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He can't figure it out

by Chalky

Oct 22, 2017

That's funny!

"Officials behind the now discredited "Dossier" plead the Fifth. Justice Department and/or FBI should immediately release who paid for it."

@realDonaldTrump was just tweeting about it yesterday.

http://time.com/4992612/lindsey-graham-trump-russia-sanctions/

Lindsey Graham: White House Has a 'Blind Spot' on Russia

"Mr. President, go after Russia because they're coming after us"

Bob R/CA It's not a blind spot. It's intentionally deceptive behavior. When it becomes obvious there's some "there" there, and he continues to deny and deflect from the exposed thread, that's not an accident, that's not stubbornness - that's a guilty actor doing everything he can to evade getting caught.

Oct 22, 2017

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T.E.C. - Iowa Okay, I have written that Russia is not the big issue in our elections, so this is about the sanctions. They did not work with Cuba when we used them for seventy years, and they are a failure everywhere else - except for creating suffering, and in turn hatred for America, by the average citizen in said country.

Beyond that, if you go to th...See MoreOkay, I have written that Russia is not the big issue in our elections, so this is about the sanctions. They did not work with Cuba when we used them for seventy years, and they are a failure everywhere else - except for creating suffering, and in turn hatred for America, by the average citizen in said country.

Beyond that, if you go to the article, "Economic Sanctions Against Russia Flop" you find that our sanctions cost our friends in the EU 100 billion dollars and it is said to cost Russia 55 billion, but that number is false, because it includes the costs due to the fall in the price of oil. That means our sanctions cost our friends more than double what it cost Russia, but we do not care. We want our sanctions against Russia no matter who it hurts!

Then the sanctions may help Russia. Russia has beefed up its own agriculture and its ties to Southeast Asia to meet its needs. This not only means the EU could be permanently hurt, but the article also goes on to say, "Washington's economic sanctions against Russia could thus end up producing a net plus for Russia, on a long-term basis."

So why is America going forward with this unsuccessful policy? IMHO, it is arrogance! America thinks anything we do to punish others will be successful. Thus, in our arrogance, we do not bother to analyze anything. We do not analyze the impact of what sanctions do to our friends, and we do not analyze the other factors that screw over our elections. We are like a child throwing a tantrum - a tantrum motivated by a media driven distain for the president with the intention of keeping Americans from thinking about real issues.

Frankly, it would be great if China sanctioned the US. Then Americans would have to start building their own stuff, and we would find life in America is better. Simply put, sometimes it is better to do things for yourself rather than sit on your butt, buy from others, and create a huge balance of payments deficit.

PS: This is what the report said happened in Russia, "As in many other countries targeted by sanctions, there was a 'rally around the flag' reaction, which led the population to accept the inconveniences caused by the unilateral coercive measures."

PPS: And this is who was impacted, "the sanctions were more political than economic, they have led in the process to a regrettable deterioration of the standard of living of the most vulnerable population groups in the Russian Federation and have also adversely affected smallholder farmers in Europe."

As I said, we do not care who we hurt!

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/09/economic-sanctions-russia-flop.html

Oct 23, 2017

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