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3/24/2017 5:59 am  #1


'What in the hell are we doing'

'What in the hell are we doing': Biden questions Trump campaign's 'romance' with Putin


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Former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday he's concerned about an apparent "romance" between the Trump administration and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

While declining to comment on an FBI probe of possible links between Russia and associates of President Donald Trump, Biden said "the whole notion that there's still this romance with Putin" was worrisome. Biden cited Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's decision to skip an upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Belgium and visit Moscow as a cause for concern.

"What in the hell are we doing?" the Democrat asked.

The former vice president also said Trump's frequent comments on Twitter are "not helpful" and said Trump needs to understand that "the president's words matter a great deal" and have global repercussions.

"I hope the president will realize the campaign has to end and he's got to start to govern," Biden told reporters after a Democratic rally at the Capitol Wednesday to protest the Republican health care bill.

He and former President Barack Obama have tried to give Trump "an opportunity to get his sea legs" as president — without interference from them, Biden said, but "it's getting down to the wire for whether (Trump) is really going to take charge" as president.

Biden said he didn't know if Trump's comments about foreign policy showed "a lack of understanding of government and how international relations work" or were a reflection of "a policy prescription that's changing." Either way, the American people should be concerned, he said, adding that the United States, "the most powerful, most respected nation in the world is sounding a very uncertain trumpet."

When the U.S. projects uncertainty, "a lot of stupid things can happen as a consequence," Biden said.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-in-the-hell-are-we-doing-biden-questions-trump-campaigns-romance-with-putin-2017-3

Last edited by Goose (3/24/2017 6:00 am)


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

3/24/2017 6:04 am  #2


Re: 'What in the hell are we doing'

Russia may be aiding Taliban in Afghanistan, top US general says

By Lucas Tomlinson  Published March 23, 2017  FoxNews.com

The top U.S. general in Europe told lawmakers Thursday that he sees evidence Russia might be supplying the Taliban in an effort to undermine the United States, in what could be a significant turning point in the Afghanistan conflict. 

"I've seen the influence of Russia of late, increased influence in terms of association and perhaps even supply to the Taliban," Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, the head of the U.S. military's European Command and the Supreme Allied Commander for NATO, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Scaparotti did not specify what Moscow may have been supplying to the insurgents. 

Until now, top Pentagon officials have said Moscow has only been influencing the Taliban to an effort to counter NATO. Officials say Iran and Pakistan have also lent support to the Taliban in the past year.

General Scaparrotti spoke hours after the key Sangin district in southern Afghanistan's volatile Helmand Province fell to the Taliban. Sangin was once considered the deadliest battlefield for British and U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Three hundred Marines will return there this spring to relieve an Army unit, the first time Marines have deployed to Helmand since 2014.

Since the withdrawal of foreign NATO combat troops from Afghanistan at the end of that year, and with only a smaller, U.S.-led advise and training mission left behind, Sangin has been seen as a major tests of whether Afghan security forces can hold off advancing Taliban fighters.


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
     Thread Starter
 

3/25/2017 11:08 am  #3


Re: 'What in the hell are we doing'

Goose wrote:

'What in the hell are we doing': Biden questions Trump campaign's 'romance' with Putin


[img]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.3007130.1490302872!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/afp-mx8l0.jpg[/img]


Former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday he's concerned about an apparent "romance" between the Trump administration and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

While declining to comment on an FBI probe of possible links between Russia and associates of President Donald Trump, Biden said "the whole notion that there's still this romance with Putin" was worrisome. Biden cited Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's decision to skip an upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Belgium and visit Moscow as a cause for concern.

"What in the hell are we doing?" the Democrat asked.

The former vice president also said Trump's frequent comments on Twitter are "not helpful" and said Trump needs to understand that "the president's words matter a great deal" and have global repercussions.

"I hope the president will realize the campaign has to end and he's got to start to govern," Biden told reporters after a Democratic rally at the Capitol Wednesday to protest the Republican health care bill.

He and former President Barack Obama have tried to give Trump "an opportunity to get his sea legs" as president — without interference from them, Biden said, but "it's getting down to the wire for whether (Trump) is really going to take charge" as president.

Biden said he didn't know if Trump's comments about foreign policy showed "a lack of understanding of government and how international relations work" or were a reflection of "a policy prescription that's changing." Either way, the American people should be concerned, he said, adding that the United States, "the most powerful, most respected nation in the world is sounding a very uncertain trumpet."

When the U.S. projects uncertainty, "a lot of stupid things can happen as a consequence," Biden said.

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-in-the-hell-are-we-doing-biden-questions-trump-campaigns-romance-with-putin-2017-3

I can almost hear him going "RRRRRRbbbb, RRRRRR,  Beep-Beep, looka me, I'm a trucker!"


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