America to Investigate Russia Infiltration of EU

The Telegraph ^ | 2/1/16 | Pete Foster

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

The review reflects mounting concerns in Washington over Moscow’s determination to exploit European disunity in order to undermine Nato, block US missile defence programmes and revoke the punitive economic sanctions regime imposed after the annexation of Crimea. The US move came as senior British government officials told The Telegraph of growing fears that “a new cold war” was now unfolding in Europe, with Russian meddling taking on a breadth, range and depth far greater than previously thought. “It really is a new Cold War out there,” the source said, “Right across the EU we are seeing alarming evidence of Russian efforts to unpick the fabric of European unity on a whole range of vital strategic issues.” "It is a clever game.

[ETL]

Mr Putin, what do you think of your "useful
idiot" supporters in the United States?

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Useful idiots

Thomas Sowell
May 20, 2003

"The term 'useful idiots' has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the Soviet Union did. Columnist Mona Charen's new book Useful Idiots shows that such people are still with us.

Long after the Soviet Union's horrors had become too widely known around the world for their sympathizers in the West to be able to get away with whitewashing the USSR, new Communist dictatorships arose to become the new objects of the affections of the Western intelligentsia and of like-minded people in the media and in politics. ..."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/05/20/useful_idiots

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ETL.

[SunkenCiv]

This George Soros?

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• Soros: It's the 2008 crisis all over again
• Soros: It's the 2008 crisis all over again

[ETL]

Simple fact is that Soros-supported Obama has bent over backwards appeasing the Russians on such critically important things as missile defense and nukes (New Start treaty, Iran deal). Then again, he did promise them he would be more "flexible" on such things (and who knows what else) in his second term.

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY

[ETL]

Ted Cruz on ISIS, Russia, Obama, missile defense, and the New START Treaty with Russia...

"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.

We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."

-snip-

"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.

We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.

These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.

These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."

"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.

Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."

https://www.tedcruz.org/news/icymi-cruz-we-have-no-business-getting-in-the-middle-of-the-syrian-civil-war-goal-should-be-to-defeat-isis/

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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.

The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.

For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.

We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

[ETL]

From Real Clear Politics, Sept 10, 2015...

"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.

In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.

The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/09/10/iran_deal_throws_sparks_on_mideast_tinderbox_128034.html
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Aug 2015...

[redgolum]

There is no good guy. There is only interests.

Russians play chess. Americans play baseball. We don’t do strategy well. Russians are in the top 5 of grand strategy players.

In short, this is the Great Game, only this time Europe is the prize. Whomever is the next president needs to realize that our old “allies” will not be able to help us soon, and we won’t be able to help them.

[BobL]

Now that Putin is the one funding political activities in the West, as opposed to Stalin/Khrushchev/Brezhnev funding Communist Parties in the West, this WILL NOT be considered a McCarty-type Witch Hunt.

[dfwgator]

I could see the Left taking this on.

Everything is flipped. Putin appeals more to the Right, whereas the Soviet Union appealed to the Left.

[444Flyer]

“...hes protected our families...”

Putin? Mr. KGB?
Uh, No. LOL

[Trumpinator]

Holy Cow. Do you hate the West? And why?

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When did the West become the EU? The EU is not the west.

[Trumpinator]

You’d make a great traitor. Have you considered treason?

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Traitor to who? The EU? So you are not an American after all?

[elhombrelibre]

The term “the West” refers to those nations that were opposed to the Soviet Union; they’re the nations of NATO. It’s a term of geography that includes nations that are not in “the West,” like Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. But I think you know this. And yes, the European Union is in the West. It’s the free world, the world you despise, unlike Putin’s world. That’s the world you admire.

[Trumpinator]

The term “the West” refers to those nations that were opposed to the Soviet Union;

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There was a west before the USSR. The EU is not the West.

[Trumpinator]

And yes, the European Union is in the West. It’s the free world

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So the Brits are being evil by resisting the EU? Lightweight,

[elhombrelibre]

Is the article about Britain or are you trying to change the subject, Lightweight?

[Trumpinator]

Britain is the most hostile EU country there is. Are they not part of the “west”? Not using the Euro either. They must be commies. Lightweight.

[elhombrelibre]

Are you saying that Britain is doing what the poster of the thread called for, Lightweight?

[Trumpinator]

Hell's yea:

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/09/exclusive-tory-rebels-to-block-snap-eu-referendum/

Exclusive: Tory rebels to block snap EU referendum

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-block-votes-16-eu-6976529

The Tories have repeatedly blocked attempts to lower the age for the ballot which will decide whether the UK stays in the EU

[BeadCounter]

The Kremlin Pedophile, Putin.

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/02/04/poisoned-ex-kgb-agent-accused-vladimir-putin-of-being-a-pedophile/