For 18 months, Trump has sought to develop a personal relationship with Putin unlike any relationship that any modern American president has had with him or his predecessors.
Stated differently, Trump knows how to negotiate, and his skills cannot be assessed midstream - because midstream is often muddy and muddled.
His public praise of Putin and giving moral equivalence to Putin and our intelligence services were not to state truths but to influence Putin's thinking in order to bend Putin's will - eventually - to his own.
So they have jumped on a fluid long-term negotiation at its inception by mocking the president's flattery.
Where does this leave us? We have impatient media that hate the president, a bipartisan majority in Congress beholden to the military-industrial complex, and a president who knows more about negotiating with bad guys than any of them.
Unlike the warmongers, the president is willing to talk to anyone if there is a chance it could result in peace.
President Lyndon B. Johnson often remarked that there are two things in life you never want to watch being made and only want to see when completed: legislation and sausages.
http://www.judgenap.com/post/in-defense-of-trump-with-putin
Stated differently, Trump knows how to negotiate, and his skills cannot be assessed midstream - because midstream is often muddy and muddled.
His public praise of Putin and giving moral equivalence to Putin and our intelligence services were not to state truths but to influence Putin's thinking in order to bend Putin's will - eventually - to his own.
So they have jumped on a fluid long-term negotiation at its inception by mocking the president's flattery.
Where does this leave us? We have impatient media that hate the president, a bipartisan majority in Congress beholden to the military-industrial complex, and a president who knows more about negotiating with bad guys than any of them.
Unlike the warmongers, the president is willing to talk to anyone if there is a chance it could result in peace.
President Lyndon B. Johnson often remarked that there are two things in life you never want to watch being made and only want to see when completed: legislation and sausages.
http://www.judgenap.com/post/in-defense-of-trump-with-putin
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