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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 06:35 PM Oct 2020

Tumult at home, ailing alliances abroad: Why Trump's America has been a 'gift' to Putin

Under President Trump, the United States has abandoned international climate and nuclear arms agreements. It has announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, questioned the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and antagonized stalwart allies like Germany.

America’s past presidents have long promoted democracy, human rights and the rule of law abroad, yet Trump instead has waged an assault on those values at home, where he has weakened institutions, shredded norms and declared without evidence that the upcoming election will be “rigged.”

America’s moral authority also has been undercut by the devastatingly high death toll and wrenching economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with the racial reckoning that has convulsed the country.

These highlights from Trump’s nearly four years in office read like Vladimir Putin’s wish list. Few countries have benefited more geopolitically from Trump’s time in office than Russia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-russia-putin/2020/10/24/4edb462e-13bb-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html

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Tumult at home, ailing alliances abroad: Why Trump's America has been a 'gift' to Putin (Original Post) Zorro Oct 2020 OP
Good now Dawg, very bad later for Pooty StClone Oct 2020 #1
If Biden wins he has to come down hard on Russia sanction the hell out of Putin doc03 Oct 2020 #2

StClone

(11,683 posts)
1. Good now Dawg, very bad later for Pooty
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 06:44 PM
Oct 2020

Russia will be punished by the world after acts of aggression (murders, cyber attacks, Election interference). It was his better days with Tee Man in The oval Office-now it is going to get rough for the Pooty,

doc03

(35,325 posts)
2. If Biden wins he has to come down hard on Russia sanction the hell out of Putin
Sun Oct 25, 2020, 07:12 PM
Oct 2020

freeze Russian assets. They put us through hell for 4 years.

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