Russia puts a bounty on American troops

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  1. Sleep Monster

    Sleep Monster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Trump supporters: please wake up and smell the borscht.

    Russian intelligence operatives in Afghanistan have been offering and paying bounties to Taliban who kill American soldiers.

    Trump was briefed about this back in March. His response so far: one friendly phone call with Putin, which we wouldn't even know about if Russian media hadn't broadcast it, the gist of which was Trump telling Putin he would pull troops out of Germany and close some bases, something Putin wants, and whining about letting Russia back into the G8.

    How do you still worship or admire this man who obviously doesn't give a rat's ass about our soldiers, or any of the rest of us?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...itants-money-to-target-u-s-troops-report.html
     
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    Bounty or no bounty, a soldier's got to soldier. That's how it is.

    The solution is a couple of cruise missiles into the Kremlin.
     
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    It's a Mystery to me why conservatives support Trump.
    He's not a nationalist, nor a Christian, nor a decent man.
    I like this graphic about him - it sums up the man.
    It says a lot about the quality of the Democrats when so many
    support Trump, regardless.

    your-president-the-playboy-who-pays-for-sex-the-the-47975690.png

    ps the OP smell of fake news, BTW.
     
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    Policy. And Marxism barking.
     
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    Poohbear Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We can be sure (?) that no statues of Marx or Lenin will be toppled.
    Only statues of "slavers" who for the most part were Democrat.
     
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    About 65 soldiers died in Afghanistan since Trump became president.

    Over 1,200 died in Afghanistan in Obama’s first 3 years.

    Looks like Obama really made Putin pay
     
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    Go ahead try to put a bounty.....we'll light up the Russki camp at Khmeimim air base.



    Or we can do another Deir Ezzor, where we schwacked a few hundred Wagner's for laughs.
     
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    Without the BUK missile, this sounds like a retelling of the theme offered in the MH17 case. Or the lies about gassing in Syria by the White Helmets.

    Propaganda is a full time job, obviously.
     
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    Oops, my bad ... forgot to include links:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...itants-money-to-target-u-s-troops-report.html
     
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    Truly amazing that anyone believes that the number of deaths has anything to do with who sits in the Oval Office. As if the Taliban gave a sh!t. If you want to fix the blame, go back a bit more than a decade.
     
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    I forgot the links. See above.
     
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    Are Democrats - who have been pushing for World War III since 2016 & Hillary's loss - doing so because they'd hoped to see the end of the world under the first woman president?

    Democrats also seek civil war in the US.

    An active desire for the end of the world, or extreme ignorance, seem the best explanations for their dangerous obsessions with Putin and Trump, and their endless demands for escalation of conflict between these two Super-power nations.

    Keep in mind that sociopathic war criminals Bush II and Cheney endorsed Clinton, likely in the hope that she would plunge the world into armageddon.
     
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    This Is blockbuster news if the story is true. I don’t know. So far we’ve had the expected denials from the Russians and the Taliban, for whatever that’s worth.

    “He [Putin] used to be a KGB colonel. Once an agent, always an agent.” — Nina Khrushcheva
     
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    I wouldn’t be surprised if Chinese did the same.
     
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    actually they more likely use the resource for other type of espionage mainly because bounty mean they dont gain anything.
     
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    Seems I remember smirks, jokes & laughs when
    God's Gift USA supplied the Taliban with Stingers

    Ever hear- "What goes around, comes around" ?
     
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    Eadora, I can't imagine the pragmatic Russians putting bounties on the heads of soldiers for no reason. If it's true, then those soldiers must be up to something and Russia wants it stopped.

    I know that American helicopters a few years back, were carrying ISIS leaders from Syria into Afghanistan, and it worried Russia. They feared it was done so the terrorists could infiltrate the states on Russia's southern flanks and get into Russia.
     
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    Jeannette Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They're all pushing for a one world order. No nations, no borders, a la Soviet Union. Trump is against it, as is Putin.
     
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    You "know" all sorts of Russian lies. I still have to marvel at your capacity to view Russia as somehow perfect, blameless and good and your own home country as evil and always in the wrong.

    The Russians are sure to have had their reasons, but they sure had nothing to do with what our brave soldiers were doing in Afghanistan. Could be as simple as revenge for our assistance of the Muhajideen in the 80s, as Eadora has callously pointed out, or it could be something more. One thought I had is that more US casualties might push Trump and the American public to support withdrawing our troops from Afghanistan.
     
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    Why would Democrats want "Armageddon"? It's like you're trying very hard to sound as silly and insane as you can here.
     
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    Elite Democrats believe they're above the calamitous damage, and they may be right. And yet not only am I unable to compete with Democrats in this regard, but it's serious and true to boot. (I do understand that there are a LOT of useful idiots helping bring this catastrophe about without knowing that they're basically little Eichmanns for their party, however.)
     
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    Everything you wrote is nothing more than projection of how we act, and what we're doing. Other nations are other ball games. They are not us, and when Washington starts to realize that other nations think differently and act differently, then we might start having a real and beneficial foreign policy.
     
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    Do you also write fiction for publication? You seem to be quite creative.
     
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    Dunning-Kruger strikes again. Those in charge of our foreign policy understand this a hell of a lot better than you do, and unlike you they deal in reality.
     
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    Do you have a contribution to the topic, or just derailing ad hom?

    I understand that the truth hurts, but can you strive past the pain & respond coherently?

    TIA

    :)
     

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