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Russia Says it Was in Touch With Trump Campaign During Election (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares a CNBC report: The Russian government was in touch with members of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign staff during the U.S. election campaign, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the Interfax news agency on Thursday. "There were contacts," Interfax cited Ryabkov as saying. He did not give details. When asked whether these contacts would now intensify after Trump's election victory, Ryabkov said: "These working moments and follow-up on this or that matter will depend on the situation and the questions which face us. But we will of course continue this work after the elections." Defeated Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton accused Trump of being a "puppet" of President Vladimir Putin during the campaign, and U.S. officials said Russia had hacked into Democratic party emails, something Moscow denied. Trump has said he might meet Putin before his inauguration, but Putin's spokesman has said there are currently no plans for such a meeting.
Big deal.
Hillary was part of the anti-Russia brigade that has taken us to the brink of nuclear war with them.
They put nuclear capable missiles on their border, ffs.
No other election was so vital for Russia as this one. We have been sleepwalking into nuclear war under Obama. No other presidential administration in history has been so irresponsible. On par with a North Korean dictator, but with armies that actually go invade other countries and murder their rulers then laugh about it on TV ("we came, we saw, he died").
If you had actually read the real article that was the source of this story you would have seen that Russia... contacted the Clinton campaign too. Dumbass.
I'm reminded of the naked hypocrisy when Reagan was running back in the day. Back then it was considered imperative (by leftists like you) that the President put the interests of the Soviet Union ahead of the U.S. because otherwise you were some type of war-monger.
Flash forward and the new left-wing chant is that Trump is evil because he refuses to unilaterally nuke Russia.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
So selling out to Russia is bad
I didn't vote for Trump, but his Russia policy is one of the GOOD things about him. There is no reason for America and Russia to be enemies. The people of Crimea and Donbas speak Russian and overwhelmingly support unification with Russia. In Syria, Russia is supporting the guy in favor of religious tolerance and opposed to political Islam. The current adversarial relationship is mostly America's fault. We expanded NATO to Russia's doorstep, and are now rotating troops through the Baltic countries. How would America like it if Russian troops were in New Brunswick?
America's annual military spending is $600B. That is high for a country with no actual enemies, so we have to create enemies to justify the spending. Trump, of course, wants to spend even more on weapons, but he will likely justify it by making China the scary boogeyman instead of Russia.