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Yes to what you said.

artappraiser — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 20:33:19 +0000

In reply to Putin is Trump's "Dear Leader

Yes to what you said.

Putin is Trump's "Dear Leader

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 09:04:27 +0000

In reply to More Syria/Russia headlining

Putin is Trump's "Dear Leader". Everybody's his daddy, in fact - as long as he gets his payout. If Trump were as rich as he claims, why would he be futzing around with this measly Scottish golf course or these other chintz $10-20m deals? That's his tell - he's always desperate for any sort of acknowledgment. True billionaires don't do that. As WSJ notes, he probably only clears $160 million a year, and that's before all his exorbitant living expenses.
Many on the Moon Over Alabama left were ecstatic when Putin became the "adult" voice on Syria. Eagerly abetting the rise of the new Russian Black Sea Fleet and influence in the Mideast, while we dumped trillions on stupid wars in the Mideast, the Russians let us pull our own Afghanistan and instead supported the corrupt tyrants to take the oil stakes and next-gen investment & nuclear deals with Israel, UAE, Saudi, etc. backed by some well-placed military action in Ukraine & Syria. According to MoA, Putin was some kind of peacenik (wishing away chemical attacks and troop deployments and battleships providing massive amounts of guns and munitions that Hillary as SoS could only dream of).
Oddly enough, Obama had put together a very successful coalition to defeat ISIS - perhaps his most impressive foreign policy achievement. That success has been followed by an exhausting "so what" as Trump dismantles the coalition and turns the spoils over to Putin/Assad and pivots to the trillion dollar scam being put together by the crooked Mideast players. And yeah, Putin helped orchestrate that mass Syrian exodus to Europe via Erdogan, the one that's created chaos in the EU for 4 years and pushed the Brits to accept Brexit.
Does Trump care? certainly not - it's in his favor. He hates the EU, he hates actual America, he loves Big Brother.and the almighty dollar, however teensy his 30 pieces of silver might look as compensation.

More Syria/Russia headlining

artappraiser — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 08:05:40 +0000

In reply to Western allies plan White Helmets evacuation from Syria

More Syria/Russia headlining WashingtonPost.com right now:

With Trump strategy unclear, U.S. allies turn to Moscow to secure their interests in Syria

As President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepare to meet, many U.S. allies in the Mideast worry that Trump will agree to a partial or complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria — as both Syria and Russia have demanded. Doubtful that the U.S. has a plan for its own long-term goals in Syria, regional allies are looking to Russia.

It's also the main Editorial:

Of all at stake at the Trump-Putin summit, Syria is most in peril

THOSE WHO worry that President Trump will make unwarranted concessions to Vladimir Putin at their summit meeting Monday have plenty to fret about, including Mr. Trump’s hints that he might recognize Russia’s forcible annexation of Crimea or scale back NATO deployments in the Baltic states. But the most probable area of appeasement is Syria — which Russia aspires to dominate, at the expense of U.S. strategic interests in the Middle East, and which Mr. Trump seems inclined to give away.

If he were a normal president, Mr. Trump would surely be furious at Mr. Putin, who just ruptured a deal the two of them struck on Syria when they met a year ago. The Russian ruler pledged to respect a cease-fire in the southwestern corner of the country, near Israel, where U.S.-backed rebels were based — a promise he reiterated at his last meeting with Mr. Trump in November. Instead, last month Russia backed an offensive by the regime of Bashar al-Assad in the area, ignoring State Department warnings of “serious repercussions.” By the end of this week, Syrian forces had forced the surrender of most of the rebels, using the usual barbarous tactics — such as bombings of hospitals.

Mr. Trump’s reaction? [....]