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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Why did you let Putin put a bounty on US Troops?"
https://www.google.com/search?q=Putin+Put+A+Bounty+On+US+TroopsIs there any way to get a reporter to yell this question out to trump and keep yelling it until he answers?
"Why did you let Putin put a bounty on US Troops?"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/06/26/report-russia-offered-bounties-for-taliban-militants-to-kill-us-soldiers-and-other-allies/
TOPLINE A Russian military intelligence unit offered bounties to militants in Afghanistan to kill U.S. soldiers and other NATO troops there, according to the New York Times, and the White House has been debating for months how it should respond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html
Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says
The Trump administration has been deliberating for months about what to do about a stunning intelligence assessment.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/504770-russian-intelligence-unit-offered-bounties-for-killing-coalition
Russian intel unit offered bounties for killing coalition troops in Afghanistan: report
BY OLIVIA BEAVERS - 06/26/20 04:15 PM EDT
A Russian military unit secretly sought to offer rewards to Taliban-linked militants to incentivize them to hunt and kill coalition forces in Afghanistan as the Trump administration engaged in peace talks to end the nearly two-decade long war, U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly concluded.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8464901/Russia-paid-Taliban-BOUNTIES-killing-American-troops-Afghanistan.html
BREAKING NEWS: Russia paid the Taliban BOUNTIES for killing American troops in Afghanistan in plot orchestrated by secret unit which poisoned a defector spy - and White House has known for MONTHS
U.S. intelligence concluded a Russian unit paid bounties to Taliban elements for killings of U.S. troops
Would amount to a major escalation for Moscow
Trump administration took no apparent action in response
Donald Trump was briefed on the activity, the New York Times reports
The president has repeatedly called for having good relations with Moscow
https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/26/trump-putin-bounty-us-troops.html
Trump Knew Putin Put A Bounty On US Troops And Did Nothing
Trumps pal Putin offered a bounty to Afghan militants for killing American troops, according to US intelligence.
Via: The New York Times:
American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan including targeting American troops amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)There need to be words.
And they need to be shouted.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)whttevrr
(2,345 posts)No one person could possibly keep up.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)There will probably be more shit t-rump and administration have done against the USA.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)either. There are no words, action must be taken.
We have criminals and thugs running/desecrating our country.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Can not think of why a Military retiree or active Military can back this Orange Anus. Seriously. This POS has run out of rope.
snort
(2,334 posts)Putin has something on tRump.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)The receipt
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And obviously have him by the short hairs.
Putin has been dreaming about this since we helped drive them out.
He would have not done this with any president he did not own.
Jeff_was_here
(25 posts)of honor, ethics and humanity is the President and his party to be silent knowing what Russia has done.
This is a betrayal so complete that all elected and appointed government officials who knew should be fired,
impeached, tried and imprisoned.
I wonder how long it will take for a Republican to muster the courage to demand an investigation.
JI7
(89,251 posts)Putin owns him .
genxlib
(5,528 posts)There is an important distinction in the wording.
Some say bounties were offered but some say bounties were paid. They are both heinous and sends this entire clusterfuck to a new level.
But is seems to me that the difference is twofold. Number one, bounties paid means there are actual casualties of US soldiers resulting from this policy. And number two, it would be the legal equivalent of the difference between conspiracy to commit murder versus actual murder.
maxrandb
(15,333 posts)"But did you see those brown people trying to pull down a statue of Robert E. Lee"?
"it's disgusting you know, and we won't allow that in our country"
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)trump will just fire back as to how that is "fake news", his brain dead supporters will buy into that without even questioning anything, and it will effectively blow over like all of his other serious transgressions.
Lather rinse repeat.
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)"Why did you let Putin put a bounty on US Troops?"
Because any answer illustrates either incompetence or culpability.
There is no good answer to this question.
It must be asked of trump:
"Why did you let Putin put a bounty on US Troops?"
whttevrr
(2,345 posts)Let that sink in.
Is he still allowing it to happen?
Can we ask Mitch McConnel:
"Why is trump letting Putin put a bounty on US Troops?"