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Trump’s National Security Pick Sees Ally in Fight Against Islamists: Russia
NY Times ^ | Jan. 10, 2017 | MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MARK MAZZETTI and ADAM GOLDMAN

Posted on 01/10/2017 6:15:54 AM PST by Innovative

Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, traveled to Moscow about a year after he took charge of the Defense Intelligence Agency to cultivate what he saw as natural allies in the fight against Islamist militants: Russia’s spy agencies.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: radicalislam; russia; terrorists; trump
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Sounds good to me.

As opposed to Obama, who refused to work w Russia to defeat the Islamic terrorists in Syria, when Putin asked him.

1 posted on 01/10/2017 6:15:54 AM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative
Is America against the terrorists? Yes.

Is Russia against the terrorists? Yes.

What is the problem?

2 posted on 01/10/2017 6:19:46 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (My North America stops at the Rio Grande)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I keep telling people we are not looking for best buddies. We have the Brits and Israelis for that. But we have been fighting this war on terror with our buddies for a long time.

We need to join together and wipe these animals off the face of the earth


3 posted on 01/10/2017 6:30:01 AM PST by McGavin999
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To: McGavin999

The Russians would make excellent allies in the war on terror.


4 posted on 01/10/2017 6:31:41 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (My North America stops at the Rio Grande)
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To: Innovative

Russia proved themselves in Syria.


5 posted on 01/10/2017 6:33:25 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Russia is killing ISIS and supporting Assad.
Under Kerry, Hillary!, and Obama, the US State Department was supporting terrorists (’rebels’) and trying to kill Assad.

This is a big (and a good!) change.


7 posted on 01/10/2017 6:44:06 AM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Little Ray

Here is the sad part. What percentage of your fellow citizen understand the facts you just stated? 10%?


8 posted on 01/10/2017 6:46:51 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (My North America stops at the Rio Grande)
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To: Innovative
>>Sounds good to me.

Yep.

Who do Americans have more in common with - Christian Orthodox Russians, or the Royal pedophile petro-Wahabbis who were propped up by NyLon Oligarchic/Kleptocratic cattle herders when...

I'm here sitting in the wreck of Europe
With a map of Europe
Spread out in a hall of Versailles
And every single nationality and principality
have come for a piece of the pie

I'm sitting in the wreck of Europe
With a map of Europe
And the lines and the borders are gone
We've got to do this jigsaw puzzle
It's an awful muddle
But somehow we've got to go on

Lawrence of Arabia is waiting in the wings
He's got some Arab sheikhs and kings
And we're in debt to them somehow
Lawrence of Arabia has got this perfect vision
Gonna sell him down the river
There's no time for him now

I think I'm gonna take a piece of Russia
And a Piece of Germany
And give them to Poland again
I'll put together Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
And hope that is how they'll remain

Then I'll take a bit of Turkey
Then a lot of Turkey
This is all quite a heady affair
There's Persia and Iraq to pick up
And there's Churchill's hiccup
And we can't leave it up in the air

Woodrow Wilson waves his fourteen points around
And says "The time to act is now
Won't get this opportunity again"
Woodrow Wilson has his fourteen points
But Clemenceau turns to Lloyd George
And says "You know that
God himself had only ten"

Today I'm carried by a league of notions
(It's a league of notions)
By a league of notions
I don't think I quite understand
(I don't think I understand)
I only know from this commotion
(From this commotion)
There's a chance that we could turn
The world in the palm of our hands
(We can turn the world in the palm of our hands)

Voices in the corridors of power
Candles burning hour by hour
Still you know that to the victors go the spoils
Such a great responsibility to make it fair
And there must be some reparations now
And don't forget the oil

Today I'm carried by a league of notions
(It's a league of notions)
By a league of notions
I don't think I quite understand
(I don't think I understand)
I only know from this commotion
(From this commotion)
There's a chance that we could turn
The world in the palm of our hands
(We can turn the world in the palm of our hands)

Pax vobiscum
Wo-Oh, Pax vobiscum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqpUoivzvv8

...their ilk carved up the landscape back circa 1920.

I think there's a bright future in the cooperative development of Artic oil, and other resources.

There's no reason America and Russia can't exercise joint stewardship over the Petrodollar, securing the rights of all within its purview in the process.


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Apollo-Soyuz

#TSTR-MAGA!

 


9 posted on 01/10/2017 6:48:34 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Innovative
I think 0bama tried to start a war with Russia so America and Russia would fight each other instead of our common enemy Islamic Jihad.

10 posted on 01/10/2017 6:50:36 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Innovative

I am in favor of working with Russia on this issue where we share interests in common.

I’m also in favor of trust but verify where Russia is concerned. It was valid when Reagan was president, and it’s valid now.


11 posted on 01/10/2017 6:51:48 AM PST by JamesP81 (The DNC poses a greater threat to my liberty than terrorists, China, and Russia. Combined.)
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To: Mr. Douglas
>>Russia proved themselves in Syria.

Yep. So did the Kleptocrats who manufactured and armed the opposition for fun and prophet.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Who+Armed+ISIS

“EDUCATE THE COMMON PEOPLE”
—Thomas Jefferson

 

[Where is Eric Braverman; Who killed Monica Peterson?]


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12 posted on 01/10/2017 6:56:49 AM PST by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

“The Russians would make excellent allies in the war on terror.”

Definitely. They don’t have a filter when it comes to killing terrorists. We should detect them and let Russia kill them.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 6:59:33 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Too. Much. Winning.)
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To: JamesP81

It was also valid when FDR & Truman were presidents.


14 posted on 01/10/2017 7:05:25 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Innovative

Exactly right. Let’s do cooperate with Russia. Maybe Putin’s Devil is friends with Trump’s devil and the two like each other and will end this Islamist dominance crap. The world does not need such a murderous and socially debilitating, economically destructive group willing to destroy whole cultures and societies on its earth.


15 posted on 01/10/2017 7:05:50 AM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: BitWielder1

Yes, I do to. Obama did everything he could to achieve that war. Everyday I was grateful it wasn’t working.


16 posted on 01/10/2017 7:06:53 AM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: Innovative
Trump’s National Security Pick Sees Ally in Fight Against Islamists: Russia

Finally some good sense, cooperation with Russia where the United States and the Russian Federation have common interests from a position of strength and sovereignty.

17 posted on 01/10/2017 7:13:24 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
"What is the problem?"

Liberals, progressives, etc. all hate Russia for largely abandoning Marxism. Same problem we have.

18 posted on 01/10/2017 7:16:22 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: BitWielder1
I think 0bama tried to start a war with Russia so America and Russia would fight each other instead of our common enemy Islamic Jihad.

Yep, the untouched terrorist Islamic Caliphate would destroy the wounded and weak survivor, and the Earth would be Muslim.

19 posted on 01/10/2017 7:19:13 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Innovative

Failures like McCain and his shadow Graham need to realize Islamists hate both the east AND the west. Oh, and they hate Jews, too.

The sooner America, Israel, and Russia (who ALL spy on each other, by the way) can cooperate and destroy them, the better off we’ll be!


20 posted on 01/10/2017 7:20:00 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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