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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:48 AM Jan 2017

Putin Moves to Take Advantage


January 1, 2017By Taegan Goddard

Politico: “From Moscow, Vladimir Putin has seized the momentum of this unraveling, exacting critical damage to the underpinnings of the liberal world order in a shockingly short time. As he builds a new system to replace the one we know, attempts by America and its allies to repair the damage have been limited and slow. Even this week, as Barack Obama tries to confront Russia’s open and unprecedented interference in our political process, the outgoing White House is so far responding to 21st century hybrid information warfare with last century’s diplomatic toolkit: the expulsion of spies, targeted sanctions, potential asset seizure. The incoming administration, while promising a new approach, has betrayed a similar lack of vision. Their promised attempt at another ‘reset’ with Russia is a rehash of a policy that has utterly failed the past two American administrations.”

“What both administrations fail to realize is that the West is already at war, whether it wants to be or not. It may not be a war we recognize, but it is a war. This war seeks, at home and abroad, to erode our values, our democracy, and our institutional strength; to dilute our ability to sort fact from fiction, or moral right from wrong; and to convince us to make decisions against our own best interests.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/01/putin-moves-take-advantage-new-world-order/
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Putin Moves to Take Advantage (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
Interesting, I beat you to it by about 3 minutes.. :))) pangaia Jan 2017 #1
Republicans promptly shit on USA interests, and ASSUME THE POSITION for Pooty Poot Achilleaze Jan 2017 #2
2nd paragraph nails it Takket Jan 2017 #3

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
1. Interesting, I beat you to it by about 3 minutes.. :)))
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:52 AM
Jan 2017

I guess great minds find the same stuff...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028423503

A truly frightening article..,,, If only the writer understood trump.

I think you used a better excerpt than I did.

Takket

(21,421 posts)
3. 2nd paragraph nails it
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 10:58 AM
Jan 2017

Putin is manipulating our entire country. and the GOP is holding his hand to do it.

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