Donald Trump removes Russia from list of US defense priorities

SOTT ^ | 12/21/16 | Sergey Gladysh

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

According to a leaked Pentagon memo, Russia is not on the list of Donald Trump's defense priorities.

The priorities, as they have been outlined by the incoming Trump administration, include defeating ISIS, eliminating budget caps, developing a new cyber strategy, and finding greater efficiencies.

The memo, obtained by Foreign Policy, does not include any mention of Russia, which has been identified by senior military officials in the Obama administration as the No. 1 threat to the United States.

[kaehurowing]

When Obama first announced “sanctions” on Russia in 2014 because of Ukraine, who did he impose them on? Those involved in the Ukraine issue? No, he imposed them on the legislators in the Duma who helped pass the legislation that banned child pornography and exposing children to violence and improper sexuality and recruiting of minors into the homosexual lifestyle.

Obama also met with pornographers and gay rights activists in St. Petersburg after an international G-20 conference in 2013, in direct violation of a Russian request he not do so. He issued a statement that Russia was violating their free speech rights and behaved like a total a-hole. http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/politics/russia-obama/ Obama was then declared persona non grata and barred from entering Russia again. Beyond being made fun of for his incompetence, Obama is reviled in Russia because of his involvement worldwide in trying to force the homosexual lifestyle on other countries.

Hillary’s representatives have also been declared persona non grata and have been barred from entering Russia, including a former ambassador who had been promoting Obama’s and Clinton’s views.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-diplomacy-travelban-idUSKBN13708N

That former ambassador is one of those now orchestrating the anti-Russian fake news attacks by the Democrats and the false claims the Russians manipulated the election.

https://mishtalk.com/2016/12/11/former-us-ambassador-attacks-first-amendment-over-hillarys-loss/

Russia believes that the Democrats have an agenda to damage the moral values of other countries and to export American sexual immorality. They are doing so through the U.N. and imposing conditions requiring acceptance of homosexuality, transgenderism etc. as conditions for receiving assistance from the U.S.

This is real news you will not get from the U.S. mainstream press.

[manc]

WOW I have been saying the same for some time, and even have had to point that out on here. Obama if memory serves too also warned about American athletes not going to the games, and his DOJ contacted FIFA over the corruption which seemed a massive coincidence since Russia is hosting the soccer World Cup, and there were talks about Russia having that taken away from them.

All of this reset turned sour when like you said the homosexual agenda was stopped in Russia.

wish more people like you knew the truth about why obama, and the left hates Russia.

[Grzegorz 246]

“All of this reset turned sour when like you said the homosexual agenda was stopped in Russia.

wish more people like you knew the truth about why obama, and the left hates Russia.”

Utter nonsense. Ever heard how Saudis treat “gays” ? So where is your “homo oriented” foreign policy logic in it ?

[little jeremiah]

In 0b0ola’s foreign policy, Islam trumps faggotry. But faggotry is a very close second. And since Russia doesn’t like faggoty OR Islam, they have been on the “evil enemies” list.

[redcatcherb412]

Perhaps a President Trump could be sure to have the 2 leading countries that keep putting pictures of the White House under a nuke cloud at the top of the list. The norks threaten US obliteration with every missile launch and nuke test and the iranians that obola gladly handed the free nukes card both have idealized DC as a smoking crater. Have not seen other nuke powers like Russia, China, India, Pakistan et al with these same intentions.

[manc]

you do understand that muslims are the top of the top PC list right?

You sound more upset that someone brought up how homosexuality and obama are in tune against Russia.

[manc]

Post 121 sums it up very well, and has a timeline. It was written by Kaehurowing.

[combat_boots]

Great post

[greeneyes]

How 1980s - Barry made fun of Romney for saying this.

Peace through strength - necessary for both Russia and China along with their buddies Iran and North Korea.

Our new Secretary of Defense gives a very good overview of the situation in his speech at the Heritage Foundation about a year ago on the State of the World:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCD5zHBNWG8

[little jeremiah]

Thank you! I will share that.

[little jeremiah]

Who killed kids with chem weapons? Assad supposedly did that but turned out wasn’t true.

[little jeremiah]

Islam has 1.6 billion adherents. A large number actively commit jihad or support it.

They are the number one enemy not just of the US but every single human being and goat on the planet. Russia? What atrocities is Russia committing in countries all over the world?

[little jeremiah]

When Russians emigrate all over the world and start destroying churches, raping women and children, ramming trucks into markets, maiming, torturing, shooting and chopping tens of thousands of non-Russians, I’ll start worrying about Russia.

Now, carry on with your one man Russia Hate Fest while ignoring the worlds number one enemy - ISLAM.

[little jeremiah]

Your one man Russia Hate Fest is spam. You post this stuff multiple times, over and over.

[ETL]

I focus on Russia because radical islam as an enemy is obvious, even to the dumbest among us, whereas Russia is not-so obvious, particularly among the dumbest of us.

My position on both radical islam and Russia is exactly the same as Mike Pence and Cruz. With this issue so front and center do you really think it was an 'accident' that Pence, with his strong anti-Putin stance, was chosen to be Trump's VP? That Trump didn't know Pence's views on Putin?

Of course it's great that islamo-nazis are being killed in Syria. The problem is, what happens afterwards, when Russia ultimately grabs control of the strategic oil/gas-rich Middle East. This as they are making major moves elsewhere.

Then, perhaps you are like the scum who posted this thread (DeathBeforeDishonor1) and are 100% on-board with Putin, no matter what he does. You more than likely are since you didn't criticize him at all for the comments he made.

Here they are again, in case you missed it the first time. And if you have no problems with them, then you are every bit the scumbag he is.

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"New Cold War except Russia is the good guy!

GO PUTIN!!!!!!"

--posted on 2/1/2016, by DeathBeforeDishonor1

[ETL]

"The memo, obtained by Foreign Policy, does not include any mention of Russia, which has been identified by senior military officials in the Obama administration as the No. 1 threat to the United States."

Again, BS, as it was the Soros-supported Obama admin who handed Putin everything he wanted on all-important missile defense and nukes, including the Iran nuke deal which KGB Putin loves and claims to have played a major role in. This as they decimated OUR OWN military, again to the enormous benefit of Russia, who is on the move.

Russia continues to this day arming and supporting hostile leftist regimes in Latin America, as well as forging a closer than ever military and economic alliance with the ChiComs, who have similarly been flexing their muscle in recent years. The two military giants have been staging annual joint war games since 2005 in obvious preparation for war with us (America) and our NATO allies. Russia also maintains close military ties with North Korea, Iran, and other such enemy regimes. They've supplied arms and guidance to forces that killed our soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere.

[ETL]

China is 20 times the threat [as Russia]

From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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" Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."

http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170287,00.html
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Sept 11, 2014

China and Russia to build major seaport: report

China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in north-east Asia on Russia's Sea of Japan coast, reports say, in a further sign of the powerhouses' growing alliance.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-11/china-and-russia-to-build-major-seaport-report/5738036
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Obama: "We Welcome China's Rise"
CBS News ^ | January 19, 2011 | Stephanie Condon
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"We are creating a new world, a balanced world. A new world order, a multipolar world," Chavez told reporters during a visit to Communist China, one of many. His "new world order" includes [RUSSIA], China, Iran,... and a significantly weakened United States, he explained.

Resurgent Communism in Latin America
by Alex Newman, March 16, 2010:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/south-america-mainmenu-37/3122-resurgent-communism-in-latin-america?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default&page=
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From the Russian News and Information Agency:
July 27, 2006
"'I am determined to expand relations with Russia,' Chavez, known as an outspoken critic of what he calls the United States' unilateralism, told the Russian leader, adding that his determination stemmed from their shared vision of the global order.":

https://web.archive.org/web/20080306105411/http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060727/51913498.html

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Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro
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How Russia arms America's southern neighbors

Ioan Grillo
May 9, 2014

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.

Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.

Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.

In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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Russia Boosts Arms, Training for Leftist Latin Militaries

Moscow defense minister inks deals with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua for joint exercises

BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015

Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.

Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.

Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/
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Note the "soul-bro" handshake
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From CBS-News, July 29, 2006:

Chavez Vows To 'Stand By Iran'
After Oil Talks In Tehran, Venezuelan Leader Called 'Brother' By Ahmedinejad

"Chavez pledged that his country would 'stay by Iran at any time and under any condition,' state television reported. Ahmadinejad said he saw in Chavez a kindred spirit." "'We do not have any limitation in cooperation,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying. 'Iran and Venezuela are next to each other and supporters of each other. Chavez is a source of a progressive and revolutionary current in South America and his stance in restricting imperialism is tangible.'":

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/29/world/main1847331.shtml

or

https://web.archive.org/web/20161024144841/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chavez-vows-to-stand-by-iran/
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Aug 2015

[ETL]

Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran's Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran's Quds Force commander - their chief exporter of terror - and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ..."

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ..."

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they've seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants - some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/

[ETL]

From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
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March 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration.

Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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[ETL]

Who’s in Putin’s Pocket — Clinton or Trump? (Clinton Uranium RussiaGate scandal)

The New American ^ | August 3, 2016 | William F. Jasper

"according to some calculations, the Uranium One deal, involving top Clinton donors Frank Guistra and Ian Telfer, has transferred as much as 50 percent of projected American uranium production to Kremlin control."

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RUSSIAGATE

Who paid Bill Clinton's $2.5 million commission & $500,000 speaking fee (US uranium to Russia)

qura.com ^ | July 27, 2016 | Sierra Spaulding

Who paid Bill Clinton's $2.5 million commission and $500k speaking fee for brokering the sale of 20% of America's uranium deposits to Russia?

You are speaking about a really interesting deal that ended up giving Vladimir Putin and the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States.

Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. ..."