Russian Bounty on US Soldiers...and Trump’s known for months...

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It’s almost like there’s a whole raft of diplomatic options that don’t actually involve murdering people or starting wars.

Yeah, but I was responding to people who said we were at "war" with Russia since 2016. Where an "armed conflict with Russia had already begun".

...Let's not blame me for questioning these statements.
 
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Yeah, but I was responding to people who said we were at "war" with Russia since 2016. Where an "armed conflict with Russia had already begun".

...Let's not blame me for questioning these statements.

Excuse me...? I was one of the people you were responding to. I have never made that claim...
 
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Excuse me...? I was one of the people you were responding to. I have never made that claim...

Are you serious?

Here's a hint:
I responded to 4 people.
 
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Good ol’ black-white thinking......
Thou must taketh the wood grain out of his own eye first, before mentioning wood in, uh, whatever.... :angel:
 
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Yeah, but I was responding to people who said we were at "war" with Russia since 2016. Where an "armed conflict with Russia had already begun".

...Let's not blame me for questioning these statements.

There are events like this that have occured. While we aren't at war, between battles against Russian speaking forces, Russian interference in our elections, and their intelligence operations targeting racial and political tension in the US; there clearly is an undeclared conflict going on, at least on the Russian side.
 
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There are events like this that have occured. While we aren't at war, between battles against Russian speaking forces, Russian interference in our elections, and their intelligence operations targeting racial and political tension in the US; there clearly is an undeclared conflict going on, at least on the Russian side.

It seems like everybody is after everybody... if it's not this, it's the blacks and the whites. I don't even know who's side I'm supposed to be on anymore.

...I think media is destroying us all from the inside out. We shouldn't know this much.
 
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Think about it realistically... What good would it do Russia, other than to watch our media freak out, to have the Taliban assassinate American soldiers?

....here's one possibility...

Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU, which U.S. officials say ran the bounty program, was known to have been given a relatively free hand to engage in operations to rattle the Americans, according to several people familiar with administration assessments.

At the same time, the Russians were believed to want revenge for a number of perceived American transgressions, particularly against Russian interests in Syria. Among them were U.S. air and artillery strikes in February 2018 on forces in Syria that included members of the Wagner Group, a mercenary force run by a Russian businessman close to Putin that includes former members of Russian military and intelligence units. The U.S. strikes killed hundreds of attackers.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...44f408-badf-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html
 
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It seems like everybody is after everybody..

......nothing new, the Russians and American have gone after their opponent's operations via proxies for the last 70+ years. What is new is an American President seeming to side with the Russians when the covert ops are made public...
 
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......nothing new, the Russians and American have gone after their opponent's operations via proxies for the last 70+ years. What is new is an American President seeming to side with the Russians when the covert ops are made public...

Why? Do you think Trump wants to unite with Russia?
 
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It seems like everybody is after everybody... if it's not this, it's the blacks and the whites. I don't even know who's side I'm supposed to be on anymore.

Your profile says you're a Christian... try being on Christ's side. #wwjd

...I think media is destroying us all from the inside out. We shouldn't know this much.

if you want to participate in Democracy, you need to make informed decisions.
 
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Why? Do you think Trump wants to unite with Russia?

I don't know that I would describe it as "unite" so much as he has a huge blind spot when it comes to Russia. It feels like Vladimir Putin has something on the POTUS.
 
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Apparently that's also an end. Donald lacks the courage to even admit he knew. #greenlivesdontmatter.

Although we can't forget that the soldiers themselves asked for it by enlisting in the first place, right? Donald should probably thank Putin...

...again.
How about we start by determining if Trump had knowledge of the facts.
 
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To encourage a speedier withdrawal of the US from the region?
Quite the opposite probably - to keep the US bogged down in a conflict. If we have a truce with the Taliban, that means we can keep scaling down our presence. If they keep attacking us, then we're more likely to keep more resources committed.
 
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How about we start by determining if Trump had knowledge of the facts.
Yeah, you have a point - just because it was in his briefings or just because he was told doesn't mean he had knowledge. After all, maybe Donald just wasn't paying attention at those moments....or he forgot.
 
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