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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCurious of whether Putin manipulated Trump for the attack
Trump always said he was going to withdraw the troops from the Middle East. And he is trying to do this with Syria, after Putin asked him to.
On the other hand, Trump has been described as "counter puncher" (I call it thin skinned, immature..) so one would have expected that every time someone is killing an American soldier, or a contractor, that he would "counter punch..
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Curious of whether Putin manipulated Trump for the attack (Original Post)
question everything
Jan 2020
OP
It seems to me that sPUTIN is past manipulating tRUMP. Now I think tRUMP just takes orders
abqtommy
Jan 2020
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)1. It seems to me that sPUTIN is past manipulating tRUMP. Now I think tRUMP just takes orders
and says "Yes, Sir!"
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)3. This was directed by Putin, the question is why?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)5. It'd be nice to know, that's for sure. I'm sure that the intelligence agencies have recordings of
all their phone calls...
stillcool
(32,626 posts)2. Russia, China, and Iran...
had joint military exercises just recently. And China is making nice with Saudi Arabia too. This makes sense somewhere, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)4. It's incredibly frustrating.
C_U_L8R
(45,014 posts)6. Cui bono?
Certainly not the USA.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)7. He had a secret phone call with Putin before vacation began.
We learned about it from the Russian govt, not ours (again). Gee, wonder what they talked about?!?
gibraltar72
(7,508 posts)8. I'm not curious.