Intel Committee member, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., discusses what intelligence reports have gotten right about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
As if the world isn’t already facing enough challenges, our leaders, especially the business leaders who own most of our politicians, gotta work at creating even more destruction. I know, I know there’s profit in it for some, that it’s all so sociopathic is of little account to most, eh. It’s the way of the world.
But wait, there’s more this may dissolve into serious Cyber Warfare, won’t that be fun.
Cascading consequences can be a bitch, thanks all you Trumpsters out there.
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It all started in 2007. “Dear President Putin. Congratulations on being named Time magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’—you definitely deserve it. As you probably have heard, I am a big fan of yours. Take care of yourself. With best wishes. Donald J Trump”.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-putin-helsinki-summit/index.html
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Trump’s Mysterious Relationship With Putin
- September 14, 2020
- by Stephen Schlesinger
"After President Trump’s nearly four years in office, we still do not have a good answer as to why the president has repeatedly deferred to Vladimir Putin on major issues. This is a central question that we face as a country, especially its consequences for American policies on Ukrainian sanctions, on the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, on the trustworthiness of our United States intelligence agencies, recently also on the contretemps over possible Russian bounties for the killing of American soldiers in Afghanistan and finally on the US presidential election.
As these scandals flare and recede into the next crisis, our focus on solving this mystery seems to subside as well. We must not lose our attentiveness to what is behind Trump’s baffling relationship with Putin — our national security depends on it.
Although we have no official answer, we have a set of clues, stretching back decades. Trump himself has admitted it over and over again. …"
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