How's is engaging Russia in fighting ISIS going to hurt us?
Not at all sure how it's gonna help anybody other than to help Assad overcome what he claims are rebels who may or may not be with or against ISIS. Do you fully understand what's going on in Syria? I sure don't...maybe YOU should volunteer to be a Trump advisor. Heck, you even worked in Russia so you would probably fit right in, right?
Personally, I would prefer the discussions about intelligence matters be done by professionals in the intelligence agencies. They are the ones who know how to exchange intel in such a way that it won't piss off allies or get assets killed. It was probably good that Trump didn't know the source of the intel otherwise he would probably blabbed that as well.
If, according to the left, alt-right sees Russia as our friend, I wonder if alt-left sees ISIS as more of a friend than Russia?
Wait, are you saying that torch-wielding protesters chanting 'Russia is our friend' rally at Confederate statue in Virginia was a left wing fake news story? Are you saying that the Alt-Right DOESN'T think Russia is their friend? Or are you saying non of that happened?
As for the "alt-left"...who is that exactly...we know that the alt-right are Russian loving white supremacists, so who would the alt-left be? Lenin loving socialists? And you think socialists would somehow support ISIS?
Pretty sure nobody in America wants to support ISIS other than some radical anti-western jihadists...
As far as the whole alt-left deal, what exactly is alt of the left? Here's an interesting (for some) piece from that bastion of alt-leftism, The Guardian:
Why the 'alt-left' will succeed where centrists fail
By Bhaskar Sunkara
Could you be a member of a political conspiracy without even knowing it? I’ve found out in recent months that I’m a member of the “alt-left”. Commentators like Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott try to break down the movement’s main currents: a handful of randos on Twitter, Glenn Greenwald, Susan Sarandon, Tulsi Gabbard and Cornel West.
Not bad company, if I do say so myself. For Wolcott, what we all share is a soft spot for Russia, a kind of “Trumpian” rhetoric that attacks cultural liberalism and a shocking opposition to the “CIA/FBI/NSA alphabet-soup national-security matrix” he so trusts.
New York Magazine contributors are a bit more coherent in their definition. They point to Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, and Jean-Luc Mélenchon as “alt-left” standard bearers.
Analytically, the label doesn’t make sense. After all, the United States doesn’t have a labor-based party, much less a socialist one. In its stead, we’ve had the Democratic party, and mainstream Democrats have never had much interest associating themselves with the left.
Feisty internet reactionaries faced off against Beltway conservatives and traditionalists, dubbing themselves the “alt-right”, but there was no doubt that an actual “right” existed before them. On the left, though, who are we the “alt” to?
The “alt-left” label is simply meant as a slur, a way to associate America’s most consistent foes of oppression and exploitation with those who mean to shred whatever social and civil rights we still have. But it does connote a real style and temperament – a willingness to speak to an anti-establishment mood, to break with “politics as usual” in a far more fundamental way than Trump did.
Look at those scary "
alt-left" radicals above looking like they are going to stomp you...compare those to the "
alt-right" below
Ok, I'll admit, Bernie Sanders can look pretty scary :~)
