Putin has become a main adversary to the U.S. Tensions escalated once Putin re-entered office in 2012.
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It worked this way: One side would accuse the other of misconduct. “Well, what about the time when your government did X?”
The Russian leader called Trump “a bright and talented person” on Thursday and Trump, through a spokesperson, said it was a “great honor” to be praised by Putin.
President Obama said at the U.N.in October that to solve the Syrian civil war, a new inclusive government must be created that is not led by Assad.
If we didn’t already have a sense of what Donald Trump’s America would look like, now we know it would look a lot like Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation. How can we not welcome that? “Certainly, we welcome it”.
Trump: Sure. When people call you brilliant, it’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russian Federation.
Trump was reminded that Russian Federation has a record of killing journalists and invading neighbouring countries, but wouldn’t step back from his approval of Putin’s record.
That’s when things got weird.
Trump also earlier this year praised Putin as a better leader than Obama: “I will tell you that, in terms of leadership, he’s getting an “A” and our president is not doing so well”, Trump said on Fox.
Scarborough pressed forward: “But again: He kills journalists that don’t agree with him”. “So, you know. There’s a lot of stupidity going on in the world right now, Joe, a lot of killing going on, and a lot of stupidity, and that’s the way it is”.
Censoring the Internet, killing innocent families of terrorists, supporting Syria’s bloody dictator-the two men have a lot of positions in common. Host Joe Scarborough said what I was thinking at that moment.
“You obviously condemn Vladimir Putin killing journalists and political opponents, right?” “Japan is killing us”, Trump has said at numerous rallies over the last six months while talking about trade, one of his primary issues.
Trump and Putin’s bromance is reaching new heights as Trump defends Putin’s human rights violations. He’s actually got popularity within his country.
Obama has clashed with the Russian leader this year over military efforts to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Trump said, “when I look at the Ukraine, and I see Germany doing nothing, and I see so many other countries over there not really engaged, and we’re totally engaged, and I ask myself, here’s this big monstrous country, Germany, and they hardly speak up”. Maybe he does the polls. I think that other countries have to get involved with that, Joe.
Trump and his supporters account for about 99 percent of the “stupidity” in the USA, but that’s a different story.
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: just two tyrannical peas in a pod. Even New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie saying he would shoot down Russian planes over Syria if the US and allies imposed a no-fly zone, most have been silent into Trump’s embrace of the Russian leader.
