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Anyone who cannot name our enemy, is not fit to lead this country. Anyone who cannot condemn the hatred, oppression and violence of Radical Islam lacks the moral clarity to serve as our President.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-terrorism-speech-227025

Любимая магическая фраза Трампа "radical Islamic terrorism" неожиданно полностью исчезла из его лексикона во время поездки на родину Ислама и террористов 9/11.

The phrase that once separated him from his political opponents and most of Washington was absent in his speech Saturday and was replaced with “Islamist extremism” and “Islamists.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/22/radical-islamic-terrorism-trump-said-over-and-over-but-not-in-saudi-arabia/



Между тем врага по имени Путинизм называют в своей декларативной статье пять демократических конгрессменов.

Our country faces a new crisis, one which endangers the underpinnings of representative democracy and freedom worldwide. The threat emanates from Putinism, a philosophy of dictatorship fused with kleptocratic economics. It views popular participation in government, a free and open capitalist economic system, and transparency in governance as ideological challenges that must be extinguished in order to “make the world safe for autocracy.” Its proponents have been acting aggressively against the United States and others to achieve this objective, and those actions pose a clear and growing threat to our way of life.
http://time.com/4836051/congress-russia-election-interference-opportunity/

Декларация важная, потому что формулирует осознание того, что защита демократических основ общества от щупалец Путинизма в сотрудничестве с европейскими демократиями - патриотический долг.

In hindsight, it is clear that the threat of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election merited a more robust response than U.S. officials adopted at the time. We must strive to ensure that the new insights we develop about such threats are translated into new ideas and new policies that provide effective responsive capabilities. As we do this, we must welcome the wealth of experience that our allies and partners are also developing as they confront similar threats worldwide.

Что касается республиканцев, к ним вновь обращается Evan McMullin с призывом не превращаться в "партию Путина".

Republican leaders and the party are at a crossroads. They will either choose liberty in an independent America or to serve a distant, foreign master who seeks no more than to enrich and empower himself at the expense of free society everywhere. If Republican leaders choose the latter, the majority of Americans will have no choice but to hold them accountable as opponents to the cause of freedom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-risking-becoming-the-party-of-putin/2017/06/28/78e8e1ee-5c24-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html

Поводом для обращения явилось то, что новый закон о санкциях предсказуемо застрял в Конгрессе.

A bill slapping new financial penalties on Russia ran into what one lawmaker called a "three word" roadblock on Wednesday amid back-and-forth negotiations between Senate Democrats and top House Republicans.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told reporters on Wednesday that negotiations had reached a "point of total silliness" focusing on "three words" in the nearly 140-page bill.
"Again on the substance of the bill there is not an issue. I think we may be close, but it's from my perspective becoming an incredibly silly process," he said. "Those who are delaying this over a couple of words, three words ... are Russia’s friends."
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/339970-tougher-russia-sanctions-bill-facing-another-setback

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The Senate resolved the procedural issue on Thursday. But the delay means the House will not vote until after the G20, because of Congress' recess next week.
"This is now going to be a referendum on the Republican leadership, if they are going to go along with the president's coddling of Putin and the Russians, then that will have to be their legacy," said Representative Eliot Engel, the top House Foreign Affairs Committee Democrat.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sanctions-house-idUSKBN19K2CQ