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I keep asking, what has Trump done that benefitted Putin? Seriously.
originally posted by: links234
Source via TPM
I thought this was an interesting bit of news today.
They call Trump’s mockery of other nations who fought alongside American troops in Afghanistan “slander,” noting the number of soldiers who died in the effort from the UK alone.
The board then targets Trump’s support of the Soviet Union’s presence in the country in the ’80s when he said they were “right to be there.”
“Right to be there?” the board writes with indignation. “We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan with three divisions in December 1979 to prop up a fellow communist government.”
The President has been having these oddly specific comments that appear to be coming straight from Putin's United Russia party talking-points. He was strangely specific about Belarus, about Montenegro and now this made-up history of the USSR's involvement in Afghanistan. Why would the American president be saying these things?[/quot
Perhaps Trump is a businessman and not a military historian..And when put on the spot he has to quickly dig thru his mind to see if he remembers anything of the topic...One thing he quickly dug up was the invasion of Russia by CIA backed Afghanis...
Mujahedin raid inside Soviet Union In an effort to foment unrest and rebellion by the Islamic populations of the Soviet Union, starting in late 1984 Director of CIA William Casey encouraged Mujahedin militants to mount violent sabotage raids inside the Soviet Union, according Robert Gates, Casey's executive assistant and Mohammed Yousef, the Pakistani ISI brigadier general who was the chief for Afghan operations. The rebels began cross-border raids into the Soviet Union in Spring 1985.[147]
en.wikipedia.org...
And remembering news of those invasions, Trump may have thought it appropriate for Russia (or any Country) to retaliate...
It appears as tho the Afghan gov't in 1979 was friendly with Russia...They had an internal coup that upset the Russian applecart and then Russia went into Afghanistan and eliminated that guy and installed one more attentive to Russia...That new gov't along with the Afghan military were on the side of Russia...
It's easy to see how Trump, on a moments notice could get this history a little mixed up...But he did not like according to the WSJ and every one else who want to make Trump a liar every time he opens his mouth...At worst, Trump mis-spoke...
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: JinMI
Asking that you expand your horizons is a friendly gesture.
Don't do me any favors. Your consistent rejection of information based on the messenger betrays your blind bias.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: CriticalStinker
Remember that boy who cried "Wolf"? Some say he saw a foreshadow of the future. Alas, the wolf is here!
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Arnie123
It's related because Trump keeps sending signals that he's been compromised and being used by Putin to forward the Putin agenda, by parroting Putin's talking points. No one but Putin's administration is saying that Russia needed to invade Afghanistan for its national security. This is just one more example of Trump's complicit and compromised position.
LMFAO!! This is why you people lost. Zero critical thinking skills and only consuming liberal media talking parts.
originally posted by: Sookiechacha
a reply to: Arnie123
It's related because Trump keeps sending signals that he's been compromised and being used by Putin to forward the Putin agenda, by parroting Putin's talking points. No one but Putin's administration is saying that Russia needed to invade Afghanistan for its national security. This is just one more example of Trump's complicit and compromised position.
originally posted by: Carcharadon
I keep asking, what has Trump done that benefitted Putin? Seriously.
In 2006, U.S. researchers flew airborne missions to conduct magnetic, gravity and hyperspectral surveys over Afghanistan. The magnetic surveys probed for iron-bearing minerals up to 6 miles (10 kilometers) below the surface, while the gravity surveys tried to identify sediment-filled basins potentially rich in oil and gas. The hyperspectral survey looked at the spectrum of light reflected off rocks to identify the light signatures unique to each mineral. More than 70 percent of the country was mapped in just two months.
Afghanistan treasure maps In 2010, the USGS data attracted the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense's Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO), which is entrusted with rebuilding Afghanistan. The task force valued Afghanistan's mineral resources at $908 billion, while the Afghan government's estimate is $3 trillion.
So the fact thats theres trillions in minerals and the the coalition of western Looters, I mean liberators, are there have nothing to do with it?
Trump is harder on Russia than Obama.
www.lipstickalley.com...
The president, who seemed to believe that other individual countries would largely equal the United States, was furious that his administration was being portrayed in the media as taking by far the toughest stance on Russia.
His briefers tried to reassure him that the sum total of European expulsions was roughly the same as the U.S. number.
“I don’t care about the total!” the administration official recalled Trump screaming. The official, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
Growing angrier, Trump insisted that his aides had misled him about the magnitude of the expulsions. “There were curse words,” the official said, “a lot of curse words.”