Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Putin slashing number of US diplomats in Russia by 755 people
ABC NEWS ^

Posted on 07/30/2017 12:19:26 PM PDT by navysealdad

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview that the U.S. must cut the size of its diplomatic force in his country by more than half, from about 1,210 to 455.

Putin said Sunday that the cut will make the size of the U.S. diplomatic mission in his country equal to that of Russia's diplomatic corps in the U.S.

"The personnel of the U.S. diplomatic missions in Russia will be cut by 755 people and will now equal the number of the Russian diplomatic personnel in the United States, 455 people on each side," Putin said in an interview on the Rossiya 1 network.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: espionage; putin; russia; trumprussia; trumpstatedept; ussr
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-82 next last
To: MarMema

You know what they all “did.”


21 posted on 07/30/2017 1:18:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: MarMema
Service at the embassy in Moscow was never that great anyway...an entire huge basement area with offices everywhere...never did figure out what they all did.

They were probably helping to organize Pride Parades in Moscow.

22 posted on 07/30/2017 1:18:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: navysealdad

Let’s get it down to zero and shut Putin in his ussr box.


23 posted on 07/30/2017 1:21:23 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Happy Nobama!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator
I was a very uncommon visitor to that area they said. So maybe it was er, like spy country underground.

Over 20 years ago now. But I do remember how amazing it was to be an American at that embassy. They would open the doors in the morning and ask if there were any Americans, and I would just make it through the crowd and past the guard and they shut the door.

24 posted on 07/30/2017 1:30:18 PM PDT by MarMema
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

Comment #25 Removed by Moderator

Comment #26 Removed by Moderator

To: Texas Eagle
Putin slashing number of US diplomats in Russia by 755 people

Doing the job the American bureaucrats don't want to do.

27 posted on 07/30/2017 2:32:45 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: xenia
1200 diplomats?

Include families and that number probably swells to 3000 or more!

28 posted on 07/30/2017 2:37:52 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Flintlock

President Trump is severely handicapped in making nice with the Russians due to the media and democrats. It used to be that politics stopped at the shoreline.

With the democrats, they BEGIN there.

If we ever drift into war with Russia, we can say it began with Obama and McCain and their fake narrative of Russian interference in the election of 2016 lapped up by a willing media. Our politicalized intelligence agencies shamefully helped.


29 posted on 07/30/2017 2:51:06 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: navysealdad

Good, more people off the government payroll.


30 posted on 07/30/2017 2:51:17 PM PDT by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: navysealdad

Cool. That’ll save us a ton of money. Fire them all! Drain the swamp!


31 posted on 07/30/2017 2:52:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: navysealdad

Thank you, Vlad!!
A number anywhere between 0-20 sounds more appropriate.

Think how many more countries this is happening in, thanks to diplomatic bloat - we are paying thousands of people to hang out and do what?!


32 posted on 07/30/2017 2:56:38 PM PDT by GnuThere
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
FREEPATHON UPDATE


We are 30 days into this FReepathon. We have raised 29% of our goal. You do the math.


COME ON FREEPERS, LET'S GET BEHIND FR AND GET THIS DONE!!!

33 posted on 07/30/2017 2:57:46 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: navysealdad; All

Congress created this mess, by treating Russia the same as North Korea and Iran when it comes to trade.

This is coming from the same clowns always saying they are for free trade.... The irony!

Yet they want to punish Russia and risk war with because Hillary lost. Never mind their is not a shread of evidence.

That is the insanity of our congress.


34 posted on 07/30/2017 3:01:05 PM PDT by Enlightened1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Paladin2

At least one “real” one ......


35 posted on 07/30/2017 3:07:50 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: navysealdad

775?? Good grief....how many do we have other there? Or better....how many do we need?


36 posted on 07/30/2017 3:10:00 PM PDT by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Enlightened1

Well how bout this??

Overwhelming majorities in both the House (419-3) and Senate (98-2) voted for sanctions. There’s always an agreement when it come to starting a war…but how about repealing Obamacare? No way, can’t possibly do that.


37 posted on 07/30/2017 3:12:36 PM PDT by hapnHal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: RFEngineer

Russian trade surplus increased by 12.2 percent to $8.5 billion in May 2017 from $7.6 billion in the same month a year earlier and slightly above market expectations of a $8.3 billion surplus. Exports rose 27.8 percent to $28.1 billion and imports went up 35.9 percent to $19.6 billion


38 posted on 07/30/2017 3:31:41 PM PDT by Bookshelf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: navysealdad

How many of the 755 are loyal to the swamp/deep state?

Is Russia doing Trump a favor? Collusion?


39 posted on 07/30/2017 3:34:46 PM PDT by spintreebob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bookshelf

Go State Department!


40 posted on 07/30/2017 3:47:03 PM PDT by RFEngineer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-82 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson