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US Presidential Election Series: Trump is right on Russia

People of the United States is faced with stark choices this year, at one hand they have Democratic Party’s nominee Hillary Clinton, a well-known former first lady and secretary of the state, who has tried to stay away from controversies but haunted by his own past scandals and Republican nominee Donald Trump, another well-known former TV entertainer and business tycoon who has invited many controversies since the process began more than a year ago. Donald Trump has been accused of many things, loud mouth, arrogant, unapologetic, rude, and a person with lack of empathy. In some cases, public and the media rightly accuse him of the above, but in many cases he is right. He has raised the issues of infrastructure, the problem with student loans, law and order, and tough stance on immigration, which has long needed some addressing.

Relations with Russia is such an issue where Mr. trump, we believe is right. Hillary Clinton presents a political class in this regard with a pre-conceived notion of an enemy. In global politics, none is a permanent ally and none is a permanent enemy. It can’t be denied that,

  • United States’ relation with Russia is at worst point since the cold war.
  • Russia annexed Crimea under the watch of President Barrack Obama.
  • The war of control over Syria, which is of strategic importance to Russia going on for more than five years.
  • ISIS has emerged as the biggest threat to humanity.

Trump said that the United States can’t fight the war on two fronts. America can’t support radicals/rebels and supply them with weapons who can change sides easily and could become a weapon in the hands of the ISIS. Donald Trump wants to cooperate with Russia. He wants to restore relations with Russia. He wants the countries, including Russia to come together and take out ISIS. What’s really wrong if everyone cooperates? The American people need to ask, which is the biggest risk, the ISIS or the Russia?

Political people and the media have been constantly attacking Trump saying that his comments are outrageous since he called President Obama as one of the creators of ISIS. Obama or not, it can’t be denied that the United States invaded Iraq despite the UN confirmations that there were no weapons of mass destruction. U.S. armed local militia and ousted Saddam Hussein and later Gaddafi from Libya. U.S. and the Europe can’t deny that they played their parts in the forming of the ISIS.

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