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(THREAD) Today's big story ISN'T Paris; when Trump is gone we'll re-up. The story is Russia PUBLICLY threatened Trump and he PUBLICLY caved.
(1) It's terrible that Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement. But—but—it's not an indication of American intentions or America's future.
(2) When Trump is impeached, the next POTUS will find a way to return us to the community of 190+ nations that signed the Paris Agreement.
(3) So the question of consequence for America—even as to Paris—is, "When will he be impeached? What story of today relates to that...?"
(4) The answer is this: on May 22 Russia publicly blackmailed the President of the United States, via its U.S. embassy. On Twitter. Read on.
(5) Knowing that Trump both consumes and creates the news on Twitter, Russia used its U.S. mouthpiece—its embassy here—to send this message: See pic
(6) Those compounds were taken from Russia by the U.S. just 155 days ago—a mere five months—as punishment for WAGING CYBER-WAR on America.
(7) Since late December Russia has done NOTHING to regain America's trust or goodwill; indeed, it did all it could to further jeopardize it.
(8) Russia meddled in a major European election (France); it helped cover up a genocidal WMD war crime (chemical weapons attack) in Syria.
(9) Putin admitted Russians were behind the hacking of the U.S. election, contradicting even Trump's own feeble claims it might not be them.
(10) That's the tip of the iceberg; Russia's geopolitical and military behavior since December has been as bad or worse than it's ever been.
(11) After interfering with an election via active measures, Russia threatened countermeasures if we didn't rescind our mild punishment.
(12) Russia's public threat to execute countermeasures against America on May 22 was the equivalent of a terroristic demand for appeasement.
(13) If there's one thing we know about Trump, it's that—like most would-be autocrats—he's obsessed with never seeming weak before an enemy.
(14) It's in THIS political context that TRUMP CAVED TO PUTIN ALMOST IMMEDIATELY when the latter issued terroristic threats against America.
(15) In the history of American diplomacy America has never so quickly caved to so foul an adversary—and for absolutely nothing in return.
(16) The news Trump plans to return these Russian compounds comes with further obscene news: he's considering dropping sanctions on Russia.
(17) All this occurs in the context of the CIA telling the BBC that Putin holds audio and video blackmail on Trump.
(18) All this occurs in the context of a report indicating the Russians also have financial kompromat on Trump.
(19) Occam's Razor: Trump acts toward a geopolitical enemy in a way America never has because our enemy has BLACKMAIL like it has never had.
(20) "Covfefe" was a distraction; in a very different way, so is today's news about the Paris Agreement. The story is a compromised POTUS.