How the Left Is Using Ukraine to Discredit
Trump and ‘America First’
American Greatness,
by
Fred Fleitz
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/27/2022 2:25:07 PM
Desperate to change the subject from how Joe Biden’s weak leadership and incoherent foreign policy set the stage for Vladimir Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine, many on the Left and in the mainstream media have resorted to a familiar tactic: Find a way to blame this crisis on President Trump—even though he has been out of office for 14 months.
The first attempt by liberals, like Washington Post editorial writer Eugene Robinson and former National Security Council staff member and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Fiona Hill, was to claim that Trump’s national security policies, especially concerning Russia and NATO, emboldened Putin to invade Ukraine.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lazyman 3/27/2022 2:45:16 PM (No. 1111669)
Putin saw that Brandon tried to throw a blackball in on the raid and the killing of bin Laden. After that, he hoped that one day he would get the opportunity to deal with this spineless moron.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
snakeoil 3/27/2022 2:51:59 PM (No. 1111676)
The first thing that emboldened Putin was when Quid Pro Joe killed the Keystone pipeline. That meant that Russia would have no problem find a market for their gas and oil. The second thing that emboldened Putin was the withdrawal from Afghanistan which illustrated the bidet couldn't organize a pillow fight. But, the main thing that emboldened Putin is the almost daily spectacle of what happens when the old fool's handlers let him out of the cage and he is near a microphone.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 3/27/2022 2:59:11 PM (No. 1111683)
So, America First bad but leading from behind good?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 3/27/2022 3:18:06 PM (No. 1111690)
Many people are doing spin and damage control from the recent comments by the Demented Fuhrer. Expect the White House Psychopath Press Secretary, Jen "Psycho" Psaki, to further elaborate.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
red1066 3/27/2022 4:02:09 PM (No. 1111709)
What a load of BS. Nobody, and I mean nobody associates what is occurring in Ukraine with Trump except to admit that it wouldn't be occurring at all if Trump was president.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
paral04 3/27/2022 4:04:06 PM (No. 1111712)
The Washington Post has just proven they are lying sacks of excrement when they admitted to knowing about the Clinton smear job on President Trump. Who trusts anything they say?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MDConservative 3/27/2022 4:26:02 PM (No. 1111720)
FTA: "President Trump successfully pressed NATO members to meet their defense spending commitments, which made NATO a much stronger organization at the end of the Trump presidency than it was under the Obama Administration."
Rubbish. The strength of the Euro NATO allies is on full display, and it's pretty dismal. One "ally" announced that if shooting started, it was heading home (Croatia). The Germans can hardly mount a fleet of schnitzelwagens. So, let's stop kidding ourselves about the strength and readiness of NATO. The exceptions one can name prove the rule.
FTA: "Today’s America First movement, which the America First Policy Institute proudly represents, is clearly not isolationist. We favor a strong U.S. defense and the prudent use of U.S. military force."
More nonsense. Conservatives for years have been interventionists, whether inheriting a mess (Nixon) or stepping into one (Bush41/Bush43) in Iraq and Afghanistn.
Decades after Desert Storm, which restored an emirate, not a "democracy", and through our blasting Afghanistan (dumping the Taliban, not al Quaeda at Tora Bora) and regine change in Iraq (Where were those damn WMDs anyways?) We spent thousands of Amereican lives and spent TRILLIONS over decades of nation building, i.e. spreading democracy and freedom to cultures that couldn't handle it.
We certainly have international interests, but no one can seem to define them. Our foreign policy is a series of worn cliches, many Cold War relics. No one can define it. Meanwhile, the Chinese are spending much less in both cash and lives dominating the third world with investments under Belt and Road. Their foreign policy is pretty clear, and no one is fighting them, whether with bullets or a better plan. (Real conservatives want the US to invoke the Monroe Doctrine to stop the Chinese from gaining Central and South America...except it's for too late. See that nice, new canal in Panama, for example? While Mexico is not yet a signatory, it is playing with Chinese investment without much difference. Imagine what the US could have done with a decade's worth of Iraq/Afghanistan funding.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rama41 3/27/2022 5:15:22 PM (No. 1111744)
For those old enough, here's history that rhymes, if not repeats:
In 1961, JFK went to Vienna to meet Khrushchev, who was so little impressed that he brought us the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Result? We were lucky to avoid nuclear war. (Only NPR thinks JFK was the "hero" of that adventure. His failure to understand the Soviets brought it about).
Halberstam's "Best and the Brightest" spelled out how the dandies of Harvard and Yale, led by SecDef McNamara, bypassed the JCS, eventually leading us directly into Vietnam. Well, the "Best and the Brightest", Democrats all, are back today and Trump had nothing to do with it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/27/2022 6:38:14 PM (No. 1111786)
To put it simply trying to blame Ukraine on Trump --- this dog won't hunt. Nobody but yellow dog democRATs are going to buy it and even some of them can see through the facade,
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Catherine 3/27/2022 6:40:39 PM (No. 1111790)
Don't worry, it's not working. His followers number grows minute by minute. He had tens of thousands at his rally in Georgia yesterday. His rallies get bigger and bigger.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kono 3/27/2022 8:16:02 PM (No. 1111837)
Hah. Trump's been out of office for over a year, with all of his policies being systematically reversed or undone by Brandon. Anything happening on the world stage today is squarely on the Delaware Dementocrat.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Krause 3/27/2022 8:31:00 PM (No. 1111844)
If you're on the left, you are either naive, dumb or dishonest.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
wsdiego 3/27/2022 11:45:20 PM (No. 1111901)
It will backfire it always does...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rinktum 3/28/2022 5:50:16 AM (No. 1111992)
#7, of course, NATO has returned to it’s pre-Trump position of allowing the US to carry the load. It always will because they are going to do whatever they can get away with. President Trump kept them in check and was a constant reminder that we are not there to pay for their defense and then defend them with our treasure and blood. That all disappeared when the weak wingnut in the White House appeared on the stage. Everyone is taking pot shots at us since old dopey Joe is at the helm.
I do agree with your second point as apparently does President Trump because he made it crystal clear that he was not going to jump into conflicts and put our military in harm’s way if it did not align with his strategy of America first. He, I believe, stated and was pursuing what conservatives have wanted to be the policy going forward. We understand that the policies of the neo-cons has always been to line their pockets with blood money. And President Trump has been a vocal advocate of ending these conflicts and wars which is one of the reasons he is so hated in Washington. Many politicians knew they could gain much wealth by deploying our military in countries where we had no business going. The democrats and neo-cons are war mongers because it benefits them financially. To me, that is the most reprehensible decision anyone could ever make.
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Eugene Robinson has always been an outrageously flaming liberal and Fiona Hill is that dreadful anti-Trumper we saw in the impeachment hearings. Hardly a dynamic duo. (What, no Vindman?)