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{{Cquote|While the US was courting [[Yeltsin]], clapping him on the back for his [[anti-Communism]] and anti-Sovietism and for opening up the country to [[McDonald's]] and [[Western]] [[carpetbagger]]s while pouring him yet another vodka – "Boris we love you!" – the [[CIA]] was hard at work, trying to do to Russia's [[Islamic]] underbelly in [[Chechnya]] and Dagestan and elsewhere what it had done to [[progressive]] forces in [[Afghanistan]]. It was organizing and funding [[radical]] [[jihad]]ists such as [[Al Qaeda]] and others leveraging separatist sympathies.. The result was death and destruction, some of which came back to haunt the [[US]].}}
{{Cquote|While the US was courting [[Yeltsin]], clapping him on the back for his [[anti-Communism]] and anti-Sovietism and for opening up the country to [[McDonald's]] and [[Western]] [[carpetbagger]]s while pouring him yet another vodka – "Boris we love you!" – the [[CIA]] was hard at work, trying to do to Russia's [[Islamic]] underbelly in [[Chechnya]] and Dagestan and elsewhere what it had done to [[progressive]] forces in [[Afghanistan]]. It was organizing and funding [[radical]] [[jihad]]ists such as [[Al Qaeda]] and others leveraging separatist sympathies.. The result was death and destruction, some of which came back to haunt the [[US]].}}
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== Was our support for Donald Trump all in vain? ==
I've had a love-hate relationship with President Trump ever since he came down that escalator. I initially refused to take him seriously, then I tolerated him, then I hated him because of his attacks on Ted Cruz. In hindsight I'll admit he was right about Lyin' Ted. Shortly before the election I came around and voted for him. And I was initially pleasantly surprised. But then he began hiring neocons like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, and allowing them to hijack his foreign policy. He also put a knife in the economy by promoting and signing the CARES Act, which is a major reason inflation has been such a problem in the post-COVID era. So in 2020, I voted third party. However, I was always open to give Trump another chance in case he decided to run again and demonstrated that he learned from his first term mistakes. On Election Day 2024, I was confident he had learned from those mistakes, so I voted for him once again. Six months later, it's becoming more and more apparent that I was wrong. He hasn't learned from those mistakes. And no event makes that more evident than [https://apnews.com/article/ahmad-alsharaa-trump-syria-bashar-al-assad-6facdef5b881286955b95e0c5b2704d7 his decision to normalize relations with the al-Qaeda regime in Syria].
This begs the question. Was our support for Trump all in vain? Most of us here understand what an America First administration should look like. And this ain't it. Instead of going after the countries which serve the Deep State, Trump is befriending them and even backing them against countries which resist the Deep State. And he and his surrogates expect, no, ''demand'' that we accept that. But if we're to be ideologically honest, we can't. And ''I'' won't.--[[User:Geopolitician|Geopolitician]] ([[User talk:Geopolitician|talk]]) 18:58, May 13, 2025 (EDT)