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Wonder if Obama will leave a note telling Trump the money's all been spent too... :D
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Either way, Putin is not biting to Obama's stupid moves before he leaves office, infact he has invited the US diplomats in Russia, to bring their kids along to a get together at the Kremlin.
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If he had left it, he would have been called lazy and a coward for not doing anything - in fact, Paul Ryan and the majority of the Republican Congress and Senate don't believe he has gone far enough...:( |
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a) Leave it in Trump's in-tray? b) Do nothing. c) Follow Paul Ryan's lead and impose harsher sanctions? |
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I'm sure Donald's delighted that he's getting such a smooth handover... :D
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I would lay a bet on that in 2017. Someone will try and bump Trump off.
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Anyhoo the donald has been summoned next week to see the evidence for himself . As for the kremlin tea party for the US diplomats kiddies ,there's just something really creepy about that . |
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I trust Obama over Putin and America over Russia. It's just not just them though. Our own security services think Russia is one of the biggest threats and despite my reservations over the snoopers charter I certainly trust them over Russia too.
Russia are intentionally exploiting divisions within the West for their own interests. Wether it's the National Front in France, the far-right opposition in Russia, the far-left here or Trump in America. They are not on the side of the right or left of any of these nations, they're on the side of Russia. |
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What we do not do is forget about it and appease them just because of an implied threat. Russia should not dictate to us what the terms of our relationship should be, they should face resistance in their attempt to damage our interests and our democracies. No one wants to escalate this with military action but Russia should not be allowed to take shots at us without retribution. The idea we should just suck it up because it's Russia will only be met with Russia pushing their luck further. |
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He's twisted statements to say things that weren't said .A military response or a economic response or a political response (depending on what is justified) is not by any stretch of the imagination a nuclear response as Mick keeps suggesting |
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...He has pointed out twice now, that I have said 'Nuclear response', no that is not what I said, I said Nuclear conflict, because that is the end result. Doh! It does not take a genius, to work out that a military response aimed towards Russia, sparks off a Nuclear world conflict, because they are not going to respond back with a smile. Let's have a look at the Scenario:- US Military Response > Russia > Russia engages in full Nuclear strike back against US > US Allies with Nuclear capability, engage in Nuclear strike back against Russia > World War III. |
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A major country declares war on Russia, because to respond militarily, you are automatically declaring war on them. You think they are just going to ignore that they have nuclear war heads? |
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If and it's a big if the US was to take any military action against Russia it would eventually escalate beyond initial intentions including the use of nuclear weapons be they tactical or strategic. Putin has made it very clear that no military attack on Russia would go unanswered and once one starts it it will quickly escalate. Clinton was very happy to antagonise and provoke the Russians and obama as with most things sat on his backside and said and did nothing. I'm no fan of putin personally i think he's dangerous and is a threat but Russia has a large nuclear arsenal and that means different rules for them like it or not.
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Out of the two horrendous options i do think trump is better then clinton but given how low the bar has been set that's not really saying much. Trump i think as a president will be the same as trump the businessman driven by ego the only plus point is he can't wield great power on his own and we can only hope congress and the senate keep him in line. The often quoted reason some give as why clinton would have been better is because of her political experience not sure i buy that as valid given the lousy politician she's been in the last decade. Interesting times ahead that's a certainty lets just hope at the end things are on an upward motion.
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I'm more worried about the new kid on the block - China - who're quietly beavering away like ants building islands in the South China see and buying up swathes of Africa and SA. America and exerting their influence accordingly.
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Reminds of our colonial past.. whereby we never purchased foreign lands we just took the lands.
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BREAKING: Ford Cancels $1.6bn Mexico Plant due to Pressure from President-Elect Donald Trump:-
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We'll see if something more comes out but for now it is a success for Trump, no point denying him that. Jobs staying in the US, even if so far it's relatively few, is what he said he would do. There may well be more such achievements to come and speaking as someone who is mildly terrified of Trump I would much rather see his Presidency be stories like that instead of the almost facist traits he has displayed.
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Palastinians do not recognise Israel as a free sovereign state, if they did then they would have a vote and be able to put their own parties forward along with the two existing arab parties in the next Israeli election. |
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Russia is well aware, as is the US, that a nuclear war between the superpowers may well end life on Earth. Only ISIS wants that. |
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I don't agree at all. I'm sure Russia has not spent a fortune upgrading it's nuclear capability, to never use it and use it, they would, if they felt under threat from another Super power, say USA or China.
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Having lived through the bottom twitching times of the 60's, 70's & 80's and the constant fear of the 4 minute warning, it's quite safe to say that something fairly spectacular would have to spook either super power before any instant sunshine was launched, it will never be something undertaken lightly, I suggest you go look up M.A.D. strangely enough it has worked for the last 60 years or so, that suggests there may be something to it. |
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I agree with you in principle, that said, things have come a long way from 60 years ago, including personalities, it is ignorant to suggest a country won't consider launching a nuke or two if under duress.
North Korea, keeps threatening to nuke the US saying it is working on the possibility of a Nuclear missile capable of reaching the US. However, such threats, are just brushed off as the usual rhetoric from them. Yes I agree, it is in extreme circumstances, but as I already said, a country, like Russia, with such capability and that was put under duress, through a military attack, I doubt would just look at it's nuclear arsenal and forget about using them. |
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Some interesting analysis of Trump's options here. Everything from playing pat-a-cake to putting Pyongyang into orbit.
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American politics is so dysfunctional. Now there is a discussion if the Democrats can block any nominee Trump appoints to the Supreme court: http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-...-court-nominee
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Something has to give, you can't have this level of partisanship, it's going to destroy them. You've got a serious problem when your political opposition in the same country as you are bigger enemies than anyone else.
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Trump is going to cause major problems with Mexico. What has Mexico one to Donald Trump for this to happen. Most of the cheap labour that helps USA tick comes from Mexico. I was in America several years ago. And we were told by the hotel, don't go too far on International Drive. As there is an Mexico workforce on the Work Plaza there. All these companies are going to say enough, is enough. And do not dictate to us. Where we can build products. Ford probably ran scared of Trump. I reckon within the first 12 months, someone will take a pop shot at him. In London at the American Embassy, there is bound to be demos on his Presidents day. Its like when he won the election day - apart from thanking Russia, for there help -there were demos in London at the Embassy |
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Your disturbing obsession with a presidential assassination attempt continues.
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Ford did not run scared of Trump - If you actually bothered to spend time thinking, reading things thoroughly, you would not gob off before putting brain in gear. Ford were actually swayed by their confidence in Trumps plans for growth, less regulations, lower tax tariffs and the burden companies were faced with when it comes to Obamacare, that healthcare stuff you keep assuming is free. Not sure what significance protests at the American Embassy in London will achieve, pretty much zero difference or impact just like protests in Washington DC will have. Not even going to bother replying to rest of your post, I'm not in the habit of repeating myself over and over and over and over and over again. Oh look, irony. |
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Comes to something when the Donald seems to trust Putin more than his own security services. Wonder what some of his Republican colleagues are beginning to think about this ? They can't all be mad. Is it possible to impeach a President elect ? |
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I think this analysis is interesting.
It suggests Trump writes his angry tweets himself on his Samsung whilst the more presidential tweets are sent from his team on an iPhone. http://varianceexplained.org/r/trump-tweets/ |
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What's happened to all that anti-Trump social unrest we were told was sweeping America? Maybe it's gone the same way that all the xenophobic attacks, which we were told would result from the referendum result, went eh? How very odd...
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That isolated unrest which was completely peaceful and resulted in arrests because they were smashing shops to pieces and weren't actually protesting anything but rather using it as a reason to loot and cause riots because they're just thugs and couldn't actually care less about who was President? Those guys?
Or there was the bunch of drunk students chanting crap whilst marching down the street.. again the majority just doing it for what they described as the 'lulz' Completely swept the nation and North Korea were luckily on hand to launch there 600MT Nuke to protect the world and stop it spreading. Thankfully it appears American media sources can be horribly wrong and completely OTT and full of it. There's a few episodes of South Park that cover these events pretty amazingly with the same level of sarcasm I've used vs reality of the situation. |
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These kinds of divisions don't disappear though. America is still very divided, dangerously divided, and it's going to be a problem. The same applies here. There is deep division and anger in people and it's concerning. |
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You say 'refreshing', I say 'egotistical and unthinking'... |
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I think that this said it all for me. And don't forget during his campaign Trump did say ' lets wait and see, what the result will be' I have a sneaky feeling, that he knew what was happening. He will be causing unrest in USA. Especially with what is happening with Mexico |
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The only person who affected Hillary's chances, was Hillary herself. She is the one who is as bent as they come, she is the one who led disastrous policies as Secretary Of State. The DNC backed the wrong candidate and they could have had Bernie Sanders, but no, they stitched him up by rigging the Primaries to get who they thought was their star candidate. Backfired big time and it served them right in the end.
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Obviously, all the US Intelligence agencies are lying, and Putin and Assange are America's best friends, and have long been it's strongest supporters, with never a bad word or action to undermine it...
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Trump is far too arrogant to backtrack after all the tweets he put out defending Putin and the Russian regime |
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But I'm sure Trump will be keen for this to be buried and he's masterful at setting the news agenda, so won't need to backtrack. |
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It may not be "presidential". But I think there is something to be said for it. Potentially a president the communicates away from the suits. Will it continue after inauguration? If it does will it be him? Probably not. But I hope he does. ---------- Post added at 20:38 ---------- Previous post was at 20:30 ---------- Thing that makes me laugh is that it is deplorable that Russia allegedly hacked the Democratic Party and fed information, although it's all true, to wiki- leaks that did not change the outcome of the US election. But it is no problem for the US media to " wholesale" publish stories of the republican candidate, also true, but nobody gives a toss. Which also didn't change the outcome of the election. This current circus would shame Billy Smart. |
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Apparently Trump's inauguration plans have been leaked....
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I find this an interesting viewing.... Russia DID NOT Hack The DNC - John McAfee Lays It Out :- |
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Russian state sponsored TV channel insists Russia didn't hack the election.
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I believe the intelligence services of America and Britain over McCafee..
Incidentally the allegation is not that they hacked the election itself but hacked the DNC in order to help Trump. |
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It was more Information Warfare than hacking - releasing things to move "hearts and minds".
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What I am saying is there is NO hard evidence whatsoever, no forensic examination of the DNC servers, ever took place by the FBI or the NSA and they never asked to look at them either. |
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I am in no doubt that Russia hacked the DNC and in fairness Mick the information that was released proves it or are you saying they were just really good guesses there's only so far you can go before it becomes stupid. It was clearly in Russia's interest to have a trump victory rather then a clinton one and it's completely plausible and likely they undertook nefarious means to further that agenda. I loathe clinton as well but you cannot just discount everything that happened because of the dislike for her Russia is playing some very dangerous games at the minute and they do need to reined in before they go too far and like many others i have little faith that trump is the man to do it unfortunately.
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It is absolutely laughable, that this is being spun out they way it has been. :rolleyes: The only person who is to blame for losing the US Election, is Hillary Clinton and then the DNC, for believing she could win it. The DNC should have not stitched up, Bernie Sanders by rigging (or should we say, influencing, if the shoe fits, the DNC can be accused of influencing as well) the Primaries in Hillary's favor and giving her the questions before going in those TV debates with him. |
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I'm pretty sure the Good old US of A has influenced, if not directly intervened in many a foreign election if it so suited them.
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In basic science of proving someone or something has done something, we don't rely on just what someone says. Where is the hard evidence ? The servers were not examined by the FBI and they never asked for access to them to check them. And it is like McCafee says, Russian intelligence, if it was actually guilty, wouldn't use a year out of date, malware program and that they would not be so stupid enough to have an IP address that links back to the hackers in Russia. It's basic IT lesson 101, if you going to hack in to someone or something, don't leave an obvious trace that points back to you. |
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The President-Elect's Chief of Staff disagrees with you, Mick, and states that Trump thinks the Russians are behind it...
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