Yesterday, BuzzFeed posted an article that made unsubstantiated claims regarding Russia and Trump. The source of this round of nonsense is a British journalist who fed a story to be CNN.
I tweeted the story was so ridiculous I would not cover it. But now, CNN, the Financial Times, and others have been caught propagating fake news over the story, and Trump is battling CNN and BuzzFeed.
Trump went so far as to call BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage”. It’s an interesting mess, so let’s recap from the beginning.
BuzzFeed reports These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia.
A dossier, compiled by a person who has claimed to be a former British intelligence official, alleges Russia has compromising information on Trump. The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors.
Irresponsible Journalism
Gone is the day when media posts verified stories. Today is the day media runs rampant with tabloid articles loaded up with unverified allegations, known errors, and purposeful smear campaigns that are obvious.
At least BuzzFeed admitted its sloppiness upfront. That’s a clear step above the Washington Post.
BuzzFeed posted the full document “so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of the US government.”
Well, not really, BuzzFeed wanted the attention such a story would bring.
CNN Connection
Also yesterday, CNN reported Intel Chiefs Presented Trump With Claims of Russian Efforts to Compromise Him.
Classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump, multiple US officials with direct knowledge of the briefings tell CNN.
The allegations were presented in a two-page synopsis that was appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible. The FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Mr. Trump.
CNN False News
It took CNN all of one paragraph before it got the facts wrong. Trump never saw the two-page addendum.
NBC News reports Donald Trump Wasn’t Told About Unverified Russia Dossier.
President-elect Donald Trump was not told about unverified reports that Russia has compromising information on him during last week’s intelligence briefing, according to a senior intelligence official with knowledge of preparations for the briefing.
A summary of the unverified reports was prepared as background material for the briefing, but not discussed during the meeting, the official said.
FBI Source – McCain
Today we learn McCain Gave Dossier Containing ‘Sensitive Information’ to FBI
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he delivered a dossier to FBI Director James Comey late last year containing unverified claims that Russia had gathered compromising information on President-elect Donald Trump.
“Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public,” McCain said in a statement on Wednesday. “Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgement about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI. That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.”
The statement comes on the heels of reports that President Obama, Trump and congressional leaders were briefed on the allegations made in the dossier.
Trump responded to the media reports on Twitter Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, calling them “fake news” and “a total political witch hunt” and denying that Russia has ever tried to blackmail or leverage him in any way.
Trump Goes After BuzzFeed, CNN
Trump calls BuzzFeed a “failing pile of garbage”
OOPS! Wrong Guy
Here’s a snip from page 18 of the the dossier.
The alleged UK intelligence office not only assembled a total pile of garbage, but got the wrong Michael Cohen or simply made up allegations.
Financial Times “What We Know”
Long after these facts came out proving without a doubt what a pile of garbage the report was, the Financial Times discredited itself with another pile of garbage called “Trump/Russia dossier: what we know so far”
What we know is the report is garbage, but the Financial Times would only say “the Financial Times was given access to the dossier and spent time last year attempting to verify some of its claims, but has so far been unable to do so.”
The Financial Times did include this bit of sap.
The dossier also claimed that Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s general counsel, met Russian officials during a secret visit to Prague either at the end of August last year or early September. The meeting allegedly took place at the Prague offices of Rossotrudnichestvo, a Russian state organisation for cultural exchanges. Mr Cohen is alleged to have discussed contingency plans to cover up the Russian operation to support Trump. Mr Cohen has denied ever having visited the capital of the Czech Republic.
Fake News Spreads Like Wildfire Again
So here we go again, with another media roundup up fake news starting then spreading like wildfire.
The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer
Glenn Greenwald nails it with his assessment: The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer.
Democrats, still reeling from their unexpected and traumatic election loss as well as a systemic collapse of their party, seemingly divorced further and further from reason with each passing day, are willing — eager — to embrace any claim, cheer any tactic, align with any villain, regardless of how unsupported, tawdry and damaging those behaviors might be.
But cheering for the CIA and its shadowy allies to unilaterally subvert the U.S. election and impose its own policy dictates on the elected president is both warped and self-destructive. Empowering the very entities that have produced the most shameful atrocities and systemic deceit over the last six decades is desperation of the worst kind. Demanding that evidence-free, anonymous assertions be instantly venerated as Truth — despite emanating from the very precincts designed to propagandize and lie — is an assault on journalism, democracy, and basic human rationality. And casually branding domestic adversaries who refuse to go along as traitors and disloyal foreign operatives is morally bankrupt and certain to backfire on those doing it.
Beyond all that, there is no bigger favor that Trump opponents can do for him than attacking him with such lowly, shabby, obvious shams, recruiting large media outlets to lead the way. When it comes time to expose actual Trump corruption and criminality, who is going to believe the people and institutions who have demonstrated they are willing to endorse any assertions no matter how factually baseless, who deploy any journalistic tactic no matter how unreliable and removed from basic means of ensuring accuracy?
All of these toxic ingredients were on full display yesterday as the Deep State unleashed its tawdriest and most aggressive assault yet on Trump: vesting credibility in and then causing the public disclosure of a completely unvetted and unverified document, compiled by a paid, anonymous operative while he was working for both GOP and Democratic opponents of Trump, accusing Trump of a wide range of crimes, corrupt acts and salacious private conduct. The reaction to all of this illustrates that while the Trump presidency poses grave dangers, so, too, do those who are increasingly unhinged in their flailing, slapdash, and destructive attempts to undermine it.
For months, the CIA, with unprecedented clarity, overtly threw its weight behind Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and sought to defeat Donald Trump. In August, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell announced his endorsement of Clinton in the New York Times and claimed that “Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” The CIA and NSA director under George W. Bush, Gen. Michael Hayden, also endorsed Clinton, and went to the Washington Post to warn, in the week before the election, that “Donald Trump really does sound a lot like Vladimir Putin,” adding that Trump is “the useful fool, some naif, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited.”
Almost immediately after it was published, the farcical nature of the “dossier” manifested. Not only was its author anonymous, but he was paid by Democrats (and, before that, by Trump’s GOP adversaries) to dig up dirt on Trump. Worse, he himself cited no evidence of any kind, but instead relied on a string of other anonymous people in Russia he claims told him these things. Worse still, the document was filled with amateur errors.
It is not hard to understand why the CIA preferred Clinton over Trump. Clinton was critical of Obama for restraining the CIA’s proxy war in Syria and was eager to expand that war, while Trump denounced it. Clinton clearly wanted a harder line than Obama took against the CIA’s long-standing foes in Moscow, while Trump wanted improved relations and greater cooperation.
Nobody should crave the rule of Deep State overlords.
Yet craving Deep State rule is exactly what prominent Democratic operatives and media figures are doing. Any doubt about that is now dispelled.
Greenwald Noted: ” If any of the significant claims in this “dossier” turn out to be provably false — such as Cohen’s trip to Prague — many people will conclude, with Trump’s encouragement, that large media outlets (CNN and BuzzFeed) and anti-Trump factions inside the government (CIA) are deploying “Fake News” to destroy him.”
That Cohen angle is indeed false, according to Cohen’s passport.
I purposely stay away from stories like these when they first break because they inevitably turn out to be a stinking pile of easily refuted garbage.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
“As far as hacking, I think it was Russia,” the president-elect said at a highly-anticipated press conference in New York, his first since last July.
No one “hacked the election”. They released emails for the DNC – a private organization. The emails were the factual and this truth may have hurt the DNC. People actually learned what they DNC thought about the voters, the DNC relationship to the press and the rigging of the primary by DNC officials.
Podesta had an email password that was “password”. This is to stupid to comprehend. Clearly, he didn’t take security seriously.
In actuality, it was the “truth” that hurt the DNC.
I’m just quoting our President-elect.
He has no choice but to parrot the words of our “intelligence” community or else face the wrath of the media and most of congress. The art of the deal is not always pretty.
Yes, he needs to be careful about Republican politicians since many instinctively do not like him. This is why most of his cabinet appointments have been very conservative. If he gives the right wing enough red meat, he will be able to consolidate power. Also why his Supreme Court nominee will not only be conservative, but will be very young. The right will be drooling all over themselves and will forget they don’t like Trump. At least until he proposes single payer health care, or something like that. 🙂
I’m not getting the impression that his picks are pleasing to many of the republicans. Watching as Rubio aggressively grilled Tillerson basically challenging him to call every foreign leader in the world (except Obama) a war criminal. Not sure what is up with that but he made no points with me. It felt like most of his interrogators were intent on hearing him tell them he would support war everywhere.
The neo-con GOP’s, like McStain, hate Trump because Trump’s not a member of their club and has an independent mind. Trump who has never held an elected office handily defeated 16 current and former elected GOP club members in the Primary. Accordingly McStain et al want to bring him down and replace him with another mindless GOP automaton.
Trump has to walk through mine fields that no other POTUS before him had to maneuver. One wrong step and the vultures (neo-cons, libs and the media) will consume him. Trump has to be incredibly smart to survive these piranna. God speed.
I can almost understand their contempt for Trump and his private sector appointees, as they have not had to dispose of their souls so completely to reach these high levels of authority as the life long politicians have had to do.
It’s laughable to watch them grilling Trump and his appointees about conflicts of interest and potential corruption when we look at how so many of our “elected representatives”, most of which have never had a real job, are filthy rich derived simply from the connections their power affords them, especially when they REFUSED to even pass a rule against insider trading for these high level government employees.
Sickening.
The hypocrisy is almost unbearable.
““As far as hacking, I think it was Russia.”
Because he is such a technical expert on the topic of hacking that he can’t possibly be snowed, just as former General Colin Powell apparently was (see his UN presentation), by an intel agency “slam dunk” claim.
And I don’t call a teen script kiddie in his mom’s house level of email phishing attack “hacking.” (“Your Gmail account has been hacked. Please click on this link immediately to change your password.”) I’d call it “investigative journalism as it used to exist” via illegal means used on really, REALLY stupid people who shouldn’t be allowed to handle government secrets for many reasons exposed even before the hacks were admitted.
Like, of course, Hildabeast’s email server containing material so classified that the investigating intel agency IG had to be read into a special access program to even look at it, a server which “was never hacked” because “there was no evidence of that”… that being EXACTLY what a COMPETENT state-sponsored hack would leave behind because they don’t want you to KNOW they’re reading your mail.
Finally, if the hacks had not revealed misbehavior, they’d have only revealed how very honest the Clintons and the DNC were… but we knew that wouldn’t happen.
I now watch with much amusement as the MSM and the “mainstream narrative” they formerly controlled self-destructs in their desperate pursuit of destroying their “Orange ‘Like Literally’ Hitler” by publishing any fake news they can find along with the further outing all of the RINOs who richly deserve to end their careers in government courtesy of awakened non-RINO voters.
God bless President Trump … !!!
Obama and Hillary and McCain, NOT so much.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/4chan-claims-have-fabricated-anti-trump-report-hoax
If this is true, it will be the most hillarious loss of credibility for all involved in this ridiculous “report”.
“I purposely stay away from stories like these when they first break because they inevitably turn out to be a stinking pile of easily refuted garbage.”
In other words, not much different from most of the other stories they propagate.
Obama’s own words are a lie. In a video clip he explains that he pardoned a man to “give him a second chance”. The man was a 3 strikes lifer — meaning he already got his 2 chances. He knew getting caught again would be an automatic life sentence, yet he intentionally committed more crimes.
But the man was black, so the media makes Obama out to be a saint for righting this *wrong*. What a legacy this man has.
Hard to call it a battle. He gave a short, entirely credible answer at the news conference (anyone should assume anything is recorded in Russia, and many other countries), and ended it with a lighthearted bit of humor (I’m a germaphobe). Any fair minded person would say it ended right there. And even Trump hating journalists admitted this one didn’t begin to pass the smell test.
You said “smell test”
*Drum kick, cymbal shot*
The Intercept is now a daily read for me.
“FBI Source – McCain”
McCain has finally let the cat out of the bag although most everyone already knew he hated Trump. Once Trump is installed as President next week, we may see some negative stories about McCain ‘mysteriously’ leaked from government files.
it won’t be too hard to find negative stories on Mccain.
I always wondered who actually voted for him, if anybody did.
No shock over McCain and Graham attack on Russia as an act of war. Trump is in a very hard spot and he must tread carefully…as much as he can! There is no doubt in my mind that their ultimate goal is to prevent him from taking office. He cannot afford to let these types of accusations to be passed about and ignore them…and its not his nature in any case, but he also has to be careful about attacking the intelligence agencies.
Schumer warned him on Maddows show that he would be making a mistake to take them on as they would get their revenge. I’m not alone in this belief either…
http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/01/the-final-takedown-of-trump-begins-in-earnest/
Schumer warned him on Maddow’s show, and Schumer was on the intelligence agencies’ side, wasn’t he? It was obvious that Schumer wouldn’t mind at all if Trump got screwed.
I made the point a month r so ago that Obama had done so much to divide the country that the next president whom I thought would b Hillary Clinton would b the person most responsible for the worldwide financial collapse that will surely happen before the end of the end of the next 4 years. Well now it looks like the globalists such as George Soros, the Clintons, the progressive liberal elites, the American academic community and the Mainstream media have lost the battle but may very well win the war. Even if Trump comes up with a reasonable plan to deal with all our many problems, there is so much mistrust, hate and real danger n our country and the world that he is already being set up to fail and he hasn’t even been sworn n yet! In his first news conference today I hoped he would lower expectations a little and explain that the problems we face r so immense that to solve them we need to come together- I wanted him to at least to begin to try to unity the nation. Well with all the contention and fake news -it didn’t matter -Trump is Trump so I hope his way will work. I have said this before that n addition to all our horrific economic and geopolitical problems I never hear much on our devastating cultural problems with drug addiction all time highs, violence, pornography addiction, corruption in Washington and Wall Street and absolutely no respect for traditional values r the rule of law! Even our old hero James Bond now prefers Married women!!
The intelligence agencies fear Trump is a peacenik. They thought that of Obama too and tried to undermine him too. When he took office he threatened to prosecute them for torture. That got them in line.
Yet as said above, Chuck Schumer said the intelligence agencies have many ways of getting you. Trump needs to punish them severely.
This is the reason that palace guards have always existed. The threat from inside to the person in power.
The Secret Service Protects the President, but their primary duty is to protect the currency. After Trump’s sworn in, we will see which job takes priority.
Priority 1: stiffing Brazilian hookers, literally then figuratively (ha ha ha !!)
Priority 2: watching porn
Priority 3: Interviewing suspects who later jump over the White House fence, that way they have a pre-canned excuse that the intruder was under surveillance, just not as much as he should have been
Priority 4: Causing as many traffic jams in as many cities as possible. When you are protecting Obozo, its important to inconvenience as many taxpayers as possible. The Secret Service doesn’t want any commerce going on nearby that might generate tax revenue or frighten the socialist in chief
Priority 5: Investigating people who were making stupid comments, obviously joking, and/or just trying to get a rise out of dim witted bureaucrats. These people must be investigated far more thoroughly than actual threats under priority 3
Priority 6: Something about counterfeit currency, like anyone really cares anymore. The real crooks are starting tax exempt foundations in their own names, and using those foundations to sponsor terrorism (see Soros, G), or to buy influence in government which can later be sold to foreign businesses (see Clinton, WJ)
They will continue to beat this Russia drum unti, they can convince enough republicans to impeach him. Trump has few allies. Too many special interests are aligned against him. He is definitely going to be walking in a minefield for the next four years. McCain holds a grudge and hates trump for his comments on his war record. That will not ever change. You can almost see him gnashing his teeth when he talks.
Over the years McCain has increasingly been operating in the fully automatic asshole mode. He’s the deep state’s drama task force packed into one package.
https://sheriffali.com/2014/06/05/command-sergeant-john-holland-account-of-john-mccain-and-the-vietnam-war-hero-or-traitor/
Didn’t Charles Hugh Smith (Of Two Minds blogger) posit that it was actually Trump, and not Hillary, that was the real choice of the Deep State?
They have things in mind that we cannot imagine as of yet.
It would appear that JOHN McCAIN is a volunteer or unwitting agent of the British Secret Service (Mi-6) if thats where that dossier comes from. Mi-6 makes fake info
passes it to a US SENATOR
US Senator, who is in bed with military contractors, banks
Said Senator passes dossier of lies to CNN and Buzzfeed to create internet tweet storm
Said Senator is busted for passing these documents to discredit an elected official and the country’s relationship with Russia
So, isn’t JOHN McCain now an agent of a foreign agency and should he be jailed for espionage???
McCain has finally stepped way over the line and I suspect the CIA is also behind this using Mi-6 as a vehicle. How transparent and pathetic are our “intelligence agencies?” Even I know where this comes from…
See the 4chan link above.
Does anybody recall the mainstream media, like CNN, picking up the story about Obama having a homosexual affair with Larry Sinclair several years back? The information supporting that story was as substantive as the fake news on Trump. But the MSM buried it.
Trump is in for a long 4 years. The fake news organizations are going to continue to make stuff up and try to sabotage his administration like no other president before him. He MUST publicly defend himself. Otherwise the sharks will rip him to pieces.
I loved it when he smacked down that CNN reporter and asserted he worked for a fake news organization. lol
Go Trump Go!
Take No Shit!!!
Why is it that only trump as been able to do this? Is it because he is the only one not afraid of these hacks?
CNN as well as many others are most definitely “Fake News”. They are telling us a British Intelligence person came up with this. Is this NOT another case of foreign persons or entities directly trying to influence our politics? When will they begin the investigation???HUH? WHEN?
Again, see the 4chan link from zh.
We better hope that the MSM is merely trying to discredit Trump for several deep state purposes. I wonder if the MSM’s narrative is really to divide the American people even further for the benefit of the deep state. A figure like Trump is the deep state’s perfect candidate to accomplish that… and we all thought that Trump represented the real Americans? That senario would certainly match their aims and we would be totally caught off guard..
If that was the case the “deep state” would have arranged for the ‘fake news’ to furnish more credible substance about Trump and the hookers in Moscow. This latest failed effort fell flat on it’s face and only turned more Americans against the MSM. I suspect it will recruit more Trump fans. That’s not a very effective way to “discredit Trump”.
These idiots are just throwing handfuls at the wall hoping something sticks. Very amateurish and a sign of incompetence.
If that’s the ‘deep state’ it’s laughable.
If you are being honest Geoff, the CIA fully and completely trusted one of their sources in al qaeda.
Turned out the guy was an al qaeda plant — and he blew himself up in a suicide attack that killed the CIA station chief in Afghanistan.
Aldrich Ames was fully vetted and trusted — DOH !!!
While we are discussing MI6 agents … are we allowed to bring up Kim Philby? The guy who was heading British intelligence and turned out to be a Soviet agent?
The agent that slipped McCain the bogus story (and we know its bogus because the facts we are able to check are all wrong)… anyway the ***FORMER*** MI6 agent was working for a private investigation firm not MI6.
And there is strong reason to believe that the agent was given the info by a hacker group that was trying to discredit the former agent (and unwittingly discredited McCain).
Clearly, you are just a WaPo “reporter” — someone who doesn’t know jack about the story and just goes shooting your mouth off trying to defend established political crooks. No vetting, no verifying facts with independent 2nd sources — nothing that could be mistaken for actual journalism.
Consider working at CNN next… they favor your sloppy reporting style
I would only hope Trump will either permanently close the White House Press Corp or at the very least never take a question from CNN, MSNBC,NBC,ABC,CBS for a solid 4 years.
Dismiss CNN, do it permanently and set an example for the kind of behavior that will not be tolerated. You must be swift, firm and committed. The rest of them will get the message, loud and clear.
You are a pathetic moron of a troll.
If it is UNSUBSTANTIATED, IT IS NOT NEWS.
It is rumor, innuendo or just plain character assassination.
NEWS organizations – that supposedly employ “Journalists”, have NO business reporting such things.
Now go crawl back under your rock, jackass.
@geoff you are definitely a WaPo clown
(1) Mish claims to be a blogger, not a media “reporter”
(2) You lied when you claimed (previous comment) claiming this bullshit story could not be checked, and so the liars had to rely on the veracity of their source
— First, not true. Lots of “facts” in the story could have been checked. Trumps lawyer wasn’t even in Prague, the careless MI6 source didn’t bother to check that either.
— If you have ever traveled abroad on business, you know hotel rooms are bugged most of the time. Its usually industrial espionage, but the room is bugged whatever the reason. Obviously you have zero real world experience… maybe get out of the WaPo news room a little more often
— Secondly, the ***FORMER*** MI6 source was probably being played. He was definitely working as a private investigator looking for dirt, not looking for verifiable information. The source clearly changed his M.O. and any half wit intelligence analyst would flag that.
Reliable sources can be compromised (because they were made redundant by MI6) or because they pissed off someone who wants to shame them (like hacker groups who hate the ex-agent) or because the formerly reliable source now gets paid to lie (as in this case)
So the real Mish has been posting as “MishMoments” ever since he started his Iceland photo blog….
And the real Mish usually doesn’t write baseline (first level) comments to himself…
And the real Mish doesn’t write in weird broken “english”…
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I wonder if this “Mishtalk” comment may not be from the blog host. Could be a bogus source trying to assume credibility that isn’t his
Yes – It’s from Russia
Putin and I met in Prague last month and he asked for the change.
Actually it was an accident – I asked WordPress to change the name on MishMoments and they changed it here!
The “former British intelligence official” uses the term “soccer” instead of “football”.
It’s fake. doh.
Over 100 years ago ‘fake news” was called “yellow journalism”.
this is going to be a fun 8 years !
plenty of theater
BuzzFeed is like WikiLeaks in providing a public service by publishing the whole stinking garbage pile for anyone to access, and deserves whatever money it makes because no one else is providing the whole false report. This is capitalism and reporting (full doc with no commentary) at its best. Contrast this with USA Senators and CNN referencing this garbage as Truth Beyond Reproach because it is coming from a Trusted Intell Source, former MI-6 in this case. During the election Dem Senate head Reid referred to this report constantly, saying FBI had info on Trump-Russia conspiracy. Only now, months post-election via BuzzFeed, do we know for sure the Russia-Trump connection was fake news.
BuzzFeed or WikiLeaks should do the same with the Classified Russia Intell fake news election hacking report produced by the Democrat Operatives at the CIA/NSA. Then instead of being cause for War and Tarnishing Trump, American Intell could be shown for what it really is, Propaganda Central for the Neo-Con cause and carrying the same War Party Banner as Hillary. I suspect Trump reached out to Robert Kennedy Jr. to head his Vaccine Committee in part to hear from him an inside take on the JFK and RFK assassinations.
John McCain joined the “War Party” to enrich the arms merchants and banks at the expense of thousands of American lives long ago.
He has long been “bought and paid for” and as a good Neo-Con remains Bought.
Can someone tell someone that Intelligence is a real word and means …. um … intelligence.
Not a word that can be closely associated with McCain obviously but the rest of us can smell rats and like Mish just ignore the puerile junk most of the time. Obama seems to take it seriously though and will live to regret the verdict of history.
All of the professional politicians must go. Twenty-two months from now we have a chance again to get rid of more of the good-old-guys and gals.
If we work hard, in two or three more campaign cycles we can clean the barn.
ABC: US Troops Enter Poland, 1st Deployment at Russia’s Doorstep
American soldiers rolled into Poland on Thursday, fulfilling a dream some Poles have had since the fall of communism in 1989 to have U.S. troops on their soil as a deterrent against Russia.
Some people waved and held up American flags as U.S. troops in tanks and other vehicles crossed into southwestern Poland from Germany and headed toward the town of Zagan, where they will be based. Poland’s prime minister and defense minister will welcome them in an official ceremony Saturday.
“This is the fulfilment of a dream,” said Michal Baranowski, director of the German Marshall Fund think tank in Warsaw. “And this is not just a symbolic presence but one with a real capability.”
U.S. and other Western nations have carried out exercises on NATO’s eastern flank in past years, but the new deployment — which includes some 3,500 U.S. troops — marks the first-ever continuous deployment to the region by a NATO ally.
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CBS: Russia decries “threat” as U.S. troops roll into Poland
U.S. and other Western nations have carried out exercises on NATO’s eastern flank, but this deployment – which includes around 3,500 U.S. troops – marks the first-ever continuous deployment to the region by a NATO ally. It represents a commitment by President Barack Obama to protect a region that became deeply nervous when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and then began backing rebels in Ukraine’s east.
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I just love that simple “party line” characterization of the Ukrainian conflict by a MSM which can so easily label certain large groups of people in this country as bigots and Nazis simply by who they went to the polls and peacefully voted for while completely ignoring the truth of a far more complex situation in the Ukraine:
Documentary: Ukraine – The Masks of the revolution
by Paul Moreira
English Subs
If you don’t watch the entire documentary as you should, watch from 40:44 to 42:25. I got a chuckle out of the US pols shown with him. Unlike in the US, these elements are apparently NOT a microscopic part of the “extreme right” in the western part of Ukraine, the part that isn’t ethnically Russian like the eastern portion. Far from it.