{"id":273806,"date":"2016-10-19T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=273806"},"modified":"2016-10-19T17:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T17:00:57","slug":"trump-v-hillary-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/trump-v-hillary-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump v. Hillary on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF<\/a>) &#8211; Hillary\u2019s likely ascension to power next year risks belligerent confrontation with Russia, possible nuclear war. Putin earlier warned of \u201cbeing pulled in an irreversible direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>His warning remains unheeded. Hillary\u2019s anti-Russia hostility risks the unthinkable. Trump\u2019s worldview could save humanity from crossing a catastrophic red line of no return, on Monday saying:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, if we got along with Russia, and knocked out ISIS, that would be a good thing, not a bad thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, if there\u2019s anything with Russia, they say Russia loves Donald Trump. Putin loves Donald Trump. And they insult him constantly. I mean, no wonder he can\u2019t stand Obama and Hillary Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, it is a very serious problem. I think\u2026It\u2019s the worst situation we\u2019ve had with Russia since the end of the Cold War by far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is, Putin has no respect for Obama at all. Doesn\u2019t like him and doesn\u2019t respect him. And Obama doesn\u2019t like Putin. They have a great dislike for each other\u2026And I think that, you have potentially a very catastrophic situation here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I win on November 8th\u2026I could see myself meeting with Putin and meeting with Russia prior to the start of the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These type comments and similar ones result in critics calling him \u201csoft on Russia\u2026the Kremlin\u2019s man\u2026an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chess champion\/Russian dissident\/CIA asset Garry Kasparov called Trump a \u201cperfect agent of chaos\u2026threaten(ing) not only democracy in (America) but democracy worldwide\u201d if elected president in November &#8211; a \u201cperfect (Putin) counterpart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump favors normalized relations with Russia over confrontation, peace between the world\u2019s dominant nuclear powers, not potentially cataclysmic war &#8211; the thermonuclear arsenals of each country able to end life on earth if unleashed.<\/p>\n<p>Who would you prefer leading America at a crucial time in world history &#8211; an emotionally unstable neocon war goddess with her finger on the nuclear trigger or a businessman favoring world peace? A simple choice!<\/p>\n<p><em>Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His new book as editor and contributor is titled &#8220;Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RINF) &#8211; Hillary\u2019s likely ascension to power next year risks belligerent confrontation with Russia, possible nuclear war. Putin earlier warned of \u201cbeing pulled in an irreversible direction.\u201d His warning remains unheeded. Hillary\u2019s anti-Russia hostility risks the unthinkable. Trump\u2019s worldview could save humanity from crossing a catastrophic red line of no return, on Monday saying: \u201cFrankly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1217,"featured_media":274010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-273806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}