Elena Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg, Russia, has been charged with trying to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections, accused of using using social media platforms to create thousands of social media / e-mail accounts that purported to be from Americans, to “amplify divisive social media and political content.” Prosecutors claim Khusyaynova is the chief accountant for a Russian entity dubbed Project Lakhta. That group is backed by a Russian oligarch who companies were named in a criminal indictment brought by special counsel Mueller that alleged attempted interference in the 2016 presidential election. http://www.joemygod.com/2018/10/19/...ated-thousands-of-fake-social-media-accounts/
10 Oct 2018 Putin sees the end of U.S. global domination because of the country's mounting 'mistakes' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ination-drawing-closer-mounting-mistakes.html 22 Oct 2018 After meeting w Russian senior officials in Moscow, Trump' national security adviser John Bolton has said he told them that the Kremlin’s efforts to influence the 2016 US presidential elections had little impact on the results of the vote The only impact it had, he suggested, was to worsen relations between Moscow and Russia. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/22/john-bolton-russia-meeting-2016-election-meddling.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/23/putin-pokes-fun-us-seal-933916 23 Oct 2018 while hosting John Bolton, Putin mocks the USA seal; conducting himself like a sniveling coward / servile puppy dog, just like his boss, Bolton merely laughs it ff o
What does that even mean? He didn't "mock the USA seal." He made a pointed jab at John "I-have-a-hard-on-for-war" Bolton for his aggressive hawkishness. Why do you love John Bolton?
I'm also at a loss to understand how the Trump administration is following Putin's orders to escalate nuclear tension to pre-Reagan Cold War levels and sell weapons to Ukraine.
Russia wanted to end the treaty back in 2007. Trump just did them a favor and ended it now. It's what the Russians wanted for more than a decade now.
back drop https://www.usnews.com/news/world/a...crons-idea-for-a-european-army-very-insulting French President Macron said on French radio on Tuesday that Europe needed a real army to reduce reliance on the United States for defense in the face of a resurgent Russia. "Faced with Russia, which is near our borders and has shown it could be threatening - I want to build a real security dialogue with Russia, which is a country I respect, a European country - but we must have a Europe that can defend itself on its own without relying only on the United States," he added. The European Commission executive later echoed Macron's call for a European military capability. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is a long-time supporter of the idea the European Union should have more defense capability. on Friday, before landing in Paris to attend commemoration ceremonies for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of the First World War. the dotard lashed out at Macron's comment, firing off a note on Twitter saying that Macron's comment was "Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the U.S. subsidizes greatly," yet another eg of the dotard, in kissing up to Putin, throwing another US allies off the bus
The France thing is very French. France wants a Europe-only army.... which naturally France will control as the largest member state of the EU. France has been scheming to be the boss of Europe since before they poked the English in the eye by helping their little upstart colony gain independence. They pulled out of NATO for the same reason. They dragged the US into Vietnam for the same reason. It's like a French national obsession - they long for the days when French was the global "lingua franca" - and hilariously they can't grasp that that ship has sailed. Most Presidents have a decent grasp of history and see it for what it is. Apparently Trumpy the Clown is too busy hitting the tanning booth or something to bother with history. Everybody else is just a cardboard cutout extra in the Trump-centric universe. Sad!
Trump has been yelling for Europe to do more to defend themselves. He's been complaining about America having to defend Europe and how unfair that was for years. Why didn't he trump the French statement as a victory for him? That was exactly what he'd been advocating for a long time. But for some reason, he decided to argue against it. Once again he makes no sense.
actually, i know that you know that the VN fiasco had much more to do with hubris and ignorance among American Leaders (from JFK, LBJ to Nixon), with assist from McNamara
If the French hadn't dreamed of rebuilding their little empire after WWII it never would have been in front of the Americans in the first place. Same thing happened to the French in Algeria.
