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and thick one at that...on DJT. Vlad is a former KGB agent yearning for a return of the Soviet Empire...there is no way on God's green earth that he wants to see "America Great Again"...he literally HATES us...and yet he's done all he could to support Trump's election. Here's noted investigative reporter Carl Bernstein's take on the relationship between Trump and Putin.

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Perhaps he’ll leave a Korean’s head in his bed.

he's kept DJT afloat with money from Russia's Alfa Bank...through Deutsche Bank and numerous shell companies. Trump is the consummate LOSER...numerous bankruptcies, etc....and on the psychological side, you should know that a Malignant Narcissist has a huge deficit when it comes to Self Esteem...DJT needs constant affirmation from others and is thus a piece of cake for a former KGB agent to manipulate...btw, I can back up that assertion with professional commentary if you'd like.

This is perhaps the biggest threat Trump poses...i.e. our national security is now in the grip of our worst enemy.

say Putin owns Trump?

truth about your claims...

1) Sanctions...from the following article...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/02/politics/trump-russia-sanctions-chemical-weapons-spy-poisoning/index.html
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Under pressure, Trump slaps long-overdue sanctions on Russia over chemical weapons use

Under sustained pressure from Congress, President Donald Trump has imposed long-overdue, legally mandated sanctions on Russia for its poisoning of an ex-spy in the United Kingdom.

Russian agents were accused of using a banned nerve agent to carry out a failed March 2018 attack on British soil against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. The Kremlin has denied the allegations.

The attack left the Skripals in a coma and killed another woman.

Trump signed the executive order on sanctions Thursday, more than six months after they were due and a day after a call with President Vladimir Putin.
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2) Nord Stream 2....from the attached article...

Similarly, in a speech at CPAC last year, Trump noted that he “got along very well with Putin even though I’m the one that ended his pipeline. … I ended it. It was dead.” Trump added that “nobody ever heard of Nord Stream 2 until I came along.”

In fact, Trump did not stop Nord Stream 2 — he enabled it. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline went from zero to 90 percent completed during Trump’s presidency. Rather than stop it “dead,” the Trump administration rejected years of bipartisan congressional calls for imposition of sanctions to stop the project. Only when Congress, in frustration, passed mandatory sanctions did the administration finally take concrete action. But by then it was too late.

Far from “nobody” ever hearing of it, Nord Stream 2 was a lightning rod from when it was announced in 2015. The pipeline deal was part of the misguided German policy of deepening energy ties with Russia, despite Putin’s illegal annexation of Crimea and his fomenting of separatism in the Donbas region of Ukraine.

The Obama administration saw Nord Stream 2 for what it was: an effort to bypass existing gas transport routes though Ukraine and undermine solidarity among NATO allies. The project pitted Poland, the Baltic countries and Ukraine against Germany. The European Commission and European Parliament similarly opposed the project as a threat to European energy security.
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3) Armed Ukraine...from the attached article below...

https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-did-trump-send-ukraine-weapons-that-obama-and-biden-withheld/21510033/

Cotton’s "comment is correct in the sense that Obama never approved transfer of lethal weaponry but Trump did," said Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow in the foreign policy program of the Brookings Institution, a think tank. "I would not implicate Biden heavily in the policy of the Obama years; he was just one voice at the table then. He did far more than his former boss ever did for Ukraine, and far more (from February 2022 onward) than Trump ever did, either."

As the president during Russia’s invasion, Biden has signed off on Ukrainian aid that included Javelins.
Obama rejected Ukraine’s request for lethal aid in 2014, Trump provided it

Experts on Ukraine military assistance said that the Obama administration rejected Ukraine’s 2014 request for lethal aid.

The decision came as Russian forces invaded the eastern territory of Crimea in 2014 and pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych fled Ukraine. U.S. officials were concerned that providing Javelins to Ukraine would escalate their conflict with Russia.

"In this sense, Cotton’s claim has some truth to it," said Brendan Green, associate professor at the University of Cincinnati's School of Public and International Affairs.

However, Obama’s White House approved other aid. In total, from 2014 to 2016, the United States committed more than $600 million in security assistance to Ukraine. Under Obama, the federal government started the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which sent other kinds of U.S. military equipment to the country. From federal fiscal years 2016 to 2019, which overlap with Obama and Trump, Congress appropriated $850 million.

Trump also withheld aid when trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. During a July 2019 phone call, Zelenskyy told Trump he was almost ready to buy more Javelins from the U.S. Trump replied by asking for "a favor," which was to collect dirt on Biden, a potential 2020 presidential race opponent at the time.

In January 2020, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office concluded that Trump abused his power by telling Zelenskyy the U.S. would provide Ukraine with security assistance and he would grant Zelenskyy a White House meeting only if Zelenskyy announced investigations into Trump’s political rivals. The House impeached Trump for this matter in 2019; the Senate acquitted him in 2020.
Biden administration has supported billions in aid for Ukraine

Cotton said that Trump provided "the weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war." Russia’s invasion started in February 2022 when Biden was president.

During the Biden administration, the U.S. has provided extensive military aid to Ukraine, including weapons. Some of that military aid was sent before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and some followed the invasion.

Every new president inherits the spending that was approved under the previous president. In Biden’s case, when he took office in January 2021, he was working with the last spending approved by Trump; this ran through September 2021.

But the Biden administration went beyond this Trump-enacted spending and used the Presidential Drawdown Authority to send aid to Ukraine multiple times. That authority allows the president to provide military assistance during crisis situations. The State Department secretary exercised authority delegated by the president to direct 44 "drawdowns" since August 2021, according to a June statement from the department.

In March 2021, the Defense Department announced a $125 million package for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative that included equipment. On Sept. 1, 2021 the federal government announced a new $60 million security assistance package.

A Congressional Research Service report said that in federal fiscal year 2021, State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development allocations to Ukraine totaled about $464 million, including $115 million in the Foreign Military Financing program.

In January 2022, Biden authorized the State Department to allow transfer of U.S.-provided equipment already in the hands of allies, Defense One reported based on information it received from the National Security Council.

The State Department in January 2022 also cleared three NATO allies to rush antiarmor missiles and other U.S.-made weapons to Ukraine, Politico reported. The Biden administration also began shipping $200 million worth of antiarmor missiles, ammunition and other equipment to Ukraine, Politico wrote.

In February 2022, shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Biden authorized $350 million of military assistance from Defense Department inventories, including antiarmor, small arms, munitions and body armor. It was the third time Biden expedited emergency security assistance for Ukraine’s defense in the months leading up to the invasion using the Presidential Drawdown Authority, the Defense Department said.

We wrote after the war’s first year that Congress had approved four separate measures that allocated money to benefit Ukraine, totaling $113 billion. About $50 billion was for direct military aid.

Lance Janda, a military historian at Cameron University, said that the aid to Ukraine since 2022 "has included all of the really significant lethal weapon systems sent by the U.S., including artillery, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and rocket systems. And much of that aid was opposed by Republicans in Congress and by former President Trump."
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Link: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4726844-trumps-nord-stream-2-disaster/mlite/

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Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvpe9CRESk

articles that covered the incredible expanse of interactions and funding mechanisms between Putin and Trump...who else in all of U.S. politics is so closely aligned with Vladimir? See the linked article for liaisons with Russians...and the following article for financial aid to Trump from Putin....

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/following-the-money/

Please don't delude yourself into thinking that Trump is independent of Putin...or that Putin wants 'American to be Great'...ever. He wants to destroy us, especially if he doesn't have to fire a shot or sustain any losses...the best way is to have Donald Trump in the Oval Office...God Help Us.


Link: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/connections-trump-putin-russia-ties-chart-flynn-page-manafort-sessions-214868/

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You're gonna have to come back to truth and reality to turn this around.

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