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procon

(15,805 posts)
Thu Feb 1, 2018, 03:12 PM Feb 2018

Trump cut aid all security funding to Pakistan, now they turn to Russia and China.

AFTER TRUMP FUNDING CUT, PAKISTAN TO PURCHASE MORE WEAPONS FROM RUSSIA, CHINA AND EASTERN EUROPE

In light of the U.S. decision to cut nearly all American security aid to Pakistan, the country’s defense minister has announced that Islamabad will begin purchasing more weapons from China, Russia and other Eastern European countries.

“We have a long relationship [with the U.S.], and we want to keep it,” Khurram Dastgir Khan assured Bloomberg in an interview on Wednesday, before adding that his country would, nonetheless, increasingly acquire weapons from countries other than the U.S.

...Meanwhile, Pakistan has been increasingly turning to China for military aid. Beijing is now building an offshore naval base near a strategic Pakistani port."

http://www.newsweek.com/after-trump-funding-cut-pakistan-purchase-more-weapons-russia-china-and-797160




Trump is a genius! Instead of working through normal diplomacy channels to convince Pakistan to change, Trump loses the whole country and gives away US power to our arch foes, in Russia and China. I forgot, which country is Trump actually working for?

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