Set the Record Straight on Ukraine and Republican Support for Putin

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/03/set-record-straight-on-ukraine-and.html

The best possible outcome for Ukrainians at this point would be for something to convince Putin to back his army out of their country and leave it alone. Of all of the former Soviet republics that became independent and democratic after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's independence, and liberty, is the biggest problem for the autocratic fascism of its big neighbor, Russia, because in just a little over thirty years, Ukrainians have not only developed a sense of national unity and pride, but they are economically prosperous and a free people with a representative democracy.

The images coming out of Ukraine, not just in media reports, but through social media as well, has caused another shift in American public opinion and it has caught the Republican Party completely off guard. Most of them believe, or at least they act like they believe, the majority of Americans are ignorant, stupid people who forget things after a few days or are confused by what direction they are pointed. They are desperately hoping that memory of all of the first Trump impeachment, especially the stonewalling and the illegal use of congressionally appropriated funds to bribe the Ukranian President into lying about then Democratic nominee Joe Biden, will slip from people's memory.

But there are people committed to keeping their behavior and their actions favoring Putin, fawning on him, their words of praise and admiration, and the positions they've taken which led us to the present circumstances, right in the public eye. While Republicans and Trump were fawning all over Putin, and defending Trump's indefensible withholding of aid to Ukraine, Putin had already whacked off part of the Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine, and taken the Crimea. He had an ally in Trump, who had distanced the United States from its NATO allies, criticized the alliance and claimed, falsely, that only the United States was keeping up with its financial obligations.

Trump, and the Republicans who follow him around with tissues and toilet paper (yeah, figure that out, OK?), think that their base is bottomlessly naive and hopelessly ignorant. They're probably right about that, I'm not going to argue the point. But this isn't for the base. This is for those Americans who still think we are in a traditional, two-party political mold and since the Democrats don't seem to be delivering on all of their pre-election requests, they might just stay away from the polls in November, or vote for Republicans here and there to teach the Democrats a lesson. Sorry, but the days of traditional, two-party politics with that traditional give and take are long since over and gone. The core of Trump loyalists, which I refer to as "Trumpies," and which others call "Trumpians," is not interested in compromise, they are interested in takeover.

[lees1975]

1. kick

[Beartracks]

2. If there's a lesson to be learned, it's by the voters and not by the Democratic party...

... That being: We need more Democrats in office, not less, if we want to see their policy priorities turned into law. The problem isn't "Democrats don't deliver" ; rather, it's "too many Republicans are still in Congress."

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[ffr]

6. Too many Russian's in office.

Fixed.

[Yoyoyo77]

3. This is good!

Best thing is the author is well known in the very suburban Trump hesitant/Democratic hesitant GOP and GOP independent areas he is addressing. This needs to be heavily circulated in as many purple and light red areas as possible.

[iluvtennis]

4. KnR!!

[ffr]

5. What continiues after that last paragraph is some juicy stuff. K&R

[lees1975]

7. Such as this?

And once they accomplish that, if we let them do so, it will be winner take all. That will be the end of the constitution, the peaceful transition of power, any negotiations in good faith, and the end of free and fair elections. So get past the pettiness, the traditional politics, the griping and complaining that goes along with it, wake up, smell the coffee and any other cliche which directs attention to what is transpiring in the real world.

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It was the Republicans who have been chasing after Putin, following Trump's lead, protesting the sanctions President Obama laid down when Russia went into the Donbas and the Crimea. It was the Republicans who voted to defend Trump's inexcusable withholding of vital aid to Ukraine which, in light of their complaining and pushing over the plane exchange deal with Poland, makes this look even worse for them.