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trump to launch giant distraction in 3....2.....
He's gotta get this off the front pages and top of the hour news.
Watch yer butts
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Russian Cruise Missile, Deployed Secretly, Violates Treaty, Officials Say
By MICHAEL R. GORDON FEB. 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints from American officials that it violates a landmark arms control treaty that helped seal the end of the Cold War, administration officials say.
The move presents a major challenge for President Trump, who has vowed to improve relations with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and to pursue future arms accords.
The new Russian missile deployment also comes as the Trump administration is struggling to fill key policy positions at the State Department and the Pentagon — and to settle on a permanent replacement for Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser who resigned late Monday. Mr. Flynn stepped down after it was revealed that he had misled the vice president and other officials over conversations with Moscow’s ambassador to Washington.
The ground-launched cruise missile at the center of American concerns is one that the Obama administration said in 2014 had been tested in violation of a 1987 treaty that bans American and Russian intermediate-range missiles based on land.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html
By MICHAEL R. GORDON FEB. 14, 2017
WASHINGTON — Russia has secretly deployed a new cruise missile despite complaints from American officials that it violates a landmark arms control treaty that helped seal the end of the Cold War, administration officials say.
The move presents a major challenge for President Trump, who has vowed to improve relations with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and to pursue future arms accords.
The new Russian missile deployment also comes as the Trump administration is struggling to fill key policy positions at the State Department and the Pentagon — and to settle on a permanent replacement for Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser who resigned late Monday. Mr. Flynn stepped down after it was revealed that he had misled the vice president and other officials over conversations with Moscow’s ambassador to Washington.
The ground-launched cruise missile at the center of American concerns is one that the Obama administration said in 2014 had been tested in violation of a 1987 treaty that bans American and Russian intermediate-range missiles based on land.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/europe/russia-cruise-missile-arms-control-treaty.html
Drumpf could feign "concern" with this development in a way to seek to make it appear that he is not Putie's puppet while his whole internal infrastructure collapses (I also saw a breaking banner about the head of the Secret Service announcing his retirement).
Of course this appears to be Putin doing a little "test" of his puppet's "loyalty".
Talk about getting squeezed from both sides!
Push coming to shove in the Sea of Japan with China?? 
A domestic terrorist indecent perhaps??? 
Yep nothing like a little war to focus the sheep's mind on other things while they are being sheared.