Letter to the Editor / CARROTS and STICKS / APPEASEMENT or PAIN
Roger C. Kostmayer
Every US President takes an oath to protect our nation from enemy attacks, foreign or domestic. The US Dept. of Justice, the Special Prosecutor and a Grand Jury just indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for cyber attacking the US and trying to pervert our 2016 Presidential election. The Russians supported one candidate, hindered another and helped create chaos and division.
History shouts what the US should NOT do after such an attack, and that is to reward the attacker. The last thing this American President should do now is attend a private one-on-one meeting with Putin, in his backyard, especially without a full staff present and a public record of all discussions. To do so under current conditions tells the world the US is naive, weak and it’s president must be a Russian pawn.
Putin is a KGB thug, responsible for attacking the US, other democracies and: militarily invading neighbors, shooting down a civilian passenger plane, occupying Crimea, enabling Syrian President Assad to kill women and children with chemical weapons, and murdering people in London.
This confirmed attack is a serious national security issue, and it plays into Putin’s hands for us to make it a partisan squabble. The way to stop Russian attacks and prevent future intrusions is to make Putin and Russia feel sufficient economic and multilateral pain and isolation as to deter such acts. Unfortunately, the US President seems mysteriously determined to do just the opposite.
The US needs to shift the focus from partisan bickering to anti-Russian American unity. The vehicle for a successful long term solution is a distinguished, bipartisan independent commission that would oversee prevention and protection.
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Kostmayer, you have absolutely no idea what is going on in this world. You Lefties are so immersed in yourselves, you actually think you can post misinformation and people with brains will believe it! Take a vacation somewhere you can’t hurt yourself, PLEASE!
“The way to stop Russian attacks and prevent future intrusions is to make Putin and Russia feel sufficient economic and multilateral pain and isolation as to deter such acts. Unfortunately, the US President seems mysteriously determined to do just the opposite.”
Yep soo you can demand that the EU and European socialists stop importing made in Russia gas and oil! Europe “just say NO” to Russian gas and oil! So is this a USA or European problem about where their oil and gas comes from? Facts are so over rated.
per wiki “In 2007, 38.7% of the European Union’s natural gas total imports and 24.3% of consumed natural gas originated from Russia. As of 2009, Russian natural gas was delivered to Europe through 12 pipelines, of which three were direct pipelines (to Finland, Estonia and Latvia), four through Belarus (to Lithuania and Poland) and five through Ukraine (to Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Poland).[5] In 2011, an additional pipeline, Nord Stream (directly to Germany through the Baltic Sea), opened”
“What to do?”
Europe is skrewed about their need for oil and gas.
Compounding Europe’s problems for oil and gas needs was the Obama Administration and Secretary of State Clinton’s role in the overthrow of Libya’s Qaddafi. Libya was a gas and oil supplier. Finally Libya may start exporting again to Europe specifically Italy.
Germany’s effort at “green energy” is a failure and costly compounded by their shutdown of their nuclear power sector.
Only France, with nuclear power, appears to be doing well. They export their “green energy” to the EU for “green credits”.
Europe’s sources of energy are Russia, Middle east for oil, the Brits/Norwegians, and the USA. Pick your poison. Europe has chosen Russia for a lot of their gas and is beholden to the Russians to stay warm during winter. Good luck compelling the Russians to do anything as the Russians control the pipeline flow!
“The US Dept. of Justice, the Special Prosecutor and a Grand Jury just indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for cyber attacking the US and trying to pervert our 2016 Presidential election.”
So this is the reason why Bernie Sanders lost the primary to Ms. Clinton. And here I was led to believe, it was “super delegates”. Thanks for clearing this up.
“The Russians supported one candidate, hindered another and helped create chaos and division.”
I don’t know what world you live in. I was not in “chaos or division” during the last election. 2016 was just like 2012 for me! But I’m one of those people that don’t believe in the tooth fairy, Internet advertisements about hair growth or whatever, and Elvis is unfortunately deceased! But to each their own about believing things.
And here I thought that Ms. Clinton’s dismissing Michigan and Wisconsin was a factor. Even Michael Moore had warned her about Michigan.
Glad the Clinton side remains in denial and seeks excuses for the loss. The smartest woman in the Galaxy with 40 years of political experience couldn’t figure out the Electoral College system and people.
Maybe, just maybe voters had enough and were fed up.
Pres Obama derided them with his comments about those “who cling to guns and religion”.
Ms. Clinton called them “a basket of deplorables”.
And the Washington elites. Mr. Strzok’s recent Congressional testimony as example, referred to a large segment of voters as ”they smell” and “hillbillies”.
Maybe, just maybe, the “smelly deplorable hillbilly” who clings to “religion and guns” had enough.
It is interesting to note how some leftist zealots continue to besmirch our president with abandon. It’s all about them vs. us till us is them.
As I recall, it wasn’t that long ago when our stinger missiles were shooting down Russian aircraft out of the sky in Afhanistan or our military advisers working hand in glove with Osama Bin Ladin’s Mujehadin.
No, the emperor doesn’t like to have others point out they are naked. America is for business and the business of America is business. All other factors are only secondary.
Still, Mr. Kostmayer will persist. After all, what else does he have to hang his hat on? He loves being the political rebel rouser with missionary zeal, even if he has no great following in an essentially leftist entourage.
VP Agnew “In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club — the ‘hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.’”