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Russian plane lands in D.C. to pick up expelled ‘spies’
POLITICO ^ | March 5, 2022 | Daniel Lippman

Posted on 03/05/2022 1:50:11 PM PST by McGruff

A mysterious Russian plane that captivated Twitter watchers as it flew across the Atlantic ocean this morning has arrived in the United States to pick up 13 expelled Russian diplomats, according to flight tracking information and the State Department.

The plane, an Ilyushin Il-96, left Moscow en route to St. Petersburg on Friday night and arrived at Dulles airport outside Washington at 2:10 p.m. eastern time on Saturday. It is unclear what time it will depart back to Russia.

President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union on Tuesday that American airspace was closed to Russian planes, but the U.S. government is making an exception so the expelled Russians can go home.

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1 posted on 03/05/2022 1:50:11 PM PST by McGruff
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2 posted on 03/05/2022 1:52:19 PM PST by McGruff (The first casualty when war comes is truth)
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3 posted on 03/05/2022 1:56:29 PM PST by McGruff (The first casualty when war comes is truth)
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To: McGruff

For those freezers who don’t know this already, nearly everyone who works at the UN and at embassies around the world can be described as a “spy” of some manner. The only ones who aren’t are clerical staffs and the wealthy schmucks who bankrolled their government ministers into power in exchange for them or their idiot kids to get a title of nobility and a few years of cocktail parties in oak-walled dining rooms. It’s tolerated by the host country because they also have their spies stationed around the world. The only people who don’t know that are the average Joes who think diplomacy is some sort of legitimate job.


4 posted on 03/05/2022 2:07:48 PM PST by jz638
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To: jz638

How many planes on their way to pick up China’s commie spys. Wake up U.S. China is the mortal enemy.


5 posted on 03/05/2022 2:28:57 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: McGruff

And when it comes to China, how many planes will it take to send them all packing? 100s, maybe 1,000s?


6 posted on 03/05/2022 2:40:50 PM PST by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

My thoughts exactly. I’ve always been dismayed at the hostility between Russians and the US. Our Neo-Cons and others can’t move on, now the Russians get Putin. Russians should be our friends. We surely have more in common with them than the Chinese.


7 posted on 03/05/2022 2:42:47 PM PST by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: jz638

“The only people who don’t know that are the average Joes who think diplomacy is some sort of legitimate job.”

In many ways, diplomacy is a legitimate job. And they are paid a substantial sum to do it. Course, so is espionage.

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8 posted on 03/05/2022 3:05:37 PM PST by whitney69
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To: Reno89519

China is on the way to defeating U.S without firing a shot. The elites admire the CCP top down style of bureaucratic governance. Look at how easily Covid brougt out the biomedical dictatorship. Ukraine is a distraction. The warmongers of the MIC will never devote attention to making China pay for Covid. As a conservative I feel really disallusioned at the moment. Even in the U.S, where you’d think conservatism would offer some resistance, it full speed ahead to fight the NWO battles. The NWO suffered a few set backs with Trump and Brexit. But they counter attacked using Covid and now Ukraine, not to mention their pet hysteria, climate alarmism.


9 posted on 03/05/2022 3:11:22 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Reno89519

If I had to choose between Putin and Xi it would be Putin. Sure he’s a thug. But a thug who doesn’t have Asia Pacific by the balls.


10 posted on 03/05/2022 3:40:36 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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RE: Russian plane lands in D.C. to pick up expelled ‘spies’

If they are really spies, why did we wait to expel them only now?


11 posted on 03/05/2022 3:58:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Because their activities might further reveal their “contacts” - meaning US citizens cooperating. Also, you lose all opportunity to recruit them if they’re expelled.


12 posted on 03/05/2022 4:06:46 PM PST by Reily
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To: McGruff

They need to take those raggedy ass Vindman brothers back with them.


13 posted on 03/05/2022 4:18:50 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." - Col. David Crockett to the U.S. Congress.)
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To: McGruff

No Batman movie for these spies.


14 posted on 03/05/2022 4:20:08 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." - Col. David Crockett to the U.S. Congress.)
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