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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Mon Feb 20, 2017, 12:53 AM Feb 2017

Ukraine To The Russians Is The Price For Lifting Sanctions. Putin's Puppet Need We Say More.

Have we become a satellite of Putin and Russia? Trading the Ukraine for the presidency. How convenient.

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Ukraine To The Russians Is The Price For Lifting Sanctions. Putin's Puppet Need We Say More. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Feb 2017 OP

Would you please elaborate..? I am wanting triron Feb 2017 #1

The sanctions deal Cohen brought to trump jmg257 Feb 2017 #3

Yeah, but this is a typical Thrice Humped Moose deal. The Russians get Ukraine and the Squinch Feb 2017 #2

triron

(22,008 posts)

1. Would you please elaborate..? I am wanting

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 12:57 AM

Feb 2017

to buy in

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

3. The sanctions deal Cohen brought to trump

Reply to triron (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 09:35 AM

Feb 2017

Involved Ukraine, as well as Manafort-heavily invoked in politics there...plus oligarch Felix Satrr....who somehow keeps popping up with re: trump.

Squinch

(50,957 posts)

2. Yeah, but this is a typical Thrice Humped Moose deal. The Russians get Ukraine and the

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Mon Feb 20, 2017, 09:29 AM

Feb 2017

Russians get the sanctions lifted.

I'd say that both were the price for giving Trump the election. And of course, there is some financial remuneration in some back channel.

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