Our Manchurian president and now Manchurian candidate can’t be bothered to hide it anymore. He will freely and openly talk about the United States’s actions to help preserve democracy in Ukraine, along with the help from NATO, as worse than Russia. Russia is, of course, the fascist dictatorship that invaded another country and is responsible for mass graves and indiscriminate shelling of apartment buildings and electric plants. These war crimes and crimes against humanity are meant to impose suffering and death on the Ukrainian people.
There is also the fact that a Russian plane “pushed” one of our drones, a United States drone flying over neutral territory, brought down by a Russian plane. Trump likes this country, the one attacking the United States now:
The European Command of the U.S. Armed Forces published a video of the collision between a #Russian [1] Su-27 and an American MQ-9 Reaper #drone [2]. The incident occurred on March 14.
The footage shows the Russian plane dropping fuel and then hitting the drone, forcing the "operators… https://t.co/ibc8oMmH9Y [3] pic.twitter.com/t8wXXwzXr9 [4]
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 16, 2023 [5]
It is an interesting dynamic now because there are Republicans in the Senate, led by McConnell and Lindsey Graham – along with a dozen or more others, that are pushing President Biden to do more and deliver F-16s, which would be a game changer, allowing the Ukrainians to take the fight to Russia and into Russia.
But Donald Trump believes that the Russians are not our enemy. Our enemy is the United States government. The Manchurian candidate is in the open. NATO is a bit too effective in repelling Russia, and so Trump wants a reevaluation of our relationship with NATO (He was going to pull us out of NATO, according to John Bolton, if he had a second term). He also wants to fire the people in the State Dept, DOD, and Intel Services “so he can put the right people in.”
Guess who the “right people” are? Correct, the ones that favor a more “Russian-flavored government.” Trump is openly talking about fascism again. His CPAC talk referred to 2024 as the “Final Battle,” as if 2028 won’t have an election. If you believe what he’s saying – and he can be remarkably honest when telling you what he wants – there won’t be an election in 2028. He is “obliterating (his word) the U.S. government, sending troops into cities, and all kinds of things that correspond to declaring martial law on January 20th, 2025, if he became president due to “the country going to hell.” He will tear up the Constitution and take all power for himself.
Biden and everyone else who “embarrassed him” will be imprisoned. Am I an alarmist? I don’t think so. Think about how much we underestimated what he said he planned to do in 2016. And this time, there will be no constraints.
So when he speaks like this, we better listen:
Trump says Russia is not a threat, our greatest threat is our American representatives, we need to reevaluate the purpose of NATO, and most of the people in the State Dept, DOD and Intel Services need to be fired so he can put the right people in. pic.twitter.com/9PC6PrONM9 [6]
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 16, 2023 [7]
Twitter had some thoughts:
Putin's propaganda doesn't get more pure than this!
— Gailen David (@gailendavid) March 16, 2023 [8]
Whatever pootin' promised him, it won't be enough. It could never be enough. The panic and desperation is palatable in Diaper Don. Something massive is afoot…
— Mark Ryan 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇳🇱🇺🇦 (@markryan243) March 16, 2023 [9]
Why didn’t he install all the right people during his time in office?
— Linda Susan Michael (@marmichael8) March 16, 2023 [10]
It’s long past time he be warehoused in a prison/nursing home setting
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) March 16, 2023 [11]
Trump’s campaign is the insurrection and his campaign manager is Putin.
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) March 16, 2023 [12]
If there was ever any doubt that Donald Trump was an agent of Vladimir Putin, then there isn’t anymore. Or he might as well be. Increasingly, all of his rhetoric about world affairs could be coming from Kremlin talking points. And Ron DeSantis isn’t much different. pic.twitter.com/pgogfeNXXX [13]
— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) March 16, 2023 [14]
In case people are still wondering if the Russians are going to help Trump (again) win the election…
— Republicans against Trumpism (@RpsAgainstTrump) March 17, 2023 [15]
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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman