{"id":33907,"date":"2018-11-29T21:57:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33907"},"modified":"2018-11-29T21:57:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T21:57:12","slug":"it-took-a-russia-ukraine-confrontation-to-cancel-a-meeting-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33907","title":{"rendered":"It took a Russia-Ukraine confrontation to cancel a meeting . . . good!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BBQdSE5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33908\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BBQdSE5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BBQdSE5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BBQdSE5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/BBQdSE5.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump has made precisely the right call in canceling a planned meeting in Argentina with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t the Russian attack on our electoral system in 2016 that produced the abrupt cancellation. Nor was it Russia&#8217;s alliance with Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad in his civil war with insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>The cancellation comes after Russian ships collided with Ukrainian ships and took Ukrainian sailors captive in the Black Sea. The president said the aggression cannot stand.<\/p>\n<p>He had planned to meet with Putin one-on-one during the G20 meeting in Argentina. That&#8217;s now off.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t speculate on the impact of all the other &#8220;Russia things&#8221; that might be hanging over the heads of both men. Nor will I wonder whether the president didn&#8217;t want to risk a repeat of that hideous summit in Helsinki where Trump sided with Putin&#8217;s denials on Russian interference in our elections, dismissing the findings of the U.S. intelligence community that, yes, they most certainly did interfere.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll simply say the president need not meet with Vladimir Putin until the Russian strongman makes amends for his latest act of aggression. Accordingly, Donald Trump made the right decision.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump has made precisely the right call in canceling a planned meeting in Argentina with Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin. It wasn&#8217;t the Russian attack on our electoral system in 2016 that produced the abrupt cancellation. Nor was it Russia&#8217;s alliance with Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad in his civil war with insurgents. 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