At the tail end of the fiery Oval Office exchange pitting Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky against President Trump and Vice President Vance, Trump spent two heated minutes on a theme the media will likely bury.
“Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,” said Trump. “He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia. Russia. Russia. Russia.” What Trump did not say, but he might have, is that the constant scapegoating of Russia and Putin made America’s proxy war against Russia an easy sell.
What Trump might also have said is that before he chose to run for president and before the collusion plot was launched to stop him, the Democrats had been cozying up to Putin for years. Barack Obama began his courtship immediately after the January 2009 inauguration. In February Obama dispatched Vice President Joe Biden to security conference in Munich to signal Obama’s eagerness to undo President George W. Bush’s hard line on missile defense among other issues.
It was in Munich that Biden first said, “It is time to press the reset button and to revisit the many areas where we can and should be working together with Russia.” A month later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the Russian foreign minister in Geneva and presented him with a red plastic “reset” button. Unfortunately, whoever was responsible for finding the Russian word for “reset” used the Russian word for “overcharged.” Much awkwardness ensued, but the meeting otherwise went swimmingly.
Two years after proposing the reset button, Biden made an extraordinary speech at Moscow State University. There he listed the many new areas of cooperation between Russia and the United States and cited with pride the fruits of that relationship. Just two years prior, only 17 percent of Russians held a positive view of the United States, said Biden. By the time of his speech in March 2011, that figure had increased to 60 percent.
In 2010, always on the prowl for a quick buck, Bill Clinton gave a $500,000 speech, paid for by a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin. On that same trip, Clinton met with senior Rosatom official Arkady Dvorkovich. The media scarcely noticed.
Rosatom was the entity that controlled all things nuclear in Russia, including the arsenal. Rosatom also built the controversial Bushehr reactor in Iran and supplied it with uranium. At the time, Rosatom was seeking the State Department’s permission to buy Uranium One, a Canadian company with vast U.S. uranium reserves.
This deal raised eyebrows even at the New York Times. As the Times reported in April 2015, too late to make a difference, the Russians took control of Uranium One in three discrete transactions from 2009 to 2013, during which time “a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation.”
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, securing Uranium One was like finding a pony under his tree on Christmas morning. As Rosatom CEO Sergei Kiriyenko told Putin in a staged interview, “Few could have imagined in the past that we would own 20 percent of U.S. reserves.”
During the 2012 presidential campaign Obama put his own stamp of approval on the felicitous state of U.S.-Russia affairs. In March of that year, Obama met with outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Seoul, South Korea. A live microphone picked up a conversation between the two men that was supposed to be private.
“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space,” said Obama, the “him” being incoming president Putin. Obama continued, “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.” Replied Medvedev, “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”
Obama did his Russia-friendly flexing center stage during his final debate with Mitt Romney in 2012. Earlier in that year, Romney had called out Obama for his overture to Putin. “This is without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe,” said Romney. During the debate, Obama countered with a scripted zinger: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for twenty years.”
Putin served as prime minister during Obama’s first term and was elected president eight months before Obama humbled Romney on national TV. Obama had a productive relationship with Russia during those first four years and expected more of the same, especially with his newfound flexibility.
As should have been expected, the newly re-elected Putin read Obama’s flexibility for the weakness it was. Russia refused to accept international inspection of its nuclear sites, gave rogue NSA contractor Edward Snowden safe harbor, and annexed the Crimea.
In his Oval Office meeting, Zelensky recalled Obama’s fecklessness over Crimea. “During 2014 nobody stopped [Putin],” he said. “He just occupied and took. He killed people.” Obama might have reacted more forcefully, but he needed Putin’s help to secure what he considered his signature achievement, the Iran nuclear pact.
In July 2015, Obama called Putin thanking him for his help bringing the mullahs to the table. As Obama told Tom Friedman of the New York Times, “We would have not achieved this agreement had it not been for Russia’s willingness to stick with us and the other P5-Plus members in insisting on a strong deal.”
In June 2015, Donald Trump declared for the presidency. At the time, no one would have predicted that within a year Russia would emerge as a monstrously subversive country hell-bent on throwing the 2016 election to Donald Trump. No one would have predicted this scenario because it defied common sense.
Russia had a proven pawn in Obama and a friend in Hillary. It did not need an unpredictable Donald Trump. “Putin has eaten Obama’s lunch, therefore our lunch, for a long period of time,” said Trump in 2014 while slamming Obama’s failure to stand up to Putin in Crimea.
When the plotters failed to defeat Trump in the election, they conspired to sabotage his presidency. On January 5, 2017, Obama met with his national security team including all the usual suspects: the FBI’s James Comey, the CIA’s John Brennan, Biden, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, the DNI James Clapper, and acting attorney general Sally Yates. Following the meeting, Obama asked Yates and Comey to stick around along with Rice, his trusted scribe and factotum. Obama had a reason for singling out Comey and Yates. Unlike the others, they were staying on in their jobs.
At the very moment Trump was being inaugurated, Rice sent to “self” a peculiar email. It read in part: “President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities ‘by the book.’” The “issue” was the subversion of the Trump presidency. The strategy was to portray Putin as a monster and Trump as his bitch. There was no “book” to cover this act of sedition.
The Russia, Russia, Russia strategy worked wonders.
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The only lies that may lead to Ukraine’s downfall are the ones Putin and his dictatorship’s lackey’s have put out as a pretext for his criminal invasion of Ukraine. So yes anyone backing Putin or giving him an out for his war against Ukraine is his “biatch”. Some deals are just not worth taking and ANY with Putin are not worth the paper they are written on and totally unenforceable.
Ah yes, the classic “If you don’t blindly support the war, you must love Putin!” argument—because everything is black and white, right?
Here’s the reality: Ukraine didn’t have to be in this war. Biden and the Deep State refused to negotiate with Putin not because he’s untrustworthy (which he is), but because they built their entire political machine on the lie that Trump was his puppet. Acknowledging Trump’s approach worked would expose their Russia Hoax for the fraud it was.
Meanwhile, the people paying the price? Not Biden. Not the war hawks in D.C. Not the media that cheerleads every escalation. It’s Ukrainians dying by the hundreds of thousands in a war they cannot win.
And let’s not forget:
This war isn’t about “saving democracy.” It’s about protecting Biden’s corruption, the Deep State’s lies, and the military-industrial complex’s profits.
But sure, keep pretending that blindly sending billions to Ukraine while American cities crumble is the “patriotic” thing to do. How’s that working out so far?
Has Trump tried just saying “Don’t” and then go to the beach yet?
There is no excuse for Putin invading. But, the fact is, he did and he was enabled by Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden. Once he did, every possible response was totally bungled, as he and the Democrats do everything. But, here we are now.
Can you find anyone anywhere willing to go to total war (and possibly provoke a nuclear response) with Russia to regain the territory Ukraine lost? Because that’s what is required. The UN is useless and we can’t get enough of the nations to look further than the end of their… noses to combine efforts and punish Putin economically enough to give up territory. What’s done is done. We should have lessons learned: putting empty suits like Obama or corrupt idiots like Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden in the White House is dangerous and harmful.
Meanwhile, Trump is not only trying to establish a ceasefire that will lead to peace, but also separate Russia and China, along with Iran and N. Korea. Trump’s not sucking up to Putin; he’s playing him.
People supporting the war mistakenly compare it to WWII when in fact it is more in line with WWI. In WWII there was a clear line between good and bad. In WWI both sides were guilty of imperialism and neither were innocent. In this war, both leaders are corrupt thugs. Neither are “democracies” or innocent. This is a European problem, not an American one. When we chose to intervene in WWI we changed the outcome of the war from being a draw to one side being victorious which snowballed into WWII. The only way Ukraine wins this is for the U.S. to put boots on the ground and lead the war effort. And as in the case of WWI, those pushing for war won’t be the ones fighting it. The Ukraine flag waving beta male lefties out there won’t fight it. It’ll be the American flag waving conservatives who still make up the majority of our military who will be doing the fighting and dying. And if the last wars taught us anything about the left, it’s that they won’t fight the war and once it starts they won’t support those who are fighting it.
Russia had reason self preservation, He withdrew from surrounding Kiev looking for peace, but Zelensky said he wanted to be NATO and there was ignorant chatter that it was going to be allowed.
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Putin is the aggressor. If he had issues, he could have resolved them diplomatically. But he couldn’t conquer territory diplomatically. Even though it was Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden’s (as directed by Obama) abject stupidity that actually started the war, instead of feeding the fighting, they could have marshalled diplomatic efforts to isolate and punish Russia. But, of course, the UN being useless, this would have required an effort far beyond that regime’s capabilities. Without that and without providing the field-leveling weapons, the only outcome could be a prolonged war, which is probably the result desired by the grifters and grafters anyway.
Zelensky is not an ideal person, to say the least, but his nation IS the victim, even if manipulated by incompetent US foreign policy. Up to this point, we’ve done all we can do. The war has happened and unless we want to initiate a new Barbarossa, Putin keeps what he gained. Election fraud can be very damaging to the nation and the world.
You’re right that Putin is the aggressor—he made the choice to invade. However, the idea that diplomacy was never an option ignores the reality that Russia did attempt negotiations before and during the early stages of the war.
Before the invasion, Putin repeatedly warned that NATO expansion into Ukraine was a red line. Whether or not we agree with that, ignoring it was a deliberate choice by Western leaders.
– In March 2022, Russia and Ukraine were actually close to a negotiated settlement, but Zelensky walked away—likely under Western pressure. Reports even suggest Boris Johnson personally told Zelensky not to negotiate.
– Russia withdrew from Kyiv, signaling some willingness to de-escalate, but instead of taking the opportunity for diplomacy, Zelensky and the West doubled down on NATO talk and escalated the war.
If diplomacy was impossible, it was because the West didn’t want it. The goal was never to prevent war—it was to prolong it for geopolitical and financial gain. So yes, Putin chose to invade, but let’s not pretend the U.S. and its allies weren’t actively working to push this conflict instead of preventing it.
My primary frustration is the uselessness of the UN. Totally worthless. They don’t even try. If, in a situation like this, Russia can’t get satisfaction between nations, they should be able to go higher for help. Or, after the invasion, global pressure applied to end the fighting. But, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…. the UN just sits there and makes proclamations about climate change. It needs to be dissolved.
The UN has been useless for decades. No reason to be involved in that farce any longer.
Obama and Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden have done massive damage to this country and the world.
This is WHY executions at gitmo can be administered in this case.
Someone should ask the “protestors” at the ski resort holding up Ukrainian flags and protesting Trump/Vance trying to stop the carnage in the Ukraine that the Democrats enabled and allowed – why the hell are they are not in the Ukraine fighting?. Draft dodgers? Many looked like military age men. Go home and Vol. for combat.
Counter protestors need signs with Zelensky as uncle sam saying, He wants you
