Not sure where Putin is going with this. (1 Viewer)

[billinms]

Millions of years? This guy uses the same writers as Trump.

 

[superchuck500]

Millions of years? This guy uses the same writers as Trump.

Not surprising:

A riff by Donald Trump at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Monday night about Hillary Clinton's culpability in the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is raising questions about where exactly Trump got his information and how.

During his speech, Trump held up a piece of paper. "This just came out a little while ago. I have to tell you this," Trump said as he read from the page, which he identified as an email from Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal.

"The attack was almost certainly preventable," Trump read. He continued, "Clinton was in charge of the State Department ... if the GOP wants to raise that as a talking point against her, it is legitimate."

Trump said, "In other words he [Blumenthal] is admitting that they could have done something about Benghazi. This just came out, a little while ago."

Trump folded the page and let it fall to the floor, and his audience booed.

So was this indeed a private admission by a Clinton ally that she was responsible for the deaths of the four Americans?

For Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald, the words Trump read sounded familiar. It turns out they were taken from an article he wrote, which Blumenthal had included in an email. So they were not Blumenthal's words, but Eichenwald's.

The misconstrued "email" that Trump was reading had appeared in an article on a Russia-funded website called Sputnik, which has since taken it down.

It's unclear how Trump obtained the same misinformation that appeared in Sputnik. Eichenwald asks: "Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin?"

But there are other, less sinister possibilities, including that someone on Trump's staff, or Trump himself, found the Sputnik story on the Internet and thought it too good not to use (or to check).

The Blumenthal email containing the Eichenwald story was posted by WikiLeaks, and apparently hacked from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's account.

Trump Seemed To Cite An Article From A Kremlin-funded News Source : NPR

 

[DJ1BigTymer]

So it's all about Obama and Clinton poking the Russians? I don't think we're fighting a proxy war with them in Syria - at least not in the same sense that we used to fight proxy wars with the Soviets. In fact, the lack of commitment from the US in support of the Syrian rebels is precisely what set the precedent for Russia to come and save Assad. And they did it under false pretenses, supposedly coming to join the fight against ISIS, and then immediately going to bomb the rebels. Of course, this all comes after Russia's meddling in Ukraine to eliminate pro-Euro factions and set the pretext of action to annex Crimea.

I think it is widely known in the intelligence community that the hacks came from Russia and those in the need-to-know have seen the evidence. Those outside of that knowledge have similarly concluded that all signs point to Russian-state actors: The Weird Logic Behind Russia's Alleged Hacking | The National Interest

The relationship isn't good. But your characterization of the source of the strain is off the mark.

MSM media facts mean diddly poo! /sarcasm

 

[Jeff Miller]

Putin whats the price of oil to increase, its not that hard to figure out.

 

[superchuck500]

Putin whats the price of oil to increase, its not that hard to figure out.

I think you're right that Russia desperately wants the price of oil to increase. But if that's the motivation, why Trump? The two biggest influencers on the price of oil in the last two years have been decreased demand and US output. I don't see how Trump helps either of those change. If Russia's motivation to attempt to influence the US election is to help increase the price of oil, they should be mingling to help Clinton - who would be more likely to further push alternative energy in the US, continue or enhance regulation of US energy output based on environmental concerns, and resist pipelines and other efforts to enhance the US oil & gas infrastructure.

I think Putin sees in Trump a person that he could work with in a way no other American president could ever offer. Trump is an admitted fan of Putin's and Trump has a lengthy history of business associations in Russia. And Trump has stated foreign policy positions that are very favorable to Russia's (mostly notably the weakening of NATO). Trump is a wet dream for Russian foreign policy objectives.

 

[dtc]

Not a surprise, we are basically fighting a proxy war with them in Syria. And now the federal government on behalf of Clinton are accusing the Russians of the hacks without any proof and playing to the Soviet Union fears. Between the Obama administration and a potential Clinton presidency our relationship with Russia is at an all time low.

To say that our relationship with RUssia is at an all time low reveals an ignorance of history that is unfortunately all too common among us.

 

[Maxp]

Wow, this guy...

So, at what point do we need to work with China to get Russia to chill out?

One of my coworkers studied in Moscow and has actually met this man. He compared Zhirinhovsky to a Russian version of a super Sean Hannity.

 

[superchuck500]

To say that our relationship with RUssia is at an all time low reveals an ignorance of history that is unfortunately all too common among us.

So true.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

To say that our relationship with RUssia is at an all time low reveals an ignorance of history that is unfortunately all too common among us.

It's quiet the bizarre statement
Starting with the first failed revolution in 1905, it could be argued that the 20th century is US vs Russia - not only nukes/Cold War, but HUAC/ soviet show trials, the space race, olympics, art, music, dance - almost every aspect of geopolitics and culture was shaped by US Russia animus

 

[nolaswede]

hold tight folks....

Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war | Reuters


so Putin says "we aint meddling"

Zhirinhovsky says " you better vote Trump or face WWIII with Hillary "


LOL




This is comical.

Feels like I just read an article from the Donald

 

[superchuck500]

It's quiet the bizarre statement
Starting with the first failed revolution in 1905, it could be argued that the 20th century is US vs Russia - not only nukes/Cold War, but HUAC/ soviet show trials, the space race, olympics, art, music, dance - almost every aspect of geopolitics and culture was shaped by US Russia animus

Except that little thing where we joined up to rid the world of Nazism and the specter of global holocaust.

 

[Goatman Saint]

That was out of need not want


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[Krodwhodat]

To say that our relationship with RUssia is at an all time low reveals an ignorance of history that is unfortunately all too common among us.

You can really see age difference in threads like this. Not sure his age but some people need to watch Rocky 4.


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[Saint by the Bay]

It's to prevent ISIS from kidnapping family members of Russian officials and using them for leverage. It has been a pretty standard tactic from them in Arab nations and recent propaganda has implied they intend to start doing the same to US, European and Russian officials families.

That's why they are saying not doing so could effect promotions. It's all about their struggle in Syria and has nothing to do with us.

 

[Zack Lee]

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