BlazerFan11
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Trump Picks Hawkish Critic of Russia as NATO Ambassador
Oh, and he's openly gay, too.
Quote:PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS reportedly tapped as his ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) a hawkish critic of Russia who wants the U.S. to arm Ukraine. It’s the latest sign that the administration is reacting to criticism that it is too soft on Russia by pivoting to the other extreme.
Richard Grennell is a former Bush-era U.S. spokesperson at the United Nations who also served as a foreign policy spokesperson for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. He frequently appears on Fox News and other conservative outlets saying President Obama appeased Russia.
Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Obama resisted political pressure from hawks in Congress to provide lethal arms to the Ukranian government, fearing that doing so would only cause Russia to escalate its own military involvement.
Writing in The New York Times’s Room for Debate section in 2014, Grenell said that Obama’s belief that the U.S. could “support Ukraine but not antagonize Russia” represented “a naïve and dangerous world view.” In a Fox News op-ed, he proposed military escalation: “Offer advice and training to Ukraine, and sell it the lethal weapons required to contend with Russian armored personnel carriers, tanks and missiles,” he wrote, adding that the U.S. should also restart missile defense shield programs in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Grennell also counseled Obama to leave directly military confrontation with Russia over Ukraine “on the table.”
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/08/trum...the-other/
Obama = Kremlin agent
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RE: Trump Picks Hawkish Critic of Russia as NATO Ambassador
Yay we're going to continue to get involved in matters that don't involve us.
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03-12-2017 09:38 PM |
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RE: Trump Picks Hawkish Critic of Russia as NATO Ambassador
What's the next Trump lie, tweeting that Russia has weapons of mass destruction.
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03-13-2017 07:47 AM |
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Paul M
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RE: Trump Picks Hawkish Critic of Russia as NATO Ambassador
You're not suppose to point out what a lying pos he is.
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03-13-2017 08:01 AM |
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RE: Trump Picks Hawkish Critic of Russia as NATO Ambassador
(03-13-2017 08:01 AM)Paul M Wrote: You're not suppose to point out what a lying pos he is.
How is this a lie exactly?
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03-13-2017 08:08 AM |
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Paul M
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RE: Trump Picks Hawkish Critic of Russia as NATO Ambassador
General comment. Not suppose to say "He's a lying pos". Gets Trumpettes panties in a wad. Was that not obvious?
But isn't he a populist isolationist pos? Didn't he blather on and on about Obama and Hillary wanting to get us into a war with Russia?
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03-13-2017 08:17 AM |
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RE: Trump Picks Hawkish Critic of Russia as NATO Ambassador
There's your Putin puppet president, folks.
(This post was last modified: 03-13-2017 08:59 AM by EigenEagle.)
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03-13-2017 08:59 AM |
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