Russian bounties to Taliban-linked militants resulted in deaths of U.S. troops, according to intelli

[Yeehah]

Source: Washington Post

Russian bounties to Taliban-linked militants resulted in deaths of U.S. troops, according to intelligence assessments

Russian bounties offered to Taliban-linked militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan are believed to have resulted in the deaths of several U.S. service members, according to intelligence gleaned from U.S. military interrogations of captured militants in recent months.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-bounties-to-taliban-linked-militants-resulted-in-deaths-of-us-troops-according-to-intelligence-assessments/2020/06/28/74ffaec2-b96a-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

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[mwb970]

1. I can't imagine that people in the military will approve of trump's response.

[herding cats]

4. Lower levels will believe as their told to believe.

Officers will be more likely to freely think this through. That's, generally, how the military works.

[Yeehah]

6. I hope no Americans would approve

of a President taking no action when a foreign government hires mercenaries to kill Americans. That's an act of war.

[mwb970]

7. That is a deeply terrifying photo.

[Ahpook]

2. Way beyond obvious that

Trump is a useful idiot for Putin. If all of these stories are true and can be backed up without a doubt, his fucking ass needs to be thrown in a cellar.

Putin loves this! Watching this country implode from within and not shooting one bullet.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. I'm thinking it's not just Putin

His views are consistent with movements and organizations that oppose democracy and oppose the US, domestically and internationally, over the last 100 years. Everything America stood for - bipartisan policies - that was crafted, from progressive taxation to Social Security to environmental protection to peace treaties and troop/base deployments over many decades of both Republican and Democratic administrations and Congresses is in tatters.

America has been shredded and Mitch and Donald seem fine with it, in fact they haven't lifted a finger to stop any of it, they're promoting it.

Dismantling the US and its regulatory structure is worth a lot of money to those who benefit, so maybe it's a simple sellout.

[Ahpook]

5. Very well said

And frightening

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. JFC! What else does that traitor have to do to get the attention of the pukes

who can do something about him?

[sakabatou]

9. And Trump knew about it and did NOTHING

[riversedge]

10. I feel so bad for the parents, or spouces of these dead soldiers. I can't

imagine what they are going through these last few days.