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When it comes to stabbing our allies in the back (figuratively), the Democrats are experts. I'll explain below.

To judge from the lamentations of their women these past few days, the only thing Trump could have done in Helsinki last weekend to satisfy the Democrats would have been to pull out a side arm and shoot Putin in the head. Anything short of that apparently was treason to the newly rabidly anti-Russian left.

Part of the fake outrage turned well past 11,  was that Trump had "undercut" the NATO alliance and helped Putin by being mildly critical of some of the members (or was that the worst thing ever before the Helsinki conference? It's tough to keep track of the outrageous Trump actions).

Yeah, Trump was trying to get the NATO members who've been slacking on their promise to spend a mere 2% of their GDP on defense (our spending on just the defense of NATO members approaches 4% and dwarfs the rest of the members' spending). The President's attempt to get them to spend more so they have more warriors and more war equipment with which to take on, well, the Russian threat is clearly helping out Russia. Any fool can see that.

But as tiny a nothingburger as Trump's verbal "undercutting" was, it pales into microscopic insignificance compared with the actual betrayal of allies the Democrats are guilty of. To keep this to a moderate length, I'll only go back 50 years.

South Viet Nam was our ally against the Communist invasion from North Viet Nam in the containment war we fought along side them in the 60s and 70s. The Democrats started that war. Under a Republican President, Nixon, we moved all our fighting troops out, won the war, signed a treaty and then helped, mainly with close air support, the South Vietnamese successfully fend off a treaty-breaking serious invasion from the North. Meanwhile, the Democrats were passing bill after bill which prohibited us from doing anything to help defend South Viet Nam including not being able even to sell them munitions. Saigon fell April 30, 1975. Then the real suffering in the South began.

Cambodia was also our ally at the same time and also a victim or the Democrats' back stabbing legislation to prevent any sale of war material to South East Asia and when the Cambodian military ran out of ammunition, the Khmer Rouge marched into Pnom Phen on April 17, 1975 and the Communist victors started a program of political murder of approximately 2 million Cambodians.

In Libya, Gaddafi saw what had happened to Saddam Hussein ostensibly over Weapons of Mass Destruction and decided to make nice. He helped us against the Jihadi network and on December 19, 2003 began turning over his chemical weapons and nuclear program components. We rewarded this helpful behavior by bombing him staring March 19, 2011 (along with European air forces) and by late October, 2011 he was killed by forces we supported. Wait, who was the President who helped remove the dictator of Libya so that afterwards all was sweetness and light? Was it that traitor Trump?

Czech Republic and Poland stuck their figurative necks out for us and gained Vladimir Putin's anger by agreeing to help us contain Russian aggression by seeding Russia's western border with anti-missile weapons centered in those two nations. Then in 2009 we told the Russians, no we're not going to do anything to degrade your ability to threaten Europe with nuclear annihilation. Putin is still angry with the countries who agreed to be our allies. And who was the "flexible" President who helped out Putin and left our allies high and dry? It was Trump, wasn't it.

Iraq was our enemy in the 1st and 2nd Gulf Wars but after we overthrew the really nasty dictator Saddam Hussein, they were our allies in trying to keep the nation together after Hussein was deposed by us and they helped in combat against the Jihadis there after. All we had to do to keep the peace and save our allies in Iraq from losing to the Jihadis was keep about 10,000 troops there and continue to provide the Iraqi forces with air power. But in 2009, we pulled completely out and ISIS took over about 1/3rd of Iraq and then the real suffering began. Remind me, who was the President who abandoned our allies in Iraq in 2009?

The Ukraine was where the USSR had a lot of its nuclear weapons so when the International Socialists gave up the Soviet Union ghost and fell apart, the Ukraine had the third most nuclear weapons in the world within its borders (and probably not actual control of firing them off but we've never been sure they couldn't have taken over control after the fall). So our nation, Russia and the UK (and others who joined in later) tried to coax the Ukraine to give up the Soviet weaponry. Knowing how the Russians had treated them and might treat them again, the Ukrainian leadership was not eager to disarm and give the weapons to Russia. But we basically told the Ukraine that we would protect them from the one country that wanted to invade them and beginning on December 5, 1994 they disarmed. Nothing much happened until February 2014 when Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula and invaded and took control of a large part of Eastern Ukraine. Neither we nor the Brits did a thing to help out the Ukrainians. Who was our President then?*

* Obama may have spoken about our undying support for the Ukrainian people but he refused to send the country any weapons to help them fend off the Russian invaders. Under Trump we are actually supplying them with weapons including lots of effective anti-tank weapons. That's how in the pocket of Putin Trump is, he's giving the Ukrainians weapons with which to kill Russians. Putin must have something on him to make him do such a bad thing for our ally.

It's always better to look at actions a politician takes as opposed to what he or she says. It would appear that all the Democrats care about is mere words.

Labels: Democrats Stab Our Allies in the Back; Democrats Loved USSR but Hate Russia