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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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: espionage; putin; russia; trumprussia; trumpstatedept; ussr
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To: Texas Eagle
North Korea may well have reached its current level of ICBM proficiency thanks to Moscow. From a CNBC article: "He added, "I wouldn't be surprised if in the months and years to come that the Russians were to reach out and really work with the North Koreans in a much greater extent." A Tuesday report from South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo said Russian exports to North Korea essentially doubled in the first five months of 2017, according to data from the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, a South Korean government-supported organization. About 90 percent of the exports were energy related. Russia exports coal to North Korea as well as jet fuel, trucks and other goods. Moscow also helps Pyongyang by employing about 50,000 laborers from North Korea, who work in timber and construction jobs in Russia. That is a source of hard-currency income for the regime led by Kim Jong Un and helps fund its weapons programs. "Moscow is fast emerging as a powerful backer of Pyongyang at a time when even China seems to be having second thoughts, and has been at the forefront of blocking discussion of further sanctions in the UN Security Council," said Chosun Ilbo." CNBC Article
41 posted on 07/30/2017 3:58:50 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: blueunicorn6

That was funny :)


42 posted on 07/30/2017 4:02:22 PM PDT by CottonBall (Thank you, Julian)
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To: navysealdad

I’d like to know which one “lost” my passport out of his/her diplomatic pouch.


43 posted on 07/30/2017 4:08:39 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: navysealdad

If Putin wants to be an irrelevant backwater I’m sure POTUS will have no problem obliging him.


44 posted on 07/30/2017 4:11:26 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: ealgeone

Anything more useless than a “diplomat”?


45 posted on 07/30/2017 4:12:53 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

755 of them?


46 posted on 07/30/2017 4:23:03 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: elpadre
What are they doing?

If what I have seen is any indication, lots of shucking and jiving, plus taking a day off every week, and lots of vacations and half days.

Lots of pushing paper from one side of the desk to the other and writing lots of reports and filling out spreadsheets about moving paper from one side of the desk to the other.

A perfect career in the bureaucracy involves accomplishing absolutely NOTHING for 20-25 years and then collecting a pension.

I am absolutely serious too.

47 posted on 07/30/2017 4:35:54 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Texas Eagle

hmmmmm.....does this help President Trump? Perhaps Putin knows what Deep State coup members are actually spies in Russia.


48 posted on 07/30/2017 4:38:29 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: navysealdad

The former Soviet Union and now Russia stocked the U.S. with spies, and most of them were NOT associated with the so-called diplomatic corps (which, of course, included KGB and GRU personnel). China has done the same thing. There are untold scores of Chinese spies in the U.S.


49 posted on 07/30/2017 4:51:14 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: blueunicorn6

Exactly, thank you Mr. Putin.............keep it up!


50 posted on 07/30/2017 5:10:16 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: navysealdad

If that’s what Mr. Putin wants, then that is that. I’m sure he knows what he’s doing.


51 posted on 07/30/2017 5:25:06 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: dfwgator

This 1200 is the whole staff not just the diplomats. It includes janitors and translators and receptionists and whatever else. About 900 of these are Russian nationals.


52 posted on 07/30/2017 5:36:15 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: Krosan

Why do they need so many?


53 posted on 07/30/2017 5:38:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: navysealdad

The Democrats and GOPe are going to be responsible for pushing this country into another World War.

...and I think they’re happy with that.


54 posted on 07/30/2017 5:45:24 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: navysealdad

I thought Trump was the one that sets foreign policy, more so than congress.


55 posted on 07/30/2017 5:51:19 PM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden can't be fought)
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To: dfwgator

I don’t know. This article (http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/09/politics/btn-diplomatic-presence/index.html) says there were 48,000 all over the world in 2008 (11,000 Americans and 37,000 local hires), so 1200 for a large country like Russia doesn’t seem out of the ordinary.


56 posted on 07/30/2017 6:00:56 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: Krosan

Well in that case, it’s a good start.


57 posted on 07/30/2017 6:01:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: navysealdad

58 posted on 07/30/2017 6:30:05 PM PDT by McGruff (From now on call it McCaincare)
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To: navysealdad

Considering Hitlery Rotten Clinton used the US embassy in Libya to provide aid and comfort to the militant seditionists who eventually overthrew and murdered Gaddafi (with HRC’s war criminal gleeful support, “we came, we saw, HE DIED ha hah ha!”), it would be wise for all nations of the world to close US embassies. Her actions were completely outside of “diplomatic relations”.


59 posted on 07/30/2017 6:59:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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To: vooch

There are 6 time zones in the US (including Alaska and Hawaii), there are 11 time zones in Russia.


60 posted on 07/30/2017 7:01:36 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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