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To: longnshort who wrote (1027617)	8/14/2017 9:56:10 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1578501

You made excuses for the creepy little mother abusing Nazi who drove his car into a crowd. So your own posts show he does represent you, Boris, and the guys who rec'd those posts like F'dU and majaman.

To: longnshort who wrote (1027617)	8/14/2017 9:57:27 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Respond to of 1578501

After 2 days of political pressure and arm-twisting by the grownups in his administration, he read a prepared statement condemning Nazis. Richard Spencer and Daily Stormer say he didn't mean it. He was made to say it. On this, they're actually right. Made additional remarks on Charlottesville and realize once again that the #Fake News Media will never be satisfied...truly bad people! Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump That complaint is an implicit admission his "additional remarks" were due to media pressure not genuinely felt ... which is what Nazis Spencer and Daily Stormer say. "Truly bad people" means they don't like me. The standard of good and bad for Trumpov and his cult. He can make this determination immediately but took 3 days to be pressured into reading a statement saying Nazis are bad people.

To: longnshort who wrote (1027617)	8/14/2017 10:15:13 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578501

North Korea likely using Soviet missile engines: Analyst by Joel Gehrke \| Aug 14, 2017, North Korea made an abrupt advance in its nuclear weapons program with the help of Soviet-era missile technology, according to a leading arms control analyst. "[T]he former Soviet Union [is] the most likely source," Michael Elleman, senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, wrote in a new report. Elleman based that assessment on photos of the new North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles, which appear to be a direct match for one particular Soviet missile engine known as the RD-250. The engine was manufactured by a company in Ukraine that "has been near financial collapse" due to the ongoing crisis between Ukraine and Russia, but there are also "almost certainly hundreds, if not more," of the engines scattered throughout the former Soviet Union. "Clearly, there is no shortage of potential routes through which North Korea might have acquired the few dozen RD-250 engines that would be needed for an ICBM program," Elleman wrote. He said that explains how North Korea transitioned from a spate of high-profile missile failures in recent years to a demonstration of the ability, for the first time, to launch missiles that could strike the United States. Unity has been hard to come by in the international arena, as Russia and China agree that the regime's program is a threat but want the situation defused in a way that benefits their strategic interests. Both countries supported a new raft of economic sanctions imposed on the regime, but they argue simultaneously for the United States to stop conducting military exercises with South Korea and withdraw a missile defense system recently deployed to the region. "All must understand that progress towards denuclearization of the Korean peninsula will be difficult so long as [the North Korean regime] perceives a direct threat to its own security," Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia said at the U.N. last week. "For that is how the North Koreans view the military build up in the region, which takes on the forms of frequent, wide-ranging exercises and maneuvers of the U.S. and allies as they deploy strategic bombers, naval forces, and aircraft carriers." China and Russia both have provided economic lifelines to the regime, however, and the Treasury Department recently sanctioned a Russian company for "provid[ing] equipment" to the North Korea's missile program. Elleman told the New York Times that he suspects the engines were purchased from the factory in Ukraine, rather than from one of the depots in Russia, but U.S. officials who work to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons technology must grapple with the question of how they transferred the technology into the country and how to prevent future transfers. "It is not too late for the U.S. and its allies, along with China and perhaps Russia, to negotiate an agreement that bans future missile testing, and effectively prevents North Korea from perfecting its capacity to terrorize America with nuclear weapons," Elleman wrote in Monday's analysis. "But the window of opportunity will soon close, so diplomatic action must be taken immediately." washingtonexaminer.com