Will Trump be permitted to redirect the Syria war funds to his WALL? The timing is so abrupt that there seemed to me a logical enough intersect.
Congress gives POTUS the middle finger on funding for the Wall.
Trump eyes the Defense Department for Wall funding, right?
Next, we’re diving out of Syria.
(Also, may be a remote possibility that Trump has made a deal with Putin somehow, about USA leaving Syria, *if*, Putin will agree to aid allies in the coming pile-on against Iran.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-ships-undersea-cables-concern-vladimir-putin-yantar-ship/
Russian ships are skulking around underwater communications cables, causing the U.S. and its allies to worry the Kremlin might be taking information warfare to new depths. Is Moscow interested in cutting or tapping the cables? Does it want the West to worry it might? Is there a more innocent explanation?
Unsurprisingly, Russia isn’t saying.
Rep. Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat on a House subcommittee on sea power, said of the Russians, “The mere fact that they are clearly tracking the cables and prowling around the cables shows that they are doing something.”
Democratic Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, an Armed Services Committee member, said Moscow’s goal appears to be to “disrupt the normal channels of communication and create an environment of misinformation and distrust.”
In 2008 in Iraq, unmanned U.S. surveillance flights nearly screeched to a halt one day at Balad Air Base not because of enemy mortar attacks or dusty winds. An anchor had snagged a cable hundreds of miles away from the base, situated in the “Sunni Triangle” northwest of Baghdad.
The severed cable had linked controllers based in the United States with unmanned aircraft flying intelligence, surveillance and recognizance missions for coalition forces in the skies over Iraq, explained Ret. Air Force Col. Dave Lujan of Hampton, Virginia.
“Say you’re operating a remote-controlled car and all of a sudden you can’t control it,” said Lujan, who was deputy commander of the 332nd Expeditionary Operations Group at the base when the little-publicized outage lasted for two to three days. “That’s a big impact,” he said, describing how U.S. pilots had to fly the missions instead.
NIKK-After reading this-—I don’t think our President and Putin are in TRUST STAGE. Only my opinion.
I think the very idea of Congress is outdated. It should be abolished. Parties should be abolished. Neither of these bodies represent We the People. We need to get some way that We the People can decide what we want. We have all this technology why not use it for good. Secure the vote and petition process. We the People will get rid of Congress. JMHO!