OP-UNEDITED | “@RealDonaldTrump Finally Loses the Russian Battle?” – By Favour Afolabi

With Russia’s expulsion of 755 US DIPLOMATS, Trump haters finally got their wishes which includes:

1. Perpetual Enmity v RUSSIA
2. Zero Allies v ISIS
3. Zero chances to rein in North KOREA
4. Victory for CHINA in becoming the bona-fide the biggest power broker around the world
5. Fully ending any iota of a Trump administration being able to work with Russia towards any resolution on any subject thereby making Trump into another Cold War era president that would spend all his years in office jumping from one trouble or the other with Russia and not being able to focus on other key growth areas for America at home and around the world.

Interesting, these listed items would come to America’s losses far beyond they would be Trump’s – this is what you get when a polity allows irresponsible, tactless, and vendetta-driven politicians to take over the collective psyche of a nation without them being told ‘to Stop!’

The same congress that has spent months ensuring gridlock was maintained in delivery healthcare to the citizens that voted them into office hurriedly passed a bill for increased sanctions against Russia and quickly sent the bill to Trump, expecting him to sign it.

I am probably Trump’s biggest supporter out of Africa but even I must admit that in 6 months, this has become his biggest failure that will come to haunt his presidency, for a long a time and possibly forever within the history books.

My ‘proposal’ to Trump in his first week in office was for him ‘to make RUSSIA his first trip and a meeting with Putin his first with any world leader’ – as crazy as it was going to appear, it would have a massive diplomatic gain for his administration and eventually his plans to rather have Russia as an ally rather than an enemy.

This is the classic case of playing into the hands on your enemies – those that despise him for beating Hillary [liberals] or proving them wrong [the GOP v him] were never going to hands-off this Russian thing so he should have also gone the full mile by rather neglecting them to work for Russia in the interest of global peace.

Today, these same people are going to make it their next agenda to ensure Trump signs that anti-Russia into law – so that a final wedge can be drawn between Trump and Putin – so they can also come back in a few months leading to the next elections to tell Trump ‘You failed with Russia and concentrated too much on Russia to the detriment of US foreign relations.’

In my entire life, I have never seen American politics sink to this level of pettiness of intentionally second-guessing an elected president – to the point that folks would spend 6 months to continually pit the President against another nation knowing fully sure the sensitivities at the stake and while doing this, equally ensuring the whole world got along with them in peeing on their President and Presidency.

If I were Trump, I would also be using this opportunity to request for the resignation of Rex Tillerson – whose indecisiveness and ambivalence has not helped in any way ‘with Russia’ considering the high hopes people like me had in him in using his ‘Russian experience’ to make good things happen between both nations.

I never knew the day would come that I will become ashamed of ‘US Politics and governance’ – well, that day is finally here and it is a very sad one for global international relations. At this moment, it would be tough to see any comeback on this subject for the Trump administration and if I were Trump, I would also be using this opportunity to request for the resignation of Rex Tillerson – whose indecisiveness and ambivalence has not helped in any way ‘with Russia’ considering the high hopes people like me had in him in using his ‘Russian experience’ to make good things happen between both nations.