Maybe if that person wasn't actively trying to build a tower in Moscow their motive wouldn't be so questionable.
Your argument is based on a false premise that Trump is a Russian stooge. Trump's built hotels/buildings all over the world.
Furthermore, I see others here on this forum claiming "don't do X, because Putin would want that" - so how does that allow space for "different economic and political beliefs"? It doesn't - and that's the whole purpose of such claims.
Otherwise, I wonder what possible relationship with Russia they envision while Russia is still actively occupying Ukraine. We don't have any deep economic ties with Russia. Why is there any need to ignore Russia's illegal annexation?
Ukraine is not an homogeneous country - the Eastern half of Ukraine looks and thinks very differently from the Western half of Ukraine - always has, including its large local-born Russian population. In the Eastern half, there is a large mixed population that looks more favorably upon Russia than upon Europe. The Western part staged a coup against the elected Yanukovych govt in Kiev, and declared dictatorship over the whole country, in complete disregard to the Eastern part and without any consultation with them, while declaring the local-born Russian minority to be aliens. Putin then reacted by sending troops into Eastern Ukraine, including Crimea, to prevent ethnic cleansing by the new dictatorship.
No rational explanation has been made about this Russia friendly foreign policy. It makes no sense for us to be supplying the Ukrainians with weapons to kill Russians while simultaneously trying to have friendlier relations with Russia.
You're very right - the United States should not be supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine - it has only been forced to do so by the dangerous Anti-Russia cult that's sprung up through the "Russia Collusion" inquisition hoax. The whole purpose of that hoax is to tie the hands of the new Whitehouse ("if you don't fight Russia, then it proves you're their stooge!")
That's why there's a special obsession with eliminating Flynn - because he had a "different political ideology" which involved seeking dialogue with Russia instead of trying to pursue hostility against Russia.
Flynn felt that the Cold War war against Moscow was obsolete, and that there were other newer threats that the United States ought to be paying more attention to.
A political or economic ideology is just a belief in what you think would be best for your country. You can't be a traitor for having a different economic or political ideology. Promoting Russian disinformation involves promoting lies being pushed by the former KGB agent who now leads Russia. Nobody doubts that Russia has used agents in the U.S. and even in Africa to spread disinformation and to stir conflict in NATO nations.
You're repeating false innuendo and then asserting it as "truth".
KGB? The KGB was loyal to the socialist ideology of the Soviet Socialist State - just like America's radical Left are only loyal to their crazy socialist fantasies.
America First is a political ideology held by those who believe it will be best for their country. This is the opposite of giving everything away your country has to everybody else for free. Whether you agree or disagree with that
different economic and political ideology has no bearing on the right of people to believe in it.
That's like asking Why Nixon recorded all the criminal conversations he had. People do stupid things all the time. It's irrational to assume someone would not do something because it's stupid. People do stupid things.
That's an absurd comparison - Nixon recorded his conversations so that he could review them. Flynn wasn't the one recording the calls, and he'd certainly know they were being recorded.
Saying that "Flynn will do something crooked because that's what crooks do" is just a circular argument.
If he wasn't doing anything improper, why did he lie about it? Why did Pence repeat that lie to the nation? Flynn didn't have to lie. He couldn't have refused to comment about the conversation. He knew that the Trump campaign was being investigated for it's dealings with Russia but he still lied.
It's not clear that he lied about it - the notes taken by Strzok conveniently disaappeared, and his 302 form used as the basis for the charges was created weeks later (the original 302 has disappeared)
The only assertion that he lied is through the plea that was obtained by PLEA-BARGAINING (ie. "if you plead guilty to lying about Russia, then I won't prosecute you for this other thing that has nothing to do with Russia")
