President-elect Donald Trump made clear during his campaign, and even clearer after his election, that he intends a major rapprochement with Russia, seeking to end years of hostility and potentially to cooperate between US and Russian forces against ISIS in Syria.
This was a big policy split during the campaign, with Hillary Clinton pushing for military confrontation with Russia over Syria, and accusing Russia of plotting to “hack the election” to get Trump elected. Trump’s election, and by extension Hillary’s loss, has fueled a lot of Democratic calls to move against Russia to punish them for Trump’s victory.
At the same time, a lot of high-ranking Republicans have a hawkish bias toward much of the world, and Russia in particular, and whether using the hacking as an excuse or just general acrimony, they too are pushing against Trump’s calls for better bilateral relations.
That makes one of Trump’s major foreign policy goals a major source of likely clashes with Congress, as in practice he’s got strong bipartisan opposition to moving away from the new Cold War. He was already facing considerable international opposition from NATO members on rapprochement, and facing so much opposition at home and abroad will really test his willingness to resist loud opposition.
Well, he’s got start flexing his muscle against the useless clowns in his party. He got stupid party back into the white house against its own self-destructive efforts. Are we going to get some bizarre scenario where a Republican president ends up with a Republican hostile Congressional majority? Is there no way to de-neoconize this traitors?
There is. Some of the Republican fossils actually believe that THEY won the election. Just listen to FOX and their exuberance over “winning” while pompously telling Trump what to do. While some fossils do not care to be reelected –as McCain and Graham — others do. And Trump is their ticket. Foreign policy is in President’s domain, and so is defence. Congress controls the purse. For as long as he is asking them to spend money on domestic front — something voters expect, and even Democrats cannot object — he does not need them for foreign policy initiatives. People forgot that the president need no approval from Congress in moving troups, pulling them back, or cutting their exposure to conflict. He can make any arrangements with Russia on ISIS, as this is under his authority.
But he will demand congress backs him up on wastefull contracting in military procurement, as well as increased in funding for modernization. This will be a real public debacle if either his party or Denocrats do not support him. He will take on issues with Europe, and their attempt at lecturing him — was nit a smart thing to do. If anything, he will be if great help to nationalists against globalists in 2017 elections in Europe. There is nothing Congress and lamestream media can do, to prevent him in cutting energy deals with Russia. In fact, they will look stupid. Having already made themselves ridiculous by blaming Russia for anything ghey could think off — they have muddled the issues. All Trump has to do is focus on winning — be that ISIS, or energy deals, or veterans’s care — and avoid IDEOLOGICAL neocon sleeze, and results will speak forvthemselves.
But then, Trump will not be Trump to let them get away with stupidities. Twitter will remain busy. If for no reason — but to keep voters engaged, and enraged when fossils in Congress overreach. And that is the KEY charasteristic of neocons. When cornered, they keep on pushing, and pushing. To the point of looking utterly stupid, making one wonder about their supposed cleverness. The media on the right end of spectrum has already been pouncing on the money connections between various owners if media, and their multimilion connections to “privatized” segments of CIA. The more they spout utter absurdities — like Russian supposed utility hacking, or Soros funding of discontent — that will supposedly help democrats politically, the more they look unintelligent. To the point of wondering how did they ever got into the position of having such a powerfull influence on US. foreign policy.
You sound a lot like Raimondo with all that confidence in Trump. (but that’s not something that is going to get discussed on this site is it)
Prepare yourselves for the big letdown because it’s inevitable. Trump doesn’t rub elbows with Bolton and the hawks he’s bringing into his inner circle, and then turn around and do something decent to surprise us all.
luv from Canada.
The primary purpose of the military is transferring public wealth to private hands.
It’s a bipartisan endeavor.
01.01.2017 How a United Iran, Russia and China are Changing The World – For the Better
The two previous articles have focused on the various geopolitical theories, their translations into modern concepts, and practical actions that the United States has taken in recent decades to aspire to global dominance.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/01/how-united-iran-russia-china-changing-world-better.html
That’s a story that needs to be read and studied carefully. From that link:
“The future for the most important area of the planet is already sealed. The overall integration of Beijing, Moscow and Tehran provides the necessary antibodies to foreign aggression in military and economic form.”
It might be a little premature to say that but it’s exactly what many of us have been thinking for some time now. The US is looking at the possibility of being on the outside looking in. Perhaps there is some safety in being in cooperation with Russia after all.
Would Trump be smart enough to know that and so he would have to understand it would be in the US’s best interests? But how could he even begin to impress that on the American people who would find the concept much too difficult to understand. Not to mention the arrogance of Americans who mostly think they are invincible.
This should give more insight as well.
Nov 29, 2016 The Map That Shows Why Russia Fears War With USA
https://youtu.be/L6hIlfHWaGU
Some of the stuff you are posting is brilliant Crispus. Maybe it’s a more intelligent breathe of fresh air for this site. Surely it’s time to get serious about the antiwar agenda and leave the fringe politics out of it for a while. And maybe have a closer look at the mods who are effectively destroying any antiwar attempts some of us are trying to contribute.
I appreciate your kind words Don. All Wars are Bankers Wars for a fact!
I don’t dispute that but I just think of it all on a different wavelength if you will. US wars are with the blessing of the huge majority of the American people’s blessing, as well as solidly supported by US congress’s politicians of both party stripe. This has now been shown to be the fact, as we see this game being played out by Trump’s feigned attempt to convince us that he is for peaceful relations with Russia. Regardless of whether he is or not is not the issue. The issue is that he would have to stand alone if he tried to make it work.
Is this progress? Is this what Raimondo was visualizing when he began to slobber all over Trump and his campaign to be elected pres?
luv from Canada.
“And maybe have a closer look at the mods who are effectively destroying any antiwar attempts some of us are trying to contribute.”
Back to lying about Antiwar.com staff again, eh, Don? You’ve posted about a hundred comments here in the last couple of days. One — ONE — got deleted because you let your love of racist epithet get out of hand.
You’re not making any kind of “antiwar attempt.” You’re either in a manic phase, or just a standard issue troll, or both.
Remember, there is only one reason why someone will be banned from this site. Remind me. Something to do with fundraising? Nothing to do with any Trump apologists, right?
I’ll try to stick to the rules so my posts aren’t deleted or you ban me. But you have to stop moving the goalposts.
The goalposts are right where they’ve always been — no hate speech, period, end of story; it will be deleted and if it turns out to be a pattern you will be banned. Generally lying about Antiwar.com staff will only get you a warning the first time and ban if you decide to continue.
You’ve never been prevented from saying that the US is “riddled with racism.” You’ve only been moderated when you have chosen to use racist terms yourself.
Caveat: A few months back, you were banned by someone else, over my protests, not for breaking the rules but just for being an asshole. That’s not normal here, and when it happened I asked to be removed/replaced as moderator. But apparently no one else is willing to do the job (I mean ACTUALLY do the job, not just take the title and then do whatever they feel like), especially for the insanely low rates I charge, so that hasn’t happened yet.
Trump might get more support from the democrat senators than his own party