The Post and several other
organizations are perennially (apparently) trying to throw dirt on
the President. They must believe that doing business with Russia
isn't ethically o.k. If it was legal though then why would that
particular bit of business be considered not ethically o.k.? Bezos
would probably never want Amazon.com to work in Russia. Perhaps
Russians already use Ali Baba.
Sure Russia is the evil empire
forever to Democrats and others that want to annex as much of the
former Imperial Russian empire to Wall Street servers as possible.
Democrats have changed their states to true blue states and made
Putin's Russia the new evil empire to replace the former Soviet Evil
Empire. The Republicans are the new red state reds (and watch out for
pinko independents!). Not everyone wants to bite off America's nose
to spite its face in a manner of speaking by amputating good Russian
relations permanently. That is very costly.
Already more than 30% of U.S.
energy production is foreign owned. America's policy of putting
sanctions of Venezuela may result defaults that will make them unable
to pay loans to Russia so that Russia will take over CITGO. American
efforts to enact foreign policy aren't always or usually very well
thought out or co-ordinated-takes too much work.
America should cut back any
regular monthly outlays or payments of rent to foreign entities evil
or not. Electrical and fuel consumption are two of the most obvious.
Home produced alternative, off-grid energy is American energy.
Instead of paying hundreds of dollars each month to foreign
corporations mericans should produce their own electricity for home
and even electric automobile fuel. Saudi Arabia owns the largest oil
refinery on the U.S. Gulf coast. They don't even buy America light
sweet crude oil-instead preferring the heavy crude from Brazil and
Saudi.
Mr. Trump at least has the good
sense to know that good business is good business and better than no
business or bad business. Positive relations with Russia allow
constructive engagement socially and economically and societies
evolve over time to be more like those they trade with. Democrats
could take comfort in knowing that if they send enough dope smoking,
cocaine sniffing queers to Russia on business, that Russia will have
its political immune system against that sort of thing corrupted.
On second thought, maybe America
shouldn't have much to do with Russia. Even so I don't think that
trying to do business in that country last year was anything to make
news.
