To the Editor:
I think it was Lenin who said “tell a lie often enough and it will become truth.”
The democrat tirade against Trump in their letter of March 9 makes it clear that the left has listened well.
Looking back at the 2016 election it makes no sense that Putin would want Trump to win the election. Putin knew that Hillary as Secretary State wanted to push the “reset” button and improve the U.S./Russia relationship. The Democrats would also reduce military spending which fit his plans.
He knew that the Republicans would increase defense spending.
In spite of years of partisan investigations they could find no collusion between Trump and the Russians. Obama was President and it was the job of his Department of Justice to detect and put an end to any foreign influence in our elections. Jumping forward to 2020 there is ample evidence that the Biden campaign used a falsified Russian Dossier to connect Trump to Russia, this may very well have had an effect on the election outcome.
Obama’s Iran agreement was flawed from the start, in spite of billions of dollars in bribes, Iran continued on it’s path to nuclear weapons. There was no inspection of their top secret facilities and no verification of their compliance with the treaty. There was no reason to keep a one-sided treaty.
Trump had set a date for pulling out of Afghanistan and it was the only thing that Trump did that Biden felt honor bound to implement. Biden conveniently forgot that Trump had put conditions on the agreement.
The Taliban did not comply with the conditions so there was no reason to keep the date sacrosanct. We could have kept a small advisory group with air power there for an indefinite time with very little losses. We have had troops in Korea for 60 years.
Trump actually strengthened NATO, the European nations had become complacent under the American shield and forgot the reason for NATO’s existence.
The Russian threat had diminished and they became dependent on Russia for their natural gas. Very few were paying their allotted share for defense, Trump insisted that this change and of course the other nations were unhappy but in the end NATO became stronger as Putin turned Russia back into a hostile threat
It is no crime to act friendly when negotiating with opponents. Hostility can be counterproductive. Even if no agreement is reached the opponent knows where you stand.
Nixon knew Russia at it’s worst and he had a set of rules for negotiation, among them: Never tell him in advance what you would not do.
August Hoernschemeyer, Owensville
