Posted on Mar 21, 2018

Trump’s Security Briefing Warned “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” Putin on Election Win. It Didn’t Stop Him....

PO1 Tony Holland

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Sucking up to Putin

Trump’s Security Briefing Warned “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” Putin on Election Win. It Didn’t Stop Him....

Posted from slate.com

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Office of the President (POTUS) 1ed105b8

Russia

Elections

Posted >1 y ago

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SSgt Christopher Brose

Posted >1 y ago

Per the article: "The briefing included a section, in all caps, stating: “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” the Russian president on his reelection." However, they say absolutely nothing about how they supposedly know this. No source mentioned. It's Slate, so there's no reason to believe they didn't just make it up.

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SSgt Christopher Brose

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MSgt Steve Sweeney - Congratulating Putin was the diplomatic thing to do, and therefore the obvious thing to do. Besides, the issue is not as you say "if someone told him to or not" -- Trump is still the President, and therefore it's his decision, not the decision of someone (how many levels?) under him.

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SP5 Lori Pong

Posted >1 y ago

Why? Putin has been in office for 24 years. 6 years ago, BHO congratulated him on his win and 6 years before that GWB and 6 years before that as well and Clinton when he won the first time. Our "leaders" have always known that Putin was former KGB, they have always known he wants to rebuild the USSR. Just because he congratulated him doesn't mean he's "sucking up". It's called diplomacy. We don't know what was actually said and since we are not privy to his actual security briefing we don't know what it actually said. Either way, only those on the FAR left see a real issue here. It's no different then the captain of a winning team telling the captain of the losing team "Nice game".

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MCPO Roger Collins

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Very good, Lori. These haters have no shame, just ideology.

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SSgt Christopher Brose

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MCPO Roger Collins - These haters have no memory either.

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SSgt Christopher Brose

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MSgt Steve Sweeney - Yeah, and Obama didn't do a goddamned thing about any of it until after Trump was already elected. Using Obama as a model, Trump has another 6-7 years to actually do anything. It will be interesting to see, though, if Trump says anything directly to the Russian government about having more flexibility after his reelection.

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SP5 Lori Pong

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MSgt Steve Sweeney - Really, your going to pull that Russian Bot BS?! You have no clue what was actually said in this call. You want to stand up for BHO be my guest but at least our current president DOESN'T bow to Arab Kings. The American President BOWS TO NO ONE!

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