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Donald Trump removes Russia from list of US defense priorities
SOTT ^ | 12/21/16 | Sergey Gladysh

Posted on 12/20/2016 8:03:58 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at sott.net ...


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To: Popman

Even Christians sometimes commit sins. However I don’t remember this being proven to have been Putin. Underlings may have done this in hopes of impressing Putin.


61 posted on 12/20/2016 9:11:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

Well we certainly do not want to send Americans to die on the plains of Ukraine. The other day they recorded 2,900 explosions on that front. In one day. WWII type of crap is gonna occur there soon.


62 posted on 12/20/2016 9:19:50 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: MIA_eccl1212

You: They all hate Russia because it is majority white, has a state religion, which is Christendom, and is a center of Caucasian culture.
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Me: Would you like it if the U.S. had a state religion as long as it’s Christendom?
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You: Yes.
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Me: Unbelievable, don’t call yourself conservative. Anyone who would want a “state religion, as long as it is Christian”, is not conservative.

What about all of the Jewish people in the U.S.? Which particular brand of Christianity would you prefer? Baptist? Methodist? Catholic? Mormon?

Please rethink your statement, this country was founded on freedom of religion, not freedom for a “state religion”.


63 posted on 12/20/2016 9:24:03 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Graybeard58

Shades of gray over black and white. Yes, I would prefer Russia adopt the US Constitution and all its amendments. I would also like the nation of Vatican City to do the same. Until then, as a conservative, I will be happy for the Russians to be orthodox, and for Vatican city to be catholic. And maybe you have forgotten about the church of England, another “state religion”.

Its much better than the nations that are moslem, or all the European nations that are atheist.


64 posted on 12/20/2016 9:29:57 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: Gator113
“According to a leaked Pentagon memo...”

That bothered me, too.

65 posted on 12/20/2016 10:19:53 PM PST by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

It only mentions one specific group, the one that happens to be inspiring and instigating attacks on us. The rest is about capabilities and putting our house in order. Sounds reasonable to me.


66 posted on 12/20/2016 10:39:29 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: odds
可怕 = "terrible"
67 posted on 12/20/2016 10:40:49 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

For all the screaming about Russia hacking, the Chinese hack us 100X more often with zero retribution for their lawless behavior.


68 posted on 12/20/2016 10:43:28 PM PST by RedWulf (Trump:Front Lines. Obama: Back Nine. Hillary:Nap Time.)
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To: JPJones

Why do Obama and the Democrats call Russia an enemy?

1. Russia opposes the homosexual lifestyle and rejects the concept of “gay marriage.” This is the real reason.

2. Russia is now an explictly Christian nation. A priest blesses the members of their armed forces when they are deployed.

3. Russia has defended and protected the Christian minority in Syria (which supports Assad). Obama backs and funds the Islamic terrorists who have killed thousands of Christians.


69 posted on 12/20/2016 10:48:50 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1

love it...don’t need another internationalist bankers’ war, especially with a nuclear superpower...we the people, not our rulers, always pay the price for these conflicts, in blood and treasure. the justifiable cause is rare, and should be, for intervention and conflict; let’s secure our borders and rebuild our inner cities...


70 posted on 12/20/2016 11:06:54 PM PST by DEEP_e
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To: xkaydet65

Were you born resistant to to the truth
- or did you have to study for it?


71 posted on 12/20/2016 11:14:46 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does)
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To: kaehurowing

Russians offer Christian prayers at mourning ceremony for murdered ambassador:

https://youtu.be/RKSifRAnoAY?t=1896


72 posted on 12/20/2016 11:21:45 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
I would assume the the Generals that Trump has picked for his cabinet made this recommendation to him.

If the U.S. and Russia join forces to take out ISIS it would be considered a positive step forward.

73 posted on 12/20/2016 11:39:37 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: xkaydet65; WENDLE
He was a KGB officer. They sent people by the 1000s to the Gulags for professing Faith in Christ Jesus.

WENDLE is one of those screwed-up-in-the-head diehard Putinistas who, for some odd reason, is permitted to post here. KGB Putin can do no wrong in his/her misguided/ignorant eyes.

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Putin: Defender of Christian Faith and Morality?

September 2014

(excerpt from a long, detailed article)

First and foremost, in any review of the basics regarding Putin, the most outstanding fact is that he is a creature of the Soviet KGB, a truly diabolical organization nonpareil, which stood for murder, terror, and grand deception.

It was the Soviet Communist Party's tool for the brutal suppression of religion, including the persecution of Christians: denying them jobs and education; spying on and entrapping them; arresting and imprisoning them; torturing them in unspeakable ways; desecrating and demolishing their church buildings; infiltrating their agents into churches to subvert them. The KGB destroyed thousands of Christian churches, monasteries, convents, and schools, and slaughtered millions of Christians.

But it did not destroy the churches utterly. There remained an underground church, whose members were always at risk of discovery, arrest, torture, and martyrdom. Above ground, the KGB took control of the Russian Orthodox Church, which became a very useful organ of the Soviet atheist state.

In January 2009, Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyaev, better known as Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, was elected, from a short list of three candidates, to be the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, the highest position of authority in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). The election was called to fill the post that had been left vacant by the death of Patriarch Alexy II, who had headed the ROC since 1990.

Documents from the KGB archives have confirmed what sensible observers had long ago deduced from his actions: that Patriarch Alexy II (also spelled Alexi or Alexei) was a long-serving KGB agent (code-named Drozdov, "Blackbird"), in other words, a traitor to his Christian brethren and the God he claimed to serve. Putin's KGB/FSB was taking no chances with his replacement. All three candidates - Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk (code-named Topaz), Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk (code-named Ostrovskii), and Metropolitan Kirill (code-named Mikhailov) - also have been reliably identified as agents of the KGB/FSB.

Russia expert David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times (of London) and the Wall Street Journal, wrote of the election in 2009 for Forbes:

According to material from the Soviet archives, Kirill was a KGB agent (as was Alexei). This means he was more than just an informer, of whom there were millions in the Soviet Union. He was an active officer of the organization. Neither Kirill nor Alexei ever acknowledged or apologized for their ties with the security agencies.

Because Patriarch Kirill is of central importance to the myth of Putin as the Saul-to-Paul, Christian persecutor-to-Christian champion, it behooves us to more closely examine the man. He has publicly presided over, and provided official benedictions and exhortations for, Putin's cynical and Stalinesque exploitation of Russian nationalism and Russian Orthodoxy. Josef Stalin, who had very nearly consummated the annihilation of the Russian Orthodox Church begun by Vladimir Lenin, reversed course in 1941. The reason? His erstwhile partner in crime, Adolf Hitler, had turned on him and had invaded Russia.

Stalin, needing all the help he could get, cut a deal with ROC Metropolitans Sergius, Nikolay, and Alexy. In exchange for their support in rallying the Russian people, he would cease (temporarily) the persecution and allow the reopening of churches and theological schools. In fact, Stalin's Soviet government paid for the rebuilding of many of the churches. The ROC was thus placed even more firmly under the control of the NKVD, which was later to be reorganized and renamed as the KGB. ..."

much more at link

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/19162-putin-defender-of-christian-faith-and-morality

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"For 16 years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991.

He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined President Boris Yeltsin's administration where he rose quickly, becoming Acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned. Putin won the subsequent 2000 presidential election, despite widespread accusations of vote-rigging,[3] and was reelected in 2004."

"On 25 July 1998, Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin head of the FSB (one of the successor agencies to the KGB), the position Putin occupied until August 1999. He became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on 1 October 1998 and its Secretary on 29 March 1999."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

74 posted on 12/21/2016 12:52:58 AM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: JohnBrowdie

“western style evangelical Christian”

not western style; orthodox. a far cry from the pagan moon god worshipper currently ruling us


75 posted on 12/21/2016 12:53:36 AM PST by DEEP_e
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To: xkaydet65; WENDLE
From a 2007 article titled "Putin's Russia"...

" KGB influence 'soars under Putin,' " blared the headline of a BBC online article for December 13, 2006. The following day, a similar headline echoed a similarly alarming story at the website of Der Spiegel, one of Germany's largest news magazines: "Putin's Russia: Kremlin Riddled with Former KGB Agents."

In the opening sentences of Der Spiegel's article, readers are informed that: "Four out of five members of Russia's political and business elite have a KGB past, according to a new study by the prestigious [Russian] Academy of Sciences. The influence of ex-Soviet spies has ballooned under President Vladimir Putin."

The study, which looked at 1,061 top Kremlin, regional, and corporate jobs, found that "78 percent of the Russian elite" are what are known in Russia as "siloviki," which is to say, former members of the KGB or its domestic successor, the FSB. The author of the study, Olga Kryshtanovskaya, expressed shock at her own findings. "I was very shocked when I looked at the boards of major companies and realized there were lots of people who had completely unknown names, people who were not public but who were definitely, obvious siloviki," she told Reuters.

Other supposed experts - in Russia and the West - have also expressed surprise and alarm at the apparent resurrection of the dreaded Soviet secret police. After all, for the past decade and a half these same experts have been pointing to the alleged demise of the KGB as the primary evidence supporting their claim that communism is dead.

From the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, the Russian security apparatus Cheka (and its later permutations: OGPU, NKVD, MGB, KGB) had been the "sword and shield" of the communist world revolution.

"We stand for organized terror," declared Felix Dzerzhinsky, the first chief of the Cheka for Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin. In 1918, Dzerzhinsky launched the campaign of arrests and executions known as the Red Terror. Krasnaya Gazeta, the Bolshevik newspaper, expressed the Chekist credo when it reported approvingly in 1918 of the terror campaign: "We will make our hearts cruel, hard and immovable, so that no mercy will enter them, and so that they will not quiver at the sight of a sea of enemy blood."

Unflinching cruelty and merciless, bloody terror have been the trademark of the communist secret police, from the Cheka to the KGB. Obviously, the demise of such an organization would be cause for much rejoicing. Hence, when the KGB was ordered dissolved and its chairman, General Vladimir Kryuchkov, was arrested in 1991 after attempting to overthrow "liberal reformer" Mikhail Gorbachev in the failed "August Coup," many people in the West were only too willing to pop the champagne corks and start celebrating our supposed victory over the Evil Empire.

But, as Mikhail Leontiyev, commentator for Russia's state-controlled Channel One television, recently noted, repeating a phrase popular among the siloviki: "Americans got so drunk at the USSR's funeral that they're still hung over." And stumbling around in their post-inebriation haze, many of these Americans have only recently begun noticing that they had prematurely written the KGB's epitaph, even as it was arising vampire-like from the coffin.

However, there is really no excuse for Olga Kryshtanovskaya or any of her American counterparts to be stunned by the current siloviki dominance in Putin's Russia. For nearly a decade, even before he became Russia's "president," THE NEW AMERICAN has been reporting on Putin's KGB pedigree and his steady implementation of a long-range Soviet deception strategy, including the public rehabilitation and refortifying of the KGB-FSB. ..."

(continues at link)

http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/8420-putins-russia


76 posted on 12/21/2016 12:53:54 AM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: xkaydet65; WENDLE
From Sept *2016* ...

Russia 'to revive the KGB' after Putin wins biggest majority

Telegraph (UK) ^ | 19 September 2016 • 3:39PM | Marc Bennetts

Russia plans effectively to revive the KGB under a massive shake-up of its security forces, a respected business daily has reported.

A State Security Ministry, or MGB, would be created from the current Federal Security Service (FSB) , and would incorporate the foreign intelligence service (SVR) and the state guard service (FSO), under the plans. It would be handed all-encompassing powers once possessed by the KGB, the Kommersant newspaper said, citing security service sources.

Like the much-feared KGB, it would also oversee the prosecutions of Kremlin critics, a task currently undertaken by the Investigative Committee, headed by Alexander Bastrykin, a former university classmate of President Putin.

The Kremlin has not commented. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...

77 posted on 12/21/2016 12:54:45 AM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor"

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131219/185734707/Putin-Says-Stalin-No-Worse-Than-Cunning-Oliver-Cromwell.html
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"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...

"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'..."

"The more I see and read about Mr. Putin, in power since 1999, and his 'managed democracy,' the more apprehensive I become about the future of Russia and the safety of its neighbors.

If Putin believes that the dissolution of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states represents the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,' then it follows that Putin might well believe he should do something to repair the loss..."

http://web.archive.org/web/20090415000000*/http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html
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"The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'," Putin said in 2005.

http://www.thetrumpet.com/article/11102.30640.0.0/asia/moscow-puts-the-soviet-squeeze-on-neighbor-nations
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism's crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100711090651/http://article.nationalreview.com/365528/forgetting-the-evils-of-communism/jonah-goldberg
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"The demise of the Soviet Union was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century'," Putin said in 2005.

"Putin said Stalin deserves statues in his honor"

78 posted on 12/21/2016 12:55:52 AM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: All
Something to consider as a definite possibility...

Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew

In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."

"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."

"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
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Link to read "New Lies for Old" online:
https://archive.org/details/GolitsynAnatoleTheNewLiesForOldOnes
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Link to read "The Perestroika Deception" online:
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TVvzZzfXiMBkMdvD

79 posted on 12/21/2016 12:56:48 AM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: ETL

“First and foremost, in any review of the basics regarding Putin, the most outstanding fact is that he is a creature of the Soviet KGB”

I’ll take a reformed kgb othodox christian over a pagan cia/kgb moon god worshipping islamist via kenya/oahu any day...at least he cares about his people and their national identity...


80 posted on 12/21/2016 12:57:46 AM PST by DEEP_e
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