{"id":4410,"date":"2018-07-20T11:27:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/20\/paul-starobin-on-the-helsinki-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2018-07-20T11:27:48","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:27:48","slug":"paul-starobin-on-the-helsinki-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/20\/paul-starobin-on-the-helsinki-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Starobin on the Helsinki Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angelo Codevilla<\/a> is good, but Starobin is better<\/a>,  his piece a superb example of fair and balanced analysis. <\/span><\/p>\n

NYU's Stephen F. Cohen<\/a> will also give you some real insight into what is going on.  Attend to these gentlemen and ignore the lunacies spewed by the lamestream media outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE (14:50). Andrew P. Napolitano weighs in<\/a>, wisely:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know whether Putin can be reasoned with. But I believe that if anyone can do it, Donald Trump can. This is what made me think this past week of all those litigations I helped to resolve. Negotiations are often fluid. They take time and patience, as well as threats and flattery, and they cannot be successful under a microscope.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stated differently, Trump knows how to negotiate, and his skills cannot be assessed midstream — because midstream is often muddy and muddled. Trump\u2019s efforts this week were just a beginning. His public praise of Putin and giving moral equivalence to Putin and our intelligence services were not to state truths but to influence Putin\u2019s thinking in order to bend Putin's will — eventually — to his own.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the neocons in Congress will have none of this. The power of American arms-makers is formidable and profound. They have acolytes in all branches of the federal government. They depend on the threats of foreign governments to animate taxpayer funding of their armaments.<\/span><\/p>\n

They know that Russia is the only threat in Europe, and they fear that if President Trump reaches a meaningful rapprochement with President Putin, there will result a diminished American appetite for their weaponry.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angelo Codevilla is good, but Starobin is better,  his piece a superb example of fair and balanced analysis. NYU's Stephen F. Cohen will also give you some real insight into what is going on.  Attend to these gentlemen and ignore the lunacies spewed by the lamestream media outlets. UPDATE (14:50). Andrew P. Napolitano weighs in, … Continue reading “Paul Starobin on the Helsinki Press Conference”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}