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    More US Sanctions on Russia: RPI's Daniel McAdams on Why Trump's Being Played

    More US Sanctions on Russia: RPI's Daniel McAdams on Why Trump's Being Played

    written by rpi staff wednesday august 22, 2018

    Is President Trump even in any kind of control of his own Administration? His Treasury Department has slapped new sanctions on Russia over a list of grievances that sound like they could have come from a Hillary or an Obama Administration. Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans and the vast majority of Republicans want the President to get on with improving relations with Russia, yet his Administration is moving in the opposite direction. RPI Director Daniel McAdams is interviewed on how the Trump Administration's foreign policy seems to be out of the hands of Trump...



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    Quote Originally Posted by Origanalist View Post
    More US Sanctions on Russia: RPI's Daniel McAdams on Why Trump's Being Played

    written by rpi staff wednesday august 22, 2018

    Is President Trump even in any kind of control of his own Administration? His Treasury Department has slapped new sanctions on Russia over a list of grievances that sound like they could have come from a Hillary or an Obama Administration. Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans and the vast majority of Republicans want the President to get on with improving relations with Russia, yet his Administration is moving in the opposite direction. RPI Director Daniel McAdams is interviewed on how the Trump Administration's foreign policy seems to be out of the hands of Trump...



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    Thanks for sharing this. I'd +rep you if i could.

    Daniel McAdams is completely correct imho: this is a coup by Pompeo against Trump. Not sure what was in Trump's letter that Rand physically gave to Putin; hopefully it explains not everyone in this country wants escalation with Russia. Reminded me a little of JFK's personal courier that physically flew back and forth to Russia delivering physical mail between Khrushchev and JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis and often had dinner and stayed at JFK's estate in Massachusetts. Apparently JFK knew he couldn't trust the deep state "intelligence" agencies or his own administration any more than Trump can trust his administration or intelligence agencies. What a mess we are in. Our government is completely corrupt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by charrob View Post
    Thanks for sharing this. I'd +rep you if i could.

    Daniel McAdams is completely correct imho: this is a coup by Pompeo against Trump. Not sure what was in Trump's letter that Rand physically gave to Putin; hopefully it explains not everyone in this country wants escalation with Russia. Reminded me a little of JFK's personal courier that physically flew back and forth to Russia delivering physical mail between Khrushchev and JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis and often had dinner and stayed at JFK's estate in Massachusetts. Apparently JFK knew he couldn't trust the deep state "intelligence" agencies or his own administration any more than Trump can trust his administration or intelligence agencies. What a mess we are in. Our government is completely corrupt.
    Let's just hope Trump wins instead of ending up like JFK.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Let's just hope Trump wins instead of ending up like JFK.
    Let's not panic?

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    You can't play alpha male president Donald Trump. He's just luring them into a false sense of security and then when their guard is down, Trump will spring his trap on them.
    Last edited by Anti Globalist; 08-29-2018 at 05:39 PM.
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    I love Daniel's logic here. Trump was forced by the evil establishment to challenge the sanctions near election time which he considers to be a trap. Then later on he tells the host how popular friend ship with Russia is among american. So essentially the establishment gave Trump a chance to take a populist position and somehow we are to believe this is so bad for Trump.

    Only a fool still believes as this point in the game that Trump is somehow in opposition to the establishment. He nominates them for just about every cabinet position, surrounds himself with them and his actions support their agenda. Yet we are to believe Trump is not at fault. This argument people like McAdam is using to excuse Trump can also be used for Bush or Obama. Its not Bush's fault we went to Iraq illegally, it was Cheney's fault

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    Poll shows more Americans want improved diplomatic relationship with Russia. Not sanctions or war.



    This is fantastic development which means Trump can buck the establishment and challenge the sanctions if he was really not working with the neocons trying to fight Russia. Unlike McAdams would like you to believe, this is a gift to Trump and not a trap at all.

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    Tom Luongo: Russia’s Exports Continue to Defy Sanctions
    [The more Washington keeps imposing sanctions on the world, the more it establishes itself as irrelevant]

    Russia is winning its war of attrition against aggressive U.S. sanctions policy. Diplomatically, Russia is winning on all fronts, finding positive solutions … to open gaps in relationships that have been frozen in geopolitical amber for two generations. …

    The latest balance of trade data … Russia continues to run a massive trade surplus even though oil prices crashed in the fourth quarter and have only somewhat recovered. …

    the surprising stability of the Russian ruble

    With the U.S. threatening all manner of new sanctions throughout 2017, Russia turned on the oil spigots after Trump’s disastrous Aluminum tariffs and his exiting the JCPOA. But, let’s do some math. From 10.5 million bbl/day to 11 million bbl/day is only an increase of around $1 billion per month assuming all of that oil is exported at an average price of $60/bbl and zero cost of production. …

    So, the $5 billion / month increase in Russia’s trade balance can’t be covered by simply the production of more oil and gas. And since May of 2018 the Ruble has held in a pretty tight +/-3% band between RUB64 and RUB70 versus the dollar. So there’s no currency effects with respect to oil.

    But beginning in November, Russia’s balance of trade numbers have hit record levels, jumping nearly $5 billion per month.


    Balance of trade went from around $14-15 billion per month to $19-20 billion. …

    The takeaway here is that Russia’s export economy is showing signs of decoupling from oil. And they have the U.S.’s short-sighted use of sanctions to thank for it.

    It’s also underscoring the strength of Russian/Chinese trade which grew another 30% to $107 billion in 2018 after nearly 21% growth in 2017.

    Russia ran an $11.1 billion surplus with China last year. Maybe Donald Trump could ask Putin how he does that? … Putin and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping are well ahead of their original goal of $100 billion in trade by 2020. And with Power of Siberia nearly complete and should begin shipping gas by the end of the year, those numbers will increase dramatically again.

    The ruble/yuan exchange rate has settled into a much tighter band as trade volume expands, so the potential effects of further sanctions on Russia seem muted at best. …

    it has been Putin’s insistence on diplomacy that has assisted this export boom for his country. Japan is now making serious noises about signing a peace treaty to take advantage of Russia’s energy projects nearby. Japan wants Russian gas. It’s currently buying it as LNG from Yamal and shipping it via the Arctic Sea Route.

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated this position this weekend … At some point there is only so long you can hold countries as vassals. Their best interests eventually come to dominate the relationship. The U.S. is feeling that now with Japan and Germany and it all because of Russia’s vast energy reserves and their ability to craft win/win relationships with everyone. …

    in the long run Putin can wait for the U.S. to regain its senses and come to him. Or not. There are plenty of other potential partners.
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    I wonder if Daniel McAdams still believe the theory that says Trump is being played?
    Last edited by juleswin; 03-23-2019 at 11:48 AM.



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