Here is an article from the Atlantic - Why American Spies Worry When Trump Meets Putin Posted: Jul 14th, 2018 - 1:31 pm In Reply to: What are you talking about? - sm
Even meeting with Putin when he has shown himself to be such a tyrannical leader, a despot, a gangster, and a thug, is damaging to our reputation and gives Putin a status he does not deserve. It also drags the US down, simply because Trump admires this thug.
I think Mueller has released the indictments now for a reason, as a warning. Danger, Will Robinson! But he will not heed it, he can't wait to meet his good buddy and tell him he can rule the world and it's okay with him. What an idiot.
"In this case, the goals of the summit are not clear. What does America want from Russia? Why? What is Trump willing to concede? What role are allies expected to take? If the Putin summit follows the pattern he set in Singapore, it’s more likely to be a pageant than a means to solve real problems.
But for an unclear combination of reasons, the U.S. president appears willing to forgive Putin and welcome him to the big-boy table. Even the “summit” terminology gives the impression of a Cold War meeting of two equal and powerful nations, the outcome of which will require others to accommodate themselves. Putin hasn’t earned it, and there is little that he can provide the U.S. in any “deal” short of a complete change of behavior on the international stage. Not only is the administration offering Putin a way out of his self-inflicted international isolation, it’s also providing him a red carpet on which to walk toward the exit.
There is a long-running debate among those scholars and practitioners who follow Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. Is he a master strategist, or is he merely a tactician, instinctually trying to stay one step ahead in a never-ending effort to remain in power? Trump’s gift to Putin is providing him a helping hand to pull him back from the brink and allowing him to appear an equal on the world stage with the president of the United States. Rather than being labeled as an outcast and thug, he can present himself as a modern-day tsar. Apparently, crime does pay."
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