The Times They are a Threatening

Thursday, February 21st, 2019


My Dear America:

Russia Threatened the United States this week over Nuclear missiles.

Although it did not get the Out Front Coverage it certainly deserved, it can be argued that although it was certainly the most threatening news about Russia that I can remember in a long time it came at a time in which there was a whole lot of other weird and disturbing, as well as some good news in the United States.

Recently Donald Trump attempted to show how tough he can be on Russia by pulling out of the Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia that had been negotiated by and agreed to by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev back in the 80's before the (Alleged) fall of Communism in the Soviet Union.

The facts seem to be that the Russians were already not following the terms of the  nuclear treaty anyway and were blatantly developing more powerful and more long range nuclear missiles. 

What could have been done and certainly should have been done by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in their well publicized meetings was to discuss and renegotiate the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.  They apparently did not find time in their discussions to discuss this incredibly important issue. 

Instead their discussions were about other things such as Trump approving having Vlad and the Russia intelligence service assist the United States in investigating Russian hacking in the 2016 Election and Donald approving the interrogation of Americans Vlad did not approve of.  Of course the only reason we know that Trump and Putin discussed these things is because Putin revealed what was discussed to the Russian press and they revealed it to the world.  

Luckily The Congress stepped in and put the screws to the Russians helping us to investigate Russian hacking of our elections and Vlad's plan to interrogate those Americans he didn't like.  In an overwhelming bipartisan vote the House and Senate put Trump and Putin on notice that these things were not going to happen.  

Donald Trump went out of his way in every instance regarding his meetings with Putin to make sure that nothing of what he discussed with the Russian leader would ever be revealed to anyone in America.  That lack of information included the American (Enemies of the People) Press, the Congress, The State Department, The Pentagon and even the White House Staff.

So basically the bottom line is that either the President of the United States did not care enough to renegotiate a workable Nuclear Proliferation 
Treaty with Russia or he tried but failed to Renegotiate a Treaty with Uncle Vlad.

Trump has continued to trumpet his "great" relationship with the Russian Premier.  If he did try to renegotiate a nuclear treaty why didn't he tell us about it.  If he tried and failed to negotiate a treaty why in the world would his response be to destroy the only Nuclear Proliferation Treaty we have with Russia and give Putin a free pass for him to develop and improve his Nuclear arsenal.  At least with a treaty in operation Putin could be held to account for what he was doing with nukes.  Now, he is free to do what he wants with nukes and so is Trump.  

Is Putin being treated toughly by Trump.

Not at all.  Putin now has no nuclear treaty to have to answer to the United Nations for.  And Putin this week made it clear that he will be taking full advantage of Donald Trump's No Nuke Treaty policy.

Clearly Trump is a Wannabe Dictator who wants to be in the club with the Big Bad Boys, Putin in Russia, Erdogan in Turkey, Muhammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia and  Kim Jong Un in North Korea.

For more than two years Trump has done what he wants and has had no Congressional oversight until now.  

It is time for both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to act responsibly and hold Donald Trump to account for the damage that he has done as his Wrecking Ball Administration continues his destruction of Democracy in America.

We have had enough of Donald Trump.  We can't wait two years to have him voted out of power.  He has done a hell of a lot of Damage in the past two years.  It is Unthinkable to imagine what more he can and might do if he is allowed to continue on his path to Dictatorship.

Trump needs to be impeached and that impeachment needs to begin as soon as possible.

Do we need to see Storm Troopers breaking down our doors for Republicans to wake up to what is going on.

Wake Up America while there is still time to save your Democracy.


Sincerely Yours

Jerry Gallagher