{"id":36028,"date":"2018-07-18T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36028"},"modified":"2018-07-18T07:03:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:03:19","slug":"a-walk-on-the-wild-side-as-trump-meets-putin-at-finland-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36028","title":{"rendered":"A walk on the wild side as Trump meets Putin at Finland station"},"content":{"rendered":"

A walk on the wild side as Trump meets Putin at Finland station<\/a><\/h3>\n

US President stirs up a hornet’s nest with his press conference alongside his Russian counterpart, but it seems that no ‘grand bargain’ was struck on Syria, and on Iran they appear to strongly disagree<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, offers a ball from the 2018 football World Cup to US President Donald Trump during their joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018. Photo: AFP\/ Yuri Kadobnov<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Cold War is a thing of the past.\u201d By the time President Putin said as much during preliminary remarks at his joint press conference with President Trump in Helsinki, it was clear this would not stand. Not after so much investment by American conservatives in Cold War 2.0.<\/p>\n

Russophobia is a 24\/7 industry, and all concerned, including its media vassals, remain absolutely livid with the \u201cdisgraceful\u201d Trump-Putin presser. Trump has \u201ccolluded with Russia.\u201d How could the President of the United States promote \u201cmoral equivalence\u201d with a \u201cworld-class thug\u201d?<\/p>\n

Multiple opportunities for apoplectic outrage were in order.<\/p>\n

Trump: \u201cOur relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed. As of about four hours ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin: \u201cThe United States could be more decisive in nudging Ukrainian leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump: \u201cThere was no collusion\u2026 I beat Hillary Clinton easily.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin: \u201cWe should be guided by facts. Can you name a single fact that would definitively prove collusion? This is nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, the clincher: the Russian president calls [Special Counsel] Robert Mueller\u2019s \u2018bluff\u2019, offering to interrogate the Russians indicted for alleged election meddling in the US if Mueller makes an official request to Moscow. But in exchange, Russia would expect the US to question Americans on whether Moscow should face charges for illegal actions.<\/p>\n

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A walk on the wild side as Trump meets Putin at Finland station US President stirs up a hornet’s nest with his press conference alongside his Russian counterpart, but it seems that no ‘grand bargain’ was struck on Syria, and on Iran they appear to strongly disagree Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, offers a ball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7844,20718,4076,694,20920,827,857],"class_list":["post-36028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-helsinki","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-russia","tag-the-asia-times","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36029,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36028\/revisions\/36029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}