http://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-tries-to-clarify-ukraine-comments-155957129.htmlDISHONEST JOURNALISM
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How can you possibly misunderstand Trump in the context of this conversation unless you’re TRYING to be dishonest?
Trump’s media-friendly colloquialisms converted to complete sentences:
“Mark it down: Putin will not invade Ukraine on my watch”
“The people of Crimea have decided to stick with Russia and it’s hard to argue with that”
Apparently, the reporter doesn’t grasp that Trump is honest but careless because it always works in his favor: He is singlehandedly ending the media’s influence on the electoral process. And that is why his supporters admire him. They are hoping trump will end the century of pseudoscience and propaganda we call ‘political correctness’.
TRUTH
Crimea was a Russian possession and its inclusion with Ukraine a bureaucratic snafu under the late soviets.
Crimea is Russia’s only warm water port. Strategically there is no comparison for the united states. Only china’s dependence upon the south china sea compares to Russia’s dependence upon the warm water port.
The Donbas Basin bordering Russia is where the Soviets built many of their arms factories – and without those factories, the Russian army could not continue to modernize – their plans would have been set back as much as a decade.
Putin ‘panicked’ when Yakunovych (the corrupt ex president) arrived in Moscow and said that the Ukrainian revolution was a western coup (it was a local reaction by nearly everyone in Ukraine to the decision not to join the EU and save the Ukrainian economy, and her people, from constant poverty.) When the fires of revolution started in Moscow and St Petersburg He panicked further.
Instead of calling western leaders and saying “I am sorry that I must do this but it is a strategic necessity that Russia cannot do without and we will compensate the Ukrainians with discounted petroleum products for decades to pay for it”, he used reverse asymmetric warfare, and captured Crimea and started the fighting in the Donbas. Then he sent ‘little green men’ to capture Crimea, more to invade the Donbas, armed the local unions and gangsters to the teeth, and sent waves of 200 to 400 white trucks with so-called ’emergency supplies’ to dismantle the equipment at the arms factories and, ship it back to Russia where the plants could be reconstructed and the maintenance and repair of the Russian military could continue.
Russians are who they are for the simple reason that they cannot believe Americans are as naive as we have demonstrated that we are with our idealism. Putin was happy to join nato and the west. It is incomprehensible to Putin that he must conduct an HONEST educational campaign to win over the American people first. And incomprehensible to him that our state department is stupid enough to ask Russia to follow regular process for such things. This is not how ‘things are done’ in Russia. They do not beg.
This is something Trump understands.
That is why he doesn’t speak in platitudes.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-08-01 13:35:00 UTC