Smitty-48 wrote:Yeah, Herr Trumpler needs to jettison the Sturmabteilung, or nobody in the Deep State is going to want to work for him, because nobody in the Reichswehr und SS, wants to be reporting to Breitbart.com.
And if he doesn't disavow the Russians, he'll be fighting the Neocon caucus in his own ranks for the rest of the term.
To me, it's a no brainer, I mean, it's the economy stupid, just toss this ideological stuff under the bus and focus on bread and butter, because bread and butter is the only path to reelection in 2020, swing voters don't care if the US is confrontational with Russia, buddying up to Russia is a lose-lose.
I don't see the point in taking hits for the Kremlin, that does nothing for him, particularly when there's no there there, the Siloviki in the Kremlin cannot be contained by negotiation, they ain't gonna do shit for Trump, doesn't matter what "deals" he supposedly makes with them, making deals with Putin is a fools errand.
Putin has his own entrenched interests to deal with, and Putin's entrenched interests; need America as an adversary, so just move on with this trying to have kumbaya with the Kremlin, it's a dead end.
The Kremlin wants Cold War 2.0, the Kremlin needs Cold War 2.0, the Kremlin is not giving up Cold War 2.0 under any circumstances, Cold War 2.0 is not just an entrenched interest for them, it is a critical interest for them, whatever "detente" deal you make with them, they will have to come up with some reason to break the deal, by accusing America of breaking it of course, so quit wasting your time, it's not worth the headaches.
At least Mattis and Pence are calming Europeans. And the message has gone through, countries are arming themselves. The possibility of war isn't totally hypothetical, only improbable. That actually is a change.
But the reality is that this Kumbayah-stance with Russia simply is more dangerous than the ordinary stance, because it creates an atmosphere that perhaps the US would be OK if Russia does his next move in gaining back the Soviet Union. Russia knows that this honeymoon won't last, so use it to the full. Sooner or later this has to change. Already not only the American UN ambassador of Trump, but Trump himself has said that Crimea has been occupied. Here the only possible loose cannon is Trump himself, because Mattis & Pence etc. are quite consistent in their views. Trump of course isn't, can say a lot of things, but that's Trump.
Yeah, Bannon might have this ideological view of getting Russia to team up to face the Muslim threat or whatever, but that actually is quite silly.
