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Does Anyone Know What to Make of Obama's Sanctions?
The Atlantic ^ | December 12, 2016 | David D. Graham

Posted on 01/01/2017 3:57:26 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Robert DeLong

Intelligence briefings filtered through 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. are worthless.


41 posted on 01/01/2017 5:57:28 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Make lemonade.)
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To: Kaslin

Trump will probably have better use for the “intelligence briefings” when he puts competent people in charge.


42 posted on 01/01/2017 6:01:09 PM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: Mike Darancette

You said it much better than I was trying to convey. 8>)


43 posted on 01/01/2017 6:17:46 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Kaslin

Obama’s goal is for the press to go nuts at the end of the month when Trumps lifts the sanctions.


44 posted on 01/01/2017 6:36:41 PM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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To: Kaslin

After 8 long years in the White House, Obama says its time to deal with the Russians from a position of strength?!?


45 posted on 01/01/2017 6:41:21 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Kaslin
I'll answer the question..

EVERY punitive action 0dunga takes is aimed at forcing Trump to fix it. 0dunga's moves are DESIGNED TO GIVE THE DEMS AND THE MEDIA FODDER FOR BASHING TRUMP WHEN TRUMP MOVES TO UNDO THESE ACTIONS!

Example, when Trump undoes sanctions against Russia, he'll be portrayed in the media as being friends of the Russians and 0dunga and the Dems will say "SEE, WE TOLD YOU HE WAS IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RUSSIAN HACKERS.. UNDOING 0DUNGA'S SANCTIONS PROVES TRUMP WAS WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS TO WIN THE ELECTION!!"

46 posted on 01/01/2017 6:42:15 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: Kaslin

I saw on the Internet that 14 of the Russians Obama expelled were Medical Specialists and technicians who were at the John Hopkins Hospital (JHH) in Baltimore, Maryland, learning to create 3-D printed prosthetics for children and babies
wounded in the Syrian Civil War. If that is true, how black is Obama’s heart to kick them out?


47 posted on 01/01/2017 8:39:15 PM PST by Rod Rammer ("be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.")
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To: Jim Robinson

This is what I want to know too


48 posted on 01/01/2017 8:45:13 PM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: spintreebob

The number 1 state sponsor of terrorism is Saudi Arabia who have used the money gained from selling the west oil, to spread their Wahabbi Salafist ideology.

Saudi Arabia has sponsored al qaeda, lashkar e toiba, the Islamic state, al shabab, boko haram, Abu sayyaf and the Taliban.

The #2 state sponsor of terrorism is Pakistan, the owner of the Islamic nuclear bomb. With Saudi money, they have trained the above terrorist groups. The pakis also gave the north koreans missiles in return for nukes


49 posted on 01/01/2017 9:17:24 PM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Salamander

Damn you beat me to it.

Your style of humor is clearly very refined.


50 posted on 01/01/2017 9:36:10 PM PST by Proyecto Anonimo
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To: Kaslin

Nice to see he’s publically neutering himself. Poor little arrogant bastard is feeling the effects of being a knowbody. Something we knew from the begining


51 posted on 01/02/2017 4:33:02 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

A failed president trying to show he has what it takes to be a President - and failing badly...


52 posted on 01/02/2017 4:38:20 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Obama was peddling so fast, he got confused when he issued the sanctions.


53 posted on 01/02/2017 4:54:42 AM PST by Liz (The Clintons are dedicated to humanitarian relief like the Sopranos' dedication to The Clinton Found)
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To: ronnie raygun
Poor little arrogant delusional bastard is feeling the effects of being a knowbody.

I had to add the underscored word to your post

54 posted on 01/02/2017 4:56:13 AM PST by Kaslin (Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible)
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To: Kaslin

Few people realize how fragile our republic is or how perilous we are right now.

Obama is not an incompetent fool, but a shrewd enemy of the constitution. Hitler blamed the Reichstag fire on the Russians, the subsequent “Enabling Act” dissolved the Reichstag and elevated Hitler from Chancellor to Fuhrer.

Obama is clearly trying to duplicate Hitler’s success. His actions are entirely consistent with that objective. Nearly 50% of the electorate and 95^ of the media would applaud Obama’s ascension.

The US is in grave danger until after the inauguration. The likelihood of Obama trying to seize dictatorial control soon should be the main conversation of everyone right now.


55 posted on 01/02/2017 5:45:58 AM PST by UnChained (Revelation 13:7)
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To: Kaslin

Obama hit them with his purse.


56 posted on 01/02/2017 6:38:10 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: spintreebob

“So why are there sanctions against Russia while we send billions to Iran and lift sanctions?”

Because Obama wanted to lure all the terrorist actors from the Russian sphere of influence and either put them under his umbrella, or destroy them. If a terror group or sponsor state was willing to work with him, he gave them funding, arms, and technical assistance. If not, he directed his other terror proxies to try to topple them with US and NATO assistance.

I don’t think he planned on Russia actually directly intervening in Syria to stop him. It seems he wasn’t prepared for that possibility, and he knows he can’t confront them directly, so all he has left is to throw his tantrums over it.


57 posted on 01/02/2017 9:59:22 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Kaslin

Maybe Putin took a bribe to hack the election for Hillary and then did nothing. We are pretty sure of the did nothing part. Obama isn’t about to admit giving Putin a bribe, what else is there but sanctions?

Then Putin has his hackers leave a few tracks just to make it look a little like he tried.


58 posted on 01/02/2017 10:49:34 AM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I think McCain’s worried he won’t get his kickbacks from the F-35 if Trump cancels it.


59 posted on 01/02/2017 4:29:31 PM PST by Fedora
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