Report: As Overture To Putin, Trump NSC Official Proposed Withdrawing US Troops

[KelleyKramer]

Report: As Overture To Putin, Trump NSC Official Proposed Withdrawing US Troops



https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/white-house-official-proposed-withdrawal-us-troops-baltics

A top official on the National Security Council last year proposed withdrawing some U.S. forces from the Baltics in an effort to please Vladimir Putin, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday.

Two former administration officials told the publication that Kevin Harrington, a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump for strategic planning, pitched the plan to remove or reposition some U.S. forces stationed in Eastern Europe in February 2017.

Though Harrington’s proposal never came to fruition, it represented a remarkable pivot from decades of U.S. foreign policy. One former NSC colleague, speaking to the Beast, called it a “gesture to the Kremlin that would enable the nascent Trump administration to see if its desire for a friendly relationship with Russia would be reciprocated.”

U.S. forces have been stationed throughout Europe since the Cold War as a counter-weight to Russia, and were detailed to the Baltics after the 2014 annexation of Crimea.


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[Hortensis]

1. Harrington came from working for billionaire Peter Thiel,

background in business, absolutely none in foreign affairs and national security. Thiel's one of the libertarian extremists who's trying to use his money to restyle America as the world's most advanced third world nation (enviable, healthy states where everyone's completely free to take care of himself). Harrington's considered his man in the White House. If he really believes his energy apocalypse nonsense, he's a nut also, but maybe he just hoped to sell it to Trump?

WaPo:

Kevin Harrington, a former associate of Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel brought in to shape national security strategy, saw close ties with oil- and gas-rich Russia as critical to surviving an energy apocalypse — a fate that officials who worked with him said he discussed frequently and depicted as inevitable.

Still waiting for the real reason for these peculiar Harrington attempts, immediately after Trump took office, to do incredibly huge service to Putin and incredibly huge disservice to us and the NATO nations. There, of course, are many fortunes in oil alone to be made with lifting of those sanctions.