{"id":402738,"date":"2019-04-09T01:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-with-russia-is-not-inevitable-keep-repeating-that\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T01:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:18:10","slug":"war-with-russia-is-not-inevitable-keep-repeating-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/war-with-russia-is-not-inevitable-keep-repeating-that\/","title":{"rendered":"War with Russia Is Not \u2018Inevitable.\u2019 Keep Repeating That"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well, that didn\u2019t take long! No sooner had Robert Torquemada Mueller wrapped up his obscenely expensive inquisition without finding any so-called collusion with Russia than the obstacles to rapprochement between Washington and Moscow immediately dissipated. Calls for a new d\u00e9tente issued from sound thinkers such as\u00a0Daniel R. DePetris of\u00a0The American Conservative<\/a>\u00a0(Trump now has his \u201cfirst opportunity to settle on a Russia policy without the risk of an extreme political backlash\u201d) and\u00a0Srdja Trifkovic of\u00a0Chronicles<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u2018Now that the Russian Collusion Myth has been revealed to be a mendacious conspiracy by the Deep State, the Democratic Party and the media, President Donald Trump needs to move on with his election promise to improve relations with Moscow. That is a geopolitical and civilizational necessity.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The undeniable wisdom of such recommendations was instantly recognized by the Washington establishment. Not only did Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans\u00a0back off their Nazi-Putin paranoia<\/a>, Trump\u2019s own team, starting with National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rushed copies of DePetris\u2019 and Trifkovic\u2019s musings onto their boss\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

The most striking (though, oddly, little commented upon) evidence of the now-liberated Trump administration\u2019s beeline towards a new realist overture towards Moscow was explicit US recognition of Crimea as part of Russia. The newfound respect for Russia\u2019s security needs is evident:
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The White House<\/p>\n

Proclamation on Recognizing Crimea as Part of the Russian Federation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Issued on:\u00a0March 25, 2019<\/p>\n

The Russian Federation took control of Crimea in 2014 to safeguard its security from external threats. Today,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Well, that didn\u2019t take long! No sooner had Robert Torquemada Mueller wrapped up his obscenely expensive inquisition without finding any so-called collusion with Russia than the obstacles to rapprochement between Washington and Moscow immediately dissipated. Calls for a new d\u00e9tente issued from sound thinkers such as\u00a0Daniel R. DePetris of\u00a0The American Conservative\u00a0(Trump now has his \u201cfirst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402738","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}