Posted on 07/28/2016 4:51:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
I guess we should be excited that liberals and the media have finally sided against the Russians. After all, my college years were spent listening to them demand that we unilaterally disarm in the face of the Big Bad Bear. And then my post college years were spent in West Germany with the mission of killing Russians for as long as I could before my platoon and I were wiped out. Later, I helped train Ukrainians. So welcome to the party, you pinko dorks. It’s about freaking time.
But apparently now me and a bunch of other certified Cold Warriors – yeah, the Army gave me a certificate for perfect attendance in the Cold War – are Putin’s pals because we are enjoying the hell out of the strongman’s perfectly timed disclosure of the DNC’s purloined emails. They make undeniable what we always knew, and what the Democrat-owned media has tried desperately to hide; that the Democratic Party is not a political party but a crime cartel peddling lies, trading influence for dollars, and crushing the aspirations of anyone stupid enough to actually believe in it.
Of course, the DNC’s reaction to revelations was not to change its ways. No, all it did was dump that babbling half-wit Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a sacrifice akin to giving up Spam and Clamato smoothies for Lent.
The reaction of the Democrats and the suddenly-not-Walter Duranty media was classic. Like a teen confronting her dad who is holding the baggie of weed he found in her nightstand, the DNC cried “OMG, I can’t believe you went through my stuff!” before throwing herself sobbing on her bed at the unfairness of it all.
And it’s hard not to ROTFLMAO when Clinton media stooges cite anonymous FBI sources intoning that it’s clearly Putin and he clearly wants to influence the election in favor of Donald Trump. This is the same FBI that couldn’t figure out how to pin a crime on the manifestly guilty Hillary and which shrugs, “Gee, we have no idea about his motive” every time some Muslim radical shouts “Allahu akbar” and goes on a shooting spree.
Did Putin do it? I bet he did, but then I was never stupid or dishonest enough to claim (unlike the whiny libs who are now having a collective emotional spazzout) that Wikileaks and Snowden and the rest were anything but neo-Soviet fronts using classic disinformation tactics spiffed up for the digital age. And Dems, cry me a river about your sudden reluctance to have the Bear do what bears do in the woods all over Hillary’s election chances. Your hero Teddy Kennedy pioneered unnatural acts of bear lovin’ when he wasn’t busy leaving girls to drown in his car.
So why did Putin do it? Who knows? It night be chaos – the ex-KGB spy sure loves chaos. Or he might really prefer Donald Trump being president over Hillary Clinton. Still, the notion that he “owns” Trump because Trump’s companies did deals with Russian companies are simply silly. Clinton Incorporated does business with Russians too. And Trump’s ability to turn on a dime when an ally stops being useful is legendary – just ask Trump’s good friend Ted Cruz. So if Putin is trying to buy himself a pal by forcing Trump on America by exposing the Democrats’ massive corruption, well, that’s an iffy bet.
Does Putin want to avoid four years of dealing with President Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit? Why would he want to do that when it’s absolutely certain he’s sitting on the contents of her email servers, including the good stuff the FBI refused to charge her with obstruction of justice for deleting? Still, it’s hard to imagine him resisting throwing that gasoline on the fire. I eagerly await the FSB dropping it right at the moment they can cause that hideous monster the most damage. And no, “Putin doesn’t like her” doesn’t compel anyone to vote for an aspiring fascist who wants to make it possible to jail those who criticize her, limit our right to practice our religion to those acts of devotion that don’t interfere with her progressive desires, and disarm us in the face of the criminals she excuses while rendering us unable to defend ourselves from her ambitions. Oppose Putin? He’s her role model.
Now there is a serious problem with Donald Trump, and that’s his comments about NATO. Deterrence works because our opponents believe we will keep our word and fight. Trump did not say we would never fight as we promised, but he left a whiff of doubt. And that’s undeniably bad.
Now, Obama has been shafting allies for eight years, with Clinton by his side for half of them, but Trump’s comments about not honoring our Article 5 commitments are still terrible. He needs to walk them back and make clear that an attack on Estonia, Poland, or wherever means war with the U.S. – to the extent the Obama-shrunken military can still fight a conventional war. And when he’s elected, the prissy conservative foreign policy establishment that’s boycotted him for having cooties needs to cut out their whiny posturing and get into the administration and square it away.
But if you want to save NATO, make no mistake that what Trump is saying resonates with millions of Americans – including vets. Many NATO countries have, amazingly, let their militaries whither even worse than ours. They are not keeping their promise by paying their fair share, and many Americans ask themselves why the hell our blood and treasure should be on the line if the Europeans are not all in too. Many of our NATO allies talked a good game about helping us in Afghanistan, but we know some of them (certainly not all) offered only miserly contributions of troops who were largely penned up with rules of engagement that made them close to useless. Until all of our allies step up and match our contribution, Trump is going to speak for many Americans outside the Beltway bubble when he tells our half-stepping allies that they need to carry their own rucks.
No, Trump should not have drawn the line the way he did, but this NATO-on-the-cheap nonsense has been going on for decades. Pearl clutching foreign policy guys, what is your solution to solving this problem? Asking nicely has not seemed to work, and if our allies don’t start getting serious, then NATO really will be done for.
As for Hillary, do we really want an unstable sociopath with a history of both vindictiveness and a demonstrated willingness to commit military forces to unwise and arguably illegal military adventures playing out her personal revenge fantasies against Putin with the lives of our young warriors? No thanks – there are lots of things worth dying for, but Hillary’s hurt feelings about the disclosure of emails that never should have been on her toilet server is not one of them.
At the end of my career, as Putin was growing more and more uppity, some of us grizzled colonels and sergeants major sat around with our young captains and majors, reminding them that we still had a few tricks up our camo sleeves. You see, while these amazing young warriors knew everything there was to know about chasing insurgents, there was something us old warhorses knew how to do that they didn’t. We knew how to kill Russians. If I didn’t need a Russia Is Not Our Pal 101 seminar from those young studs, I sure as hell don’t need it from a bunch of fellow traveling progressive schmucks who have been kissing bear tail since Stalin grew a moustache.
I find it amusing that the dems are so worked-up about Putin, aren’t they the ones who rejoiced at the Pope inserting himself into the election process? Didn’t they rejoice about the President of Mexico injecting himself into the process? Matter of fact, anytime anyone in any foreign country say they object to Trump being president, the dems throw a party, and parade that around thru the media.
So many idiots in Philadelphia this week still think it's the party of FDR and JFK and the Great Society. That party is long dead... if it ever did exist.
——“OMG, I can’t believe you went through my stuff!”-—
What a great description of exactly what happened
Then there are the putin accusations. Since there are still no missing 30.000 hillary e mails, there is no way Putin could have taken them
there is no corpus
Clinton Inc is an equal opportunity criminal enterprise - they'll take money from anyone to do anything.
“Like a teen confronting her dad who is holding the baggie of weed he found in her nightstand, the DNC cried ‘OMG, I can’t believe you went through my stuff!’ before throwing herself sobbing on her bed at the unfairness of it all.”
In this case, it was the dog that went through her stuff, and Dad is simply wondering aloud what, in addition to the weed, it dragged out.
Of course they’re mad at Russia...they turned their back on Atheism and are now Orthodox Christian.
>>Of course they’re mad at Russia...they turned their back on Atheism and are now Orthodox Christian.
I was a Cold Warrior (on SSBNs) back in the days when there was a USSR. But the fact that Russia has left atheism is a much larger factor than the political junkies and aging Cold Warriors are willing to admit.
I’ll never use the words “Christianity is in trouble” because we have Jesus Christ on our team, but the influence of Christianity is waning in this world (as scripture says will happen) so when Russia moved back to their church, I welcomed a new ally.
So, does the dog “identity” as a cat, or the cat as a dog?
The real reason the Democrats don’t like Russia is because it’s no longer a communist country
Love that part, because it is so true and needs to be shouted from the rooftops since, as he points out, the 'rat controlled MSM will never admit it.
As for why would Putin do this or authorize the release? Intel services always collect any information they can, you never know when or how it may become useful. So they no-doubt went after the information as a matter of SOP. The real question would be why would he release it (if it was in fact them)? Couple of good reasons come to mind.
One, if Hillary wins, it is going to be pay-to-play as it has always been with the Clinton crime syndicate. However, Putin's probably looking at the way the Clintons have fleeced the Arabs and realizes he may not have enough ready cash to afford Hillary's rates. She's no longer just standing on a virtual corner in the political landscape.
Two, Putin is apparently fairly old-school in his basic makeup. Sure, dressed up and repackaged, but fairly predictable. A Hillary win and it is more confusion and shifting alliances and help here, stab in the back there. OTOH, a President Trump means a return to a much more straightforward relationship of some small amount of grudging mutual respect, salted with a lot of mutual distrust. That would make the US an adversary Putin could use/sell to his countrymen. In short, Putin would rather work against a President Trump than try to work with a President Clinton.
The interesting thing is how much the 'rats have tried to deflect interest away from the content of the emails and towards who did it and why. They're having some modest success in that. They've got to be careful though, Hillary has been downplaying the importance of emails - even thousands of classified emails - for several years now. They can't exactly turn around and throw a hissy fit about the release of their emails when Hillary has been so cavalier and demonstrably negligent in handling our Nation's secrets. Well, actually I guess they could. The 'rats have never had a problem with double standards nor hypocrisy, they thrive on it.
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