Posted on 11/17/2016 6:10:30 AM PST by Strategy
DONALD Trump's closest politial ally has rubbished Russia's claims of military might as he angles for a top job in the Republican new administration.
Former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani said the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric was all bluster, suggesting Moscow did not pose a threat to the West.
Mr Giuliani, who is being lined up for the job of Secretary of State - America's equivalent of foreign secretary - blasted: "Russia thinks it's a military competitor - it really isn't."
But the senior Republican also attacked Barack Obama for allowing Vladimir Putin to seize on instability around the world to increase his power.
He added: "It's our unwillingness under Obama to even threaten the use of our military that makes Russia so powerful."
Mr Giuliani, New York's mayor at the time of September 11 attacks, is known as a hardliner on national security matters.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
The Russian people are very happy with Trump’s election.
Nothing to be gained by trying to embarrass or antagonize Russia. We have to work together against muslims.
Russia is a lot like Gondor, in Lord of the Rings. They have been fending off various tribes of Orcs for a long time, to a large extent this kept Muslim incursions to a minimum in Western Europe. (exceptions being Spain, Sicily, attacks on Vienna)
Russia has spent centuries bleeding from various hordes from the East (Mongols, etc) and the South (Muslims).
And all they get is #*$* from the West.
Look like Dana Rohrabacher is better choice for SOS
As part of their collective tantrum, the sicko-Left and Media truly DO want WWIII.
No it’s not even close.
However Russia can afford to use it’s military (when China will fund it’s use) and we can’t.
The DNC-owned Media is trying to sabotage Trump's Admin.
Rather walk quietly and carry a big stick. Sabot- rattling is for fools. He who speaks least and prepares wins.
It is intimidating display of highly advanced cloaking technology!
This does not sound like something Guliani would say. Some liberal probably wrote some BS blog or news article trying to kill his chances for Secretary of State.
I listen to various conservative talkers on my morning and evening commutes. Unfortunately, their news reports come from the liberal MSM radio networks. I might trust their weather reports and maybe their box scores, but beyond that, it is mostly disinformation and propaganda. Pravda and Izvestia brought to 2010’s America.
My suspicions too. Guliani is smarter than this.
I’d like to see the full quotes in context. This article sounds like a lefty attempt to cause trouble.
I Like Ike. Shake the Military Industrial Complex to its core.
Well, it’s their self-appointed job to make sure that the United States doesn’t casually use nuclear weapons in any of it’s conflicts.
Agreed.
The only solution might have to be in Trump eliminating the usual MSM reporters pool, and replacing them with "alternative" cyber news reporters from those sites with a record of researching and reporting THE truth.
It'd be fun to watch liberal-Dem Pravda heads explode!
STFU Rudy!
Russia has the world’s most advanced nuclear arsenal. That makes them a superpower.
The newest road-mobile ICBM platform carries 15 warheads each 40 Megatons. That’s almost like 15 Czar Bomba blasts.
All that on a platform that can be driven on the road and hidden in the woods...
The Bear, don’t poke it.
That's exactly THE case. NO QUOTES. The Daily Express editors made it up.
Inventing FAKE "news" in retaliating to President Elect Donald Trump's victory is exactly what's going to cause Trump to call out specific MSM, and give access ONLY to "legitimate" news agencies (which eliminates The Daily Express, MSNBC, NBC, CNN, etal.)
We certainly have much more in common with Orthodox Christian Russia than we do with the Fallible and Uninspired Euro-proxy Royal Oligarchs of Sharia/Saudi-Arabia.
The Saudis and their Wahhabitard terrorists should've been told to eat sand on 911 - but America's own royal dynasty evidently valued the profitable nature of Military Industrial empire building over Truth and Honor.
In partnership with Russia, America can neutralize the manufactured threat of ISIS by exposing it for the fraud that it is... and then move forward in the construction of a future that puts the bankrupt Royal NWO petro-dolla-garchy in the rear view mirror.
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