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Putin slashing number of US diplomats in Russia by 755 people
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Posted on 07/30/2017 12:19:26 PM PDT by navysealdad
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To: Texas Eagle
North Korea may well have reached its current level of ICBM proficiency thanks to Moscow. From a CNBC article: "He added, "I wouldn't be surprised if in the months and years to come that the Russians were to reach out and really work with the North Koreans in a much greater extent." A Tuesday report from South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo said Russian exports to North Korea essentially doubled in the first five months of 2017, according to data from the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, a South Korean government-supported organization. About 90 percent of the exports were energy related. Russia exports coal to North Korea as well as jet fuel, trucks and other goods. Moscow also helps Pyongyang by employing about 50,000 laborers from North Korea, who work in timber and construction jobs in Russia. That is a source of hard-currency income for the regime led by Kim Jong Un and helps fund its weapons programs. "Moscow is fast emerging as a powerful backer of Pyongyang at a time when even China seems to be having second thoughts, and has been at the forefront of blocking discussion of further sanctions in the UN Security Council," said Chosun Ilbo."
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posted on
07/30/2017 3:58:50 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
07/30/2017 4:02:22 PM PDT
by
CottonBall
(Thank you, Julian)
To: navysealdad
I’d like to know which one “lost” my passport out of his/her diplomatic pouch.
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posted on
07/30/2017 4:08:39 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: navysealdad
If Putin wants to be an irrelevant backwater I’m sure POTUS will have no problem obliging him.
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posted on
07/30/2017 4:11:26 PM PDT
by
lodi90
To: ealgeone
Anything more useless than a “diplomat”?
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posted on
07/30/2017 4:12:53 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/30/2017 4:23:03 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: elpadre
What are they doing?If what I have seen is any indication, lots of shucking and jiving, plus taking a day off every week, and lots of vacations and half days.
Lots of pushing paper from one side of the desk to the other and writing lots of reports and filling out spreadsheets about moving paper from one side of the desk to the other.
A perfect career in the bureaucracy involves accomplishing absolutely NOTHING for 20-25 years and then collecting a pension.
I am absolutely serious too.
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posted on
07/30/2017 4:35:54 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
To: Texas Eagle
hmmmmm.....does this help President Trump? Perhaps Putin knows what Deep State coup members are actually spies in Russia.
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posted on
07/30/2017 4:38:29 PM PDT
by
grania
(Deplorable and Proud of It!)
To: navysealdad
The former Soviet Union and now Russia stocked the U.S. with spies, and most of them were NOT associated with the so-called diplomatic corps (which, of course, included KGB and GRU personnel). China has done the same thing. There are untold scores of Chinese spies in the U.S.
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posted on
07/30/2017 4:51:14 PM PDT
by
ought-six
(Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: blueunicorn6
Exactly, thank you Mr. Putin.............keep it up!
To: navysealdad
If that’s what Mr. Putin wants, then that is that. I’m sure he knows what he’s doing.
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posted on
07/30/2017 5:25:06 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
To: dfwgator
This 1200 is the whole staff not just the diplomats. It includes janitors and translators and receptionists and whatever else. About 900 of these are Russian nationals.
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posted on
07/30/2017 5:36:15 PM PDT
by
Krosan
To: Krosan
Why do they need so many?
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posted on
07/30/2017 5:38:59 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: navysealdad
The Democrats and GOPe are going to be responsible for pushing this country into another World War.
...and I think they’re happy with that.
To: navysealdad
I thought Trump was the one that sets foreign policy, more so than congress.
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posted on
07/30/2017 5:51:19 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Iron Maiden can't be fought)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
07/30/2017 6:00:56 PM PDT
by
Krosan
To: Krosan
Well in that case, it’s a good start.
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posted on
07/30/2017 6:01:32 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: navysealdad
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posted on
07/30/2017 6:30:05 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(From now on call it McCaincare)
To: navysealdad
Considering Hitlery Rotten Clinton used the US embassy in Libya to provide aid and comfort to the militant seditionists who eventually overthrew and murdered Gaddafi (with HRC’s war criminal gleeful support, “we came, we saw, HE DIED ha hah ha!”), it would be wise for all nations of the world to close US embassies. Her actions were completely outside of “diplomatic relations”.
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posted on
07/30/2017 6:59:58 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
To: vooch
There are 6 time zones in the US (including Alaska and Hawaii), there are 11 time zones in Russia.
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posted on
07/30/2017 7:01:36 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Bill Clinton and Al Gore took illegal campaign contributions from the Chi-Coms and 'nobody' cared..)
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