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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2018.Putin and Trump to meet in Paris on Nov 11
By Vladimir Soldatkin and Polina Devitt MOSCOW©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Chip Star
Only in conservative Idiotsville is a renamed NAFTA somehow a better deal for the US.
wtfjapan
Without us, the entire family would be slaughtered.
not the Saud family itd justbe another dictator, doesnt change the fact America is addidcted to middle east oil
How about answering my question first and then we’ll do a follow up to the next.
actually it was Trump who based his whole political campaign on false names claims acusations and labeling opponents morally corrupt. so it seems Trumps opponents were first in line so its only fair they be given creditable evidence and answers? Thought so/
bass4funk
Without us, the entire family would be slaughtered.
Evidence? Thought so/
How about answering my question first and then we’ll do a follow up to the next.
But with a better deal for the US.
You are welcome
mukashiyokatta
Putin will be issuing new orders to lapdog Trump.
Haaa Nemui
NAFTA got a name change woo yeah hooray for isolationism.
So "so many countries got it wrong." means nothing and was a pointless response then. Got it. Thanks.
wtfjapan
Evidence? Thought so/
Trumps eveidence? Though so/
Black Sabbath
Here's a teaser: If Putin and Trump collude in the forest, and no one else hears it,
is that treason?
wtfjapan
Don't need to, the world needs us more than we need them.
oh better tell that to Saudi Arabia then
bass4funk
That as well.
I really don’t.
Haaa Nemui
You must be talking about NAFTA.
Primarily America, and you don't care about what happens or the protocols in other countries.
bass4funk
We did learn a valuable lesson, being isolationists works.
Ahhh, the reports where so many countries got it wrong.
Haaa Nemui
That's not the lesson you need to learn.
I'll see your illusion of being a global defender and raise you a couple of manufactured reports of wmds.
Haaa Nemui
Yet you refuse to learn from it.
Probably why the US gets involved in so many wars.
ClippetyClop
You have to, seeing as they own your boss.
Liberals seem to upset you too. Liberals and bowing / kneeling.
Unless it's Russia meddling in your country's elections, blackmailing your boss, and forcing him to bend over. Nov 11th will be another demonstration of how a strong mind dominates a feeble one. Maybe Putin will throw Donny a bone or two.
bass4funk
I don’t get upset, I’m not a liberal, I’m just stating a point of view.
Not at all. I care what goes on in my country, NOT what happens or the protocols in other countries.
They haven’t liked us since the US was founded, yawn, so you’re not telling me anything new.
Chip Star
Why after all the years of conservatives warning about and attacking Russia do they suddenly want to cozy up to Russia?
Serrano
"criticism that Trump was cozying up to the Kremlin."
Heaven forbid we get along with the country with the biggest nuke stockpile.
Thunderbird2
It's called protocol, mate... your president is an elected official... when he meets a sovereign he should bow... even if that sovereign is a murderer. That thing about the US being above everyone else is why the rest of the world doesn't like you.
ClippetyClop
They don't have to. Nobody has to. It's not mandatory. Shaking hands is also not. Common courtesy to others does not mean that you are subservient to them. For a bunch of folks that talk tough you do get upset about trivial things.
Odd how you think that bowing and kneeling are to be avoided by presidents, but should be mandatory for football players. Is that one of them double standard things?
bass4funk
Yup, No US President should ever have to bow to anyone, If Reagan bowed that is a shame just as it was worse when the last President went on his apology tour and what did he get for that? Nothing except two dead dictators and uprising in the Mideast and a continuation of the Afghan war.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/no-us-president-should-bow-or-scrape
wtfjapan
Don't need to and nor should any US President, I sure wouldn't.
this is 2018 bowing to an Emporer ,Quenn or King is a sign of respect for the position and the centuries old Royal lineage, its not to kowtow to their will, big difference.
wtfjapan
hell yeah gotta get the 2020 campaign organsied, Trump Putin 2020! MAGA
Jonathan Prin
Good to hear that.
I hope presidents will remember during that important event all the new pain for mankind that was created at that time (my great grand father was gassed and eventually died).
Small but frank talks can make huge difference again.
ClippetyClop
Nancy is indeed a woman. However, she didn't bow. The guy in the suit did. His name is Ronald Reagan. Do you have 'Trump Inauguration Weather Syndrome'? You haven't said anything that is factually correct yet today, wanna give it another shot Mr. journalist?
The current one is a paid servant of Russia & Saudi Arabia.
kazetsukai
The above being said.., the phrasing of this article trying to put different perspectives on the meeting and second guessing by inference and bringing up the past may be a good referencing technique, but to "invite" "controversy" by totally unrelated and obviously biased opinion is not "respectable" reporting but only an attempt to "incite" emotional reactions not related to the meeting itself.
stormcrow
Hopefully Trump won't fall all over himself again kissing Putin's royal behind as he did in Helsinki.
kazetsukai
Time to get away from the petty discussion and view the meeting as an important one for both nations and in effect, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
Regardless of political views here.., Trump has accomplished much in foreign negotiations from NK's Kim to China's XI, as with Canada and Japan. He has shown that it is by meeting face-to-face between leaders that "can" make a difference in not only the relationship but in the process of working together for or against. By meeting each together, both are able to "read" the nuance and feel behind the rhetoric. That is the most important aspect of communication. And communication is the key to any "relationship".
Whether we may like it or not, we are inseparably "related" as long as we exist.
From there Trump as well as Putin is able to decipher future rhetoric and take action much more sensibly. That is the most important aspect of a meeting.
bass4funk
The previous President was an apologist.
She's a woman, is she not? Nice try padner
ClippetyClop
You’ve gone from, ‘the US President doesn’t bow to any foreign nation’ to this. Nice backtracking champ.
Here’s Reagan bowing to the Queen. Time to fall back and build another defensive position.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocQgIBjPzc
bass4funk
Up until Obama, No President did and Trump is not a career politician.
If you can find a video of that I will owe you an apology, take your time.
Chip Star
Trump curtsied to the Saudi King. That's far worse than bowing.
Trump bows to Putin and Kim constantly.
ClippetyClop
I believe Trump curtsied, which was really cute. People do that to monarchs.
bass4funk
Yes, it is, the US President doesn't bow to any foreign nation.
Don't need to and nor should any US President, I sure wouldn't.
Haaa Nemui
No it isn't.
You don't know how to kneel? Seriously...
bass4funk
No, he bowed, even worse.
How so?
Toasted Heretic
Kneeled? I think not.
He bowed, as did Trump. Who bowed more? Judge for yourself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/20/trump-mocked-obama-for-bowing-to-a-saudi-king-and-then-he/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.971ae21482cb
CrazyJoe
Ahh, Paris the city of love. Trump to Putin, “We’ll always have Paris.”
lincolnman
Supervisor/Subordinate six month job review;
Decrease US standing and reputation in the world? Check
Sow confusion and discord in your own political system? Check
Pull out of Treaties that hamper Russian development of weapons to threaten you? Check
Insult your allies and friends? Check
Make the US weaker and a shadow of it's former self on the world stage, giving Moscow free rein to prop up Dictators (Assad) and gain influence in Africa and the Middle East? Check
Putin: Very good Donald - you get straight A's..... We'll keep all the dirt we have on you secret, until the next six month review...
David Varnes
Obama didn't kneel before the Saudis, but Trump may just kneel before his Master, Darth Putin.
PTownsend
In other words, Trump can't be sure until Putin tells him when.
Kneeled? Counterfactual.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-saudi-arabia-trip-curtsey-bow-king-salman-gold-medal-honour-barack-obama-bowing-a7747016.html
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Chip Star
This statement has no basis in reality.
Why is it almost impossible for rightists to be honest?