Trump administration suspends most security aid to Pakistan

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Missy Ryan and and Carol Morello January 4 at 3:26 PM

The Trump administration will suspend most security assistance to Pakistan, the State Department said on Thursday, expanding its censure over militant safe havens that U.S. officials blame for ongoing violence in Afghanistan.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, speaking to reporters, said that the suspension would allow the administration, which will freeze the aid payments but not allocate the money elsewhere, to reassess in the coming year.

The administration had previously announced it will suspend $255 million in military aid to Pakistan.

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[Javaman]

1. what a bunch of fucking morons. nt

they want that region to purposely explode...again.

[lapfog_1]

2. goodbye US, hello China - n/t

[Irish_Dem]

5. As we speak the Russian/China/India/Pak alliance is forming. nt

[lapfog_1]

10. well... when we are Oceana

there must be a Eastasia who we can be at perpetual war with.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Yes, our dear supreme leader will instruct us.

And if we forget, we have only to look at all the TV screens everywhere.

[notdarkyet]

13. Pakistan just went off the dollar and changed to Chinas currency.

[notdarkyet]

14. And maybe Korea and Japan. They want this crazy person to go away.

[Irish_Dem]

18. Yes Trump is likely to get them killed. nt

[SeaDoo77]

3. Idiots

America less safe every day.

The money was only going to the rich in Pakistan, but they had to do something to keep it coming.

It was pretty much working as intended.

Now we're screwed.

Hello Taliban

[iluvtennis]

11. Indeed. Idiots, Idiots Everywhere.....

[underpants]

4. 2015 Obama Admin. Fact Sheet US - Pakistan Enduring Strong Relationship

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/22/fact-sheet-united-states-and-pakistan-%E2%80%93-strong-and-enduring-relationship

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. These policy decisions seemed to be informed by the rantings of AM talk radio.

And they ALWAYS have really bad unintended consequences.

[D_Master81]

7. THIS

Everything Trump is doing I've heard on Right wing radio for years. Yes i was forced to listen to it at work for years...it was awful at first then I just got used to it and blocked it out.

[notdarkyet]

8. Im sure Pakistan will soon deny our access to air space and roads that they let

Us use for this money to supply our Afghanistan war. Bump is a dumbsh*t.

[Mc Mike]

19. Getting our people out of Afghanistan is gonna be a real pickle, too.

Repugs thrive on war and chaos and economic catastrophe. Like bed bugs, and the plague.

[Kolesar]

20. You two got it figured out.

The relationship is so messed up, with them hosting Osama Bin Laden and all. But we have to stay engaged.

[Mc Mike]

21. I suppose I'd personally get our troops OUT of Afghanistan, before I blow up the 'bridge' they need

to get out.

Others might see the Commander In Chief's duties differently.

Unfortunately, the repug's latest genius is among that group of others.

President Bone Spurs.

[Kolesar]

22. Ask Putin for safe passage

I feel macabre.

[Mc Mike]

23. Geopolitically speaking, there was a reason for bin laden

to set up in that little nook and cranny of the world. Super mountainous, tough to get anything heavy around there, and in a pocket between 5 nuclear powers, where any ambitious nuclear 'solution' would result in a multilateral nuclear hot war.

[Kolesar]

24. [x] Like for your post...eom

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. I though Trump had business savvy.

No so, I guess.

[tonyt53]

15. Pakistan may or may not be a friend. But you keep friends close and enemies even closer.

He is opening the path for Russia to be their arms supplier.

[bronxiteforever]

16. He is an absolute idiot. At war with the world through Twitter.

Public humiliation won’t work. The regime can’t be seen to be in the pocket of trump.
Diplomacy with nuclear powers is not a condo deal in Manhattan. In one if you misjudge the situation you lose money, in the other you lose a country.
Secondary consequences are the prices we all will pay for having this clown and his treasonous
party in unchecked power.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Fucking idiot