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U.S. expels 35 Russian diplomats, closes two compounds: official
Reuters ^ | Dec. 29, 2016 | (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton; Editing by Yara Bayoumy)

Posted on 12/29/2016 11:20:11 AM PST by HarleyLady27

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To: ohioman

No matter what you write with malice the facts won’t change. I don’t understand the loyalty to the FSB and Putin. That’s not the same as supporting president elect Trump or the USA.


241 posted on 12/29/2016 10:57:44 PM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: gleeaikin

It’s an odd discussion. Some say all countries hack all the time including the USA. Then, they say Russia wouldn’t and couldn’t do it and that anyone who says they did is disloyal to Trump or wants to start WWIII or WWIV. Nation’s have interests, not friends. Putin is not Trump’s friend. He’s not America’s friend. He’s phony and a thug. He will collide with Trump once he doesn’t achieve his goals.


242 posted on 12/29/2016 11:02:37 PM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

So you don’t believe Assange when he disputes this?

What piece of information from the DNC emails do you really wish hadn’t got out there?


243 posted on 12/29/2016 11:02:48 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat)
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To: gleeaikin
Look...the Russians had KGB agents in Glen Cove, in Ike's day and earlier!

First they had a summer house/retreat on J.P Morgan's old estate and completely wrecked the Mansion, which was sold to the Catholic Church in the '50s, when it was turned into a nunnery.

The Russians moved to the mainland, in the present mansion, also in Glen Cove and it was well known by one and all that they had all kinds of spying equipment there and had been/still were spying on us like crazy!

I know this, as a first hand eyewitness, because we had a summer house on East, or Morgan's Island, as it was known, back in the '50s and '60s. Even us kids KNEW all about this! :-)

So wee barry forcibly kicking the Russians out of these two places, now, is just patently ridiculous, hysterically funny, and just a "LOOK OVER THERE AT THE SHINY OBJECT", puerile temper tantrum. He's trying to screw up President elect Trump!

244 posted on 12/29/2016 11:04:17 PM PST by nopardons
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To: elhombrelibre

It matters and proves that YOU will fall for any stupid thing!


245 posted on 12/29/2016 11:05:32 PM PST by nopardons
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To: elhombrelibre

This has nothing to do with the Russians. It’s about Trump and trying to plant the seeds that he wasn’t elected legally.


246 posted on 12/29/2016 11:08:09 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MNDude

No, Assange is not credible on many things, including the charges of rape. He started out leaking things to embarrassing things that helped the Left. If he were to say how he really got his information, he’d be exposing his sources. He’d never be able to get that information that way again. So he invented a lie that’s plausible to cover their tracks.


247 posted on 12/29/2016 11:15:42 PM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

No need to evade the question. Were you a Cruz supporter?


248 posted on 12/29/2016 11:18:32 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dfwgator

Putin’s spies are very happy with this outcome. Discrediting democracy, showing their systems of president for life Putin, is just as good as ours that transitions through elections. All the evidence proves Trump was legally elected. No doubt some Democrats do not believe that.


249 posted on 12/29/2016 11:19:40 PM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: HarleyLady27

I don’t think Obozo is gonna benefit, long term, from a personalized feud with Putin. When Obozo is in , say, Brussels, in a couple of years, how safe is he gonna feel?


250 posted on 12/29/2016 11:20:47 PM PST by anton
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To: mazda77

Putin has his own domestic audience to satisfy. He can’t appear weak and not respond in kind.


251 posted on 12/29/2016 11:28:19 PM PST by kabar
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To: kabar

EVERYBODY know what is going on, even the people in Siberia. This is exactly what I expected the response to be to Obama’s rantings. They only have to put up with this crap for 21 more days.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3509177/posts

Handle a petulant punk by laughing in his face. Especially when you know he forever gone from any meaningful exposure to the neighborhood and ther is not a fargin thing he can do about it..


252 posted on 12/30/2016 1:57:15 AM PST by mazda77
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To: cherry

“- - - when this arse tries to continue his horrible presidency....”

What I find bothersome is he is not acting like a lame duck. He’s not gradually drawing down his presidency like most do. Rather he seems to be ramping up his destruction of America. Are his action the final death throes of a spoiled child, or a precursor to something more evil?


253 posted on 12/30/2016 2:44:50 AM PST by redfreedom
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To: grania
WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS??

Putin hurt Obama's stumped toe when the cease fire was finalized.

Even after Obama's assassination of the Russian diplomat could not derail the peace talks.

254 posted on 12/30/2016 4:20:24 AM PST by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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To: nopardons; gleeaikin; elhombrelibre

More on the DNC and their attempted coup. “The ‘Big Lie’ was repeated and embellished at every opportunity by the print and broadcast media. The ‘experts’ were trotted out voicing vitriolic accusations, but they never presented any facts and documentation of a ‘rigged election’. Everyday, every hour, the ‘Russian Plot’ was breathlessly described in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Financial Times, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, BBC, NPR and their overseas followers in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Oceana and Africa. The great American Empire looked increasingly like a ‘banana republic’.

Like the Billionaire Soros-funded ‘Color Revolutions’, from Ukraine, to Georgia and Yugoslavia, the ‘Rainbow Revolt’ against Trump, featured grass-roots NGO activists and ’serious leftists’, like Jill Stein.

The more polished political operatives from the upscale media used their editorial pages to question Trump’s illegitimacy. This established the ground work for even higher level political intervention: The current US Administration, including President Obama, members of the US Congress from both parties, and current and former heads of the CIA jumped into the fray. As the vote recount ploy flopped, they all decided that ‘Vladimir Putin swung the US election!’ It wasn’t just lunatic neo-conservative warmongers who sought to oust Trump and impose Hillary Clinton on the American people, liberals and social democrats were screaming ‘Russian Plot!’ They demanded a formal Congressional investigation of the ‘Russian cyber hacking’ of Hillary’s personal e-mails (where she plotted to cheat her rival ‘Bernie Sanders’ in the primaries). They demanded even tighter economic sanctions against Russia and increased military provocations. The outgoing Democratic Senator and Minority Leader ‘Harry’ Reid wildly accused the FBI of acting as ‘Russian agents’ and hinted at a purge.

The coup intensified as Trump-Putin became synonymous for “betrayal” and “election fraud”.

As this approached a crescendo of media hysteria, President Barack Obama stepped in and called on the CIA to seize domestic control of the investigation of Russian manipulation of the US election – essentially accusing President-Elect Trump of conspiring with the Russian government. Obama refused to reveal any proof of such a broad plot, citing ‘national security’.

President Obama solemnly declared the Trump-Putin conspiracy was a grave threat to American democracy and Western security and freedom. He darkly promised to retaliate against Russia, “…at a time and place of our choosing”.

Obama also pledged to send more US troops to the Middle East and increase arms shipments to the jihadi terrorists in Syria, as well as the Gulf State and Saudi ‘allies’. Coincidentally, the Syrian Government and their Russian allies were poised to drive the US-backed terrorists out of Aleppo – and defeat Obama’s campaign of ‘regime change’ in Syria.


255 posted on 12/30/2016 4:39:32 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: eaglestar

Bo is by far the most dangerous terrorist on American soil.


256 posted on 12/30/2016 4:41:29 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed)
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To: Neoliberalnot

I seem to remember when Obama was standing behind his Office of the President Elect lecturn there were references to limiting what George W. Bush could do in the last days of his presidency.


257 posted on 12/30/2016 5:08:46 AM PST by taterjay
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To: kabar

Now, you were saying?

Putin Stunner: “We Will Not Expel Anyone; We Refuse To Sink To Obama’s Level”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3509324/posts


258 posted on 12/30/2016 5:20:11 AM PST by mazda77
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To: eartick
I like your "connect the dots" answer to what happened. So often it happens that when you connect events in a way that fits, you've got it right. I wondered if the assassination of the Russian diplomat was an attempt to fuel war between Russia and Turkey.

The CIA is STILL leaking to the media. NBC news this morning had information from a "source". I'm thinking that DJT is putting together a real excellent brain trust. Perhaps with these expulsions on both sides and filling them it'll be a start to draining the State Department swamp.

259 posted on 12/30/2016 5:58:50 AM PST by grania
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To: elhombrelibre

Your constant siding with Obama on Russia really shows who you are - i.e. someone who does not belong on FR. I will enjoy watching your eventual demise.


260 posted on 12/30/2016 6:18:05 AM PST by ohioman
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