Posted on 09/22/2021 5:30:21 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
The top U.S. military officer met with his Russian counterpart Wednesday, against the backdrop of U.S. struggles to get military basing rights and other counterterrorism support in countries bordering Afghanistan — a move Moscow has flatly opposed.
The meeting in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, between Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov comes at a crucial time in the wake of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Without troops on the ground, the U.S. needs to forge more basing, intelligence sharing and other agreements to help monitor al-Qaida and Islamic State militants in Afghanistan to ensure they are not regrouping and posing a threat to America and its allies.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said in July, however, that Moscow warned the U.S. that any deployment of American troops in countries neighboring Afghanistan “is unacceptable." He said Russia told the U.S. “in a direct and straightforward way that it would change a lot of things not only in our perceptions of what’s going on in that important region, but also in our relations with the United States.”
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Is the short, fat faggot gonna give himself another medal? I hope the Russians give him a polonium salad.
Nyet!
That is truly a WTF! We had the biggest and best air base INSIDE Afghanistan and abandoned it. Now we want a base just outside the Afghanistan border to keep an eye on terrorism in Afghanistan.
That is the stupidest thing I’ve heard in decades.
Wait, wasn’t Gen Flynn called a traitor for doing exactly the same thing, meeting with his Russian counterpart?
Yes it is, but it also likely a lie. If General Milley is involved, it is to try and damage the US even more.
This dope Milley seems to do everything backwards.
The time to meet with the Russians was before withdrawing, not after.
It's the Democrat way.
Did Milley bring his knee pads ?
Milley’s treasonous group call to China was neither the result of Trump’s allegedly irrational or insane behavior, nor a result of Jan 6.....
It was the result of an hysterical telephone rant by deranged “Dr” Nancy Pelosi insisting Trump was “insane”........ a rant with which Gen Milley said he agreed.
So I guess Piglosi got Milley to go to Russia b/c Bidumb has been acting cuckoo lateely....../s.
When a secret phone call just won’t do?
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