Russia and trump

[ActionBuddy]

... Of late there has been sabotage of military and intelligence top brass (Why is Trump replacing top military brass, intelligence and federal law enforcement leaders?) followed by Monday's headlines about Trump's plan to quit the Open Skies treaty and destroy the U.S. planes used to accomplish the missions:

Trump quits treaty allowing US to fly reconnaissance missions over Russia – will destroy planes – Raw Story

BTW, Rachael Maddow had given this extensive coverage (this exit of the treaty and other forms of Trump & Co.'s outgoing SABOTAGE) on Tuesday's show (see below beginning at 2:58 minute mark):

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Trump Exits Open Skies Treaty, Moves to Discard Observation Planes - WSJ

Nonetheless, Vlad seems unhappy of late. In fact, Trump's petulant pal Putin seems downright PISSED at the loss of his stooge in the WH:

Putin uses whataboutism to weaponize Trump election conspiracies - Business Insider

Putin weighs in, says that US elections were flawed and that Biden is not the President-elect

Be afraid... Be VERY afraid!

 

[longstroke7]

I've long called Trump, Putin's asset in the Oval Office and recent developments haven't done squat to allay that assessment.

Of late there has been sabotage of military and intelligence top brass (Why is Trump replacing top military brass, intelligence and federal law enforcement leaders?) followed by Monday's headlines about Trump's plan to quit the Open Skies treaty and destroy the U.S. planes used to accomplish the missions:

Trump quits treaty allowing US to fly reconnaissance missions over Russia – will destroy planes – Raw Story

BTW, Rachael Maddow had given this extensive coverage (this exit of the treaty and other forms of Trump & Co.'s outgoing SABOTAGE) on Tuesday's show (see below beginning at 2:58 minute mark):

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Trump Exits Open Skies Treaty, Moves to Discard Observation Planes - WSJ

Nonetheless, Vlad seems unhappy of late. In fact, Trump's petulant pal Putin seems downright PISSED at the loss of his stooge in the WH:

Putin uses whataboutism to weaponize Trump election conspiracies - Business Insider

Putin weighs in, says that US elections were flawed and that Biden is not the President-elect

This says to me that Trump is trying to do Putin a solid in exchange for some sort of protection when he is out of office, but I highly doubt US intelligence is going to even let Trump leave the country once he's out. He is a national security risk to the point where there will be no way around it: Federal and state law enforcement must proceed with any and all investigations into Trump's crimes while in office and as the head of his company in terms of tax fraud and other felonies. Charge him with everything that you can get a conviction guaranteed and throw him in prison for the rest of his days.

Meanwhile, Putin knows that the check is about to come due for his behavior over the last 4 years. Sanctions are coming, and his mafia buddies in Russia aren't going to be pleased when their bank accounts suddenly end up frozen.

 

[b.c.]

Be afraid... Be VERY afraid!

Well, normally one might not be, until one remembers all the S----- posted in this very thread, stories like:

US fighter jets intercept Russian warplanes near Alaska for 5th time in 2 weeks
US fighter jets intercept 8 Russian warplanes 30 miles from Alaska - American Military News
Evidence of Russia's 'likely hold' over Trump was covered up by the UK government, according to a former British spy
AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019
Trump announces he has unilaterally decided to let Putin back into the G7 Summit: report – Raw Story
Trump flew into a rage every time US intelligence warned him about Russia, so officials gave up briefing him on it, report says
Spying, election hacks, assassinations: British report details scale of Russian subversion campaigns
Mueller Report: Russian Hackers Went After Hillary Clinton's Emails 5 Hours After Trump 'Joked' About It
CNN team was tracked by Russian operatives in Central African Republic, Bellingcat investigation shows - CNN
Russian Company that Invested $200 Million in Mitch McConnell‘s Kentucky is “Proxy for the Kremlin”
UPDATED STORY-Personal Data Of Over 7 Million Swing State Voters Found On Russian Hacker’s Server
Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Worked With an “Active Russian Agent” to Discredit Joe Biden – Mother Jones

...and this is just from the LAST couple of pages.

 

[chicagosam]

This says to me that Trump is trying to do Putin a solid in exchange for some sort of protection when he is out of office, but I highly doubt US intelligence is going to even let Trump leave the country once he's out. He is a national security risk to the point where there will be no way around it: Federal and state law enforcement must proceed with any and all investigations into Trump's crimes while in office and as the head of his company in terms of tax fraud and other felonies. Charge him with everything that you can get a conviction guaranteed and throw him in prison for the rest of his days...[...]...

I suspect that Trump is being watched even more closely now that he is being removed. It would be in his and the nation’s best interest if he was picked up at the door on January 20 and placed in custody and kept silent, or whenever he decides to make his escape. They may have to also do this with the rest of the fools that he granted clearance despite objections and refusals. The moment he inhales to reveal anything that might endanger national security, whether for revenge or financial gain, will probably be the last time he exhales. Stupid man. He brought this on himself. No stable genius here. Ever.

 

[longstroke7]

I suspect that Trump is being watched even more closely now that he is being removed. It would be in his and the nation’s best interest if he was picked up at the door on January 20 and placed in custody and kept silent, or whenever he decides to make his escape. They may have to also do this with the rest of the fools that he granted clearance despite objections and refusals. The moment he inhales to reveal anything that might endanger national security, whether for revenge or financial gain, will probably be the last time he exhales. Stupid man. He brought this on himself. No stable genius here. Ever.

If he tries to opt out of receiving secret service protection, that will be a huge tell.

Frankly, the Pentagon should have been sounding the alarm over what he did by pulling out of the treaty and having those planes destroyed. The only one who benefits from that is Russia.

 

[chicagosam]

If he tries to opt out of receiving secret service protection, that will be a huge tell.

Frankly, the Pentagon should have been sounding the alarm over what he did by pulling out of the treaty and having those planes destroyed. The only one who benefits from that is Russia.

He’s already a prisoner of his own making. You’ve got to wonder when he will have enough vengeance, or whether that will need to be aggressively determined and ended for him. It would be best if he went to Mar-a-Lago this weekend and made the decision not to return; and/or, even better, resign. Other than burning everything down with the blessing of the TrumpubliKKKlan Party, he is making himself appear increasingly obsolete in his tantrum as the new administration is moving aggressively forward making a valiant effort to “right the ship” and clean up his mess. I am hoping that the indulgence ends soon. All this drama and damage allowed over one failed and flawed person. Remove him. He’s not worth the trouble.
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[deleted15807]

Why Flynn’s Lies Mattered

 

[phonehome]

If he tries to opt out of receiving secret service protection, that will be a huge tell.

Frankly, the Pentagon should have been sounding the alarm over what he did by pulling out of the treaty and having those planes destroyed. The only one who benefits from that is Russia.

I am SURE the planes still exist

The Pentagon like most government agencies do NOT move at any kind of speed doing things like that.

"Bureaucrats" in uniform or not that do not want to do something in the first places KNOW how to take FOREVER in getting that "whatever" done, months if not years

 

[chicagosam]

I am SURE the planes still exist

The Pentagon like most government agencies do NOT move at any kind of speed doing things like that.

"Bureaucrats" in uniform or not that do not want to do something in the first places KNOW how to take FOREVER in getting that "whatever" done, months if not years

Is anyone but the hardcore Trump stooges taking Trump serious anymore knowing that everything he did will be undone and reversed?

 

[b.c.]

SOMEONE'S trying to stir up s------------ in the Middle East, I think. Because, HEY, DESPOTS of a feather STICK TOGETHER:

Trump’s worst crime must not be forgotten - ensuring the ethnic cleansing of Kurdish allies in Syria | The Independent
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‘State-sponsored terrorism’: John Brennan slams reported assassination of Iranian scientist – Raw Story

Brennan retweeted an Associated Press story on the subject and added his analysis.

“This was a criminal act and highly reckless,” Brennan charged. “It risks lethal retaliation and a new round of regional conflict.”​

Trump raises alarm by retweeting post calling the assassination of Iranian scientist a ‘major’ blow – Raw Story​

meanwhile, ol' SLASH AND BURN, south of the E, is APPARENTLY going to miss his MENTOR....

Brazilian Bots are Targeting the U.S. Election Process to Help Trump - OZY

Twitter accounts supportive of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are trying to undermine the credibility of the U.S. presidential election, joining Russian, Chinese and Iranian efforts at sowing discord.

They appear to be extensions of the same organized network of websites, blogs and social media accounts that in Brazil have targeted in a coordinated manner opponents of Bolsonaro. Critics have accused Bolsonaro’s son Carlos of running this so-called office of hate. The president and his allies have opposed a legal probe into the misinformation campaign.

David Nemer, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia... suggests, “Trump’s defeat is a defeat of Bolsonaro’s narrative.” Unlike other world leaders — even those seen as close to Trump such as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — Bolsonaro has publicly taken on President-elect Joe Biden.

Criticizing Biden for comments on deforestation in the Amazon, Bolsonaro said: “When the saliva runs out, there must be gunpowder.” Almost a declaration of war, the statement was seen by experts as representative of his frustration at losing his closest global ally.

The Brazilian bots’ actions, says Deiró, “can be seen … as a demonstration of the Brazilian government’s alignment with Trump and its populist political agenda.”​

 

[deleted15807]

One last mega gift to Putin.

Trump’s Dismantling of the ‘Open Skies’ Surveillance Program Is a Priceless Gift to Russia – InsideSources

 

[ActionBuddy]

One last mega gift to Putin.

Trump’s Dismantling of the ‘Open Skies’ Surveillance Program Is a Priceless Gift to Russia – InsideSources

Maybe that will seal the deal on Putin continuing to hide away Trump's Moscow call-girl "Pee-Pee Tapes"?


Not like I would want to watch them!

 

[b.c.]

[URL='https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/fbi-investigating-russia-based-website-revealing-private-info-about-trumps-political-enemies-report/']FBI investigating Russia-based website revealing private info about Trump’s political enemies: report – Raw Story[/URL]
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/12/ru...to-trump-so-he-cant-be-prosecuted-in-america/
Russian media suggests the Kremlin grant asylum to Trump so he can’t be prosecuted in America – Raw Story

Trump is finishing Russia’s plan to discredit American elections.

 

[ActionBuddy]

Trump is finishing Russia’s plan to discredit American elections.

Donald Trump’s presidency has been a gift to Russia. He has undermined NATO, withheld military aid to Ukraine, and abandoned America’s commitments to democracy and human rights. He has excused Vladimir Putin’s crimes, yielded to Russian troops in the Middle East, and dismissed Russia’s 2016 election interference as a hoax. Now Trump has been voted out by Americans, but he’s still serving Russia. He’s devoting his final days in office—and suggesting he might devote his post-presidency—to a long-standing Russian objective: destroying faith in U.S. elections.

 

[ActionBuddy]

(Ugh! I wasn't watching the clock, and got timed out while editing to add items to my post above. So, off it went into the ether, and now I have to recreate it!)

Trump is finishing Russia’s plan to discredit American elections.
SLATE - 12/12/2020
Donald Trump’s presidency has been a gift to Russia. He has undermined NATO, withheld military aid to Ukraine, and abandoned America’s commitments to democracy and human rights. He has excused Vladimir Putin’s crimes, yielded to Russian troops in the Middle East,* and dismissed Russia’s 2016 election interference as a hoax. Now Trump has been voted out by Americans, but he’s still serving Russia. He’s devoting his final days in office—and suggesting he might devote his post-presidency—to a long-standing Russian objective: destroying faith in U.S. elections.

* The most infamous of which was his decision to remove U.S. troops from Northern Syria, leaving our allied Kurdish soldiers, of the Syrian Democratic Forces, who fought alongside U.S. and British troops to rid Syria of ISIS, vulnerable to murderous attacks by the anti-Kurdish Turkish Army. Thus he not only did the bidding of Putin, but also of, Recep Erdoğan, Turkey's corrupt, anti-Kurdish, anti-secular, anti-democratic, anti-freedom of the press and speech, dictator.

Thousands flee, hundreds reported dead in Turkish attack on U.S.-allied Kurds in Syria
Reuters - 10/10/2018-19
Turkey pounded Kurdish militia in northeast Syria for a second day on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and killing at least dozens of people in a cross-border assault on U.S. allies that has turned the Washington establishment against President Donald Trump.
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Here's What Has Happened in Syria in the Week Since Trump Abandoned the Kurds
Rolling Stone - 10/14/2019
As expected, President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops away from the Syria-Turkey border, effectively endorsing a Turkish assault on the U.S.-allied Kurds occupying northern Syria, has been a disaster. Trump made the call last Sunday after a phone call with Turkish President Recep Erdoğan, and without consulting the Pentagon or Congress. Less than a week later, Trump ordered the removal all U.S. troops from the region, further endangering the Kurdish people, strengthening ISIS, and ceding influence to some of America’s chief adversaries. In return, the U.S. has, to date, received nothing.

Here’s what else Trump has wrought:

130,000 Kurds have been forced to flee their homes, hundreds have died

The United Nations announced on Sunday that 130,000 Kurds have evacuated their homes as a result of the invasion, nothing that the number stands to rise as Turkey continues its assault. According to CBS News, an independent war-monitoring group in the U.K. found that as of Monday 60 civilians and more than 200 fighters (121 SDF members and 86 pro-turkey militants) have been killed as a result of the offensive.
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Trump Surrenders Northern Syria to Turkish Jihadists
Rolling Stone - 10/24/2019
For the last eighteen years, the United States has done nothing but lose wars in the Middle East. That’s what made the 2014 – 2019 campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria so exceptional. The Pentagon actually accomplished the mission it set out to accomplish. Mosul and Raqqa were liberated. The terrorists were driven into the desert. The failed-state caliphate no longer exists.

Our tier-one operators and billion-dollar warplanes were not what made the difference. For the most part, the ISIS fighters who died in Kobane, Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, and Der Ezzor were shot by the men and women of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led coalition of militias that also has thousands of Arabs in its ranks, as well as an all-female brigade, and people of all races and ethnicities, who adhere to a secular creed. As American personnel in Syria will be the first to tell you, the trustworthy and competent SDF did virtually all the hard work of killing and dying during the many costly battles of the last five years, and not for “massive amounts of money,” as Donald Trump said on Monday. The Syrian Kurds don’t have any money.
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Splitting With Trump Over Syria, the American Leading ISIS Fight Steps Down
NYT - 12/22/2018
Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy to the coalition fighting the Islamic State, has accelerated his resignation, telling colleagues this weekend that he could not in good conscience carry out President Trump’s newly declared policy of withdrawing American troops from Syria.
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[ActionBuddy]

Is this even a surprise with this lame administration that fires it's own chief cyber security people?

The Washington Post - Dec. 13, 2020:
Russian government spies are behind a hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a53b88-3d7d-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

Russian government hackers breached the Treasury and Commerce departments, along with other U.S. government agencies, as part of a global espionage campaign that stretches back months, according to people familiar with the matter.

Officials were scrambling over the weekend to assess the extent of the intrusions and implement effective countermeasures, but initial signs suggested the breach was long-running and significant, the people familiar with the matter said.
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[b.c.]

Is this even a surprise with this lame administration that fires it's own chief cyber security people?

The Washington Post - Dec. 13, 2020:
Russian government spies are behind a hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...a53b88-3d7d-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

Russian government hackers breached the Treasury and Commerce departments, along with other U.S. government agencies, as part of a global espionage campaign that stretches back months, according to people familiar with the matter.

Officials were scrambling over the weekend to assess the extent of the intrusions and implement effective countermeasures, but initial signs suggested the breach was long-running and significant, the people familiar with the matter said.
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No, NOT a surprise, when one realizes he did it FOR A REASON. Seems Repugnant-cans really WOULD rather be Russian than Democrat:

• Don't Forget The Putin Connection

• Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails - sources | Reuters

• Russian hacking group APT29, or Cozy Bear, is behind new hacks of US Treasury and Commerce

• former POTUS* "Товарищ Трамп" may miraculously float into Moscow, to 'destroy the GOP'

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[cycleguy]

what about Hunter?

 

[b.c.]

If he's proven guilty then he should face the same consequences for his crimes as Trump, his family, and his cronies have. Oh... wait a minute .... they HAVEN'T.

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[ActionBuddy]

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