“When Vladimir Putin
ordered his hackers to surreptitiously help Donald Trump in the
presidential race,” opined the editors in today's The New York
Times, “he could hardly have
anticipated that once in office, Mr. Trump would so outrageously,
destructively and thoroughly alienate America's closest neighbors and
allies as he did at the Group of 7 meeting in Canada.” (1) Indeed,
the editors have once again grievously underestimated our adversary.
I suspect, and have previously commented in these columns, that Putin
anticipated precisely this turn of events; knew precisely who he was
dealing with; understood completely how Donald J. Trump could and
would serve his interests.
The
Times confined its
comments this morning to the wreckage in the wake of the G7 summit in
Quebec:
“Indeed,”
continued the editors, “the group of 7 was just the kind of forum a
bully like Trump cannot abide, not out of geopolitical
considerations, but because he cannot dominate and preen. He knew he
would be on the defensive—over backing out of the Paris environment
accord and the Iran nuclear deal, and now over the tariffs he slapped
on European and Canadian steel and aluminum—so he made a point of
being late, acting petulant, leaving early and lashing out at Mr.
Trudeau.” (2)
Like
the coward he is, Disgustus didn't confront Trudeau or anyone else
directly, instead skipping out early—cutting short his
participation in a forum on women's issues and avoiding altogether
meetings on the environment—Trump slinked off to Air force One and
from the comfort of 30,000 feet lashed out at the conference by
repealing U.S. Endorsement of the final communique and insulting the
leader of the host country. Disgustus has a penchant for vandalizing
institutions by throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery. Through
the adroit use of boorish behavior, inspiringly ignorant public
statements and unilateral executive actions, tRUMP is doing his best
to wreak havoc upon not only domestic institutions within this
country but our international alliances and institutions as well.
Disgustus also has a penchant, while doing so of insulting the leader
of the host country. Remember last year his treatment of German
Chancellor Merkle at the last European conference held in Germany
when he cold not bring himself to shake the hand of the leader of the
host country?
Disgustus,
of course, always blames others, always playing the pitiful victim,
claiming from the safety of 50,000 feet that it was our allies and
particularly Canadian Prime Minister's Justin Trudeau's fault that
the summit was not the success he previously claimed it to be. The
fact is that the petulant little twit, knowing that the assembled
were not about to genuflect at his feet, announced before even
landing on the tarmac in Quebec that Russia should be re-admitted to
the group—and action that prompted at least one foreign minister to
muse that perhaps the United States should be expelled. That's how
the meetings began.
“This
is not a column” wrote economist Paul Krugman also in today's New
York Times, “about whether
Donald Trump is a quisling—a politician who serves the interests of
foreign masters at his own country's expense. Any reasonable doubts
about that reality were put to rest by by the events of the past few
days, when he defended Russia while attacking our closest allies.”
“It's
important to understand that the fight Trump is picking with our
allies isn't about any real conflict of interest—because they are
not, in fact, doing the things he accuses them of doing. No, Canada
and Europe aren't imposing 'massive tariffs' on U.S. Goods: A vast
majority of U.S. Exports enter Canada tariff-free, and the average
European tariff is only 3 percent. These are simple facts, not
disputable issues.
“So
Trump is justifying his attempt to destroy the Western alliance by
accusing our allies of misdeeds that exist only in his imagination.”
(3)
“We
don't know Trump's motivation. Is it blackmail? Bribery? Or just
generalized sympathy for autocrats and hatred for democracy?”(4),
asks Krugman. Perhaps we shall never know. I suspect it is a
combination of all of the above.. Bribery and the susceptibility to
blackmail that this entails; blackmail
involving
involvement in racketeering and money-laundering with Russian
interests, coupled with authoritarian impulses and an overweening
devotion to the likes of Putin and Hitler.
In
any case Krugman has it right. Disgustus is, in the words of a
German diplomat, “a pathetic little man-boy”, a Quisling in
Krugman's estimation doing the bidding of the world's strong-man;
putting to torch the fabric of civilization and helping to usher in a
new age of barbarism. Our Quisling president is a Russian Agent,
proving himself to be Putin's 'useful idiot' cutting the ties that
bind 280 'twitter' characters at a time.
“An Br'er Putin, he
jus' laugh and laugh”.
Impeach and Imprison.
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- Editors “America Isolated” The New York Times. Tuesday, June 12, 2018: Page A22
- Ibid
- Krugman, Paul. “A Quisling and His Enablers” The New York Times. June 12, 2018 Page A22
- Ibid
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