you notice your opponent has a weakness, you try to convince them it's a strength. Nothing is more satisfying than watching a strong enemy destroy themselves.
10 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
globalwarmer 2/22/2020 7:38:10 AM (No. 325997)
You're going to push for the person least threatening to your ambitions.
6 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 2/22/2020 7:52:51 AM (No. 326020)
"Russian meddling in the U.S. election ... is really all about Russia sowing chaos"
So chaos in the election is a bad thing? I might point out that is the dems/media/Left/DeepState/NeverTrumpers that have sown vast amounts of chaos since Trump was elected. They have lied, leaked, investigated, impeached, taken bogus legal actions, committed criminal acts, and done everything they can think of in furtherance of their "resistance".
The paltry, ridiculous efforts of the Russians, IF they exist, are miniscule by comparison and essentially ineffective. A 5th column assault is always going to be more effective that an attack from outside the defenses. We are TRYING to keep the Russians out. The system as it is constituted presently is facilitating the liberal chaos bringers efforts. If the Russians ARE making some efforts, it is more likely they are playing with the useful liberal idiots.
"Wouldn't Putin like a U.S. that's falling apart? The best way to do that is it to get someone elected who really will make it fall apart."
As stated, the Russians are pragmatists with a Communist background. The primary thing is, America is a competitor; amusingly a Capitalist notion. Under Trump, America is an UBER competitor. Under Bernie, America would be a punch drunk boxer on the ropes. Russia doesn't support Bernie because he is a Communist buddy. They support Bernie because he will be a disaster for America, their rival.
Putin supports Bernie because he is a useful idiot who will easily be crushed under Putin's heel and America along with him.
Bernie says he doesn't WANT Putin's help. That's because he doesn't want people thinking about WHY Putin might want Bernie elected. It certainly wouldn't be so that America will be better off.
As to Russia supporting Trump, WHY would they support someone who has made the US into THE apex competitor again? Expanding that, it applies to most of the world. An America ascendant, an America First is an obstacle to most countries in some way. THAT is why they oppose Trump.
13 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
walcb 2/22/2020 7:54:05 AM (No. 326024)
One of these days its going to be revealed that Obama interfered in Israel's election in an attempt to defeat Netanyahu. Oh, wait that already happened.
15 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/22/2020 8:08:19 AM (No. 326053)
Fellow traveler.
4 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/22/2020 9:46:45 AM (No. 326209)
No folks. This is a CNN / NYT "leak". It's the DNC hauling out the old tired FALSE Russian interference thing again. This time during the primary to knock Bernie down a few notches. Hillary probably somewhere in the stew as well. Another "dossier" any one ?
3 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
jacksin5 2/22/2020 10:31:53 AM (No. 326278)
The only difference between Socialism and Communism is that one is National, the other is Global.
3 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Trapper 2/22/2020 10:50:40 AM (No. 326301)
For the same reason bank robbers advocate taking guns away from the guards. Not that hard to figure out. ALL of America's adversaries look at the democrat debate stage, hear their America Last rhetoric, and think "I can take all these guys."
3 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/22/2020 11:42:46 AM (No. 326369)
A Commie knows one when he sees one.
1 person likes this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
columba 2/22/2020 11:48:36 AM (No. 326375)
NEWS FLASH: The Soviet Union collapsed in the early `1990s.
1 person likes this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 2/22/2020 12:15:27 PM (No. 326417)
Hell, they have probably been funding him for decades.
3 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/22/2020 12:32:20 PM (No. 326436)
Bernie is currently the Democrat front runner who the Democrat establishment wants to screw out of any chance of winning the Democrat nomination for President at all costs. So all of a sudden the establishment Democrat supporting DC “Deep State” Intelligence community gives the Congressional Democrats, including known leaker Adam Schiff a “classified” briefing to the effect that the Russians are now trying to help both President Trump and Bernie win the 2020 election through unspecified means. Note that both Trump and Bernie are politicians who the establishment Democrats do not want to win that election. Not surprisingly the Congressional Democrats immediately leaked the particular information that was the subject of that “classified” briefing to the liberal media for dissemination hoping to hurt both Trump and Bernie.
You got to remember that the Russians are always going to be out there doing what they always do when they consider it to be in the interest of Russia and the Russian leadership, release misleading information and meddling in the affairs of other countries. Without starting a nuclear war, neither the Democrats or the Republicans are going to stop the Russians from doing that. What the US Government should be doing is securing US data and election related systems so that the Russians cannot “hack” them or otherwise use them to import Russian generated false or misleading information into America. Calling out Bernie or Trump as being “Russian Agents” is exactly the type of misinformation that the Russians are always trying to ferment, and by now most Americans who have been paying attention, know that such false claims that have occurred targeting Trump without any supporting evidence, are Democrat Party political “dirty tricks”.
1 person likes this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 2/22/2020 12:52:05 PM (No. 326456)
Nuke Vermont
0 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Smart11344 2/22/2020 1:47:03 PM (No. 326538)
Decades ago, I heard Socialists were the same as Communists, without the guns.
0 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
AlanMcIntire 2/23/2020 9:22:42 AM (No. 327249)
It looks like Bernie Sanders' anti fracking policies coincide with those of Putin:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/19/russia-secretly-working-with-environmentalists-to-oppose-fracking
0 people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "ladydawgfan"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Comments:
Good question in the title. Inciteful thoughts in the article.