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Its simple. Putin didnt invade Ukraine during the trump administration because he knew having his puppet in charge of the United States would do damage to us behind his wildest dreams. Now hes invading Ukraine because he knows the GOP will blame Joe Biden for it. And they are.
All the below happened.
1) Campaign Mgr Beholden to Russia
https://nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/politics/paul-manafort-konstantin-kilimnik.html
2) Chaned RNC platform on Ukraine https://npr.org/2017/12/04/568310790/2016-rnc-delegate-trump-directed-change-to-party-platform-on-ukraine-support
3) Sides w/Putin at Helsiinki against FBI
https://bbc.com/news/world-europe-44852812
Link to tweet
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LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)SallyHemmings
(1,821 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,193 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)Maybe we Democrats need to bring back words like COMMUNISM as the opposite to DEMOCRACY to describe Putin, and to why he wants a new Cold War as he attempts to revive the Soviet Union. Tie Republicans to Putin.
Under COMMUNISM.....
1) NO Free Speech
2) NO Free elections
3) NO ownership of property
4) NO freedom of the Press
5) NO trial by Jury
6) NO Civil rights
7) NO political opposition
8) NO access to Bank and Savings accounts
9) NO assurances to the future
10) NO Public education, only PROPAGANDA
11) NO access to good medical care
12) NO access to good jobs that pay well
Anything I forgot, feel free to add. If this is what Republicans for Putin want, they will lose.
Irish_Dem
(47,051 posts)He promised the GOP leadership "help" getting elected with money and access to secret intel, in return they sold the US down the river.
The GOP gets to install an autocratic, while minority rule government in the US, with draconian laws against women and minorities. Total permanent power and access to all US assets are their goals.
In return Putin now has his enemy, the US, deep divided, mired down in internal strife. A democracy which now looks silly, incompetent and weak. Allowing Putin to plunder Ukraine.