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[Tearex]

You say this....This blows up the entire opinion piece:
You explain with this....All presidents have more flexibility in their 2nd terms, for obvious reasons. Now, what exactly did Putin do to help Obama beat Romney? What an asinine claim.

Yes, that is an asinine claim....by you. The article was about which president was better for Putin?

Was President Obama better for Russia than President Trump?
BY EDWARD LYNCH, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 04/05/19 10:00 AM EDT 172 THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL



You are blowing up your entire opinion piece by asking what Putin did for Obama, rather than what Obama did for Putin as the article lays out.

What meaningful resistance did Obama have for Russia?
Obama pulled missile defense in Poland. Did nothing to help Ukraine resist Russia's take over of Crimea. Invited Russia's military expansion in Syria, all for Putin!

Trump

"When you actually look at the substance of what this administration has done, not the rhetoric but the substance, this administration has been much tougher on Russia than any in the post-Cold War era," said Daniel Vajdich, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.

Take military spending: Trump sought to add $1.4 billion for fiscal year 2018 to the European Deterrence Initiative — a military effort to deter Russian aggression that was initially known as the European Reassurance Initiative. That's a 41 percent increase from the last year of the Obama administration. The president also agreed to send lethal weapons to Ukraine — a step that Obama resisted. And Trump gave U.S. forces in Syria more leeway to engage with Russian troops.

"Those loosened rules of engagement have resulted in direct military clashes with Russian militants and mercenaries on the ground, actually resulting in one incident in hundreds of casualties on the Russian side," Vajdich said.

The administration has also imposed sanctions on dozens of Russian oligarchs and government officials. And Trump has aggressively promoted U.S. energy exports, although so far that hasn't created much competition for Russia's oil and gas.
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630659379/is-trump-the-toughest-ever-on-russia

Quote:
It is certainly true that Trump, both as candidate and president, has made statements about Russia and to Russia that he should not have made, such as inviting them to find more of the “private” emails of Clinton.


Way to soft-pedal collusion in plain sight.


Such a dishonest misrepresentation......"soft-pedal collusion", bs.

Clearly Trump was making light of the fact that Russia probably had Hillary's 33k OOJ deleted emails, while the US Government did not, since she kept all her top secret emails on her unsecured private server.

That is not a request to hack her. It is a request to see what they already have. After all Hillary would not even let the FBI investigate the DNC hacked server, let alone her private server.


F.O. with your fact-challenged revisionist history.

You have challenged none of it with any facts, just your opinions....
No soap, said the turtle.
Trump kissed Putin's ass in Helsinki
Trump enabling jackasses like yourself
F.O. with your fact-challenged revisionist history.