A Democrat President Is About To Meet Putin...

Biden's meeting with Putin will be spun by US propagandists as a huge success.

But anyone who has seen Biden asserting himself and Putin asserting himself, should be fearful of allowing Biden to meet one on one with Putin.

America doesn't choose it's leaders because of ability. That's flaw of most democracies that bites democracy's ass.



How about you try to make Canada more like a free country??



Shock Video: Another Pastor Arrested In Canada Following Anti-Lockdown Church Service






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Limits on Freedom of Expression: Israel

Limits on Freedom of Expression

Israeli law recognizes protection of freedom of speech as a constitutional principle. Protection extends to all forms and content of expression including freedom of the press and freedom to make a political speech."









Now.....how about where you live?









"Think Canada Allows Freedom of Speech? Think Again

This societal need to prosecute potty mouths and anything deemed offensive has become a popular trend in Canada. Most recently this has been transcended into anti-bullying laws introduced in legislatures all over the country.We have to be careful about legislating offensiveness. We cannot allow the government to decide what subjective comments are acceptable and which should land you in prison. Britain is taking steps to restore absolute freedom of speech, so should Canada.

By

Tom Kott, Contributor



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12/19/2012 11:45am EST | Updated February 18, 2013



On December 12, Lord Dear introduced a motion to reform section 5 from the Public Order Act 1986 in the British House of Lords. Section 5 says that a person is guilty of an offence in Britain if he

"uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby."



Essentially, it makes it illegal to insult anyone.

Reform Section 5, a campaign dedicated to removing the illegality of "insulting words or behaviour" from the law, has gotten a lot of attention in Britain with their slogan "Feel Free to Insult Me." They launched their mission after a man was arrested for asking a police officer, "do you realize your horse is gay?" A horse. While the officer himself admitted to not being insulted, he stated that the comment could have insulted anyone in the vicinity who heard it. Makes sense, right?

A teenager was later arrested for growling and woofing at two Labrador dogs in public, a café owner was investigated for showing biblical passages on a TV screen, and an LGBT group was arrested under section 5 for protesting anti-gay persecution in the Middle East. While one would hope such a law would only be used in extraordinary circumstances, it's actually very common."

 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
thread killer



You should have waited for posts #7 & 8...


Now you look like fool.
No, Jumbo, you're the only one who looks like a fool. Your fellow blob took the side of Putin over his own intel agencies.


'Jumbo'????

You weigh more than I do.



And I just schooled you.
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.



"Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies."

Let's check:

Anti-Russia Actions by Trump…things that have directly and indirectly effected Russia

1.Bombed Russian ally, Syria, hitting Russian facilities killing a number of Russian military

2.Pulled out of the Iran deal…a Russian signee

3.Pulled out of Paris Accords….a Russian signee

4.Sanctions against Russia…460 sanctions against individuals and entities

5.Expelled Russian diplomats

6.Gave Ukraine Javelin anti-tank missiles to use against Russian proxies…Obama sent mittens

7. Obama….more flexible, Hillary ‘reset button,’ wouldn’t give Poland defensive missiles, Uranium one deal….

8. At the NATO meeting, he warned Germany not to make huge energy deals enriching Russia….

9. Trump created an energy juggernaut in the United States….a body-blow to the Russian economy. Anyone pro-fracking is anti-Russia.

10. And, of course, you dunce, first and foremost.....

Russia is a dictatorship.
Nothing emanates from Moscow without Putin's imprimatur....
The 'information' in the infamous 'dossier' came from Russia.

Now.....if Putin wanted Trump to win.......would there have ever.......ever.....been a dossier?????


QED......the candidate of Vladimir Putin was Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.



View attachment 501399

Trump sided with Putin over his intel agencies.... Are you denying that Tubby?



Read more carefully:



Anti-Russia Actions by Trump…things that have directly and indirectly effected Russia

1.Bombed Russian ally, Syria, hitting Russian facilities killing a number of Russian military

2.Pulled out of the Iran deal…a Russian signee

3.Pulled out of Paris Accords….a Russian signee

4.Sanctions against Russia…460 sanctions against individuals and entities

5.Expelled Russian diplomats

6.Gave Ukraine Javelin anti-tank missiles to use against Russian proxies…Obama sent mittens

7. Obama….more flexible, Hillary ‘reset button,’ wouldn’t give Poland defensive missiles, Uranium one deal….

8. At the NATO meeting, he warned Germany not to make huge energy deals enriching Russia….

9. Trump created an energy juggernaut in the United States….a body-blow to the Russian economy. Anyone pro-fracking is anti-Russia.

10. And, of course, you dunce, first and foremost.....

Russia is a dictatorship.
Nothing emanates from Moscow without Putin's imprimatur....
The 'information' in the infamous 'dossier' came from Russia.

Now.....if Putin wanted Trump to win.......would there have ever.......ever.....been a dossier?????


QED......the candidate of Vladimir Putin was Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.

11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgQaFlo_p8

12. Biden administration to waive sanctions for head of Nord Stream 2 pipeline

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin leads the company that is building the gas pipeline.


Now we know the reason for this:





"Hunter Biden received $3.5M wire transfer from Russian billionaire: Senate report

Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.



Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden’s investment firm in early 2014.



“Baturina became Russia’s only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor,” it said in providing background on the businesswoman."










Selling-out America has become the cottage industry for Democrats.
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
thread killer



You should have waited for posts #7 & 8...


Now you look like fool.
No, Jumbo, you're the only one who looks like a fool. Your fellow blob took the side of Putin over his own intel agencies.


'Jumbo'????

You weigh more than I do.



And I just schooled you.
You thought Reagan met with Putin and were unaware that your fellow blob believed Putin over his own intel agencies.
 
Biden's meeting with Putin will be spun by US propagandists as a huge success.

But anyone who has seen Biden asserting himself and Putin asserting himself, should be fearful of allowing Biden to meet one on one with Putin.

America doesn't choose it's leaders because of ability. That's flaw of most democracies that bites democracy's ass.

Putin said last week that Trump was colorful, but he could work with Biden and that there would be NO IMPULSE DECISIONS.
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.



"Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies."

Let's check:

Anti-Russia Actions by Trump…things that have directly and indirectly effected Russia

1.Bombed Russian ally, Syria, hitting Russian facilities killing a number of Russian military

2.Pulled out of the Iran deal…a Russian signee

3.Pulled out of Paris Accords….a Russian signee

4.Sanctions against Russia…460 sanctions against individuals and entities

5.Expelled Russian diplomats

6.Gave Ukraine Javelin anti-tank missiles to use against Russian proxies…Obama sent mittens

7. Obama….more flexible, Hillary ‘reset button,’ wouldn’t give Poland defensive missiles, Uranium one deal….

8. At the NATO meeting, he warned Germany not to make huge energy deals enriching Russia….

9. Trump created an energy juggernaut in the United States….a body-blow to the Russian economy. Anyone pro-fracking is anti-Russia.

10. And, of course, you dunce, first and foremost.....

Russia is a dictatorship.
Nothing emanates from Moscow without Putin's imprimatur....
The 'information' in the infamous 'dossier' came from Russia.

Now.....if Putin wanted Trump to win.......would there have ever.......ever.....been a dossier?????


QED......the candidate of Vladimir Putin was Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.



View attachment 501399

Trump sided with Putin over his intel agencies.... Are you denying that Tubby?



Read more carefully:



Anti-Russia Actions by Trump…things that have directly and indirectly effected Russia

1.Bombed Russian ally, Syria, hitting Russian facilities killing a number of Russian military

2.Pulled out of the Iran deal…a Russian signee

3.Pulled out of Paris Accords….a Russian signee

4.Sanctions against Russia…460 sanctions against individuals and entities

5.Expelled Russian diplomats

6.Gave Ukraine Javelin anti-tank missiles to use against Russian proxies…Obama sent mittens

7. Obama….more flexible, Hillary ‘reset button,’ wouldn’t give Poland defensive missiles, Uranium one deal….

8. At the NATO meeting, he warned Germany not to make huge energy deals enriching Russia….

9. Trump created an energy juggernaut in the United States….a body-blow to the Russian economy. Anyone pro-fracking is anti-Russia.

10. And, of course, you dunce, first and foremost.....

Russia is a dictatorship.
Nothing emanates from Moscow without Putin's imprimatur....
The 'information' in the infamous 'dossier' came from Russia.

Now.....if Putin wanted Trump to win.......would there have ever.......ever.....been a dossier?????


QED......the candidate of Vladimir Putin was Hillary Clinton and the Democrats.


11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mgQaFlo_p8

12. Biden administration to waive sanctions for head of Nord Stream 2 pipeline

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin leads the company that is building the gas pipeline.


Now we know the reason for this:





"Hunter Biden received $3.5M wire transfer from Russian billionaire: Senate report

Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.



Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden’s investment firm in early 2014.



“Baturina became Russia’s only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor,” it said in providing background on the businesswoman."










Selling-out America has become the cottage industry for Democrats.

Was that before or after he gave up American bases in Syria to the Russians?

Your fellow blob believed Putin over his own intel agencies.
 
.....it'd be best if his watchers reminded him of how a Republican President did it.


"SO ON WHOM or what do we bestow the title of the "evil empire's" killer? Was it Mikhail Gorbachev himself who pulled down what Lenin and Stalin had built up? It is tempting to finger Gorbachev, but this would ascribe too much wisdom and foresight to a man who wanted merely to reform, but not to relinquish, the empire. At no point, however, did Gorbachev want to yield Moscow's pride of place as the number two superpower. And he was blissfully confident that the risks were tolerable: "There is no reason to fear the collapse or the end of socialism", Gorbachev assured Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu three weeks after the Berlin Wall had been breached and three weeks before the Romanian dictator was executed by his own people.

Reagan was made from far sterner stuff than was his Soviet counterpart. His genial grin and wise-cracking demeanor concealed a spine of steel when push came to shove. Yet at their next meeting in Reykjavik in 1986, where Gorbachev would not budge on the "Star Wars" question, Reagan was decisive and unforgiving. He recalls in An American Life how he stood up from the table to proclaim that the meeting was over. Then he turned to his Secretary of State: "Let's go, George. We're leaving." Like any good diplomat, Shultz was crushed by so much roughness, but Reagan was completely unfazed. Later on, he explained: "I went to Reykjavik determined that everything was negotiable except two things, our freedom and our future."

Ronald Reagan, though dismissed by Europeans as a second-rate actor and fondler of cue cards, possessed that magic faculty that separates run-of-the mill politicos from history-molding leaders. "I didn't understand", recalls Time's Joe Klein, "how truly monumental, and morally important, Reagan's anti-communism was until I visited the Soviet Union in 1987." He continues with a seemingly trivial vignette. Attending the Bolshoi Ballet, he was nudged by his minder: "'Ronald Reagan. Evil empire', he whispered with dramatic intensity and shot a glance toward his lap where he had hidden two enthusiastic thumbs up. 'Yes!'"

When an American president manages to pluck the soul strings of those who have been raised to fear and despise what he represents, he surely deserves the honorific 'great.'



Now......who did you vote for?
That's a one-question IQ test.

When Gorbachev took office his assignment was to fix communism or end it.. No point in romaticizing Reagan.
The Soviet Union ended under Bush I anyways, not Middle Class Killer Reagan.




.....thanks to Reagan.


If you ever learn to read....

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Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
thread killer





12. Biden administration to waive sanctions for head of Nord Stream 2 pipeline

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin leads the company that is building the gas pipeline.


Now we know the reason for this:





"Hunter Biden received $3.5M wire transfer from Russian billionaire: Senate report

Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.



Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden’s investment firm in early 2014.



“Baturina became Russia’s only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor,” it said in providing background on the businesswoman."










Selling-out America has become the cottage industry for Democrats.

RT.com which is Russia's propaganda mouthpiece has been consistently pushing the message that Russia hates Biden and much prefers Trump. You can't ignore the real world even if you don't like Putin.

You put up some good posts though.

It's just that the facts on Russia's/Putin's preference took them all down.
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
Well.....it's a sad day when you can trust the Kremlin more than the FBI.....but um.....that's pretty much what we got.
The FBI has been whored out and politicized beyond all plausible functionality to the point where yes...they could easily be considered to be the enemy of the people.

JO
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
thread killer



You should have waited for posts #7 & 8...


Now you look like fool.
No, Jumbo, you're the only one who looks like a fool. Your fellow blob took the side of Putin over his own intel agencies.


'Jumbo'????

You weigh more than I do.



And I just schooled you.
You thought Reagan met with Putin and were unaware that your fellow blob believed Putin over his own intel agencies.



Don't worry......I'm here to help:


1.Obama appointed Inspector General found widespread misconduct in the Justice Department

“The long-awaited inspector general report on the FBI, Comey, Clinton, and 2016, explained

Michael Horowitz is an Obama appointee who started this review long ago…. First, Horowitz writes, FBI officials involved in the case sent each other messages on their FBI devices “that created the appearance” of political bias. Here he particularly criticizes FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok for texting his co-worker and lover, Lisa Page, that “we’ll stop” Trump from winning the election.

… he says he “did not have confidence” that Strzok’s decision in the campaign’s final month to prioritize the Trump campaign/Russia probe over new Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop “was free from bias.” He writes that Strzok and other FBI employees “brought discredit to themselves” and hurt the bureau’s reputation.

Second, Horowitz sharply criticizes then-FBI director James Comey for his public statements about the Clinton email case — …” The long-awaited inspector general report on the FBI, Comey, Clinton, and 2016, explained

2. Andrew McCabe lied

3. Peter Strzok lied.

4. Justice Department lawyer Kevin Clinesmith got away with altering documents to lie about Carter Page not being an asset of the United States, working with the CIA, but the very opposite. The altered document allowed the Deep State to surveil Trump and associates.

5. They altered a document on General Flynn.

6. Comey et al lied to the FISA court to get warrants spy on officials.

7. They hid the fact that the dossier was simply Hillary’s attempt to sink Trump, and they used it as though was accurate and verifiable.
h
8. The paid a foreign agent who was simply a communist who brought the dossier from Putin and the Kremlin to end Trump’s candidacy.

And any who are actually fired for their corruption, they ease into cushy gigs at CNN and MSNBC, because they have already been proven to be adept liars…..just what state media is looking for.

9. And now John Durham and the investigation….cut off at the knees. The long-awaited inspector general report on the FBI, Comey, Clinton, and 2016, explained

10. So, there are two levels of justice….one for Americans, the other one for the in-crowd, the Establishment, the Deep State, the Bureaucracy…..the Democrats and their stooges.





Another custard pie in your ugly kisser again, huh?
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
thread killer





12. Biden administration to waive sanctions for head of Nord Stream 2 pipeline

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin leads the company that is building the gas pipeline.


Now we know the reason for this:





"Hunter Biden received $3.5M wire transfer from Russian billionaire: Senate report

Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.



Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden’s investment firm in early 2014.



“Baturina became Russia’s only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor,” it said in providing background on the businesswoman."










Selling-out America has become the cottage industry for Democrats.

RT.com which is Russia's propaganda mouthpiece has been consistently pushing the message that Russia hates Biden and much prefers Trump. You can't ignore the real world even if you don't like Putin.

You put up some good posts though.

It's just that the facts on Russia's/Putin's preference took them all down.





Too bad you don't live in a free country, huh?
 
Biden's meeting with Putin will be spun by US propagandists as a huge success.

But anyone who has seen Biden asserting himself and Putin asserting himself, should be fearful of allowing Biden to meet one on one with Putin.

America doesn't choose it's leaders because of ability. That's flaw of most democracies that bites democracy's ass.

Putin said last week that Trump was colorful, but he could work with Biden and that there would be NO IMPULSE DECISIONS.
Yes, of course surada. We both know that Putin will prefer the US president in power because that's who he needs to deal with.

Will any of the other silly asses on this board be able to grasp that concept?
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
thread killer





12. Biden administration to waive sanctions for head of Nord Stream 2 pipeline

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin leads the company that is building the gas pipeline.


Now we know the reason for this:





"Hunter Biden received $3.5M wire transfer from Russian billionaire: Senate report

Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.



Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden’s investment firm in early 2014.



“Baturina became Russia’s only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor,” it said in providing background on the businesswoman."










Selling-out America has become the cottage industry for Democrats.

RT.com which is Russia's propaganda mouthpiece has been consistently pushing the message that Russia hates Biden and much prefers Trump. You can't ignore the real world even if you don't like Putin.

You put up some good posts though.

It's just that the facts on Russia's/Putin's preference took them all down.





Too bad you don't live in a free country, huh?

You needed to come back with something better than that hon. LOL
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
Well.....it's a sad day when you can trust the Kremlin more than the FBI.....but um.....that's pretty much what we got.
The FBI has been whored out and politicized beyond all plausible functionality to the point where yes...they could easily be considered to be the enemy of the people.

JO
Only an idiot thinks like you.
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
Well.....it's a sad day when you can trust the Kremlin more than the FBI.....but um.....that's pretty much what we got.
The FBI has been whored out and politicized beyond all plausible functionality to the point where yes...they could easily be considered to be the enemy of the people.

JO
Only an idiot thinks like you.
an idiot, or a Russian troll.
 
Trump sided with Putin over his own intel agencies.

Who did you vote for? This is a one question IQ test. You will fail.
thread killer



You should have waited for posts #7 & 8...


Now you look like fool.
No, Jumbo, you're the only one who looks like a fool. Your fellow blob took the side of Putin over his own intel agencies.


'Jumbo'????

You weigh more than I do.



And I just schooled you.
You thought Reagan met with Putin and were unaware that your fellow blob believed Putin over his own intel agencies.



Don't worry......I'm here to help:


1.Obama appointed Inspector General found widespread misconduct in the Justice Department

“The long-awaited inspector general report on the FBI, Comey, Clinton, and 2016, explained

Michael Horowitz is an Obama appointee who started this review long ago…. First, Horowitz writes, FBI officials involved in the case sent each other messages on their FBI devices “that created the appearance” of political bias. Here he particularly criticizes FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok for texting his co-worker and lover, Lisa Page, that “we’ll stop” Trump from winning the election.

… he says he “did not have confidence” that Strzok’s decision in the campaign’s final month to prioritize the Trump campaign/Russia probe over new Clinton emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop “was free from bias.” He writes that Strzok and other FBI employees “brought discredit to themselves” and hurt the bureau’s reputation.

Second, Horowitz sharply criticizes then-FBI director James Comey for his public statements about the Clinton email case — …” The long-awaited inspector general report on the FBI, Comey, Clinton, and 2016, explained

2. Andrew McCabe lied

3. Peter Strzok lied.

4. Justice Department lawyer Kevin Clinesmith got away with altering documents to lie about Carter Page not being an asset of the United States, working with the CIA, but the very opposite. The altered document allowed the Deep State to surveil Trump and associates.

5. They altered a document on General Flynn.

6. Comey et al lied to the FISA court to get warrants spy on officials.

7. They hid the fact that the dossier was simply Hillary’s attempt to sink Trump, and they used it as though was accurate and verifiable.
h
8. The paid a foreign agent who was simply a communist who brought the dossier from Putin and the Kremlin to end Trump’s candidacy.

And any who are actually fired for their corruption, they ease into cushy gigs at CNN and MSNBC, because they have already been proven to be adept liars…..just what state media is looking for.

9. And now John Durham and the investigation….cut off at the knees. The long-awaited inspector general report on the FBI, Comey, Clinton, and 2016, explained

10. So, there are two levels of justice….one for Americans, the other one for the in-crowd, the Establishment, the Deep State, the Bureaucracy…..the Democrats and their stooges.





Another custard pie in your ugly kisser again, huh?

Putin, former head of the KGB who was tied to meddling in our 2016 election, was trusted by Trump over his own intel agencies.

Your fellow blob and you are not patriots in any way, shape, or gigantic blobby form.

Now go lay down and torture your bedsprings some more tubby.
 
And after the pilgrimage Xiden will return in glory waving a piece of paper exactly as did another failed politician those many years ago.....
View attachment 501419




I can't resist reminding all that Democrat Roosevelt congratulated Chamberlain on his bowing to Hitler....



When Chamberlain infamously gave in to Hitler's advances in Europe.....FDR was right there giving him a high-five:

At the Munich conference where Europe sold out Czechoslovakia, even though France had a treaty to go to war to preserve Czechoslovakia…..Chamberlain was about to appease Hitler….and FDR sent this message to Chamberlain:



"MUNICH MESSAGE FROM U.S. BARED; Roosevelt Sent Encouraging 'Good Man' to Chamberlain Day Before Conference

 
.....it'd be best if his watchers reminded him of how a Republican President did it.


"SO ON WHOM or what do we bestow the title of the "evil empire's" killer? Was it Mikhail Gorbachev himself who pulled down what Lenin and Stalin had built up? It is tempting to finger Gorbachev, but this would ascribe too much wisdom and foresight to a man who wanted merely to reform, but not to relinquish, the empire. At no point, however, did Gorbachev want to yield Moscow's pride of place as the number two superpower. And he was blissfully confident that the risks were tolerable: "There is no reason to fear the collapse or the end of socialism", Gorbachev assured Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu three weeks after the Berlin Wall had been breached and three weeks before the Romanian dictator was executed by his own people.

Reagan was made from far sterner stuff than was his Soviet counterpart. His genial grin and wise-cracking demeanor concealed a spine of steel when push came to shove. Yet at their next meeting in Reykjavik in 1986, where Gorbachev would not budge on the "Star Wars" question, Reagan was decisive and unforgiving. He recalls in An American Life how he stood up from the table to proclaim that the meeting was over. Then he turned to his Secretary of State: "Let's go, George. We're leaving." Like any good diplomat, Shultz was crushed by so much roughness, but Reagan was completely unfazed. Later on, he explained: "I went to Reykjavik determined that everything was negotiable except two things, our freedom and our future."

Ronald Reagan, though dismissed by Europeans as a second-rate actor and fondler of cue cards, possessed that magic faculty that separates run-of-the mill politicos from history-molding leaders. "I didn't understand", recalls Time's Joe Klein, "how truly monumental, and morally important, Reagan's anti-communism was until I visited the Soviet Union in 1987." He continues with a seemingly trivial vignette. Attending the Bolshoi Ballet, he was nudged by his minder: "'Ronald Reagan. Evil empire', he whispered with dramatic intensity and shot a glance toward his lap where he had hidden two enthusiastic thumbs up. 'Yes!'"

When an American president manages to pluck the soul strings of those who have been raised to fear and despise what he represents, he surely deserves the honorific 'great.'



Now......who did you vote for?
That's a one-question IQ test.
How a republican did it? By fawning all over the Russian President and throwing his own intelligence agencies under the bus? This from a fellow Republican:

“The damage inflicted by President Trump’s naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate. But it is clear that the summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake,” McCain said in a statement. “President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world.”

John McCain


"Head down, ass up" is the current Republican methodology of dealing with Putin.
 

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