GOP Kremlin Apologists

The GOP that I associated myself with for more than four decades no longer has a place for me.  

Translation:  If you do not demonstrate sufficient fealty and obeisance to the Orange Man Child there is no room for you.  You have no role.  Exile is your fate. 

Blind obedience is what passes for Republicanism nowadays.

 From MAGA World and the Trump-Putin wing of the GOP there is this...

Putin is taking over a country for two dollars worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart.

Donald Trump

February 2022  ·  Quote Source 

 

 

 

As a candidate, president and ex-president, Trump has repeatedly gushed over Putin. Praising him for being "strong,” “savvy” and “genius.” Trump has also echoed Putin’s ideology, by harshly criticizing NATO.  He suggested that in his second term of office he would withdraw the US from the NATO alliance.

 

Just the other day Trump criticized NATO and dodged Russia's 'evil' actions on Fox News.

Conspicuously, Trump has not denounced nor condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

 

Crickets.

 

The quote in this post and Trump's passive-aggressive dance with friendly Fox media speaks volumes.  I don't know about you but I find this approbation and adulation of a vile and murderous war criminal disturbing.

Maybe some of the inhabitants of MAGA world have an affinity for the conduct of Russia in their unprovoked aggression against Ukraine?

The butchery of thousands of civilians and flattening of Mariupol. This is the Russian way of war. 

The gruesome discoveries in Bucha, Troyanets, and other Kyiv suburbs newly freed from Russian occupation have shifted the discourse on Russia’s war in Ukraine, putting the focus on Russian atrocities against the civilian population.

The horrific photos and videos - bodies buried in mass graves or lying by the roadside, some victims with hands tied execution-style behind their backs - have been seen around the world and have shocked the conscience of everyone except the habitual Kremlin apologists and the Trump-Putin wing of the GOP.

Gosh, I hope this continues to remain a shrinking minority of individuals. Maybe some day the fever will break.  Who knows?  But I digress.

This is how Putin’s forces fought in Chechnya and Syria — and before that, how Soviet forces fought in Afghanistan and in central Europe during World War II. 

They commit war crimes to terrorize the noncombatant civilian population into surrender.  Barbarity is embedded in their DNA.

Not a bit of this comes as a surprise to this blogger.  I expected it as it was entirely predictable.

And so far it hasn’t worked in Ukraine. 

Russia’s savagery has simply caused the Ukrainians to resist all the harder because they know they are fighting not just for their freedom but for their very survival.

I am reminded of a subjugated collection of colonies throwing-off the yoke of tyranny two and a half centuries ago.

It sure isn't my daddy's GOP anymore.

Sociopaths the Putin apologists are.

All of them.