Playing a gotcha-game with 70-year-old GOP nominee Donald Trump, 55-year-old former President Bill Clinton press secretary-turned journalist George Stephanopoulos tried his best to trip up Trump on Ukraine. Democratic nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been busy proving that Trump isn’t ready for the Oval Office, usin surrogates like Stephanopoulos and other in the liberal media to discredit Trump. “He’s [Putin’s] not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand,” Tweeted Trump. “He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right?” asked Trump. “You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want,” Trump told Stepahanopoulos. “Well, he’s already there, isn’t he,” said George, not getting Trump’s drift. Trump’s talking about Russian President Vladimir Putin not taking more Ukrainians sovereign territory under his watch.
Under Obama’s watch, Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014 only a week after he finished hosting the Sochi Winter Olympics. Obama and NATO allies did nothing to stop Putin from seizing the territory generously bequeathed Feb. 19, 1854 to Ukraine by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Putin justified the action when a Feb. 22, 2014 pro-Western coup toppled the duly elected Kremlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovich. Putin watched helplessly from Sochi, confiscating Crimea a week later. When Stephanopoulos baits Trump about Ukrainian territory, he’s referring to currently disputed land in primarily Russian-speaking Southeastern Ukraine known as the Donbass region. Putin’s lent arms and unmarked military personnel to help defend the pro-Russian Donbass region from a military onslaught by 50-year-old chocolate baron Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Trump rocks Obama and Hillary’s Cold War rhetoric, blaming Putin for everything that goes wrong with a failed foreign policy. Whether or not the media gives Trump credit, he understands the Ukraine situation far better than mainstream press. Obama has turned the press against Putin, blaming him for backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Obama has defied the U.N. that recognizes Syrian as a sovereign state. Barack and Hillary back Saudi Arabia, Turkey and a host of Islamic terror groups spending the last six years trying to topple Damascus. Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry have no answer why they chose regime change over backing the Syrian Shiite government. Obama and Hillary currently back toppling al-Assad and fight on the same side as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nursra Front and host of other Syrian rebel groups.
Trump told Stephanopoulos that he’d study the matter more completely but is inclined to accept Putin’s approach to Syria and Ukraine. “I’m going to take a look at it,” said Trump. “But you know the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russian that where the were. An you have to look at that also,” Trump told Stephanopoulos. Trump’s views are such heresy to the Military Industrial Complex, that he’s branded by Obama and Hillary as a Kremlin lover. “What is he talking about? Russia is already in Ukraine. Does he not know that? What else doesn’t he know?” asked Clinton campaign senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan. Sullivan and others on the Hillary campaign express fear over Trump getting the nuclear coders,” while, at the same time, have driven U.S.-Russian relations to 55-year-old lows when the U.S. and Russia faced of in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
When you examine the White House and now Hillary campaign position on Ukraine, it’s decidedly anti-Russian. Trump wants to continue the same détente with the Kremlin to reduce the chances the U.S. and Russia would come to a nuclear confrontation. Obama and Hillary believe tossing out 50-plus years of U.S.-Russian diplomacy makes the world a safer place. Globally recognized Russian expert Princeton University professor Stephen F. Cohen called Obama and Hillary’s anti-Russian policies dangerous to U.S national security. Stephanopoulos’s beef with Trump mirrors Hillary’s talking points against Trump that he’s not ready for commander in chief or to manage U.S. foreign policy. When you look and Obama and Hillary’s position it says exactly the opposite: That neither of them have improved relations with Moscow to reduce the chance of nuclear war.
Never before in any presidential campaign has the media shown more bias against a presidential candidate. Watching Stephanopoulos play around with Trump shows that it’s more about political theater to the media than getting out the public facts. Nothing reduces the chances of nuclear war more than an improved relationship with Moscow. Both Obama and Clinton, together with Neocons on the Senate Armed Services Committed like chairman Sen. John McCain (R-Az,) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), oppose improving relations with Moscow. Whether Russia’s in Ukraine or not, it’s time for the press to recognize that U.S.-Russian relations have deteriorated under Obama and Clinton to dangerous lows. Trump’s plan to restore over 60-years of U.S.-Russian diplomacy makes the world safer from nuclear war. Playing politics with foreign policy makes Hillary—and the press—look even more devious.
