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Putin said it was “madness” to allow countries like Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to leave USSR.

Trump also opposed breakup, accusing Gorbachev of weakness & praising Communist China for showing strength in massacring students.

Coincidence?

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2) In 1987 Soviet diplomats & KGB arranged a Moscow visit. On his return, Trump spent $100,000 on full-page ads criticizing US foreign policy on “why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves."

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3) Trump’s love affair with authoritarianism & dictators is nothing new. Trump saw breakup of Soviet Union as weakness, praised communist China for massacre at Tiananmen, & praised China’s Xi for becoming “President for life.”

#TrumPutin #GOPutin #Ukraine
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@NoahShachtman @Agenthades1 #AllRoadsLeadToPutin <Thread>
1/ ⤴️"A Trump State Dept official sent a 22-page letter to Senator James Risch [R-ID] on Tuesday" Dec 17, 2019, which "says it 'strongly opposes' the bill" to impose harsher sanctions v. Russia🇷🇺 "'unless it goes through a ton of changes.'" (more...)
@NoahShachtman @Agenthades1 2/ "Despite Trump’s strong opposition, the bill passed out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday [Dec 18 2019] morning.
5 senators opposed it, all Republicans"
GA: Johnny Isakson
Idaho: Jim Risch [SFRC Chair]
KY: Rand Paul
WI: Ron Johnson
WY: John Barrasso (more)
@NoahShachtman @Agenthades1 3/ "The next step will be a vote on the Senate floor; it is unclear if or when that will happen."
"The bill, called the 'Defending American Security from Kremlin🇷🇺 Aggression Act of 2019' (DASKA) would level new sanctions against Russian⤵️"
=>oligarchs
=>banking sector (more...)
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@anaphoristand @j2dumfounded @PortlusGlam @jayrosen_nyu Let's start with unmitigated corruption.
#WhistleblowerGate [WBG] <Thread>:
1/ Why did DJT [henceforth #Trumputin] fire DNI Coats via tweet on *Sunday* [Jul 28 2019], just 3 days before calling Putin [Wednesday, Jul 31]? (more...)
Jul 28, 2019 4:45pm EDT:
@anaphoristand @j2dumfounded @PortlusGlam @jayrosen_nyu 2/ DNI Coats followed up with his resignation letter after this tweet⤵️: (more...)
@anaphoristand @j2dumfounded @PortlusGlam @jayrosen_nyu 3/ Friday, Aug 2, 2019, US pulls out of INF:
"The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987." (more...)
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