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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's your case for treason. Russians may be helping the Taliban.
Russia may be helping supply Taliban insurgents: U.S. general
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali | WASHINGTON
The top U.S. general in Europe said on Thursday that he had seen Russian influence on Afghan Taliban insurgents growing and raised the possibility that Moscow was helping supply the militants, whose reach is expanding in southern Afghanistan.
"I've seen the influence of Russia of late - increased influence in terms of association and perhaps even supply to the Taliban," Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, who is also NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
He did not elaborate on what kinds of supplies might be headed to the Taliban or how direct Russia's role might be.
Moscow has been critical of the United States over its handling of the war in Afghanistan, where the Soviet Union fought a bloody and disastrous war of its own in the 1980s.
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Here's your case for treason. Russians may be helping the Taliban. (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2017
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deminks
(11,014 posts)1. as if cyberwarfare weren't real enough.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)2. republican Pee45's BFFs
the freaking anti-American russian-republican cabal sucks out loud
DK504
(3,847 posts)3. When a General in Europe says Russia is meddling
every where, we damn well better listen. We all know where this will go. Shitty Spice will whine and yell and try to lecture the press about what they should be covering.
"Army General Curtis Scaparrotti, who is also NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. "
Please tell me how the hell do they think they can spin this one? He has followed the important chain of command and was allowed to testify. It is in the Congressional Record now. The DOJ, the Joint Chiefs, the Senate should all be screaming for hearings, investigations and holding all involved accountable.
It keeps coming back to Russia......hmmmmmmmmm.