President Trump Is Not Acting Weak Towards Russia but Is Fighting the Deep State

President Trump was asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Bill O'Reilly and said "There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?"

Hawkish Republicans were quick to distance themselves from President Trump's remarks:

Republicans seek distance from Trump's comments on Putin, US - ABC News, February 6, 2017

"Putin's a former KGB agent. He's a thug. He was not elected in a way that most people would consider a credible election," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told CNN's "State of the Union. "The Russians annexed Crimea, invaded Ukraine and messed around in our elections. And no, I don't think there's any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does."

Added Sen. Ben Sasse, of Nebraska, one of Trump's Republican critics: "There is no moral equivalency between the United States of America, the greatest freedom living nation in the history of the world, and the murderous thugs that are in Putin's defence of his cronyism.

Frank Brady from the Gate To Liberty blog penned an open letter, which I mostly agree with (aside from inclusion of Iran), in direct response to certain members of Congress including Senator McConnell and Senator Sasse.

An Open Letter Regarding Trump and Putin - Gate To Liberty Blog, February 6, 2017

Thank God for President Trump’s honesty.

In your coordinated weekend expressions of outrage over the President’s comments regarding Putin and Russia, you are correct about one thing: there is no “moral equivalence” between the conduct of Russia under Vladimir Putin and the behavior of the United States during the quarter of a century that has elapsed since the Soviet Union collapsed. Putin wins that contest every time and it is not even close.

Since then, the United States has violently overthrown governments and invaded, bombed, and occupied territories in more than a dozen countries stretching from the Balkans, across North Africa, throughout the Middle East and up into the Ukraine. During the same period, Russia has attacked no other nation despite a blizzard of propaganda to the contrary emanating from the bi-partisan U.S. War Party and its allies in Establishment media organs.

During the last 25 years, the United States has caused the deaths of more than a million people in sovereign nations that have not attacked us including hundreds of thousands of non-combatant men, women and children. This trail of bloody carnage runs through the former Yugoslavia, Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, the Ukraine, Yemen, Somalia, and Syria (among others) and continues to this day. In contrast, Russia has conducted itself with admirable restraint despite the most recent United States’ aggression in which the United States organized, funded, and directed the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically-elected government and inserted a puppet regime in its place in February of 2014. Senator John McCain and Hillary Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, were intimately and directly involved in that putsch.

Just to be clear, I am no peacenik. I believe defense of the nation is the Federal Governmen's primary responsibility. I am a veteran of five years active duty service with the 1st Cavalry Division, the 7th Infantry Division, and the XVIII Airborne Corps. I am a small businessman and the father of five grown children, two of whom were career military men. I despise Marxism, Socialism, and collectivism of all sorts and for most of my life have considered myself to be a conservative Republican. That self-identification ended when I finally realized that the Republican Party and the Washington Defense and Diplomatic establishment had been subverted by an insane empire-building neoconservative cult during the Clinton administration.

The hypocrisy that underlies your constant efforts to demonize Russia and Iran is disgusting and transparently obvious. For murderous thugs like you who have been constant cheer leaders to Washington’s bloody banditry and are implicit in it to presume to lecture the President of any other country about his conduct is enough to make one vomit. I only hope the American people awaken quickly enough bring you and your fellow war criminals to justice before you ignite the Great War you are working so hard to foment.

Both President Trump and Mr. Brady must be familiar with General Smedley Butler who spoke and wrote about the ones who actually benefit from war in 'War is a Racket'

“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

“WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one
international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the
losses in lives.”

President Trump laid out his agenda very clearly in his inauguration speech:

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world -- but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.
We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones -- and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

President Trump knows that most wars fought by the United States over the past fifty years (probably longer) have provided absolutely no benefit to its citizens and have caused unnecessary death and destruction around the world. This is a bitter pill for some on the right to accept - especially ones who still think the Iraq war was justified. Most of them will come around - hopefully soon. Those on the left are basically hypocrites (see here) and have no credibility.

President Trump is aware that Russia can be an effective ally against ISIS. In addition, he is trying to use Russia to counter economic and military threats (not likely) from China and Iran. It does not advance the United States' interests nor does it help obtain friendship and goodwill by calling the Russian president a killer.

Importantly, on the president's agenda is the dismantling of the deep state / shadow government that I've repeatedly discussed (see here and here). This process will result in disclosures which will surely shock the American public (everyone else around the world will not be shocked - I promise).

We have already gotten a glimpse of these disclosures.

Pro Trump Democrat Turns On Obama's Policy Of Arming ISIS - January 29, 2017

Declassified DOD Release - March 10, 2015 - page 5

If the situation unravels there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran).

ISIS Coverup: US Centcom Accused Of Lying To President, Congress, Public About Airstrikes, Ground Fight - Zerohedge, November 22, 2015

Hackers trace ISIS Twitter accounts back to internet addresses linked to Department of Work and Pensions - Mirror Online, December 14, 2015

ISIS, Al Qaeda And The CIA: The Documented Connection - Zerohedge, December 17, 2015

We can be sure that there will be more disclosures to come out that will put President Trump's remarks in the proper perspective.