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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Milk Him Like a Cow': Russian State Media Mulls How to Take Advantage of Trump Before He's Gone
Addressing Vladimir Putin on Russias premier television shows, lawmakers and pundits urged the Russian president to take advantage of the Kremlins outgoing asset in the White House.
Most experts unanimously agree that the presidency of Joe Biden will result in a slew of negative consequences for Putins Russia. The Kremlins refusal to recognize Biden as the president-elect was planned and discussed on Russian state television long before any legal challenges were raised by the Trump administration. This symbolic step is meant to demonstrate that Russia is still on Trumps side, in order to extract some last-minute favors from the Kremlins favorite American president.
Disappointed by Trumps defeat, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, said on Russian state TV show Sunday Evening with Vladimir Soloviev: We could have interfered this fall, big time... If his [Trumps] head worked better, he could have asked us to do this or that. And he would have won, along with us... If we need Trump, then lets help him. Make him dependent on us, so we could milk him like a cow.
Most experts unanimously agree that the presidency of Joe Biden will result in a slew of negative consequences for Putins Russia. The Kremlins refusal to recognize Biden as the president-elect was planned and discussed on Russian state television long before any legal challenges were raised by the Trump administration. This symbolic step is meant to demonstrate that Russia is still on Trumps side, in order to extract some last-minute favors from the Kremlins favorite American president.
Disappointed by Trumps defeat, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, said on Russian state TV show Sunday Evening with Vladimir Soloviev: We could have interfered this fall, big time... If his [Trumps] head worked better, he could have asked us to do this or that. And he would have won, along with us... If we need Trump, then lets help him. Make him dependent on us, so we could milk him like a cow.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-media-mulls-how-to-take-advantage-of-trump-before-he-leaves-office?ref=home
This is exactly what Trump is doing. It's what his arms deal with Russia is about.
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'Milk Him Like a Cow': Russian State Media Mulls How to Take Advantage of Trump Before He's Gone (Original Post)
BainsBane
Nov 2020
OP
They'll juice him like he's got a Medela Double Breast Pump set on high, attached to A/C power.
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2020
#11
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. What's he going to do, hand him our nukes?
Give him Alaska?
Who would stop him?
BainsBane
(53,031 posts)3. withdraw from Nato
God knows what else.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)5. Can he?
I know that's putin's goal, obviously.
BainsBane
(53,031 posts)10. I don't know
he's withdrawn from other treaties without the consent of congress. He probably can, though Biden would immediately rejoin.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)12. I sure hope Joe & Kamala know how much we appreciate them!
At least our allies, like us, know there is an expiration date on this shit show!
What an international embarrassment repukes are.
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)2. tRump is compromised and will happily
sell US secrets to all his pals after he is no longer POTUS. He is a walking security risk until the day he dies. The FBI needs to continue to investigate him.
BainsBane
(53,031 posts)4. and here it is
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)7. Ty, but I don't have subscription.
BainsBane
(53,031 posts)8. It says he wants to declassify intel on Russia
President Trumps senior military and intelligence officials have been warning him strongly against declassifying information about Russia that his advisers say would compromise sensitive collection methods and anger key allies.
An intense battle over this issue has raged within the administration in the days before and after the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump and his allies want the information public because they believe it would rebut claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin supported Trump in 2016. That may sound like ancient history, but for Trump it remains ground zero the moment when his political problems began. . .
The issue may have played a role in Trumps surprise decision on Monday to fire Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper. According to the senior defense official, Esper wrote a letter last month to John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, strongly endorsing Nakasones position and urging that the information not be released due to the harm it would do to national security, including specific harm to the military, the senior defense official said.
Trumps ceaseless attempts to argue that the Russia investigation was a hoax and to force the intelligence community to declassify information he believes would support this view may animate some of his otherwise inexplicable moves.
An intense battle over this issue has raged within the administration in the days before and after the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump and his allies want the information public because they believe it would rebut claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin supported Trump in 2016. That may sound like ancient history, but for Trump it remains ground zero the moment when his political problems began. . .
The issue may have played a role in Trumps surprise decision on Monday to fire Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper. According to the senior defense official, Esper wrote a letter last month to John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, strongly endorsing Nakasones position and urging that the information not be released due to the harm it would do to national security, including specific harm to the military, the senior defense official said.
Trumps ceaseless attempts to argue that the Russia investigation was a hoax and to force the intelligence community to declassify information he believes would support this view may animate some of his otherwise inexplicable moves.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-will-leave-the-question-is-how-much-damage-hell-do-to-national-security-before-then/2020/11/10/551d31a4-239d-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html
I hope intel feeds him bs!!!
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)6. No doubt in my mind!
I just hope intel fed him bs!
He needs to be locked up right now!
TheBlackAdder
(28,183 posts)11. They'll juice him like he's got a Medela Double Breast Pump set on high, attached to A/C power.