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@rgoodlaw: "Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers?"

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"One answer to that question may be the extraordinary response that Moscow received when the Trump administration learned of a precursor to the bounty operation."

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"From mid-2017 and into 2018, Pentagon officials became increasingly confident in intelligence reports that the Kremlin was arming the Taliban, which posed a significant threat to American and coalition forces on the ground in Afghanistan."

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"Trump’s actions in the face of the Russia-Taliban arms program likely signaled a weak US resolve in the eyes of Putin and Russian military intelligence. . .based on interviews with several former Trump administration officials who spoke to Just Security on the record"
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"First, President Trump decided not to confront Putin about supplying arms to the terrorist group."

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"Second, during the very times in which U.S. military officials publicly raised concerns about the program’s threat to US forces, Trump undercut them. He embraced Putin, overtly and repeatedly, including at the historic summit in Helsinki."

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"Third, behind the scenes, Trump directed the CIA to share intelligence information on counterterrorism with the Kremlin despite no discernible reward, former intelligence officials who served in the Trump administration told Just Security."

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