With both President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled to be in Vietnam for the APEC summit, the expectation has been that a meeting would take place, with Russia confirming one would happen, and weeks of preparation on both sides.
In the end, no meeting took place, with the US spurning the meeting at the last minute, and while they shook hands when they bumped into each other, they claimed “scheduling conflicts” prevented an actual meeting.
Russia is said to be frustrated with the lack of talks, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov saying reports should ask the US if they wanted to know why no meeting took place. Other officials said there’d been “conflicting signals” from the US side.
Ever-worsening bilateral relations have resulted in meetings with Russian officials being seen as politically risky for the Trump Administration. Instead of worrying about that, officials seem to have decided it is simpler to just not meet.
Petty bullsh!t. This is what happens when you elect a petulant child instead of an adult.
Of the two recent candidates, its clearly Hillary who acts like a petulant child. She’s still in her room throwing a temper tantrum because the adults in the country didn’t agree to her demand that it was her turn.
Whatever. I was talking about the one that got elected.
This is what happens when you elect a president, but the losers do not allow the change of power. Russia committed many sins. Took THEIR Crimea, and has a gall to step in preventing THEIR vision of Middle East. Besides Russia, George Washington snd his farewell address is enemy number two. Trump had the gall of reminding America of that warning — so off with his historic head as well. The Christ Church in Alexandria removed a plaque inside the church commemorating George Washington, the parisioner. And of course, the plaque of parisioner General Lee. And the other day, school maintenance staff went around George Washington Middle School in Alexandra, removing George Washington school name from each classroom door. In preparation of changing school name eventually. Rash of school name changes in Northern Virginia goes apace.
So, do you think the instigators of history erasing really care so mych about the slavery? Or are they pushing the issue to insure conflict in the society, so they can sit back and “solve” the crisis caused by Trump. Since they control media and the armies of ideology workers in both the media, civic organizations and think tanks — what fo you think public will “know”. Same as during campaign, where Trump supporters were attacked and brutalized – it was only the violence by Trump supporters that was reported.
Try beeing history teacher in this area — and see the torrent of tears if you only attempt to approach the subject from academic persoective. So, what aftrr all the monuments of American history are erased, all history books altered or burned, all names changed — then what? Would that satisfy the ideological workers? Not of course. As all thise that studied the phenomenon of Trotsky and his heirs in the United States know — the only ghing that counts is not values, but power. And it is achieved by the method of permanent crisis. Oermanent wars, permanent conflicts aming people, and the ever present guiding hand of the benevolent ruling elite. Hsving been reduced to children, without grounding in family or religion — we will become the nextgen of slaves under different name.
Interesting comment, but the red line that appeared under a lot of the words in it as you typed it means that you misspelled the word. Put your cursor back over the word and right-click, then choose the correct spelling of the word you wanted to type. Thank you.
English is clearly not her mother tongue… But instead of sniping from the off topic gramatically correct sidelines, why not use your brain to get the message intended and comment on it, instead of the delivery technique. Or is form more important for you than substance, and, oh yes, getting dubious “points” with cheap shots at petty errors in form…?????
NeuGuy, note that I began with a well-deserved compliment to Bianca’s comment, and only then did I politely explain why so many red lines appeared under words in her composition, and how easy it is to utilize spellcheck. We should all strive to make our writing better, and appreciate tips to do so.
Actually, until your reply, it hadn’t occurred to me that Bianca was an ESL writer, which is something of a testament to how bad attention to grammar and spelling have become in a world of dashed-off Tweets and comments. We should be wary of any and all attempts to reduce our ability to communicate accurately, verbally and in writing. Orwell addressed this issue in _1984_ with the concept of “Newspeak”, the steady reduction of language to so few words people no longer had the verbal tools to think about or express their thoughts. Bianca shows promise in both thinking and writing. I hoped I helped her get better. You, on the other hand, by making excuses for her, did not.
No, this is what happens when an adult appoints petulant children to high places because the adult’s handlers keep them in an information bubble, and all of the career bureaucrats behind the appointed officials are Obama holdovers who expected Hillary to win and will now do ANYTHING to make Trump look bad, even start WWIII.
If every POTUS considered it their duty to spend several hours a day scanning unfiltered, uncensored alt-media online so they actually knew what was going on, this wouldn’t be happening.
By the look of the picture they’re about to do a Romulan Mind Meld or something. Well at least that’ll be how it’s seen by the Clintonists
Where the heck do you get that from that picture? Two people waving at a camera and not looking at each other?
Its apparently an APEC tradition that the group photo features people wearing the host country’s national clothing style. And, btw, you mind want to watch a few episodes of the original Star Trek to get things straight.
Sounded to me like Trump wanted a meeting. He was the one sending out Twits suggesting one. It also sounded to me like it was the Russians who basically didn’t see the need for it. The US then released the statements saying there was ‘nothing substantial’ on the table and ‘scheduling conflicts’.
Trump wants Russian help in Syria, Ukraine and North Korea. Russia at this point doesn’t seem to see any gain in helping a weak Trump who can’t do anything to improve relations between the nations. In all three situations, its Trump that needs help, while Russia is probably ok with things as they are.
Or course, the western corporate media will try to spin this as if its all Russia’s fault. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Seems like relations are much better now. Putin is more trusted than Brenner, Clapper, Pompeo, Coats and Big Jim Comey.
Talk about low standards.
Not Trump, but his minders seemed to be the force to stop any discussion.
“…officials seem to have decided it is simpler to just not meet.”
Yeah, right. So much easier to put billions of lives at risk than to sit down and chat.
Spin from the Russian side. https://www.rt.com/usa/409584-trump-russia-haters-fools/
What could they talk about anyway? Public meetings are usually just for tidying up the grammar and fine points of agreements already made ready to sign by their respective diplomats.
Trump needed to make his Russian position known publicly, assuring his base he has not forgotten their desire for peace even if its tough to deliver. And also tweak the neocons while making his case for good Russian relations that is almost never covered by the MSM.
Putin would have had to agree to this song-and-dance beforehand. Its not clear if Putin would really fall for a good cop bad cop routine with Trump playing the good cop and his opposition at home playing the bad cop, but whatever.
Unfortunately the American people are less concerned about armageddon and more concerned with Trump delivering on the economy whether jobs or tax cuts. The price of success, one would suppose. No-one fears The Big War enough now that Trump is in power.