Posted on 07/17/2018 6:55:47 AM PDT by drpix
Former CIA Director John Brennan reacted to President Donald Trump’s performance at a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin with outrage on Monday, calling on Trump’s secretary of state, national security adviser and chief of staff to resign over the President’s behavior.
“I cannot understand how the national security team can continue to abide by this and how Pompeo and Bolton and Kelly can continue in their jobs,” he told MSNBC after the press conference on Monday. “This, I think, rises to the point of good American patriots resigning..."
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Brennan has sent chills down the spine from the day he first sat for Congressional hearings about his appointment. One hopes Pompeo, Bolton and Kelly seek legal grounds to sue him for defamation.
You nailed it. And all the superpowers (US/NATO, Russia and China) need to cooperate to monitor, moderate or contain N.Korea and the other nuclear states Israel, India and Pakistan, and especially the upstart wannabe Iran.
Viewed from the perspective of the two nations' huge economies or even the personal bilions of both presidents, $400M is not that big a deal. But it's amazing how little money it takes for money- and power-motivated monkeys to dance on the end of their strings. I'm always amazed that Aldi shoppers really don't steal the shopping carts because they have to rent them for 25¢, whereas the corpses of Walmart and Target carts litter the roadways. Given that human behavioral baseline, $400M is apparently a real attention-getter.
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