Speculating on the Root of Trump’s Behavior
This statement from neoconservative political analyst Bill Krystol says a great deal. Sadly, we may never know exactly why Trump is doing the bidding of Putin. Three strong possibilities are:
Corruption. Putin helped elect Trump on the basis that he, Putin, would get certain things in return.
Enrichment: As it appears we’re about to learn when we see Trump’s tax returns, he may have long-running financial dealings with Russian oligarchs who are close to Putin. (more…)
Occasionally I get comments to the effect that I’m living in a dream world, Donald Trump is admired by most Americans, and that his presidency is sailing along nicely, with perhaps the exception of a small lunatic fringe and a few members of the Deep State who, for some reason, are committed to removing a duly-elected, honest and rational man from office. 
Michael Tobias (pictured) writes as follows:
In 2009, when I was in the process of writing 
Somewhere in the last 10 years and 9300+ blog posts, I’m sure I’ve used this incredible statement before, but it certainly bears repeating now, given this horrific time in U.S. history. Those who sit around and watch the meltdown of the federal government in silence are not “guiltless,” to use Bonhoeffer’s words.
Turkey is on everyone’s minds currently, almost exclusively due to their slaughter of the Kurds to their south, enabled by the U.S. betrayal of its former ally. Of far fewer column-inches is Turkey’s oil and gas exploration ships that are now in the eastern Mediterranean and will soon begin drilling southwest of Cyprus. 
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