President Trump’s early Wednesday Twitter barrage, including telling Russia to “get ready” for the missiles that he’ll soon be ordering fired, is raising a lot of eyebrows. Russia, however, is shrugging it off, admonishing the US president and saying that Russia doesn’t do “Twitter diplomacy.”
A statement from Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned the US against threatening an “already fragile situation” in Syria, saying that the nations need to take a more serious approach. Peskov added that Russia believes the US invented the chemical weapons allegations to try to justify attacks in Syria.
During his Twitter comments Trump both went after Russia and lamented the poor shape of US-Russia relations. The situation seems set to get worse, however, with Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo planning to tell the Senate that the US “soft” policy toward Russia is now over.
Pompeo is said to also intend to declare Russia “a danger to our country.” This comes after Ambassador Nikki Haley bragged that Trump is the most anti-Russia president since Ronald Reagan. Pompeo’s comments suggest this is only going to get worse.
The most troubling part of this is that Trump himself conceded on Twitter that relations are the worst in history, saying they’re even worse than the Cold War. Given how often the Cold War threatened to turn into World War 3, the administration seems remarkably contented to keep throwing fuel on the fire.
I’m guessing that Trump’s been well and truely paid off by Saudi Arabia, and that he’s gambling that he can force President Assad to resign by convincing the Syria and Russian governments that it is their only hope. However I’m pretty sure Putin’s too smart to fall for this.
Who do they think will replace him? Has the fate of Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan convinced the USA of their success in the 21st century?
I’m sure that the Neocons have a puppet waiting in the wings to replace Assad should he step aside. The U.S. has a peculiar form of democracy when it comes to other nations. The people either elect our puppet or they face extinction.
Surprise surprise that relations get worse when one “partner” never stops the threats, the encirclement by NATO, the accusations of absurd crimes, the interference even in sports, with every Olympics having the media believing specially picked Western stooges claiming that Russian athletes (never others) were doped. 2008,2010,2012, 2014 (Sochi, meanly half-boycotted) 2016 (Russians forbidden) even 2018, two Russian athletes “guilty”of using a useless drug, while every member of the Norwegian team used asthma medication. This is not coincidence, it is mean-spirited addition to the Russia- hatred which is now leading to even worse clashes, despite all the efforts of Russia to stop this madness.