[ExI] The Traitor in Chief

[John Clark]

* Nobel prize winner Paul Krugman wrote this today: *

"Trump’s support for Putin is unique in American history. Previous
administrations have made deals with erstwhile adversaries, as Nixon did
with China, and given up on support for failing allies, as the U.S. did in
Vietnam and Afghanistan. But never before have we outright switched sides,
let alone supported an aggressor while vilifying that aggressor’s victim.

What makes Trump’s support for Putin even more remarkable is that Russia
has, by many accounts, been actively aiding Iran
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against
America in the war Trump started. Who says so? Well, among others, Dan
Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And the aid goes beyond
intelligence sharing that has helped Iran target U.S. forces. Russia has
also reportedly been sending Iran explosives and weapons components
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.

What would Republicans be saying if a Democratic president were supporting
a foreign dictator even as that dictator was helping another nation kill
American troops? They would be crying “treason.” But this is all apparently
“fine” with Trump. When Trump says that “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine,”
who, exactly, does he mean by “we”? He cut off all economic and military
aid to Ukraine as soon as he took office.

Now all restraint is gone. According to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S.
intelligence sharing was blocked “for some period of time
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although it appears to have resumed for now. Ukraine’s access to Starshield
has been limited
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And the Washington Post reports that the U.S. has been holding up
European transfers
of Patriot missiles
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to
Ukraine."
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