Not sure what the hell the GOP speakers are talking about.
Anti-Russia? Huh?
During last week’s national security committee platform meeting, committee member Diana Denman introduced an amendment in support of Ukrainian opposition to Putin’s invasion of Crimea and backing military aid to the country. “Today, the post-Cold War ideal of a ‘Europe whole and free’ is being severely tested by Russia’s ongoing military aggression in Ukraine,” the amendment read. “The Ukrainian people deserve our admiration and support in their struggle.”
But Trump staffers in the room intervened. With the support of the pro-Trump delegates, they tabled the amendment to try to and block it later. Eventually they amended the amendment to remove Republican support for sending military aid, replacing it with language calling for “appropriate assistance.” The end result of the watered down language, the Post reports, is that “the official Republican party position on arms for Ukraine will be at odds with almost all the party’s national security leaders.”
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His campaign is anti-Putin?
For years, [Trump campaign coordinator] Manafort worked as a consultant to ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, building what his own friends characterized as a “political love connection” with the pro-Russian leader. It was Yanukovych’s last-minute refusal to sign a trade agreement with the European Union in 2013 that sparked the Maidan revolution that ultimately drove him from power after his security forces murdered some 100 protestors in downtown Kiev. Yanukovych fled to Russia, where he remains.
Manafort was paid handsomely to clean up Yanukovych’s negative image, much as he is currently trying to do with Trump. But as is often the case with Western PR men hired to put lipstick on a pig, the pig is still a pig.
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Friendliness or gullibility?:
Late last year, the world marveled at the budding bromance between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Putin, who is alleged to have ordered the jailing and murder of political opponents and journalists critical of his regime, heaped praise on the “absolute leader of the presidential race,” calling Trump “bright and talented.”
In response, Trump compared Putin’s Russia to President Barack Obama’s America, insisting the former is “running his country, and at least he’s a leader—unlike what we have in this country.”
In the golden days of 2015, this back-and-forth inspired lighthearted memes and sarcastic tweets. But now, as Trump ascends to the position of likely GOP nominee,Buzzfeed reports that intelligence agencies are taking note of potential conflicts of interest concerning Trump’s aides and their “ties to allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
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See above, not much more to say.
Too confused.