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Fifth Column
Ralph Peters Says Mueller Report Is Not the End: Why Is Trump ‘So Slavishly Subordinate' to Putin?
2019-05-02
[Mediaite] RUSH EXCERPT:

PETERSless: "Obstruction of justice. And as far as the Russian contacts go, there's some things the Mueller report didn't cover, because they were just outside of his lane. The fundamental question for me remains, why the the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, so slavishly subordinate to Vladimir Putin? Why will he do his best to block congressionally mandated sanctions. Why did the platform change in 2016 to hurt Ukraine and help Russia. Why does he have to meet behind doors with Vladimir Putin, so on and so on. The report is not the end. It's a milestone, but there's much more to come."
Derangement, CNN style.

Ralph Peters (born April 19, 1952) is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and author. Peters appeared frequently as an analyst on Fox News until March 2018 when he resigned, calling the network a "propaganda machine" for the Trump administration and accused the network of "wittingly harming our system of government for profit.
Posted by:Woodrow

#14  Russia just quadrupled it's monthly borrowing to 6Billion USD.

He's not very good at being a puppet of Putin is he?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-05-02 18:07  

#13  "Bill Kristol assured me it was all true"
Posted by: Frank G   2019-05-02 14:32  

#12  From Woodrow’s second link, the key bit, I think, from Colonel Peters’ letter to his colleagues explaining why he left Fox:

And by the way: As an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true--that's how the Russians do things.

I understand being an upstanding professional, and therefore trusting that your colleagues in the profession are also upstanding. But really — how much of a dupe must he now feel, poor man. That's exactly how I felt when I learned that Global Warming was about manipulating science for political ends, and I had not devoted my life nor derived my identity from the thing.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-05-02 13:53  

#11  I vote for / second "snapped". A shame.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2019-05-02 11:51  

#10  I still remember his book Red Army fondly. But now that I recall he had the Soviets win the war for Europe (as opposed to Team Yankee and Red Storm Rising). Ralph has always sided with the losers it seems.
Posted by: rschwarz   2019-05-02 10:49  

#9  GIGO... It does seem like a case where one, or several, flawed premises can cause an entirely logical framework to wander off into La-La Land. Ralph Peters seems to be acting like a computer trying to "divide by zero" over and over again hoping to get a rational answer this time.
Posted by: magpie   2019-05-02 10:24  

#8  Peters doesn't have the courage to say, I just hate Trump?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-05-02 08:43  

#7  .....hmmmmmmm.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-05-02 07:47  

#6  Brilliant mind, author, speaker, nearly on a level of VDH. I'm withholding judgement on this one. I think he must of snapped.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-05-02 07:42  

#5  Peters jumped on the Never-Trumper bandwagon and is now relegated to the lowest-rated airport monitor Cable News Network
Posted by: Frank G   2019-05-02 07:38  

#4  I would think the last thing Putin wants is a strong American economy and an America that becomes the worlds largest oil producer. Trump has delivered both.
Posted by: Airandee    2019-05-02 06:25  

#3  Donald Trump. Slavishly subordinate? To anyone?That's some lefty wishful thinking ... they are just pissed he is not subordinate to them (nor, apparently, is his new AG).
Posted by: Beau   2019-05-02 06:18  

#2  ...I am wondering exactly what planet LTC Peters is on.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-05-02 04:29  

#1  Bug eyed Ralph...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-05-02 02:35  

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