Kremlin says U.S. tip-off helped Russia halt terrorist attack

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Good news. Well done. Forging real partnerships…not photo op…“reset button” partnernships.
 
Edward_H said:
Forging real partnerships
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Forging? LOL
Michale McFaul’s, tweets:

This kind of cooperation between US & Russian intel services happens all the time. But I don’t ever remember Putin putting out a statement on it.

Putin courting Trump
 
I never argue with unknown facts…“happens all the time”.

Does the sale of US uranium rights under Obama/Clinton happen all the time, with concomitant contributions to the Clinton Foundation?
 
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But those are known facts.
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Perhaps you are unclear on the meaning of the word concomitant.
Or is it that you know the meaning of the word, but don’t know the difference between “known facts” and made-up stuff?
 
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Moreover, I read this a long time ago. It has been posted here and discussed.
Search the archives for meaningful comment.
 
I never saw a meaningful explanation, only evasion.

Did I miss your post that actually explained it away?
 
I was talking to my husband today.

Of course these things happen all the time. It’s very odd for Putin to make it public. I can’t recall off hand it happening before.
 
I strongly prefer Trump and Putin talking than not talking. Generally means that cooler heads should prevail. Doesn’t mean the US has to agree with Russia over everything, there will always be differences, but on the whole, Trump and Putin talking isn’t the disaster most Russiaphobes make it out to be.
 
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: Vladimir Putin “knows how to handle an asset and that’s what he’s doing with the President”
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I believe that Clapper called Trump a Russian asset.

 
Clapper is an excellent example of a Russiaphobe whose head is exploding over the idea that some cooperation is preferable to war with Russia. Clapper also perjured himself in testimony to Congress about the existence of surveillance programs. Why the heck should we trust him?
 
dvdjs said:
I believe that Clapper called Trump a Russian asset.
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I didn’t think much of Clapper back when he was appointed, or at any time since then. But this is beyond disgusting. Clapper apparently thinks of himself as the new left Joe McCarthy.
 
I think it would be imprudent to adopt a total anti-Russia view. Russia is an aggressor, and no doubt about that, in Crimea, in Eastern Ukraine, in Georgia and in Moldova. Nobody can seriously deny it, and it ought to be more troubling to Europeans than it seems to be (Sweden and Poland possibly excepted)

But one has to remember that before the Ukrainian seizures, Putin expressed his desire to have Russia join NATO. Possibly that was a subterfuge to undermine the alliance, but possibly not. The day will come when China’s piecemeal and de facto occupation of the Russian Far East may become overt and directly political. Putin might have been serious.

One is reminded of something Lyndon Johnson said when people asked him why he didn’t fire McNamara. He said (paraphrasing) he would rather have McNamara inside the tent p-----g (urinating) out than outside the tent p-----g (urinating) in. So who knows?

Letting the Russkies know somebody is fixing to blow up one of their cathedrals is something we should do, notwithstanding we rightly think Putin is a Mafioso. We might get a return favor or two, and seemingly have, at least on that level. There might be more things like that of which we know nothing.
 
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