I have a hard time believing they’ll let this guy stay on a major cable channel much longer. I hope I’m wrong. This isn’t just mindless pro-Trump Sean Hannity type bullshit. These are some legitimate arguments that everyone should listen to.
From The Hill:
The new package, while having little chance of being considered under the Republican-controlled House, is designed to put pressure on GOP leaders to take some action to rein in Putin, who has rattled western leaders with Russia’s annexation of Crimea; the ongoing effort to destabilize Ukraine; continued support for the Assad regime in Syria; and Moscow’s interference in the 2016 elections, among other actions.
All lies and misleading half-truths
Crimea is full of Russians and was part of Russia from the 18h century until the 1950s when it was transferred to Ukraine which was then ruled by the same Soviet government as Russia. The Russians have had a naval base there for hundreds of years. The Russians living in Crimea held a referendum to leave Ukraine and be annexed by Russia that passed overwhelmingly.
Ukraine elected a pro-Russian government. The US then funded a “revolution” that overthrew the democratically elected President and installed an anti-Russian government. When the Russians living in the East of Ukraine tried to secede and join Russia the new anti-Russian Ukrainian government attacked them. The US is the one that destabilized Ukraine.
Yes, Russia supports their secular ally in Syria which has been the case for decades. The US under Obama and Killery decided to support Islamists who wanted to overthrow the secular dictator and establish a theocracy there. The Hill doesn’t mention this. Why is supporting a secular dictator that protects minority rights worse than supporting ISIS who want to drive all non-Shiite Muslims out of the country or kill them?
Show me any evidence that Moscow interfered in the 2016 elections. All I’ve seen are a few thousand bucks on Facebook ads that are alleged to have been paid for by Russians and some indictments of Russians that will never stand trial. All the “evidence” to support these indictments is of course classified and will never be revealed meaning it probably doesn’t exist. Did Russia try to interfere in the 2016 election? Who knows, but I’m 100% sure it didn’t have any noticeable effect compared to the billions spent by Killery and the nonstop media propaganda in her favor. Also, why not look into other countries that we know try to influence our elections and have in the past. The UK? Israel? Saudi Arabia? I’m more worried about them than Russia. And the US has interfered far more in Russian elections since the end of the Soviet Union than the reverse.
So anyway, just tune this garbage out. It’s all Deep State propaganda and it always has been. It’s just getting more and more blatantly obvious everyday. Anyone who watches or reads CNN, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times, etc. and thinks they are getting any information close to the truth is just plain stupid at this point or completely and utterly brainwashed.
What’s always amazing to me is people’s blind partisanship when it comes to politics. It’s one thing for some Democrat or Republican party hack to change their views based on whatever the current president or a wealthy donor thinks. They’re just trying to gain power for themselves. But people who consider themselves principled conservatives or progressives wind up doing the same thing without realizing it.
Consider the left’s current obsession with Trump and their automatic “resistance” to any and all actions taken by the president. It exposes both their willingness to abandon long held principled positions at a moments’ notice while also showcasing the ridiculous hypocrisy and conflicting belief system inherent in their ideology to begin with.
There is no difference between the current Left and John McCain. There are no principles left on the Left. They’ll support any position or politician as long as it or he is in opposition to Trump.
To be fair many on the right have had similar shifts. They’ve dumped the neocon, crony capitalist dogma of the Bush years to back Trump while the Left has largely embraced that same dogma. I think to some extent Trump is a reflection of these shifting views rather than the cause, but I’m sure there are some who just believe anything Sean Hannity tells them.
I guess the only principled pundits and politicians all along were the neocons. They’ve remained firmly in the anti-Trump resistance and are ready to switch political allegiances to serve their only true concerns: Israel and endless war. God help us if the Left gets power again and allows these evil monsters to regain positions of influence in the Democrat party.
For what it’s worth, I think Trump’s trade policies are horrible, although I generally oppose the misnamed “Free Trade Agreements.” I support his overtures for peace with Russia and North Korea and his criticism of NATO while I disagree with ending the Iran deal. I favor lower immigration levels although making private business enforce the laws or building a wall are not my preferred methods for achieving that. I love how he disparages the Media and our suddenly sacrosanct intelligence agencies.