ANALYSIS: US fears over Donald Trump's connections with Vladimir Putin's Russia

[riversedge]

Msm has only begun to vet Trump. This one from Sidney Australia


http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/us-fears-over-donald-trumps-connections-with-vladimir-putins-russia-20160723-gqcg8p.html




ANALYSIS
US fears over Donald Trump's connections with Vladimir Putin's Russia


http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/us-fears-over-donald-trumps-connections-with-vladimir-putins-russia-20160723-gqcg8p.html




Chris Zappone July 24 2016 - 1:12PM


Fears Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may be pursuing a Russian agenda with his candidacy have triggered a wave of alarm in the US.

A series of links between Mr Trump's circle of advisers, his policy positions on the future of NATO, his statements of admiration for Russian president Vladimir Putin and even the overlap between his supporters and those touting pro-Russia views online have contributed to this view.
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The concerns have prompted a series of high-profile American commentators and analysts to suggest Mr Trump may be getting backing from Russia for his US campaign.

Respected publications such as Slate, economist Paul Krugman writing in The New York Times, and The Washington Post have commented on the convergence between Mr Trump's statements and geopolitical positions that Russia has long sought, with worrying implications should Trump become president...................


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[tecelote]

1. Commie Trump!

[SummerSnow]

2. He is so pro Putin he won help any NATO countries if attacked by Russia.

[Renew Deal]

3. I would laugh my ass off if he got red baited out of the election

[Mister Twilight]

4. Then there's this:

Last edited Sun Jul 24, 2016, 09:48 AM - Edit history (1)

Putin’s Puppet

On Wedenesday, Donald Trump told the New York Times that he would not necessarily come to the aid of NATO states threatened by Russia and would make his decision to defend them from an attack after reviewing whether they “have fulfilled their obligations to us.” It was the latest statement from Trump that was likely greeted with delight in the Kremlin. Earlier this month, Franklin Foer wrote on the frightening ways in which Trump seems to be playing right into Vladimir Putin's plans for destabilizing the West.​

Vladimir Putin has a plan for destroying the West—and that plan looks a lot like Donald Trump. Over the past decade, Russia has boosted right-wing populists across Europe. It loaned money to Marine Le Pen in France, well-documented transfusions of cash to keep her presidential campaign alive. Such largesse also wended its way to the former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who profited “personally and handsomely” from Russian energy deals, as an American ambassador to Rome once put it. (Berlusconi also shared a 240-year-old bottle of Crimean wine with Putin and apparently makes ample use of a bed gifted to him by the Russian president.)

There’s a clear pattern: Putin runs stealth efforts on behalf of politicians who rail against the European Union and want to push away from NATO. He’s been a patron of Golden Dawn in Greece, Ataka in Bulgaria, and Jobbik in Hungary. Joe Biden warned about this effort last year in a speech at the Brookings Institution: “President Putin sees such political forces as useful tools to be manipulated, to create cracks in the European body politic which he can then exploit.” Ruptures that will likely multiply after Brexit—a campaign Russia’s many propaganda organs bombastically promoted.

The destruction of Europe is a grandiose objective; so is the weakening of the United States. Until recently, Putin has only focused glancing attention on American elections. Then along came the Republican nominee.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html

[eShirl]

5. I knew there was some pretty bad stuff on him waiting to come out in the mainstream

just from the way Obama had said Trump would NEVER be president

NEVER

[yurbud]

6. whether Trump is tied to Putin or not, his success so far tells us one thing:

even Republicans have no stomach for a new Cold War that could easily turn hot.

And it will tough to sell since Russia isn't Communist anymore and whatever Putin's human rights violations, they are the sort Republicans would like to commit here.

Also, in Syria, Putin sided with the secular government and our government sided with the near mythical "moderate" Jihadis.

[63splitwindow]

7. The RW scumnuts are, indeed, Putin nut huggers. They LOVE calling him strong and Obama weak.

I will not favor them with displaying same, but do a Google image search for Obama vs. Putin. You will see some vile shit appreciated ONLY by scum traitors.

[MrScorpio]

8. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump tries to dig up the corpses of Molotov and Ribbentrop next. nt