Report: Ukraine officials designated millions in cash for Manafort

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[Java4Jay]

Hillary Clinton's campaign slammed Donald Trump for "troubling connections" to Russia after The New York Times published a report late Sunday alleging that millions in cash payments were designated for Paul Manafort by Ukrainian leaders during his time as a political consultant there.

[Georgia Girl 2]

So Manafort owns a private business and gets paid big bucks. Shameful! :-)

[sockhead]

Russia is enemy #1 because of its refusal to go bitch to the NWO, which, as far as I can tell, seeks to subjugate European Christian civilization with an eye toward ending it as we know it.

Russia resents having always been treated as second tier, which they would be in the NWO. I don't think Putin's motives are heavily influenced by Christian vs Muslim. Russia and Putin are complicated. Think relations with Iran. I do not fully understand the game of US-Iran and Russia-Iran relations.

[dfwgator]

Russia and Putin are complicated.

It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

[unsycophant]

Troubling connections...did CNN actually put that in writing, considering HRC’s troubling connections?

[sockhead]

It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

Yes. :-) I'll take that any day over Global Elite, who are straightforwardly deviant and destructive.

[AC Beach Patrol]

One has to read about the shananigans of the oligarchs to understand the distrust among Russians when it comes to the global elites. As far as Iran goes, yeah, the neocons have been seeking to turn it into a dysfunctional state for over three decades (along with Iraq, Syria, et al.) and this has created a complicated dynamic. IMHO, the Islamic problem, especially, internationally, is Salafist, Sunnite, not Shia. Clean Break (neocons) proposed destroying even secular governments if they were seen as strengthening the Shia alliance. I think the threat to Western Christendom comes from the Gulfies (esp. KSA), Turkey, etc. Neocons don't. But Western Christendom seems to be as big a threat to them as the Shia Alliance. I hope I'm mistaken. I don't think I am based on what I've seen for decades.

A Clean Break

[Mariner]

CNN debunks their own reporting later in the article.

But it looks like all they wanted was the headline anyway.

[1Old Pro]

however, that the presence of Manafort's name on the list does not mean he received the money,...

He didn't receive the money, this whole story was MADE UP AS IF he received money. SO all this story is about is his name on a list, is that criminal, is that troublesome, sheesh. Hillary's name is probably on a list of the people who stormed the Benghazi compound, does that mean she told them how to break in?

[Mariner]

While Iran is clearly an enemy of the US and Israel, their State Department designation as "the worlds number one state sponsor of terrorism" is a bit misleading.

The report ascribes all the support to Hezzbollah as just that.

Lately Hezzbollah hasn't been blowing up much of anything except ISIS.

Today that moniker more likely belongs to the US, Turkey and KSA.

[AC Beach Patrol]

I agree 100%. Iran has expressed hostility toward the U.S. so must be, de facto, considered an enemy. But Shia are a small a fraction of Muslims and could be a potential friend of civilized society given that they have much lower levels of consanguinity (inbreeding) and higher IQs than their Sunnite (especially Salafist) coreligionists. Azerbijanis are Shia, and interestingly, have good relations with Israel.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I shouldn’t be surprised how in synch the democrats and the press are with each other

"In synch!?"

As seen in the recent hacked e-mail releases, the RAT-queen "Washrag" was literally commanding, berating and bitching out her lieutenant-chief editors of the major alphabet-network "news" divisions.

They are "The RATagandists".

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Hillary's name is probably on a list of the people who stormed the Benghazi compound, does that mean she told them how to break in?

Now wait a minute....

She might have.

[lodi90]

It’s been known for years that Manafort worked for that guy in Ukraine. It never was a secret. This is all astroturfed nonsense.

[lodi90]

Russia is enemy #1 because of its refusal to go bitch to the NWO

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You’ve got it backwards. Nobody gives a flip about Russia outside of Germany. Putinist Russia needs and makes enemies to keep the Russian people distracted while his kleptocracy loots the country of its wealth.

[lodi90]

Russia resents having always been treated as second tier.

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Russia is second tier. It is a one party kleptocratic petrostate without a developed economy outside of the energy sector.

[sockhead]

Russia is second tier. It is a one party kleptocratic petrostate without a developed economy outside of the energy sector.

Russia is an underachiever, but they have significant commodities outside of the energy sector. Politically, I can't help but laugh along with Putin at the West. Is French govt really a great role model? How about the US? Pretty funny when Pravda jokes that our news media makes them blush.