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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4540010" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>According to the Times, and as later confirmed by the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-operation-targeted-coalition-troops-in-afghanistan-intelligence-finds/2020/06/26/ac710092-b80f-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> and the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-spy-unit-paid-taliban-to-attack-americans-u-s-intelligence-says-11593214584" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>, Trump was briefed on this in March, but made a great show of insisting that Russia be allowed back into the G7 throughout this past spring so he didn’t seem overly concerned. Setting aside the pretext for the Soleimani assassination, he is typically very cynical about these things. (Recall that he excused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s killing of journalists by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/18/donald-trump-glad-to-be-endorsed-by-russias-top-journalist-murderer/" target="_blank">saying</a>, “Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too.”)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4540010, member: 54375"] According to the Times, and as later confirmed by the [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-operation-targeted-coalition-troops-in-afghanistan-intelligence-finds/2020/06/26/ac710092-b80f-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html']Washington Post[/URL] and the [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-spy-unit-paid-taliban-to-attack-americans-u-s-intelligence-says-11593214584']Wall Street Journal[/URL], Trump was briefed on this in March, but made a great show of insisting that Russia be allowed back into the G7 throughout this past spring so he didn’t seem overly concerned. Setting aside the pretext for the Soleimani assassination, he is typically very cynical about these things. (Recall that he excused Russian President Vladimir Putin’s killing of journalists by [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/18/donald-trump-glad-to-be-endorsed-by-russias-top-journalist-murderer/']saying[/URL], “Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, too.”) [/QUOTE]
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